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Simpering sycophants of the American media

Media beginning to see Obama’s warts



It took some time, but the limp-wristed sob sisters of the former mainstream media have finally noticed that Barack Obama isn’t all that he’s cracked up to be.

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The simpering sycophants of the American media didn’t seem to notice that Obama’s promises amounted to nothing, as he incessantly spoke of “hope” and “change”, abstract concepts not backed up by any concrete proposals. And when he did float an idea that had a little meat, no one bothered looking at it seriously enough to note its inherent flaws, as in his promise to Ohio voters to scrap the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and his idea to take on Big Oil’s “excessive” profits by releasing America’s strategic oil reserves in order to flood the market and bring the price down. The man’s inherent contradictions had to jump up and bite the media in the # in the form of the right Rev. Jeremiah Wright whose hateful and racist invective against “rich white people” finally made the nightly news. Obama’s attempts to distance himself from the remarks, but not from the man who made them, fizzled as he came across as a nice guy whose moral compass was badly out of whack. After all, Obama had been attending the Reverend Wright’s church for over 20 years, which made him a willing participant in all that went on there. His efforts to say that he’d never heard any of Rev. Wright’s hate speech left voters with the impression that Barack Obama had a really bad hearing problem, of worse, he was a liar. These developments have clearly changed the complexion of the Democratic race for the presidency, as voters ponder the choice of either voting for Hillary Clinton, arguably the presidential candidate with the highest negative ratings of any candidate in history, or Barack Obama, whose recent efforts to mitigate the hateful invective of his spiritual advisor as the harmless rants of a “crazy uncle” type, have fallen flat among voters. Polls conducted the week following Obama’s Philadelphia speech on race in America have indicated a definite shift in voter attitudes, despite the speech’s brilliant composition and masterful delivery. Hillary Clinton’s numbers are now trending higher than Obama’s, even among blacks in South Carolina. So the pundits of America should finally be abandoning their exercise in electoral affirmative action and looking at Obama as if he were just another politician running for office. Or are they? Robert Novak flatly declared Obama’s speech to be a political failure, albeit not for reasons related to Obama’s qualifications, but for reasons related to his race. Novak wrote in the Washington Post, “In rejecting the racist views of his longtime spiritual mentor but not disowning him, Obama has unwittingly enhanced his image as the African American candidate -- as opposed to being just a remarkable candidate who happens to be black.” Jonetta Rosa Barras, also of the Washington Post, commented that Obama needed to distance himself from rants such as those made by the Rev. Wright and blames the whole kerfuffle on the Hillary Camp, which she claims made the news media aware of Wright’s invective. In case you think the Washington Post is the only paper writing this kind of stuff, you can find it in others as well. Peter Wallsten of the Los Angeles Times blames Obama’s current political problems on the candidate’s tendency to associate with angry black people quick to blame whites for their troubles. You can see where this is heading—it’s still all about race. Very few pundits are criticizing the substance of the things Obama is saying and still focusing on his blackness (or Whiteness, as Bomani Armagh also did in an op-ed piece in the Washington Post). Where is the criticism of Obama’s cockamamie idea of depleting the nation’s strategic oil reserves in efforts to bring down the price of gas? How long would it take for those reserves to be totally used up, at which time prices would once again escalate? What would it do to the country’s ability to withstand an energy crisis of the kind the inept Jimmy Carter presided over back in 1979? What about the disingenuous promise to scrap NAFTA that Obama made to Ohio voters a few weeks back? Every pundit in America was wink-winking and nudge-nudging as they gave Obama a pass on his blatant story telling. The Democratic primaries are still largely about identity politics and not about policy. Voters will be facing the question of who they want to institute ultra liberal programs, such as socialized health care, higher taxes and surrender in Iraq, a woman or a black? Until Americans can see their way clear of these types of identity traps the quality of public discourse will continue to wallow in the gutter.


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Klaus Rohrich is senior columnist for Canada Free Press. Klaus also writes topical articles for numerous magazines. He has a regular column on RetirementHomes and is currently working on his first book dealing with the toxicity of liberalism.  His work has been featured on the Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, among others.  He lives and works in a small town outside of Toronto.

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