Just a short political post – feel free to ignore it and I promise to post early tomorrow – but I enjoy my politics and on the occasion that I post about politics there is generally a good discussion from readers.
I was just watching MSNBC and this guy O’Donnell I think was having this huge rant (like a Rush Limbaugh rant where he tries to say the same thing 20 different ways – which I hate). This guy was ranting saying Donald Trump is a racist for questioning President Obama’s academic performance.
President Obama and President Bush both went to Harvard for their masters – every man and his dog questioned President Bush’s intelligence calling him stupid. Yet he was accepted to Yale (which he father and grandfather went to) and did his masters at Harvard. President Obama went to Columbia University and to Harvard (just as his father went to Harvard).
I’m not Trump fan at all but it was trendy to say President Bush was stupid but to say President Obama is stupid is racist?
I’ve read both of President Obama’s books and I’m half way through reading President Bush’s memiors. Since it is on my mind I thought I’d post my thoughts.
5 Comments
raulito
Hi:
I think that you are missing the underlying reason this is racist. Even when these allegations are false; Donald Trump keeps trying to attack the President on a personal level…not his policies, not his ideology but his worth as a human being therefore negating any of his accomplishments as a black man. That is precisely the reason these people hate him…they hate it when they see a capable, intelligent and articulate black man in the White House…it just doesn’t fit in with their concept of white superiority.
As far as Bush is concerned, he will go down in history as one of the worst Presidents…but bear in mind that the same standards were not applied to him.
just thought you could contemplate this idea.
saludos,
raulito
don3838
You said it yourself…the reason George Bush got into Yale and Harvard is because his father and grandfather did. They *had* to let him in. He was an academic failure. All questioning of Obama’s “legitimacy” as president is simply racism fomented by idiots who simply can’t stand the fact that a black man is president. They can’t say that out loud, so they come at it from this sideways direction.
DaveB
Actually Dave people called President Bush stupid because…well I know you and I wouldn’t have been so into politics when Bush was prez (we would have been about 14 when he started since we have the same age), but I’m sure you can remember some of the dumb stuff he did. Check out http://www.dubyaspeak.com/ for some of the hilarious mangling of the english language as well as other examples of his clumsiness. There’s also the fact that he ran his country into the ground – kinda a good reason to question his intelligence. Obama in comparision has done a…not amazing job but he hasn’t made it too much worse. Plus he was a constitutional scholar before entering politics while all Bush did was run a company into the ground (he has form).
Anonymous
Bush left the White House on January 20 2009 he left a letter in the Oval Office for President Obama. Many people have wondered what exactly Former President Bush said to President…… Perhaps President Bushs letter went something like this…Dear President Obama Good Luck running the country.
Anonymous
Bush left the White House on January 20 2009 he left a letter in the Oval Office for President Obama. Many people have wondered what exactly Former President Bush said to President……