More honesty from Obama

Obama suggests racism animates some critics, animated conservative critics freak out (Click on this heading to read more)

By Travis Gettys
Monday, January 20, 2014 10:32 EST
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President Barack Obama predictably angered his critics by suggesting that some of them don't like him because he's black.
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"There's no doubt that there's some folks who just really dislike me because they don't like the idea of a black President," Obama said in a 17,000-word profile by The New Yorker's David Remnick in the magazine's Jan. 27 issue.
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"There is a historic connection between some of the arguments that we have politically and the history of race in our country, and sometimes it's hard to disentangle those issues," Obama told The New Yorker. "You can be somebody who, for very legitimate reasons, worries about the power of the federal government - that it's distant, that it's bureaucratic, that it's not accountable - and as a consequence you think that more power should reside in the hands of state governments."
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"But what's also true, obviously, is that philosophy is wrapped up in the history of states' rights in the context of the civil-rights movement and the Civil War and Calhoun," the president continued. "There's a pretty long history there."
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