Race Card Fraud - Obama And The Left

Race Card Fraud
Real Clear Politics
By Thomas Sowell - July 20, 2010

Credit card fraud is a serious problem. But race card fraud is an even bigger problem.

This year's target is the tea party movement. When leading Democrats, led by a smirking Nancy Pelosi, made their triumphant walk on Capitol Hill, celebrating their passage of a bill in defiance of public opinion, tea party members on the scene protested.

All this was captured on camera and the scene was played on television. What was not captured on any of the cameras and other recording devices on the scene was anybody using racist language, as has been charged by those playing the race card.

The latest attack on the tea party movement, by Ben Jealous of the NAACP, has once again played the race card. Like the proverbial lawyer who knows his case is weak, he shouts louder.

Some Obama supporters have long regarded any criticism of him as racism.

Among people who voted for Barack Obama in 2008, those who are likely to be most disappointed are those who thought that they were voting for a new post-racial era. There was absolutely nothing in Obama's past to lead to any such expectation, and much to suggest the exact opposite. But the man's rhetoric and demeanor during the election campaign enabled this and many other illusions to flourish.

On race, as on other issues, different people have radically different views of Barack Obama, depending on whether they judge him by what he says or by what he does. As Obama's own books point out, he has for years cultivated a talent for saying things that people will find congenial.

You want bipartisanship and an end to bickering in Washington? He will say that he wants bipartisanship and an end to bickering in Washington. Then he will shut Republicans out of the decision-making process and respond to their suggestions by reminding them that he won the election.

You want a government that is open instead of secretive? He will say that. He will promise to post proposed legislation on the Internet long enough for everyone to read it and know what is in it before there is a vote. In practice, however, he has rushed massive bills through Congress too fast for anybody-- even the members of Congress-- to know what was in those bills.

Racial issues are more of the same. You want a government where all citizens are treated alike, regardless of race or ethnicity? Obama will say that. Then he will advocate appointing judges with "empathy" for particular segments of the population, such as racial minorities. "Empathy" is just a pretty word for the ugly reality of bias.

Obama's first nomination of a Supreme Court justice was a classic example of someone with "empathy" for some racial groups, but not others. As a Circuit Court judge, Sonia Sotomayor voted to dismiss a case involving white firefighters who had been denied the promotions for which they qualified, because not enough blacks or Hispanics passed the same test that they did.

There is not now, nor has there ever been, anything post-racial about Barack Obama, except for the people who voted for him in the mistaken belief that he shared their desire to be post-racial. When he leaves office, especially if it is after one term, he will leave this country more racially polarized than before.

Hopefully, he may also leave the voters wiser, though sadder, after they learn from painful experience that you can't judge politicians by their rhetoric, or ignore their past because of your hopes for the future. Voters may even wise up to race card fraud. - Entire column

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Blog author's comments - Barack Obama will often use race in his decision making, but he will at times, try to be discreet about it and have someone in his administration do his dirty work.

In less than two years in office, if you have being paying attention, you must know what he has done, what he has spent and what was accomplished - it should be quite obvious. Many Obama voters in 2008 should now know they made a mistake. If you happen to be one of the folks who believe that the government should take care of you, than you will continue to support Obama.

As every poll shows increasing disaffection among Obama 2008 voters, a desperate White House falls back on Alinsky 101. Mobilize your supporters with a campaign of racial and class division and demonize, divide, and demoralize the opposition.

Do congressional Democrats plan to run on their accomplishments in November? I don't think so. When President Barack Obama was elected, many voters - I was not one of them - saw it as a new moment which seemed to herald a new era for race relations in America. Has that promise been fulfilled? No! I suggest just the opposite - he has divided the races more than ever before.

Turning out those so-called "surge" voters who supported Obama in 2008 has become the Democrats' central pre-occupation for the midterm elections. I, of course, hope that they stay far away from the polling places in November.