Mitt and Ryan have been contending and complaining all this week about how Obama is being "angry, hateful, divisive and a robber" in their every speech. Mitt even called for the President to take it back to Chicago.WTF?
The "angry black man" epithet is commonly used as a dismissive and/or crass attempt at marginalization. Blacks see it as coded hate speech or as this reporter succinctly put it, "niggerization."
I don't see the "angry" label being applicable to the President at all, so what else is left? It isn't my imagination running away with me.
Rex is making a good point about Mitt being a Mormon, it doesn't sit well at all with the right wing evangelical base of the Republican Party and a black man in the White House also does not sit well with that faction. I believe Mitt is very worried that the evangelicals are going to sit this one out and is pandering to their baser instincts.