Obama and Cincinnati
First off, let me say that I think it's okay to not like President Obama. Personally, I like him a lot, but people are entitled to their opinion. So, anyway, I have heard or overheard this exact phrase on at least a weekly basis since I moved back to Cincinnati:
"Oh, don't get me started on Obama. Every time I see him on TV it makes me sick to my stomach."
And they never call him *President* Obama. Many often follow up the "sick to my stomach" comment with "He's not my President." That's funny, a lot of liberals said the same thing about Bush during his presidency and they were branded as unpatriotic, un-American scum. (Gah! There's nothing I hate more than people who criticize the attitudes or actions of another group and then turn around act exactly the same way.)
I even met a guy just last night who said all this stuff and then added "you know, it was just on the news that Americans are seeing psychiatrists in record numbers because they're so worried and stressed about having such an unfit President in power." Yeah, you show me some conclusive data on that and I'll eat my hat. And furthermore, what news source said that? Not even FOX News spews lies of that magnitude.
Occasionally, I actually talk to these people a bit further and what's just mind-blowing is they make it pretty clear that they hate Obama not so much because he's liberal (though that's a big part of it), but because he's black.
And this is Cincinnati, the historic end of the Underground Railroad, once the destination for slaves escaping Southern slavery. The city even built National Underground Railroad Freedom Center here to commemerate and celebrate that fact. And yet over the decades this place has become so racist.
I mean, what the fuck? This is the North and it's been 40 years since the Civil Rights movement. It's like this place is going backwards.
I can't wait to get out of here.
"Oh, don't get me started on Obama. Every time I see him on TV it makes me sick to my stomach."
And they never call him *President* Obama. Many often follow up the "sick to my stomach" comment with "He's not my President." That's funny, a lot of liberals said the same thing about Bush during his presidency and they were branded as unpatriotic, un-American scum. (Gah! There's nothing I hate more than people who criticize the attitudes or actions of another group and then turn around act exactly the same way.)
I even met a guy just last night who said all this stuff and then added "you know, it was just on the news that Americans are seeing psychiatrists in record numbers because they're so worried and stressed about having such an unfit President in power." Yeah, you show me some conclusive data on that and I'll eat my hat. And furthermore, what news source said that? Not even FOX News spews lies of that magnitude.
Occasionally, I actually talk to these people a bit further and what's just mind-blowing is they make it pretty clear that they hate Obama not so much because he's liberal (though that's a big part of it), but because he's black.
And this is Cincinnati, the historic end of the Underground Railroad, once the destination for slaves escaping Southern slavery. The city even built National Underground Railroad Freedom Center here to commemerate and celebrate that fact. And yet over the decades this place has become so racist.
I mean, what the fuck? This is the North and it's been 40 years since the Civil Rights movement. It's like this place is going backwards.
I can't wait to get out of here.