Barack Obama, Segregationist
In Barack Obama’s case, it’s pretty extreme. In the Hampton University speech, Obama sounds like a character out of Ralph Ellison’s classic Invisible Man, pandering and preaching divisive nonsense about Hurricane Katrina, which he surely knew wasn’t true.
Or did he? Actually, he seemed to be making a “separate but equal” argument regarding the treatment of Katrina victims and those of other disasters, itself reminiscent of the days of segregation. But I don’t think he was really doing that either, at least not consciously. Again like one of Ellison’s characters, he was convincing himself of his general righteousness while revving up the crowd telling them lies they clearly wanted to hear.
That’s not a hard thing to do, when you think about it. Trouble is — the audience changes and a man could get schizoid. Nevertheless, Obama had at it that night with the singular determination of a demagogue. And he went “off book” to do it. The complaisant media of course chose not to report any of it and relied only on the printed text.
That was then and this is now. The Daily Caller has brought back the speech in its entirety, five years after the fact.
Listening to it, I had the sense that the world had come full circle within my lifetime. Right was left. Up was down. Segregation was now “progressive” and integration was, well, racist. More proof — if we needed it — that Orwell’s Animal Farm is one of the greatest books ever written.
congrats on your aha moment. Where ya been? This has been going on since the sixties. Guess you are shocked this could get all the way to the POTUS. What now? Half the country thinks things like this are no big deal.
still shrugging, you are decidedly correct.
Nevertheless, none of what the public is witnessing is happening in a vacuum.It’s seedlings were planted decades ago. However, its full bloom is only now reaching critical mass, right before the horrified eyes of many well meaning liberals.
While many in the general public are truly shocked, let us dare not think the same of the ‘enlightened’ set. Atop their hall of shamelessness lies a pyramid of national gravediggers, their list reading something like this:politicians, media, academia, filtering down to the dispensers/denizens of ‘justice’ – the legal arena. It is doubtful that any area of civic influence is left untainted.
To wit, while conservatives are – for the most part – fighting a gentleman’s fight, the other side is not only fighting to kill, but doing so in the most stealth manner. In other words, they are beating the crap out of conservatives, hands down.
Therefore, if Romney (and his surrogates) does not take the Radical-in-Chief to the woodshed, starting with this racist, inciting video; piggy backed by Libya; coupled with Fast & Furious – and this is for starters – then surely he does not deserve anyone’s vote.
More evidence against the race-baiting, segregationist, in his full frontal assault against ‘white America’, (paradoxically, many voted for him to shore up their anti-racist bonafides…what a hoot)can be gleaned through the following commentary -http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/08/12/the-wizards-of-oz-behind-barack-hussein-obama-pulling-his-strings-making-sure-he-stays-put-this-is-the-real-question-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
Chilling!
AMEN. VERY well said. They’ve brought a knife to a gun fight for years and refuse to learn. The current establishment GOP is an absolute embarrassment. They prefer keeping what power they have to losing an election.
I could have posted the index to multiculturalism blogs, but a lot of them are listed here: http://clarespark.com/2010/07/15/index-to-black-power-blogs/. It was obvious to many of us in 2008 that he was black power all the way. Same with Michelle’s Princeton thesis. And as others have noted, the civil rights movement was hijacked by black power, with the imprimatur of the white liberal establishment. Now it may be too late to turn back the clock.
ADina:
You are absolutely right.
I am fearful that Romeny is going to act like McCain and not attack Obama for his asociations, actions and responsibilities he doesn’t take.
Jan
@Still Shrugging. Right on! This has been going on IN OUR FACE, for decades! To some extent, I’m really not surprised someone like Obama got elected! The mountain top upon which Obama stands is a mountain of ignorance. There is simply no reason for an educated clear minded American to have even voted for him, but they did. He has no experience for the job, yet they voted for him! It is nice that some people have woke up, just before it may be too late.
Why do old hippies complain about “what we were trying to do” when they realize “what we actually accomplished was”?
From my perspective, the obvious and logical outcome of your behaviors and mentality are what we have today. When you’re finally forced to come to terms with the responsibility you hold, why do start explaining yourselves to us as if it makes your part in it okay?
This is your chance. Take responsibility. Own it. Admit your well-meaning ideas were crap. Don’t re-explain what you were trying to do. Explain why it was a bad idea in the first place.
I guess that when you live your life awash in Regressive Socialist ideals, it’s just not possible to really give it up, even when it hits you in the face that your life-philosophy is poison to society.
In every MSM account I’ve read of this, no reporter has mentioned the different accent he is using for his black audience.
I’ve read ABC and Politico’s account. they don’t mention it.
Obama does a very weak impersonation of black English as you hear it in their churches. It’s lame.
He’s almost as bad as a white guy trying to sound ‘black’.
I hope we see a lot more scoops like this.
Silly you.
It’s obvious that Obama picked up that black accent in his youth spent in Indonesia.
It’s the classic Nairobi slang, Terry. Hope you have a good New Year.
So, you don’t think he picked up that phoney accent from his white grand-parents in Hawaii? Gee, I thought all white people in Hawaii had black accents.
To tell you the truth, I never understood why people think he’s a member of the American black community. It’s just an identity he picked up for political advantage, he’s no more of a black American than I am.
Shana tova, Larry, a good year to you as well.
Shana Tova to both of you.
Hawaii is not a safe place for white people unless you are on/in a resort. There is much, much racial animosity and gratuitous violence directed at white people there.
No matter where you go, there you are.
re: “Hawaii is not a safe place for white people unless you are on/in a resort. There is much, much racial animosity and gratuitous violence directed at white people there.”
New York’s borroughs next?
My sisters and I, from Irish German stock, have fair hair and eyes, and so do all our children. All the kids grew up in the midwest or upper south where their racial appearance was one of several racial or ethnic appearances, part of the garden variety.
All are adults now, living and working around the country. Unexpectedly, New York city has been a place the cousins have warned each other about. Why? Two of my nephews, one on business, the other a Brooklyn resident, have been threatened or assaulted. Where? subway, park, sidewalk.
What was said? One verbal lashing began with, “Who the h-ll do you think you are with your blue eyes and your blonde hair?” Huh? Is this a Candid Camera joke? No joke, and it was broad daylight.
A different verbal assault was on the subway back to Brooklyn, but it was more alarming as it involved a mob of male “youth” and of course the other people on the train kept their eyes downcast.
The park assault was wordless, my nephew got knocked down by someone of a different race/ethnicity but that guy didn’t say why.
All good, though. No problem here. Just move along. I guess the wealth isn’t being spread around fast enough to suit some people.
Obama also refers to “our” three-hundred year history, suggesting that, somehow, he shared the history of southern slavery.
Obama reportedly was descended from slave traders on his father’s side. Oh, the irony! It was also reported that he is 43+% African Arab (apparently, they don’t consider themselves “negro”) and less than 7% black.
Will he pick up a Yiddish accent for a few hours before the election?
2. Max LeCompte
Obama does a very weak impersonation of black English as you hear it in their churches. It’s lame.
He’s almost as bad as a white guy trying to sound ‘black’.
That’s the point about Obama – CULTURALLY – he IS a white guy trying to sound black. Black people see his skin color and forget that he has absolutely nothing in common with any of the various African-American experiences. He’s a left wing, white radical, with a good tan.
They see it. When he was a state senator other black state legislatures would joke that nothing was funnier than Barry trying to talk like a bro. Bobby Rush beat him like a drum in their 2000 primary contest. It was only when the media began to back him in a big way that they stopped mocking him.
Obama is lot like McCain in that his real constituency is and has always been the national press corps. Obama knew he had to shore up his black support if he was to beat Hillary. He also knew that the press would not report anything he said to black audiences-and that for Hillary and Bill to make an issue of it would destroy them. The fact is the modern Democrat party would disappear in many states if it failed to get 70-80% of the black vote.
O’bwana has 50% of his DNA in common with other American blacks (they have picked up 20-30% white DNA over the years themselves). You love your siblings, parents, cousins, etc., because you have the same genes, not because they all just happen to be in perfect tune with your beliefs and values. The only examples of human subspecies co-existing in peace have been instances where one race completely dominated all others. Even then, violence would flare up from time to time. Give Eric Holder credit for teling the truth when he called American whites cowards about race. Current white thinking is based upon an idea (that there are no differences among human races) which is false, and well-known to be false. Black-dominated societies (sub-Saharan Africa, Detroit, the District of Columbia) are all quite similar. And why not, being run by the same kind of people? Cities in the US that switch from white to black control all travel the same old route that post-Colonial African states have. It’s as predictable as the apple falling down from the tree. Want to visit a place where people are judged purely on the basis of skin tone (not color, but shade) — visit Brazil. In the Civil Rights US, race is a topic that, if not more prominent, is, at best, no less important than at any other time in our history. The only difference is that, around 1960, “race riots” no longer referred to white-on-black attacks, but reversed, completely and instantly. Anyone familiar with social structure would have realized that this was a sure sign that white domination was faltering. In this power vacuum, other races were sure to begin jockeying for supremacy. In all human societies, the structure of society is, first, a dominance hierarchy. No ties; you’re on top, or you’re on the bottom. Hint, being on the bottom is bad (ask a white South African, who’s been both).
No ‘almost’. He is a guy who grew up culturally white pretending to be culturally ‘black’. At some level, I think everybody in his audience knows it, too.
Ironically when romney spoke to the NAACP, and did not adopt the phony accent, and did not pander, do race baiting, and offer handouts, he was booed and criticised as being a racist, for not tailoring his remarks to his audience. To dem leftists, speaking honestly and not pandering is now racist.
For me, the most outrageous part of his speech is where Obama talks about despair in black communities and plainly hangs that on millions of white Americans. That’s just hate speech.
Far more important than Obama’s phony accent or his sleazy race baiting are the convictions that underlie them. Obama has no respect for the intelligence of African Americans. Nor for their ability.
Obama does not really believe that black folk are unemployed because they lack transportation to get to work. Nor that the “good” jobs are in the suburbs where white people live. This is merely rabble rousing shuck for the ignorant Negroes in his audience.
African American elitists like community organizer Barack Obama and slumlord Valerie Jarrett don’t believe that African Americans are capable of succeeding in a competitive capitalist system. The prejudice of low expectations is their stock in trade. That black people can’t get ahead is their mantra. Socialism is their solution.
It’s not that they believe blacks can’t get ahead, it’s that they’ve taken steps to make sure they can’t get ahead. The prefer a captive “audience”. Ask yourself why black politicians would fight school vouchers. The usual explanation is their ties to the teachers unions. My belief is that it serves their purpose of trapping a captive group within the Ghettos. Black politicians are some of the longest serving, and senior politicians in DC; but there never seems to be any pork (read jobs) in their districts. If it comes down to their constituents receiving a welfare check or a paycheck, they prefer the welfare check.
If I had been in the audience, the part that really would have made my blood boil is where he talked about needing programs to teach people who to dress and show up to work on time. Those are fundamental skills that everyone just learns. How dense do you have to be not to be able to pick those up just from looking around you and learning from observation? Hello? Those things are seen and modeled on TV, on the streets, everywhere. But no, apparently Obama thinks that blacks are too dumb to do it without special classroom training or something. What an insult.
Liberals love poor people. That’s why they make more and more of them.
Obama caters to the politics of low expectations. It’s the same thing that he does when he talks about “women’s rights”. Obama’s like, “here you go little missy, daddy gub’ment gonna give you free birth control; now vote D like a good little girl.” You know what else empowers women? A JOB! Same is true for those young people looking to enter the workforce. When you increase minimum wages and the regulatory burden it lowers the number of available entry level jobs which impedes a young workers ability to learn essential skills. But no, to a big government liberal that’s just an excuse to create yet another government program to educate youngin’s on how to stay on the the gub’ment plantation.
We are all equal, but some are more equal than others, such as Barack Obama.
What a piece of work.
The worse part isn’t that Barack Obama fooled the American people. He couldn’t do it by himself. He never would have been president if it wasn’t for the mainstream media. Who has kept him in power after Fast and Furious has been proven to be a deadly political operation not just against America, but Mexico, Latin America and the hundreds of innocent dead because of the ATF and the DOJ. The responsibility of all of this falls squarely on the President who deliberately covered up the evidence by executive privilage even as the wider scope of the operation has been revealed to the world.
They knew. The executives, editors and anchors of MSNBC, CNN, NYTIMES, LATIMES, and CBS.
THEY KNEW! The msm covered it up, ignored the story and buried the truth.
Those reporters whispering as the coordinated their efforts against Mitt Romney are in on it. I would have all it a conspiracy yet they don’ try to hide the fact they are aiding the President to deceive the American people. There have neen numerous statements by executives of CBS, CNN and other news organizations that they supporting Barack Obama. All the evidence is there, but what can anyone do about it?
ACORN, Hollywood in general, and many major media outlets support the Obama Party, formerly the Democratic Party, with millions of dollars of in-kind contributions to help ‘their guy’. Their guy who is a murderer, incompetent, dangerous, and misrepresented himself over and over again. There is only one word to describe him, but it isn’t enough. A liar.
Barack Obama is a liar.
Anytime Barack Obama opens his mouth and speaks there is only one rebuttal Mitt Romney has to make which should always start off with this sentence.
You lie.
The truly disgusting thing is that this shuck and jive huckster was able to get a majority of the American ignoramuses to vote for his sorry ass for President. All of this stuff is just a rerun of what was openly available to anyone who gave a rat’s ass and looked into his past four years ago. Hussein’s black “nationalism”, his communism, his mendacity, his racism, and all the rest of his disgusting personae and pathologies were revealed way before the last election. But the “good people” of this country freely chose to elevate this SOB to the highest office in the land nonetheless. Given all this, it is doubtful that this country is even worthy of being saved from their own stupidity and venality. Its time to consider pushing the reset button on what was once known as the United States of America.
For those of us who came of age in the 60s, and thought everything would right itself if only everyone was given the freedom to live, eat or attend school wherever their dreams, ambition, and labor took them, it’s unsettling to watch what’s become of the civil rights movement . . . now encompassing free birth control pills for law school students and Obama phones. Kind of makes you wonder if, looking out over the urban wasteland of fatherless homes, teenage mothers of 3, and “thug” life, Martin Luther King might say, “THIS is what I died for . . . .?”
Recall that King dreamed of a world where HIS CHILDREN were judged not by the color of their skin but the content of their character. He was fine and dandy with everyone else being judged in racial terms and the produce of society being distributed, forcibly, on racial terms. King was always out for special rights and privileges for “his” people, everyone else be damned. He was a commie, a racial demagogue and an enemy of actual equality.
He picked up the “accent” working as a community organizer in Chicago. Ironically, after three years he realized you can’t help people who refuse to help themselves.
Jerry Kellman, who in 1985 “hired Obama to organize residents of Chicago’s South Side.
“[Obama] wanted to marry and have children, and to have a stable income,” Kellman recalls. Obama set his sights lower, but still missed the mark. He “got community members to demand a job center that would provide job referrals, but there were few jobs to distribute.” Then “he tried to create what he called a ‘second-level consumer economy’ . . . consisting of shops, restaurants, and theaters. This, too, went nowhere.”Altgeld Gardens,” a government-owned and -operated apartment complex:
At Altgeld he got the toilets fixed, the heaters working, the windows repaired only to have them broken and vandalized again! When the Harvard scholarship came through, he got out of Chicago as fast as he could.
What I find odd is that anyone is surprised by this “new” video — and what the O said — and why he said it.
For me, just about everything he’s said or done since his election was clear in his words and behavior since his days in the Senate — including being a segregationist.
Who this man is and what he would do as president — including bringing out the worst in people — and often in the very people he was claiming to want to “help.” Domestically and Internationally — all of it …. It’s as if it were Written on the Wall way before he was elected — so clear it was.
This is the man who, at the very same time that he was demeaning GWB for the “deficit” — introduced into the Senate the “Global Poverty Act” which would commit the U.S. — (not voluntary — but legally commit) to almost $1 Trillion to the perverted U.N. (when that figure was still astonishingly shocking … the good old days.)
This is the man who went to ask Maliki in Iraq — to delay making the deal with GWB for withdrawal of troops — until his (he believed) election — so that he could wind up getting the credit for it! (And he still DOES take credit for it — never mentioning that it was GWB’s deal. Despicable!
This is the man who told Medvedev that he could be more “flexible” after he no longer had to be held accountable to the electorate. Shocking that would have come out! (Even I didn’t think he would have been that bluntly and overtly — and creepily — degenerate — verging(?) on criminal.) More Shocking that it passed without even the Liberals turning against him. (More Enemedia treachery.)
Just for one … James Cone Black Liberation Theology — Jeremiah Wright — what can be thought of the O’s 20 years in that church except that he admires and is “inspired” by it’s (political) views? There’s nothing else to think of that. And that ideology is not merely segregationist — but worse.
More recently we learned of O’s admiration of Derrick Bell and his Critical Race Theory — what is that if not — at it’s most benign — segregationist.
What was in those University papers he wrote that would be so disagreeable to the general public that he claimed they were “all destroyed?”
(Disappeared as in the Khalidi videotape, ALL his records from his law firm days — including his list of clients, and ALL his records from his days as in the Senate of Illinois.) How could the Media Do This To Us??? How could they??? We got less information about this man and his “beliefs” than any other presidential candidate — ever. And yet, the gullible public voted for him — now they have no excuse.
Yet still, who knows what is truly in his heart (if anything) … because more than any other major politician I’ve ever observed — his great love is his own ambition — as anyone who’s paid attention to what he’s said and done can see — he is an equal opportunity liar (sorry to use such a word for the Office of President) … and will say anything, depending on which group he’s talking to — be they “Right,” “Left,” or “Middle.”
Preaching segregation — playing on people’s weak points and fears — Is he a segregationist in the sense that he believes it’s a “good?” For anyone? What it is is the simple “divide and conquer.”
After all, we heard him tell his (was it ACORN or SEIU) followers to “get in their faces!” We heard him tell a group of hispanic voters to defeat “our enemies.” What else is that but a form of “segregation?” Using factions against each other. Then promoting himself (and/or the media promoting him) as the “Healer of Divisiveness.”
Encouraging factionalism and then using that to gain power. Simple really. All you need is an absence of a real heart and mind.
When I saw photos of the gruesome living conditions in the housing project in the Chicago area (the very people the O promised to protect and “help”) — for which O, as Illinois State Senator, had “awarded” millions to Tony Rezko to clean up, repair and refurbish — which he did not … the same Rezko that “helped” O buy the land for his home — (Now Rezko is in prison for 10 years — also hardly covered by our Enemedia) — (it was O’s responsibility to protect those people) …. when I saw those photos and read the stories … anyone — Right, Left or Otherwise, would have been appalled as I was. That’s our O! A man “for” “no one” — who cares for no one … but himself.
It’s impossible not to see his personal coldness. He’s no “nice guy.” I can’t understand why so few see that. Just look at him! Listen to his insincerity at all times! It’s so clear. Always has been.
Yes, he’s an ideologue — of the Far Left. But what’s beneath it — is self-aggrandisement — not true (even if mistaken) belief in a cause.
It’s chilling — frightening — to think of what he’ll do if he wins a second term — which he very well may. Think of the worst that can be imagined — and it’ll probably be worse than that.
In a second term, he’ll have more “flexibility.”
No one here is surprised by it.
Excellent post. Thought of that “personal coldness” last night when watching his detached “You’re nice enough” comment to Hillary during one of their debates. He’s a ruthless, pragmatic megalomaniac, but as you say, people are blind to it.
“…ruthless etc. . .”, yes.
More to the point, however, he is a carefully prepared pigeon of the a cat’s cradle of NewWorldOrderists and Saudi money.
And it’s all going according to plan.
Go Galt.
I too agree with your well-said comments about the “nice guy” meme. I don’t think he’s a “nice guy” at all. He seems to me to be an egomaniacal narcissistic megalomaniac. The facility with which he lies is astounding, especially in the age of I-phones and YouTube. He’s caught in lies all the time, but never called to account for them from his supporters. “I’ll cut the budget deficit in half in my first term” – yeah, right. “If I don’t turn this economy around in three years, it’s a one term proposition” – sure thing. He’s the walking personification of Machiavellianism.
Maybe the “integrationists” of the ’60s should have left well enough alone. The ones who wanted to badly enough would have made it on their own. As for the rest, “Some men you just can’t reach…”.
Barack Obama is Maxine Waters, Shelia Jackson Lee, Reverend Wright, Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson with better clothes and a forged biography. What you rightly disliked about him was his public persona that you viscerally knew to be phony. He’s a con man, a huckster, and a race hustler all wrapped up by the media and his handlers to be the “Black Ken Doll”. You wanted to believe his “racial healing” speeches but you knew, deep in your gut, that he was lying his “Al Gore” off. You wanted to believe that he was “a new kind of Democrat” but he’s just a Democrat Robot with the standard faulty programming. Apply blackface to a white leftist loon and you have Barack Obama. There is absolutely nothing new about him. He’s all sizzle and no Spam.
And, BTW, he’s always making “separate but never equal” speeches. He’s a Marxist, he separates people into groups and then pits the groups against each other. If one group is ascending then they become the new target. If equality were achieved then he’d have nothing to say.
Watching the tape, I was continuously reminded of Clint Eastwood’s observation:
“Barack Obama is the biggest hoax ever perpetrated onto the American people.”
On the question that kept coming up from the various commentators…”Which one is the real Barack Obama?”… the 2007 preachifying guy or the stiff speechifying president, pretending to throw J Wright under the bus after he’d made some rather vulgar observations about Hillary?
And I thought both. And neither.
Because, if there is any there there, it only consists of expediency. And narcissism. And a determination to inflict the rigid Marxist views he got from virtually every influence of his early conditioning.
#8 Agua
You pretty much covered it. Much of this was available before 2008 if you tried to find the facts. I knew after researching just on the web, but now things seemed to be absent from the web when trying to research his past. When he got rid of his opponent in the Illinois senate race I found what he had done to Jack Ryan. Got his sealed divorce records opened so the world could see his personal mistakes that should have been kept private. Ironic in the fact that Obama and his backers have managed to keep all his personal skeletons in the closet and out of the general public’s view, not that the media would let them see any of those damaging facts.
Maybe, you forgot to mention he IS a BAD MAN and not just one doing bad things. I know some people refuse to admit that but anyone that has done what Obama has to get what he wants done in our country is not good.
I lived in Chicago than. Jack Ryan was no saint….
Yes, JC, I agree. He IS a BAD man. He’s the worst kind of USER and doesn’t give a fig who or how many he hurts and harms.
Truth, much more (less?) than the “usual” politician — has absolutely no meaning whatsoever for him. None. Conscience — feeling — it’s just not there.
As for the “good” he vaguely believes he’s attempting to do — he confuses that with what’s good for himself. I’m sure he tells himself it’s the good “end” which justifies his “means.” But then again, the “end” is himself and the power he can amass.
As “tanstaafl” at #11 pointed out with the Clint Eastwood quote
“Barack Obama is the biggest hoax ever perpetrated onto the American people.”
The Far Leftists, they know. It’s a plus for them.
But the ordinary Liberals — they have no idea what they are going to and have reaped upon themselves and all of us.
“’We don’t need to build more highways out in the suburbs. We should be investing in minority-owned business, in our neighborhoods’”? The real problem with this Obama statement is that he does not actually mean “we”. By “we” he means “them” (i.e., whitey). However, he did mean it when he said “our neighborhoods”.
I went back and read the book Defying Dixie about the relationship between CPUSA and the civil rights push between the wars. It is clear that civil rights meant equal outcomes. They wanted equal housing, education, and economic outcomes. Not just desegregation and doors open equally for all.
Jump up to what I read on equal opportunity in schooling and the Racial Equity Movement going on right now. There is a widespread belief that we will not have put slavery behind us as long as capitalism exists and until we have full economic and racial integration. Which of course requires a state directed economy. The kind you get shifting to a post-fossil fuel Green Growth emphasis. I know that was Van Jones attraction to the Environmental Justice Movement. The idea of the government deciding who got the jobs, at what pay, and where they would be located.
We are apparently not done talking about race in this country. In fact it is being used as the quiet foundation to destroy both our education and economic systems right now. There will be no diversity of skills and knowledge by 2020 in ths vision. And much of what is planned for the classroom to get students ready is literally behavior modification. One paper I just finished screwed up in the last paragraph and said in order for “social control policies” to work long-term.
He did mean fundamentally transform America. It was grounded in a belief we will remain racist until all have what the Ford Foundation pushes as the Line of Plenty. And that’s all. For everyone but the politically connected.
I watched most of that 2007 video and thought…this is the guy I’ve known him to be from the getgo, aiming the speech (not to mention the cadence and the accent) to the audience.
A guy whose class and race warfare, whose angry divisiveness, is always lurking just below the surface. It eked through shortly after assuming the presidency in his immediate reaction to the Henry Louis Gates’ affair in Cambridge MA. Or how he wanted to react to the Trayvon Martin fiasco, but held back because he’d made such a mess on Gates, plus George Zimmerman didn’t (doesn’t) fall into the preferred target group in the same way that those racist (sic) Cambridge policemen do.
In the Hampton College speech, he was in black preacher mode, some of it even reminiscent of Trinity Church honoree Louis Farrakhan.
Again and again, over and over, even conservative pundants try to “understand” Obama and seek some rational explaination for his behavior. Essentially they end up making excuses for him. It’s not that complicated. He’s a psychopath, pure and simple, and is therefore capable of anything his warped judgement tells him is to his personal benefit. Get hold of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist and run Obama through it. He passes with traits to spare.
So much for the over-hyped Fox News/Drudge “bombshell” video. It was already broadcast years ago, and there is no “gotcha” moment to be found, that is unless you think Obama speaking with a dialect is a “game changer.” Plus, terrible timing, as it will just be be buried under debate coverage. If this is the best “October Surprise” the right wing media can come up with, I think it’s time to face facts: Four More Years.
There is an issue here, but demonizing Obama isn’t the way to do it.
The modern Left (not just Obama) hates the concept of suburbs. They regard suburbs as “sprawl”–wasteful of space and resources, requiring automobiles whose emissions contribute to pollution and global warming.
You didn’t need this video for that. You can find plenty of similar left-wing social planning on left-wing and environmentalist websites. What they have in mind for us is more like walkable small towns, in which car use is kept to a minimum.
Let’s remember that all the House seats and one-third of the Senate seats are also up for grabs this year. Many of the Dem candidates are at least as far to the Left as Obama is–and they hate the automobile-based lifestyle too.
I think the Left hates suburbs and cars because they represent freedom – the freedom to live where and how you please. They’d much rather have everyone (except themselves) live in crowded Soviet-style apartment buildings where we’d be easier to control. They keep coming up with utopian “progressive” visions of their perfect world disregarding all evidence of failure every time it’s tried.
But then the bail GM out, and try to reinflate the real estate market to get the developers working again.
Go figure.
Hostility to the suburbs, so-called is no current mode. Sub out bourgeoisie for that term and the rest writes itself. As always, the universal solvent is Marxism or its putrid progeny, Alinskyism. Ever hear anything like THAT during the alleged “Civil Rights Movement”? I bet you did!
Mr. Simon,
You are naive. As I white having grown-up in a black dominated city (DC) and just a couple of blocks form the ghetto, I never once heard of any black leader reaching out to whites for both groups to work together. It has always been Us versus Them. Large swaths of blacks believe in this. Although there are a few blacks who share your beliefs, I have almost always found it among sheltered, well-educated whites who naively feel everyone shares the same Dream. Not so.
Of course there are a lot of black churches that work hard to keep the divisiveness alive.
JWright/Trinity, Barack’s conditioning for 20 years, was/is heavily into James Cone and Black Liberation Theology, based in permanent, genuinely hateful, racial divisiveness.
But that has nothing to do with the fact that Obama’s whole 2008 election shtick was about transcending, obviating & erasing so called divisions.
Which was a lie. Even a damn lie. His sympathies lie far closer to Harvard prof. Derek Bell and even the angry Michelle (Robinson) Obama, who herself seems to still wear the Black v. White thing on her sleeve, barely concealed.
Obama preferred persona rests on divisiveness, not too different (as noted above) except in smoothness and dulcet tones from run of the mill race hustlers like Sharpton and Jackson.
If equality were achieved then he’d have nothing to say.
In fact, if you pull yourself up by your own bootstraps (cliché alert) you’re seen as something of a traitor to the Leftist ideology. You’ve gone off the reservation under your own intelligence and steam. Can’t have that.
Al Gore’s name came up last night, one of his self-promoting claims to fame is/was telling black audiences “they” (aka whitey) want to deprive you of the vote.
Joe Biden’s “they want to put you back in chains” remark of a few weeks ago fits into the same category.
Teddy Kennedy made a lifelong mission out of making allusions to what “they” wanted to do to poor and/or not-Caucasian people. (I have a few things I’d have liked to have done to Ted Kennedy, like incarcerate him.)
This is a small sampling of the only way modern Leftists have to try to keep themselves viable.
That’s what Barack was doing to the Hampton University audience in 2007, with all those (apparently lying) allusions about treatment of the NOLA population post Katrina.
He continuously lied about his own mother’s insurance situation (she was insured) over and over as a technique to jam through “healthcare”.
Most recently, he lied for two weeks on Benghazi.
He lies and lies and rarely if ever gets challenged on any of it by America’s pathetic and subservient so called MSM.
This is my favorite part”
“America will survive. Just like black folks will survive. We won’t forget where we came from. We won’t forget what happened 19 months ago, or 15 years ago, or 300 YEARS AGO.”
What’s this “we” stuff? Where exactly WERE Obama’s ancestors 300 years ago?
Total pandering, especially since we now know that Obama’s ancestors owned slaves.
I believe that Mr. Faubus’s first name was spelled “Orval”, not “Orville”.
You are right, it was spelled Orval. If Mr. Simon had paid more attention to Gov. Faubus’s arguments on behalf of states’ rights under the Constitution, he might not have enlisted as a young man in the Marxist brigades determined to destroy our freedoms. Anyway, better late than never.
Absolutely disgusting.
So what Simon finds deplorable about Obama is that the president is not sufficiently dedicated to covering what’s left of the American landscape with more highways and parking lots — all in order to force together those blacks and whites who have chosen to live among their own kind. Have I got it right? Is that what passes for conservatism these days?
Screw you. Mars is next.
“Suburbs are now home to a more diverse populations in terms of age, ethnicity, household size, and poverty status. By 2008 the number of poor living in suburbs exceeded the number of poor in primary cities by 1.5 million.”
“The share of Americans living in suburbs has climbed to 51 percent, an all-time high.” –2010 census
Only to a racist like Obama do suburbs = Rich Whitey.
It’s not the fact that blacks live in the suburbs – even if they’re renting a house – that bothers Black politicians; it’s the attitudes it engenders. Way too much independence. Everyone who lives in the suburbs has had the experience of calling up the town to complain about one thing or another. We expect it to get taken care of immediately – or we remember that at the next election. We expect the politicians, and bureaucracy, to serve us, not the other way around. Black politicians prefer a more servile constituency. Indeed, to use an historical analogy, think of black Democratic politicians as “House” slaves. Still chained, but interested in maintaining their privileges and position, at the expense of all those “field hands” out there.
Barack Obama was David Axelrod’s warped version of Jackie Robinson, in terms of the demeanor and the ability to control that demeanor in public settings during the course of a presidential campaign.
When Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey decided Robinson would be the man to integrate Major League Baseball after World War II, it wasn’t just because of his talent and his competitiveness — Robinson was picked because of his ability not to retaliate against racial slights and outright discrimination during the Dodgers’ 1946 season. He had to be able to hide his anger in order to make the experiment a success.
Where Axlerod took Rickey’s strategy and warped it was that not only did he have Barack Obama hide his anger, he picked a candidate who was able to hide his beliefs from the public. Thanks to all his ‘present’ votes, Obama was a candidate who could be offered up as a blank canvas — it would be up to the Democrats and their backers in the big media to build up The Legend of Barack Obama as some sort of demigod who would heal all racial ills and get enough of the public to believe it in the run-up to the 2008 election.
Axelrod and the others handling Obama knew any African-American candidate with a personality like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton or Maxine Walters would be seen not just be Republican voters, but by a majority of 2008 Democratic primary voters as unfit for the presidency. Hillary would have won the primaries in a laugher. The media’s job was to create the aura that someone who was basically a lifetime .190 hitter in the political world like Barack Obama was actually a Hall of Fame political All-Time All-Star, and part of that was selectively editing out uncomfortable things that didn’t fit the narrative.
Obama said what he did in New Orleans because he felt he was among friends and could let down his guard and show them he was on their side. The big media helped that along by eliminating the parts of his speech that would have sent out alarm bells to even Democratic primary voters and would have made Hillary’s nomination in 2008 a certainty.
The thing I find so interesting about the 2008 Democratic primary, which was how often Hilarity won popular polling – which is about appealing to the people; versus how often Obama won caucuses – which is about appealing to the usual group of hard corps Libs. That alone should have told us something was going on.
Yes. Iraq.
The left-wing of the Dem Party went with Obama because they could never forgive Hillary for voting for the Iraq War. Early on, Obama had called the Iraq War a “dumb war,” which endeared him to them.
Remember that the “netroots” of Daily KOS started out as an *antiwar movement* dedicated to opposing Bush’s Iraq War policies.
But the key to Obama was having a candidate who never had vocally gotten in with the Kos crowd. Obama’s beta-male personality and general disinterest in taking charge of the hard work part of politics paid dividends for him and Axelrod, because it allowed them to offer up a candidate who could bamboozle the swing voters in the general election by not having a record, but Obama also had people vouching for him like Bill Ayers that let the left know for sure he was one of them.
If Obama had a more fiery personality, Democratic primary voters would have said “Agghh! It’s thin Al Sharpton!” and the majority would have gone running to Hillary. If he didn’t have Chicago’s hard left crowd vouching for him, the libs irked at Hillary for voting for the Iraq war would have gone to John Edwards, who was basing his 2008 campaign on an overt anti-war and class warfare platform.
If you cared enough to find out, you knew who Barack Obama was and what he would do as president well before the 2008 election. But it was the big media’s job to bury things like his New Orleans comments so the swing voters wouldn’t find out they weren’t going to be voting for a man who would heal the racial divide and stop the oceans from rising. Those same big media folks who are not tweeting their attacks at the Daily Caller for releasing the full video now as some sort of ‘smear job’ will simply pretend they don’t even know about the video in the days between now and the election.
Obama said what he did in New Orleans because he felt he was among friends and could let down his guard and show them he was on their side.
When Obama feels he is among friends, he is more candid. Obama made the “bitter clingers” remark,which showed Obama’s contempt for rural America, at a fundraiser with wealthy San Franciscans.
Unfortunately, candid Obama does not play very well outside the liberal enclaves where Obama has spent his life in the US.
Which is why the Obama campaign has made very thorough steps to insure that Obama’s fundraising remarks are not recorded.
If you think this is crazy, can you imagine the stuff Michelle has said that we haven’t seen? I bring her name up because her whole Princeton thesis was essentially his whole statement in that video. Racism will always be ok as long as it’s done by people like him.
I wish we could get that speech the Los Angeles Times has locked away. The Speech Obama gave to a Muslim audience. It must be dynamite seeing the MSM has held onto it for so long.
TRAITOr, traitor to the free world and the American way.
As tanstaafl reminds us (@11-ChrisS), Clint Eastwood was right:
“Barack Obama is the biggest hoax ever perpetrated onto the American people.”
Sounds like a Fairey Photoshop opportunity to me. Because you can’t spell HOAX without an O.
Hey, you can’t spell R-O-M-N-E-Y without M-O-N-E-Y.
Don’t get concerned about the accent, he most likely spent 24 hours engaged with all those he spoke to from the podium. Stay focused on his content. The lies about Katrina. How Katrina was bungled by local authorities who are always first responders in any disaster. Remember the flooded school buses? Then focus on how he views this society, rich-poor, black-white, educated-non educated, self sufficient-self reliant. Please share the video.
Only the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago is diverse for the correct reasons. Hyde Parkers are quick to tell you so. They are also highly ignorant about who actually lives in the suburbs.
When I still lived in Chicago I got curious. I worked in a professional office with 275-300 employees. I did my own census. Slightly less than 10 percent of the workforce was foreign born, mostly Asian with some Hispanics. In earlier generations most immigrants would have settled in an ethnic neighborhood inside the city. As I went through the directory of employee home addresses I discovered only two of our immigrant employees lived inside the city limits of Chicago and one of those lived in the mixed race and highly affluent Gold Coast. The rest all lived in the suburbs, including the lower paid clerks and para professionals.
If white people invest too much in minority-owned businesses, they won’t be minority-owned anymore.
That all depends on what happens after the government takeover.
Go, Roger, Go!!! ( Is it just me, or is it perhaps the case that you seem to have gotten more mileage out of that recent fast of yours than anyone I’ve ever met? And I’ve known some world-class practitioners. I’m thinking especially right now of the 96 year old step-mom we just buried, who did it all the time, and the marbles only started seriously dropping a few weeks ago. As the nuns were so fond of saying, “God is never outdone in generosity.”)
This series is dynamite. You are a good and courageous man. Don’t stop ‘til you get enough!
Orville Faubus and Barack Obama are similar in another way: their choice of political party. Almost every famous racist/bigot (and EVERY famous one that had the full support of their party*) was a Democrat.
*David Duke called himself Republican, but enjoyed ZERO support from the party, and was roundly and routinely denounced by most Republicans.
He may be a segregationist, but it’s not clear cut that he believes in it or anything else for that matter.
It sees just as likely that he doesn’t have any core beliefs, other than believing he is some sort of god-man who deserves to rule the world. All of his more obvious political “beliefs”, class warfare, racism, fascism, marxism, can also be explained as simply tools to achieve his lust for power.
He’s just like all of the other megalomaniacs throughout history. For all of them, “politics” was a distant second to power lust. Does anybody think that Stalin or Mao were really marxist idealogues who were driven to improve their people’s lives through the wonders of communism? Maybe some communist theorists were, but not those two. Interestingly, Hitler may be the exception since he seemed to be a true believer in Aryan supremacy, the German reich, and in his hatred of Jews. It may explain why he was able to rise to power so rapidly even though he had no political experience and had none of the perquisites of national leadership; it was obvious that, despite being an itinerant nobody, he was passionate about his beliefs, which may have been the secret sauce that hypnotized the German people.
Does anybody think that Stalin or Mao were really marxist idealogues who were driven to improve their people’s lives through the wonders of communism?
I do. A lot of things they did made no sense whatever except under Marxist theory.
Obama? I don’t think he has any really strong core convictions. A lot of his former colleagues on the Far Left see him as a dilettante and a sell-out – someone whose eyes were always on the main chance for him, not the Cause. His obvious enthusiasm for crony capitalism disgusts them.
But he has a lot of assumptions and attitudes, which are all leftist and “trans-national progressive” and “anti-colonial”. One must not forget his associates – Michelle, who is devoted to theories about racism (see her university thesis; Rev. Wright, whom he listened to for decades; Bill Ayers; his mentor Frank Marshall; Rashid Khalidi.
When he isn’t cutting deals for his billionaire cronies, he’s quite happy to screw over the rest of the business world, cater to Third World foreigners, or collaborate with race hustlers.
Many of us foresaw all of this when Obama firt became a national figure. We saw who his friends were/are (Rev. Wright, Farrakhan, Billy Ayers, Rashid Khalidi…). Wed knew all about his bigoted church.
We saw his anti-Israel bent and his toleration of anti-Semites. It was all in the open but McCain wouldn’t attack them. Jews who wouldn’t vote for anyone whose friends were in the KKK had no trouble voting for Obama with his Jew-Hating friends like Louis Farrakhan.
As for his acts and accents: that too was noted. My Sister, Nidra, even wrote an article about it but people preferred to close their eyes.
We are reaping the results of this infatuation with Obama, the man who conned Jews into thinking he was for Jews, Blacks that he was for them, Muslims into thinking he was one of them. He even conned taxpayers into thinking he was for the tax payers.
Unfortunately, people are blinded by their ideology.
There’s a far worse word for it, Roger. It’s called “nationalism”. Segregation is forced upon people to keep them separate, but nationalism is when those groups want to be separate. “Our people” (volk/raza) are unique and “our culture” needs to be protected. This is no different than any nationalist group (whether they be German, Russian, Greek, French, Scottish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Hutu, Tutsi, etc.).
Frankly, the bilingualist/nationalists are the most frightening. They don’t seem to realize that inter-racial/ethnic marriages are going to end if the two groups speak completely different languages. (I’m talking about the liberals here. For some people, that’s a bonus/feature, not a bug. And it wouldn’t be the first time Socialists/Communists made a deal with Nationalists.)
Roger may desperately be needed for an intervention with Ann Althouse. She posted a cri du cœur over at Instapundit that it was ugly to write about this video along with last week’s Obamaphone Lady as it might turn her and others like away from voting for Romney. I think the 61 year old Althouse just might personify the type Roger often writes so eloquently about- the squares who were obsessed with their grades and career prospects and thus sat out all the demonstrations and turmoil in the 60s and 70s. Now they desperately want to seem cool so they turn to the attitudes of the left, especially that pernicious form of racism that goes out of its way to ignore or explain away bad behavior by members of minorities.
Which illustrates Karl Rove’s point – that people who voted for O in 2008 don’t mind evidence that Romney is a better choice this time, but react viscerally and violently to evidence that is was a dumb choice last time. At some level, they know that it was a spectacularly bad choice then, and hate being reminded of it.
Yassar Arafat! Exactly! Talk one way to the honkies and another way to ‘”our people.”
Excellent article, Roger.
Mr. Simon,
You and Mr. Adams have a very interesting view on the President’s speech today. I say interesting, because like I’ve told Mr. Adams, I wonder if it is the same view you had in 2007. I got a good laugh from Tucker Carlson last night when he made very similar comments that you two are making in this article. I was laughing not at the comments per se but from the revelation that he (Carlson) did a story on his show in 2007 about the President’s comments but for some reason did not make any of the comments he made yesterday.
If I were to read any of yours or Mr. Adams’s articles from 2007, would I find any of the same dishonestly and inconsistency that others on the far-right have espoused in 2012?
Dear Real American,
I certainly cannot speak for Mr. Simon and Mr. Ademas, but I did see Tucker Carlson last night and he made perfectly clear that his 2007 response was not based on the full forty minute video, but only the cut nine minute version. He also said he based his comments on the pre-printed version of the speech, which Obama did not follow.
Where were you? Carlson made this quite explicit. You comments seem silly and, frankly dumb.
re: a.n.pierson
As I’ve asked earlier, do you know for a fact that Carlson did not see the whole video? The full version doesn’t change the context of what the President said. However, let’s say for the sake of argument that Carlson was only commenting on the small snip bit that he showed his audience; don’t you think that was irresponsible o him? Would it not have been prudent to view the whole tape? Is it not more likely that that Carlson is just changing his opinion to toe the far-right line?
These are very fair questions, unless you think Carlson is incompetent or you and others are just trying to make excuses for these inconsistent opinions.
Grifters gonna grift.
and demagogues must gog.
I like that Roger noted the PLO. Irregardless of the original source of their grievance the self serving hatemongers of the world always strive to keep their followers ignorant and impoverished so they will be that much easier to inflame.
If America only knew….
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I view this video of Obama much like I view Sacha Baron Cohen playing the character Ali G. Obama is clearly attempting to sound Black for the audience even though he has zero cultural or genetic connection to West Africa or slavery in America. He grew up mostly in Honolulu. Obama has the face and build of an East African marathon winner, not the West African appearance of an NFL running back. I believe his public accent is mostly real while the accent and speech patterns used in this video is an act. Contrast this with the speech patterns of Condoleezza Rice who is authentically Black from Birmingham Alabama, but makes no special effort to act or sound Black.
I’m not sure what Obama really believes, but I’m reasonably certain it involves leftists taking money from people like me earning an income and spending on their supporters. What’s not clear to me is if Obama is most concerned with the personal power that comes with income redistribution or the redistribution itself. In robbing Peter to pay Paul, is he more concerned with bringing Peter down or gaining Paul’s enthusiastic support?
Your admission of surprise at what 99% of your readership has known and internalized since the 2008 primaries completely stupifies and bumfuzzles this reader. Obama’s segregationist bent is not a crypto-fascist revelation, it is self evident by the democrat party platform. Who are you? Frozen caveman journalist?
“More proof — if we needed it — that Orwell’s Animal Farm is one of the greatest books ever written.”
Indeed. I haven’t read a politically based book since I finished that book three years ago.
Barack Obama is a segregationist.
How else do you explain a statement like “We don’t need to build more highways out in the suburbs. We should be investing in minority-owned business, in our neighborhoods”?
(From the article)
Well gosh Roger, did you ever think that by “our” he might have meant AMERICANS?
You really take reaching to new levels, it’s amazing the stuff you come up with
A white man who grew up in a black neighborhood has a greater connection and understanding of the black community than Obama. He admitted he had to “learn” to be black by watching tv. Afterall, he grew up “white” and it’s baffling why the black community thinks he can possibly understand them.