White Guilt, Media Bias Soiled the Inaugural
Once again, Obama was celebrated for the color of his skin as opposed to the character he may or may not possess.
“Listen, I just want to say one thing. Having been in the South in the ’60s and Los Angeles, in Watts and northern urban areas, when we were evolving as a country, I’m thinking of all the bigots and rednecks and people I met along the way. I’m saying to them, ‘Take this.’ You know?”
— Tom Brokaw on Barack Obama
Yes, the dream of journalist hacks everywhere has been realized. Barack Obama is now the president of the United States. Last Tuesday’s messianic inauguration purportedly captured the eyes of the entire nation. Personally, I can affirm that this was true of the folks I know. Most of them spent the day with pupils lovingly affixed to boob tubes in facilities where entertainment devices are not usually found.
As Obama blundered through his coronation, he was met with considerable cheering. Praise resounded and that’s no surprise. In Barack Obama, the public has all the welfare bread and sound bite circuses it could ever wish for. Always a student of human nature, I asked several associates why they felt that studying the inauguration — a fabricated, glossy, overpriced affair — was so essential. I was told with near uniformity that it was “a major historic event.”
So it was. Just as were the inaugurations of all our presidents, yet I recall no vocational disruptions transpiring during the other ones I lived through. Therefore, I must once again pose the question, what is so special about this guy? The answer disappoints. There is no substantive reason why his qualities make him anything more than a snappier version of Jimmy Carter or a Bill Clinton deveined of unsavory tastes and habits.
We are told repeatedly by the media that Obama’s presidency will be transformative, but the only prospect for transformation I foresee is the abandonment of the free market and America quickly descending into socialism. Yes, yes we can become East Germany! And Obama may well alchemize us into a not-so-novel GDR in the very near future.
To further bolster my claim, Obama decorated his newly constituted cabinet with refitted and re-outfitted hulks of smoldering iron — male and female contraptions last seen in 2000 when they were left abandoned on the political battlefield by the aforementioned Mr. Clinton. Yet now, all that is old embodies change and hope.
Just as with every other man, Obama has strengths and weaknesses. Undoubtedly, his political instincts are acute and he knows far better than other Democratic leaders what the citizens want to hear. He also presents in rehearsed speeches as being polished and thoughtful.
However, one of his foremost weaknesses concerns leadership capacity. The main problem is that he does not appear to be well-endowed in this area. In the old days, a guy who voted “present” on 130 bills (or 129 depending on the source) while a member of his state senate was rightly viewed as pusillanimous.
In 2009, thanks to cultural implosion and media bias, his primary deficiency has been reclassified into a transcendent trait. Nowadays indecisive fellows like Obama — should they be Democrats — qualify as symbols of astuteness. After all, anyone can have strong beliefs, but only a New Age hero has the wattage to be uncertain about so many things. It’s nuance! No doubt that the clowns on MSLSD will soon refer to him as the realization of Plato’s concept of the philosopher king.
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51 Comments
1. Laura:Excellent article. So many whites have been brainwashed into thinking that white=racist; non-white=victim of white racism. I am exposed that that mantra every day in my uber-liberal work environment. Guilty white liberals are their own worse enemy.
Jan 26, 2009 - 8:03 am 2. Cybergeezer:Thank you for this excellent article, and references. Indeed a joy to read amid todays hagiography, as you so adroitly specified.
Jan 26, 2009 - 8:19 am 3. ConservativeGirlie:A very nice antidote to the daily mental nausea.
I’m 16% German, on my father’s side. So can I just say I’m German?
Quit the “racist” crap already. Obama isn’t black. Right now we have a mostly white man married to a black woman who is ashamed of our country.
Wow, so proud to be an American.
Jan 26, 2009 - 8:40 am 4. Tex Taylor:YES WE CAN become East Germany! LOL! Classic…
Enjoyed reading the truth about the empty suit and cult of personality.
Jan 26, 2009 - 8:43 am 5. J. PINKERTON SNOOPINGTON:Thank you for an astute, thoughtful article. Your logic is refreshingly linear. Keep up the excellent work !
Jan 26, 2009 - 8:46 am 6. Delia:YT-Guilt is the new black don’tchya know?
Race card.
Get used to it.
Reverse racism is here to stay.
Jan 26, 2009 - 8:48 am 7. Scott:Great piece. I have always wondered how the black community would’ve supported a candidate who was, say, 1/4 black or 1/8 black. If I were black and wanted one of my “brothers” to win the White House and make me feel better about myself as a black man and to give me the feeling that we have made strides and great accomplishments, I certainly wouldn’t be too happy with a “diluted” candidate whose other half was caucasian. THAT would not leave me feeling victorious.
Jan 26, 2009 - 9:13 am 8. Big Red:Excellent article. On the 20th we watched history being made. Now we get to watch history repeating itself. I’m afraid we live in interesring times. Sit down, strap yourself in, and hold on tight.
Jan 26, 2009 - 9:18 am 9. Blackwell:Oh for goodness sakes, another slam at Obama after his total of five days in office? Another call for “alternatives”? Stop the music at the bitter people pity-party and have some coffee:
1. Yes, the MSM is in thrall to Obama, and its sickening, but how hard is it to grasp why they are?
The adults–the GOP–revealed themselves as posturing frauds in the last 8 plus years. Everything that was supposed to separate Republicans from Democrats was jettisoned by Bush and Hastert. Spending like no tomorrow; corruption like the age of the Robber Barons. Rampant incompetence: “Want a Supreme court Justice? Here! Take my mediocre friend Harriet!” Financial oversight? Let the FDIC and SEC snooze while investment bankers make millions selling worthless paper to federally insured banks. The GOP blew it–for all of us!
2 You ought to be pasting the departed Hastert, Bush and Delay as traitors to conservative principles. Not lambasting Obama who hasn’t been in office for a week. We all better hope he is better than the nuts in his party.
3 Criticizing Obama over using Clinton retreads? Be glad he didn’t bring in dewey-eyed neophytes. And let’s not forget Rumsefeld–who was a smart and acomplished guy and thankfully wise to the ways of D.C. generals, admirals and other encrusted barnacles. Hopefully, some of the Clinton people will be as well. I hope. But after 8 years of Seargent Shultz (”I know nothing!”) at the SEC and FDIC, you sound just silly criticizing Obama’s appointments. Silly and unfair.
4 So conservatives ought to be advancing “alternatives?” The “alternative” is the one we didn’t follow for 8 plus years. We don’t need no stinking alternatives: we know we’re not supposed to run up huge debt and fund government programs with debt that has to be paid for someday. We know that the President ought to be doing more than sitting at his ranch when personal savings are dropping, housing esalating on unsustainable low interest rates and state pension funds are going off the deep end with benefits. State pension fnds ought to have been highlighted by the GOP as a natural wedge issue with voters. Ah, but our fat, complacent and complicit GOP was in bed with them since they get pensions too.
5. New ideas? Zero from the GOP in 8 years. The GOP would have done better by getting ME to run for office:
(a) did the GOP push for a cut back in college tuition by cutting a lot of the silly classes, some professorial perks and insisting on a “core” college curriculium that all kids could take for less than the bloated course offerings we have now that everyone has to subsidize? (b) Did the GOP sponsor some easily attended national debates (hint: not in D.C.) on the state employee pension funds? (”They are using your money!”). Oh well–at least the GOP establishment was happy–they got their licks in at gay marriage.
6. The GOP was both blind and complicit. The GOP helped it happen and now–now–calling for less spending is the tone-deaf GOP telling a scared man on the street without a job that NOW—–NOW—you want to be frugal. Like telling someone in a fire you helped to happen not to panic.
Face it: it’ll take about a year or two for Obama to exhaust his unearned insulation from criticism. Then the GOP had better have some people in office under 60 with good track records that people can vote for. People without nannies or maids for whom they haven’t paid taxes; people that can talk and think at the same time and that maybe worked in the private sector for a while (one reason Reagan had better balance than today’s GOP candidates). Oh, and no rich kids. People that can stand up and say what needs to be done with conviction.
Until then, you ought to stowe the bile. Focus on high school kids and voters in their 20’s and 30’s. Drop the gay marriage hostility. Be an alternative, not a whiner.
Jan 26, 2009 - 9:31 am 10. David Thomson:“White Guilt, Media Bias Soiled the Inaugural”
The above needs to be modified to read: White Guilt, Media Bias, and Greed, Soiled the Inaugural
We should not overlook the financial motivation of those jumping aboard the Obama bandwagon. The free market has less of a role in determining winners and losers. Politicians instead increasingly make such decisions. Those who hesitate to bow down to the Messiah therefore must worry about the financial repercussions.
Jan 26, 2009 - 10:52 am 11. liberty4usa:Your points are well made.
Basically a narcissist was able to dangle the proverbial carrot out there to entice those whom were wanting to believe in something different.
The mystery “it” was was their own hopes and dreams. He exploited peoples wishful thinking.
He will “carry their voices into office with him.”
He also used and exploited political correctness overkill that is fomented by an insane media.
http://thenma.org/blogs//index.php/libertyforusa/2009/01/22/open-and-politically-correct-hate
I would venture to say that the majority of those voting had no idea they were voting for someone who will seize away from them the right to self-determination.
Though he accidentally was revealed in a San Francisco fund raiser, and by a working man whom asked a simple question, most people ignored that he does not believe in the individuals unalienable right of freedom.
He is going ahead with global politics, global redistribution of seized American private property(taxes).
His economic policies will raise taxes slow growth to subsistence levels and make more people dependent on government.
I especially agree with him being the antithesis of Dr. Kings dream-he was not judged by the voters for the content of his character rather than the color of his skin.
Our opposition must be consistent as this is a war of ideas. He believes in social collectivism and is going to shove it down everybody’s throat by funding groups like Acorn and the Unions like SEIU while chipping away at the individual and the power of the government to force people to act as he wants.
Even this is plain as day to some, others cannot and will not see this. He is trying to lead us down the Road to Serfdom!
There is no good time to united for the self-destruction of what America was and can be again. http://thenma.org/blogs//index.php/libertyforusa/2009/01/24/title-5
Jan 26, 2009 - 10:57 am 12. Nobodys_Fool:Blackwell: Yes, you are correct to blast Bush and co for the failings of the past 8 years. But the Dems deserve a large part of the blame as well. They went along with the program lock stock and barrel. Except for the occasional outcry over the war in Iraq they wallowed in the pork spending, and happily so.
There is nothing wrong with taking umbrage at Obama for his policies. After all, one only need look at the friends and advisers he’s had during his run for the brass ring. Casual acquaintance with Ayer? The MSM looked the other way while Obama’s backtracking team cleaned up the mess, shutting up Ayers and others so the truth of prior events and meetings would not see the light of day. The MSM was only too happy to assist. Rezko’s antics may yet harm Obama. You just never know where that may go. Contrast the MSM’s treatment of Obamathat with some 200 ‘reporters’ surging into Alaska to get dirt on Sara Palin. Such a contrast! How about their treatment of Hilary? I’m no fan of hers but they should be ashamed of themselves.
Had Obama been investigated half as thoroughly as Palin was he might not be where he is right now. What he brings to the office of POTUS is a dedication to socialist ideals, if not outright Marxism. This is dangerous ground for our country. Just as the rest of the world has seemingly come to it’s senses and begun lurking to the right, we lurch left big time and stray drastically off course and into the unknown.
Jan 26, 2009 - 11:00 am 13. Laura:#9 Blackwell.
You’re right, whiners are for liberals, and they do it so well.
Jan 26, 2009 - 11:08 am 14. misanthropicus:Right on the money, Chapin.
Jan 26, 2009 - 11:29 am 15. Blackwell:Nobodys-Fool: I agree 99%. The MSM gave Obama a total pass in a toal re-enactment of the 1960 election. And yes I’m flabbergasted that some people think Obama’s long term friendship with Ayres is of no consequence. The MSM decided we didn’t need to know about him. And yes indeed, the MSM choked on their chardonnay and brie that some self-made woman from Alaska (where?) could play on the stage they critique.
But its just too early to begain lambasting Obama. No one is listening and people will resent it. The GOP will look bad if it tries this early to criticize him and for good reason. The GOP threw in their lot with the pirates: its silly for them to look up from their fifth course of greasy corruption and wonder why voters abandoned them in droves. Heck, the Democrats at least pretend to care about the man in the street as opposed to big companies. The GOP used to care (low taxes, low spending, sensible public works) but they went off the rails. And in 2008, the best the GOP could find to oppose this impressively articulate man was a tired old guy with an honorable military career but a zero in the Senate.
The GOP is like a spouse caught cheating lastw eek: its a bit early to be asked for trust and a night out. Better zip it for a while sicne no one that left the GOP is listening now. Let Obama have a fair chance.
Jan 26, 2009 - 11:39 am 16. Swing Voter in VA:Wow this is the most ignorant article I have ever read!
Jan 26, 2009 - 11:40 am 17. Steve P.:I am an independant voter. There are some things from the republicans I like and some things from the democrats I like. HOWEVER I voted for Obama. The main reason was his approach to politics. First of all as far as policy on a lot of issues McCain and Obama were a like. They were both part of a Congress that spent money like there was no tomorrow. They both voted for the crazy “bailout”. But the main difference to me was how Obama didn’t play the wedge issue game. He spoke to ALL people and listened to all people regardless of their background. He went to Indian reservations, hispanic programs, gay functions, Jewish communities, black communities, etc. He explained to everyone how his policies would benefit them. Now I know he is not perfect and he will make mistakes BUT it is good to have an inclusive President and not one that is all about division.
As I read the comments on this, it reminds me why I voted straight democrat this year. If the republicans don’t start sticking to their policies and being more inclusive with different groups, they will continue to lose. Why can’t the republicans go to hispanics, blacks, gays, Jews and other groups and explain how their policy will benefit them? Trust me half the battle is showing up.
Perhaps it is because the republicans have no good policy?
As far as the inauguration, anyone who can not marvel and be proud at a moment when a man whose parents would not have been served together in the south, is now President is a sad individual. And it will be just as awesome when a woman becomes President.
Finally, I get so annoyed when I hear liberals playing the “poor victim” card and for the majority of you on this site, you all sound just as foolish. You all are playing the “poor white person” card.
Somebody call the whaaaambulance for yet another another conservative cynic who just can’t stomach America’s celebratory pride in itself for electing a black president.
Jan 26, 2009 - 11:58 am 18. Craig:“I get very emotional. It has been hard for me to walk through the streets. And I think that the day is going to be very emotional. I think that’s good for the country.”
Yah..and some of us got ‘emotional’ for exactly the opposite reason- a liberal progressive empty suit winning the election. So shut your pie-hole. Liberals…can’t live with them, can’t shoot ‘em.
Jan 26, 2009 - 12:03 pm 19. martini-henry:Where is Lloyd Bentson when you need him???? “Mr. Obama, you are no Jack Kennedy”. The comparisons to Lincoln??? Maybe a revival of “Our American Cousin” is in the making.
Jan 26, 2009 - 12:06 pm 20. Delia:“Poor white person” card? Hey, I resemble that remark! I grew up a poor, white child.
Then…I grew up and created a business that employs others! THAT is the American DREAM.
Not a hand-out or a leg up.
Good old fashioned hard work.
Barack played the race card all the way into his Inaug for Gosh sakes. Brown can stick around? Blah-blah-blah. Pathetic.
Jan 26, 2009 - 12:34 pm 21. quasar:Great piece..but what to make of the obscene voter fraud. We’re gonna run out of orange jump suits just from outfitting ACORN voter reg. workers. How will we clothe Treasury Sec. moninees and Govenors (D) and House and Senate Banking Comm. chairs? And what about Barak and Michelle? Will there be designer jump suits available if BO is forced to show his Kenyan Birth Cert. or MO has trouble ’splainin her $320/yr hospital outreach job and that it was jus’ a coincidence that the hospital got a $1m earmark courtesy of Sen. Obama? Just wondering.
Jan 26, 2009 - 3:39 pm 22. quasar:Oh, and another thing, McCain should have gone around the MSM and run ad after ad of John Snow (Treasury Sec.) calling on B.Frank to go along with putting together a new oversight comm. to keep tabs on Fanny and Freddie. Mac just gave it lip service when he should have been obstreperous. Letting Republicans take the hit on the economy instead of the feckless F*cking Democrats really frosts my onions. Mac would have won with this strategery despite losing the black vote 96-4 and the dead vote 100-0.
Jan 26, 2009 - 3:55 pm 23. Oziripus:To say that Obama is an African-American is technically correct, but as a cultural reference, is inane. To say that Obama is an Affirmative Action hire, in a metaphorical sense, is perhaps appropriate, but quite incorrect legally. Yet he is getting the same passes from the Elite that one sees in academia.
Jan 26, 2009 - 4:29 pm 24. bill:#16 Swing Voter inVA,
Obama didn’t play the wedge issues???? Stereotyping West Pennsylvania voters as drooling yokels to a elitist San Francisco audience wasn’t inserting wedges? Attending a church whose pastor spewed invective so vile it would have been out of place in a union meeting? Being chummy with an admitted murderer and America-hater? I’m a swing voter too and I could never have been that stupid. McCain’s a clown, but he’s an honorable clown. Grow the @#$%^ up!
Jan 26, 2009 - 4:42 pm 25. Blackwell:Quasar: absolutely right on the Snow/Frank/Freddie Mac issue…but as you note, JM never went out on a limb for an issue in the senate, except suppressing freedom of speech via McCain/Feingold. He never had “sweat equity credibility” in an issue that would have allowed him to stand as someone that stood for somehting. Conceding his military service and honorable conduct, every domestic issue was pretty much fungible for him. If he had taken on Dennis Hastert and corruption (ever), or Barney Frank in 2005, he might have won. But I bet there were dozens of would be Churchills too.
Jan 26, 2009 - 5:04 pm 26. retrophoebia:Quite in stride with this article, and better in words than I:
Jan 26, 2009 - 5:49 pm 27. Ann141:http://www.johntreed.com/opposite.html
I’m just sorry we no longer have an American as a President. It had always worked so well up ’til now.
Jan 26, 2009 - 7:14 pm 28. Ann141:…and, btw, there was no “white guilt” soiling our inaugural day. We were painting a closet that needed it. After evaluating the day, that just seemed like the very best thing to do.
We have never celebrated skin color before in a presidential inauguration, and I sure didn’t see the sense in doing it now. I always thought that MLK thing was a pretty decent perspective,….the content of the character, not the color of the skin.
Therefore, knowing the content of Boma’s character (lies, manipulations, fraud, arrogance)….well, shoot, it was easy! The closet won! No white guilt here! (The closet looks great)
Jan 26, 2009 - 7:17 pm 29. Mary Grabar:yes, this has been decades in coming. . . when all will be excused based on the color of one’s skin.
Jan 26, 2009 - 7:56 pm 30. Delia:Truth time:
If you needed some plasma who would you prefer to get it from? A right wingnut or a Numbnut leftard?
Really. Take your time.
Jan 26, 2009 - 8:17 pm 31. amfortas:Coronation. Yes, certainly seemed that way. Odd isn’t it. Is this what the Founding Fathers envisaged? Was the War of Independance a big mistake?
America has an elected Monarch who Rules but does not Reign and is called a President. The British have a hereditary for-life President who Reigns but does not Rule and is called a Monarch.
It costs the American taxpayer $Billions every four years to elect the President who then amasses Millions in personal savings from his few hundred thousand per annum salary. Meanwhile the British Monarch pays huge sums in Royalties to the Government which then uses it to rent her by the hour for a modest fee.
Monarchs were thought to have been Appointed by God. There has not been so much hyperbole about Obama’s semi-divine qualities since the Roman Emperor days. They saw the top bloke as a God.
Very soon America will have to fork out Billions more for Obama’s Ascent into Heaven.
Jan 26, 2009 - 9:12 pm 32. amfortas:By the way, Britain even got into the same adulation act first with Tony Blair. People were crying in the streets then too and hailing the New Dawn and ‘bridge the divide’, bringing people together’. Articulate, funky, snake-oil salesman Blair was going to ‘bring the voice of the people’ and ‘transparency’ and ‘make Britain Great again’ and make everything right (left).
And just think, you could have elected ME !
It simply pissed with socialist rain on everyone for 10 years. Obama is a coloured Blair.
Jan 26, 2009 - 9:27 pm 33. liberty4usa:Ann141 wrote – “We were painting a closet that needed it. After evaluating the day, that just seemed like the very best thing to do.”
Enjoy this little liberty while it lasts, Boma does not approve-
#1 You weren’t watching him in his glory
#2 You were not working in servitude
#3 You were exercising individual freedom
He can’t have you dividing us like that!
Jan 26, 2009 - 9:41 pm 34. melissa k:Once the Dems ram amnesty down our throats they will have their third world country full of ignorant voting dupes. Then they’ll pass gun control to defang the few of us left that actually get what’s going on and hate it.
In order to function Democracy requires voters clever enough to recognize crooks and charlatans. Sadly we have presently flunked that test too.
Jan 26, 2009 - 10:12 pm 35. BERLET98:Bernard, I hate to disagree but what soiled the inauguration was the inauguration itself which installed a man as our leader who is as dirty as Chicago politics:
You Go, Blago!
I’ve gotten to like semi-deposed Illinois Governor, Rod Blagojevich.
No, I’m not mentally deranged, I don’t think. Nor am I of Serbian extraction as the mop-haired ex-gov is. Nor do I suggest he’s innocent of any charges against him, although he’s not been charged with any; after all, the guy is from Illinois, home state of the most corrupt town in the country, if not on the planet, so he has to be guilty of everything.
And, yes, I’m up to here with 24/7 Blago news as much as I am with Madoff news and Britney news. But, I’ve come to like Rod’s overall style, if not his hairstyle–and how this Chicago-born Democrat has been sticking it to his fellow Dems far and wide.
I furthermore believe that he’s not a “cuckoo,” as Mayor Daley II has called him twice, the same mayor who supported him twice for the governorship and with whom he palled around and with whom he sat on numberless daises, etc. I think also that Rod has a couple tricks still up his well-tailored sleeve as well as a plan to keep himself out of the hoosegow. He may have risen from humble roots, but he seems to have a grand exit plan.
True, he’s brash, obnoxious, foul-mouthed, sleazy, greedy, and glib, all of which are standard attributes for Illinois political success. He also seems supremely confident for some reason and for that reason, the Powers-that-be in Illinois and Chicago are determined to bring him down. I think those Powers are mightily afraid of what Blago knows and aware that he has no compunctions about spilling all he knows.
Let’s look at the record, as the venerable former New York Governor Al Smith used to say, not Blagojevich’s record in Springfield but the record since December 9th when what he has termed his personal Pearl Harbor began.
The poor guy was rousted from the warm bed he shares with the equally-greedy and equally-foul-mouthed Mrs. Patricia B. on that cold December morning in 2008, barely a month after Barack Obama’s election as president. With his two young kids, hopefully, still sleeping at 6:15 a.m, …
(Read the rest of this article at http://genelalor.com/.)
Jan 26, 2009 - 11:57 pm 36. Perry:There is much talk now about all Americans (code for Republicans) “supporting” the new President.
I have many problems with this. I fear Obama because of his radical history and his odious associations. Obama made choices in his life, choices like a 20-year-long intimate relationship with a conspiracy-mongering HAMAS-supporting lunatic Pastor in a racist church, choices like the terrorist William Ayers as a friend and associate in various projects aimed at radicalizing the youth of south Chicago, like anti-Semite PLO hack Rashid Khalidi, Michael Pfleger, Khalid al-Mansour, Ali Abounima, Tony Rezko, etc.
Any other candidate who made these same choices would have been disqualified before he or she even started a campaign. A FAIR media would have shredded Obama in 5 minutes.
And that’s the ONLY history we have about Obama; Obama has no friends, no family, and nobody to say they knew him from college. Subtract the charisma and the magic. What has he done? What do you know about him? Where does he come from? Was he sent here from the heavens?
The Messiah!
No, not the Messiah. Just a pretty package produced and sold by an adoring liberal media to an uninformed (unintelligent) electorate who voted for President like it was American Idol. Perhaps only Clay Aiken or Sanjaya could have beat Obama. But no, not a chance. Neither of them is black.
Already this know-nothing empty suit has started to dismantle the systems that have kept us safe in America since 9/11 and he has urged Israel to reopen border crossings to Israel from Gaza.
Is he crazy or just a delusional liberal? Then again, what’s the difference between crazy and a delusional liberal?
And I should support Barack Hussein Obama?
1453 days to go.
Jan 27, 2009 - 4:40 am 37. Jbl:You Obamabots had better man-up. We listened to 8 full years of intense hate about Bush. You can’t even seem to take mild criticism of Obama.
Jan 27, 2009 - 9:02 am 38. Paul -Indiana:White guilt? Count me out.
Jan 27, 2009 - 9:30 am 39. LawhawkSF:I’ll go ConservativeGirlie one better. I’m 100% ethnically German, I have the family documents to trace it back five generations, I speak German (haltingly), and the German Consulate is right up the street. Ergo, I automatically qualify for German citizenship (yes, I have the financial means as well). So what do I think? Well, when I was very young, just a few years after WWII, the subject of ethnic background came up at school, so I went home and asked my mom if I was German-American. I thought she was going to explode. “You are American–period!” Years later I married a woman who is half German, half Irish descent. My three kids are therefore one-quarter Irish and three-quarters German. But–all three of my kids are married to Hispanics. So my eight grandkids are one-half Hispanic, one-eighth Irish, and three-eighths German. By politically-correct census counting, they are Hispanic (they have Spanish surnames). What is my point? Nobody in our family cares! We’re all Americans, and the math I just did is a colossal waste of time. And the German Consulate need not wait for my arrival. I intend to stay and fight, along with my multi-cultural, multi-ethnic kids and grandkids. Obama was white when it was useful, black when it was useful, and a leftist race-baiting crooked South Side Chicago politician 100% of the time. That’s the math that matters. So as a full-blooded, 100% American, and along with my kids and grandkids who are likewise 100% American, I intend to stand against this charismatic “leader” on every one of his un-American, socialist, race-baiting, government-as-your-master schemes. The German word for this kind of doctrinaire leader is “Fuehrer.” Obama is no Hitler, but I’m not sure his devoted followers understand that. Check out Ashton Kutcher/Demi Moore’s YouTube “I Pledge” video for proof.
Jan 27, 2009 - 10:46 am 40. AST:If you thought we had won the Cold War, you’re wrong. We’ve been edging for socialism since the 1930s and this election is just another lurch in that direction. We can only hope that there are enough Americans who understand what our founders intended to recognize the disaster in time and vote the Dems out of office. But it won’t happen if there are no Republicans who are distinguishable from the party in power.
I noticed several months ago that Obama seems to have the capacity to believe an almost unlimited number of incompatible things at once. This is the essence of post-modernism, which now dominates our academies. You can deconstruct anything and then rebuild some or all its parts to suit your preferences, and Obama doesn’t seem to ever have really thought about what that implies.
He has impressed me as well with his good ear for what people want to hear and he has used that ability to speak to everybody as though he agrees with them.
Jan 27, 2009 - 5:14 pm 41. PUMABOPEEU:Unfortunately, I think the most deep, authentic thing he has said about himself was “I like pie!”
This was the biggest AFFIRMATIVE ACTION job appointment in the history and that is how I will always see this presidency.
Jan 28, 2009 - 5:14 am 42. rr:Now our job is to ensure that he and his socialist party do not get anything done that will hurt the country. Our hope is filibuster in the senate and rallying public opinion.
Jan 28, 2009 - 9:02 am 43. JP49:I completely agree with your article. It is so nice to read truth instead of bull. I don’t much TV anymore and I cut off my cable. I’m not supporting Hollywood anymore. There are a few actors like Robert Duval, Gary Sinese, Bruce Willis, etc that I will go see at the movies. Did you know that Obama had a secret meeting with the Supreme Court Justices just before his big day to discuss the lawsuits about his birth? That is unethical of the Supremes and Obama. I bet the next thing he implements will be his civilian police force and I bet they come from those compounds all over the U.S. (read Stealth Jihad). I had so hoped the Supreme Court would uphold our constitution but even they let America down.
Jan 28, 2009 - 11:13 am 44. Cybergeezer:39. LawhawkSF:
Jan 28, 2009 - 11:52 am 45. GaryB:I’d like to here this speech on Rush Limbaugh’s show. Perhaps you can email it to him. Statements like that should be published for all the American People.
Thanks.
Oh yes. Another whiney “Obama only got elected because he’s black”, “Obama only got elected because the media loves him” editorial. You want to know why conservatives are losing elections? It’s because so many conservatives buy this line of excuses. Let’s face it, blacks only make up about 10% of the electorate, so even if 100% of blacks had voted for Obama, that alone wouldn’t have got him elected. If that kind of thinking worked, we would have had a female president long ago. The media loved John McCain in 2000 — did that help him beat Bush in the primaries? Don’t you think the GOP’s big losses might have been somewhat affected by the Pork-Loving Spend and Borrow practices of the GOP congress from 2003-2006? The GOP became the party of big spending, big government intrusion, and big government giveaways to big corporations. Obama’s victory was based on a lot more than these petty whiney excuses, and until so-called conservatives get that fact, they are going to continue down the road to marginalization.
Jan 28, 2009 - 4:03 pm 46. Ron:Gary B,
Obama did get 95% of the vote from black people. His margin of victory came because of his skin tone. If the black voters weren’t so openly racist and it came out 50-50, 60-40 or even 70-30 then the new President’s name would be John McCain. His margin of victory was granted to him by half of his race. The other half only had him in contention. Race DID win him the election!
You can try to deny it all you want but the math is pretty simple. 95% of 10% is 9.5%. If 16 million blacks voted and he had only gotten 70%, McCain would have gotten 4 million more votes taken out of Obama’s total. Do the math, it’ll free your mind!
Jan 28, 2009 - 9:28 pm 47. Dissenting Justice:Ron – Blacks have pretty much voted as a cohesive bloc since they were first allowed to vote. During the period of Reconstruction, black support for Republicans was 100 percent – more than Obama. Roosevelt got about 80 percent of black votes. Clinton, Gore and Kerry each received in the range of 85-90% range.
Also – blacks are Democrats; a black Republican would not have done much better. Look at Mike Steele’s race in Maryland. He lost black votes.
Jan 29, 2009 - 3:00 am 48. joe:As a group blacks want something for their vote. They expect to be paid. democrats pay them.
For the most part Republicans just want to be left alone.
Jan 29, 2009 - 10:04 am 49. WestGuard:I’m still waiting for Obummer to show who his foreign campaign contributers were.
In an article (BBC or Reuters) Islamic jihadis were claiming it was they and their contributions who pushed Obummer over the top to victory.
To the rosy eyed white liberals: How does it feel to know you supported the same candidate as Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda, Islamic Jihad, The Muslim Brotherhood, Louis Farrakhan, The Nation of Islam, racist Wright and his brainwashed flock, The Black Panthers, Bloods, Crips, 90% of the prison popuation, domestic radicals, and loads of societies general street trash?
You flushed America down the toilet, but I guess you can say “hey, look how fair we are! In this election we chose sides with Americas enemies and the worst of our own domestic trash to show the world how fair and non racist we are! Aren’t we just the best ever!”
McCain wasn’t a strong conservative candidate and thus this election wasn’t so much about who to vote FOR, but rather who to absolutely NOT vote for. Unfortunately enough deluded liberals blew it for everyone.
Let’s hope the empty suit is not as racist and radical as his close lifelong friends are.
Jan 29, 2009 - 2:33 pm 50. Oscar the Grump:I hate to see words like affirmative action, and all things relating to the color of Obama. It would be great if we all could be color blind. These are all nonissues and I am ashamed of all Americans who consider these in judging the man.
His politics and his administrative decisions are fair game. Yes, they deserve to be looked at closely and criticized.
I was just at a swearing in of 6000 new American citizens. As I came out the door of the place, the Democratic party was busy registering new voters. What bothered me was that there was no Republican group doing the same. Why are they acting like a beaten dog with their tails between their legs.
Time will vindicate George Bush and time will show that all the new deal politics of the left won’t work. Most of the left’s programs don’t work, they backfire. The road to hell was paved with the best intentions.
In the mean time with all my heart, I want to wish our new President good health while I hold my breath waiting to see what he does.
Jan 29, 2009 - 6:10 pm 51. Pee Wee Herman, Community Organizer:Baritone smoker’s voice notwithstanding, 0bama is the most sexually ambiguous POTUS in history. So maybe Philosopher Queen may be a more apt description.
Jan 30, 2009 - 12:23 pm