Time to cut the crap. Obama Derangement Syndrome doesn't really exist. [View all]

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I know there are those who really, really, really want to pin any disagreement with Obama on some little known ailment (vaguely connected to racism) that causes otherwise sensible people to froth at the mouth, scrape their knuckles on the pavement, and pine for Ole Dixie, but it doesn't exist.

It definitely doesn't exist on at Democratic Underground. The posters here who disagree with Obama do so because we believe that the policies of the center-right have failed, not because, after promoting equality and respect for many years, we found we can't stand seeing a black man in the White House. We objected when Bill Clinton moved to the right and we object when Obama does it now.

Even republicans aren't affected with ODS. I'm not saying many republican's aren't racist, we all know many are. But they aren't doing anything today they didn't try to do twenty years ago when Clinton held the White House. Does anyone remember how the right savaged Hillary during the health-care debate? Travel-gate? Whitewater-gate? Trooper-gate? Foster-gate? Monica-gate? The republicans tied up most of Clinton's agenda with phony scandals and controversies. They shut down the government. They impeached him. The only reason they didn't filibuster him to death is because they had the majority in both houses for nearly his entire tenure.

So let's cut the dishonest, race-baiting, crap over non-existent Obama Derangement Syndrome. When Democrats object to Obama's agenda it's because we don't agree with center-right policies. We've seen them fail under republicans and we've seen the fail under Democrats. We're tired of watching the same old schemes in which the government throws money at the 1% in the hopes that they'll give a little bit back fail. We're tired of invading every small country that hasn't figured out how to build a nuclear device. We're tired of privatizing essential services and we're tired of fighting to keep what little bit of security is still left for our seniors and disabled citizens. When republicans object to Obama's agenda they're doing it so that they can make him, and the party, look weak so they can win elections and get more campaign funds.

From this point it's important to call out the ODS smear for what it is. It is nothing more than a way for those who cannot defend Obama's policies on their merits to attack his critics as racists and that has no place at DU.

TL;DR: It's not about Obama, it's about his policies.