Obama isn't the first

[bemused_leftist]

Right! There was the same opposition to Bill Clinton, JFK, and FDR! Maybe it had something to do with their, yanno, policies

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[level_head]

...Bill Clinton, who had the same cool temper and intellect, the same preference for cooperationSame as whom, I wonder. The apparent counterpoint is Obama, but the attributes do not describe him at all it seems to me. Nor, quite, Clinton himself, though he certainly was very smart (and a very smart political operator). Clinton's ability to take credit for initiatives he fiercely fought served him in great stead on many occasions. But that fierce fighting did not evince a "preference for cooperation

[bemused_leftist]

Hi, Keith,

"Same as whom, I wonder."

Same as the article attributed to non-Borderers. I agree with you that Obama's personality doesn't live up to that profile, though it's an image that his PR people cultivated for the policy level.

[pywaket]

"We just don't like his policies"

yeah, right: http://www.defshepherd.com/2012/10/racism-is-alive-and-well-35-incredibly.html

[bemused_leftist]

LJ screens some comments automatically for dirty words, which your first version of this had. Apparently when one version has been screened, it screens the next version also. On your other post, LJ didn't screen for 'baloney', but I did.

As to the content of your link, I may read it later if I have time. Mostly I read things that are likely to have unusual ideas or a fresh approach; the idea of racism vs Obama is pretty trite by now.

[pywaket]

BTW, love your censorship. Opposing viewpoints obviously not welcome here.

[bemused_leftist]

Opposing viewpoints are interesting. What matters here is Tone. Rational, amiable discussion, without, er, flamey stuff.

[pywaket]

So why do you disallow a pointer to an article that shows racism is alive and well in a comment that has nothing else in it? I suspect it's because you disagree with the premise.