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by Ed Donath

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Ed Donath is eddobloggo.

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The so-called Beer Summit was a result of Obama's premature playing of the race card. Having graduated from defensiveness and denial in the Rev. Wright matter to a photo-op and beer summit in the Prof. Gates case to a more traditional apology for his premature dismissal of Ms. Sherrod, the president has been forced in these instances to take responsibility for his own and his so-called politically correct Progressive Movement's ongoing race card-playing reactions, talking points and strategies.

Obama neither inherited this serious divisiveness problem nor does he have anyone but himself and his supporters to blame for perpetuating it.

Certainly, it would be nice to hear an "I should have waited for the proof" apology (like the one afforded to Shirley Sherrod) offered to the Tea Party movement and any number of r-worded conservative personalities. No one, of course, is holding his or her breath waiting for that to happen.

Obama and Rev. Wright in happier times when no one questioned their racism or socialism. In any case, the take-away point that is so clearly illustrated by these race-related blunders is that Obama has been on the wrong side of each and every one of them. Why, therefore, would anyone continue to unquestioningly believe any of the president's warnings, claims and proposals?

In both the Gates case and in the recent flap over Shirley Sherrod's speech to the NAACP, Obama's obvious prejudice was exacerbated by his haste to speak or act. He obviously believes that he is in possession of impeccable instinct and fails to be disabused of that erroneous assumption in spite of these multiple embarrassments.

"Trust me. I not only know what's best for you but this legislation must be passed ASAP before an emergency becomes a catastrophe. Pass the bill now. Read the bill later." How ironic it is, therefore, that this administration's biggest spending programs have been sold, in essence, by saying "Trust me. I not only know what's best for you but this legislation must be passed ASAP before an emergency becomes a catastrophe. Pass the bill now. Read the bill later."

How much more ironic it is that lengthy "deliberations" have only been undertaken by this president in regard to taking action necessary to expedite private sector jobs creation, the winning of a war, the security of our borders, reacting to the worst environmental disaster in our history and dealing with threats from enemy nations and global terrorists.

That's when the deck gets shuffled and the race card gets replaced by the slowness card.

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The news media except FOX and perhaps some internet sites ignored Obama's radical past. Yes, the Rev Wright controversy finally came to light when ABC questioned Obama during one of the debates. But overall the media made every attempt to hide Obama's radical associations, background and his past. Obama threw Wright under the bus but that does not mean he threw his black liberation theology under the bus. He has now replaced Wright with another liberation theology minister (Soujourners) .... I think his name is Wallis a "social justice" collectivist leftist radical.

Some of us knew Obama was indoctrinated in radical left revolutionary ideology. But as Mr. Sowell said many voters bought into "hope for the future". We are paying an awful price for naive voters and the corrupt scumbags in the media who sold Obama's snake oil and ignored truth and reality. Now we are hearing about a 400 member leftist journalistic coalition "journolist" conspiracy as published by the daily caller web site. A group of 400 so called journalists and like minded activists strategy to smear anyone opposed to Obama including playing the race card. I find this despicable. The news media has become unethical and corrupt.

Bottom line with Obama in my view he is a leftist radical and has been his entire life. He believes in government command and control of the masses. He believes in stealing from one and redistributing to another under the guise of "social justice" (liberation theology). He warned us about the transformation of the USA ..... this means we no longer have a republic. We are no longer government by the people. Our freedoms and lives are being lost to a centralized government and the radical congressional leadership has been willing accomplices to the Obama agenda.

The Tea Party is fighting to take back our country and government by the people and the political power to revert back to the people. God bless the Tea Party and those who want to take back our country from the radicals who are attempting to steal our country and set it back to 3rd world status.

Golf4

Mansfield, OH News Journal

obama has brought his racism to the white house, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. justice dept.

RebelOne1

Palm Springs, CA Desert Sun

too bad the racist fringe group of the Tea Party that started this mess never appoligized or denounced racism or bigotry

bumpyfeller

Brevard County, FL Florida Today

[When you don't get caught being a racist/bigot you don't have to say a word. Now "appologize" for your spelling. -ED]

And Obama was supposed to be the "post-racial" President...

...I don't know how intelligent Obama is. He talks a good game but what rankles me about the guy is that he brought an incompetence to the White House that we have not seen since Jimmy Carter. Black or white, Obama does not know what he is doing, and has surrounded himself with academics who are just as lost as he is.

zagreb

Palm Springs, CA Desert Sun

well said

Obama shows us what happens when your job is to protect the country, but you really have only your own self-interest in mind. His instinctive need to do what's politically advantageous rather than what's right will be his downfall every time.

Townhall Blogs

I recall about 63% of the American Voting Public elected him. I'm seeing an awful lot of buyers remorse now. I think November will put a stop to his "gotta Be Done Now!' way of governing. And two more Novembers he'll be like Jimmy. One shot and done.

gas hog

Austin, TX American-Statesman

The Democrats and progressives movements are based on racial identity politics. Any discussion by them of "post-racial" is nonsense.

KipAllen

Palm Springs, CA Desert Sun

Ed, none of these incidents embarrassed any of the administration involved. Nothing embarrasses them.

And remember, if you get your "news" from the TV, it has been bowdlerized.

GreyCaravel

Montgomery, AL Advertiser

Looks like much of the world is reaching the same conclusion you did .. I was looking around last night to see what our Islamic Friends are saying about us these days

I found a piece Camille Elhassani posted on Al Jazeera bringing up several of the same points you did. Be interesting to know what Arabic version said instead of the translation posted in the English only version posted for westerners.

Grumpyelder

Brevard County, FL Florida Today

obama snookered the public for their votes. Anyone not wanting to admit this yet does not follow the news.

jamesmorrison

St. Cloud, MN Times

[Big lay-offs coming at the Kool-Aid company. -ED]

Don't forget the tax cheats either, such as swift boat Kerry!

2AxMax

Great Falls, MT Tribune

The Andrew Breitbart edited video about Shirley Sherrod, displayed with such vigor on FOX, had one intent; to discredit Sherrod for racial discrimination on white farmers. The full tape and the farmers in question. just proved the opposite.
The same event with the doctored videotapes of James O'Keefe in regards to Acorn, bringing in undocumented prostitutes, also proved to be a racial motivated hoax to discredit an association mainly ran by minorities. The signs portraying President Obama as an African witchdoctor, or as a monkey ... and so on and on. That, my dear friends is true racism.
If an African-American President means bringing racism to the White House, it also means that the role of President shouldn't be destined for an African-American, something many of you think, but don't dare to write.

sunpeddler

Palm Springs, CA Desert Sun

[The "true racism" includes people who portray Obama as being far more intelligent than he really is because of his color. It is also brought to light every time someone portrays people who "hate" Obama (for what he stands for) as racists while those same people would vote for some other person of color in a heartbeat to make this particular African-American go away. People "dare to write" just about anything...so the absence of a lot of stuff advocating "that the role of President shouldn't be destined for an African-American..." must mean that there just isn't much of that around. -ED]

You are correct in the most part, but Obama has never admitted his part in the Sherrod firing. He never will. That would make the new Messiah less than perfect. I don't recall an apology from him in the Prof. Gates debacle. I think that we can agree that he certainly has no problem apologizing to despots of the world for the existence of this country!

ken454

Austin, TX American-Statesman

Rev. Wright is a racist; his wholesale hatred is self evident. Obama's self professed ignorance of Wright's views is hard to believe. The comments by Obama concerning Professor Gates was a case of "ready, shoot, aim," and the firing of Ms. Sherrod just shows Obama hasn't learned from the Prof. Gates matter. The White House and the NAACP created the atmosphere where they needed to react before the facts were known. Unfortunately, Ms. Sherrod was the victim.

Wince

Mansfield, OH News Journal

Obama comes to the game with anything he needs to win up his sleeve. Like any flim-flam man he knows which card to play and when he needs to play them. Good read Ed

catmandu

Palm Springs, CA Desert Sun

Once again Fox News is blamed...TRUTH is FOX NEWS did NOT air the tape...O'reilly did, as did Hannity and Van Sustern. But FOX NEWS did not. All of this aired AFTER SHE HAD BEEN FIRED before Fox [could have] had anything to do with it....Also, NAACP OWNED THE TAPE in its entirety. They ALSO condemned Miss Shirley that night BEFORE THEY EDITED THE TAPE...I say set up.

Anonymous

Great Falls, MT

Obama has been hurt a lot by ignoring the victories by Republicans earlier this year. It was clear a message was being sent by moderates and others. Obama should of said something about hearing the message but instead ignored the results blaming the losses on the candidates or circumstances. In November the voters will send a message that can't be ignored.

The voters have done it before. They took away a heavy Democrat majority in Clinton's second year. And then took away the Republican majority after George W was elected.

Antonious

Austin, TX American-Statesman

That is the MO this time of the year from the left. No ability to stand on issues so they will bring out the race card and use it freely with NO accountability for their actions. They get away with it because of complacency... [the media] not stopping it or calling them out on it. This is done like clockwork before every election. 4 to 5 months out they start calling their opposition racists and homophobes instead of discussing important issues such as spending, tax rates, economic concerns, socialism, immigration, illegal government takeover, freedoms, ... The list of left wing failures is immense, especially under Obama, so they try to divert attention away from that failure. This time it is backfiring on them as after the last 2 years of "hope and change" turning into "I won, get over it" and the biggest political duping of the public by Obama. This President goes against the wishes of the public he is elected to represent with Obamacare and going after Arizona law. He will get the message that this is unacceptable in November and when he runs for re-election, he will get the message he is not going to reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave anymore too.

Mrs. Peel

Brevard County, FL Florida Today

Obummer ran on a platform of post racism. What I have seen since his election, is an INCREASE in racism by blacks. His election was an automatic empowerment of blacks to act out.

His black appointees like Eric Holder are using their position to selectively show favoritism to the black community. The NAACP is also exercising their connection to the WH to promote black racism, not the advancement of colored people.

Obummer will not only go down in history as a total failure of leadership, and a radical, liberal, socialist progressive reformer, he will be known as the president that took us back to 1960s racism.

Don't forget who over came racism to elect this first black POTUS. And recognize who is taking advantage of that election.

NoObama4me

Mansfield, OH News Journal

I think the Progressives are very concerned because the fear and intimidation tactics of the past are no longer working as they did..."race card" "wealthy card" "Bush's fault card" "its for the children" "global warming" etc

The Progressive vision for our Republic, so blatantly promoted and pushed by comrade Obama & Company has collided with the reality of living it...Americans don't like it one bit....and of course November will tell that story.

apackof2

Lansing, MI State Journal

You could say the "regime" [chooses] ideology even over their own party members. It's war with these people and money and power are the weapons...I have noticed their "race wing" has quieted since the latest "tea partiers are racist" comments got respectfully bitch slapped.

"Obama neither inherited this serious divisiveness problem nor does he have anyone but himself and his supporters to blame for perpetuating it." THAT SHOULD BE ON A BUMPER STICKER!

noboma4me

Montgomery, AL Advertiser

[You've got my permission to use it. -ED]