Obama:Sarah Palin made 'xenophobia, anti-intellectualism

[Guno צְבִי]

paranoid conspiracy theories' and racism popular in GOP

In his new post-presidency memoir, former President Barrack Obama explicitly states that his election in 2008 gave rise to racial tensions in the United States that he says President Donald Trump exploited for political purposes. He also accuses former Gov. Sarah Palin, the vice presidential nominee in 2008, of unleashing "xenophobia, anti-intellectualism, paranoid conspiracy theories, and antipathy towards black and brown folks" in the Republican Party, giving way to Trump's rise.

"It was as if my very presence in the White House had triggered a deep-seated panic, a sense that the natural order had been disrupted," Obama writes. "Which is exactly what Donald Trump understood when he started peddling assertions that I had not been born in the United States and was thus an illegitimate president. For millions of Americans spooked by a Black man in the White House, he promised an elixir for their racial anxiety."


https://www.theblaze.com/news/obama...conspiracy-theories-and-racism-popular-in-gop

 

[Guno צְבִי]

Palin VP pick took GOP in direction McCain 'abhorred'

Former President Obama wrote in his memoir that the selection of then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) as the late Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) 2008 running mate began a rightward shift in the party that McCain himself "abhorred."


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...-gop-in-direction-mccain-abhorred/ar-BB1aXx0s

 

[Bill]

unleashing "xenophobia, anti-intellectualism, paranoid conspiracy theories

Yes, they were already present, they never left, they have always been there~that was part of her charm, or so many of them believed..

Least prepared for the job I have ever seen...... She was the dondald trump of the VP category.......

limbaugh & gingrich need to share some of the blame as well for "unleashing" ppl like her-giving them license...

 

[Saudade]

Racial anxiety sounds like a better description of BLM and all the other race baiters that think everything is about race.

 

[Tacomaman]

I believe that McCain said that picking Palin was a huge mistake.

 

[Bill]

I believe that McCain said that picking Palin was a huge mistake.

I believe he was correct...

I seem to remember that she was forced upon him, that he was reluctant to have her on the tix from the beginning........

Whatever, he allowed it & it seemed to interfere w/ his message from the beginning so rather than enhancing the tix, she was like a ball & chain

 

[Nordberg]

I believe he was correct...

I seem to remember that she was forced upon him, that he was reluctant to have her on the tix from the beginning........

Whatever, he allowed it & it seemed to interfere w/ his message from the beginning so rather than enhancing the tix, she was like a ball & chain

Forced? He could have said NO. I think Steve Schmidt made the pick.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

paranoid conspiracy theories' and racism popular in GOP

In his new post-presidency memoir, former President Barrack Obama explicitly states that his election in 2008 gave rise to racial tensions in the United States that he says President Donald Trump exploited for political purposes. He also accuses former Gov. Sarah Palin, the vice presidential nominee in 2008, of unleashing "xenophobia, anti-intellectualism, paranoid conspiracy theories, and antipathy towards black and brown folks" in the Republican Party, giving way to Trump's rise.

"It was as if my very presence in the White House had triggered a deep-seated panic, a sense that the natural order had been disrupted," Obama writes. "Which is exactly what Donald Trump understood when he started peddling assertions that I had not been born in the United States and was thus an illegitimate president. For millions of Americans spooked by a Black man in the White House, he promised an elixir for their racial anxiety."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/obama...conspiracy-theories-and-racism-popular-in-gop

So, the rise in racial tensions had nothing to do with Obama hum? Yea, sure...

 

[Bill]

Forced? He could have said NO. I think Steve Schmidt made the pick.

He coulda-shoulda.. IMHO she is a big part of his losing..