It's hate. Period.

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231. You conveniently forget that many of these same nice DU non-black folks you are calling racist

bigot haters supported and helped elect Obama, and were joyful, hopeful, and enthusiastic when he took office.

The proof is right here at DU, written in stone, in the post Obama nomination posts of many of these same good progressive white folks you are trashing.
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Your assertions of racism in this case are possibly the most disgusting, cheap trick propaganda device I have ever seen on DU.

The bottom line (pun intended) of why these nice white folks, and even mixed race people like me, and even many liberal black folks, are not happy with Obama is that after he was elected, and to this day, it is business as usual in Washington.

We wanted Obama to make the main focus of his Presidency to be extreme institutional progressive democratic reform, in government, society, and economy.

We wanted a President who would who would work tirelessly to end the control of our government by wealthy private interests.

But all we got was (the) business, as usual, with a small portion of social and environmental reform.

The vitriol you are seeing is not hate, racism, and bigotry, prosense. We understand that the President has an enormous job to do, and that getting things done is difficult in this irreparably broken political system. What we don't understand is why the President has not made a significant sustained focused effort to root out the wealthy private interests controlling our government, and has not even acknowledged that wealthy private interests are controlling our government.

Why not???

You see, our criticism is Democrats simply being Democrats, believing in the traditional ideology of the Democratic Party, and wanting the purported Democrat we elected President to govern like a Democrat.

But we got business as usual.

We want democracy, so don't expect our criticism of Obama to end until he makes a sincere effort to wipe all vestiges of fascism from our country. Yes, he has done some good things, and good on him for that, but he has not made any apparent focused, sustained effort at rooting out control of our government by wealthy private interests

We want democracy, not the kinder, gentler fascism being forced upon us by the Third Way New Democrat Blue Dog conservatives who have infected the heart of Democratic Party philosophy with the insidious, malignant pathogen of fascist corporatism.

Don't you get it? We don't want these fucking wealthy private interests controlling our government anymore. We want our President to fight them tooth and nail, so we can remove these rats and termites from undermining the foundation and structure of our democratic Democratic house, so that we can begin the progressive work of making our government, economy, and society constructive instruments used to do the utmost to insure the life, liberty, happiness, and health of every citizen of our nation, and to foster and preserve a healthy environment for ourselves and all future generations.

Instead, for far too many of our leaders, all of the republicans, and their Democratic allies, the utmost priority of our government is just.

BUSINESS AS USUAL.

Do you get it now? All these nice, kind, compassionate liberal Democrat white folks you are insulting are not bigoted racists, they are anti-fascist democrats. They don't give a flying fuck if the President is black, red, white, yellow, green, pink, purple or is red white and blue striped. They don't care if the President is female, male, or other. They don't care if the President is lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual, or straight.

It's very simple.

They want the President, no matter what s/he looks like, etc, to work to govern like a democratic Democrat, and protect our people, country, and democracy from fascist corporatist plutonomy.

"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
- Mussolini

"The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. "
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Message from the President of the United States..."

So please. Everyone here know how much you like and admire the President. Just please, stop with these cheap bullshit allegations of racism toward all of us who deign to criticize the President for what may be criticism leveled for the most appropriate reason on the planet.