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lindysalsagal

(20,692 posts)
Thu Feb 2, 2012, 10:14 PM Feb 2012

Why don't "Pro-family" "conservatives" ever compliment Obama on his marriage?

He's the poster boy for the perfect american family: Devoted to his wife and kids, obviously adores and enjoys them, knows how to be playful, never goes to questionable events or hangs with questionable types. He's the perfect family man.

Never gets any credit for it.

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Why don't "Pro-family" "conservatives" ever compliment Obama on his marriage? (Original Post) lindysalsagal Feb 2012 OP
It's not something they easily recognize. So few examples on their side. n/t brewens Feb 2012 #1
Obama is inexperienced. You need to be married 2 or 3 times like Newt to truly think Feb 2012 #2
One word: Racism gopiscrap Feb 2012 #3
Bingo!! That's it exactly! nt Ecumenist Feb 2012 #5
I also think that is the reason. madaboutharry Feb 2012 #7
The Right are blinded by Agenda orpupilofnature57 Feb 2012 #4
Hell, half of them don't consider him to be fully human Ecumenist Feb 2012 #6
I think you have got it! digonswine Feb 2012 #10
Because fathering two children by a black woman... jberryhill Feb 2012 #8
He's either the wrong color, the wrong political party, or both meow2u3 Feb 2012 #9
I heard one do it! And it ended badly... onager Feb 2012 #11
 

think

(11,641 posts)
2. Obama is inexperienced. You need to be married 2 or 3 times like Newt to truly
Thu Feb 2, 2012, 10:18 PM
Feb 2012

understand family values.

madaboutharry

(40,212 posts)
7. I also think that is the reason.
Thu Feb 2, 2012, 10:36 PM
Feb 2012

To be fair, McCain said that he was a good family man when he was talking to that idiot woman at a campaign town hall.

 

orpupilofnature57

(15,472 posts)
4. The Right are blinded by Agenda
Thu Feb 2, 2012, 10:27 PM
Feb 2012

They're still appalled at the thought ,that We would rise above racism and open Our eyes to the true man for people ,and not an ideolgy of exclusion .Barrack Obama is the perfect family man and should be recognized for that and trying to heal the Damage to the American families the past administration did.

Ecumenist

(6,086 posts)
6. Hell, half of them don't consider him to be fully human
Thu Feb 2, 2012, 10:32 PM
Feb 2012

Family man? Please, to the other half, he's a n*****r first. I have heard tham toss that word around like confetti, trust me. The man I laughingly refer to as my "fil" is one of them.

digonswine

(1,485 posts)
10. I think you have got it!
Fri Feb 3, 2012, 08:40 PM
Feb 2012

If he was a decent family man, they could not dehumanize and hate him as they do.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
8. Because fathering two children by a black woman...
Thu Feb 2, 2012, 11:30 PM
Feb 2012

...is the sort of thing they use as an ugly rumor against people.

Stanley Ann Dunham - a white teenage girl - had SEX with a BLACK MAN!

In polite society, you don't keep children like Barack around, if you know what I mean.

Not in 1961

meow2u3

(24,764 posts)
9. He's either the wrong color, the wrong political party, or both
Fri Feb 3, 2012, 08:25 PM
Feb 2012

Republicans have degenerated from a political party to a political cult. Those who are not members of the cult can do no right, even if God Himself came down from heaven and told them otherwise.

Unfortunately, in the eyes of the GOP, it's not what's done; it's who does it. Newt Gingrich can cheat on his wife with a man--right in her face--and the conservos will think there's nothing wrong with it, but if Barack Obama even looks at another woman with admiration, right away he's a womanizer. This kind of blatant double standard pisses me off to no end.

onager

(9,356 posts)
11. I heard one do it! And it ended badly...
Fri Feb 3, 2012, 10:38 PM
Feb 2012

Couple of years ago. Obama's family values were praised by the drive-time tool on the local Salem Comm. outlet here in Los Angeles, KK(K)LA.

That dull tool is the oleaginous Frank Pastore. Pastore said that he disagreed with Obama on everything politically (an understatement).

But Pastore went on to say that both Obamas did seem to be excellent parents, who had done a great job of raising their daughters.

Whoa! The KKLA switchboard must've lit up like Ted Haggard's face at an Astroglide half-off sale!

Pastore said they were "swamped" by callers disagreeing with him, and he put one on.

The caller said Obama couldn't possibly be raising his kids right, because he was an anti-Xian CommunistNaziSocialistFascist helpmeet of SATAN. And the entire Obama family was headed straight for HELL. The kids included.

Pastore tried reasoning with the caller, sort of. He played one of the usual Xian cards - "Who are you to say who is going to Hell?"

"Well, I know HE is!"

Things just went further downhill from there.

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