"Did 47 U.S. Senators Just Commit Treason..."

I am pretty sure the racial divisions began the day he was elected-where in I promptly received a forwarded email with a picture of the rose garden at the White House with a caption that proclaimed that they will now have to tear out the existing garden to plant a watermelon patch.

You'recertainly within your rights to support him. Many of us don't and liking him doesn't make Congress's acts treasonous. They have the right to act, especially when the president forgets the Constitution and the people of this country ; ALL of them, not just the ones whose viewpoints and agendas are in line with his.

That is a horrible image.

Racial division did not begin that day, though. In fact, on that day America proved that our previous ideas of dividing people by race had passed the tipping point.

I believe race will be less of an issue for the next president of color. Truly, I do believe that.

And now the majority has voted in a Congress who opposes his policies. The majority no longer approved of Obama actions. Congress should not just sit by and ignore the people who elected them because the people were unhappy with Obama.

Obama may be black but he 's racist nonetheless. His actions have shown that he responds to situations involving blacks very differently than he does to those involving whites.

Just because a majority has been voted in Congress does not mean that. Gerrymandering at it's finest.

In Pennsylvania, one state in which the GOP drew the congressional districts in a brazenly partisan way, Democratic candidates collected 44 percent of the vote, yet Democratic candidates won only 5 House seats out of 18. In other words, Democrats secured only 27 percent of Pennsylvania’s congressional seats despite winning nearly half of the votes.

Makes total sense. So please Do not say a majority. There are numerous states out there that got screwed by this.

It was shocking-particularly when I realized who sent it (someone I know and thought better of.)

The point I was trying to make and didn't do a very good job of was that I believe that when President Obama was elected into office was when the racial divide that we thought was declining shot back up and that he really probably shouldn't be blamed for the totality of it- as evidenced by the watermelon patch email and the plethora of others that got sent my way by people who thought I would agree with them.

I am still probably not explaining it well. I think because I grew up in a world where the art of racism can be extremely subtle it shapes how I think. And what I think is that the same subtle racism is, in part, the reason why the divisiveness is SO strong.

Personally, there are some things that presidents current and past that I liked, and some things that were done that I didn't like-but I even with those I didn't like, I don't remember hating with the vitriol that the current president receives.

It only appears to be on the rise.

You get a small town goaded by a few media whores that uprose over a misperceived wrong because actual wrongs had previously gone unnoticed on the news night after night after night and it's easy to begin to feel like this is happening everywhere.

But if it is happening everywhere, America would look more like the 1960's than it does.

I know all about how subtle racism can be. I grew up with it too, and I've seen a tremendous change in basic perceptions of people based on such things as religion, gender and race.

The barn door is open and it is much harder to to try to close it and contain people's perceptions that people are more alike than they are different than it was 50 years ago.

Increasing acceptance is unstoppable without a violent, radical government that imposes horrific conditions upon our population.


How you can't see how George W Bush is hated with at least as much vitriol is beyond me, unless you refuse to believe that not everything about Obama has to do with race. If you can stop seeing him as a black man and see him as a man who says and does things that many people disagree with, you may be able to see just how same old same old Americans really are.

That's your perception.  The level of disrespect from elected officials towards ANY other president is not near what it is towards President Obama.

And that's YOUR perception ; not fact

I think that is your perception as well. Elected officials treated Bush horribly as well. The disrespect shown towards our current President is nothing new and I'm more than surprised to see people continue to make the claim that Obama is such a victim and it's all because of his race.