"Obama: Not in the short term. We’re moving out of a period of American preeminence on the world economic stage. Global competition means increasing economic uncertainty for the majority of Americans, black and white. Unfortunately, politicians in this country find it convenient to define these problems in racial terms – affirmative action, immigration and so on. It’s always easier to organize people around tribe than around principle."

The prequel to Bitter Clingers!!!!

1995 was a long time ago for President Obama. His story had not been poll tested yet.

From the article: “In 1963, when he was 2, his father, an economist, returned to Africa and later died there.”

A big part of Obama’s skewed worldview arises from false mythologizing regarding his father. In fact, the family did not live together during the time between the birth of Barack, Jr. until he was 2. For the first year of his life (1961-62), Obama lived with his mother in Seattle where she was a student at UW. Obama Sr. continued at the University of Hawaii that year, and left for Harvard in the summer of 1962, after which Ann and Barack Jr. returned to Hawaii where she re-enrolled at UH. It appears that Barack Sr. never lived with, and perhaps never even saw, Barack Jr. from about the time of his birth until the famous month-long visit back to Hawaii by Barack Sr. when Barack Jr. was 10 years old.

In Dreams from My Father, Obama presents himself as a deeply introspective thinker who draws larger lessons of politics and ideology from the circumstances of his own life. But Obama’s description of his background distorts the actual facts, and the distortion is not immaterial. Obama’s image of his father is central to Obama’s identity, worldview and politics, but the image that Obama presents is a false one. That his black father abandoned Barack Jr. from the moment of birth is something he appears unwilling to face consciously. While outwardly and consciously Obama appears to be angry at his father (like “a lot of brothers,” as he states in the interview), nevertheless he seems to idolize his father and the fact that his father flatly rejected his white wife and mixed-race son from the moment of the birth of that son appears to have led to strong subconscious feelings of inferiority in Obama which he associated with his white mother and grandparents, and to an extent, himself. The feeling of inferiority would have been reinforced by his mother’s obvious continued love for Barack Sr. despite his abandonment of her and Barack Jr. Hence, the elevation of his father, and by extension, his black identity, to a higher place in his personal psychology.

One consequence of such an unhealthy, racially-charged psychology can be seen in another fascinating comment in the interview:

“[I]t’s liberating to be in a country where black people are in the overwhelming majority…because it renders issues of race less relevant. You can focus on what’s right or wrong, true or false. “

Here, we can see one of Obama’s blind spots. He implicitly assumes that a black majority is not capable of acting in a racially-conscious or oppressive way, and therefore in those circumstances politics becomes a question simply of right or wrong. We see why it is inconceivable to him that a privileged black Harvard professor could possibly be in the wrong in an encounter with a white police officer, or that black militants dressed in paramilitary uniforms and brandishing weapons at a polling place should be of concern to the Justice Department. It explains how an otherwise intelligent person could participate for 20 years in a church following the doctrines of Black Liberation Theology and not recognize that ideology as racist.

I just wish he would have been vetted prior to being elected. I promise you one thing, it will be a loooooong time before another Obama sneaks in to the oval office without full disclosure. When in doubt, throw the bum out. The majority of American's will never gamble on an unknown such as this again, the risk is just too high.