According to the Southern Poverty Law Center many of the Neo-Nazi's and KKK members want an Obama presidency in the hopes of starting a race war or, at least, in the hopes of using it as a recruiting tool:
With the nomination of Barack Obama as the Democratic presidential candidate clinched, large sections of the white supremacist movement are adopting a surprising attitude: Electing America’s first black president would be a very good thing.These bigots are as sick as they are hateful.
It’s not that the assortment of neo-Nazis, Klansmen, anti-Semites and others who make up this country’s radical right have suddenly discovered that a man should be judged based on the content of his character, not his skin. On the contrary. A growing number of white supremacists, and even some of those who pass for intellectual leaders of their movement, think that a black man in the Oval Office would shock white America, possibly drive millions to their cause, and perhaps even set off a race war that, they hope, would ultimately end in Aryan victory.
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Opinion on the radical right is far from unanimous on the topic of a possible Obama victory. Many of those writing on the topic — perhaps half of those who have posted recently — think an Obama presidency would destroy the country and oppose it mightily.
And as a side note to Southern Poverty Law Center: It ain't just "neo-Nazis, Klansmen, anti-Semites and others who make up this country’s radical right," You can add the neoconservatives, theocrats, as well as the many other groups assaulting our Constitution, world stability, and the environment to the radical right. Just to mention a few...
