Solar Blemishes VI

A recent Sun editorial repeats and supports Jimmy Carter’s baseless and ill-informed smear that racism underpins the popular movement opposing President Obama. This charge was unbecoming a man of Carter’s supposed stature and irresponsible for a respectable news organization.

Is it any wonder that Americans would oppose a President who has traveled around the world not to extol the virtues of America but to apologize for her alleged transgressions? Is it any wonder Americans would oppose a President who has coddled tyrants like Hugo Chavez, Vladimir Putin and the mullahs in Iran while shunning, or worse, our friends such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Honduras and Colombia? Is it any wonder that Americans would object to a President who has already nationalized large segments of our economy and promises an increasingly more intrusive, expansive and expensive government? No, it must be racism.

What is it about people on the left that they must portray all opposition as being rooted in some moral or intellectual failing in those whose oppose them? Why can they not accept that intelligent, informed, well-meaning people are capable of disagreeing with them?

While there are extremists in every movement, examples exist in both the pro- and anti-Obama factions, the idea that they constitute a significant portion of those who oppose President Obama’s policies is true only in the imaginations of those who are unable to countenance legitimate disagreement.