What
U.S. President has faced an opposition that not only set out to execute a
strategy of undermining the U.S. economy in hopes of creating a " one-term presidency ," but met and concocted
that strategy at the same moment the new President was being
inaugurated? When has a U.S. President ever been publicly called out as a liar as South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe
Wilson did on live television in 2009; or, faced the tacky indignity of
having a host governor's finger wagged in his face as Arizona's Jan Brewer did
earlier this year. And what U.S. President has faced the issue of his
citizenship being questioned -- most recently Donald Trump and Republican Colorado Rep. Mike Coffman -- to the point that only by " showing his papers " would the issue be quelled?
When's
the last time a U.S. President was subjected to petty challenges of his security
arrangements by his opponents such as which occurred last year when two buses
purchased for the President by the Secret Service were blasted as " a waste of taxpayer's money ?" And when has
any locality previously banned public school students from participating in a
Presidential back-to-school pep talk as did Collier County, Florida this past September?
Moreover,
what U.S. President has had to contend with what essentially amounts as hate
speech from fellow elected officials and even religious figures? Among the
notables incidents include Rev. Franklin Graham signing-off on a pejorative
characterization of President Obama as a " son of Islam , " and Colorado Republican
Doug Lambourn's use of the term " tar-baby in an analogy involving the President.
There's also South Carolina Republican Senator Jake Knotts' characterization of
Obama as a " rag head ," and this note of caution from Kentucky Republican Rep. Geoff
Davis: "That boy's finger does not need to be on the button."
Meanwhile, how is the
avalanche of racist jokes explained?
"Breaking
news," read an email dispatched in July 2009 by Atwater, California City
Councilman Gary Frago . "Sarah Palin has been offered $1
million to pose nude in the January issue. Michelle Obama got the same offer
from National Geographic." Frago, by the way, is the same racist reprobate
who suggested that with Obama's election, the term "n-word rigs' should
now be defined as "Presidential solutions."
Even
a federal judge has joined the fray. This past March, U.S. District
Judge Richard Cebull of Montana circulated a
"joke" via email implying Obama's birth was the result of a sexual
tryst between one of the President's parents and a dog.
On
top of all this, there's been no end to the deluge of racist photo-shopped
images of the President including one depicting Obama dressed like a pimp;
another showing him on his knees shining Sarah Palin's shoes; and yet another
as a witch-doctor. And, since 2010, anyone so inclined could purchase a, "Don't
Re-Nig in 2012" bumper sticker from an on-line anti-Obama site for $3
bucks a pop -- complete with a shot of the President giving Americans the
finger. And in early June, President Obama was lynched in effigy by a Florida pastor who previously made
headlines after threatening to burn copies of the Holy Quran and the President
was actually heckled in the Rose Garden by a reporter from a well-known
conservative website.
A "racist
renaissance" is how it has been described by Nsenga Burton in the article: It's
a Great Time to Be Racist. "You name (the racial slur) and the
President has been called it," he wrote.
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