When you lie about starting a voluntary and unprovoked war, put the costs of that war on the federal credit card for your nation’s grandchildren to pay for it, and you poll at under 28%… no further explanation is necessary.

This was preceded by NBC film clips of the anti-Obama demonstrators at the latest “Tea Party” march. The clip shows numerous protest signs, some in very bad taste (including the stupid “Hitler” reference) – but not one with a single racist reference. Not one! Even NBC couldn’t manufacture a shred of reality to support the charge. Of course, Carter himself offered no evidence at all.

Such appears to be the new racial standard: Opponents of Obama are racist until proven innocent. Opponents of Obama are deemed racist by definition.

It remains to be seen if serious Democrats condemn all this as it deserves. It could happen.

But the Party should be able to see the magnitude of the problem it now faces. Cheapening the charge of racism has been the life work of race hustlers like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. It has run increasingly close to the surface in many Democratic circles. But it has never been quite so blatant.

The effect of all this is predictable. Obama is losing support among independents and moderates, but not by any means irretrievably so. Obama and the Party need to win them back. Do they really think that accusing them of racism for reconsidering their vote will help matters? Can we honestly say that opposing a president must be racist if that president is black? Do they really think they can prevent opposition by playing the race card in such an egregious fashion?

Every president in my long lifetime has evoked intensely demonstrated animosity among many citizens. But the abiding principle of American civil discourse was that such feelings may have been mistaken but were held in good faith, that reasonable people could disagree about politics. That citizens engafed in public debate should be given the benefit of the doubt, at least as regards their motives?

Politicians might accuse their opponents of every despicable act. LBJ, Nixon, and George W. Bush were all called murderers in their time. They were each wantonly and stupidly compared to Hitler.

Some of the haters even declared that the supporters of these presidents were themselves evil. Certainly Nixon and Bush (and Reagan) voters were all subtly accused of being closet racists.

Jimmy Carter! I voted for this guy! I campaigned for him!

Surely the responsible voices of the party, and especially President Obama, must speak out at once and unequivocally to repudiate this horrid libel on the American people. When that happens, I will feel much better

But for now, my shame as a Democrat has never been greater.

“Answer: The causes are big government and communists pretending to be Democrats. It does not take a genius to figure that out.”

Sorry to hear that. You negate the facts and just cling to the wacko propaganda of right-wing exploiters.

As for Obama’s distaste for the masses, do any of you remember one debate between him and Hillary? While she was speaking—rather passonately, as it were–he regarded her with the most horribly contempuous expression I have ever seen! She wasn’t a peer; someone who was campaigning for a high level office, she was a bug–an insect suited only for pinning on the board. I know something else about Obama–he is a spousal abuser–other than the stupid fist-bump, have you ever seen him put his arm around Michelle, has he ever taken the hand of one of the children? Look at the way he salutes—oh, such misery that he has to recognize those who serve the country! Watch him! He is a lunatic!

He is America’s King George III — mad as a hatter!

That is, he himself is not an intellect, not someone who plans and intellectually analyzes policies. As you note, he leaves all of that to others. Therefore, I suggest that he is a Salesman for a hard core radical left BackRoom Gang – Soros, Pelosi, Reid and others.

THEY develop the policies. Obama is their poster boy they use to get these programs past Congress – a Congress which they trivialize, whose importance they reject and which they see only as a stumbling block which their Boy, Obama, is supposed to deal with by his ‘charm/crisis’ tactics.

As you note, Obama will never claim a policy as his own; he is a narcissist and will not take the blame for anything. It’s always someone else’s fault – as he constantly reminds us.

However, I’m thinking that we are seeing the Peter Principle at work here. Barack Obama has soared through and past his level of incompetence.

Obama was a pretty good community organizer. He also has some pretty shrewd political infighting skills. From that base, he leveraged himself into the Senate. And before he could build any kind of record in Congress he managed to leverage himself into the top elected office.

The problem is that he just has terrible leadership skills. He won’t take on programs as “his own,” but instead lets the House of Representatives dream up the pork-infested bills that he deems urgent. He says he has a plan for health care reform, but then again abdicates to Congress to create the details. He wants to get credit for everything done that seems positive, but insulates himself from the programs so that he, personally, cannot be blamed if things go wrong.

He is nothing but a community organizer in over his head. You see, what community organizers are really good at is gathering together a whole bunch of folks who are pushing a particular agenda. The community organizer then facilitates the group so that they can put their plan into a specific proposal that is pushed up to the community leaders for action. Because the community group is large and politically powerful, the proposal is likely to be implemented. The community organizer takes credit for making the change happen, even though all he did was to get his already powerful group to put together a specific program of action, and have the group leaders (note: NOT the organizer) take that plan forward.

Now that Obama is our President, he can no longer depend on the skills he used so well in Chicago. He can’t easily go out and cozy up to the left-wing, to help them craft the plan that becomes, eventually, law. His community is now the entire United States of America, and there are diverse opinions on what should be done about (say) health care reform. He’s use his minions to try and intimidate, he’s used crisis-talk to evade thoughtful debate, and he has tried to skirt constitutional checks and balances through the appointment of various czars. And all to little success.

Our President has yet to exhibit real leadership. He has broken promises of openness and bipartisanship. He keeps trying to blame others because they have pointed out the weaknesses in the programs he is promoting. And he has shown shown virtually no loyalty to those who helped promote him to the position he has achieved (yes, he has granted favors to some, but he is all to quick to throw former supporters “under the bus” when their presence becomes inconvenient). And finally, he has yet to push forth a plan that he is willing to call his own, with specific details of what he hopes to achieve, what has to be done to achieve those goals, and how much it will cost us to implement those plans. Our President’s words sound pretty nice when they’re coming at us off his teleprompter, but rhetoric doesn’t get things done.

And where is all of this taking us? As the world emerges from a severe global recession, it is beginning to look like the USA, instead of leading the world out of that crisis, will be the laggard. I don’t see it likely that we will become a third-world economy, but the likelihood of a decade of anemic economic growth coupled with persistent high unemployment is a real possibility.