According to approval polls at the 100 day mark, Obama rated higher than both Bush and Clinton in terms of personal favorably, and while his job approval was lower than his personal, it was still higher than that of Bush, Clinton, or Bush Sr after 100 days in office, only about 4 points behind Reagan and level with Carter.
Bollocks. There's plenty of criticism of President Obama that is not in fact racist. There's a difference between criticizing him for authorizing hits on US citizens and claiming that he's an illegal Kenyan Islamofascicommunazi here to defile our wimmins and pollute our precious bodily fluids for the Union of Soviet Muslim Sumerianlizardman National Socialist Republics of Greater Kenya.
There is nothing new or surprising about the rise of the fringe. The modern Right William Buckley created was a means of stitching together various movements of whom the rational ones managed to secure the co-operation of the fruitcakes but never actually did anything beyond rhetoric. Karl Rove managed to hold this together and even to do something unprecedented like keeping triennial control for six years despite the usual trend.
Then it was all buggered for the last 2 years of Bush's Administration, the old coalition is cracking up, and the fringes have no mainstream leaders to restrain them. Hence the shit hit the fan.
Article: "A disturbingly large proportion of White Americans believe outright racist things. [Here are examples of White people saying ridiculous things that are disgustingly racist.] I'm guessing part of this racism stems from their anxieties over their economic situations and their fear over losing a population majority [aka: xenophobia]." Talk_Politics' Conservative Whites: "OMG RACIST AGAINST WHITE PEOPLE"
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According to approval polls at the 100 day mark, Obama rated higher than both Bush and Clinton in terms of personal favorably, and while his job approval was lower than his personal, it was still higher than that of Bush, Clinton, or Bush Sr after 100 days in office, only about 4 points behind Reagan and level with Carter.
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Then it was all buggered for the last 2 years of Bush's Administration, the old coalition is cracking up, and the fringes have no mainstream leaders to restrain them. Hence the shit hit the fan.
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Talk_Politics' Conservative Whites: "OMG RACIST AGAINST WHITE PEOPLE"
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