The actual racists are the New Democrats and Wall St. power brokers who promoted Obama
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and who supported and bankrolled Obama's rapid rise from being an obscure Illinois state senator all the way up to the White House.
Why? Because quite literally, for several years behind office doors, in conference calls, at country clubs, across dining tables at fancy K-Street or Manhattan restaurants, State Senator Obama -- and later US Senator -- Obama was openly and enthusiastically marketed by New Democrat figures to potential political Wall St. sugar daddies as "the agreeable, liberal-appearing black guy" who would, in the guise of a black Democratic politician, be able to continue the White House shepherding of Wall Street and corporate-friendly agendas were he to be elected, which he was. Obama was candidly promoted by his financial backers as a "black guy".
And the people who started the entire selling of Obama as the "corporate-friendly liberal black guy"? Obama and his political advisers, who for years, behind the scenes, were aggressively courting corporate political suitors using the issue of Obama's race as a primary selling point (i.e. reassuring prospective sponsors that Obama's being a black man would be a help, not a hindrance, in gaining the White House this time around). In the context and history of cutthroat, ferociously ambitious politicians of any stripe who are willing to do what it takes to get what they want, Obama can hardly be blamed for promoting his own assets in this manner -- not much different than the kinds of things LBJ, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton did to curry favor -- but that's the way it was, like it or not.
But considering it was Obama himself who a) campaigned as a serious progressive but was never actually sincere in governing as such upon election; and b) likewise very much wanted to be the first black man elected US President, Michael Moore -- a stauch progressive who celebrated the election of a black President for the best possible reasons -- can hardly be blamed for saying that Obama is a "huge disappointment" (as a progressive) who, fairly or unfairly, will be primarily remembered 100 from now for being the nation's first black American elected President (in similar fashion as Americans, fairly or unfairly, best remember Washington as being the nation's first President).
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Oh, I get it. This is just your opinion.
It is kind of funny to watch LOL
this is ugly racism:
And the person who started the entire selling of Obama as the "corporate-friendly liberal black guy"? Obama himself, who for years, behind the scenes, was aggressively courting corporate political suitors using his racial makeup as a primary selling point. In the context and history of cutthroat, ferociously ambitious politicians of any stripe who are willing to do what it takes to get what they want, Obama can hardly be blamed for promoting his own assets in this manner, but that's the way it was, like it or not.
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