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Why are Americans at Each Other’s Throats?-Ask Barack Obama
Frontpagemagazine ^ | January 10, 2024 | Larry Elder

Posted on 01/10/2024 5:35:44 AM PST by SJackson

At the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama said: “There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America — there’s the United States of America… We are one people…”

After announcing his candidacy for president, Sen. Obama appeared on “60 Minutes”:

“60 Minutes”: “You think the country’s ready for a black president?”

Obama: “Yes.”

“60 Minutes”: “You don’t think it’s going to hold you back?”

Obama: “No. I think if I don’t win this race, it will be because of other factors. It will be because I have not shown the American people a vision for where the country needs to go that they can embrace.”

Polls offered support for Obama’s optimism. The 2008 principal primary candidates for the Republicans were Arizona Sen. John McCain and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. For Democrats, the candidates were Obama and Hillary Clinton. A 2007 Gallup poll found that 42% of Americans said they would not vote for someone of McCain’s age. Twenty-four percent said they would not vote for a Mormon, Romney’s religion. As for Clinton, 11% said they would not vote for a woman. Just 5% said they would not vote for a black person.

Shortly after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, an optimistic Rev. Martin Luther King said, “Frankly, I have seen certain changes in the United States over the last two years that have surprised me.” He said, “We might be able to get a Negro president in less than forty years.”

Fast forward to 2008. Even those who voted against Obama nevertheless felt his victory made a profound statement about the country. Polls showed both blacks and whites expected “race relations” to improve. But after Obama’s eight years in office, both blacks and whites thought race relations got worse. What happened?

From the beginning of Obama’s presidency until its end, the man America’s considered a unifier played one race card after another. He enraged American law enforcement by falsely accusing a white Cambridge police officer of “acting stupidly.” He implied the officer was racially motivated when he gave to a reasonable and lawful order to a black Harvard professor, who resisted it. When black Florida teenager Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by a self-appointed neighborhood watchman, Obama said, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.” The jury found the defendant not guilty, and the jurors said race played no role in the encounter. But Obama, who later embraced Black Lives Matter, again advanced the false narrative of anti-black “systemic racism.” Never mind studies showing cops more reluctant, more hesitant to pull the trigger on a black suspect than a white suspect.

In an interview, the man who said he would not blame race if he lost the election said: “The legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination in almost every institution of our lives — you know, that casts a long shadow, and that’s still part of our DNA that’s passed on. We’re not cured of it. … Racism — we are not cured of it.” Obama invited the race-hustling Al Sharpton to the White House over 70 times.

Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder complained of America’s “pernicious racism,” giving as an example voter ID. In Obama’s second term, a black man motivated by the Obama-promoted police anti-black narrative murdered two NYPD cops as they sat in their squad car. In Baton Rouge, another black man driven by the same narrative ambushed and murdered three police officers. In Dallas, another black man influenced by this narrative ambushed and murdered five police officers.

There is a straight line between Obama’s rhetoric and the months of the deadly, costly 2020 Black Lives Matter/George Floyd protests. Never mind that the lead prosecutor, a black man, never argued the officer-defendant was racially motivated, and the officer was not charged with a hate crime.

Obama, post-presidency, still fans the flames of race and identity division. Less than two years ago, the man America hired as a uniter said: “I have little sympathy for reactionaries who cynically condemn identity politics or cancel culture when really all they’re doing is trying to preserve existing privilege or excuse entrenched injustice, or bigotry.”

Thanks, Obama.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: barack; barackhusseinobama; manchuriancandidate; obama
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To: mewzilla

Obama and his wing man Holder appointed many left wing radicals throughout the deep state as land mines for Trump. They sabotaged him at every turn.


21 posted on 01/10/2024 7:57:18 AM PST by DeplorablePaul
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To: SaveFerris

‘The god of this world, Satan, (2nd Corinthians 4:3-4) knew exactly what he was doing when he gave Barack Hussein Obama power, fame and wealth.’

Satan,eh? okay...


22 posted on 01/10/2024 8:36:50 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: IrishBrigade; RushIsMyTeddyBear; metmom; CynicalBear; SkyPilot; tuffydoodle; tang-soo; ...

Yes.

Oh, God allowed to happen.

If you’re wondering how men like George Soros and women like Nancy Pelosi gain so much wealth and power to do what they do, look no further.

That’s why Satan tempted Jesus with the kingdoms of this world. There was no more powerful kingdom than America; at least a few years ago...


Matthew 4:8-10
New King James Version

8 Again, the Devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.

9 And he said to Him, “All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me.”

10 Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.’ ”

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+4%3A8-10&version=NKJV


Satan is “the god of this world”

2 Corinthians 4:3-4
21st Century King James Version

3 But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to those who are lost,

4 whose unbelieving minds the god of this world hath blinded, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+corinthians+4%3A3-4&version=KJ21


Satan is “the prince of this world”

John 12:31
21st Century King James Version

31 Now is the judgment of this world; now shall the prince of this world be cast out.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2012%3A31&version=KJ21


23 posted on 01/10/2024 8:54:06 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: mewzilla

Trump fired Sally Yates but not before she had put in place special protections for the NSD.


24 posted on 01/10/2024 11:29:06 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: SJackson

Obama just put the issues front and center. There really isn’t a way to quantify just how dumb he is.

These issues have been building for decades. One thing he did do was crack the door on them because he knew he was untouchable. So why not show them how corrupt we all are because there’s nothing anyone can do about it.

And this emboldened them.

Pres Trump shows up and congress, the courts and media line up against him. And they fight him tooth and nail.

What happens in return? People who voted for him in 2016 decide to stay home because they don’t like him.


25 posted on 01/10/2024 5:55:58 PM PST by qaz123
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To: SJackson

0bama works for the AntiChrist.


26 posted on 01/11/2024 1:31:31 PM PST by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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