Obama, What Have You Done?
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What has Barack Obama done? He knows that, based on race, color or creed, not to mention a host of other demographic details, the race card is always available for counter-attack on anyone who expresses objections on an issue or proposes solutions that annoy the left. That’s right. If you have no substantive argument and therefore can only offer race card rebuttals, you are free to say whatever you want. Even if what you say is as racist as those you accuse of being that way.
On a radio program this morning, a talk show host and his guest were discussing this story. The question came up on why Obama is using this particular stand and why now? The guest answered that the left’s 43 year exploitation of civil rights issues as a manufactured wedge against the right is their standard approach. Use this emotional theme to gain support from those who feel ‘disenfranchised’. The left fringe including Hollywood celebrities and other guilt-laden rich employ public relations strategies of appearing concerned about the less fortunate to improve their status. Other less wealthy left-leaning ideologues find these false causes appealing to enhance their standing among certain groups.
The theory here would be that Obama realizes that his fears of losing a Presidential run were based on his lack of experience, any relevant history and only a weak campaign strategy of relying on his public speaking skills. He continues to worry about setting himself apart from other candidates without a convincing strategy or anything more than he has already presented. Obama knows he needs something more and he just doesn’t have it. This is real simple politics. So what do you do? Raise a fabricated issue and try to make it hot button. It must also be something only you can use. What better choice than the race card. Speak of Katrina, Rodney King and race riots.
The masks are coming off the Democratic candidates. Edwards is all about betting on trashing the troops as a winning strategy. Hillary Rodham Clinton is all about socialism and the impossible task of reinventing your deplorable personal history. And now Obama stoops low enough to use the race card as his central theme. The GOP may have their own demons to exorcise. But at least that possibility still exists. As a matter of fact, most voters can get a real sense of practical solutions and good old-fashioned American leadership in candidates like Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson. The lack of realistic criticism for these candidates causes opponents to reach for imaginary problems as their weapons. Those attacks are easily dispatched.
Stanford Matthews
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Obama fears frustrations will lead blacks to violence
Associated Press
Posted Wednesday, June 06, 2007
HAMPTON, Va. — Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Tuesday the Bush administration has done nothing to defuse a “quiet riot” among blacks that threatens to erupt just as riots in Los Angeles did 15 years ago.
The first-term Illinois senator said that with black people from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast still displaced 20 months after Hurricane Katrina, frustration and resentments are building explosively as they did before the 1992 riots.
As we get closer to the bio release date of June 16, more pieces of the Bernstein book are teasingly offered. The snippet below is representative of the article at Reuters. Hillary Rodham Clinton is a mess. Her life’s a mess. Her history is a mess. Her dubious deeds still haunt her. And can you imagine being stuck in this time warp with Bill? Life probably couldn’t get much worse. And on top of that, anything that may have once made her Presidential material has long since faded.
The best part is damage control. All the Clinton crew could offer was a remark about the story being old news. That does not make it any less valid. In fact, since she is ‘currently’ a Presidential candidate the story is even more relevant than it was before. People need to be reminded of what has been so as not to relive history’s mistakes. And this blog is more than willing to help remind everyone. And the new stuff is even worse. Like socialist leaning ideology and risk taking that is not sensible for a President.
well the new Democratic majority has done with their 100 hour agenda. The only item that may make it into law any time soon is the pork barrel addition of the minimum wage raise in the Iraq war funding legislation.
Obamarama may be mathematically challenged. Rather than a top priority he named two. Probably in answer to Edwards criticism of his health care offering and not to be outdone by Comrade Clinton, Obama picked surrendering in Iraq like Clinton and added health care to stick his tongue out at Edwards.
Edwards is almost as ‘out there’ as Kucinich. Edwards wants to ‘travel the world’ and ‘re-establish America’s moral authority.’ Who told Edwards we ever had moral authority. So is this one priority or two? Does he feel the need to travel and do the morality thing at the same time? Or is he liking the thought of Air Force One and some vacation time? It was bound to happen what with Air Pelosi and the rest all getting their own planes.
Surprisingly enough, Chris Dodd is the only one whose sound bite doesn’t seem to pander. Restore constitutional rights in this country. It is not completely clear what that is about or why he chose it. Did he mean to say constitutional? Or did he mean civil rights? At least he didn’t jump on the surrender bandwagon but the benefit to him for saying this is probably not a big help.
You can peruse the ‘evidence’ thru World Net Daily on this current report of more blogging woes for the Democratic Presidential field of candidates. So far Edwards has already had his net blunder. Hillary Rodham Clinton seems content with socialism and someone giving her a song for her campaign. Now Sen Chris Dodd appears ripe for a blogger controversy. And they say conservatives are behind the curve on having a net presence. Maybe the left believes if you are not way cool on the internet you are not a serious candidate. Ya, whatever.