And the racism card was a strategy from before he ever announced he was running. There was never any reason for it. He began his campaign with a speech saying something to the effect: There going to tell you he's too young; there going to tell you he's inexperienced; there going to tell you this and that, and a couple of other things, I can't remember; and then, Oh, and by the way he's black.when was first mentioned as a candidate, i had no idea who he was, so i listened to him talk, and thought "hey, this guy sounds pretty good, articulate, intelligent, young jr. senator who just might be the "no more of the same" hopeful i was looking for.
so i did my due diligence and started researching him.
it was like peeling an onion,,the more i looked the worse it got..from a lackluster political career [he was absent more than present] to his questionable affiliation with "acorn" and its business shakedown methods, to his affiliations with communist, racist 60s radical member of the domestic terror group "the weathermen" bill ayers, to his mentor and friend louis farrakhan racist leader of the nation of islam and black nationalist, his controversial pastor of a hate spewing church he attended for 20 years, i found nothing that i could admire nor support but thought surely a man with this history would never be considered as a legitimate candidate...his background would have been revealed and he would have quickly been dismissed..
but it didn't matter, none of it mattered, the ONLY thing that mattered was his skin color.
not even after his first mediocre term did anything matter, just his race.
he set black politicians back 50 years...got the left calling successful black politicians, surgeons, educators "uncle toms" if they dared disagree on his mandates,
he turned out to be just another race pimping bagman from chicago.
No one on the other side had ever said anything about his being black. The Dems just began claiming any criticism of Obama's policies on anything was because of his skin color. It was a brilliant strategy, dishonest as hell but brilliant because the chickenshit Republicans were so terrified of being called racists that they didn't have the balls to fight back.
Obama was like Republican kryptonite. And he virtually got away with murder because nobody was willing to challenge him for fear of being labeled a racist. I hated the Democrats for being so dishonest but I hated the Republicans more for being cowards.