Resorting to the race card--Obama substitutes innuendo for evidence in contesting enforcement

The Washington Times ^ | September 13, 2010 | Rep. Lamar Smith

[jazusamo]

When participants on the liberal virtual community JournoList wanted to stifle debate about then-candidate Barack Obama's affiliation with the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright, they resorted to a favorite liberal tactic. It was late 2008, and America was in the throes of the heated campaign for president. Thanks to reporting by the Daily Caller, we now know that the liberal plan laid out by Washington Independent reporter Spencer Ackerman was to "take one of them - Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares - and call them racists."

When all of this was exposed recently, many Americans were stunned. But to those of us who are closely involved in immigration issues, the suggestion didn't come as much of a surprise. After all, it is a time-honored tactic used often by liberals to stifle debate about border security and immigration enforcement.

In the liberal worldview to which President Obama subscribes, if you want to enforce immigration laws, you are a racist.Consider the reactions of Mr. Obama, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and State Department officials to the passage of an immigration enforcement law in Arizona.

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The bottom line: While Mr. Obama says he wants to unite Americans, his actions divide us. He is bound by his liberal disposition to assume the worst about those with whom he disagrees. Mr. Obama, in the liberal tradition, resorts to insinuating that others are racists when he wants to stifle legitimate public-policy debates. And, though it is tradition in liberal circles, it is a dangerous thing for a president - especially at a time when on issue after issue, more and more Americans disagree with his decisions.

[DB]

Hey, we're all bigots and racists now.

The left has made the terms meaningless.

[jazusamo]

Yep, they throw it out there on practically a daily basis.

[bareford101]

I’m to the point that I don’t trust non-bigots and non-racists..... the obamination administration has turned it around so the words don’t mean what they used to mean... but the exact opposite.... as does anything the obamination says.... believe the opposite and you’ll know the intent.

[FrankR]

For it to matter to me, I would have to actually CARE what obama says, and I don’t.

[Tublecane]

“It was late 2008, and America was in the throes of the heated campaign for president. Thanks to reporting by the Daily Caller, we now know that the liberal plan laid out by Washington Independent reporter Spencer Ackerman was to ‘take one of them - Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares - and call them racists.’”

It doesn’t matter what year it is, who it is that’s running for office, or what the issue is. That’s ALWAYS been the plan, and always will be. Whensoever it stops being the plan, we will have reached a time when today’s liberals no longer exist.