Well said.
This article is unintentionally revealing of the pathology which is rife in the African-American community. Can you imagine how this would sound if the writer had the ability to tone up his bigotry and express it with oh so plausible language?
There is an article on a companion thread which describes the negative influence of Valerie Jarrett on the President of the United States and many FReepers have offered up their theories as to why she should have such power over Obama. I tend to think of it as not so much a power that Jarrett enjoys over Obama but a common worldview they mutually possess and mutually reinforce.
Obama is very articulate and he's very clever, as most narcissists are, and he is smart enough and wary enough not to betray himself often but I think he shares everyone of the preposterous notions outlined in this article but he is too clever and too articulate to be caught out often.
This article illustrates for me a pathology which confounded white observers when we looked at the facts of the George Zimmerman trial and found no evidence of Zimmerman's guilt and plenty of evidence of Martin's aggression. When the author of this piece says that logic makes no headway with conservatives, he is clearly projecting and it is this article, the George Zimmerman affair, and Obama's actions in the White House which make that clear to me.
This writer is obviously obsessed by race but I submit that Obama is equally obsessed by race but an obsession shaped by a Marxist worldview.
There is an article on a companion thread which describes the negative influence of Valerie Jarrett on the President of the United States and many FReepers have offered up their theories as to why she should have such power over Obama. I tend to think of it as not so much a power that Jarrett enjoys over Obama but a common worldview they mutually possess and mutually reinforce. Obama is very articulate and he's very clever, as most narcissists are, and he is smart enough and wary enough not to betray himself often but I think he shares everyone of the preposterous notions outlined in this article but he is too clever and too articulate to be caught out often.
I have a completely different take on this thought.
I do believe that Obama shares a common worldview, and is articulate in front of a crowd when he has a teleprompter to read from. He's a stammering idiot without one, though.
For a more relevant, though fictional, comparison, I'd say that Valerie Jarrett is more like Angela Lansbury's Mrs. Iselin and Obama is more like James Gregory's Senator Iselin from the original movie The Manchurian Candidate.
Jarrett is clearly handling Obama, and sending him out day after day with a very scripted and pointed message for the day. The daily message is crafted to conflict with prior messages so as to get the media to focus on the changing side-story and not about what is really going on. In other words, creating a distraction from the real agenda.
In my view, Obama is a puppet, saying and doing what he's told to say and do. When he strays, just as Iselin strayed, he gets flustered and runs back for help. Obama is not the clever, articulate, and smart person that Jarrett has presented him to be. From the other article, Jarrett NEVER leaves his side. She eats with him in the residence, she travels with him on vacations, she's the only non-family who calls him by his first name. She is the brains behind the outfit, and Obama is just the straight man.
-PJ