Joe Scarborough Hears No Evil

Joe Scarborough has never heard anyone object to Obamacare over race? Not ever? That doesn't seem right. It seems to me he may be misremembering some things. Did he somehow miss that some opponents of Obamacare were referring to it as "reparations"? Did he miss the Civil War flair with which some people were hyperventilating about "states' rights" and giving "free stuff" to "some people"?   Did he miss the uglier tone of some of the Tea Party rhetoric? (Or perhaps, a picture is worth a thousand words?)

It would be impossible for someone to miss that the issue of race is simply there whenever a program is proposed that might help the "blah people".  Can you think of another reason that Obama might, for example, be called a "food stamp president" when more people signed up for benefits--in part due to a recession which Obama did not create and because people, as a point of biological fact, are dependent--on food, to live? Or for that matter, does it take any special stretch of the imagination to see why someone might think it fine to cut food benefits--for "urban" children, but not "rural" children, and realize that it's tied up with the same sort of mentality that decries the "lazy inner-city men"?

If he has managed to not catch that particular drift, I can only marvel at what a very well-insulated head Mr. Scarborough must have!