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Originally Posted by BBQMan
Ed, In your original post you said that your cousin called Obama a fxxxxxg nxxxxr. I would agree that your cousin is a racist judging from that statement. How does that lead you to conclude that racism is a major part of the reason for opposition to Obama's policies? I know it is not in my case and I do not believe that I have met a person in The Villages that opposes him because of his race. I oppose him and will do everything I can do to help elect Mitt Romney, not because of race but because I believe that given another term, Obama's policies will destroy this country.
In any case, Obama has been treated with kid gloves compared with the treatment given to George Bush and more recently Sarah Palin by the liberals in this country and on this board. The latest example is a cheap shot by Buggyone referring to Sarah Palin's parenting skills and her daughter Bristol.
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Yes my cousin is a racist, but he is not the only one I have encountered. I have seen the most racist, inflammatory, and ugly emails aimed at Obama, and I am not on the email list of some of the groups I would suspect would be the most outrageously racist. I did not say that racism was a major part of the reason for opposition to Obama's policies. I was not the one that brought up racism as THE major reason for peoples opposition to Obama, although I think it is a prime reason for SOME of the hatred pointed at him personally. Opposition to Obama's policies is legitimate and I would agree with much of it, but that is not what I was trying to point at as the problem at all. I was naive to beleive that there would be little disagreement that the tone of the discourse BY SOME has become troubling. I have once again, been educated.