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In reply to the discussion: Damn, America. A Black President REALLY made you lose your fucking minds. [View all]sheshe2
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Is it true that on the night of Obamas inauguration leading republicans promised to obstruct him and make him a one term president?
In 2010, right before the mid-term elections, John Boehner said of Obamas agenda: We're going to do everything and I mean everything we can do to kill it, stop it, slow it down, whatever we can. And Mitch McConnell had already said, The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.
This is completely without any regard for what Obamas agenda actually was, or what was good for the country (which was in a deep crisis at the time). All they cared about was stopping Obama.
https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-on-the-night-of-Obama%E2%80%99s-inauguration-leading-republicans-promised-to-obstruct-him-and-make-him-a-one-term-president
Think about that. This country was in a deep crisis and all they cared about was 'hanging' the black man.
In 2010, right before the mid-term elections, John Boehner said of Obamas agenda: We're going to do everything and I mean everything we can do to kill it, stop it, slow it down, whatever we can. And Mitch McConnell had already said, The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.
This is completely without any regard for what Obamas agenda actually was, or what was good for the country (which was in a deep crisis at the time). All they cared about was stopping Obama.
https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-on-the-night-of-Obama%E2%80%99s-inauguration-leading-republicans-promised-to-obstruct-him-and-make-him-a-one-term-president
Think about that. This country was in a deep crisis and all they cared about was 'hanging' the black man.
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Damn, America. A Black President REALLY made you lose your fucking minds. [View all]
sheshe2
Mar 2019
OP
Because i live & work in the middle of a ton of them. ALL democrats are bad, to them.
oldsoftie
Mar 2019
#38
You got that right. They just couldn't handle a black guy telling them what to do.
PeeJ52
Mar 2019
#6
Yup this bullshit is 100% white people being salty about Obama. Not all white people, just most.
Afromania
Mar 2019
#27
No, only 30% lost theirs, but RW media had been grooming them for decades. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Mar 2019
#32
Only the lowest quality Americans were upset about a Black President. nt
Progressive Jones
Mar 2019
#59
And, somehow, nominating a white male will win them over and be the key to success in 2020.
Garrett78
Mar 2019
#61