Here's the problem with trying to make Obama a racial boogeyman
The right-wing's racial paranoia over Obama, and their attempts to make him into a socialist liberal boogeyman just don't hold up. In order to prove this, i actually have to destroy Obama ironically. Here's why.
Obama; by default of being black racialized white opinions about everything from health-care policy to Portuguese water dogs to his closest white associates, such as Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton. Barack Obama consistently widened racial divides, despite his best efforts to neutralize the political impact of race, despite having discussed race LESS in his first term than any other Democratic president since Franklin Roosevelt and having regularly downplayed accusations of race-based opposition to his presidency.
In other instances, whites’ fears that black political figures would give preferential treatment to black Americans, Despite Obama being the LEAST liberal president since World War II and the biggest moderate in the White House since Dwight Eisenhower,”
white voters became convinced that they had elected Huey Newton. There was effectively no opportunity for Obama to escape the racist caricature that had been painted of him, even though his challenge to America’s racial hierarchy was more symbolic than substantive. An agenda that included record deportations and targeted killings in Muslim countries abroad did little to stem the conspiracy theories. The nature of the partisan opposition to Obama altered white Republicans’ perceptions of themselves and their country, of their social position, and of the religious and ethnic minorities whose growing political power led to Obama’s election.
But more importantly though, white people's fear of Obama's liberal policies was frankly just hot air. Barack was about as liberal, and race conscious as a white guy from....Hawaii