15 Percent of Ohio Republicans Think Mitt Romney Killed Osama bin Laden

[Jack Rabbit]

49. This only proves that at least 15% of Ohio Republican voters are unadulterated white racists

To deny a black person credit when it is due, no matter how clearly due, is a trait of white American racists. A good example of this is Rush Limbaugh's implication that any black person who rises to a level of excellence and accomplishment must be a beneficiary of affirmative action programs, even if the accomplishment in question is holding a position as an NFL quarterback or as president of the United States. Utter hypocrisy is also a trait; the same rugged individualists who touted "We (entrepreneurs) built that" (with no help from anybody) at the GOP convention two weeks ago suddenly see the point of "it takes a village" whenever they hear "Obama got Osama" and attempt to give all the credit to the Navy Seals who carried out the mission, rather than the man who directed intelligence agencies to find Osama and approve the mission after he was briefed on the situation. The current phenomenon of birtherism is a variation on the same theme, and the congressional Republicans' refusal to cooperate with president at all for any reason, regardless of the pain it causes middle class or poor Americans, is simply bare ass racism. Another example is charging that the only reason Obama gives good speeches is because he reads them off his teleprompter, while ignoring that President Reagan, "the great communicator" who made a living as a Hollywood actor before entering politics, handled the teleprompter like he invented it.

Of course, Republicans would have opposed any Democratic president who won election in 2008, even a WASP male. They quite likely would have tried to place the blame President Hilary Clinton or President Joe Biden or President Chris Dodd for the many, many failings of President George W. Bush. Still, I cannot be convinced that it would have been anywhere near this vicious.