What I cannot understand is WHY Obama is so HATED by so many of the general public.
Presumably because (a) he's black and (b) he's being misrepresented to them at every conceivable turn by people to whom truth is just something they once heard about but decided they didn't like the sound of. The Obama that's described by the Faux News wackaloons is unrecognizably different from the man himself: not just a caricature but a caricature of someone else.
For people who don't have the brains or the gumption to get their information from an (as near as possible) unbiased source, or even to consider that their sources might have biases, Obama must seem like a very strange creature indeed: his politics are both extreme left and extreme right, he's a Muslim but must be attacked because of the words of his Christian pastor, etc., etc.
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Date: 2010-08-21 05:14 pm (UTC)What I cannot understand is WHY Obama is so HATED by so many of the general public.
Presumably because (a) he's black and (b) he's being misrepresented to them at every conceivable turn by people to whom truth is just something they once heard about but decided they didn't like the sound of. The Obama that's described by the Faux News wackaloons is unrecognizably different from the man himself: not just a caricature but a caricature of someone else.
For people who don't have the brains or the gumption to get their information from an (as near as possible) unbiased source, or even to consider that their sources might have biases, Obama must seem like a very strange creature indeed: his politics are both extreme left and extreme right, he's a Muslim but must be attacked because of the words of his Christian pastor, etc., etc.