Posted on 08/03/2010 8:41:00 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
You expect Republican politicians to criticize Democratic administrations and vice versa. But when Democrats start criticizing Democratic administrations, that is news. Someone once said that the headline "Dog bites Man" is not news, but "Man bites Dog" is. We are now starting to get "Democrat bites Democrat" news. Long-time Democratic pollsters Patrick Caddell and Douglas Schoen last week took on one of President Barack Obama's most bitter betrayals of his campaign rhetoric and the high hopes of people who voted for him.
Their op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal dealt with race, and it pulled no punches: "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 divisive politics on his behalf."
Cynical? This man with the lofty rhetoric and sermonizing style? Only if you follow his deeds, instead of his words.
Part of the polarization that Barack Obama has caused among the American public has been due to the fact that some people do not look behind rhetoric and symbolism. Such people are prime candidates to become part of the Obama cult. Those who look only at deeds tend to become critics. But those who closely follow both his words and his deeds are the most outraged of all, because of the gross contradictions between those words and those deeds.
Caddell and Schoen go all the way back to Jeremiah Wright in tracing Barack Obama's actual track record when it comes to race. That Obama spent 20 years in the church of a man preaching racial hate should have told us all we needed to know.
That Obama as President of the United States, on nationwide television, could attack a white policeman who arrested his friend Henry Louis Gates, while admitting that he didn't know the specifics, should have alerted even those who had bought the excuses about Jeremiah Wright.
Caddell and Schoen also mention the refusal of Obama's Justice Department to prosecute black thugs who stationed themselves outside a voting place to intimidate whites who came there to vote. It was caught on tape but the career Justice Department attorney who handled the case was told to drop it-- and resigned rather than be part of a sordid coverup.
Now, Caddell and Schoen argue, the Obama administration's coming to the rescue of illegal immigrants in Arizona is more of the same race-based politics, in this case to win the Hispanic vote.
What Barack Obama and his followers want is called "comprehensive immigration reform." What that amounts to is some form of amnesty up front, combined with a promise to strengthen the border later. That political game has been played for years, and it has roped in some weak-kneed Republicans, as well as being a mainstay of Democratic politics.
Regardless of what immigration policy anyone believes in, the government cannot carry out that policy until after it has first gained control of the borders. Regardless of what Washington politicians may say about how many immigrants should be allowed into the country, or on what basis, none of that matters when the real decision is in the hands of innumerable other people, who can simply climb over a fence along the border and come on in whenever they feel like it.
Even if they get caught, the most that is likely to happen to them is that they get sent back to try again later. In many cases in the past, they have been issued legal documents ordering them to appear in court-- and were released inside the United States. Why anyone would think that people who disregarded the border and the fence would take a piece of paper more seriously defies logic.
That doesn't mean that Washington politicians were stupid. They were political, which is worse. The point was to win Hispanic votes, even though not all Hispanics believe in open borders.
President Obama would rather have an issue with which to win the Hispanic vote than to have a bipartisan bill that would simply take control of the borders. Such a bill would help the country but that obviously takes a back seat in an election year. Even some members of Obama's own party are uneasy with such cynicism.
---
Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His Web site is www.tsowell.com./sowell-democrats-bite-democrats.php#ixzz0vbY7eTQn
PING
Courtesy ping. Thinking of you on that quote c_I_c.
Even Joe Bite-Me? /sarcasm
The question is when, if ever, are they going to get wise and come to the conclusion that Obama needs to go?
Sowell hits the nail on the head again.
As many non-leftists have predicted, most leftists have been too busy overreaching on all of the issues to even care about the consequences of doing so.
Sowell hits it out of the park . . . again.
Team Clinton is on the move...
“Sowell hits it out of the park . . . again”
Does anyone out there do it with such consistency? When talking about Sowell, I like to recommend this exercise: try to remove, or add just one word to his writings without ruining them-it can’t be done!
Thomas Sowell, is by far the most intelligent person currently residing on this planet.
I love Sowell! He tells it like it is.
I will enjoy seeing more cannibalism of Demoncrats.
liberals are emotionally stunted. They never GREW UP, so this should e quite amusing to watch as they lash out at each other.
You are right. They are emotionally stunted.
So don’t be surprised when Obama opens the money taps prior to the elections, that liberal fools will forget all about this.
bttt
I would not be the least bit surprised if BHO’s presidency ends the same way that LBJ’s did.
Rattlesnakes eating their own. I love it!
In the end, Hitler destroyed his own too.
Sowell is one of my heroes these days.
Keep in mind:
1. The Cloward and Piven strategy is to create chaos WITHIN the Democrat(ic) party: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward–Piven_strategy
2. Obama is a narcissist.
I’m a conservative so not exactly the brightest rock in the pile but these 2 seem to be tied together somehow.
The question is when, if ever, are they going to get wise and come to the conclusion that Obama needs to go?
George Soros and the others behind the scenes will decide that. 0bama had better pray to Allah that the secret service is on it’s toes.
I think the other half heard a theory on Rush today that the Rangel and Waters charges arose out of a vendetta against anyone who sided with Hillary in 08.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.