Posted on 08/29/2011 5:26:51 PM PDT by COBOL2Java
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RUSH: An AP-GfK poll: "Obama Faces Trouble with Key Voters -- Whites and women..." It's an AP story, by the way. "Whites and women are a re-election problem for President Barack Obama. Younger voters and liberals, too, but to a lesser extent. All are important Democratic constituencies that helped him win the White House in 2008 and whose support he'll need to keep it next year. An analysis of Associated Press-GfK polls, including the latest survey released last week, shows that Obama has lost ground among all those groups since he took office. ... The nation's high unemployment is weighing on Obama, dragging down his marks for handling the economy."
Dragging down? It's justified! "Sixty-three percent disapprove of the way Obama's handling the economy." That's justified. It makes total sense. "His overall standing has slid, too, after a difficult summer marked by contentious negotiations over the country's borrowing limit" blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But it goes on to say: "White independent voters ... may be the president's biggest challenge now. Just 3 in 10 white independents say Obama deserves to be re-elected and only 41 per cent say he understands the problems of people like them." You know, folks, let's be honest about something that happened in 2008. White guilt was what propelled a great percentage of the white vote for Obama. (interruption)
All right, tell me, El Snerdbo, why are you laughing at that? (interruption) Well, it is! White guilt. It wasn't me. By the way, it was Shelby Steele who said it. Thomas Sowell has said it. White guilt. Shelby Steele wrote several columns, I think even a great book about it. While guilt propelled the vote for Obama, the white vote for Obama! White guilt, that was the source of the "Magic Negro" column in the LA Times if you'll recall. White guilt -- and the white guilt, of course, is over what? Discrimination, slavery, this kind of thing. "We can assuage our guilt by voting for a black candidate and proudly telling everybody we did and that sends the signal, 'We're not racist,'" and they get rid of their guilt.
Well, you can't count on that, but they're gonna rev it up, I guarantee you. Well, I can't guarantee it. My wild guess is that the White House, the president's campaign, is gonna be oriented around trying to gin that back up. I don't know how they're going to do it, but I would not surprised if they do. White guilt. They'll try to revive it. I think they're gonna try to re-create as much in 2008 as they can. Messiah, coupled with Republican obstructionism, all that. Here. I got a sound bite here. I have a sound bite here. This is from yesterday morning, C-SPAN, Washington Journal. The guests are Michelle Bernard, president and CEO of the Bernard Center for Women, Politics & Public Policy; and the author Leonard Steinhorn, the book is By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race.
It was a discussion about the Tea Party and race. Now, I could be mistaken -- I don't have the video, so I haven't seen this -- but I think I know this Michelle Bernard. If it's the Michelle Bernard that I know, she used to run the Independent Women's Forum, which is a conservative, or is a conservative group of women; and if it's the Michelle Bernard I know, she's a commentator on PMSNBC; and if it's the Michelle Bernard that I know, I've been around her several times, and she has been extremely... Well, I've always thought we're on the same side, let's put it that way. I've always thought she was a conservative, with a couple of instances where I might have doubted it. I don't remember what they were. But, anyway, get this. Washington Journal yesterday, Leonard Steinhorn (his book again: By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration the Reality of Race). They're talking about the Tea Party and race. Steinhorn says, "The Tea Party really does represent this very partisan side to the Republican Party. They are very angry their country is changing, and they don't want to let it change," and here's Michelle Bernard.
BERNARD: If you look at Rush Limbaugh, who I believe went on his radio show and said that he doesn't want the president to succeed -- all of us have a moral obligation as Americans to respect the president and to respect the presidency and how you go out and say, I don't want this president to succeed, it's beyond explanation.
RUSH: Now, I hope this is not the same Michelle Bernard I know. Maybe... (interruption) It is the same one? Okay, then she's done a 180. She passes her off as conservative? Okay, she still passes herself off as conservative and she's saying this? She knows exactly what I meant by that, "who I believe went on his radio show and said he didn't want the president to succeed." Do I have to explain this again? Everybody and their uncle knew what I meant at the time. Nobody, nobody really thought that I meant that I wanted the country to fail. I wanted the country to be saved from the guy by virtue of his policies failing. I didn't want him to succeed in implementing his policies, and I think I have been vindicated.
Barack Obama has destroyed, via his policies, the United States economy. I did not want that to happen! I wanted him to fail in the implementation of his policies. And if this is the Michelle Bernard that I know, she knows that's exactly what I meant and yet here... I think, folks, this is the beginning of the ginning up of the race machine. The translation here is: "Limbaugh wanted Obama to fail because he's black." I'm telling you, that's where this is headed. That's all they've got in this campaign. (interruption) Well, it may not fly, but they're gonna play the card, and they're gonna play it as often as they can. Any opposition to Obama is race-based or racist or what have you. That's all they've got. And that's how they hope to gin up the white guilt. Don't doubt me on this, Snerdley. I know these people like the back of my Henderson. I know them like every square inch of my shrinking (again) and glorious naked body. I know what they're gonna do before they do it. (interruption)
How are they going to face the people who are unemployed? They're gonna blame that on the Republicans' obstructionism. You know, again you're getting lost in something. Forget truth. You are expecting them to say something that's truthful. They are not going to be truthful. They are liberals. They are going to try to convince people of lies again. You say, "How can they convince the unemployed?" They probably won't be able to, but they're going to try to suggest that the unemployed are unemployed because of racist opposition to Obama and his policies; that there is a desire for him to fail because he's black.
I am almost as certain as I can be that that's what this little sound bite from Michelle Bernard is setting up. She knows what I meant. She knows exactly what I meant. I've had lunch with this woman! She's a good friend or was of one of the most conservative men in the country, Heather Higgins. This is way, way off the reservation. I guarantee you I know what this is about. This is about, "The opposition to Obama is based on race and you people who don't have a job, it's because Republicans want to see a black man fail. Rush Limbaugh said so!"
That's what that is. That's what's being set up here. Do not doubt me. Now, this is the same Michelle Bernard who commended me for Operation Chaos. That's why I say something's up here. Michelle Bernard of the Independent Women's Forum, "Limbaugh did something positive which helped Barack Obama because he's said to African-Americans, 'Ask the Democrat Party what have they done for you lately,' encouraged African-Americans to force Republicans and Democrats to compete for the black vote. I say to Rush Limbaugh, 'Good job.'" We all know what's coming here. Pure and simple.
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RUSH: By the way, another thing. Michelle Bernard and all the rest of you who are out there purposefully mischaracterizing me and this whole "Obama fails" business, let me turn the question around on you. Do you want Obama to succeed in destroying the US economy? Is that what you want? Do you want more of this? Do you want Barack Obama to destroy the business climate in this country? Do you want Barack Obama to spend this country into such debt that even sperm cells face a tax rate of 78%? Is that what you want? You want this? You want this kind of decline for your country? Is that what you want? Do you want a president who punishes the successful and the achievers?
Here, I'll give you another example of how this is all starting, how it's all being set up here. This is last Monday, so week ago today, it was on NPR's On Point, and the host there, Tom Ashbrook, interviewed Harvard Law professor Randall Kennedy. They were talking about Obama and the politics of race, and the host, Ashbrook, said, "Look at the whole spectrum of white response to this president of color. Where do you see evidence that we have evolved in some direction in terms of racial attitudes and where do you see evidence that we have not?"
KENNEDY: On Inauguration Day, a day when there were some people who did not vote for Barack Obama but who said, you know, this is a wonderful day and, you know, this Inauguration day we're all joined together, a lot of people took that position, but you just played someone, pretty important personage, Rush Limbaugh, said on Inauguration Day he hoped the man failed. He wasn't alone. He wasn't alone.
ASHBROOK: But I'm sure Rush Limbaugh will say, not because he's black, Randall Kennedy.
KENNEDY: Of course he will say that. The question is, is that true? And I don't think it's just because he's black, but is blackness one of the ingredients of the opposition in the far right wing of the United States? Yes, it is.
RUSH: So that's last week. Now, you couple that with Michelle Bernard, and I'm telling you, this is what this campaign is shaping up to be. Snerdley, don't get bogged down in whether what these people are saying is true or not. Whether it's true or not is irrelevant. It's what they can make people believe. And so the effort is officially underway now. So I would once again ask the guest here, Mr. Kennedy, "Mr. Kennedy, do you want unemployment for blacks to be at Depression levels? Do you want, do you support black unemployment at 51%? I do not, and I hoped that that didn't happen. Do you support the assault on the American business climate? Do you support the assault on success and achievement in this country? Do you want more of the economic destruction that we have had in the last three years?"
Turn the question around on these people. "Ah, Rush Limbaugh, said he hoped the president failed." Okay, so you want more of what we got? You like what Obama's doing? You are in the 38% who approve of this, according to Gallup, is that what you want us to know of you? You people can try this, but we're not dealing with somebody who's afraid of you and who's gonna beg you to shut up and stop talking about me and gonna cower in the corner in fear over your attempt at branding me racially motivated. I don't have to ask permission to be unleashed. You remember Maxine Waters, she went up there to Detroit, and she's talking to some of her constituents, as a representative of the black caucus, and she had to ask permission to be unleashed against Obama because of the sad state of black unemployment in this country. And her audience said, "You're unleashed!" Well, I don't have to ask to be unleashed to ask questions of our president, pure and simple.
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>>>>>Barack Obama has destroyed, via his policies, the United States economy.
Obama was hired because he was black.
He’ll be fired because of his actions.
They are going to go for the race angle every chance they get. It will start out as shown above that the white man “doesn’t want a black man to succeed” to “you better vote for Obama, or you’ll see the cities burn” if the economy doesn’t improve markedly in the next 12 months.
Psst...you guys who voted for Obama in 2008!
You have proven you are not a racist, by voting for a black man for president. You are now free to vote for whomever you want; use your vote wisely.
My personal White Guilt Bank Account Balance: $0
I think there’s another angle too. I know a ridiculous number of highly-educated middle to upper middle class whites who voted for Obama because of his skin color and who drank the “post-partisan, hope and change, he’s so smart, etc., etc.” BS. Here’s the problem - these highly-educated people are among the LAST to admit that they really, really messed up. They didn’t get to where they are by messing up. What is going to be their fig leaf for 2012 - Obama may be bad, but X is even worse. Could be Palin, Bachmann, Perry, Romney, etc., etc. - the media is going to POUND into them that the Republican is even worse than the Obama clown show, and (oh by the way) that Obama hasn’t been a clown show. That’s my biggest fear - these people who know in their heart that Obama is a disaster but don’t want to admit how badly they messed up by voting for this Marxist fool in the first place.
He didn’t get elected by any white guilt from this Freeper.
I have seen too much Affirmative action, too many tests standards lowered, too many idiots promoted over deserving people to have any white guilt.
The hate vote is all that is left, and that, I'm afraid, will be easier to stir up. The fools who cast a hate-Bush vote for obama numbered in the millions. Now they just have to adjust their aim to fling hate at another target--the banks, corporations, Sarah Palin, Dick Cheney, Rush, whoever the republican candidate is. Much of the Black vote is simple race-hatred.
Always remember that hate is what underlies the liberal terrain. Hate is their bedrock. That will never change.
I heard Rush talk about this today and he is right on the money. My theory is that the democrats were in panick mode after seeing Kerry lose and that is the only reason that they chose Obama. That way they could use the gimmick of being the first black President in order to turn out voters who usually dont show up.
I honestly hope that if they use this tactic again that conservatives stop playing nice on the issue of race. The democrat party is the party of KKK and have used terrorism all throughout their history. After the KKK it was groups like the Weather Underground and other radical groups. Unions have used terrorism as well.
The progressive movement and their policies are largely based from their days of the KKK. Abortion (eugenics) was championed in front of the KKK. The democrats forst called for Seperation of Church and State because republicans had been inviting blacks to religious ceremonies at the Capital and then this policy was enshrined by a lawyer for the KKK.
There needs to be a full force attack on the democrat party and their history. They are the party of slavery, socialism, terrorism and treason.
The democrats love using accusations of racism and terrorism against conservatives. It is time to call them out and make them defend themselves against their own history.
Just ain’t goin’ work this time...been there done that...time to move on, folks.
I experienced white guilt over the “plight of persons of color” over a weekend in 1972.
When I was 14.....
If they voted for Obama because he was black, they proved precisely the opposite.
Where was this person when they trashed Reagan and Bush?
The left considers balance, compromise, and fairness as conservatives giving in.
I have no guilt.
The blacks owe the whites reparations at this point.
Shhh....don’t tell them that. You want their votes or not?
"If you voted for Obama in 2008 to prove you weren't racist, vote against him in 2012 to prove you're not an idiot"
Might be a black person, or an East Asian, or even a white woman from the Great White North ~ whatever.
Best to keep the "white guilt" to the family reunions where you can go apologize to your niece's third new husband ~ or maybe take her 6 chilluns, and his 3 out to a movie or something. I'm sure that'd get that out of your system (should there be any residual in there).
Totally true. Have believed this since Obama first starting gaining traction in the Dim primaries. And the late Geraldine Ferraro, a Hillary supporter, was chastised by her own party for saying on Fox that Obama was winning primaries because he is black.
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