Why do people hate Obama?

[dlock13]

I'm just wondering why everyone hates President Obama. I really haven't paid attention to any of his term. I don't truly know anything he has done. This is a short post just asking for a list of reasons as to why America dislikes Obama so much.

I'll take responses in form of lists or bullet points for easier reading please. I mean elaborate all you want. I just really want to know the main points as to why people dislike him so very, very much.

Also, you can add what he has done that are positives if you'd like please.

Thanks politics section!

*Edit* Can we have serious postings please?

 

[DominionSeraph]

Because conservatives are idiots.

 

[blankslate]

He's Muslim Lizard person!! DUH!

Seriously though it's because the climate has gotten so divisive in Washington in recent years.

in the 80's President Ronald Reagan and Speaker of the House Tip O'Neil were known to socialize much more than people from the two main opposing parties do today. They could still be political opponents and be friendly enough off-hours to share drinks and socialize off-hours.

That changed in the 90's I'll tell you that much... I'll let you figure out who was the main instigator so it can't be said I'm trying to influence your opinions.

 

[jackstar7]

People need an enemy to project their frustrations and fears onto, usually someone that can be labeled as an outsider.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

Everything that's wrong with the country is his fault.

 

[Ausm]

He's Muslim Lizard person!! DUH!

Seriously though it's because the climate has gotten so divisive in Washington in recent years.

in the 80's President Ronald Reagan and Speaker of the House Tip O'Neil were known to socialize much more than people from the two main opposing parties do today. They could still be political opponents and be friendly enough off-hours to share drinks and socialize off-hours.

That changed in the 90's I'll tell you that much... I'll let you figure out who was the main instigator so it can't be said I'm trying to influence your opinions.

From what I have read, it was the Newtster and Rove that were instrumental in bringing back this type of divisive politics.

 

[Matt1970]

Because conservatives are idiots.

Hmm, guess we are supposed to just blindly believe the one who hasn't delivered on 90% of his campaign speeches.

 

[Anarchist420]

I don't know why exactly, but I was pissed off yesterday when I went to a George W Bush fan page and nearly everyone who posted was saying how much better he was than Obama and how much they wanted him back. Those people made me smarter than I've felt before.

 

[airdata]

Different people hate him for different reasons.

Some people hate him because he's a ' democrat '.
Some people hate him because he's black.
some people hate him because he made a bunch of promises about changes and what not and simply continued bush policies...

Now, That third one is the one that shows you just how retarded alot of P&N people are. Because the people that hate him for being a democrat probably supported everything george bush did. And then when Obama does the same stuff bush did, they disapprove.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Which Obama are we talking about? President Obama or Strawman Obama?

The hate is entirely different for both.

 

[thraashman]

Well, I don't hate Obama. I am unhappy with him for some of his policies. I can list his policies I'm unhappy with. I am intelligent enough to not throw around factually incorrect words like muslim, socialist, America-hater. Every complaint I have about Obama is based on facts, not perceptions taught to me by Fox and Rush.

- He was not forceful enough in creating a public option in the Affordable Healthcare Act. The act that we got is too weak and doesn't do enough to reverse spiking healthcare costs. While he could not make the few Democrat hold outs vote the right way when the Senate had a super majority, he should have been more forceful with them because solidarity was needed when the minority party has been the most obstructionist political group in the entire history of the United States.

- Closing Guantanamo. I can't blame him completely. He did sign an Executive Order to close it. It was Congress who stopped him. However, Guantanamo is a military base with military prisoners. Obama is Commander In Chief and he should have told Congress "too bad, it's my decision, go fuck yourselves"

- Allowed a deal to continue the Bush tax cuts that have hurt our economy so much.

- Despite campaigning as a moderate liberal, he has mostly been a right of center President. The American right has proven over the last 20 years to be one of the most harmful political groups in our nation's history and being right of center when he should be liberal only exacerbates that problem.

- He should ask Eric Holder for his resignation and hasn't. I can't blame Obama for Fast and Furious as I doubt he had more than a cursory knowledge. But someone's head has to roll for the poor implementation, and Holder is the man.

I'm sure I have a few more that just aren't coming to mind. He's also done some good things such as the auto bailout that saved hundreds of thousands of jobs, the stimulus that saved the economy, realizing after Deepwater Horizon that regulation is a good thing and requiring environmental review. Not giving in to political pressure and instead denying the pipeline pending environmental review when he could have thrown causion to the wind and been a reckless retard like the GOP.

Basically, it's been that the more liberal things that Obama has done have been good, the more conservative ones have been bad. It is unfortunate that he's had to deal with a opposing political party that has only been surpassed by the confederacy in harmfulness to our nation's prosperity.

 

[Ausm]

I don't know why exactly, but I was pissed off yesterday when I went to a George W Bush fan page and nearly everyone who posted was saying how much better he was than Obama and how much they wanted him back. Those people made me smarter than I've felt before.

I bet they never experience any bandwidth limitations on that site.

 

[DominionSeraph]

Hmm, guess we are supposed to just blindly believe the one who hasn't delivered on 90% of his campaign speeches.

Since when has "campaign speech" been a useful method of governance? If we wanted someone who could push through such by fiat we'd do away with the House, Senate, and Supreme Court and just elect ourselves a dictator. We don't do that because it's really retarded.

 

[xBiffx]

Is it necessary to have a thread on this topic every week?

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2233485

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2229011&highlight=obama

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2228896&highlight=obama

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2225577&highlight=president

 

[waggy]

I think those that blindly hate him are as idiotic as those that blindly support him.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Hmm, guess we are supposed to just blindly believe the one who hasn't delivered on 90% of his campaign speeches.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/

 

[Moonbeam]

Hehehe, I have posted what hate is on this forum a million times and I can post it another million times and you can be sure that nobody will understand it any better than they do now. You have simply asked a question to which nobody, including yourself, wants to know the answer although one of the posts above wasn't bad. You have asked a question the answer to which appears to be instantaneously so unlikely that it is dismissed immediately from consideration. This is because the answer is the most powerfully repressed piece of data that we avoid. In fact, we would rather die than know because it involves the fact that we did die, that a part of us is in fact dead, had to die for us to survive physically. Smell a rat yet? Hehehehe, already thinking you've read enough?

So the answer to your question, while it won't do you the slightest good, is that those who hate Obama hate him because they hate themselves, and for those who don't hate him, you can be sure they hate something else for the same reason.

We hate what is bad, what is worthless and what is dangerous and evil, because like all decent folk like us, we are good people. And we learned very early as children what it means to stray from that path. We learned what happens to bad worthless dangerous and evil little children. Oh, you bet we learned and now we're dying for a chance to prove it, oh yes, ever vigilant to exterminate it.

And the worst and most evil thing in the world is the mirror that tells us who we are for the thing we hunt and hope to kill are the things that the mirror tells us we feel.

 

[Genx87]

Clearly because they are racists.

 

[piasabird]

Have you purchased gasoline lately? All his policies are Anti-America and socialist driven to enslave people to the governments every whim. No coal power plants, no oil pipeline, Keep borrowing at least a trillion every time he turns around. He has added more trillions of dollars to the deficeit than Bush did in 8 years. Every time the we borrow more money, the value of the dollar drops and the price of oil and gas and even food prices increase.

If you ever paid for your lunch you should have noticed that is increasing.

Do you live under a rock?

This has nothing to do with racism. This has to do with implementing policies and enacting legislation which is harmful to the USA!

 

[SkullWalker]

One of my friends live in a small European country and he told me, that every time they had a "socialist" or " left-wing" government their deficit rose.

Looks like the socialist are just a bunch of spendthrifts who cannot see beyond their noses.

 

[Ldir]

Have you purchased gasoline lately? All his policies are Anti-America and socialist driven to enslave people to the governments every whim. No coal power plants, no oil pipeline, Keep borrowing at least a trillion every time he turns around. He has added more trillions of dollars to the deficeit than Bush did in 8 years. Every time the we borrow more money, the value of the dollar drops and the price of oil and gas and even food prices increase.

If you ever paid for your lunch you should have noticed that is increasing.

Do you live under a rock?

This has nothing to do with racism. This has to do with implementing policies and enacting legislation which is harmful to the USA!

Gas prices were even higher under Bush. He borrowed trillions too. Is he an anti-America socialist too?

This is why people hate Obama. They are ignorant.

 

[xBiffx]

Gas prices were even higher under Bush.

Blatant lie.

 

[shortylickens]

Same reason they hate every president: Things arent going well so they blame the guy at the top, despite the fact he's not a ruler. He's a leader.

Though I will admit I dislike him for his policy on illegals. Not that I think the previous presidents were much better.

Oh, and Obamas smarter but Clinton and Bush were better liars.

 

[nageov3t]

because any time someone expresses a dislike, they're immediately called a racist redneck.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

I don't hate Obama but I do object to any in power who try to circumvent the fact that our government was created in such a way that the federal government had to live within expressly defined boundaries, and if a power is not granted, then it is a right reserved by the states and the people. Over time citizens have wanted things and ceded their rights. This has led to the concept that the Constitution is anything the government and those who support an agenda says it is. Obama has lamented that our Constitution limits his authority but that is mere formality. He has no respect for our founding document and therefore I have none for him.