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REMEMBER, IF YOU OPPOSE OBAMA?S POLICIES, YOU?RE A RACIST, FASCIST HATER: Fear for Obama?s Safety G?

By Glenn Reynolds

REMEMBER, IF YOU OPPOSE OBAMA’S POLICIES, YOU’RE A RACIST, FASCIST HATER: Fear for Obama’s Safety Grows as Hate Groups Thrive on Racial Backlash. As others have noted, we didn’t see this kind of concern when people were saying the same kinds of things about Bush. This storyline seems like a pretty transparent effort to delegitimize the protesters particularly when you see who’s quoted. But perhaps — as some did during the Bush era on the few occasions when they deigned to notice the hate — we should ask what Obama has done to so divide the country?

Meanwhile, Matt Welch notes a lot of pundits who seem eager to turn Obama-opposition into race-war. And here I thought the Obama presidency was supposed to usher in a post-racial America. How’s that working out so far?

Plus, watch out for all those anti-Obamacare fascists!

And Jesse Walker called it: The Paranoids Are Out To Get Me!

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on August 14, 2009 (boomark / email).