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<blockquote data-quote="tonyexpress" data-source="post: 589284" data-attributes="member: 1940"><p><strong>Re: Obamanation here today</strong></p><p></p><p>During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama’s supporters promised that his election would allow America to “transcend race." Among the headlines:</p><p></p><p>The Boston Globe: "Obama shows an ability to transcend race”</p><p></p><p>The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “Obama's success suggests we can transcend race”</p><p></p><p>But of course that hasn’t happened. Jonah Goldberg writes:</p><p><em>It was Obama’s supporters who hinted, teased, promised, and prophesied that Obama would help America “transcend race.” But now, it is they who shrink from their own promised land…</em></p><p></p><p><em>From Day 1, Obama’s supporters have tirelessly cultivated the idea that anything inconvenient for the first black president just might be terribly, terribly racist.</em></p><p></p><p>Goldberg has plenty of examples:</p><p><em>For instance, actress Janeane Garofalo summed up the tea parties thusly: “This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.”</em></p><p></p><p><em>In an</em> <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=8324481&page=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #336699">ABC News</span></a><em> story about how racist white militias are somehow connected to town-hall protests, Mark Potok of the dismayingly left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center insists Obama has “triggered fears among fairly large numbers of white people in this country that they are somehow losing their country.”</em></p><p></p><p>Come on. Every president eventually is criticized by the media – even one as “transcendent” as Obama. The President’s supporters should engage his critics with facts, not charges of racism.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tonyexpress, post: 589284, member: 1940"] [B]Re: Obamanation here today[/B] During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama’s supporters promised that his election would allow America to “transcend race." Among the headlines: The Boston Globe: "Obama shows an ability to transcend race” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “Obama's success suggests we can transcend race” But of course that hasn’t happened. Jonah Goldberg writes: [I]It was Obama’s supporters who hinted, teased, promised, and prophesied that Obama would help America “transcend race.” But now, it is they who shrink from their own promised land…[/I] [I]From Day 1, Obama’s supporters have tirelessly cultivated the idea that anything inconvenient for the first black president just might be terribly, terribly racist.[/I] Goldberg has plenty of examples: [I]For instance, actress Janeane Garofalo summed up the tea parties thusly: “This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.”[/I] [I]In an[/I] [URL='http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=8324481&page=1'][COLOR=#336699]ABC News[/COLOR][/URL][I] story about how racist white militias are somehow connected to town-hall protests, Mark Potok of the dismayingly left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center insists Obama has “triggered fears among fairly large numbers of white people in this country that they are somehow losing their country.”[/I] Come on. Every president eventually is criticized by the media – even one as “transcendent” as Obama. The President’s supporters should engage his critics with facts, not charges of racism. [/QUOTE]
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