ASPartOfMe wrote:
Everybody has gaffes every once in awhile and they should be excused a lot more then they are, but two of this magnitude in such a short period are not gaffes but an issue should automatically disqualify her from the office of President of the United States.
Nikki Haley Blames Barack Obama for Race, Gender ‘Division’ in America: ‘People Felt Like They Were Being Put in Camps’Quote:
Nikki Haley claims former President Barack Obama is responsible for the racial and gender divisions in the country, saying his administration made Americans felt like they were being placed in “camps.”
On Wednesday, the 2024 Republican presidential candidate appeared as a guest on the radio show “The Breakfast Club,” where she discussed a myriad of topics, including her campaign and her background work as a politician, video of which you can watch above.
While chatting it up about how she feels the country doesn’t need an elderly leader, she shared that she voted for Trump in both the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections and felt the Obama administration was responsible for the division among races and genders in the country.
DJ Envy: Why are you against a Kamala Harris presidency?
Nikki Haley: Well, because the division in our country started with Obama…
With Obama, if you go back. That’s when we really started to feel the division,” Haley said. “Everything was exaggerated with the Obama administration. It became more about gender, it became more about race, it became more about separating Americans instead of bringing them together,” Haley continued, claiming Obama made Americans “feel boxed in.”
She continued: “Everybody is at fault. I’m not saying one person did this, but I’m saying under that administration, it really did cause some… You just felt — people felt like they were being put in camps through that administration. The second thing is, he was very much an Iranian sympathizer. He very much kept wanting to do things with Iran. I think that’s incredibly dangerous. This is a culture that says, ‘Death to America,’ and you have to always be careful. A lot of spending happened on his watch that started us down that spiral.”
Haley said she believed Trump provided the country with “needed a self-correction and was “good breaking things,” which is why she voted for him twice.
“The second time I voted for him is, I didn’t want Biden. I saw that Biden was Obama 2.0 and I didn’t want to take that chance of where he was going to take us,” Haley said. “I knew they wanted to get back in the Iran deal. I knew that they weren’t serious about closing the border. I knew that the wasteful spending that we had seen was going to happen, and so I voted for Trump thinking that he was going to do more of the same.”
By the end of it, Haley stamped Trump as being too chaotic of a person to be given the responsibility of serving the country.
Losing to Trump really does bring out the worst in people. When this series of “gaffes” stated I did give her the benefit of the doubt. No matter what you think of public displays of Confederate symbolism, no matter what her motivation, ordering Confederate flags taken down before it became more acceptable was both brave and a factor in making taking down Confederate symbols more acceptable. It was a factor in why I gave her the benefit of the doubt. But while that will always be part of her biography it was also 9 years ago.
I have come to the conclusion Nikki Haley is a seething racist.
But why has America become so divided is more important then Nikki Haley. While America was becoming more divided during his administration it was part of a process that started well before he took office.
Off Topic
I would argue the process started in the 1960s and made worse by the 1970s mythologizing of the 1960s which had the effect of whitewashing the bad elements of the 60s. People were not exactly saying nice things about each other during the Clinton Administration.
And valid argument can be made that it was not the 1960s and 70s but the 1860s and 70s and the whitewashing of those issues that are the roots of our polarization
Obama was too liberal in his use of the executive order to bypass Congress and that created hard feelings. The regulations that created so called campus star chambers meant to deal with sexual harassment and abuse went too far and were divisive.
The use of executive orders were in reaction to Congressional Republicans policy of total non cooperation. Obama bitched about progressive excesses to anybody who would listen. To blame Obama for the MAGA/alt right reaction to him is victim blaming.
And WTF does Kamala Harris have to do with Obama? I guess they both look kind of black.
_________________
Professionally Identified and joined WP August 26, 2013
DSM 5: Autism Spectrum Disorder, DSM IV: Aspergers Moderate Severity
It is Autism Acceptance Month
“My autism is not a superpower. It also isn’t some kind of god-forsaken, endless fountain of suffering inflicted on my family. It’s just part of who I am as a person”. - Sara Luterman
18 Jan 2024, 9:32 am
