They hate you, Mr. President
Submitted by James on Fri, 11/05/2010 - 6:29pm
From a North Carolina diary on the recommended list at Daily Kos.
Mr. President you are everything that frightens them, everything that threatens their order, and everything they hate. You cannot win them over. They will always hate you. They hate you because your father was black, your mother was a white intellectual woman, because you are educated and because you are successful. Your very existence threatens their world.
At a blood red precinct in a small North Carolina town, I handed out Democratic voter information sheets to all who would take them. Out of the hundreds of white voters who walked up to vote, I was hard pressed to hand out a dozen. Blacks and Hispanics gladly took them. I chatted with the Republican candidates for local office and listened to what they said to their supporters. They hate you Mr. President. Evangelical white voters came united by hatred for you on a mission against you and Democrats who supported you.
And if you don't get your shit together, Mr. President, you'll lose the support of the millions of us who worked our asses off to get you elected.
I have not seen so much hatred since I walked the streets of Mobile Alabama wearing long hair in 1970. All those hateful eyes staring at me left an unforgettable impression.
But they hate you more than that. I can only guess that the last time conservative southern whites were this angry was when Lincoln freed the slaves and crushed their traitorous racist revolution in the Civil War.
Mr. President, a huge number of angry Republicans went to the polls because they hate you. You cannot compromise with them or their elected representatives because they will see any attempt at compromise as a sign of weakness and an opportunity to attack you.
They hate you Mr. President.
The best you can do, Mr. President, is earn their hatred, like Lincoln did, by soundly defeating them.
I agree completely with the sentiments of this diary
and I consider Obama's attempts to thread the needle of compromise to be blindingly naive.
Do good. Be nice. Have fun.
Did I write that in my sleep?
Did I write that in my sleep? That is pretty much exactly my experience but I was at a rural not small town voting location. So of us white folks voted D but the majority didn't indicate any interest in doing so. The really sad part was that Bob E helped the people of the 2nd so much and the farmers, the military men, the small business people, the average middle class worker and the retirees just plain abandoned him. They have very short memories and don't appreciate all he has done. They voted for someone that divides, wants to turn health care back over to the insurance industry, and doesn't want the federal government to do anything to help people. I guess we get what we deserve.
I'm a moderate Democrat.