In a piece on the NBC Nightly News former president Jimmy Carter stated the obvious. Many of the people who hate President Barack Obama the deepest hate him because he is black. Carter said, “I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man.”
Late this afternoon the House of Representatives voted to reprimand Republican Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina for his outburst calling President Obama a liar during the president’s speech to a joint session of Congress last week. The vote followed along party lines, 240-179.
On his radio show today, Rush Limbaugh went used Newsweek’s story about babies’ abilities to distinguish race to defend racism. Rush asked, “How much sensitivity training have we had starting with the Civil War? You can’t get very more sensitive than the Civil War.” According to Limbaugh, the Civil War was a sensitivity training exercise.
Apparently part of RNC Chairman Michael Steele hip-hopping of the GOP included the performance of birther rapper Hi-Caliber who rapped about “communist czars,” and Obama’s birth certificate at the 9/12 protest in Washington, D.C. This really must be seen to be believed.
