The issue of illegal immigration infected the GOP Presidential debates. Perry supports financial breaks for illegals from Mexico and South America to go to school. That has unleashed a firestorm.
And now the President of the United states, not trusting in his seconds to do it for him or his seconds having refused to do the job, has entered the race wars to the White House. In a speech before the Congressional Black Caucus, he gave the battle cry to blacks by speaking to their number in terms of their color:
Obama’s speech to the annual awards dinner of the Congressional Black Caucus was his answer to increasingly vocal griping from black leaders that he’s been giving away too much in talks with Republicans — and not doing enough to fight black unemployment, which is nearly double the national average at 16.7 percent.
“It gets folks discouraged. I know. I listen to some of y’all,” Obama told an audience of some 3,000 in a darkened Washington convention center.
But he said blacks need to have faith in the future — and understand that the fight won’t be won if they don’t rally to his side.
“I need your help,” Obama said.
The president will need black turnout to match its historic 2008 levels if he’s to have a shot at winning a second term, and Saturday’s speech was a chance to speak directly to inner-city concerns.
He acknowledged blacks have suffered mightily because of the recession, and are frustrated that the downturn is taking so long to reverse. “So many people are still hurting. So many people are barely hanging on,” he said, then added: “And so many people in this city are fighting us every step of the way.”
But Obama said blacks know all too well from the civil rights struggle that the fight for what is right is never easy.
“Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,” he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. “Shake it off. Stop complainin’. Stop grumblin’. Stop cryin’. We are going to press on. We have work to do.” [AP via yahoo]
Make no mistake. Obama has joined the white middle class protesters in Wall Street in declaring war on the establishment. But wait, wasn’t Obama the very person who allowed bail out monies for banks and brokerages that kept the heads of the criminal institutions from jail in addition to funding the future for their employees (only to see BAC and others laying off thousands of workers today)? Has the caucus gone mad and suffered mass memory-loss?
You will not soon see Obama going to an assembly of poor whites and identifying with them closely and then giving them the war cry. Never. He does not identify with them. As any true American leader and most poor blacks know, poor whites have suffered in disproportionate numbers as well.
Clearly the war has been engaged. Obama will play to illegals and blacks to the exclusion of what he knows to be the true minority, whites, and will bring the revolution to America if he can. And Morgan Freeman, who on Piers Morgan claimed it was in fact a race war, is Obama’s first lieutenant in Hollywood – that other important region of support.
The so-called “silent majority” needs to step up to the plate and use brains and not brawn to counter all of this. We need a true statesman to emerge now. It just may be the Cain will be that statesman. He is proof positive that Democrats are two-faced when it comes to their regard for blacks. They have hung Obama out to dry. Where is Pelosi now? Where is the Chicago machine? Where are the Harvard intellectuals?
No wonder Chelsey Clinton now has a Facebook page. No wonder President Clinton gathered his whole family on stage the other night at the meeting of Clinton Global Initiative [Bill even introduced his son-in-law in the audience - Washington Post]. No wonder the Clintons are circling the greens on the golf course. They will land. They will have to to save the Democratic Party. At this rate, Obama will tear it to shreds.
samiam60
September 25, 2011
Very insightful SamHenry to say the least. Obama’s little big horn is around the corner and he knows he has marched his troops right into the jaws of an angry America. I fully expect to see racial tensions rise as the weeks and months pass by. I can only imagine the outrage there will be when the Republican Candidate begins to go after Obama on his record. His constituents will begin to feel pity for him and return in record numbers. If Obama loses his bid for re-election I dare say we can expect to see riots and fighting in the streets.
samhenry
September 25, 2011
If we see rioting in the streets, Obama will have been responsible for them. If we see rioting in the streets the rioters will have shown themselves to be – the word escapes me not liars but two faced – either you are for liberty and justice for all or you are not. From the time that Obama’s professor friend in Boston had problems with the law, Obama’s handling pointed to his own racism and protectionism. He does not see himself as president of us all and never did. He is an imposter on more than one level. If people can’t believe he is a native born American there are grounds for this mistrust in his behavior in other areas.
Thanks for your courageous comment on this post Sammi.
samiam60
September 25, 2011
I am glad you boldly posted this and to stand by you and support your efforts here is the least I could do. Keep on keeping on SamHenry you are read by many and stand tall in my book.
samhenry
September 25, 2011
You make me proud, Sami. I don’t know how widely read I am but I keep on writing for the few of you who are my dear friends. That is all that counts. That’s my audience. Anyone else is ok, too.
samiam60
September 25, 2011
Exposing the Lies and Propaganda of the Obama Administration along with the Liberal Main Stream Media is the Only Way we are going to Awaken the Masses of those Americans who have been Deceived.
samhenry
September 25, 2011
It will be a difficult road of detoxication Sami. It will also have dangers. But I could not live in a country that called me racist because I saw the POLITICS of the Obama administration for what it really was. You are right – he is the front man. Socialists know that to criticize him is to be able to call us racists to dismiss our views. This becomes clearer by the moment.My honesty is all that I have that is of value and I will not sacrifice it to political correctness at this juncture in our nation’s history.
roblorinov
September 27, 2011
Obama is low in polls of approval ratings and he is now desperate to win reelection. I knew he would play the race card as he thinks that will help him win. What a poor excuse this man is for a leader and NO it has nothing to do with his being HALF black. Myself I’m supporting a FULL black man for POTUS named Herman Cain. And NO I don’t support Cain because he is black! Good God! Can’t America just get over the color thing? Are we really that dense and ignorant in this nation? If there are race riots we can blame Obama for making them so. I think that is exactly what he wants so he can declare Marshal Law. I put nothing past this little skinny big eared wannbe Pol Pot in the WH.
samhenry
September 27, 2011
Good morning my dear Lorinov bringing the desert heat to the argument against Obama. I myself like Cain AND I feel strongly that Obama is fueling the flames of racial hatred among blacks and Hispanics in his desperation to win. NEVER has there been a time like this in American politics – never. My article about race in this election campaign season has been buried at the bottom of the Google pile.
The Morb
September 29, 2011
I totally agree with you RobL !!! … It’s LONG since passed the time that we should have ceased all this ‘ grandstand ‘ weeping for the unjust treatment that generations LONG DEAD had to endure !!! …
I wouldn’t give a damn if someone was 10 % African , 35 % Asian , 5 % Indian , 20 % Icelandic , 15 % European and 15 % TIMBUKTU !!! … JUST DO THE JOB OF RUNNIN’ THE COUNTRY !!! …
samhenry
September 30, 2011
And i totally agree with you my Morb. Good to see ya dearie.