Dems and Liberals - Stop With the Race Card and Political Correctness Game

The last attempt for liberals, whenever they are losing an argument, is to call their opponents' names and use the race card… and always has been and Americans are tired of it.

Yesterday I heard from two friends that I share my thoughts and writings with; one by email and one live on the phone. Both their comments kept me up and have left me thinking all day.
At first I didn’t think much of it. One friend is a Black female that served as a sergeant in the Army, was always fairly conservative in most arenas, but changed her faith from Southern Baptist to Muslim when it was cool in 60’s or 70’s, watches and generally agrees with Lou Dobbs’ border policy, second husband was Caucasian (first was Black), voted for Bush and 2008 voted for Obama. My second is a Hispanic-American gal who barely speaks a word of Spanish, works for the OC school district, has as many Caucasian friends Hispanic, is a good Christian involved at church and we both belong to a group that is completely ethnically balanced… Black, White, Asian and Hispanic and nobody notices. She didn’t vote for either presidential candidate because she didn’t like either one and isn’t very political.
But all of a sudden I heard both of them repeating the hateful rhetoric and untruths being presented by the mainstream media, without even thinking about it… The liberal reverse racism game. I also realized that they had no idea of half of things that are going on because they weren’t being reported… As Charles Gibson of ABC said today… “I had no idea what the ACORN story even was.”
Even though America voted for Barack Obama and he won with a handy margin, “White People aren’t comfortable with a Black President”?!?
I have spent the past 14-months writing and blogging about the election and events since Obama’s election, so probably read, watch and attend more political material every day from the spectrum of available information than the average 20 people do in a week.
And people… I never heard anyone accuse the president of anything or say anything about him because of race. It is because they don’t like his liberal politics, big spending or the socialistic types he surrounds himself with. It is the left… the Dems and the White House that are using race to try and make their points or belittle the opposition.
One of the big claims is that there are no Blacks at the Tea Parties… Hmmm… I saw several, as well as other people of color, and we have two interviews and a photo here.

Some Blacks Now Have Doubts About Obama – Star Parker

"Educate Yourself, If it’s to be it’s up to me!
Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can Do About It" ...Star Parker

"The Black Community has been the Pawn and Victims of the Left Movement for Years"... David Horowitz

Despite slurs, intimidation, and widely reported physical attacks from union thugs, a few brave black souls have showed up at tea party protest rallies.
I'm getting more and more calls from black conservatives around the country running for local office. I see black conservative Web sites popping up and there's even black rappers rapping a conservative message. (Full Story)

Being called a racist in today’s society is about the worst thing you can be called, so liberals know that people will do anything to avoid being called one. The Left has learned that lesson will through the actions of people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.

Democrats see race factor for Barack Obama foe… (Or use it because they can)

The whispers among some of his allies: that those who loathe Obama are driven in part by racism. Demonstrators are shown during a rally at Freedom Plaza in Washington on Saturday.

AUSTIN – Eight months into Barack Obama’s presidency, as criticism of his administration seems to reach new levels of volume and intensity each week, the whispers among some of his allies are growing louder: That those who loathe the nation’s first African-American president, and especially those who would deny his citizenship, are driven at least in part by racism.
It’s a feeling that’s acutely felt among those supporters of Obama who are themselves minorities. Conversations with Democrats at an otherwise upbeat Democratic National Committee fall gathering here, an event largely devoted to party housekeeping, reflected a growing anger at what many see as a troubling effort to delegitimize Obama’s hold on the office.
“As far as African-Americans are concerned, we think most of it is,” said Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas), when asked in an interview in between sessions how much of the more extreme anger at Obama is based upon his race. “And we think it’s very unfortunate. We as African-American people of course are very sensitive to it.”
Johnson is a somewhat-reserved, nine-term member of Congress, more gracious southern lady than racial bomb-thrower. She enjoyed a warm personal relationship with fellow Texan George W. Bush when he was in the White House and fondly recalled their ability to get along, divergent politics aside.
But she said the disdain for this president, especially sharp in her home state, had reached a point where it had become necessary to speak out.
“It’s hurting the spirit of this country,” Johnson said, citing concerns about what the rest of the world may think about a powerful nation where a significant segment of the population does not accept their elected leader as legitimate.
Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.), chairman of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, agreed with his colleague that elements of the opposition can’t accept the reality of a black president.
“There’s a very angry, small group of folks that just didn’t like the fact that Barack Obama won the presidency,” Honda said, adding: “With some, I think it is [about race].
Said Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) about the race factor: “There are some issues that have been swept under the rug and we’re not witnessing them come out.”
But it's still a sensitive enough issue that the party doesn’t broach it directly.
Virginia Governor and Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine used a speech Friday to single out those conservative critics whose hostility toward President Obama goes deeper than just opposing his policies — but without mentioning that which many in his party believe drives the anger.
“Republican leaders…rose up to say that he did not deserve honorary degrees from colleges that were giving him degrees last spring, members of Congress, Republican members of Congress, are spreading bogus rumors about where the president was born, and they whipped up opposition all across this country when President Obama wanted to give a speech to our nation’s schoolchildren to tell them to take responsibility, study hard and stay in school,” Kaine said here at the party’s fall meeting.
He demurred when asked later whether this often-personal criticism is rooted in contempt for a president who happens to be black.
Other Democrats, not as constrained by the office they hold, are more outspoken about what they see as the racism aimed at Obama.
“We think all of it is!” exclaimed Gwen Dawkins, a Democratic activist from Michigan and retired state employee when asked to what degree the fervent opposition to Obama was driven by his skin color.
Dawkins also touched on a common, if mostly privately-held, frustration in the African-American community—that with exceptional difficulties at home and abroad, Obama is bearing a significantly heavier burden than most presidents and his naysayers would prefer him to founder so as to validate their fears about a black president.
“Black people have lived under white presidents since day one,” Dawkins observed, “So would you give him a chance?”
Donna Brazile, a longtime Democratic strategist and a DNC vice-chair declined to, as she put it, “put all the president’s opponents in a box,” with regard to their motivation. But she said more and more average African-Americans are approaching her with grave worries about Obama.
“They’re worried sick about his safety,” Brazile said. “When they see some of these statements, the guns at his rallies, some of the hate talk on TV and radio, there’s a natural tendency because of the wounds that built up for centuries without being addressed to worry. It’s a natural concern for them to worry.”
Obama himself is cagey about the question of race-based opposition and, throughout his brief tenure, has gone to some lengths to downplay the consequences of his race. He and his advisers avoid screaming, or even whispering, racism for fear of how it will come off with those white voters who may be open-minded but also don’t want a president in the Sharpton-Jackson mold.
The administration has been burned when Obama did step out of his usual post-racial posture to touch the nation’s true third rail. When Obama declared at a nationally-televised news conference this summer that the Cambridge police officer who arrested Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates had acted “stupidly,” polls showed many whites uneasy about that judgment.
The conflagration, in part driven by a race-consumed news media, blazed for days, obscuring the president’s healthcare reform push and dying out only after Obama brought together the cop and the professor for a détente at their much-ballyhooed beer summit.
“I don’t think the president believes that people are upset because of the color of his skin,” said White House Press Secretary and Obama confidante Robert Gibbs on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday.
It's in both parties' interest to keep the race issue from consuming the debate. Democrats, already facing considerable opposition to their ambitious agenda, fear angering centrist white voters who may be turned off by open accusations of racism. And Republicans, trying to rebuild their party and discard the image of a white male club, surely don't want their own legitimate policy criticisms of the president to be obscured and degraded by those on the right whose contempt for Obama may indeed be fueled by race.
Republicans see an important distinction between Obama critics who are genuinely worried about his tax, spending and national security policies and those whose fears go beyond the president’s liberalism.
But for some Democrats, it’s difficult to make that distinction when conservative marchers take to Washington bearing images of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Obama that read, “He had a dream, we got a nightmare,” and when a Southern congressman shouts at Obama while he addresses Congress in a demonstration of disrespect never seen when a white president spoke in that hallowed hall.
Kaine, like his close friend the president, a post-baby boomer who has thought considerably about race but is politically smart enough to downplay the issue, largely avoided the question after his speech here Friday.
“There’s anxiety and I assume that there’s a lot of reasons for it,” Kaine said initially, trying to avoid a news-making declaration while also not denying what many of his party brethren believe is plain on its face.
He settled on this: “Something is going on there. I can’t figure it all out. I’m not a psychologist. But my goal is to beat it and to continue to put the facts on the table and count on the American public [who] when you make it plain, I think they understand what’s right and they go with you.”
Brazile said there was little upside in Obama’s administration weighing in on the racial debate.
“You cannot have a conversation when the elephant in the room begins to dance,” Brazile said. “For the White House to exhaust their political capital to make this a teachable moment – as they did with Gates and [Sergeant James] Crowley -- would be hugely distracting. The president should continue to focus on jobs and healthcare.”
She added: “Everything in his in-box is already marked urgent.”

Yes… We are Black and we were in Washington D.C. at the 9/12 March

Source: Politico.com

The Race Card was pulled out again when Joe Wilson called the President a liar, whenever average Americans speak out or protest at tea parties or town halls, and when anyone questions Obama’s policies. “When it is used so often, it cheapens the accusation and the effect”, said Brit Hume earlier today. Juan Williams, Newt Gingrich, Charles Krauthammer, Star Parker, Bernie Goldberg and the list goes on, all said that the Wilson incident did not appear to be racially motivated and that we cannot let ourselves have a Black President… but just a President that we can all disagree with.

Juan Williams (a black pulitzer prize winner) said every American should feel free to question the president and that accusing someone of being a racist is a serious, serious matter and should only be used when it is TRUE. Questioning the president, any president, is being a responsible American! There has been more racist talk since Obama came into office and declared this the new 'post-racial' era. And the side thing is that the race baring has come from his party, his followers and his administration. We must remember that America looked the other way in the Jeremiah Wright issue.

Remember when the left does not have the facts to win their argument, wants to change your focus off the real issues or they are losing... they always pull the race card... And they just don't respond to the real issues and questions being asked.... HMMMM? Tea Partiers, Town Hallers, Glenn Beck and even the GOP leaders in the House and Senate have been asking questions and making suggestions since January... but except when Obama says his door is always open to constructive criticism and input to sound good in a speech... He and the White House won't respond, won't answer the questions and won't meet with the GOP. The last meeting with GOP leaders on Healthcare was in April?!?

What you have is the far lefties… former President Jimmy Carter, columnist Maureen Dowd, hate mongers Bill Maher and Jon Stewart and down right crazies like Jeanine Garafelo… throwing out the made up hate messages causing incidents like below...

Video: Crowd Cheers as White Student Beaten by Black Students on School Bus over a seat dispute.

When you read about the backgrounds of many of Obama’s Czars, and listen to the comments of now ex-czar, Van Jones, it leaves little question as to where the problem and hate mongering lies. And as Obama said himself on the campaign trail “Judge me by the people I have around me” Mr. President… that is pretty scary!

White Guilt

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