Distilling this thread down to the essence let's see what we can and can't agree on:
  • 1. Obama is a shitty president and you don't need to be a racist to believe that.
    2. However,some people who don't like Obama are racists. Similarly, some people who do like Obama are racists.
    3. Racism is bad
    4. While racism is bad, we have become a nation of pussies that has a tendency to assume something is racist way too quickly.
    5. Showing the president as a chimp is not necessarily racism, especially when he has a white mother.
    6. However, when the person showing the president as a chimp has a history of racist comments and/or defending racist comments, that person probably had a racist motive in showing the president thusly.
    7. Even if not racist, a public official who thinks that forwarding an email like this isn't going to come back to haunt them is an idiot.
    8. Conservatives who say racist and hurtful things seem to get more attention from the mainstream media than liberals who do.
    9. Rob is, and always will be, gay.