Have you noticed that ever since President Obama announced his candidacy, some folks don't ever call him by his name and never refer to him as President Obama? Their favorite expression in reference to the president is 'this guy.' I have heard this expression ad nauseum whenever liberal as well as conservative commentators, like Chris Matthews and Bill O'Reilly, discuss the president, as if he so strange and different that he cannot be called by his name.
When Glenn Beck went on his rant to try to paint Obama as a racist, he went on a 'this guy' tirade: "This guy has exposed himself over and over again as a person with a deep seated hatred of white people... this guy is a racist... This guy has a social justice (agenda). he is going to set all the wrongs right."
David Lobb, the Aiken County, South Carolina Republican Party vice chairman, in defending Congressman Joe Wilson's Joe Wilson verbal assault on the President during his address to Congress attack stated:
"Wilson has been working diligently on the health care program and is one of the minority leaders on that," Lobb said. "The guy (Obama) did state an untrue fact, and it frustrates him (Wilson) that the guy said a blatant falsehood."
The racists among us, devoid of state run machinery to enforce their white supremacist philosophy are now relying heavily on other tried and true methodologies: demeaning and belittling to put other racial groups 'in their place.' Will this old Southern strategy succeed in the Obama era. What do you think?