Italics are mine – Frank Trejo – Yesterday’s News Today
Bill “Slick Willie” Clinton was referred to as the first black president because of his popularity among Black America. President Obama is the first black/white president; the ideal example of integration embodied in one person – unfortunately, President Obama appears to favor one side only. He has failed us.
The following appeared in the Wall Street Journal 7-28-2010. Written by Patrick H. Caddell and Douglas E. Schoen. Both Democratic pollsters.
Our Divisive President:
During the election campaign, Barack Obama sought to appeal to the best instincts of the electorate, to a post-partisan sentiment that he said would reinvigorate our democracy. He ran on a platform of reconciliation – of getting beyond “old labels” of right and left, red and blue states, and forging compromises based on shared values.
President Obama’s Inaugural was a hopeful day, with an estimated 1.8 million people on the National Mall celebrating the election of America’s first African-American president. The level of enthusiasm, the anticipation and the promise of something better could not have been more palpable. And yet, it has not been realized. Not at all.
Rather than being a unifier, Mr. Obama has divided America on the basis of race, class and partisanship. Moreover, his cynical approach to governance has encouraged his allies to pursue a similar strategy of racially diverse politics on his behalf. We have seen the divisive approach under Republican presidents as well – particularly the administrations of Richard Nixon and George W. Bush. It was wrong then, and it is wrong now. By dividing America, Mr. Obama has brought our government to the brink of crisis of legitimacy, compromising our ability to address our most important policy issues. Nixon yes, but comparing Bush to Obama?
We say this with a heavy heart. Both of us share the president’s stated vision of what America can and should be. The struggle for equal rights has animated both of our lives. Both of us were forged politically during the crucible of the civil rights movement. Having worked in the South during the civil rights movement, and on behalf of the ground-breaking elections of African-American mayors such as David Dinkins, Harold Washington and Emanuel Cleaver, we were deeply moved by Mr. Obama’s election.
These two reporters should have done a little research into the background of President Pinocchio. Just the mere fact that he was schooled in Chicago politics should have given them a clue. They should have asked Bill Clinton what he meant during the election when he called Obama a “street thug” from Chicago. I wrote in Oct of ‘09 that this is exactly what would happen if he won. So, not all of us were fooled with his street-wise bullshit.
The first hint that as president Mr. Obama would be willing to interject race into the political dialogue came last July. . . I’ll cut this part short. . .this had to do with Professor Gates and the Cambridge police…in which Obama referred to the police as stupid and linking the arrest to a long history of blacks and Latinos being stopped disproportionately. This incident had nothing to with race. . . . article continues…
Sen. Jon Kyl (R. Az.) has said the president told him in a closed-door meeting that he would not move to secure the border with Mexico unless and until Congress reached a breakthrough on comprehensive immigration reform. That’s another indication Mr. Obama is willing to continue to play politics with hot-button issues. Add in the lawsuit against the Arizona immigration law ( struck down by the judge) and it’s clear the Obama administration is willing to run the risk of dividing the American people along racial and ethnic lines to mobilize its supporters – particularly Hispanic voters, whose backing it needs in the fall midterm elections and beyond.
The word is out in Mexico which will be misconstrued to mean its ok to go to America “they can’t touch us” and the borders will become a flood-gate. Unless we deploy thousands upon thousands of GIs along the borders we’re doomed. And President Pinocchio will not do it. The acceptance of voter fraud will become as accepted as millions getting food stamps illegally. It is all by design, folks.
As the Washington Post reported last week, two top White House strategists, speaking on condition of anonymity, have indicated that “the White House plans to use the immigration debate to punish the GOP and aggressively seek the Latino vote in 2010.” We are dealing with communism, folks.
On an issue that has gotten much less attention, but is potentially just as divisive, the Justice Department has pointedly refused to prosecute three members of the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation at the polls on Election Day 2008. . .(cutting it short…the Dept. of Justice continues to stonewall). During the 2008 presidential campaign, Mr. Obama’s campaign emphasized repeatedly that his minister, the Rev. Wright, was being unfairly stereotyped because of racially incendiary sound bites that allegedly did not reflect the totality of his views. In the Gates incident and others, Mr. Obama has resorted to similar forms of stereotyping.
Even the former head of the Civil Rights Commission, Mary Frances Berry, acknowledged that the Obama administration has taken to polarizing America around the issue of race as a means of diverting attention away from other issues, saying: “the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats… Having one’s opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness.” We’re dealing with communism, folks.
The president had a unique opportunity to focus on overarching issues of importance to whites and blacks. He has failed to address the critical challenges. He has not used his bully pulpit to emphasize the importance of racial unity (and he won’t) and the common interest of poor whites and blacks who need training, job opportunities, and the possibility of realizing the American Dream. He hasn’t done enough to address youth employment – which in the White community is 23.2% and in the black community 39.9%. In the meantime, his wife just reserved 30 rooms in a five-star hotel in Spain for a vacation with friends – How’s that grab you, tax-payers?
Mr. Obama has also cynically divided the country on class lines. (communism at work) He has taken to playing the populist card time and time again. He bashes Wall Street and insurance companies whenever convenient to advance his programs, yet he has been eager to accept campaign contributions and negotiate with these very same banks and corporations behind closed doors in order to advance his political agenda.
Finally, President Obama also exacerbated partisan division, and he has made it clear that he intends to demonize the Republicans and former President George W. Bush in the fall campaign. In April, the Democratic National Committee released a video in which the president directly addressed his divide-and-conquer campaign strategy, with an appeal to: young people, African-Americans, Latinos, and women who powered our victory in 2008 [to] stand together once again.”
Perhaps Obama’s divisive approach to governance has weakened us as a people and paralyzed our political culture. Meanwhile, the Republican leadership has failed to put forth an agenda that is more positive, unifying or inclusive. We are stronger when we debate issues and purpose, and we are all weaker when we divide by race and class. We will pay a price for this type of politics. . .end of article…
The nerve of these two swinging mud at the Republicans as a “do nothing” party. Ever since President Pinocchio, with his communists friends in Congress, have legislated without hardly ever including the Republicans – especially in the health debate. Republicans did have good ideas but the communists in and out of government (media) didn’t publicize for the American people to be informed. Only through talk-radio did many of us find out.
People reading this: Warn your relatives in other States, as well as friends, to demand from their elected officials to put a stop to this communism going on in our government. I’m asking the Republicans in Congress to quit aiding and abetting the criminal activity going on in the two branches of government. Republicans, stop this criminality. History will record this with a broad-brush – including you – you work in the Congress. BOYCOTT THE CONGRESS! And quit supporting communism.
“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us it must spring up among us, it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time or die of suicide. (Lincoln – 1837). . . I love you, America
I AM SORRY I HAVE ONLY ONE BAT TO SWING FOR MY COUNTRY
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