Racism

The Least Accurate Description of the President

And here it is, courtesy of The American Family Association's Bryan Fischer:

"And I believe I understand now what Barack Obama is about. And it is intentional, it is not ineptitude on his part, it is intentional and his mission in life is to punish the United States for being a racist country. That's what drives him, it's what animates him, it's what energizes every single thing he does to punish this country, to cut it down to size, to wound it, to hurt it, to damage it, to diminish it in order to punish the United States for being a racist country.

To Barack Obama, the entire United States of America is one big, giant Ku Klux Klan and the Constitution, for Barack Obama, is the membership charter for this giant Ku Klux Klan ... And I honestly believe8 that this is how Barack Obama sees the United States of America; one big, giant Ku Klux Klan meeting and it's his job to punish the Ku Klux Klan, which is the United States of America in his worldview."

This is pure horseshit. First of all, any reading of the president's autobiography shows that while he struggled with his racial identity in his youth, racial resentment isn't a part of his personal story. But accuracy isn't Fischer's goal. I hate to be repetitious but this is intended to stir up resentful white people who are predisposed to believing that black leaders are angry militants. This isn't surprising. But what's amazing is they continue to try this line of attack even though it simply doesn't resonate outside of a small faction of cranks.