The Post-Racial President Strikes Again!
US News and World Report has a truly slimy anti-right hit piece attempting to depict Obama as a post-racial angel in a sinful world of American racists (that's "conservatives," to you). Get this:
Obama, in his most candid moments, acknowledged that race was still a problem. In May 2010, he told guests at a private White House dinner that race was probably a key component in the rising opposition to his presidency from conservatives, especially right-wing activists in the anti-incumbent "Tea Party" movement that was then surging across the country. Many middle-class and working-class whites felt aggrieved and resentful that the federal government was helping other groups, including bankers, automakers, irresponsible people who had defaulted on their mortgages, and the poor, but wasn't helping them nearly enough, he said.
A guest suggested that when Tea Party activists said they wanted to "take back" their country, their real motivation was to stir up anger and anxiety at having a black president, and Obama didn't dispute the idea. He agreed that there was a "subterranean agenda" in the anti-Obama movement—a racially biased one—that was unfortunate. But he sadly conceded that there was little he could do about it.
I don't suppose I have to recite the reasons this is outrageous after years of listening to the left earnestly explain why Bush was just like Adolf Hitler. Were they anti white? I suppose the good news is that if this presidency grows any smaller we'll be able to carry it around in our pockets and take it out at dinner parties to show our European friends.
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Oct '10
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the post-racial president is good at dividing people along ethnic lines and promoting class warfare.
Edited on Mar 3, 2011 at 4:51pmJul '10
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Meanwhile, the ethnic cleansing ramps up in Egypt without a word from the Regime. Of course, the search for racists by Mr. Obama need not go too far afield, count the flip flops from Eric Holder as he maintains that his racist positions are not race-conscious here. Holder divides the world into his people and the rest of us in a completely non-race-conscious way, and applies this division to inform the execution of his duties in a completely non-race-conscious way.
While Obama is ignoring the beam in his own eye, Christians are being murdered for their religion, either by their own governments or with the complicity thereof. Of course, he wouldn't want to interfere with the internal affairs of countries receiving billions in US foreign aid.
Edited on Mar 3, 2011 at 8:22amSep '10
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Dear Andrew:
I've gotten used to wishing I'd said what you have just said in one of your postings ... it's an irritating tick you have that I've learned to live with - but now you've gone and done it: Now, instead of just wishing I'd said this particular thing, I'm forced to resort to pretending I did and then telling everybody who calls me on it that you stole it from me.I don't know how you live with yourself.
Really.
Jun '10
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And just to clarify, Obama's color is red, with a yellow star.
Dec '10
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Andrew Klavan:
"the federal government was helping other groups, including bankers, automakers, irresponsible people who had defaulted on their mortgages, and the poor, but wasn't helping them nearly enough, he said."
Is there any better statement of our historic first Islamic apostate president’s intention of fundamentally transforming our way of life by means of centralized redistribution of wealth for political purposes?
Sep '10
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Look away. Nothing to see here.
Aug '10
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Obama has never talked to a Tea Party member. He has no idea what we do or don't think. He builds a straw man from a position of ignorance, thinking this makes him intelligent and savvy. He is neither. Like all liberals, his first impulse is to cry "racism" when confronted by dissenting opinions. He doesn't have the intellectual tools or the street smarts to argue from any other position.
Jul '10
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I actually think there is a grain of truth with regard to the "take back our country" sentiment among some Tea Partiers. But it's not about a black president. It's about seeing the country, its finances and its culture distorted by massive illegal immigration.
We want a government that enforces our laws and protects our borders. And if the black president happened to be Alan West or Herman Caine, that's what we'd be getting.
Oct '10
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"Race was probably a key component in the rising opposition to his presidency?"
How about, race was the overriding component in getting him elected, and without it he would've been an afterthought?
There were two Dem candidates in 2008 who were identical in every way, save one - skin color. Barack Obama and John Edwards were equally Liberal, equally telegenic, equally loquacious, equally youthful. Edwards even had better hair. They were twin sons from different mothers.
The ONLY difference was their skin color. And we know how 2008 turned out for Obama and Edwards - one is POTUS, the other withdrew from the race by the end of January 2008 with scant delegate support.
The ONLY reason he was nominated and elected (over his opponents) is because he's black - would Colin Powell or Christopher Buckley or David Brooks have voted for John Edwards if he had been the Dem nominee? Ha, of course not. And the primary reason Chairman Maobama is facing opposition is because he sucks as POTUS and is (intentionally? I think so) harming America.
But of course it's conservative racists who are causing him trouble. Straw Man arguer extraordinaire.
Edited on Mar 3, 2011 at 1:16pmAug '10
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Hey ! We'renot racists, we're just angry and confused.
Am I supposed to cling to the gun or the religion ???
Darn it, it's too confusing. I hate that .
Oct '10
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Obama seems to have too few tools in his toolbox... Racist an easy thing to wave about... Solves nothiing, save to distract from other truths..
Jul '10
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Obama, in his most candid moments,
Just happened to suggest exactly what this fool wanted to write.
Precious.
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I have said it before, and I will say it again. The liberals could not be so stupid as to think that they could gain by playing the race card over and over and over again. This has to be the work of that evil genius Karl Rove -- who not only positioned his agent Barack Obama in a situation where he could ruin the Democratic Party. He has also taken over Newsweek and enlisted that liberal outlet in his campaign to get that party to effect its own destruction.What would we be right now were it not for Barack Obama, the gift that keeps on giving.
Jul '10
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And so the purchase of Newsweek by the Daily Beast and the procurement of the Sullivan's services results in a singularity fueled by the politics of self immolation.
Maybe they can get Charlie Sheen to be their spokesperson.
Oct '10
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Show me a liberal crying "racist" and I'll show you a liberal losing an argument.
Oct '10
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The "racist" epithet is based on the liberal belief that Americans are too stupid and cowardly to stand up to this intimidation tactic. Too bad that so many Americans appear willing to prove them right. Not only are the American left on board with this, but most of the population who claim to be "moderates". Sadly, there are even enough squishes who claim some degree of conservatism to join them.
The members of the Ricochet, and other communities, are among the few who are willing to publicly call this the crap that it is. It appears that the inferiority of the black race, which has been assumed by the Democrats since the time they were importing them as slaves to their plantations, is no less alive with them today. Racist is simply their term for people who have the same expectation of civilized maturity of the Black, or Hispanic, population as of those who are white.
Nov '10
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I think this is one of the surest signs that the Obama presidency is finished. One of his biggest electoral strengths was that he was "post-racial". He didn't campaign like Jesse Jackson did, playing largely to the black vote, he spoke to the electorate as a whole. This was a huge part of his appeal. People who voted for him could massage their white liberal guilt and feel proud about how far their country had come. The fact that he was a candidate with no executive experience and little in the way of actual accomplishment didn't matter (like a poster said above, there isn't much difference between Obama and John Edwards). By bringing race into the picture Obama and his defenders are damaging his brand beyond repair. I'm really surprised that they can't see this. Maybe they just can't help themselves?
Jul '10
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Time for him to become the Racial Post-President.
Oct '10
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Show me a liberal and I'll show you a liberal losing an argument.
May '10
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Exactly right. This is yet another "own goal" for Obama. Millions of Americans voted for him with an implicit understanding that his election would put to bed the "America is racist" rubbish once and for all. Each and every cry of "Racist!" from the president or his proxies is one more betrayal of these voters, making them less and less likely to be back. Keep it up, Barack.