Those black people are so subversive.
This is part of the ongoing "Obama is a socialist" theme that the GOP came up with a few months ago. It's not clear in what possible world, other than the 20% of Americans who now make up all of Republicans, such a bizarre, extreme argument would carry any weight. If anything, it simply makes the Republicans look more out of touch, and more extreme. From Ryan Grim at Huff Post:
Rep. Pete Sessions, head of the House Republican committee tasked with electing more GOP members, has a unique theory as to why unemployment continues to rise: Obama wants to wipe out capitalism.You may recall that Ryan Grim was the University of Maryland student arrested for asking Lynne Cheney whether she'd attend her lesbian daughter Mary's wedding were she to marry a woman.
Deep into a New York Times item Monday about rising jobless numbers comes a theory that the Times gently refers to as an "argument" that "may indeed face an uphill fight."
Sessions told the Times that Obama's plan is to "diminish employment and diminish stock prices." By doing so, Obama "intended to inflict damage and hardship on the free enterprise system, if not to kill it" as part of a "divide and conquer" strategy to consolidate power.
The Times then follows with another understated gem: "Polls offer little evidence that Americans are prepared to accept those arguments."
