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The real Obama
When seeing Mrs. Obama speak in New Hampshire a couple of weeks ago, I realized in a flash the malign racial nature of the Obama candidacy. Since then, the Obama campaign’s amazing attack on Hillary Clinton over her totally inoffensive remark about Martin Luther King and President Johnson proves beyond a doubt that Barack Obama is not the “beyond race” candidate he pretends to be. As Jonah Goldberg writes in today’s New York Post (no link), if Obama’s campaign could attack the Clintons as racists, an absurd charge, imagine how nominee Obama would treat Republicans and conservatives. And further, if Obama became president, the whole country would come under a super-heightened regime of racial PC. Obama, as he and his supporters see it, is the sacred incarnation of racial unity. Therefore any criticism of Obama, or even, as his charming wife has put it, any failure to vote for him, shows a sinful resistance to racial unity.
I recall not too long ago when Joe Biden said some typically silly but inoffensive things about Obama, that he was intelligent, articulate and “clean” and therefore it was a kind of “storybook” identity that people instantly latch on to (in the context of the conversation, what he was obviously contrasting were blacks who have tried for the presidency in the past like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, a couple of foolish, venal, corrupt and power/money-grubbing clowns). But, OF COURSE, our ridiculous public atmosphere regarding race immediately made Biden’s statements into some horrible transgression by which competing Dems and Republicans eager to turn the self-righteousness tables on a Dem for once took turns asking rhetorically if therefore all other blacks never showered (re: Biden’s use of “clean”) and were morons, etc.
Right then I realized what it was that scared me more than anything about an Obama presidency. Rather than allow us to “get past all the racial stuff” as so many of Obama’s white supporters expect, it will only propel us into a new age of public insanity, whereby any time Obama is criticized OR praised will serve as a another ripe and juicy opportunity for (1) the shakedown artists in the professional minority grievance industry to exact more concessions and guilty apologizing out of the majority, and (2) for elite whites eager to gain status and the moral upper-hand at the expense of their ethnic fellows who weren’t so adept at operating the levers in the Rube Goldbergian PC machine that our public discourse has become.
That’s why, completely apart from all the other reasons I wouldn’t vote for him, I will never vote for Obama. His blackness is a sufficient problem in and of itself.
I can think of only two scenarios in which it might be seen as reasonably safe for the country to elect a black president. The first would be if the black president were a right-winger, or at least what contemporary America sees as a right-winger. This would squelch the liberals’ hysteria and make them cool and even hostile toward him, as they are toward Clarence Thomas. The second would be if the country had truly lost its white guilt, its liberalism, and its PC, so that the phenomenon of having a black president would not be such a big deal and would not be used as a club over us. But as long as the usual liberalism and PC are in operation, and assuming the person in question was not a right-winger, we cannot afford to have a black president, for the reasons given above. Notwithstanding the hideous corruption and attempted socialization of the country we would have under a Clinton restoration, I would prefer Hillary Clinton as president to Obama. If Hillary is president, the conservatives will be aroused to resist her. If Obama is president, the whole country will be paralyzed by the spectacle of a black man in the White House. Ironically, electing a woman has become the relatively conservative choice.
First of all, in the words of the old song, “if loving you is wrong I don’t wanna be right.” If not supporting Obama or criticizing Obama is wrong then I don’t care to be right.
These people are full of themselves and extremely insulting toward anyone who doesn’t buy into their liberal ideology. I personally don’t give a hoot what Obama’s wife says or thinks or whatever, racial or otherwise. You can call my dedicated non-support of Obama a “sinful resistance to racial unity” if you want to, but doing so doesn’t change anything.
Let us get something straight, that D beside Obama’s name is and always has been enough said for people like myself. He is a member of the thoroughly corrupt liberal party, and that in and of itself is enough to disqualify him from serving as Chief Executive Officer of these United States of America, regardless of his race. The same applies to Hillary regardless of her gender. And here again, I don’t give a rat’s behind what anyone thinks about that. You want me to vote for a dyed-in-the-wool liberal with no executive experience, and you think you can shame me into it by playing the race card? You must be outside your mind.
But I suspect they understand they’re not going to change my mind notwithstanding anything they say. These people are after the fence-sitters. You know, the open-minded among us; those people who have no foundation and therefore blow with the wind.
And by the way, no foundation equals a predisposition toward liberalism. This is something Republicans need to learn. You don’t go after the fence-sitters, because in order to win them over you have to become more liberal, which is to say less conservative. And if the Republican party continues to become less and less conservative, then of what value is it?
“I recall not too long ago when Joe Biden said some typically silly but inoffensive things about Obama, that he was intelligent, articulate and “clean” and therefore it was a kind of “storybook” identity that people instantly latch on to … ”
Indeed. Also recall that President Bush made similar statements (I think he even used these very words) concerning Obama about a year ago in a Fox News interview if memory serves. Statements for which he was chastised and ridiculed beyond all reason because of his obvious “insensitivity” toward the black race.
Modern black America has a huge chip on its shoulder. And with liberalism as the dominant ideology in America, they’re allowed to get away with all kinds of inordinate anti-social behaviorisms. Indeed, the culture of liberalism encourages this kind of behavior from blacks, and lauds it as something good and desirable.
Just one quibble. I don’t think Obama had what we would call a privileged upbringing. His mother and his maternal grandparents were not particularly well-off.
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