Here’s the latest “Lion’s Roar” from guest blogger Loud Lion:
It was in Philadelphia on a March day during the 2008 Presidential primary that a then first term U.S. Senator was declared the great uniter, and having bridged the great race divide in the United States. It was after this speech that we read and heard lines like:
“Obama has also grown into the character he was born to play: the great uniter who can bring together old and young, black and white, Democrat and Republican.” (Edward McClelland; Salon.com).
We had this great statement by Chris Matthews of MSNBC referred to the speech as “what many of us think is one of the great speeches in American history, and we watch a lot of them.” (Dickens, Geoffrey (2008-03-18). “Chris Matthews Hails Obama Speech As ‘Worthy of Abraham Lincoln’”).
I could go on and on, but why should I, must of us know how the media could find no fault in the man then, and barely now. If you want to know more, I suggest you pick up Bernard Goldberg’s book A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media.
With his coronation in November, the chills up Chris Matthews’s leg grew greater and greater. Here we had a President who prided himself on being the type of politician who would be the one to really cross the aisle and get Democrats and Republicans work through the many difficult and trying issues that need unifying support and not unilateral action. Well, I am here to call BS on all that. Nothing in the man’s history shows that he is a uniter.
Let’s look at the great uniters’ childhood first to see if he was exposed to uniting ideas, because it is believed that the man rises from the ashes of his childhood. (OK, I have no idea if they say it, but I kind of like the statement, so feel free to say it now.)
President Obama’s parents met in a 1960 Russian Language class. Let’s examine that in itself: 1960, height of the Cold War, Bay of Pigs and Russian Missile Crises are looming, and we have two kids, neither of which went into espionage or the like, taking an advanced Russian language class. Obama’s father wrote a thesis entitled “Problems With Our Socialism” that advocates 100% taxation of the rich, communal ownership of land and the forced confiscation of privately controlled land.
I have no idea if this is true or not, but with his grandparents being friends with members of the Communist Party of the United States, and a father from Kenya, which was at the time fighting for independence from Great Britain, with probable support from the Soviet Union it supposes that maybe they leaned towards a belief that Communism was a true and viable solution.
After President Obama’s parents divorced, his mother met and married a graduate student from Indonesia. Indonesia at the time was in the midst of a civil war in which the military was trying to oust, which it later did, the Communist group in power. After the military assumed control of the country, all students learning in foreign countries were recalled, and with that he returned, followed a year later by his new bride and his step-son.
An interesting twist, was/is, that at the time, the only way for Barack to be enrolled in school was to be a citizen of Indonesia, so his step-father adopted him. While Indonesia is the largest Islamic practicing, by population, country in the world, it is not ruled by sharia law. So, while Barack was now an adopted child of a follower of Islam, and was living in a predominantly Islamic nation, and went to school there, there is nothing to say he was schooled in the tolerant ways of Islam.
In 1971, Barack was sent back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents. The same grandparents that counted as their friends, Frank Marshall Davis a noted American Communist, who is mentions as “Frank” in President Obama’s books, and moved over 2000 miles so one of them could attend a school where communism was openly discussed and attended the “Little Red Church” so named after Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book. While in theory Communism espouses equality, we all know “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”
A year after Barack come back from Indonesia so did his mother, staying in Hawaii for a few years (5), and then returning back to Indonesia until 1994, and then sadly died of cancer in 1995. I bring this up to point out that throughout his life Barack parents were entering and leaving his life, leaving him to be raised by his grandparents. Grandparents do not raise their grandchildren like parents raise their children for the most part. Grandparents are the ones who say yes, and give the grandchildren what they want. They are the dotters, while the parents are the disciplinarians. Also, with a mother that comes and goes as she pleases, it is my thesis that Barack thought that putting oneself ahead of your family is the norm, and that nothing was greater then oneself.
Jumping ahead, we see that the friends that Barack had after his schooling are radical class warfare devout terrorists. (Yes I’m talking about you, Willy Ayres, and Rashid Khalidi, and Mike Klonsky.) Now, I am not saying these people were not just guys from around the neighborhood, or that he believes or accepts their beliefs as his own, but you are who you are by your associations. And, these people are clearly thinking about destruction of an American society that has enabled them to obtain the positions that they are now in.
I could sit and write a lot on the hatred spewed forth by Rev. Wright, and how someone sitting in his pews for over 20 years could not have accepted at least some of the venom coming from the pulpit unless they too believed it. If not, then our president is either a sociopath or someone who say his membership as a way of acceptance within the black community he still believed he was not a real part of because he had a white mother who basically abandoned her black looking child, and whitey grandparents that raised him.
Again, this is all a part of what makes President Obama the race baiter, and great divider he actually is, and not the proclaimed great unifier.
Let’s now look at some of the wording BHO uses, and you see if these are unifying terms, or dividing.
“I can no more disown him [Rev. Wright] than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.” (Emphasis mine)
“It will be up to each of you to make sure the young people, African-Americans, Latinos and the women who powered our victory in 2008, stand together once again.”
Think back to the police incident in Massachusetts which resulted in the famous “Beer Summit,” which will surely go down in history with other great summits like Yalta, Potsdam and many others. Let’s look at his words:
“Well, I should say at the outset that Skip Gates is a friend, so I may be a little biased here. I don’t know all the facts. What’s been reported though is that the guy forgot his keys, jimmied his way to get into the house. There was a report called in to the police station that there might be a burglary taking place. So far, so good, right? I mean, if I was trying to jigger into—well, I guess this is my house now, so …”
OK, he admits that the man looked like he was breaking into the house, and if that is true, then the police have a right to check it out.
“Now, I don’t know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that. But I think it’s fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home; and, number three, what I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there’s a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. That’s just a fact.”
Again, he says he does not know all the facts, but he is willing to then go on about race and it having a direct correlation between it and police. That is not someone who thinks that race should not be an issue, but that it is the issue.
Here is a phrase that the president likes to use “So if these folks want a fight, it’s a fight I’m ready to have.” You tell me, are those uniting words or dividing words. I don’t’ know about you, but when someone wants to fight me, I tend to think they are not my friend, and definitely not looking out for my best interests.
All these things by themselves does not indicate a divider, but as president the man is not a sound bite, and not someone who can allow his deep seated racial issues to control him and his speech and policies, but we are seeing it on an almost daily basis. The child learned early how to control the message, and get what he wants, and we are seeing that too on a daily basis. The teachings of Marx, Mao, Alinsky are those being used to develop and massage the message of this administration.
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