Is the Right Wing Problem with President Barack Obama More Cultural than Racist?

Could the right wing problem with President Obama be more about culture than about his race? I've been looking at how black GOP presidential hopeful is being treated by the right wing and the response has been largely favorable. Yeah, I know there are pockets of racist elements, but I haven't seen the caricatures and other labels used to describe then-candidate Barack Obama. Cain's support base comes from the Tea Party movement that has been considered racist by many Obama supporters.  I came across an interesting article in the National Journal and it made me stop to think for a moment. I don't agree with anything Herman Cain says and I don't go out of my way to listen to anything he has to say, but I had to stop and ponder the basic premise of the article:

Herman Cain explains in a video from his presidential campaign that he “left that Democrat plantation a long time ago–and I ain’t going back!” Cain is not well known, but the Republican primary voters who do know him like him a lot. Gallup found he’s well ahead of the rest of the GOP 2012 pack in his positive intensity score, which is the percentage of people who have strongly favorable feelings about him minus the percentage who have strongly unfavorable feelings. The Tea Party loves him, which is interesting, given that another recent Tea Party favorite was Donald Trump.

Either the haters are lying low until the election campaigns heat up before pouncing on Herman Cain or the Tea Party just hated Obama because of his political ideology. We all know that there were racial undertones evident in Donald Trump's demanding President Obama's long form birth certificate and the birther movement, led by Jerome Corsi, but Herman Cain is loved by the Tea Party movement in metro Atlanta.

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