i do agree to a certain extent the president had to be he is confined and constrained to a certain extent that he the k. not get angry, he cannot have the flash of irritation because it will be replayed endlessly. given, that s a given. but still, you know, he could have been more present. but why is the whole notion of code switching so wrong? well, so this is this is art and i were speculating on this in the green room, which is that, one, i think that probably this whole speculation, i have no facts to go on. it s new. here we go. i m very comfortable with that. so but the point is, i guess that what the campaign was saying is, you re ahead, your job is to look presidential. so, don t go on the attack. you re winning. be presidential. and that part of what that is can also play as don t be the angry black man but i suspect they were thinking less about that and thinking more about, you know, use your advantage and be and demonstrate that you
opposed to those who refuse to vote for him because he s an african-american. the complicated thing about this, so much of how race animosity is expressed right now is implicit by us, meaning people who don t consciously think of themselves as racist, who actually believe in equality and equal opportunity, believe that the civil rights movement was a good thing. and actually don t recognize that part of what s happening subconsciously is that the stereotypes about people who are black lazy black president even right thinking people respond not knowing they re responding to them. when you have a right who is playing to the stereotypes, part of what we ve seen in the election cycle both in 2008 and now, what you see is people being influenced by that. so the birther, the whole
to maybe take it back. did you really mean to call barack obama, the president of the united states, lazy? yes. i think it i think you saw him admit it the night before when he delivered the pizzas. he said, they re making me do this work. he didn t want to prepare for this debate. he s lazy and disengaged. wow. that was former new hampshire governor john sununu with his take on the debate. on the one hand there was a sense of a desire to see more fire from president obama on that day but the fact that the language on thursday was we re going to be so far, you know, gone that we ll call the president a lazy delivery. pizza delivery guy, the black president, a lazy pizza delivery guy. this is important when we talk about george will s piece. how many american presidents have we called lazy? george bush took more vacations, i think than any president in
according to george will, the reason why president obama is doing so well in the polls isn t because of his successes with saving the auto industry, getting health care passed or slowly but surely getting the economy on track. president obama is doing well with the american voter because they don t want to fire the black guy. in a nation where race has been narrowly constructed by society, could there possibly be any truth to will s argument that guilt over firing the first black president is what has him ahead in the polls? back with me are cnbc s dan dicker, mya wiley, raul reyes and the nation s ari burman. all right. so of i want to let s admit maybe there s four people voting for the president because of racial guilt. i want to see the ledger between those who are voting for him as