Our goal is to have a country that’s not divided by race. And my impression, as I travel around the country, is that that’s the kind of country that most people want, as well, and that we all have prejudice, we all have certain suspicions or stereotypes about people who are different from us, whether it’s religious or racial or ethnic, but what I think I found in the American people, I think there’s a core decency there, where if they take the time, if they get the time to know individuals, then they want to judge those individuals by their character.
BARACK OBAMA, Larry King Live, Oct. 19, 2006
“And if you disagree with me, then you’re just a racist who hates me because I’m black.”
NOTE: Maybe it’s just me, but the phrase “what I think I found in the American people” strikes me as odd… like something that would be said by someone who didn’t consider himself one of “the American people”. It’s the phrase of an outsider who’s looking in, like Ross Perot’s infamous “you people“.
Obama’s a regular Alexis de Toker-ville.
And it’s not only “what I think I found in the American people,” it’s also:
“I think there’s a core decency there, where if they take the time, if they get the time to know individuals, then they want to judge those individuals by their character.
Is “My fellow Americans” still too Nixonian?
obama wouldn’t know an average American if one of them bit him on the …………….ear. He’d just have one of his “weapon of death” security people kill them unless they looked like the son he never had.
You know, having taken the time to get to know you as an individual over lo these many years, I have come to the conclusion that I would have been far better off judging you by your race. Would’ve saved a bunch of time.