Why do people see a rich white man and automatically hate him?

Because Obama and liberals tell them to.

not true. we see a greedy, supressive, rich white man who doesn't want women to make equal pay, doesn't support a womans right to choice, who wants to privatize what government should be responsible for and has always been responsible for, who thinks that giving the wealthy more tax breaks will stimulate jobs when it hasn't yet done so in the past 11 years -- and that's when we begin to hate him... now take a man like Ted Kennedy who respects people and supported the middle class and you'll find rich, white man that was loved.

they don,t. every member of the congress and senate is either rich, or extremely well off. this "rich" business is something that dems try to fix into the perceptions of ignorant voters.