Angie Harmon: I'm Not Racist Because I Disagree With Obama
Angie Harmon is not afraid to come out and say she doesn’t like how President Obama is handling the job — but she’s sick of having to defend herself from being deemed a racist.
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We are all entitled to our own opinions, but I would find it offensive for anyone to accuse me and others that do not like Obama's policies of being racist. It's like someone telling me that I have a problem with Obama because he's black if I voted for McCain in the last election.
And note that I did not even vote for Bush in 2000 and 2004 (I voted third-party instead).
Let's drop this race card nonsense.
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Posted on: March 31, 2009 07:01 AM
The whole linked article looks to me like another attempt by Fox News to paint Hollywood as "crazy liberals." Absent from the article are any specific incidence(s) where Harmon was called a racist, who called her a racist, or the context of her criticism.
I think the only ones using the race card now are conservatives used in precisely in following manner.
Conservative "I don't like what Obama has done to the Economy"
Liberal "Well, he is doing to his best to fix a problem he inherited"
Conservative "I'm not racist!"
Also, who listens to what Angie Harmon has to say anyway?
Posted by: Dawn
Posted on: March 31, 2009 09:10 AM
Are you kidding?? My own kids come home from school and tell me that because I don't like Obama I am a racist. Where does that come from? One guess: "crazy liberal" teachers that are trying to push their liberal agenda on my children. I have to debreif them every day when they return from school. You guys are just to afraid to face the face: it IS about race, it ALWAYS has been about race and it will CONTINUE to be about race as long as you liberals make it about race.
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Posted on: March 31, 2009 10:54 AM
Other guesses...students. Also, even if it was coming from teachers, context does matter. So maybe the teacher was addressing criticisms of Obama and one child said something racist (kids do that some times), so the teacher had to address that particular comment. Maybe your kids weren't able to separate the specific rebuttal to a racist comment from the overall discussion. Secondarily, maybe your kids heard you say something they deemed to be racist, and are attributing those comments to your current criticisms of Obama.
Race certainly plays a role, but I haven't seen one legitimate source or example of someone being called a racist for critiquing the president. It is usually an ambigious "they."
Thirdly, the specific criticism matters. "Obama is a lazy do nothing who is only looking out for blacks" is a very different criticism from "I don't like how Obama handled the AIG bonuses."
This whole argument is also nothing in comparison to those who were questioning the Bush administration and/or Iraq war and were labeled by conservatives as unpatriotic and un-American.
As a "liberal" I have plenty of reason to criticize Obama, and none of my friends/collegues have implied I was racist for said criticism.
Posted by: jim
Posted on: March 31, 2009 04:35 PM
Good for you Angie Harmon stand up for america. Stand up and say enough if enough. The man is a socailist plain and simple.Before he is done he will be the head of the Democratic Marxist party of america.