Charles Pierce: 'Seething racial resentment of Obama era is of altogether different kind'

[kpete]

Charles Pierce: 'Seething racial resentment of Obama era is of altogether different kind'
The Powder Keg


http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a39987/america-race-powderkeg/

[malthaussen]

1. Well, he's right about that.

The election of Mr Obama took the lid off a crawling nest of slugs. And I rather expect that if Mrs Clinton is elected, it will get worse, hard as that is to imagine. There is a strong streak of bile and hatred running through the country, that is oozing out over the lid that our society has tried to clamp on it. We need to rethink much of how we present reality, if we hope to eradicate this bile, not just suppress it.

-- Mal

[n2doc]

2. The hatred is fermented by RW Hate Radio and TV

All you have to do is listen for 5 minutes to Limbaugh or Savage Wiener to get where this bile is coming from. And they spew it 5 days a week plus reruns. Thinks will not get better until people realize where this crap is generated and put a lid on it. Savage should be in jail for advocating the assassination of the President, for example.

[Judi Lynn]

8. Had never heard Savage did that, although it comes as absolutely no surprise. He is grotesque.

How can there be enough truly sick people in our country to constitute a genuine listenership to these monsters, anyway?

Doesn't speak well for the whole country.

Michael Weiner should have been removed from his job so long ago, and his threats against the President should be seen as more than "free speech."

[saltpoint]

3. Pierce has it right. His pieces in

Esquire are concise and well written.

'Hope more voters will check out his work.

[Control-Z]

4. KR&Bookmarked (nt)

[2naSalit]

5. K&R.

[Jefferson23]

6. It was obvious even during the campaign in '08. The Republicans in office utilized that hatred with

vigor, even now.

2008

Eight days before the election, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said it had foiled a bizarre assassination plot against Obama by two men whom prosecutors said could have links to the white supremacist movement.

The men, who were charged with weapons violations and making threats, allegedly planned a killing rampage that would have begun at a predominantly African-American school and ended with an attack on Obama.

ATF spokesman Robert Browning immediately noted that the loosely organized plot raised questions about whether the suspects could have carried it out.

Even so, former FBI agent Mey says Obama's election has the potential to reinvigorate the radical right, a mix of militia and patriot groups that thrived during the Clinton administration.

In the wake of Obama's election, white supremacist leaders are claiming a surge in membership, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors the groups' activities.

While Obama was giving his stirring acceptance speech in Chicago on Nov. 4, former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke was rallying the white supremacist movement in a provocative call to action, saying Obama's election represented a "night of tragedy and sadness."

"Barack Obama has long history of antagonizing white people," Duke said in an audio message broadcast on the radical website Stormfront.org. "We as European Americans have to rally for our survival."

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-12-14-obamasecurity_N.htm

[90-percent]

7. 2008

I recall a Republican Senator claiming his "side" was going to BREAK Obama. This term is used for training horses and also slaves.

Talk about a blatant dog whistle!

-90% Jimmy