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Claiming that empathy is high on the list of qualities that are necessary in public officials, Barack Obama desires his administration and appointees to epitomize understanding, awareness, and sensitivity, and to be able to vicariously experience the feelings, thoughts, and experiences of other people. Yet, Obama is the one that lacks the empathy he demands from everyone else. The President, who supposedly transcends race, is revealing himself a proprietor of racial politics and race related discrimination. It appears that, based on skin color, Obama leaves empathy at the door and makes snap judgments that are discriminatory, insensitive, emotionally charged, and...

Obama's choice of Sotomayor telegraphs his vision for a post-racial America By IkeonicToday's laughable headline comes courtesy of CNN:"Obama's historic, Hispanic choice"So, white woman, not so historic... Latina woman, it's like Columbus "discovering" the New World all over again. HISTORY is being made.The same meme we heard on Election Day and Inauguration Day. We must forever remember this historic day because our new President belongs to a class, a race, a [fill in the blank group] heretofore never in this position before. Rejoice, rejoice! Alleluia!Sotomayor may be historic in another sense. She's the first Supreme Court nominee of the post-racial...

Benediction at Obama's inauguration, Rev. Joseph Lowery: 'Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in the back, when brown can stick around... when the red man can get ahead man; and when white will embrace what is right. That all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen. Say Amen'...

From the red acarpet of Hollywood to the streets of downtown DC, the words "post-racial Anmerica" are being uttered. But are troubled race relations really a thing of the past in the US? Barack Obama led his campaign as if a post-racial era had already arrived, seldom speaking of race until the Reverend Wright scandal broke - his own pastor was revealed making anti-white and anti-American statements. This pushed the candidate to address the issue head-on, saying, "I have brothers, sisters, neices, nephews, uncles and cousins of every race, and every hue... Scattered across three continents. And for as long...

Obama is, of course, a hypocrite. His campaign is anything but post-racial. On the contrary, Obama has created at atmosphere of guilt-based voting. You see, one must vote for Obama if he's not racist and if he's interested in a post-racial America. And be careful...don't be fooled! McCain and his cohorts will do everything possible to tell you Obama is BLACK! Now, who is running a post-racial candidacy, exactly?

‘I’m sure,” said Barack Obama in that sonorous baritone that makes his drive-thru order for a Big Mac, fries, and strawberry shake sound profound, “many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests, or rabbis with which you strongly disagreed.” Well, yes. But not many of us have heard remarks from our pastors, priests, or rabbis that are stark, staring, out-of-his-tree flown-the-coop nuts. Unlike Bill Clinton, whose legions of “spiritual advisers” at the height of his Monica troubles outnumbered the U.S. diplomatic corps, Senator Obama has had just one spiritual adviser his entire adult life: the Reverend Jeremiah Wright,...