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Obama, Get Over Your Black Self, Ferraro Was Right

A simple statement of fact:

“If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is….Geraldine Ferraro
(source)

Yet, listening to Matt Lauer interview the wanna-be president Obama, I was amazed to hear Obama say that Ferraro was engaging in “slice and dice politics that’s about race, about gender, about this and that…” He went on to say America was tired of it.

Yeah, Obama, we are damn tired of it and that is one of the very reasons I wouldn’t vote for you if you were the last man standing. You wouldn’t be where you are if it were not true that politics today is nothing but division and strife caused by exactly the type of “slice and dice” identity politics that you claim to eschew. It’s called multiculturalism and now you may reap what you and your socialist comrades have sewn.

Talk about cognitive dissonance. Is Obama so swept away by his own mythology that he actually believes that he is where he is because he has shown himself worthy of the job? Because of ground breaking legislation or an actual track record of achievements that can back up all his pomposity? Come on, how long can we play at “the Emperor Has No Clothes”?

Putting aside the absurdity that Obama seems to think that gay rights, transgender rights, black rights, latino rights, Indian rights and the whole ludicrous contingent of “identity” whiners he panders to are nothing but “slice and dice” politics in action. No, what is so amusing is that his web site provides ample evidence that he excels at “slice and dice”.

Ironically, I was working on a post about just this yesterday, making that exact point. His categorizations of Americans on his site more than demonstrates the splintered lens through which Obama sees this nation, if he sees Americans at all.

How many slices and dices do you see in this list of “identities” under the heading “People”? (click on image to enlarge)

Asian Americans

Pacific Islanders

African Americans

Americans Abroad

Environmentalists

First Americans

Generation Obama

Kids

Labor

Latinos

LGBT

People of Faith

Students

Veterans

Women

What the bloody hell ever happened to just plain old Americans? What a bunch of pretentious multicultural claptrap.

Leftist radical Saul Alinsky is often cited as an inspiration and influence in both Obama’s and Hillary’s political indoctrination. He quite clearly indicates which “slice” of America needs to be targeted to achieve political power.

Alinsky asserted that he was more concerned with the acquisition of power than anything else: “My aim here is to suggest how to organize for power: how to get it and how to use it.”

[...]

Alinsky advises his followers that the poor have no power and that the real target is the middle class: “Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America’s white middle class. That is where the power is. … Our rebels have contemptuously rejected the values and the way of life of the middle class. They have stigmatized it as materialistic, decadent, bourgeois, degenerate, imperialistic, war-mongering, brutalized and corrupt. They are right; but we must begin from where we are if we are to build power for change, and the power and the people are in the middle class majority.”

But that didn’t stop Alinsky and his followers from using the middle class for their own purposes. They counted on the guilt and shame of the white middle class to get what they wanted. In order to take over institutions and get power, the middle class had to be convinced that they were somehow lucky winners in “life’s lottery.”

That is the vein Obama adroitly taps into; white middle class guilt. For him to pretend the that his identity as an “african-American’ isn’t critical to his candidacy is utter crap. Without the skin, you have an intelligent, promising, but, unaccomplished politician. The stark salient fact remains that Obama is totally inadequate and unqualified to serve as president of the United States of America.

And it is exactly his skin color that he is depending on to repel all criticism and honest questions.

Yeah, Obama, please do quit talking about the “racist” tactics that you accuse your opponents employing and discuss any of the following:

• …your socialist ideology. Don’t play the re-framing game; not “progressive”, not liberal, but the marxist/socialist/collectivist/tribalism that you are rooted in.
• I’m very interested in hearing how you think that you will be able to coerce us into being good citizens in U-bama-topia. After all, your wife says we won’t have much choice about it so it makes one curious how any president would dare to imagine that they can dictate to a citizen that they will change the way they live.
• I want to hear you at least acknowledge the fact that, in the world of islam, you are fatwa worthy . Equivocate all you want, but you were born to a Muslim father, and thus, you are considered an apostate.
• I want to hear you denounce sharia law, or, at least explain your cousin Raila Odinga’s promise to Kenyan muslims that he will implement it.
• While we are talking Kenya, tell us how much of our tax dollars will go to Kenya which you have stated is of great concern to you.
• Explain exactly how your cousin, Raila Odiga, justified the riots and slaughter that followed his election defeat.
• I want to know what your views on reparations are, because, if you google around Obama, you’ll find many of your staunch supporters are rubbing their hands together in anticipatory glee of getting theirs.
• I want to know what you are going to do about muslims in this country insisting that the line between church and sate does not apply to islam.
• I want to know how you have the audacity to claim Christianity as your faith yet support transgendered, homosexuals and the slaughter of near term babies?
• I want to know how long an arm you are going to grant the state to reach into families and dictate how they educate their children.
• I want to know your views on imperious and insidious hate crime laws that violate freedom of speech and thought.

Yeah, I am really getting sick of your skin color protecting you from those questions. See Obama, as much as you claim to abjure identity politics, that is exactly what shields you from the hard questions. Don’t begin to pretend that your well used race card isn’t serving you beautifully in this election and then have the gall to suggest that Ferraro is indulging in slice and dice.

No Obama, what we have here in America is a type of affirmative action candidacy. If you gain the presidency, it won’t be because you have the best scores, or have demonstrated the best abilities and capacity for the job. It will be because America is stuck in some reprehensible mea culpa for which they seek surcease by sacrificing this nation on the altar of racial atonement.

But not all Americans, Obama, are so misguided. If there is a god that still favors America, there will be enough of those Americans to send you packing back to Chicago.

But don’t get offended dude - Hillary sucks almost as bad as you do.

(Ed note: H/T to a commenter on LGF who pointed out Obama’s list of “People” - lost the link)

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