Praying for Obama's DEATH? Really? That's the depth you nutjobs have sunk to??

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For what it’s worth, I went and had a look at the group page, and I’d guesstimate based on the wall posts that a third of the people who joined the group did so just so they could register their opposition (and presumably quit the group immediately afterwards).

Also, remember when that pickle got more fans than Nickelback? That was awesome.

I’m not a fan of the “you only hate Obama because he’s black” meme, but I’ve been racking my brains trying to remember if Clinton got the same level of vitriol (before Monicagate) and I’m just not seeing it.

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. . . which still doesn’t show that any time someone opposes Obama they are doing so because he’s black.

Personally, I would hate Obama’s policies just as much as I already do if he were Javanese or Laotian or Icelandic or whatever-the-hell.

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Well sure. No-one’s calling you, personally, racist.

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Sure, but how else would you explain it? Not that I’m saying there are no other rational explanations; I’m just asking what you think they are.

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The vitriol was pretty high when he had Hilary trying to change healthcare. Then it died down after that went away cause the economy was doing good.

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I think the Internet, just in its infancy in the 90s, makes such a comparison difficult.

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Nonsense.

This garbage argument might fly in the wider world, where someone could well have been unaware of those earlier events, but here on the ultra-insular, ultra-incesteous SDMB, it boggles the mind to claim that a reasonably active poster wasn’t aware of the hateful death-wish imprecations hurled at Cheney, Rove, and other right-wingers.

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I don’t see the internet as a necessary component of vitriol.

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Who said everyone? Well you did. But who else? If you are suggesting that racism is not a component in the hatred and venom of many anti-Obama hoard, you are wrong.

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I do not wish Dick Cheney’s death but I will celebrate it when it happens. Is that close enough?

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I didn’t say or even imply that everyone who dislikes Obama is racist. Many of the people–the “Christian” people–that I know, who don’t like Obama, are indeed somewhat racist (and occasionally, more than “somewhat”!).

I know this because I grew up with them. Some are family. Some are lifelong friends. (I’m from rural Tennessee, so sadly, you can’t really avoid having racist friends and family, growing up in the specific region, that I did.)

And a few of them aren’t even ashamed or secretive about their racism.

It is to these people that I’m referring.

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Bricker:

I trust you’re not referring to me as a “reasonably active poster”, ‘cause I’m brand spankin’ new here. Only joined in Feb. I genuinely had no idea of those past incidents.

But I’m sure you were probably speaking generically.

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This doesn’t even make sense. Why not just say white? He wouldn’t BE president, and wouldn’t HAVE policies for you to hate if he were Javanese or Laotian or Icelandic. Or Kenyan. Are you a closet Birther?

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Should be easy to provide a link or two of such things, then, right? :dubious:

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I (obviously, you fucking idiot) meant those terms in the same way you would call an American person Irish or German–i.e., to refer to their ethnic background, not their current citizenship.

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Yes, he was.

I’m on record as wishing harm on Bush the Lesses, and particularly on Cheney.

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**Praying for Obama’s DEATH? Really? That’s the depth you nutjobs have sunk to??
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And of course, nobody on the left prayed for the death of George W. Bush.

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That’s a sign. If he wanted God to read it he’d have held it facing upwards, silly.

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Well, his shirt explains his sign.

Partly, anyway.

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Yes indeed, this guy represented a movement equal in violence and nastiness of the Tea Gaggers. I must have missed the coverage back then. Was he speaking for a big movement?
Or are you back to outrageous comparisons, yet again.