Whoopi Goldberg proclaimed that she is playing the race card.   The View  She is deeply offended by Donald Trump.  His pressure presumably influenced the polls and thus forced the president to finally release his birth certificate on Wednesday but the Donald has not let up.  He also wants substantiation of other details of Obama's life.  He wants to see those college transcripts and Obama's thesis.  He also wants an answer to how someone that had been noted to be a "poor student" at Occidental could be accepted into Columbia where Trump understands him to have also been a "poor student" and yet he gained admission to Harvard.  Trump also referenced Obama's penchant for spending time playing basketball. 

The simplest answer may be that Harvard is simply overrated but the reference to Obama obtaining admission to Harvard lit a fuse with Goldberg and Joy Behar.  She and Behar regarded this as well as the basketball comment as "racist."  They apparently interpret the educational question as an accusation perhaps that Obama was a "token Negro" at Harvard and an Affirmative Action appointment.  She bitterly objected on her television show on Wednesday morning and punctuated her remarks by telling America that Donald Trump consistently comments on how persons in other countries laugh at this country and identified the disrespect afforded our president as one of the reasons why.   Whoopi's Lecture  Apparently the President of the United States deserves a modicum of respect according to Whoopi.  I don't argue with that.  I don't believe Donald Trump would argue with that.  But I do question why she would consider it disrespectful for anyone to challenge the many claims made about Obama that were never vetted in 2008 or years prior.  He has a record now and it is inconsistent with the portrait that was painted of him in 2008. 

I would also like Whoopi to explain how she can lecture anyone about respect for a sitting president in light of her statement about the intelligence of President Bush in 2004 at a Kerry-Edwards campaign event.  As reported in Wikipedia, "Goldberg made a sexual joke about President George W. Bush, by waving a bottle of wine, pointing toward her pubic area and saying: "We should keep Bush where he belongs, and not in the White House."  Complete Transcript

The thing that appears obvious to me is that some people cannot stand success.   Despite the advantages that Affirmative Action programs brought black Americans Whoopi believes the program helped white women more than blacks.  Despite the fact that the United States elected a black president in 2008 and despite the fact that this required the votes of 43% of Caucasian Americans she continues to regard the United States as a racist country.  Now that Obama is president does she want us to defer to his every idea like we never have any other president or should we challenge him and hold him accountable as we have every other president?  

Whoopi, as Harry Truman once said, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen!"  Obama wanted the job.  He got the job.  Now that he has the job the American public has a right to hold him accountable.  He promised transparency yet all his movements are clandestine.  He has demonstrated arrogance, narcissism, Marxism, pomposity and stupidity in the office and yes, Americans are calling him on it.  Why shouldn't we?  Why should this president be analyzed any differently than any past president?  Because he is black?  Who is the real racist here?  I profess it to be those who can't get his skin color out of their minds and that is you and others on the left.   Conservatives don't care about the color of his skin, we care about the content of his policies.  His policies and his programs and his spending are destroying this country and white, red, yellow, brown or black, I will do everything I can to rid this country of the risk his occupancy of the White House presents to this nation.  If all that is important is that our president be black, then let's try Herman Cain or Alan West.   I could vote for either but Whoopi and Joy would likely still consider me to be a racist because I challenge this president.  The hypocrisy of the left is alarming.