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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Foaming at the mouth" is one more example of GOP-speak for "What the hell is that uppity guy doing in the White House?"  Forgive the somewhat racially tinged term uppity, but if PP sees foaming at the mouth, I can sure as hell see a bit of subliminal racism![/quote]

of course you do, because that's what you WANT to see.  it is so much easier to say that people who disagree with the President's views are racists because it skips you right out of any substantive discussion on the issue at hand.

I wouldn't say he was "foaming at the mouth" (and I'm not a member of the GOP), but his tone and cadence [i]were[/i][b] different for that part of his speech; it does not sound like the "usual" Barack Obama.  my THEORY on it is that he typically is a pretty sincere person and most if the time he really does believes what he is saying.  But I think the "you didn't build that" portion of his speech (and that's EXACTLY what he said -- not you had help, not you don't do it alone (although he intimated at that) his exact words words were   "If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that.  Somebody else made that happen.")  -- it is too far down the 'let's hate the rich" path for him (because, after all, he is part of the "rich").  i suspect that he, like most of us (yes, even my [b]very[/b][i][u] republican family and friends), know that success comes from a combination of hard work, risk taking, innate intelligence, some luck, and yes, HELP FROM OTHERS.  has nothing to do with his race.  
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