Malignant Liberal Idiocy

Are Senator Roland Burris’ supporters actually supporters of the senator? Not if they share the opinion of his media consultant, Delmarie Cobb.

From AP News via: TheTelegraph:

CHICAGO (AP) — The black community should help rehabilitate U.S. Sen. Roland Burris’ battered image so he can be elected to a six-year term, then work to find an African-American successor, according to talking points prepared by the senator’s new media consultant.

In a note sent to a member of the City Council’s Black Caucus and later posted on an Internet blog, Delmarie Cobb made it clear she believes the main objective of the black community, regardless of how some might feel about Burris, should be to keep a black person in President Barack Obama’s former Senate seat. (continue reading…)

The “post-racial” candidate who formerly held the fictional Office of the President-elect, would likely be disappointed in the Washington Obamost’s article, “Holder Seen as a Chance To Right Racial Wrongs.” That is unless the “post-racial” idea was a campaign tool, selectively used much like his changing vocal accents and the varying degrees of his radicalism played to just the right level depending on his audience. Now that the dust has settled from the election and its subsequent unpleasant pageantry, we can see what a joke the “post-racial” notion was… courtesy of WaPo’s Carrie Johnson and Krissah Thompson.

This week, Eric H. Holder Jr.’s swearing-in as the nation’s first black attorney general and its top law enforcement official came weighted with heavy expectation that the system could change.

Known as a prosecutor who was unflinchingly tough on crime, Holder, 58, is also a former civil rights lawyer who has mentored young black men. Many advocates view him as the best chance in decades to right what they consider unchecked racial injustice and insensitivity by federal officials.

Civil rights advocates are already outlining a long list of priorities, including changing laws that lead to disproportionate prison terms for blacks, ending racial profiling and stepping up the policing of discrimination in employment and housing.

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I just had the terrible misfortune of listening to the announcement in which Governor Blagojevich named Roland Burris to replace Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate. What started out as a pathetic posturing event staged by a governor whose mental stability is certainly questionable, turned into a serious and blatant playing of the race card.

Congressman Bobby Rush (D – 1st) spoke passionately, on behalf of Burris… but only as a black person. (I will not use the term African American, because I have no evidence that Burris’ ancestors are African and not from some other region of the world!) Rep. Rush focused solely on race and even went as far as to make a veiled threat to any U.S. Senator regarding “going on record” to deny a seat to a black man.

Roland Burris may be a good man, but the race attack by Bobby Rush cannot go unchallenged. Identity politics cannot be tolerated! I know they are practiced all the time and I know they are accepted by most people as a fact of political life, but this was over the top!

Former Black Panther Bobby Rush has issued what sounded almost like a challenge, based strictly on racism, in an attempt to bully the senate and his fellow congressmen into accepting this appointment. As a side note, it was a sad attempt at theater when Burris said he thought he saw Congressman Bobby Rush and asked him if he had something to say, as if the statement by Rush wasn’t planned. Of course, passion aside, Rush sounded like he could barely get the words out, so maybe it was improptu. Otherwise I suggest Congressman Rush seek speech therapy.

In this brave new world of the so-called “post-racial” inhabitant of the newly created (and official-sounding) “Office of the President Elect”, it would appear that “post-racial” means focusing on race and artificial diversity. I suppose “up” will mean “down” in Obama-speak, but on the bright side we can expect “Big Brother” Barry to bring the nation “up.”

The politics of division have not diminished with the election of Barack Obama. It would seem that they will only be magnified and celebrated… in the name of unity (aka division.) Yesterday’s Washington Obamost had an article which highlighted the artificial diversity focus.

“Minority Advocates Watching Obama”

The president-elect has already signaled that he will make a number of historic appointments. Obama is poised to nominate the first black attorney general and one of the nation’s highest-profile women as its chief diplomat. A Hispanic governor is the leading candidate to become commerce secretary.

But as Jarrett recognized early, every appointment he makes to the 15-member Cabinet reduces by one the opportunities he has to make sure another group is represented. It is a zero-sum game that leaves presidents with little wiggle room.

“There are huge expectations on him because he’s the first black president, the first civil rights lawyer, the first president with an Arab middle name,” said Ben Jealous, president of the NAACP.

Identity politics are front and center in The Elliptical Office (the name I am giving The Office of the President Elect.) As an aside, has there ever been a more appropriate name for the president of an organization that seeks special treatment based on race than Ben Jealous?

We are expected to focus on race, ethnicity, and gender (while ignoring that there have been a couple of female Secretaries of State, including a black female) and applaud every appointment that can be shown to be based on identity politics. Given that cabinet positions are to be filled in accordance with a quota system and not necessarily based on the best qualifications, I think there are some groups that risk being unfairly overlooked. Since the forced diversity will be trumpeted, let us compare the actions of the Elliptical Office to the “NEA’s Diversity Toolkit.”

Main Issues

The absence of social justice results in social oppression. Racism, sexism, ageism, classism, ableism, and heterosexism are some forms of social oppression in society. Societies and individuals form hierarchies of oppression in which certain types of oppression are addressed and others are not. Oppression of certain groups or individuals can result in social or legal exclusion, discrimination, inequitable distribution of resources, and emotional and physical consequences.

We know that the inhabitant of the newly constructed Elliptical Office is beholden to the NEA and given his work with domestic terrorist William Ayers on “education reform”, is concerned about social justice, it would appear that he still has some work to do. There are “isms” listed above that may not have been addressed yet in Grand Chancellor Elect Obama’s appointments. We have heard the applause for his focus on racism and sexism. One can argue that his use of Clintonite retreads satisfies the ageism requirement.

Classism will likely go unanswered as Barack Obama indicated at the posh San Francisco fundraiser, that he is an elitist. He might register some members of lower class to vote and exploit their condition for political gain in loyal Alinsky-ite fashion, but no cabinet member will truly represent a lower class. Maybe he can find another elitist former “community organizer” to satisfy the PC/Diversity police.

Ableism is a sticky issue. The fact that he has the Clinton retreads might lend to the argument that he has appointed people with mental and character deficiencies, but I am not sure these will appease the portion of the PC/Diversity Police. This issue is even further complicated by the left’s apparent desire to prevent people with disabilities from being born (or maybe this is just an excuse they use to further their “an abortion in every pot” cause.)

Heterosexism should not go ignored because recent news indicates this particular issue is all the rage! The Elliptical Office will risk losing its luster if it does not make special efforts to engage in sexual preference-based pandering. Assuming there aren’t any interested cross-dressers or that the pregnant man is too busy to participate, “Big Brother” might look to the House of Representatives for the answer. Rep. Barney Frank would provide a two-fer, not only is he a homosexual, but his leadership in protecting Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from prying eyes would make him a logical fit as Barack Obama’s HUD Secretary.

Of course I will be called extremist and hateful for my expression of distaste at this wasteful and divisive approach to personnel decisions. It is unfortunate that in modern society, the conventional wisdom forbids the judging and selection of people based on their merits.

Whether it be the droning from Sunday morning panels in the background or a perusal of internet “news” sources, the relentless spin is enough to make a thoughtful person nauseous. This dizzying assault on reason also had another effect. It helped to crystallize why our country’s electorate just did the unthinkable.

The first abdominal rumble occurred when I turned on Fox News Sunday and long time McCain pusher Bill Kristol was yapping. As a matter of principle I tune out when I see anyone I view as being integral in sticking us with McAmnesty as the sacrificial lamb to the left. This is also why I wouldn’t watch Huckabee’s show if you paid me. I don’t know if there was nauseating spin on Fox News Sunday, but Kristol’s appearance was sickening enough for me.

I must admit that I am something of a glutton for punishment so when I came back into the room after doing some of my domestic duties, I turned on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.” “Big Brother” Barack Obama’s new Chief Enforcer Rahm “The Fish” Emanuel was the featured guest. I didn’t stop to listen to what he had to say. Instead I tuned in again later when the panel was gleefully celebrating the election results. Cynthia Tucker from Atlanta’s rag made sure to inject identity politics into the discussion. The subject of “Big Brother” Barack’s cabinet brought about the inevitable focus on the divisive liberal tactic of race and ethnicity based politics. Tucker proposed that Bill Richardson should be given some prominent post because so many hispanics voted for Obama! These people demand that qualifications should play second fiddle behind skin pigmentation! Thank you, Ms. Tucker for reaffirming exactly which party engages in race baiting!

I look at the panelists that populate these Sunday morning shows and the guests they feature and it hits. This is where a lot of the voters who somewhat pay attention to the political landscape get their information! Traditional news outlets are still informing the opinions of many people that pay SOME attention to politics. I say “some” for two reasons. First, those that get their information from these sources tend to get information that has been filtered through tight mesh Obama-strainer, which is what I am calling the filter the Obama media uses to decide what to publish and more importantly, what to suppress. Second, many people don’t seem to care enough to even want information. Apparently what they catch on a commercial or perhaps over hear at work is good enough for them. I am usually amazed when I talk to people and find that there is so much about The Grand Chancellor Elect that they had never even heard.

Then of course there are those that are informed and they either are hardcore socialists that will let nothing stand in the way of their agenda or they have succumbed to the Obama Kool Aid and believe wealth must be redistributed in order to harmonize the planet.

Back to the spin cycle. Breitbart has a funny article, “Internet revolution that elected Obama could save Earth: Gore!” The bulbous former internet creator is apparently squealing for relevance. No, he is not saying, “Ah created the internet and by proxy, single handedly made St. Barack Grand Chancellor of the Americas!” That may be what he is thinking, but apparently the man with a huge carbon butt-print thinks the internet elected Barack “Born Alive, Let Them Die” Obama and now he wants it used to put himself back in the spotlight.

“The young people who have been inspired by Barack Obama’s campaign and the movement that powered Barack Obama’s campaign want a purpose,” Gore said.

“One of the reasons we were all thrilled Tuesday night is it was pretty obvious this was a collectively intelligent decision.”

The Internet’s critical role in Democrat Obama’s victory in the presidential race against Republican John McCain was a “great blow for victory” in addressing a “democracy crisis” stifling action against climate change, Gore said.

I think The Goreacle is saying that he would love to serve as puppet master to the foolish and properly indoctrinated “young people who have been inspired by Barack Obama’s campaign.” Its a perfect fit, young people use the internet, he created the internet, young people are apt to buy the global warming manure, he profits from peddling said manure. Ah yes, a match made in American manufacturing destroying heaven!

Gore screams for attention as time is running out for him to close the sale. Once the next cooling cycle is in full swing it will be hard to convince even most Obamorons as to the faux threat of anthropogenic global warming! Not to mention he only has one yacht.

The Web has the potential to “revolutionize almost every aspect” of running for US president, according to Gore. He believes that social activism made possible by people connecting and sharing information online is in its infancy.

“What happened in the election opens a full new range of possibilities and now is the time to really move swiftly to exploit these new possibilities,” Gore said of turning the power of the Internet to cooling global warming.

Gore said Obama should announce a national goal of getting all US electric power from renewable and non-carbon energy within the next decade and spend the billions necessary to build an “electrinet” smart power grid.

“Web 2.0 has to have a purpose” Gore said.

“The purpose I would urge is to bring about a higher level of consciousness about our relationship to this planet and the imminent danger we face. We have everything we need to save it.”

Memo to the bloated Goreacle, come to Southern Illinois, step outside, and try to sell your global warming snake-oil with a straight face. Bring a coat, though, because it is chilly here.

The AP via Yahoo News gives cause for alarm with their spin in the article, “Obama reviews Bush orders on stem cells, drilling.”

“I think across the board, on stem cell research, on a number of areas, you see the Bush administration even today moving aggressively to do things that I think are probably not in the interest of the country,” Podesta said in a broadcast interview.

“There’s a lot that the president can do using his executive authority without waiting for congressional action, and I think we’ll see the president do that,” Podesta said.

President Bush has limited federal spending on stem cell research, a position championed by opponents of abortion rights. Obama has supported the research in an effort to find cures for diseases such as Alzheimer’s.

Also, the federal Bureau of Land Management is opening about 360,000 acres of public land in Utah to oil and gas drilling, leading to protests from environmentalists.

“They want to have oil and gas drilling in some of the most sensitive, fragile lands in Utah,” Podesta said. “I think that’s a mistake.”

John Podesta, Clinton hack and president of The Center For American Progress is yet another example of  Obama’s “change” or to the casual observer, bringing back all surviving Clintonians. He spins sweetly about St. Barack’s desire to see that Alzheimer’s gets cured through stem cell research and apparently President Bush has always had it in for Alzheimer’s patients. What the vile bastard fails to mention is the key to the issue of funding, embryonic stem cell research. President Bush had the moral courage to oppose the destruction of human embryos for the sake of “science.” Given that there have been promising breakthroughs from adult and umbilical cord stem cell research and none from embryonic stem cell research, one can surmise that the push for federal funding is mainly an effort to further the pro-abortion agenda. Imagine the horror if the babies that would be destroyed as the subject of theses science experiments were recognized as such. That might harm the image of abortion. Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and NOW can’t have that!

Let’s not forget the second part where Podesta ominously warns that “Big Brother” Barry intends to placate his bark humping supporters at the expense of the citizens of this nation. Of course, if Barry gets enough former Clinton blow-hards to come back, maybe there will be a short term gain in wind power.

If we want to know what Barack Obama will do to our country if even half of his rhetoric was serious we only need to look to his campaign appearances for a recurring subtle clue:

How despicable. Racists are given a national platform for division in this election more than in any other in my memory. (For those of you whiners, please note I said, “in my memory!”) Ideally race would not be an issue, but the racists will have none of it! Under the guise of inappropriately named “equal opportunity” and “equality” these racists fight for special treatment and demand anything but “equality!” Of course in this election one campaign is wielding a racist weapon to be used for bludgeoning anyone that doesn’t support its candidate. I am not going to say which campaign but here are a few hints:

• Bill “Guilty as Hell. Free as a bird!” Ayers
• Rev. “God Damn America” Wright
• Karl Marx
• Saul Alinsky
• Hollywood members of FAG (Film Actors Guild… i.e. “Matt Damon!”)
• Babies left to die in hospital linen closets
• Forcibly spreading a plumber’s wealth around
• A candidate that cares so much… his own brother lives on a buck a month

But none of those hints matter in modern times, no, no, no. (Or as Jeremiah Wright says, “Naw, naw, naw!”) We live in an era of accepted racism and racism, as long as implemented by the acceptable groups is beyond reproach. This racism is a great weapon because any who oppose it are labeled as … racists, only now the bad kind.

Rachel D’Oro has a piece at Townhall.com about some of Alaska’s socially acceptable racists, “Alaska’s minorities feel ignored by Palin.” The title tells me that Rachel D’Oro is probably one of Townhall’s writers that believes Governor Palin doesn’t fit her elitist view of what a vice president should be and from what background a vice president should come. I would personally prefer all Republican elitists to splinter off and form a third party (perhaps The Bow Tie party and George Will could be its chairman.) It is truly sad that a person with values and a working class background is reviled for her values and working class background!

Back to the Alaskan racists, who are upset that not enough was done by Governor Palin to grant special treatment to citizens of Alaska based solely on skin color and ethnicity.

“She has no sensitivity to minorities,” said the Rev. Alonzo Patterson, a Baptist minister and president of the Alaska Black Leadership Conference. “She’s really inciting a lot of African-Americans to get out and vote.”

Since taking office in December 2006, Palin has had a sometimes tense relationship with black leaders, who say they’ve been ignored in their efforts to get more minorities hired in her administration.

Artificial diversity, while popular in the twisted society of today, is just that: artificial. Why do these groups have such a problem with achieving positions based on skills, qualifications, and an ability to do the task? What does skin color have to do with the ability to do any job? I’ll move on while I wait for your answer.

In Alaska, the issue of race relations usually focuses on Alaska Natives, who make up 18 percent of the population. Blacks, in contrast, make up 4 percent.

Patterson and Odom say that when they’ve pressed Palin about diversity in hiring, she gets defensive and even testy.

“If you’re going to embrace the entire country, you need to address the issues here,” said Marilyn Stewart, president of the Alaska Black Chamber of Commerce and a volunteer on Palin’s gubernatorial campaign who has served Republican and Democratic governors. “Most certainly there are qualified minorities who would love to be part her administration. People aren’t asking for her selections to be based on color, but because of qualifications.”

Imagine getting testy when pressed to make hiring decisions based on race! How can the president of something with the word “Black” in its title say the last sentence in the above excerpt? These groups by their very existence make all such decisions based on color! Special treatment based on color (or gender, or nationality) is the obvious purpose of their existence. Artificial forced diversity creates tension. Again, I must ask why these groups believe that the people they represent are not capable of achieving success on there own merits?

Is it that our society as a whole has been so ingrained (or indoctrinated) that racism is acceptable as long as it is directed toward white people? If so, why don’t we let Barack Obama and his Annenberg Challenge partner (and part time terrorist) Bill Ayers convert all public schools to “Social Justice Schools?”

Phyllis Schlafly’s recent column, “The Audacity of Obama“, illuminates (referring to Obama’s autobiography”Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”) the fact the racial strife is central theme in Barack Obama’s adult life. The most striking aspect of this is that Obama seems to have worked toward convincing himself that he was a victim of racial injustice and perhaps sought relevance by injecting racism into his life.

Obama describes how he deliberately separated himself from his multiracial heritage in order to give himself a 100 percent black persona, different and alienated from the white world around him. Obama writes that the book is “a record of a personal, interior journey” to establish himself as “a black American.”

With his new all-black identity, Obama stews about injustices that he never personally experienced, and feeds his warped worldview by withdrawing into a “smaller and smaller coil of rage.” He lives with a “nightmare vision” of black powerlessness.

Was it a romanticized notion of belonging to a grand struggle that moved Barack Obama to plunge himself into a new narrative, one separate from his actual experience? Was it simply that he believed that his path to political power might be most expeditiously paved by this transformation?

Obama’s worldview sees U.S. history as a consistent tale of oppressors and oppressed. He objects to the public schools because black kids are learning “someone else’s history. Someone else’s culture.”

He even criticizes his white grandparents who worked hard to give him a privileged life. Their motives are a mystery to Obama because they came from the “landlocked center” of the United States which, he asserts, is full of “suspicion and the potential for unblinking cruelty.”

Obama grew up in Hawaii, the exemplar of a melting pot of races, yet he sees it as a place of “aborted treaties and crippling diseases brought by the missionaries.” Although his mixed race was not a handicap in Hawaii, he whined that “we were always playing on the white man’s court . . . by the white man’s rules.”

Division has been an ever present vehicle on Obama’s journey to power. His notable, but apparently unimportant association with proud domestic terrorist, William Ayers even seems to have been focused on division. Not only did Barack have to kiss the ring of the terrorist to enter Chicago’s political machine, but his ideas regarding indoctrination of America’s youth must have been aligned with those of Professor Billy The Bomber in order to have been chosen to chair the board of Ayers’ Chicago Annenberg Challenge.

Obama’s website has links to his healthcare plan and his thoughts on civil rights. Both plans are injected with racial, ethnic, and class divisions that oppose the image of a unifier. His healthcare plan (in addition to being “to each according to his need, from each according to his ability”) contains the following :

Tackle disparities in health care. Although all Americans are affected by problems with our healthcare delivery system, an overwhelming body of evidence demonstrates that certain populations are significantly more likely to receive lower quality health care than others. Barack Obama and Joe Biden will tackle the root causes of health disparities by addressing differences in access to health coverage and promoting prevention and public health, both of which play a major role in addressing disparities. They will also challenge the medical system to eliminate inequities in health care by requiring hospitals and health plans to collect, analyze and report health care quality for disparity populations and holding them accountable for any differences found; diversifying the workforce to ensure culturally effective care; implementing and funding evidence-based interventions, such as patient navigator programs; and supporting and expanding the capacity of safety-net institutions, which provide a disproportionate amount of care for underserved populations with inadequate funding and technical resources.

Vote for me because if you don’t “certain populations” and “under served populations” will be denied access to healthcare. Hey, I thought it was the other side that supposedly used racist code words (basically anything that pointed out Obama’s judgment, ideas, and history.)

The civil rights page focuses almost entirely on the racist, bigoted evil that apparently is The United States Of America. After perusing this page, I find myself wondering why so many foreigners try to escape their home countries and flee to this awful nation. I suppose they were hoping one day Barack Obama would ascend to power and use class and race politics to bring “change” (and make this country more like the one they fled.)

Can you believe his own web-site proposes to “End Deceptive Voting Practices“? Does this mean that a President Obama will put an end to the community organizing, voter fraud entity that is ACORN? More from the civil rights page:

The Problem

Pay Inequity Continues: For every $1.00 earned by a man, the average woman receives only 77 cents, while African American women only get 67 cents and Latinas receive only 57 cents.

Hate Crimes on the Rise: The number of hate crimes increased nearly 8 percent to 7,700 incidents in 2006.

Efforts Continue to Suppress the Vote: A recent study discovered numerous organized efforts to intimidate, mislead and suppress minority voters.

Disparities Continue to Plague Criminal Justice System: African Americans and Hispanics are more than twice as likely as whites to be searched, arrested, or subdued with force when stopped by police. Disparities in drug sentencing laws, like the differential treatment of crack as opposed to powder cocaine, are unfair.

If you aren’t a white male, you are a victim of a cruel society! We must do more to ensure you receive fair and special treatment!

Barack Obama’s Record

Record of Advocacy: Obama has worked to promote civil rights and fairness in the criminal justice system throughout his career. As a community organizer, Obama helped 150,000 African Americans register to vote. As a civil rights lawyer, Obama litigated employment discrimination, housing discrimination, and voting rights cases. As a State Senator, Obama passed one of the country’s first racial profiling laws and helped reform a broken death penalty system. And in the U.S. Senate, Obama has been a leading advocate for protecting the right to vote, helping to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act and leading the opposition against discriminatory barriers to voting.

Whoa! I thought he was going to put an end to “deceptive voting practices” and now at the bottom of the page he is touting his participation in such practices? Oh, I get it. He is saying that he can best deal with the deceptive community organizers like ACORN because he is familiar with their inner workings. Makes sense to me.

Remember to vote for the candidate who made himself into crusader for “social justice” to fight against the oppression that kept him from going to good schools and getting a good job… no, that’s not right. Well vote for him anyway, because he says that this country is racist and oppresses minorities despite the fact that his true narrative is evidence to the contrary!

Cross-post from Conservative Common Man:

Jon Cohen and Jennifer Agiesta have a piece in Sunday’s Washington Post with a headline that seems intended to show that white people are racist and if somehow Barry O doesn’t win the presidency it can be attributed to racism. I, of course, assumed it was written by Juliet Eilperin when I read the headline, “3 in 10 Americans Admit To Race Bias.” The headline and the beginning of the article are for the benefit of those that just take a glance and then walk away with the prescribed sense of righteous indignation regarding race relations in the United States. The casual headline reader might reasonably get the impression that the deck is stacked against the propagation of Obamunism, although the casual headline reader probably doesn’t stop to think that he is actually supporting Obama’s version of Communism (Obamunism,) when he supports Obama. Ominously bleak first sentence:

As Sen. Barack Obama opens his campaign as the first African American on a major party presidential ticket, nearly half of all Americans say race relations in the country are in bad shape and three in 10 acknowledge feelings of racial prejudice, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

Of course the libiots at the Post don’t discuss factors such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton promoting racism for profit or programs designed to maintain racial divides. Scholarships for minorities only, hiring quotas, and race-oriented organizations all work together to ensure racial divides will never heal. These factors contribute to the attitudes that the Post laments (before launching into its gleeful “Hope” for racism):

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