Barack the Healer

[4est_4est_Gump]

By Victor Davis Hanson, NRO
July 17, 2012

Barack Obama, both substantively and symbolically, ran in 2008 as a much-needed healer. He was to bring the nation together as never before — a vow taken to heart by millions of voters of all backgrounds who ensured Obama’s 2008 victory. His biracial background and his uncanny ability to navigate through both Harvard Law School and the politics of Chicago community organizing seemed to make him ideally suited to usher in a postracial era — as was acknowledged, albeit quite crudely and insensitively, by both Harry Reid and Joe Biden in the 2008 campaign.

Yet quite the opposite development tragically has followed from Obama’s election. From the beginning of the 2008 campaign — evident in the exasperation of Bill Clinton (“they played the race card on me”) during the Democratic primaries — racial tensions have heightened, rather than lessened. We get a glimpse of the new strains in popular culture from the widely different reactions to the Trayvon Martin case: Black leaders point to racism in the treatment of “white Hispanic” George Zimmerman; whites cite rush-to-judgment bias against Zimmerman, as, in comparison, the wholesale carnage among black. youth in Chicago is hardly discussed.

...

Yet in these supposedly postracial times, racial divisiveness is detectable in matters both trivial and fundamental. To take three examples at random, popular entertainers like Morgan Freeman (“they just conveniently forget that Barack had a mama, and she was white — very white, American, Kansas, middle of America. There was no argument about who he is or what he is. . . . America’s first black president hasn’t arisen yet”), James Earl Jones (“I think I have figured out the Tea Party. I think I do understand racism because I was taught to be one by my grandmother”), and Chris Rock (“Happy white people’s day”) are not just racially inflammatory, but utterly incoherent as well.

At the NAACP national convention, Mitt Romney was met with boos for pitching lower taxes, smaller government, and less regulation as a way to jump-start the economy and create more jobs for the hard-hit African-American community. In response, Representative Emanuel Cleaver reportedly explained the boos by saying, “Romney should not have criticized Obama in front of black audience.” Should Obama cease his attacks on Romney among predominantly white audiences? Would he ever address the NRA, and if so would he honestly try to explain his support for gun control?

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The Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the president’s former pastor for some 20 years, was again in the news last week. In a speech to a congregation in Washington, D.C., he reportedly trumped his usual racist fare by venturing into Hitlerian genetic territory, speaking of African-American children who are raised among whites: “Let them get that alien DNA all up inside their brain and they will turn on their own people in defense of the ones who are keeping their own people under oppression. Sheep dogs. There’s white racist DNA running through the synapses of his or her brain tissue. They will kill their own kind; defend the enemies of their kind or anyone who is perceived to be the enemy of the milky white way of life.”

White racist DNA?

Wright seems intent on proving to the world that his past racist outbursts, which became an issue in the 2008 campaign, were not atypical (as the president himself had implied), but simply windows into a disturbed soul — secure that no one will speak the truth that he is a hateful racist and one who for two decades had a great deal of influence over the mind and soul of the man who would become president.

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Why then the exacerbation of racial tensions? There are dozens of exegeses, spanning the political spectrum. We are in a deep recession that is hurting African-Americans more than others, and their leadership remains committed to Great Society solutions, even as the nation faces insolvency and is disengaging from the redistributive blue-state model — creating a new apprehension that cutbacks are tantamount to racist indifference. Or: Blacks, like all racial groups, naturally identify with their own kind, in the same manner as, for example, Greek-Americans or Armenian-Americans who will cross party lines out of understandable ethnic pride — and thus are especially protective of the public image of their fellow African-American Barack Obama. Or: White resentment at the prominence of elite African-Americans is doing its part to widen the divide and earn a pushback. Or: A worried Barack Obama understands that for his reelection he must create an improbable logic: Tens of millions of supportive whites in 2008 were lauded for their liberality, and yet they will face accusations of racism if they dare vote otherwise in 2012.

What is clear is that the blue-state model is failing worldwide. Greece is to Germany as California is to Texas or Illinois is to Indiana. The Obama statist paradigm is now bankrupt, whereas the Reagan and even the Clinton paradigm led to spectacular prosperity. And I do not speak just in an economic sense. The therapeutic school curriculum leads only to dismal test scores and poorly educated students. The logical dividend of a Byzantine system of racial politics is the self-constructed “Cherokee” Elizabeth Warren. The radical green model predictably results in billions of dollars in failed Solyndras, as trillions of cubic feet of new, clean-burning natural gas go neglected. Detroit and Houston are no longer just different cities, but emblematic of two different economic choices. In other words, the contradictions in these models are apparent even to their adherents, as they lose the public’s trust and support and turn ever more desperate.

In the case of race relations, the public — of all races — is moving beyond race and, in an increasingly multiracial, intermarried society, with a half-century of affirmative action and the Great Society behind it, transcending racial awareness. That evolution terrifies a race-based elite that cannot survive in its present privilege if there are no white dragons to slay.

One more item:

This weekend Charlie Rose asked President Obama why he had not brought us all together and President Obama went back to the "I didn't know how bad things were in this town", line saying he never dreamed people would put politics before solving problems as if he were some outsider who arrived freash and green into Washington DC to take the oath of office when this was all he did as a Senator, put politics first...

 

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[Wat_Tyler]

On bad days, we can either smell the chemical plant or DC.


I'll take the chemical plant.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Barack the healer forgot, "first do no harm."

We are going to transformally change your blood type with leeches...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

On bad days, we can either smell the chemical plant or DC.


I'll take the chemical plant.

Better Health Through Chemistry!

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Better Health Through Chemistry!

Maybe . . .


but I refuse to memorize carbon chains.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

We must break the shackles of carbon dependency and return to days of wind and sun...





... 'sa bitches!

*spit*

 

[Wat_Tyler]

As long as we don't have farting cows.


I wonder how much captured horses fart . . .


and if pulling wagons in Kansas makes it better or worse.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Pretty water and grain intensive too...


We're gonna need some fertilizer.

 

[RobDownSouth]

By Victor Davis Hanson, NRO
July 17, 2012



One more item:

This weekend Charlie Rose asked President Obama why he had not brought us all together and President Obama went back to the "I didn't know how bad things were in this town", line saying he never dreamed people would put politics before solving problems as if he were some outsider who arrived freash and green into Washington DC to take the oath of office when this was all he did as a Senator, put politics first...

Ole Victor despises black folks almost as much as situational Native American AJ does.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Throb sagt, ich gewinnen!

http://www.downinthevalley.com/images/product/medium/164228.jpg

Throb thread:
http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=745068

__________________
You gonna shoot us another one of your hollow-point bullet proof facts?
Or are you just hateful, angry rhetoric?
One of Dem inspirational and motivational speakers?

 

[Wat_Tyler]

If only he had any yarbles . . . .

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Aye...


Throb ain't never gonna be healed; his hate will die with him.

 

[RobDownSouth]

http://www.downinthevalley.com/images/product/medium/164228.jpg

Throb thread:
http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=745068

__________________
You gonna shoot us another one of your hollow-point bullet proof facts?
Or are you just hateful, angry rhetoric?
One of Dem inspirational and motivational speakers?

Tell us again how one dollar, one quarter and one nickel equals 91 cents on your planet.

Tell us about "context" here...

I call him a nigger all the time. It's funny to watch him turn purple and start spitting...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2011/10/18/e8ca320c-df4b-4b73-af7b-3f84b00e4638.jpg

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Eerily similar to go speed racer...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Unlike playing the yarble-card . . . .

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Obama Grants Himself a Waiver From Civility
By AARON GOLDSTEIN
A campaign out of control on hypocrisy.

Remember when President Obama lectured the nation on civility in its political discourse?
In January 2011, following the shooting of then Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, President Obama told an audience at the University of Arizona in Tucson, "It's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds."

Unfortunately, his words ring hollow. President Obama's counsel was not directed at himself or those who work at his behest. The rules of civility as decreed by President Obama (and enforced by the mainstream media) apply only to conservatives and to anyone else who has the temerity to disagree with the Obama Administration. It is a classic case of "do as I say, not as I do." When it comes to civility, President Obama has granted himself, his administration and his re-election campaign a waiver.

Amongst those covered by Obama's civility waiver is Stephanie Cutter, his Deputy Campaign Manager. During a conference call with reporters late last week, Cutter spoke about the Obama's campaign dispute over when Mitt Romney left Bain Capital. Cutter said:

Either Mitt Romney, through his own words and his own signature, was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the SEC, which is a felony. Or he was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the American people to avoid responsibility for some of the consequences of his investments [such as layoffs and outsourcing].

Does Ms. Cutter have evidence that Romney committed a felony offense? If she does then she should submit this evidence to the SEC and to the Department of Justice. If she doesn't then she should do all of us a favor and shut up.

Oh! How uncivilized of me to tell Cutter to shut up. But anyone who publicly accuses someone of committing a crime without the evidence to back up that claim deserves to be severely admonished. Since President Obama won't admonish Cutter, then I will.

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Politics is, of course, a rough and tumble affair and always will be. As long as there have been elections there have been candidates have been willing to say about anything to prevent their opponent from being elected to office. This is where President Obama finds himself. After 3½ years in office, he has accomplished little and what little he has accomplished is not to the liking of the electorate. Mitt Romney has a solid, stellar reputation and that is a threat to Obama's hold on power. So the only way President Obama can secure re-election is by destroying Mitt Romney's solid and stellar reputation.

But the Obama campaign isn't going to be content with merely wounding Romney's solid and stellar reputation. As one Democratic strategist aligned with the Obama Administration put it last August, "Unless things change and Obama can run on accomplishments, he will have to kill Romney." Well, nearly a year has passed. Things haven't changed for the better and Obama still can't run on his accomplishments. Operation Kill Romney has been launched and is operating at full speed with no signs of slowing down.

http://spectator.org/archives/2012/07/17/obama-grants-himself-a-waiver

 

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[4est_4est_Gump]

Will he take credit for the next crazed shooting?

 

[Very_Bad_Man]

Even Jesus cannot heal the butthurt the republicans feel over losing to a black man.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

You make dashboard Buddha frown...



RoryN says "RACIST!"





You sir, are every bit the healer that the President is. I hope Mitt is practicing saying, that's nice, but we won, don't tell us how to hold the mop, don't ask for the car keys...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

By Victor Davis Hanson, NRO
July 17, 2012



One more item:

This weekend Charlie Rose asked President Obama why he had not brought us all together and President Obama went back to the "I didn't know how bad things were in this town", line saying he never dreamed people would put politics before solving problems as if he were some outsider who arrived freash and green into Washington DC to take the oath of office when this was all he did as a Senator, put politics first...

I had no idea how bad it was until I took office...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Bush stole all the moneyz.


Bush I.


How did it happen?

 

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