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ParallaxAdHoc on Thursday, April 23, 2009 4:06:14 AM
“A common denominator with Obama's easy emphasis on racial divides . . . form[s] a disturbing pattern seen earlier with the off-handed remarks about "typical white person," the stereotyping of rural Pennsylvanians along lines of class and race, and the 20-year long patronage of a clearly racist preacher.”
---Victor Davis Hanson at http://victorhanson.com/articles/hanson042209.html
“Arabs are told to be comfortable because of Barack’s names, first and second and third, his Muslim father, his non-traditional background. In other words, anytime anyone in the US is told that racism is lurking its ugly head around every corner, be assured that Obama will broadcast his race and heritage to Europeans, Turks, Arabs, and Latin Americans.”
---Victor Davis Hanson at http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/
Speaking of racial divides, Barrack Hussein Obama did consciously select his racial identity. Despite his white mother and his white grandparents who raised him, he went off as a teenager to seek out his black identity. Contrast this with Tiger Woods who publicly objected to being identified as an African American on the grounds that it is disrespectful of his mother’s Asian heritage to be so labeled.
For the record, I am a first-generation American. I am a non-white, married into three generations of a white family. I am a registered Independent who voted for George W. Bush in 2004 as my first exercise in citizenship. I voted for John McCain in 2008. I am outraged that President Obama takes pride in reminding the world at every opportunity that he is not one of us because of his pigmentation and his non-white heritage.
It is so unbecoming of a President to disown history for the trivial reason that he was not yet born when the event took place (i.e., Bay of Pigs). When he went to Turkey to renounce the Judeo-Christian moral foundation of this country as no longer operative because it had given way to shared secular values, he disinherited the country from the ages of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, from Western civilization, not to mention the religious mores of the Founding Fathers. It is precisely because of its Judeo-Christian heritage that the United States has turned out to be the most charitable nation on earth.
A president is supposed to be the president of all the people: those who voted for him and those who voted for the other guy, or just plain did not vote for anybody. He is sworn to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution.” That appears to be a very tall order when you are an American president who is not even proud to be an American, if not downright ashamed of being an American!