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In reply to the discussion: So... how did YOU become a racist? [View all]Fearless
(18,458 posts)By disagreeing with the president on the Afghanistan War
By being frustrated at the Administration's foot dragging on DADT
By seeing Guantanamo still open more than a half decade after we were told it would close
By seeing the precedent for drone strikes on American citizens abroad enacted and the further gutting of habeas corpus
By recognizing that the government is more concerned with spying on environmentalists and OWS then prosecuting bankers
By seeing that we now accept tar sands as an acceptable energy solution apparently
By realizing that we still don't have an ENDA and do have an Administration that hasn't fought for it
By realizing that the most transparent Administration in decades is a fraudulent claim
By seeing the continuation of the Bush economic policy
By seeing the continuation of the Bush education policy
By seeing the continuation of the Bush drug policy
By suggesting the fleecing of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid as a budget balancing solution
By seeing secret free trade agreements going to be rammed through without Congressional debate
By seeing "clean" coal being used as an alternative energy source for the United States in a Democratic State of the Union Address
And probably several other things like failure to act on single payer, no-bid contracts to private military and arms contractors, and so on and so forth.