Obama Plays The Race Card Because Of His Lower Approval Ratings

Bloomberg -- President Barack Obama said that racial tensions may have softened his popularity among white voters within the last two years, according to a story posted on the New Yorker magazine’s website today.

“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 the article by David Remnick, appearing in the magazine’s Jan. 27 edition.

“Now, the flip side of it is there are some black folks and maybe some white folks who really like me and give me the benefit of the doubt precisely because I’m a black president,” Obama said in his most direct comments on how race has affected his political standing since he’s been in office.

Obama’s second term has been marked by controversies including a partial government shutdown in October, revelations that the National Security Agency has gathered personal mobile phone data and the troubled rollout of health-insurance expansion.

Obama’s approval rating among all voters is 39 percent and his disapproval rating is 53 percent, according to a Gallup Poll conducted Jan. 14-16.

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Blog author’s comments - Naturally, Obama believes his lower approval ratings are all about race. He does not think they would have anything to do with his policies and agenda for the country, and what he has done during the five years he has been in office. His falling polling numbers have nothing to do with the color of his skin, it is in part because of his performance and that he has run roughshod over the Constitution.

The majority of people did not, and even more so now, don’t want Obamacare and are aware of the Employer Mandate in 2015. I also don’t believe the people want amnesty for the illegals. I doubt that he believes the scandals he and his administration have been involved in have any bearing on his popularity. Perhaps some of the voters are waking up and now see the damage Obama, Reid, Holder and his entire administration have done. Obama by assuming that people can’t have differences of opinion, that it has to be about race, shows us even more about the type of person he is.