Obama: Whites in Northern states have different attitude about me than those in Southern states
President Obama addressed the issue of race in a CNN interview.
.@POTUS to @FareedZakaria in #ObamaLegacy: Are there people whose primary concern is that I seem foreign? Absolutely https://t.co/VLBUR6m6es
— CNN (@CNN) December 8, 2016
Click here for reuse options!In an interview aired Wednesday on CNN, President Obama described how he thinks people may view him differently than other presidents because of his race.
”I think there’s a reason attitudes about my presidency among whites in northern states are very different from whites in southern states,” Obama told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria.
Obama described how the “birther” movement, fueled in large part by President-elect Donald Trump, affected him.“Are there folks whose primary concern about me has been that I seem foreign — the other? Are those who champion the birther movement feeding off of bias? Absolutely,” he said.
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arc99 December 8th, 2016 at 15:35
Anybody want to bet that the people who said comments about grabbing p*ssy are no big deal, will the same ones consumed with hyperbolic outrage at President Obama’s statement?
Suzanne McFly December 8th, 2016 at 15:47
He is utterly ironic. He claims President Obama was not showing his long form birth certificate because he is hiding something, kind of like a tax form? He then claims that President Obama pulled off one of the biggest cons in American history for becoming President. He is writing his own history book folks.
Inspiration December 8th, 2016 at 19:35
For the past decades, I am in East Asia most of the time and
regularly travel to a few places in South East Asia. Saying from a perspective
of someone familiar to this region, I don’t know what to feel / think about Obama.
While people here seem to like Obama but
East Asia is definitely “not” safer after 8 years of Obama. So the same with
American influence here seem to be in the down ward trend. Looking back at Bill
Clinton, he did so many things to limit NK nuclear and missile programs + diplomatically
influence China to help for a better and more secure of this region. W. Bush
had done less but still he seems to know when to stand up and what to do
when deal with NK and China. But Obama doesn’t seem to know what to do in all
of his 8 years. China keep building artificial island in South China Sea + intimidate
most of them are US ally in east, south and south east Asia, NK
keeps testing Nuke and missile. At this point they might have something can
reach Hawaii soon and Seattle next. And the US seems to have no idea what to
do. It is no surprise to see ally nations here loosing confident in the USA.
Another good example is South East Asia, we all know what Philippine
think of Obama. Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam are a kind of have to
help one another fight back the Chinese while looking at their big brother the
USA, if they lucky Obama admin will “say” something but hardly ever do a thing
to really help them. Myanma, Lao and Combodia are all for China now. Thailand
the oldest American ally in Asia is not as noisy as the Philippine but they too
very distaste with Obama’s policy toward them. I will talk about this country
because I was living there for some time. Basically people from US embassy
under Obama’s government try lecture them how to run their country. Before the
election in the US, a lot of people I know in Thailand wishing for Trump
victory because they want the US to get a taste of what it like to live under
what they call democracy dictatorship something the US embassy under Obama seems to support, and their wish seem to come truth.
When you ask what they think about Obama as the president of
the US, they seem to like him a lot. When you ask into the details of American foreign
policy [from Obama’s admin], no one seems to like it. I guess it is somehow
similar to majority of American over there? Obama approving rate is still very height,
but when it comes to his direction and policy, we all see Democrat have loosed control
over presidency, house, and senate. Obama’s popularity doesn’t seem to help his
party a thing.
I am just saying…!
Inspiration December 8th, 2016 at 19:55
it seems like this website’s admin doesn’t like comment against his/her views. well, it’s good to know that.. thank you for the free speech.
bpollen December 8th, 2016 at 20:55
People express contrary opinions here all the time. But you are expected to follow certain rules of decorum. Some people with contrary opinions sometimes can’t follow those rules.
Padpaw22 . December 8th, 2016 at 22:09
Obama is the biggest racist that I have seen in a while. He purposely creates racial problems so he can exploit them for political gain.
Hirightnow December 8th, 2016 at 23:08
Please, give the forum some examples of President Obama creating racial problems.
robert December 9th, 2016 at 01:33
The video above was getting interesting until that blond racist popped on the screen with his bs stories that got him elected
Bunya December 9th, 2016 at 15:41
I agree. It’s all Obama’s fault for serving as president while being black! It’s all HIS fault! We NEVER had any type of “racial problems” when the lily white guys were running the show!
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And you’re not racist. Nope. You just don’t like the black guy’s policies – like the fact he chose to be an “undesireable” color.