Why do so many people feel empowered to say I HATE Obama and not explain themselves in terms of issues?

they were bitten by a hildebeast
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90% of those are not even old enough to vote.
Y!A, and this category in particular, is full of pinhead parrots who repeat what they believe to convey intelligent, political savvy but is nothing more than one parrot repeating what they heard from another parrot…
which explains the short, sometimes only three word sentences, minus any explaination or clarification, you allude to.
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Because there really aren’t issues.
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I don’t hate Obama, I just don’t want him to be president. His attending a church for twenty years that teaches Black Liberation Theology is just one reason — I have others. Honestly I haven’t seen anyone saying they hate Obama without backing it up with some reasoning. On the other hand, I’ve seen his followers claim he’s teh greatest thing since sliced bread without offering any justification.
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C’mon! Can you possibly be any more disingenuous??? Y!A users have explained over and over again the SEVERAL substantive reasons they don’t want Obama as their candidate. Yet you come here and pretend none of it was ever said. Your delusional if you think there are no legitamate reasons to be against Obama.

It must be hard to type with your fingers in your ears.

Go ahead and pick someone who is as deep in denial as you are as ‘best answer.’ Several people in this thread have stated clearly why they are against Obama in terms of issues, but I’m certain you will completely ignore them.
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Without arguing the point, it’s called freedom of speech.
However, in terms of functionality, I’d say your question is proof of it.
BTW I don’t hate the junior senator from ill.
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I liked him at first…after Super Tuesday he seemed to be leading a huge march of some sort. His speeches became more like a dictator. Now the stories that have come up brings great fear to me. He is the "Unknown" The unknown is what scares me. There is always more to the story which may come out when its too late
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They say that because they are too cowardly to voice the real reasons why they dislike him. Then you have others who will say, "If I disagree with Obama based on his policies I am called a racist." 9 times out of 10, those that disagree with his policies can’t name a single one.
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Why do all you Obama supports think we HATE Obama?
I don’t HATE Obama, I don’t agree with his views and the people he picked to be in his life.

If he viewed Rev Wright as a paster for his marriage and baptise his kids, then I don’t agree with this views.

I think Obama is probably a smart nice person, but not ready to be a President based on his resume.
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Personally–I don;t hate him..i just don’t believe him! To often, many of his supporters view disagreement with hate–as for reason I do not believe him???? He has attended a church for 20 years that clearly–by their own admission, follows Black Liberation Theology…so for Obama to profess he never heard statements and that he adamently disagreed with Wrights statements–is a bold faced lie! Wright has always followed and preached this theoogy–for some more info:
http://www.holysmoke.org/hs00/blackth.htm
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I hate Osama, but I love Obama.

Plus all we need in the Whitehouse is a woman who would forgive her husband for CONSTANTLY CHEATING ON HER.

The only people I hate are terrorists and pedophiles
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I HATE Obama. nuff said.

so much dysfunctional hate – what we really need is functional hate.
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Because Obama doesn’t feel the need to explain HIS issues. What kind of "change" is he wanting to make? One can only imagine, and most of us are imagining BAD change…
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I don’t hate him and I’ve never said that. I’m not voting for him because of what he plans to do (I don’t think he’s agressive enough on his energy policy, I COMPLETELY disagree with his educational reform, he doesn’t seem to offer any coherent economic turnaround.etc…). The thing I HATE is his hypocrisy and his ability to run a "I’m a new kind of politician" message while allowing his campaign to do some of the most underhanded, manipulative tricks ever seen. There’s a difference.
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that’s an interesting word you’ve used, but you’ve definitely hit the nail on the head.

"empowered."

don’t you know that that’s what hatred and racism is all about?

small-minded, ignorant people feel "empowered" to be able to say to another individual, "I hate you because you’re different from me."

to be able to feel this way somehow makes these very simple-minded individuals feel good about themselves.

it’s pathetic, really. so, so sad.
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I would guess that would be because they are simply giving their emotional reaction to the man and because this is a free country that DOES empower it’s people to speak freely. When it comes to politics, many young people (too many) DO react emotionally. They always "hate" the opposition. It usually lessens with age.
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I’d like to think I do not hate anyone but this sweet talkin’ man with no credentials is borderline unnacceptible. He has no clearly defined policys, he may have Al Qaeda connections and he has done a rotten job of letting the American peple know who he really is!
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If you were a Hillary supporter you would have noticed that this happens to Hillary also. It floors me that people have so much hate that they can hate someone they don’t even personally know.
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Obama’s picture should be nex to the word "dysfunctional" in the dictionary. Are you blind to the hate he has expressed? The world is not as dysfunctional as you would like to think, yet there are many backing this man who resemble that term.
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Because, being discovered as an memeber of an extremist race based organization circumvents all potential credibility the candidate has. In short, they feel his positions are a canard, and cover his true agenda.
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HATE for Obama is LOVE for AMERICA! IT is EASY!
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Cuz we are "bitter"
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I don’t hate Obama. I just don’t trust him or think he is experienced enough.

Obama does not have ties to the black community other than his color. His father was Kenyan and his mother was white. This means no one in his family was ever a slave, never experienced segregation, and never experienced anything the black community experienced. He was educated in Indonesia and Hawaii, after that Ivy League schools. I don’t think he really experienced what all of you claim to have experienced or what your father, grandfather, or great-grandfather experienced. Obama is a fraud using you like Wright to get what he wants. Obama needs your vote. Wright needs your money. Go buy Wrights book as soon as it hits news stands. He will be counting his money in his million dollar house in the white neighborhood he now lives. Obama, if elected, will be working to take care of the place and people he has real ties and shares a real heritage, Kenya.

Now all of you Obamanites keep working hard to get Barack the Presidency, Kenya needs him.
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Honestly there is no explanation. It’s like hating the Yankees because they’re good but that’s the only reason you don’t like them because they’re good. Once people have their minds made up it’s hard for them to change. Some folks would rather march right into hell than have an open mind or see things differently. I rarely use that word hate or have that much disdain for anything or anyone.
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Because, sadly, some people have formed opinions without looking at the facts.

People will say, "he doesn’t have experience." Okay, then. Want to make it so that Bush can run a third time? I mean, he technically has more presidential experience than all the candidates combined. How does another 4 years of Bush policies sound?

People will say, "he’s anti-American." And yet years working on Capitol Hill and not ONE person has stepped forward to say that they’ve heard Obama say or do anything that would suggest that.

People will say, "he’s racist." Yet someone who is racist cannot live in the public eye and "hide" this. Again, where are all those people who say he’s racist? That have heard HIM make racist remarks?

People will say, "he’s an elitist." Why? Because he used the word "clinging?" I don’t see how a person who started his career earning $12,000 and only made fat bags of cash after writing two top selling books can be an elitist.

I don’t support all of Obama’s ideas and I do realize he has human flaws, but I what I see in him is the kind of leadership we need now.

I’m tired of opinions posing as facts. Like the saying goes: Opinions are like a**holes. Everyone has them.

Give me facts. Speak the truth. Why is that so damn hard?
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Policies are one thing people, you can disagree with those and not be racist, but just cause he wore a turban and indian garb when he visited a different country and calling him a terrorist is not okay. He wore that stuff cause he was being nice and the people wanted him to try it on because it was their culture and they wanted to share it with him. He’s still a Christian. And the thing with his pastor, look, he said that he didn’t support his pastors views and thought that they were hurtful, yet you guys are saying the complete opposite.

I’ve got a question for some Clinton voters. What REALLY happened in Bosnia, why do you think Hillary lied about the shooting and saying that they were ducking their heads to get out of the way of sniper fire? Please answer, I really would like your views on this one.

So what if he doesn’t wear the little flag pin? I don’t wear it and I’m still an American. And he also said that he wore it after 9/11, but when people were wearing it, they were not doing anything to change what had happened. In this way, he didn’t want to have the pin on to show a symbol of change, he wanted to make change. Same thing, Hillary is a symbol of change, yet Obama will bring change.

Another question for Hillary voters. How do you think Hillary is going to do against McCain? Polls and logic shows, not too well. A vote for Hillary is a vote for McCain. She is very STALE and Obama would do a lot better. Would you want a new, innovative, and fresh face? Or would you want same old, same old.

I’m sorry for this rant, people, and I do not dislike you in any way. I just feel strongly about my opinion, and I bet you do too. I wasn’t trying to persuade anyone’s vote, but if I do, I know that their vote is a vote well used.
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I don’t hate Obama as the human being. It has nothing to do him as being the black. I just don’t think he has qualifications to be a leader. It is the political reasons are the ones that I don’t agree with him. I felt he is not with democratic idealogy -values. All changes he wants are the ones invloved governmnet controls, high taxes, and to negiotate with the countries who hates us enough to hurt us, take our taxes away to feed poverty world. Obama has to understand that we didnt create the third world. I do feel for these people and children in the third world, but with the tyrants govern and take over the countries, encourage their militarlias and rebels to hurt the people, to gain the powers. Obama needs to understand that it is not the time to raise the taxes as we are facing to not be able to pay the bills with interest rate high and taxes high on time or not be able to do it, possiblity to lose things more. It would being out more as real recession and maybe almost as depression. Obama wants to neiogaitae the foreign issues with Iran, and the other countries. After former Jimmy Carter left the office, these countries went back to square one- still fighting, buildimng up more hates in there. If Obam is going to try the way President Carter did, he won’t get this successful with it. These countries have very different cultures, and religion fighting for thousand years. They have not to be able to see anything clear and cut issues. My check spelling is still in glitch with Yahoo Answers!. Don’t hate me for my bad speller.
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I don’t think they "I HATE" is an issue. The problem is that America right now are lost in desitions. We have many groups outhere that they want this, and that and at the end……American will be confused that we are the joke of the world. They think allready we Americans are stupid. ( my apologies) I don’t want to offend anybody.
I was in Europe last year and most of my friends made fun of our administration and how we suck in so many areas. That was so shemeful to me.

I will explain some ot the Issues the he has……I speak this for myself. I am not Democrat nor belong to any group of the other party. This is only my expression and concern:

1- Senator Obama= Born to a Kenyan father and an American mother, he passed most of his childhood and adolescent years in Honolulu, Hawaii. At age six, he moved to Jakarta where he lived with his mother and Indonesian stepfather for four years. A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, Obama worked as a community organizer, university lecturer, and lawyer before serving in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.
Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he announced his campaign for U.S. Senate in January 2003. After winning a landslide primary victory in March 2004 to become the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in November 2004 with 70% of the vote.

2.- Most American are not 100% sure he can bring back the country back to were we wamt. Washington will have and will seek allegation that he belongs to some kind of Islamic groups. I believe him that they will attack him in this issues and will make America to desbelieve his views and dreams. So, American does not have too much confidence that he will be strong canditate.
3.-My final comments is this……What really makes a good President? I will say this to you: Honesty, Integrity, Leadership, Intelligence, Good Judgment and strong Patriotism. I love America and I stand for America.

Peace!!!
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I don’t hate Obama, but he doesn’t represent me and I believe there is a lot of cultural bigotry and racial bigotry in his heart. The deal with his grandma and his association with Rev. Wright. I believe this is his peer group and they are not genuine, but political only. I am 20 year old asian girl and I don’t trust him or feel empowered by him..
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Organized religion is undergoing a great renaissance as a result of many people with time on their hands to work out amicable functional truths where two or more are gathered …not relying on memorized verse and instruction….discerning it on their own.

Some people are caught up in trying to define the negatives of traditional belief systems to nail down controversial people who try to make a difference in our society. This is basically ego bashing in an attempt to keep things the way they are.

One such evolving religion, slowly creeping up is called Forgive Affirmed Spirit.

Hi! I am a Forgive Affirmed Spirit.

Forgive Affirmed Spirit is the belief in a way of life that is a method of grief resolution and functional communication processing involving active listenning, sympathy, empathy and affirmation of shock, denial, anger, guilt, depression, loneliness and hope.

A Greater Works of communication and action, a way to learn to love your enemies "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you AS IF YOU WERE THEM!"

And nobody is perfect! NOBODY! We are all judgeable, hopefully in a graceful discerning way!

Humans judge everything as we are a part of it. Without difference, we have nothing to live for, nothing to witness. Sin is difference, the relative seriousness with regards to law and survival of other beings, is punishable by the courts. The best way to judge is with as much graceful discernment as one can muster in a given moment!

Life is the question(uncertainty) asked by the exhaling infinitely compacted imagination invention, or no thing, which is completely certain of everything, completely omniscient or all knowing.

When I die, I believe I will be in a new state, aware of all that is and yet divided into the nature of dust that I am in, whereupon my dust shall fall. My being will remain an infinite part of an infinite being and infinite knowledge without my material human being status of now. So there will be a change.

But my soul, my passions and discompassions, will move on to infinite places of comfort and challenge. Able to return to this state of uncertainty and free choice illusion for another ride when it is called effectively to do so.

So that the children of God, the creations of God, .. are actually part in parcel of that God or Creation Energy!

This life is a roller coaster ride. Enjoy your passion within it and whatever gathering of two or more in Forgive Affirmed Spirit to make it better can garner.

Healing be unto you and yours and me and mine in
Forgive Affirmed Spirit
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