Why is the right so intent on Obama having only one term?

[Scuba]

Poll question: Why is the right so intent on Obama having only one term?

Why does the right have the specifically stated goal of limiting President Obama to a single term?

[Mimosa]

1. Wish you'd put in ALL OF THE ABOVE. n/t

[Scuba]

2. Yeah, but then everybody would check that and I wouldn't know any more than I did.

[blondeatlast]

28. +1. nt

[Yeshuah Ben Joseph]

3. It's all about the Supreme Court

They don't want to take any chances of a Democratic president (even one who is anything BUT Liberal) replacing Fat Tony or Clarence the Clown.

[HopeHoops]

4. Face it. They would hate him anyway for being a Democrat - BUT HE'S FUCKING BLACK - AAARRRGHHH!!!

That's what is really killing them. This wasn't about Obama's policies or his accomplishments. It was about his skin color. The teabaggers and other Republicans effectively got out a simple message: "We didn't keep a black man out of the 'WHITE' House because we didn't get out the hate vote - so go vote 'HATE' this time and do it to keep Amurka WHITE".

Disclosure: I'm white, non-racist, and have a very low tolerance for racist/religious bias. I know that gives ME a bias, but I'm happy to wear that particular badge.

[Mad_Dem_X]

26. I agree completely.

It's bad enough he's a Dem, but the nerve of him not being White! That's what it a *all* boils down to.

[HopeHoops]

27. I raised my children in a way that they will identify someone by shirt color rather than skin color.

The latter never occurred to them. They're 15, 17, and 19 now and I STILL can't figure out a way to explain why there are so many fucking racists in our country. The Civil War ended over 120 years ago - what the FUCK is wrong with people who are still fighting it?

[Demstud]

5. Because he's a democrat?

Seems like a silly question.

[onenote]

8. +10000

[Scuba]

10. Sure, but they're willing to do permanent damage to the Country to limit him.

[QC]

16. They were willing to wreck the country to get rid of Clinton, too.

As more than one person said then, they hated Clinton more than they loved America.

The fact that Obama is black certainly doesn't improve him in their eyes, though.

[SammyWinstonJack]

12. +1. nt

[pipi_k]

18. silly is right...

although, even sillier, is the assertion that part of the reason they want him out in one term is because because he's black.


Of course, it's impossible to prove yes or no without being able to see into the hearts/minds of the people who want to limit him to one term, but it sure is a convenient way to justify labelling those who want him gone in one term as "racists".

[w8liftinglady]

6. In Texas,they are both racist and greedy...soulless bastards hiding behind a cross and a flag

[onenote]

7. for the same reason I have always been committed to limiting repub presidents to 1 term

Because I disagree with their policies.

It would go beyond naiveté to think that a political party wouldn't be committed to unseating a president, or any other elected official, from the opposing party.

[Scuba]

9. Sure, but they're willing to do permanent damage to the Country to limit him.

[pipi_k]

19. That doesn't mean they want him out because he's black

As someone upthread mentioned, they hated Clinton more than they "loved" America.

Also...if you've ever seen failed marriages and what can happen there...two people can despise each other more than they love their own children...putting the poor kids through HELL. All because they want to get back at each other.

All that needs to happen is that two or more people hate something more than they love something else.

Clinton wasn't even black, yet look at what the Republicans put this country through.

[onenote]

20. would it be any different if Hillary was president? Or Biden? Or Kucinich

or Grayson? Or Pelosi? Or Gore. Or Kerry. Or.......you get the idea.

[TheKentuckian]

11. All of the above plus they are all about the White House

They'd rather have the Presidency than both houses because they don't care about much in the way of legislation. If they can appoint judges, undermine the regulatory regime, set up crappy trade agreements, control the military, and randomly enforce laws they are good.

[Scuba]

13. Astute observation.

[Bitwit1234]

14. If he only has one term wouldn't that mean a republican would get elected.

they know that Obama will be the candidate in 2012 so that's why they say they only want him to be one term.

[JVS]

15. Because politics always works that way.

[lumberjack_jeff]

17. They don't have any other ideas. n/t

[Renew Deal]

21. The same reason you wanted Bush to only have one term.

:dunce:

[hfojvt]

22. you beat me to it

duh.

edit: but shouldn't that have been "we" instead of "you"?

[Renew Deal]

24. It should, but in a poll meant to point out our opponents are all racists

I didn't want myself associated with that.

[hfojvt]

25. I don't know that the poll is meant to point that out

Although the majority of poll responders seems to be answering it that way.

That is a good point. I don't want to be associated with that either.

But I certainly did want Bush to be a one term president and I wanted him to get thumped in 2002 and I wanted Democrats to fight against his policies. I guess I can't always get what I want. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_Ji83e4mUA

[Morning Dew]

23. Because he's the most liberal politician in America

Oh, wait, that was Kerry... I mean Gore... No, um, it was Clinton.

[gulliver]

29. Other. They think it would refute the 2008 election.

Limiting Obama to one term would give them payback for 2008 and invalidate it. It's the same way that Bush's 2004 election was thought to validate his questionable election in 2000. Neither is true, but it probably makes them feel better.

They aren't racists, for the most part, by the way. Most racists are Republican, but most Republicans aren't racist.

[TheKentuckian]

32. TeaPubliKlans are bigots of all sorts because their policies tell me so.

As do their tactics.

The minority voter suppression antics should say it clearly enough. Or the "southern strategy". Or maybe the vile ads that they will use even against each other (see Bush v McCain S.C. 2000).

If they aren't racist then why do their efforts depend so heavily on such shitty tactics and spend so much energy attacking anything that is other than white, "christian", and straight?

Republicans are a coalition of bigots, idiots, the extremely greedy, and con men.

How the hell do you make the claim they aren't racist? I promise you minorities have a very different general impression.
I'd say if you had to present a case for one side of the argument or the other that the person making the affirmative case would have piles and piles of anecdotal evidence and the defense would spend lots of time talking about Clarence Thomas and his hand full of clones and Lincoln.

They are a racist, terrorist organization as surely as any exist on Earth.

[Codeine]

30. To be fair, I wanted Reagan, Bush41, and Bush43 to have only one term.

That's sort of the point when the other party is in charge.

[BlueCheese]

31. Why do Republicans want to defeat a Democratic president?

It's what they do, almost by definition. Why do the Lakers want to stop the Celtics from scoring?

[SidDithers]

33. Not only the right...nt

Sid