Vote Anti Incumbent

Former President Carter in a CNN story today says he thinks much of the intense fear and animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African-American.  IMO, it certainly seems to be more than people reacting to the debate or the facts.

There is real fear, not only on health care, but everything else too.  Of coarse the financial crises damaged just about everyone and raised fear in general about economic security.  Then the talk radio led faction of the Republican party is leading a full frontal assault on Obama and working many people in to a frenzy.

President Obama gave a speech last week rebutting a lot of the lies put forth (see Joe Wilson SC representative’s outburst) and has a web page setting the record straight on health care.  I just don’t think the rebuttals matter at all to the folks who are so upset.   Two of my friends mothers are just in a panic and fear about what Obama is going to do to them, like stopping their medial services and letting them die, and just covering immigrants and not American citizens. Real wiered stuff.   They got this useful info from Talk Radio.  What a great service this is for the country. Not.

LA Times columnist Tim Rutten sums it up in his article “Behind the right’s attach on Obama“. He says “The fact is that the right-wing anti-Obama movement in the U.S. these days is overpopulated with nuts, fundamentalists and paranoids who won’t be easily stopped by a few congressional reprimands.”  As we say in the South “He got that right”.

It seems the GOP has been hi-jacked by the Talk Radio Let Faction.  As Rutten says “They might be careful what they wish for, because if our national political conversation becomes simply a continuation of talk radio by other means, dominated by people who bring guns to political rallies, who believe that the president of the United States is an alien who wants to euthanize the elderly and imprison the overweight, it won’t matter which party is in power. The country will be as