This SHOULD have been obvious to all before the election, brutal truth now, after all, just read hump's reaction below:

Let’s be honest for a minute. Republican support of Donald Trump is clearly less about Trump and more about former President Obama. It’s a guttural reaction. As hard as Republicans may have tried, they have been completely unable to erase our first black president from the history books. 

It tears them up inside that a smart, cocky, black man beat them at their own game, twice. He stopped the world economy from crashing. He eased our fears during national tragedies, and whether we liked everything about the ACA or not, he tried his best to give more people access to healthcare. All with a smile. Not because he was happy with the way it all played out, but because that’s what Presidents are supposed to do—act Presidential.

As President, Obama recognized that he represented all Americans, even the ones who didn’t vote for him. He recognized that he was not bigger than the office of the Presidency. He knew that he owed the office a high level of respect. More importantly, though, he realized that our children were watching. A concept unfathomable to the current occupant of the Oval Office. 

President Obama recognized that generations of politicians, teachers, civic leaders, and yes, children, would take their cues from how he behaved as President. Instead of engaging in Twitter battles or attacking the character of his detractors, he gracefully ignored their criticism and stood tall against a party determined to beat HIM. He acted Presidential, imagine that.

My Republican friends should take note because what they’re supporting, either directly or indirectly, isn’t just an anti-Obama Presidency but an anti-American President. Supporting a president who is uninterested, unprepared, and unwilling to learn from his mistakes isn’t just overtly political, it’s immoral. At some point, you are the company you keep.

Let me unapologetically digress and say that if Republicans are offended that they’re constantly being called a racist by Democrats, stop palling around with racists; it’s not that complicated. If you consistently find yourself on the side of the racist, if you consistently find yourself defending racists, if you consistently find yourself making excuses for racists, you may not be a racist, but you certainly look like one. If that hurts your feelings that’s too bad, this is me abandoning political correctness. That’s what you wanted, right?)

There is no tax break in the world that can justify supporting a man who continues to lie to the American people with no hesitation. There’s no level that unemployment can fall to that should justify the disrespect that this man has shown to each and every one of us. The end will never justify the means, ever. 

Instead of being honest with themselves and with the American people, Republicans have chosen to be complicit and engage in a level of intellectual dishonesty, and that isn’t just disgusting, it’s dangerous. 

Deep down we all know that there is nothing about Donald Trump that is admirable. There is nothing about Donald Trump that is redeemable. He is a con-artist and a fraud. He worships at the altar of greed, lies like it’s going out of style, and sees apologizing as a sign of weakness. He is everything our parents told us not to embrace.

At some point though, the bottom will fall out of this President’s poll numbers, taking the rest of the Republican Party with him. Not even this brand of corporate cowards can save this administration. It will be at that point and only at that point that Republicans will admit publicly what many have said to me privately, “He had no business becoming President.” A fact that has been obvious from the moment he emerged from his golden tower. A fact that privately, few Republicans deny. When that happens, let me be the first to say that there is nothing courageous about publicly coming to that conclusion.==============================

the county fair was open.  We would head to the midway for the rides.  There was one called the "Tilt-A-Whirl" which generated almost as much spin as the linked piece.  Both the article and the ride provided dizzying moments, but little in the way of lasting importance.  

As Hump so eloquently reminds us below, the problems which many of us, even those not registered Republicans and those who did not vote for Trump, had with 0bama had nothing to do with him being half-white, but mainly with his policies, partisanship, and arrogant attitude.  And some of us are sufficiently old to actually remember overt racism, discrimination, and segregation in the old South, including Florida.

Whether Trump had any business being President is no more or less true than whether his chief opponent in the general election deserved to sit in the 0val 0ffice.  Many of us are simply happy she did not win, regardless of how we may feel about Trump.