It can't be anything but racism.
Yes, it can. Many people...including those who voted for Bush...have been upset with the direction of the country for many years. Look at an election map, for crying out loud. We are as divided a country as we've ever been and it's not because we have a black (or half-black) president. It's because he stands for moral and economic policies that 50% of the nation does not agree with. For what's supposedly a government "Of, by and for the people", many of those people feel as if it's anything but their government.
George Bush was probably the worst President we have ever had and we heard no such talk.
I get a kick out of hearing just how bad Pres. Bush was, but the facts of his admin. don't support that opinion. Other than the Iraq invasion, his presidency was not bad, but because he was the sitting president during the time when all of the financial and banking legs got kicked out from under us...all due to the work of every president and administration from Nixon to Clinton...HE gets blamed for the crisis. Why? Because most of us fail to educate ourselves on history and are more comfortable going into emotional reactionary mode.
The same can be applied to blaming Obama for our current situation.
What has Obama so terrible to cause such a reaction during his presidency? Racism is just as much alive as it ever has been.
Again, you see it as racisim and I don't know if I'm the one to change your mind, but I see it as, again, his moral and economic policies. What has he done?
He put way too much focus on passing a health insurance bill that no one really understood and few people still understand the full details of and did so at a time when this nation was at a financial low point. A bill that costs people more money when they have less money is not exactly a wise move. Also, selling the health care act to the people as "not an additional tax", only to have the Supreme Court come out and say that it's a tax was seen as a deceitful bait-and-switch by his admin.
He also has pushed a green energy agenda without fully vetting out the green energy companies and instead of putting the money into universities and colleges where they already do a lot of the R&D for green energy, his admin. sunk...literally...hundreds of millions of dollars into enterprises that have failed, leading to no new green jobs.
His vocal support of gay marriage is still causing major waves and many people believe that an issue that should be limited to the states will probably become a federal issue and in the Supreme Court.
His continuous demonizing of the rich and wealthy, claiming that they don't pay their fair share, and then proclaiming that 'Clinton raised taxes on the rich and look at how much better-off we were' is hardly true, but again, those who don't know history and are driven by their emotions don't know that 1) Clinton had the tech-sector boom as his money maker, 2) Clinton eventually lowered the taxes and 3) Clinton had the tech-sector bust which he handed off to GWB (and Bush got us out of, btw...again, people forget or just don't want to know). Obama does not have anything like the tech-sector job creating monster to draw revenues from, he only seems to know to raise taxes.
I'm not saying that he's all bad or evil or whatever, but you seem to want to throw down the race card as the #1 reason for people not liking our current president and I'm giving you legit non-racial reasons why I'm aware of people being unhappy with him. Are some racists out there making noise and hating on Obama? Sure, but in my experience and opinion they are a small minority of his detractors.
