Animus Quote by Mara Liasson

The election of Barack Obama was a very wonderful step forward for America, which has unfortunately been tainted by the ugly reaction of some…

— Jimmy Carter

I don't know how you bridge that contradiction, but I felt that Barack Obama was sincere. It didn't feel like a line to me.…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Barack Obama is not black America's messiah.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

I would argue further that Barack Obama's election to the presidency of the United States was essentially an American sophistication, a national exercise in…

— Shelby Steele

Barack Obama didn't say "I only want to be the President of Black people," he said "I want to be the President of the…

— LeCrae

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black…

— Jimmy Carter

There is something very quiet and reserved and pessimistic about Obama's temperament that is deeply un-American. There are those people who claim, "Oh, he…

— Jess Row

[Barack Obama] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim Crow and…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

In 2008, Barack Obama had all the wind at his back, everything going for him. He was an African-American at a time when the…

— George Will

Virtually nothing Barack Obama has done has left America or the world better since he became president. Nearly everything he has touched has been…

— Dennis Prager

Lots of African-American people really so adore Barack Obama that they're unwilling to even be mildly critical of him.

— Julianne Malveaux

“If Mamaw's second God was the United States of America, then many people in my community were losing something akin to a religion. The…

— J.D. Vance