Posted on 08/20/2014 7:31:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If you had predicted six years ago that America’s first half-black, half-white president would actually make race relations in the U.S. worse, they would have laughed you out of the room.
If you had said that, in the face of a sudden racial crisis, the president — portrayed as black throughout the campaign — would be impotent, neutered, unable to speak powerfully about the situation, they would have scoffed incredulously.
Who are “they”? Everyone. If you had expressed those fears out loud in the run-up to his historic 2008 election, everyone within earshot would have mocked you mercilessly. More, they would have expressed a shattered disappointment in your very existence: How could you not get on board the Hope and Change bus? How could you not embrace the new post-partisan — even post-racial — world that candidate Barack Obama promises?
And just what happened to you as a child to make you so pessimistic and bitter? They’d actually feel sorry for you.
Mr. Obama had first spoken of race in his 1995 autobiography, of that “alien” race — whites. In 2007, he complained about his plight as a black man in America. “If I’m outside your building trying to catch a cab,” he told Charlie Rose, “they’re not saying, ‘Oh, there’s a mixed race guy.’”
He cashed in on Joe Biden’s description of him as a “clean” African American. And he had for years benefited from identifying as black, using race as a bludgeon when necessary, and as a shield when subtlety was required. According to some pundits, he was in fact swept into office by white guilt — white voters broke his way in hopes of putting behind them the painful legacy of racism and slavery....
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Valerie Jarret loves the Ferguson mess. It has taken the border issue, Obamacare, IRS scandal, and other Obama disasters off the front page. That whore is pulling 0 bummer's strings.
My apologies to all actual whores.
He’s a great actor
To be honest, I think the fix was in, Chicago-style. The "first black president" couldn't NOT be re-elected. That would have meant the "first black president" did a lousy job. There were a LOT of big-money people ready to spend big money to make sure that didn't happen. Romney was up in the polls and I remember seeing an appearance by Obama and Michelle the night before the election and they looked completely down. Next day: Wow! What a mandate! Woo hoo! ... Hmm ...
“If you had predicted six years ago ....”
I knew it and predicted it. I had no idea just how radical and self (not himself, but his bros) immolating he would be, but here we are. I knew exactly who 0bama was, but I confess I had no idea he could take things as far as he has.
He ain’t done yet.
“He ain’t done yet.”
No. Frightfully, he is not. There really are no upper limits the way things have morphed these last few years, with zero legal liability for admin operatives, zero accountability and an increasingly desperate underclass who believe that whatever America was or was is being denied them. They’re ready to chuck it all; not just the Constitution, but the whole civil society thing...in favor of being in the equivalent of Liberia.
It’ll make good political hay for them all so I would suspect so and because so much attention is on it, it takes some of the heat off him.
Phew! For a minute I though you were going to say Zimbabwe.
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