Daily Kos member, FishOutofWater is no shrinking violet when he takes on the issue of the intense hatred and racism targeted at President Obama.
First:
Mr. President you are everything that frightens them, everything that threatens their order, and everything they hate. You cannot win them over. They will always hate you. They hate you because your father was black, your mother was a white intellectual woman, because you are educated and because you are successful. Your very existence threatens their world.
And then, on to specifics:
McConnell is speaking for his aging southern white Republican base. They don’t want bipartisanship. They want surrender. They want to intimidate, shame and humiliate President Obama.
I watched and listened to the aging white southern Republican base for hours, half the time alone and the other half with a fellow Democratic volunteer who is black. I kept a positive, persuasive approach, never losing my cool despite what I saw and heard. Everyone was polite on the surface, but the hate was palpable. My fellow volunteer occasionally whispered to me about the hate he was seeing.
And good majority of these people consider themselves Christian. What would Jesus think! Thankfully, there are still millions of people of every race and creed who dig the president.
