OBAMA, WORKIN TO STIR UP A LITTLE HATE AND DISCONTENT?

In what has been described by other as being a fiery summons to a crucial voting bloc, Barry "Almighty" told blacks on Saturday that they need to quit crying and complaining and "put on your marching shoes" and to follow him into battle for jobs and opportunity. I'm curious here, just what exactly might he have been calling for here? Not that I would ever imply that what I though he was doing was calling for rioting in the streets, because he would never to do anything like that. Right? He wouldn't advocate such a thing just to get re-elected, would he? Barry's speech came at the annual awards dinner of the Congressional Black Caucus and was his answer to increasingly vocal griping from black leaders that he's been giving away too much of the farm 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," Barry told an audience of some 3,000 in a darkened, no pun intended, 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," Barry said. So what I guess he's really saying here is that in order for him to turn those demands sought by the blacks, essentially at the expense of everyone else, into a reality, he's going to require their unique brand of mindless support. 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. Naturally there was no mention of those policies of his that have only made matters worse. "So many people are still hurting. So many people are barely hanging on," Barry said, then added: "And so many people in this city are fighting us every step of the way." That there are people fighting his policies is a true statement, what was implied here is that the opposition is based on race, which, while it is nothing more than a lie, has become the standard fare that we have now come to expect from Barry. What these people, to whom he refers, are actually "fighting him every step of the way" on, is his radical agenda that has accomplished nothing more than his having now officially broken the bank and his massive growth of government.


But Barry 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." Topping his to-do list, he said, is getting Congress to pass his bogus jobs bill he sent to Capitol Hill two weeks ago. Barry said the package of payroll tax cuts, business tax breaks and infrastructure spending will benefit 100,000 black-owned businesses and 20 million African-American workers. Republicans have indicated they're open to some of the tax measures, but oppose his means of paying for it: hiking taxes on top income-earners and big business. Just how, exactly, Barry's recent proposal would assist 100,000 black-owned businesses remains more than just a little unclear, but that didn't stop this crowd from enthusiastically supporting it, once more they seem to be totally oblivious to the fact that they're being played for nothin but saps by their hero, Barack Hussein Obama.


And something that I'm sure comes as no big surprise to anyone, Caucus leaders made it clear that they remain fiercely protective of the nation's first African-American president, even though in recent weeks they've been increasingly vocal in their discontent, especially over black joblessness. The fact that they remain so protective of Barry does nothing if not to make it painfully clear that actual measurable results matter very little to these people. The only thing that's remains of the utmost importance to blacks is the fact that Barry is black and that he's president. All else pales in comparison. The fact that he has done absolutely nothing but to make it more difficult for them to make their situation better, seems to have very little impact on the level of their devotion to Barry. And in what was likely to be the most honest statement made was when the caucus chairman, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri, recently told McClatchy Newspapers that "If Bill Clinton had been in the White House and had failed to address this problem, we probably would be marching on the White House." That statement lays bare just how important a part that race plays in the behavior of these people. You can continue to be a complete screw up, but if your black, that's ok. At least you're a black screw-up.


Like many Democratic lawmakers, caucus members have been more than a little dismayed by what they perceive to be Barry's needless concessions which they claim he has made to the GOP on far too many occasions, especially during the summer's talks on raising the government's borrowing limit. Cleaver, in what I can only assume was an attempt of his be "clever," famously called the compromise deal a "sugar-coated Satan sandwich." But Cleaver said his members also are keeping their gripes in check because "nobody wants to do anything that would empower the people who hate the president." Why is it that it's always morons like this guy who repeatedly talk about hate? Then, of course, we have the bizarre ranting of Rep. Maxine "Dumb as a Doorknob" Waters, D-Calif., who caused a bit if a stir last month by complaining that Barry's Midwest bus tour had bypassed black districts. She told a largely black audience in Detroit that the caucus is "supportive of the president, but we're getting tired." Trust me, there Maxine, when I say that the rest of us are getting pretty tired of Barry too, on a scale you can't even possibly imagine.


Last year, Barry addressed this same little gathering and implored blacks, in his typical racist dogma fashion, to get out the vote in the midterm elections because Republicans were preparing to "turn back the clock." Yup, those racist old cross burning Republicans were salivating over they're finally having the opportunity to do nothing more than to return this country to those glory days of segregation. Are there are still a sufficient number of morons who actually believe this crap? Really? But as we all remember, what followed in those same midterm elections was a Democratic rout that Barry himself acknowledged as a "shellacking." Where blacks had turned out in droves to help elect him in 2008, with 99 percent of those who voted, voting for him, there was a dramatic drop-off just two years later. Some 65 percent of eligible blacks voted in 2008, compared with a 2010 level that polls estimate was somewhere between 37 percent and 40 percent. Final census figures for 2010 are not yet available, and for what it's worth, off-year elections typically draw far fewer voters. But while that may serve to explain things to a certain extent, I think Barry's team may be concerned that what's behind the lower black turnout might run a bit deeper than merely using the historical lower turnout for midterms, to explain things away.


So demonstrating behavior that would seem to reveal just a hint of desperation, we find Barry working to motivate blacks, as best he knows how, and by utilizing those tried and true Democrat tactics. That being all manner of smear tactics intended to instill fear and hate. The reducing of the entire process to sophomoric name calling for the simple reason that they have no record, or at least one that most Americans would knowingly vote for, on which they can run, is typical for Democrats. So they resort to accusing the opposition of being nothing more than a bunch racist, sexist, homophobes. So this most recent example of said behavior was very clearly demonstrated by Barry as he put himself out front doing his best to manipulate the weak-minded. His reason for doing so was all in an effort to make these folks remain very securely on the Democrat plantation and under the firm control of their Democrat overseers. After all, if you are a black living in America, independent thought is something not be tolerated. To exhibit such a tendency places one at risk of not only being booted off of the plantation, but to, in turn, be lumped in together with all of those other racist, sexist, homophobes. By speaking your mind you automatically become a traitor to your race, and made to suffer that fate worse than death, being referred to as the proverbial "Uncle Tom."