Don't you believe them

Look, President Obama is being President Obama, saying that he doesn't believe that racism is a factor at play in his opposition. Good for President Obama, that's what he should say.

But, of course, former President Carter is right. Racism is largely an issue in this discussion, and the fact that the right wing crazies went nuts over Clinton too doesn't mean that the wingnuts weren't racists back then, too. It's a topic that I want to get back to, when I have more time to write in more detail, but these discussions keep missing a large point. The racism is not just racism against one man - Barack Obama - but against the people who are perceived to be helped by his policies.

The racists want their country back - not just from President Obama, but from his constituents. You know, those interlopers who are not real Americans, not like the conservative white Christian Americans to whom America belongs. They didn't like Bill Clinton when he was on the side of those not-real Americans, and they don't like it now that Barack Obama - who isn't even an American, they tell us, no less a real American - is trying to hand their country over to foreign socialist/fascist Muslims. Real Americans didn't vote for Barack Obama. If you take out the blacks and the Jews and gays and the coastal lefties, John McCain was the real choice of real Americans. And they want their country back from those who stole the election and America. Now.