Top 10 Obama Player Haters of 2008

This election saw Barack Obama inspire millions of Americans to hope, believe and work for change. However, Obama also managed to inspire millions of haters, who expended an extreme amount of negative energy in taking down the President-elect. Here is our Top 10 Obama Haters of 2008.

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10. Bill Cunningham

Cunningham is one of the original conservatives to popularize the use of Obama's middle name. When he first did it at a McCain event, McCain apologized for him, but would eventually let other members of his staff use it for events. Cunningham has referred to Obama as a Manchurian candidate and said that Obama 'wants to gas the Jews.' Cunningham would also compare Obama to Mao, Castro and Russian communists saying, "Much like Castro took over Cuba, Mao Zedong took over Red China, and the Communists took over Russia, Obama now is poised, according to many of my good friends on the left like Paul Mason and others, to seize power in America, and I hope to be a bloodless coup."

Watch Cunningham Bash Obama

9. Ann Coulter

On Fox News, Ann Coulter referred to Barack Obama as B. Hussein five times in two minutes and said "his first big accomplishment (was) being born half-black.' She has also compared him to Hitler, calling his book, Dreams From My Father a 'dimestore Mein Kampf' and called him a socialist who wants to surrender.

8. Jesse Jackson

Jesse Jackson wound up crying when Barack Obama won. However, after Barack Obama gave a speech on Father's Day, telling black men to be more responsible for their kids, Jesse though he was talking down to black people. He reiterated that sentiment to another guest while appearing on Fox News with harsh language, saying "Barack be talking down to n****rs, I want to rip his nuts off." I do believe that Jackson just had a disagreement with Obama that Fox News decided to make public, but still, wanting to rip Obama's nuts off gives him a spot in our Top 10.

Watch Jesse Jackson's Infamous Comments

7. John McCain:

Despite pledging to run a clean campaign, John McCain ran the dirtiest campaign in Presidential history. By October, 100% of all of McCain's ads were negative. McCain's attack ads compared Obama to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, attempted to tie him to Williams Ayers and Tony Rezko and claimed he wanted to teach sex ed to kindergartners. In the debates McCain showed his disdain for Barack Obama by never looking him in the eye and referring to him as 'that one.'

Watch McCain Call Obama That One

6. Bill Clinton

When asked why it took two Clintons to beat Obama, Bill Clinton responded, "Jesse Jackson won South Carolina in '84 and '88. Jackson ran a good campaign. And Obama ran a good campaign here." No one had mentioned Jackson, so it came off like, 'yeah blacks can win South Carolina but Obama, like Jesse Jackson, he never really is going to have a shot.' Clinton also claimed that Obama's Presidential bid was a 'fairy tale.' Well guess what Bill? Fairy tales do come true.

Watch Bill Clinton Play Obama for Another Jesse

5. Pastor Manning

While Obama had the overwhelming support of the black religious community, there were a few haters. Pastor Manning has called Obama a 'house negro,' 'pimp' and 'long legged mack daddy. Manning has also attacked Obama's late mother, calling her 'trash,' for sleeping with a black man and saying, "Generally the most noble of white society choose not to intercourse sexually with African men. So it's usually the trashier ones who make their determinations that they're going to have sex."

Watch Manning Call Obama a Pimp and a Mack Daddy

4. Rush Limbaugh

Rush Limbaugh attacked Barack Obama's racial background, making a song Barack the Magic Negro, called him a halfrican American and said that Obama was Arab and not Black, seeing how his father was from from the Arab part of Africa(Kenya is less that 2% Arab). Limbaugh also organized operation chaos, urging supporters to vote for Hillary to extend the democratic primaries and bruise up Obama and repeatedly referred to Obama as Osama.

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3. Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin took to her moniker, Pitbull with Lipstick, and began to take a bite out of Obama from her first speech at the RNC convention in August, belittling his experience as a community organizer. Palin would go on the campaign trail, inspiring millions of American with her Obama hate, accusing him of palling around with terrorists, and questioning his relationship with former pastor, Reverend Wright. During campaign speeches, crowd members would yell things like 'kill him, he's a terrorist, off with his head' and Palin didn't blink an eye, giving the silent approval of the statements.

Watch Sarah Palin Accuse Obama of Palling Around With Terrorists

2. Bill O'Reilly

Bill O'Reilly got into a shoving match with an Obama aide in early January and called the aide a son of a bitch. He later threatened to call in the lynch mob on Michelle Obama because of her 'unpatriotic comments' and called Obama a socialist and a communist on The View. Obama would later show his mettle by dealing with his hater face-to-face in a very testy interview with O'Reilly.

Watch Obama on the O'Reilly Factor

1. Sean Hannity

Sean Hannity spent the whole election season using his program as one big negative campaign ad against Obama. He called Obama's church a cult, called him racist, attacked Michelle Obama as angry and bitter and harshly criticized Obama's ties to Reverend Wright, ACORN and William Ayers. He ran a series on his program called Obama and Friends: A History of Radicalism, which was one long negative smear campaign against Obama and had gave renowned anti-Semite, Andy Martin, a platform to bash Obama.

Watch Hannity Call Obama Racist

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Comments

[mypov123]

Another one you could add to the list: BET co-founder Bob Johnson.

Remember this?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbq9_g-WfFk

[DontSpin]

You guys should read this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-sedaei/on-abortion-pro-choice-is_b_152744.html

[legalclubs]

Can we stop freaking out everytime someone refers to Obama by his full name, Barack Hussein Obama, now. This is his real full name and he plans on using his full name when being sworn in as President as put forth in the following Washington Post article. The networks were such cowards when then announced him as President-Elect and didn't use his middle name as they have done with every other president for the last 30 or 40 years.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2008/12/president-elect_obama_has_said.html

[peacegurl48]

That SKANK Palin should have been #1 or at least tied with Hannity.
Hilary was as much of a hater as Bill.

[Lisa-G]

I don't think Jesse Jackson should be on this list. He made a mistake, and he apologized.

[mypov123]

I agree. He may have had a legitimate concern about Obama's Father's Day speech, but he made the mistake of using crude language to express his frustrations, and he apologized for it.

[lovable]

i agree with all but bill clinton. i am black and bill got a raw deal. he wanted his wife to win. there was no player hater . its like a football game u lose and u go home. thats how bill reactedl. the media played that race thing on bill. if bill answered a question sternly the media said he was angry . and he wasnt. msnbc took a whole week taking about race and my fellow blacks half of whom probabley never heard what bill said belived the media . it was made up drama by the media and barak probabley knows it.
but msnbc or cnn or fox ever remarked how limbaugh and hannity -played the race card. even palin was never asked about her rhetoric and rascism in her statements and the state of alaska. that is going on even now.

[AContrario]

You said this campaign was "like a football game " well maybe you should say that to the
veterans who manage to get back from Iraq or people who are loosing revenues and home.

So according to you, Bill Clinton didn't try use racial allusions to downplay Obama candidacy?

Like thousands of people I have been following this campaign since November 2007 and
I always try to read the transcripts before to make my mind up. Bill Clinton is inexcusable
because he is a democrat and knew too well how smears and half-lies tend to become
facts in America.I will never forget this and in a way, I am thankful to the Clintons to have
shown their true colors.

Showing your black credentials will not make your view or arguments more relevant on this
subject.

PS:Actually I am not even sure you are what you pretend to be.

[BrownEyedGurl]

Very good list but Jeremiah Wright should be on there somewhere.

[cheesypoofs]

What did Rev. Wright say that qualifies him as an "Obama hater"?

[motoGpifupleez]

This must have been the most time consuming compiling job ever, given the hatred flowing through this nation. Trust me when I tell you that all the video clips seen here pale in comparison to the everyday bleating I hear in the public square down here in "Sweet Home Alabama". I'd put my racists up against anybody, anywhere, anytime.

[nicholasfromWA]

This article claims that Jesse Jackson referred to Obama as a "n****r." That's not true.
He clearly called him a "n***a", which is, like it or not, a completely different word...although similar, and clearly derivative, it is a different word, with a different intended meaning...

[kamenwati]

That's like saying stupid and stoopid are two different words because one is spelled according to the rules of hiphop vernacular and the other is standard English. The words ni**er and ni**a are exactly the same and mean the same thing despite the efforts of the historically-confused to sanitize the latter.

[SpoxLogic]

Thanks for clearing that up for me, kamenwati.

That post from niocholasfromva came close to being the stupidest post, ever!

[LMPE]

I never listen to Portland's hate radio star Lars Larson, but I'm sure that he must have made a series of negative comments about Obama.

[edwcorey]

Most haters suffer from a psychological condition called "projection," a defense mechanism in which one attributes one"s own unacceptable or unwanted thoughts and/or emotions to others. It occurs when a person's own unacceptable or threatening feelings are repressed and then attributed to someone else. Like a lot of homophobes are closeted homosexuals.

[XME]

Absolutely. Those who hate or who are corrupt (but of course deny it with gusto) are convinced that people like Obama MUST be the same way.

[Nonpartay]

Okay, I watch Tavis Smiley a lot. I knew he had been unsure of Obama at first, but as for hating him? What am I missing? I just watched an early interview with Obama on YouTube, and he seemed fine with him. If someone could fill me in on why his name keeps coming up, I'd appreciate it.

[TheWanderer]

"Obama would later show his metal by dealing with his hater face to face in a very testy interview with O'Reilly." His metal? or his mettle?

[mightbesane]

Obama is a black man living in a major urban center. Of course he showed his metal....

Although I don't really think that the author meant it sarcastically, as I do, it sure is a softball, isn't it?

[SantaFeConservative]

You sure like to make things up, don't you. O'Reilly said he wasn't ready to call in the lynch mob on Michelle, because he didn't know the facts. And he was quite obviously joking when he called Obama a communist and a socialist on the view ... to get the ire of the stupid hosts.

Sheesh!

[kamenwati]

O'Reilly doesn't care about facts. BTW, the O'Reilly fluffer convention is meeting down the hall. You must have got your locations confused.

[angb0214]

Keep drinking the Kool Aid.

[Querent]

Dream on. You conservatives have a limitless capacity to delude yourselves. But you aren't fooling anybody else anymore.

[Classof89]

"And he was quite obviously joking when he called Obama a communist and a socialist on the view."

Yeah, sure he was.

[11907281]

Did that straw man come with a straw hat for it's straw brain?

[Vixter]

Don't forget the folks that still call him "Barry". Maybe they never knew a Jimmy, Tommy, or Bobby that went to college and returned James, Thomas, or Robert.