Is Racism a Factor in Obama's Low Rating?

There is no "color" to the stats or money thrown away-his policies & legislation has been a complete failure-Keynesian economics do NOT work. He should be ashamed, & embarrassed by his complete lack of leadership and total disregard for the American people.

OF COURSE RACISM is a FACTOR in O'Bamas ratings! If O'Bama was 100% white, his ratings would be MUCH lower!

But I do NOT blame Black Americans....what can they do? O'Bama is a FAILURE, but many Black American feel some responsibility to support him anyway.

We just need to work through this "first Black American President" thing somehow...the next guy won't get this unearned support.

"Those issues may be factors, but to me they do not tell the whole story." I agree.

Race aside (because it's irrelevant), I'm not happy with Obama's job performance.

It has nothing to do with racism you morons. It has everything to do with the fact that he is incompetent.

The answer, sadly is "yes" even in the 21st century people are still harboring racist attitudes.

Racism has alot to do with it......Anybody in their right mind knows that.

Of course it's racism! Dha! Look here, when the rating gets down to the low 40s, these people hate him: Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Whites, Men, Woman, Children and Illegal Aliens. And Aliens from outter space for that matter.
Why do they hate him? Obama has now increased the debt by $7.1 trillion in 2.5 years! Bush increased it by $4 trillion in 8 years. The ratio of debt to GDP rose from 40% in 2008 to 70% currently. He increased the size of government by 200,000 UNION employees which means the pension and benefits legacy will be $60 trillion (some say up to $100 trillion over their 20 or so years of life expectancy). Remember that the democrats were in control of the congress from 2006 until 2010 during which time they did whatever they wanted, including send, spend, spend and driving up the debt. He failed to rein in spending while dramatically increasing it. 14 million have been unemployed since 2009. 9 million are on food stamps. 10% of wage earners pay 90% of all federal taxes while 50% pay $0.00. The healthcare program will cost an additional $50 billion per year because the CBO was told by the democrats to account for the employees but not their family members. Stocks dropped 1500 points while Obama was hiding under a bed at Camp David following a huge party in Chicago as a fund raiser for his birthday while the country was in turmoil. Then, when he gets on TV Monday afternoon, the coward sheepishly blames everyone else but himself for the problems. Be a man of character, Obama, and take responsibility and do something, you fool. He was a novelty in 2008 and now he's a threat to our well-being. The media needs to stop covering for him and report in a fair and balanced manner. When a study of news casts on ABC, CBS and NBC showed that 59 out of 73 were negative toward the republicans, then we know that both sides of the issues are not being presented on those channels. An informed electorate is needed so as to ensure we have the correct president in 2012. Our well-being as a country depends upon it. This just in, OMG, Sen John Kerry will be on the new debt panel, which means partisan liberal politics will be present at a high level and he’ll have plenty to say to the press who will hang on his every word.
Illegal aliens cost us $80 billion a year. Have the democrats done anything about it? Has anyone? They’re selling us out for votes.
Obama could have avoided this entirely by pushing Democrats to just pass a debt reduction when they held both houses of Congress last year. They didn’t do so because of the upcoming mid-term elections. They didn’t want to allow their liberal agenda to be exposed to be shot at. Overall, they cared more about politics than the well-being of the country. What else is new?

Obama has not displayed courage, dignity, honor or duty to country. He has clearly displayed that he's not a leader. Plus, he plays to the anti-american religious preachers which pisses poeple off to no end.

"When Obama was a candidate, I concluded that some people would refuse to vote for him based on his race, but I felt there was no good way to truly measure how many."

"Amid all the euphoria that came forth with Obama's election and inauguration, the reality remained that he had claimed only 43 percent of the white vote, with shares down in the teens in some Southern states. "

LOL.

What was the percentage of blacks that voted for Obama? What was the percentage of minorities that voted for him? Was it racist for some to vote FOR him based on his skin color? Could it be people are finally starting to wake up to the horrible job Obama has been doing as President?

Nah, you must be right Mike. Obama's low rating must be due to racism! I'm glad you're help getting the word out with this article. No other liberal would dare do it.

No, not Racism. lack of ability, inadequacy, ineptitude, inexperience, amateurishness, artlessness, boorishness, cloddishness, coarseness, crudeness, gawkiness, gracelessness, greenness, ignorance, incompetence, ineptitude, ineptness, inexpertness, maladroitness, oafishness, rudeness, tactlessness, uncoordination, uncouthness, ungainliness, unskillfulness You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. He told us he was the man to straighten the problems out. No one forced him to take the JOB. He just isn't UP TO IT. Vote him out and this is WHY.

Did anyone else notice that when Obama wasn’t getting his way on raising the debt ceiling he threatened the base of the Republican party?
Then he threatened not to pay social security retirees, active duty and military retirees, social security disability and federal retirees.
This is despicable! He did not threaten to stop payments to illegal aliens. He did not threaten to take frivolous benefits such as internet access away from violent inmates. He did not offer to fire some of the thousands of unnecessary federal employees that he hired. He did not offer to cut down on his or his wife’s frivolous gallivanting around. He did not threaten not to pay the senators and representatives or any of their staff. He did not threaten to take benefits away from people who are just too lazy to work. He did not threaten to take benefits away from welfare recipients. He did not threaten the food stamp programs. He did not threaten not to pay foreign aid. He did not threaten to cut back on anything that involves his base voters. This list could go on and on. You didn't hear this on CBS< NBC< ABC< PBS

There were a whole lot more people that voted for Obama because he was a minority. These were people that vote in a way that makes them feel good about themselves instead of what they think is best for the country.

Blacks voting for BO was race based. But that is not racist. Where is the equality in voting your race?

This article is racist in it's premise. I guess The POTUS is soo great and never makes bad decisions that the only reason to dislike him is racism. Get over your self

My Lord! Does it ever stop? What about his track record? not so good

Obamas Wife Is Racist?
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On 60 minutes, in 2008, Michelle Obama was asked whether she fears for her husbands life if he runs for the Presidency and she responded, "I don't lose sleep over it because the realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know." I was shocked and offended at the implications of her "as a black man" statement. I saw the stoniness sweep over her husbands face at the gaffe and unfortunately I knew her true heart. Michelle Obama is accusing the rest of us non blacks of being a threat to her husband and African Americans on a daily basis. She is painting us all with the same brush in a clearly racist manner.

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Considering their neighborhood, she certainly could not have been talking about her husband getting shot by another black man while going to an inner city gas station. She emphasized the "as a black man" comment and we all knew exactly what she meant.

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As one of those she has judged by the color of his skin ,I have been waiting for an apology since the show first aired and none has yet occurred from either her or her husband. I now know both their hearts and minds all too well and unfortunately expect none.

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I also know that given her families association with Reverend Wright I should not be surprised at Mr. Obama's public attack of the White police officer involved in the Gates case. Perhaps if you are surrounded by people who say racist things, you might just be a racist too.

As for the myth that Southern Democrats prior to civil rights passage were all Democrats who all suddenly turned Republican, continue to live in that fantasy land, but one look at demographics and the shift of northerners moving South, for example doubling Floridas population about every 20 years this past 60 years, and you will know your own lie for what it is.

Tuskegee Syphilis Study -FDR & Trumans Shame
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The Tuskegee Syphilis Study, began at the dawn of the FDR administration (D) and studied but did not treat black men who had Syphilis. The study was carried out in Alabama which may be quite telling but it was carried out the United States Public Health Service (PHS). My question is why didn't the FDR administration or the Truman Administration (D) shut it down during the time they were in power from the 1932 election to the last days of Truman's power in 1953?

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Democrats are African Americans best friends......aren’t they?

Hillary Knows We're Racist
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Hillary Clinton, speaking at an African American function in Louisiana in 2008 claimed that she sees racism and neglect in the fact that blacks and Hispanic children have 2x the lead poison exposure and that FEMA trailers have high formaldehyde levels in them.

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Doesn't she how that African Americans and Hispanics merely live in older inner city buildings that once housed and exposed white children a few decades ago? How is that racism? That’s poverty and ignorance. The rest of us don't see the neglect or the racism in poverty and to hell with her for damning me for the fact that people moved from rural farm areas to the city in hopes of a better life only to be exposed to pre lead control paint.

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She is attempted to sell my honor, decency and humanity out, calling me a beast and a racist to obtain votes for herself back then. Her attempt to throw indirect discriminitory remarks in my direction was shameful.

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Of course her correspondence and the actions she called for in the recent wikileaks scandal show a streak of callousness and shameful, if not simply cruel innuendo. In just a few of the exposed items, she questions the sanity of Argentina's first female President and orders US diplomats (illegally) to gather credit card and biometric data on the diplomats of our foes as well as our friends.

Help me to understand your thinking on Obama and his relationship with his Mentor / Ex Reverend – Wright. .So its OK with you that Obamas mentor, father figure, the man whos church he claims to have gone to dutifully 3-4 times a month for 20 years, is a racist, anti semite, friend of Hamas, friend of Louis Farrakhan, and a former member of the Nation of Islam back when he was a muslim. Do I have that right? .Do you accept all that because Obama:a) couldn’t possibly be like mindedb) is so #$%$ed stupid that he did not understand the point the guy was saying in his sermon,c) slept through every mass for 20 years, d) lied about being a regular church goer and almost never ever attended the mans church..Just checking at your compartmentalization. I personally would not be friends with or trust anyone who had say hillbilly racist redneck neonazi friends. Perhaps I am just too judgmental..FYI, some of Wrights well documented statements in case you need a refresher:--Black & White Relations. “The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God #$%$ America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people. God #$%$ America for treating our citizens as less than human. God #$%$ America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.” (2003).“Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run!…We [in the U.S.] believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God.” (sermon).“Barack knows what it means living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people. Hillary would never know that. Hillary ain’t never been called a n__ger. Hillary has never had a people defined as a non-person.”.“Hillary is married to Bill, and Bill has been good to us. No he ain’t! Bill did us, just like he did Monica Lewinsky. “ . --Here are the post 9/11 quotes attributed to Barack Hussein Obamas friend and personal mentor. “We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye.”. “We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost.” (Sep 2001). “In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared’ as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.” (magazine article).-- Here are the quotes attributed to Wright on the Aids Epidemic in the United States. . “The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color" and "[the government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God #$%$ America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people...God #$%$ America for treating our citizens as less than human. God #$%$ America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme"..Rev Wrights Tripoli Visit With Farrakhan Quote. Reverend Wright has been quoted as saying "When Obamaʼs enemies find out that in 1984 I went to Tripoli to visit Muammar al-Gaddafi with [Louis] Farrakhan, a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in hell."

Gandhi’s Racist Statements From His Published Articles On Black South Africans.
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Some of Gandhi's South African articles are controversial. On 7 March 1908, Gandhi wrote in the Indian Opinion of his time in a South African prison: "Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilised—the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals... The kaffirs' sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness. They're loafers... a species of humanity almost unknown among the Indians."[19] Writing on the subject of immigration in 1903, Gandhi commented: "We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do... We believe also that the white race in South Africa should be the predominating race."[20] During his time in South Africa, Gandhi protested repeatedly about the social classification of blacks with Indians, whom he described as "undoubtedly infinitely superior to the Kaffirs".[21] Remarks such as these have led many South Africans to accuse Gandhi of racism.[22]

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19 The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi. 8. p. 199.
20 The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi. 3. p. 255.
21The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi. 2. p. 270.
22 Rory Carroll, "Gandhi branded racist as Johannesburg honours freedom fighter", The Guardian, 17 October 2003.