America, we have an egotistical, delusional president. He has
convinced himself that he is disliked by many Americans because he is
black.
In a lengthy
interview with New Yorker magazine editor David Remnick the president
tells him,
"There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me
because they don’t like the idea of a black president. Now, the flip
side of it is there are some black folks and maybe some white folks who
really like me and give me the benefit of the doubt precisely because
I’m a black president."
President Obama’s approval rating has fallen badly in the national
polls. His ratings are historically low. The second lowest in modern
history at this point of a presidency. Lower than Bush.
Lower than everyone but Richard Nixon.
I don’t dislike Obama. I dislike his beliefs and his policies.
Here come the excuses. Obama desperately wants to believe it’s all
because he’s black. Because if he didn’t have that excuse, it would have
to be based on his performance.
When Obama blames "some folks" for not liking him because he's black,
he refers to conservatives and white Americans. I’m an unapologetic
member of both groups.
It’s an interesting excuse.
If we disliked him for the color of his skin, that would excuse his
failed performance as president. How convenient. That would excuse
everything he’s done to damage or destroy American exceptionalism,
capitalism, and the U.S. economy.
If this was about race, it would excuse his dismantling of the
economy. It would excuse the 92 million working-age Americans not in the
workforce.
It would excuse all-time record lows for workforce participation. It
would excuse tens of thousands, and in some cases, hundreds of thousands
of Americans dropping out of the workforce every month.
It would excuse the fact that only crummy, crappy, low-wage part-time jobs are being created because of Obama’s policies.
If this was about race, it would excuse Obama taking the formerly
greatest health care system in the world and plunging it into crisis and
confusion.
It would distract us from seeing his failed ObamaCare web site that cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
Or his blatant lies about keeping our health insurance if we like it.
Or his lies about the middle class not being taxed to pay for 30
million new patients.
Or his lies about the quality of care remaining the same, even though we’ve added 30 million new patients, with no new doctors.
Or his lies about prices going down, while our rates are going
through the roof, and his own IRS predicts health insurance will cost
the average family a staggering $20,000 per year by 2016.
If this was about race, it would excuse his lies about wanting to
create jobs for middle class Americans while he’s made conscious
decisions to hire foreign companies (who rely on cheap foreign labor) to
build and fix the defective ObamaCare website.
If this was about race, it would excuse his never ending spending and debt.
Or the damage he’s done to middle class Americans -- the doubling of
gas prices, the all-time record highs for electricity, the jobs he’s
destroyed by not approving oil drilling, or fracking, or the Keystone
Pipeline.
Or using the EPA to try to put coal industry completely out of business.
It would excuse his using the power of the IRS to persecute Tea Party
groups and conservative critics (like me), while allowing the IRS to
hand out fraudulent tax refunds to illegal immigrants claiming fake
dependents not even living in the United States.
It would excuse four dead American heroes in Benghazi, a refusal to
send help while they were fighting for their lives, and a blatant
cover-up before the election.
But putting all that aside, let me point out a few inconsistencies in Obama’s allegation against conservatives:
First, I don’t dislike Obama. I dislike his beliefs and his policies.
Second, last I checked Obama is not just “black.” He’s half white, born by a white mother, raised by white grandparents.
Third, I’ve been consistent my entire life. I’ve been a true blue
conservative patriot since age 3, when I handed out campaign literature
for Barry Goldwater, in my father’s arms. I judge people by their
political beliefs and policies, not the color of their skin.
At the age of 11, I despised the policies of ultra-leftist
Presidential candidate George McGovern. His beliefs and policies were
almost identical to Obama’s today. Did I hate white Midwestern men?
In 1980, as a student at Columbia University, I despised the policies
of President Jimmy Carter, whose policies were almost identical to
Obama’s today. Did I hate white Southern men?
Today, I despise the policies of ultra-leftist politicians like
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy
Pelosi. Do I therefore hate white Mormons and Italians?
Lastly, I can think of many Jewish Democrats whose policies I
despise. The first one that comes to mind is Debbie Wasserman Schultz,
whose statements often make me physically ill. Does that mean I hate
Jews? That’s pretty funny, because I’m Jewish.
In each case a Republican conservative like me despises the political
beliefs and policies of people I believe now, or believed back then, to
be extreme, radical, socialist, economically ignorant, and damaging to
America and capitalism.
No, Mr. Obama, we don’t dislike you because you’re black. But we do
despise your policies, your lies, and your destruction of the greatest
country, economy and middle class in world history.