Imagine Obama as a white guy --- he is half-white ... maybe more On Aug 30, 1:17 pm, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyone who supported Obama (who had no policies and no experience, only > his race) was/is a racist.**** > > ** ** > > B**** > > ** ** > > August 30, 2012 **** > Race, the Race, and Racism**** > > *By* *Simon de > Hundehutte*<http://www.americanthinker.com/simon_de_hundehutte/> > **** > > Here's the definitive question: would Barack Obama have been elected > president back in 2008 if he had been white? And before anyone reading this > answers with, "Yeah, well, John McCain ran the absolute worst campaign in > modern history!," think about this: no candidate gets to run for president > until he has been properly vetted and selected by his particular party. So > for Obama to even have had the chance to run against the hapless McCain, he > had to have first been "the chosen one" by the Democrats.**** > > In the early months of 2008, long before Election Day, ponder for a minute > how the campaigning and debating would have played out for the Democrat > Party had Hillary Clinton been running against a half-dozen white guys -- > instead of a bunch of white guys and a black guy. Imagine Obama as a white > guy speaking to the crowds with the exact same words, same inflections, > same bravado. Would people have fainted upon hearing lines such as *"This > was the moment the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to > heal"*...or would they have wagged their heads and said, "What a bunch of > vacuous bullcrap"?**** > > When asked on the campaign trail what qualified him to be president, Obama > himself pointed to two things: his experience as a community organizer and > the fact that he was running a winning campaign. In other words, he should > be president because he's smart enough to *win *the presidency. Good > old-fashioned circular logic.**** > > One ebullient Democratic spokesman told the press soon after the election > that his party had indeed chosen the right candidate (Obama instead of > Clinton) because "race trumps sex." (Granted, a President Hillary Clinton > would most likely have been as much a progressive nightmare as Obama, but > that's a whole other article.) **** > > Many on the far left will defend President Barack Obama first and foremost > as a black man. Any time during the past four years, if anyone said > anything negative about the president's policies, the far left immediately > circled the wagons, saying he was being slammed solely because of his race > (most recently, Chris Matthews' line of defense in his interview with Newt > Gingrich). Their reasoning is due to the fact that they know that Obama's > 2008 campaign was centered around "making history" -- he had zero > experience of leadership, and his star-quality persona was literally only > "skin deep."**** > > A couple weeks back, I had the wonderful opportunity of hearing the former > co-chair of Obama's 2008 election team, Artur Davis, speak at a gathering > of about 50 like-minded conservatives. He is an excellent, thoughtful, and > thought-provoking speaker, as he demonstrated on Day One of the RNC, and he > unabashedly shared with us his tale of transition from Obama supporter to > an enthusiastic speaker Tuesday night at the Republican National Convention. > **** > > Mr. Davis stated that he was, like many, spellbound in the early days of > the 2008 campaign, falling hook, line, and sinker for Obama's message of > unity and hope and transparency -- but in his heart of hearts, Artur has > always been a conservative.**** > > One of Mr. Davis' observations, however, seemed off the mark. He stated > that he believed that even if you were a die-hard conservative Republican, > you had to have felt a certain joy that America had gone from slavery to > electing the first black president -- what an historic triumph. **** > > I didn't have the heart to tell Mr. Davis (who is genuinely one of the > nicest and most sincere guys you'd ever want to meet) when I posed with him > for a photo op afterwards that I, for one, never felt anything but > impending gloom-and-doom during every stage of the 2008 campaign. And for > good reason.**** > > When Obama burst onto the scene, I didn't care one whit about the color of > his skin, so I immediately checked out his background -- did my own > personal vetting, as it were. I discovered (and with very little effort) > that Obama was the farthest left of every single senator in Congress; that > he barely voted anything but "present" in the Illinois legislature, and > when he did actually vote "nay," one thing near and dear to his heart was > opposing a law banning live-birth abortion; that he had domestic terrorist > ties; that he was a follower of Saul Alinsky; and that his pastor (worse, * > mentor*) spewed hate speech from the pulpit.**** > > Mr. Davis came late to the conclusion that Obama was wrong for America -- a > conclusion most of us reading and writing for *American Thinker* came to > many, many months before Election Day 2008. Speaking solely for myself, I > have always seen November 4, 2008 as the day Dr. Martin Luther King began > spinning in his grave. "Weren't you listening to me? It's content of > character, *not *color of skin, you nincompoops," I imagined Saint Martin > shouting from on high. (Had King lived, by the way, I believe we would have > had a non-white president long before 2008 -- and someone voted into office > based on substance rather than skin color.)**** > > Too many Americans actually believe that the 2008 election proved, once and > for all, that America is *not* a racist nation. I mean, how can it be > racist if the voters elected a genuine, bona fide African-American to run > its ship of state? Even Glenn Beck recently spent his opening 20-minute > monologue (complete with props) proving this *no-racism-here *actuality.**** > > Racism, however, goes "both ways." There's obviously unacceptable racism, > the racism that has universal recognition -- denying or destroying someone > based on the color of their skin. But these days, there's also > *acceptable*racism -- for example, voting for someone to be president > based on the > color of his skin. Remember the phrase expressed with pride by many > Americans four years ago: "Make history by voting for the first > African-American president"? I think it's unfortunate, but on Election Day > 2008, America proved just how racist it really was. You do something not > because it's historic; you do it because it's right. And because of that > "history making" moment, America is now paying a very steep price -- not > just financially, but in terms of renewed racial tensions and divisiveness.* > *** > > During my opportunity to shake hands with Artur Davis after his informative > and motivating talk, I refrained from sharing my belief that race played > the most significant role in Obama's election. I didn't, however, hold back > from saying that with everybody I know, among my family, friends, and > professional acquaintances, no one -- and I mean *no one* -- "gives a > flying crap about the color of anybody's skin." We live in a post-racial > America *despite* the fact that Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, > not because of it.**** > > A fitting close is to remind one and all of the bumper sticker some > patriots are sporting on their vehicles these days. Its message is as clear > as its simple, block lettering: "If you voted for Obama in 2008 to prove > you're not a racist, please vote for somebody else in 2012 to prove you're > not an idiot."**** > > *Simon de Hundehutte is one of the creative minds > behindwww.SnarxBrothers.com<http://www.snarxbrothers.com/>.***** > > *Page Printed > from:http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2012/08/race_the_race_and_...<http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/08/race_the_race_and_racism.html> > * at August 30, 2012 - 11:22:52 AM CDT****
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