The Daily Sun, Opinion Page, Section C article by Thomas Sowell

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titled, Barrack Obama not a post-racial president. If you did not see it here is a link to the article:

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZTMzMmNlMzM0NGYwNTZjZTUzMTlhNjBjYWFjYzU0ODc=

The article cuts at many Obama issues currently being discussed in many forums and quorums.

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titled, Barrack Obama not a post-racial president. If you did not see it here is a link to the article:

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZTMzMmNlMzM0NGYwNTZjZTUzMTlhNjBjYWFjYzU0ODc=

The article cuts at many Obama issues currently being discussed in many forums and quorums.

btk

I have not been posting for awhile, but this deserves a bump up...and a few sentences brought out.

Folks who think that this is just simple party Obama bashing are just plain WRONG and there are no other words. I have been saying what more and more are realizing and saying for a long time.....My thread on Ben Stein article.."I had to post this"...got me lots of advice like finding other reading material etc from folks who just believe blindly...anyway..from this editorial ...

"Barack Obama has been allied with such people for decades. He found it expedient to appeal to a wider electorate as a post-racial candidate, just as he has found it expedient to say a lot of other popular things — about campaign finance, about transparency in government, about not rushing legislation through Congress without having it first posted on the Internet long enough to be studied — all of which turned to be the direct opposite of what he has actually done after getting elected."

"Those who were shocked at President Obama’s cheap shot at the Cambridge police for being “stupid” in arresting Henry Louis Gates must have been among those who let their wishes prevail over the obvious implications of Obama’s 20 years of association with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Anyone who can believe that Obama did not understand what the racist rants of Jeremiah Wright meant can believe anything."

What does a community organizer do? What he does not do is organize a community. What he organizes are the resentments and paranoia within a community, directing those feelings against other communities, from whom either benefits or revenge are to be gotten, using whatever rhetoric or tactics will accomplish that purpose.

"To think that someone who has spent years promoting grievance and polarization was going to bring us all together as president is a triumph of wishful thinking over reality.

Barack Obama’s past and his present tell the same story. His appointment of an attorney general who called America “a nation of cowards” for not dialoguing about race was a foretaste of what to expect from Eric Holder.

The way Attorney General Holder has refused to prosecute young black thugs who gathered at a voting site with menacing clubs, in blatant violation of federal laws against intimidating voters, speaks louder than any words from him or his president."


To those who now want to call me and others racist....cant stop you. I was called that during the primary and the general election for crtiquing his stand on issues that had nothing to do with race. I wish the Democrats had nominated Clinton or anyone else....I would have strongly considered that as my vote, but this is just Ben Stein and Thomas Sowell. There will be many many more.Someone crticized Ben Stein for a remark on Obama scholarship by pointing out his election as president of Harvard law review...I invite folks to read about the CIRCUMSTANCES surrounding that and what was going on at the time.

The last sentence of this article is a great one....

"An 18th-century philosopher said, “When I speak I put on a mask. When I act I am forced to take it off.” Barack Obama’s mask slipped for a moment last week but he quickly recovered, with the help of the media. But we should never forget what we saw."

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I have not been posting for awhile, but this deserves a bump up...and a few sentences brought out.

Folks who think that this is just simple party Obama bashing are just plain WRONG and there are no other words. I have been saying what more and more are realizing and saying for a long time.....My thread on Ben Stein article.."I had to post this"...got me lots of advice like finding other reading material etc from folks who just believe blindly...anyway..from this editorial ...

"Barack Obama has been allied with such people for decades. He found it expedient to appeal to a wider electorate as a post-racial candidate, just as he has found it expedient to say a lot of other popular things — about campaign finance, about transparency in government, about not rushing legislation through Congress without having it first posted on the Internet long enough to be studied — all of which turned to be the direct opposite of what he has actually done after getting elected."

"Those who were shocked at President Obama’s cheap shot at the Cambridge police for being “stupid” in arresting Henry Louis Gates must have been among those who let their wishes prevail over the obvious implications of Obama’s 20 years of association with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Anyone who can believe that Obama did not understand what the racist rants of Jeremiah Wright meant can believe anything."

What does a community organizer do? What he does not do is organize a community. What he organizes are the resentments and paranoia within a community, directing those feelings against other communities, from whom either benefits or revenge are to be gotten, using whatever rhetoric or tactics will accomplish that purpose.

"To think that someone who has spent years promoting grievance and polarization was going to bring us all together as president is a triumph of wishful thinking over reality.

Barack Obama’s past and his present tell the same story. His appointment of an attorney general who called America “a nation of cowards” for not dialoguing about race was a foretaste of what to expect from Eric Holder.

The way Attorney General Holder has refused to prosecute young black thugs who gathered at a voting site with menacing clubs, in blatant violation of federal laws against intimidating voters, speaks louder than any words from him or his president."


To those who now want to call me and others racist....cant stop you. I was called that during the primary and the general election for crtiquing his stand on issues that had nothing to do with race. I wish the Democrats had nominated Clinton or anyone else....I would have strongly considered that as my vote, but this is just Ben Stein and Thomas Sowell. There will be many many more.Someone crticized Ben Stein for a remark on Obama scholarship by pointing out his election as president of Harvard law review...I invite folks to read about the CIRCUMSTANCES surrounding that and what was going on at the time.

The last sentence of this article is a great one....

"An 18th-century philosopher said, “When I speak I put on a mask. When I act I am forced to take it off.” Barack Obama’s mask slipped for a moment last week but he quickly recovered, with the help of the media. But we should never forget what we saw."Don't worry.... we wont.

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"An 18th-century philosopher said, “When I speak I put on a mask. When I act I am forced to take it off.” Barack Obama’s mask slipped for a moment last week but he quickly recovered, with the help of the media. But we should never forget what we saw."

So, We should take at "face" value "bomb, bomb, Iran" and "There's the ****s from the NYTimes" from Rove to Bush, or "I really love those guys at FOX" from Condi? Or W. gving a a very unwanted, and disrespectful back massage to the Prime Minister of Germany?

People say things out loud that they sometimes regret..perhaps the most graphic description of the "We should never forget what we saw" is watching President G.H.W Bush vomiting all over the Prime Minister of Japan. Actions speak louder than words, right?

If the worst you can tar the President with is that he said "acted stupidly" without really reflecting about it (BTW yes I agree it was a stupid thing to say- but to hang an entire presidency on it borders over paranoia). Let'sconsider the non-comments from congressional republicans who are afraid of offending "Birthers." Doesn't that say a lot about them and what lies behind their masks?

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"An 18th-century philosopher said, “When I speak I put on a mask. When I act I am forced to take it off.” Barack Obama’s mask slipped for a moment last week but he quickly recovered, with the help of the media. But we should never forget what we saw."

So, We should take at "face" value "bomb, bomb, Iran" and "There's the ****s from the NYTimes" from Rove to Bush, or "I really love those guys at FOX" from Condi? Or W. gving a a very unwanted, and disrespectful back massage to the Prime Minister of Germany?

People say things out loud that they sometimes regret..perhaps the most graphic description of the "We should never forget what we saw" is watching President G.H.W Bush vomiting all over the Prime Minister of Japan. Actions speak louder than words, right?

If the worst you can tar the President with is that he said "acted stupidly" without really reflecting about it (BTW yes I agree it was a stupid thing to say- but to hang an entire presidency on it borders over paranoia). Let'sconsider the non-comments from congressional republicans who are afraid of offending "Birthers." Doesn't that say a lot about them and what lies behind their masks?


With all due respect, I humbly suggest that perhaps, PERHAPS, you may have misread the intent and meaning of the attached editorial !

I believe, and could be wrong, that the writer was referring to the background of the sitting President and not simply this one incident !