Posted on 07/27/2009 6:10:59 AM PDT by Tolik
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A lose, lose for Obama is a win, win for America.
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“Vote for me and I will offer you instant exemption from all prior racial guilt — and yet allow you to live your rather secluded lives as usual.”
This says it all. Great article....
And likely a descendent of slave traders.
OUTSTANDING article by VDH highlighting some of the telltale signs of half-frikken American Barry Barack. One half militant one half marxist combines to make something more of a monster than a man.
Polarizing and racial identity politics are bad for America.
In this case it’s bad for Obama - when more and more people will see that the Emperor has no clothes, but it’s also bad for America - when racial relationships get worse.
I’m glad more people are talking honestly about Obama’s background, which is NOT “African American.” I hope this registers on blacks in some way, but I doubt that it will.
In Dinesh D’Souza’s book, “What’s so Great about America”, there is an incident that I can’t forget. Mohammed Ali went to Africa to fight George Foreman. It was called the Rumble in the Jungle.
Upon returning to the United States, Ali was asked by a reporter “Champ, what did you think of Africa?”
Ali replied, “Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat”.
The problem with talking about race is that both sides want to monopolize the conversation.
What you said has nothing to do with known facts and cheapens the argument brought by our side. Sorry, I am saying like I see it. We have more than enough ammunition without bringing in something that can be easily ridiculed as lunacy (and properly so).
4) There is an official “truth” that our elites mouth, and a private one that 300 million live by. If Americans regret that a young African-American male might be unduly pulled over while innocently cruising Beverly Hills (and they bristle at such unfairness), they also regret that a white person who took a wrong turn and began biking or driving into Watts or South Central might well be assaulted–or worse. So profiling means different things to different people.
Exactly what happened in New Bunswick, New Jersey a few years ago. A young man made a wrong turn and ended up dead. It got damned little coverage, and nary a mention of "hate" crime!
The flap over the arrest of the Harvard professor in Cambridge reveals that the country is beginning to clear its head from the Obama Pathology. The reaction of the people to this really insignificant incident should warn Obama that he is breaking the deal which put him in the White House and might strip him of his moral stature. Here is the post:
Yes Obama is an empty suit but he is actually more than that, he is a candidate who is African American and this racial reality entirely disguises the fact that the suit is empty. In fact, it was always better for Obama's campaign for the suit to be empty.
The American left, indeed the international left, is a hodgepodge of mutually inconsistent plans and programs which history has demonstrated cannot work. Leftists persist in their leftism because they believe that they are smarter than everybody else. Which really means," I am smarter than all the leftists who've come before and failed with this idea." The glue which holds leftism together when it should splinter apart because of its mutually inconsistent precepts, because it has shopped the entire country to ravening special-interest groups, is their meme that Republicans/conservatives are racists and they are not.
As long as we are racists and they are not, the left need not face up to its own looniness. This is why the left reacts so vehemently to politically incorrect racist remarks.... The coin of this political race card is white guilt.
Now comes Obama. As one black writer has pointed out, he has made a tacit deal with white liberal America: you support me blindly and I will in turn refrain from rubbing America's nose in its history of slavery and segregation. You can expiate your white guilt by voting for me. But Obama has to hold up his end of the deal, he must not rub our noses in our sins like Jesse Jackson or Reverend Al. As long as he was seen to be an empty suit-offering no reproach to America-we were comfortable with him.
Now comes The Right Reverend Wright. He has broken the deal. This is why Obama had to disown him. Wright rubs our noses in racism. To a conservative his crazy allegations are so bizarre that it makes not much sense and doesn't change the equation. We don't buy into this AIDS in Africa business, for example. But for a liberal, Reverend Wright's allegations are not bizarre but actually within the realm of intellectual respectability. We can dismiss them, but the left cannot because much of it comes right out of their own catechism.
What about the great mass in the middle? The moderates, the undecideds, the people who don't follow politics until after Labor Day, the folks who permit the likes of Barbara Walters or Oprah Winfrey to persuade them, what about them, the people who actually decide our elections? These decent folks don't want to be racists. They are always looking for a savior because they will tell you, "I always vote for the man." They shrink from the very idea of voting based on ideology. So an empty suit is no problem for them as long as he is also a savior. Obama was a savior. More, he was an empty vessel into which we could pour all of our yearnings and our simplistic hopes about the political process.
Now this illusion has been shattered by the right Reverend Wright and it remains to be seen whether the mainstream media can put Humpty Dumpty's pieces back together again.
Bump for later
Great article!
It’s most unfortunate that the POTUS uses race as a tool. It’s most unfortunate that he hates America, the country that gave him an opportunity to strive; instead he is chose to destroy; not for one American; but all.
This points up, I think, the weakness of the current African-American grievance. It's an entirely theoretical construct based on looking into the rear-view mirror of American History. It simply is not applicable to the real world. In order to stay relevant they must do ridiculous things like adopting Bill Clinton as "The First Black President."
This is why the Gates-Crowley affair will move to hearings in the House of Representatives. This is where you can treat the facts of the case lightly while feeding the predjudices of the Left. It'll be a dorm room Bull-Session writ large and the Media will roll in it like little pigs.
*VDH Bump*
If VDH is going to bring up Holder and race issues, he needs to mention Holder’s dismissal of the Black Panther voter intimitation case dismissal.
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