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Thursday, October 28, 2010

I Guess "Post-Partisan Healer" Means Different Things to Different People

Obama's latest quotes:

In an interview on a Spanish-speaking radio station, he said that Latinos need to "punish their enemies" in the upcoming election by voting against Republicans.

At a recent rally, he said that after the election the Republicans could cooperate with his agenda if they wanted to, but they would have to "sit in the back." (Think Rosa Parks.)

This is on top of earlier comments about how Republicans don't want blacks to vote and video appeals to the "blacks and Latinos that powered my 2008 victory."

This president is a post-partisan, post-racial healer all right...in the mold of Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton, and David Duke. He is using racial identity politics to blatantly divide our country. He is exacerbating racial grievances by pitting one group of Americans against another, provoking suspicion and mistrust. He is using Nixonian terms like "enemies" to apply to his political opponents. He is a national embarrassment.

1 comment:

H/T Stewart said...

Do not think Rosa Parks, that's ridiculous. He's used the metaphor of Republicans wanting "the keys to the car" back multiple times. He was saying they "need to be in the back seat of the CAR, not driving." If you want to invoke Rosa Parks, look here: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/08/06/4832927-steele-pelosi-in-the-back-of-the-bus-