The main reason they support him, Songwronger, is elegantly and utterly simple: he's NOT a Republican! ;-) They feel, therefore, that they have to support him...and are further encouraged to do so because he's a "black" man...therefore NOT to support him would be utterly unconscionable, right? After all, we must always react in a predictable way on these matters in order to expiate the collective white man's guilt over the long history of slavery, apartheid, segregation and all that other unquestionably unjust stuff in the past....therefore DON'T judge a American man by what he DOES! Judge him by the color of his skin, and you will be on entirely safe ground amongst your peers, and no one will call you a "racist"....a terrifying word indeed, one that could damn you for all eternity if you get labelled as one!!!!!!

If he's black...and not a violent criminal...then he MUST be seen as either a victim or a saint.

Read the F-ing program, man! I've just explained to you how not to offend the various people on this forum who customarily go after you like the Inquisition went after their "witches". ;-D

And another point to consider: You may despise the Republicans...just like most of the membership here does. I certainly despise them. You may think they're quite a bit worse than the Democrats. I think so. But that will not even be noticed if you go after Mr Obama. Nope. You can't touch Obama, because if you do you will be assumed to be a rightwing nutcase, a Tea Partier, a died-in-the-wool Republican loony bin candidate AND a racist!!!!! So there. That is all you need to know.

Therefore, get the thread title changed so it's inoffensive on Mudcat. Remove the word "Obama". ;-D Change it to: The War on the Middle Class