In 2007 race relations were at an all-time high in the United States. Polling shows this. Obama ran on a unification message in 2008 and his election made almost every American proud regardless of party.
In the 2012 campaign, he had gotten frustrated with the White voter that didn’t agree with his policies and formed the intersectional coalition that would be the new power structure for Democratic politics. It worked but at the expense of race relations. He had successfully pit Americans against each other based on immutable characteristics for political gain. Democrats have spent the better part of the last decade trying to convince the country that Cops target black people disproportionately. It is a lie.
Progressives cynical fixation on race and what is between a persons legs is going to be the death of this country if Americans don’t rise up and push back against this bullshit.
"In 2007 race relations were at an all-time high in the United States. Polling shows this. Obama ran on a unification message in 2008 and his election made almost every American proud regardless of party.
In the 2012 campaign, he had gotten frustrated with the White voter that didn’t agree with his policies and formed the intersectional coalition that would be the new power structure for Democratic politics. It worked but at the expense of race relations. He had successfully pit Americans against each other based on immutable characteristics for political gain. Democrats have spent the better part of the last decade trying to convince the country that Cops target black people disproportionately. It is a lie."
You are just an outright liar. I sincerely hope you're not an IU Grad/fan because you seem to have studied "how to present an alternate reality" under accomplished known fabricators like Sarah Sanders and Lyin' Kayleigh McEnany...
Do we need to look at all the videos of outright racism at (mainly) Palin rallies or all of the racist attacks Obama endured following his 2008 election? I wish race relations were at an all-time high after the election of 2008. But the reality is the vermin just went underground or hid out in the new political movements like the Tea Party, which laid the ground for the rise of Neo-Nazism and White Supremacy...
Trump had already latched on to that seething racial resentment, and by 2011 was doing his best to stoke the fire. I think if Obama harbored any frustration with certain white voters it was over the false claims stoked by opportunists like Trump that he somehow was not a legitimate POTUS because he wasn't a US Citizen...
Let's just look at the "racial harmony" Trump was fostering prior to the 2012 campaign when you claim Obama ran a campaign that collapsed the harmony of race relations...
Here’s a laundry list of birther declarations Trump made before he tried to put the controversy to rest:
1. “Why doesn’t he show his birth certificate? There’s something on that birth certificate that he doesn’t like.”
- March 23, 2011, on
“The View”
2. “He’s spent millions of dollars trying to get away from this issue. Millions of dollars in legal fees trying to get away from this issue. And I’ll tell you what, I brought it up, just routinely, and all of a sudden a lot facts are emerging and I’m starting to wonder myself whether or not he was born in this country.”
- March 28, 2011, on
Fox News
3. “He doesn’t have a birth certificate, or if he does, there’s something on that certificate that is very bad for him. Now, somebody told me – and I have no idea if this is bad for him or not, but perhaps it would be – that where it says ‘religion,’ it might have ‘Muslim.’ And if you’re a Muslim, you don’t change your religion, by the way.”
- March 30, 2011, on
The Laura Ingraham Show
4. “I have people that have been studying [Obama’s birth certificate] and they cannot believe what they’re finding … I would like to have him show his birth certificate, and can I be honest with you, I hope he can. Because if he can’t, if he can’t, if he wasn’t born in this country, which is a real possibility … then he has pulled one of the great cons in the history of politics.”
- April 7, 2011, on
NBC’s “Today” show
5. “His grandmother in Kenya said, ‘Oh, no, he was born in Kenya and I was there and I witnessed the birth.’ She’s on tape. I think that tape’s going to be produced fairly soon. Somebody is coming out with a book in two weeks, it will be very interesting.”
- April 7, 2011, on
MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”
Note:
On April 27, 2011, President Obama made public his long form birth certificate. The Trump campaign in his statement portrayed this as the event that resolved the situation.
“Having successfully obtained President Obama’s birth certificate when others could not, Mr. Trump believes that President Obama was born in the United States,” Miller said.
But as the following comments demonstrate, whatever he thought personally, Trump continued to gin up birther issues for years after."
So that was supposed to be the end all of the birther claims, with ultra-racist Miller even declaring that Trump was convinced Obama was a US Citizen...
But that "racial harmony" didn't even last more than 13 mos,before Trump was back stoking the fires of racial resentment...
Moving right along...
"6. “He didn’t know he was running for president, so he told the truth. The literary agent wrote down what he said … He said he was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia … Now they’re saying it was a mistake. Just like his Kenyan grandmother said he was born in Kenya, and she pointed down the road to the hospital, and after people started screaming at her, she said, ‘Oh, I mean Hawaii.’ Give me a break.”
- May 24, 2012, interview with
The Daily Beast’s Lloyd Grove, responding to an erroneous report about Obama
7. “A lot of people do not think it was an authentic certificate. … Many people do not think it was authentic. His mother was not in the hospital. There are many other things that came out. And frankly if you would report it accurately I think you’d probably get better ratings than you’re getting.”
- May 29, 2012, to
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer
8. “An ‘extremely credible source’ has called my office and told me that @BarackObama’s birth certificate is a fraud.”
An 'extremely credible source' has called my office and told me that
@BarackObama's birth certificate is a fraud.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
August 6, 2012
- August 6, 2012, in
a tweet more than a year after Obama
released his longform birth certificate
9. “Was it a birth certificate? You tell me. Some people say that was not his birth certificate. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn’t. I’m saying I don’t know. Nobody knows.”
- August 2013, to
ABC News
10. “How amazing, the State Health Director who verified copies of Obama’s ‘birth certificate’ died in plane crash today. All others lived.”
How amazing, the State Health Director who verified copies of Obama’s “birth certificate” died in plane crash today. All others lived
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
December 12, 2013
- December 12, 2013, in tweet about
the death of Loretta Fuddy.
11. “Well, I don’t know – did he do it? … Well, a lot of people don’t agree with you and a lot of people feel it wasn’t a proper certificate.”
-May 2014,
in an interview with TV3’s Colette Fitzpatrick in Ireland, Trump first contested whether Obama had released his birth certificate, then questioned whether its legitimacy.
12. “There are three things that could happen. And one of them did happen. He was perhaps born in Kenya. Very simple, OK? He was perhaps born in this country. But said he was born in Kenya because if you say you were born in Kenya, you got aid and you got into colleges. People were doing that. So perhaps he was born in this country, and that has a very big chance. Or, you know, who knows?”
- May 27, 2014, in remarks at the
National Press Club
13. “Who knows about Obama? … Who knows, who knows? Who cares right now?… I have my own theory on Obama. Someday I will write a book, I will do another book, and it will do very successfully.”
- January 6, 2016, in an interview with
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.
14. “I’ll answer that question at the right time. I just don’t want to answer it yet … I don’t talk about it anymore. The reason I don’t is because then everyone is going to be talking about it as opposed to jobs, the military, the vets, security.”
- September 15, 2016, in an interview with
The Washington Post."
Here are 14 of Donald Trump's list of birther declarations regarding President Barack Obama
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