We who disagree with Obama, even speak against him harshly, are not racists for doing so.

"Here's my problem with this, I'm just going to come out and say it. If I have anything to say against Obama it's not because I'm a racist, it's because I don't like what he's doing as President and anybody should be able to feel that way, but what I find now is that if you say anything against him you're called a racist," Harmon told Tarts at ThursdayÂ’s Los Angeles launch of the new eyelash-growing formula, Latisse. "But it has nothing to do with it, I donÂ’t care what color he is. IÂ’m just not crazy about what he's doing and I heard all about this, and heÂ’s gonna do that and change and change, so okay Â… I'm still dressing for a recession over here buddy and we've got unemployment at an all-time high and that was his number one thing and that's the thing I really don't appreciate. If I'm going to disagree with my President, that doesn't make me a racist. If I was to disagree with W, that doesn't make me racist. It has nothing to do with it, it is ridiculous."

I've said it before -- Barack Obama is, for better or worse, the President of the United States. When one sits in that chair and receives all those perks, one also has to deal with the reality that there are those of one's fellow citizens who will be critical. Some of that criticism may be wrong, and some of it based upon being ill-informed. Some of it might even be because there are folks who just do not like the incumbent. Regardless, it comes with the job -- and for any president or his supporters to seek to cut off that criticism, debate, and dissent with a scurrilous, unfounded accusation undermines the man and the office.

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