Obamateurism of the Day
posted at 8:05 am on January 11, 2012 by Ed Morrissey
Good news – Barack Obama is at least consistent. One of the OOTY candidates from last year was Obama’s contention that opposition to his policies had a “subterranean agenda” based on race. Thankfully, after careful consideration, Obama has decided … to continue to allege that opposition to his policies is based on race:
Everything we fought for during the last election is at stake in this election. The very core of what this country stands for is on the line — the basic promise that no matter what you look like, no matter where you come from, this is a place where you could make it if you try. The notion that we’re all in this together, that we look out for one another — that’s at stake in this election. Don’t take my word for it. Watch some of these debates that have been going on up in New Hampshire.
Yeah, I’m sure that must be it — because anyone else who tripled the deficit while keeping the jobless rate above 8% and economic growth mired in the 2% range while taking the civilian participation rate in the work force to its lowest level in 30 years would be so beloved by now.
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The race card, don’t leave home without it
cmsinaz on January 11, 2012 at 8:10 AM
Using Obama and the word beloved in the same sentence made me throw up in my mouth.
JimK on January 11, 2012 at 8:12 AM
Yeah,
He’s doing such a good job:
Unemployment by race: http://equityblog.org/2011/04/01/march-2011-unemployment-by-race/
ProfShadow on January 11, 2012 at 8:12 AM
It’s maxed out.
Trafalgar on January 11, 2012 at 8:13 AM
Only a fool would, Mr President.
itsnotaboutme on January 11, 2012 at 8:13 AM
If you are against tripling the deficit and unacceptably high unemployment then you must be a racist! Un-freakin-believable.
Actually it is all too believable. That Obama gets away with it is just a sad indictment of our political system.
Happy Nomad on January 11, 2012 at 8:15 AM
Well, his friends all like him. What the hell is the matter with the rest of us?
ss396 on January 11, 2012 at 8:15 AM
Tru dat trafalgar
cmsinaz on January 11, 2012 at 8:17 AM
“no matter what you look like, no matter where you come from” Must explain Al Shyster and Jesse Jackson…
chickie on January 11, 2012 at 8:17 AM
Funny how so many people think that genes coding for more pigment has ever been an issue for anything.
Badger40 on January 11, 2012 at 8:19 AM
A jug-eared dufus?
pain train on January 11, 2012 at 8:20 AM
Obama has just one cap in his pop gun. Reminds me of Barney Fife and his one bullet . . . except that Barney was a harmless, fictional doofus.
TheClearRiver on January 11, 2012 at 8:20 AM
“
Actually, only certain people actually believe that…you know, people like Republican Martin Luther King, Jr….
ProfShadow on January 11, 2012 at 8:21 AM
I can’t stand his white half either. But it’s his juicy red center that’s really loathsome.
Naturally Curly on January 11, 2012 at 8:21 AM
Yep. America USED to be just like that until the Marxist came to town.
He’s going to down in flames. With his race card.
Key West Reader on January 11, 2012 at 8:21 AM
I can fix things.
But it’ll take four more years.
TimBuk3 on January 11, 2012 at 8:22 AM
That entire Obama quote is a bunch of gobblydygook thinking. One sentence is capitalism (“you can make it if you try”—hey, isn’t that a song?). The next is racist, followed by Socialism (“The notion that we’re all in this together, that we look out for one another”), rounded out by ‘I lie’ (“don’t take my word for it”) and “Look at meeee, I’m SO Awesome” (“Watch some of these debates that have been going on up in New Hampshire.”)
The stealth racist dig is a dog whistle to his base, and the Democrats will reinvent ways to use the race card this year.
conservative pilgrim on January 11, 2012 at 8:22 AM
That is one of the ideas that led us to where we are today. 16 trillion in debt.
Mord on January 11, 2012 at 8:22 AM
History will not be kind to Obama as he stands outside the country club wearing a red jacket while holding the reins of a horse.
RAGIN CAJUN on January 11, 2012 at 8:22 AM
Maybe he means the difference between people with normal ears and people with Dumbo the Elephant ears.
DuctTapeMyBrain on January 11, 2012 at 8:23 AM
Jay Leno said that the GOP is currently trying to decide “which middle aged white guy” is going to be the nominee. Yeah, and the cool hip black guy has done such a good job.
crazy_legs on January 11, 2012 at 8:23 AM
Now there’s a dogwhistle statement if there ever was one.
the_souse on January 11, 2012 at 8:24 AM
Every card can be overplayed – especially that one!
Southgirl on January 11, 2012 at 8:27 AM
an intellectually bankrupt argument…..
ted c on January 11, 2012 at 8:27 AM
When I read that I almost punched my computer screen.
His version of America – no thank you
The America before he was elected -please and thank you
gophergirl on January 11, 2012 at 8:27 AM
Quote Of The Day (Year?)
Who is John Galt on January 11, 2012 at 8:33 AM
Race card we much!
KOOLAID2 on January 11, 2012 at 8:37 AM
Ya know, he is right. The basic promise that you can make it in this country if you try, is on the line. Now, all that matters is who you know. We are a nation of men, not laws.
EliTheBean on January 11, 2012 at 8:37 AM
Count my vote.
conservative pilgrim on January 11, 2012 at 8:38 AM
^^This.
Just like Atlas Shrugged.
Who is John Galt on January 11, 2012 at 8:39 AM
I could have sworn a black man was voted in as President by the American people…
hillsoftx on January 11, 2012 at 8:41 AM
Vote against his white half and you’re covered.
docflash on January 11, 2012 at 8:43 AM
As long as people are rewarded by media, the electorate, the political establishment, political analysts or whoever might help the case that gain can be made from using this “racial animus” sentiment, they will continue to use it. This victim view of American life has benefited a few race hustlers who have big, loud mouths and no compunctions attendant to blaming someone else for their own shortcomings.
.
Stop rewarding the behavior and less of it will occur; make sure that people know that when they use race for gain as well as race for hate, they are being punished for that one behavior alone. “Calling someone out” for their race baiting is just as valid as for their race hatred.
ExpressoBold on January 11, 2012 at 8:43 AM
This must be the breakfast conversation between the Obamas’. Michelle: it’s not your socialist democratic policies, it must be your skin color. If you were white like say Jimmy Carter, they wouldn’t be treating you like this…….oh wait ;)
I feel sorry for these people, they go through their whole life using the melanin count in people’s skin as their tape measure. That’s what a Harvard education get’s you in this country? It doesn’t broaden your world view – it distills your view of the world to a race baiting cliche? How do you hold onto that kind of B.S. meme, while you are living in the White House, and occupying the highest office in the land?
Dr Evil on January 11, 2012 at 8:43 AM
barry soetoro is a liar, the truth is not in him! He will always use the race card, even though it has never applied to his –half black — status. He wants us to eat our peas and stfu.
hardrowtohoe on January 11, 2012 at 8:46 AM
You know what seems funny to me is that it’s always been my observation that the most racist people are quickest to claim someone else is racist…..just an observation from my fifty-five years of life.
Vntnrse on January 11, 2012 at 8:47 AM
Oh, you’re not a democrat? You are then by defintion, according to all Obama-ites, a RACIST.
dman232 on January 11, 2012 at 8:51 AM
In other words, “check out how scary those old white guys are!” Affirmative Action has blessed us with the most embarrassing president ever.
KS Rex on January 11, 2012 at 8:52 AM
I’m numb to the “no matter what you look like” tired line. I’m more concerned about the “no matter where you come from” part. Amnesty push?
Spiders from Mars on January 11, 2012 at 9:00 AM
If brock had any integrity, he would have spent the last 3 years empowering those who are on the dole to get off the dole, to strive, to work, and to instill the fact that in America you CAN be anything you wish…. just like ‘him’.
But nay. He squandered his first three years playing race cards. I hope it was worth it to him…. pitting our fellow citizens against eachother and all that jive.
/;(
Key West Reader on January 11, 2012 at 9:00 AM
Could be a subliminal hat tip to Kenya. Who the heck knows anymore. With brock, you have to read between the lines and get the subliminal message. Since day 1 he told us what he was going to do. People are hearing, but they are not listening. Big mistake.
Key West Reader on January 11, 2012 at 9:02 AM
Waiting for our resident racist trolls to come here and tell us what racists we are.
CurtZHP on January 11, 2012 at 9:02 AM
SSDD with this noob.
D-fusit on January 11, 2012 at 9:05 AM
And don’t use that card in those nasty ATMs that have eliminated so many jobs.
Rovin on January 11, 2012 at 9:10 AM
It’s a Black thing, doncha know. Just ask Captain Dumb@$$.
MNHawk on January 11, 2012 at 9:11 AM
So, let me see if I have this straight:
You can blow off getting an education, drop out of school at 16, have lots of babies without getting married and with no financial or emotional support from any of the kids’ fathers….
and I’M supposed to look out for YOU???
Why should I do that when you won’t even bother lookng out for yourself?!
Maddie on January 11, 2012 at 9:13 AM
That’s Present SippyCup for you. He can’t even get his syntax correct. It’s “…basic premise…”, not promise.
SnarkySam on January 11, 2012 at 9:14 AM
Somewhere on a wall in his den, Rahm Emanuel (Paulie Walnuts) has a picture of zer0 (Tony Soprano) at the country club, holding the reins around Gibbsy’s (his horse’s) neck and toasting the viewer with a glass a champagne.
zer0 had told Rahm to destroy the painting because Gibbsy had gone up in flames and was a bad memory. zer0 ain’t gonna like it when he visits Rahm, notices the painting and realizes that he’d ignored a Decree of zer0′s.
MisterElephant on January 11, 2012 at 9:15 AM
Bank on it.
Flora Duh on January 11, 2012 at 9:17 AM
truer words have never been spoken. 4 more years of President Pull-Ups and we will never recognize the USA again.
As far as “we’re all in it together” – well I guess that’s true, it’s just that some of us get to take separate flights, have lavish parties, take golfing outings and luxurious vacations … and the rest of us get to pay for it.
katablog.com on January 11, 2012 at 9:29 AM
I used that Obama quote in the first clip in my video. I then used the Jodi Kantor quote on Michelle’s love of the Irish and cut to Obama in Ireland. Then the rest follows. The music is from Adagio for Strings (Platoon) It’s a sad day for America.
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No Niks on January 11, 2012 at 9:33 AM
katablog.com on January 11, 2012 at 9:36 AM
opps did that wrong
Yeah but if he used premise people might realize that one actually has to DO something to make it since premise doesn’t guarantee anything based on no action.
katablog.com on January 11, 2012 at 9:37 AM
Racist…
affenhauer on January 11, 2012 at 9:45 AM
Yeah….I went there.
txsurveyor on January 11, 2012 at 9:56 AM
Unless you are one of the 200+ Mexican citizens killed by US supplied firearms to the drug cartels.
Guess those folks will have to look after themselves.
GarandFan on January 11, 2012 at 10:32 AM
He must mean the successful entrepreneurs.
Herman Cain comes to mind, as the does the founder of BET.
Way ta go, Slappy, you’ve once again denigrated the successful among your ranks (actually, both of the aforementioned are really Black).
Let’s ramp up the race card again and, oh wait, who has the most money to contribute to Ø’Bumbler so that he can buy another election? It wouldn’t be White people, would it?
What would happen if all Anglos stopped donating to the “messiah”?
(He’d be paid a pack of cigarettes on the streets of Chicago to vote – again)
~(Ä)~
Karl Magnus on January 11, 2012 at 10:35 AM
Brilliant:
And we much…about that..be committed.
Say it with me now.
Captain Scarlet on January 11, 2012 at 10:43 AM
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That was damn good! Well done!
ExpressoBold on January 11, 2012 at 10:46 AM
Me too.
freedomfirst on January 11, 2012 at 10:48 AM
The poor guy doesn’t pack the gear for the job (or much anything). Never has, never will. I think he is in for the big cars and the jet. Person I most admire, the guy who busted his lip on the court. Sweet!
StevC on January 11, 2012 at 11:04 AM
The one positive thing that 0bama has done is to nullify the race card. Thank you president 0bama!
jukin3 on January 11, 2012 at 11:12 AM
Grand Slam, Ed!
1) tripled the deficit
2) keeping the jobless rate above 8%
3) economic growth mired in the 2% range
4) civilian participation rate in the work force at its lowest level in 30 years
ITguy on January 11, 2012 at 11:34 AM
Adored even.
Tim_CA on January 11, 2012 at 11:39 AM
Mrs Obama: Tired of ‘angry black woman’ stereotype
Asked specifically about an assertion of dissension between herself and Emanuel, now the mayor of Chicago, the first lady said she has “never had a cross word” with him. The same, she said, applies to Gibbs, whom she described as “a good friend, and remains so.”
Of course, she doesn’t talk to her husband staff .. she talks to her husband.
Mrs. Obama said that when questions or conflicts arise involving her and the White House staff, her East Wing staff resolves the issue with her husband’s staff in the West Wing.
“If there’s communication that needs to happen, it’s between staffs,” she said. “I don’t have conversations with my husband’s staff.”
Of course, she doesn’t talk to her husband staff .. she talks to her husband.
Fracking lawyers.
J_Crater on January 11, 2012 at 11:50 AM
Very very nice!!!
Cindy Munford on January 11, 2012 at 12:03 PM
“I can’t stand his white half either. But it’s his juicy red center that’s really loathsome.”
Naturally Curly on January 11, 2012 at 8:21 AM
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Proving that Obama is a joke — that joke being, “What’s black and white and red all over?”
sistrum on January 11, 2012 at 1:02 PM
We’re approaching the fourth anniversary of that infamous “race speech”:
I saw it then for what it really was… it wasn’t a speech about improving race relations in America… it was a speech about amplifying and exploiting racism in order to form a more Socialist union.
There were more racists who voted FOR Obama because of his skin color than there were racists who voted AGAINST Obama because of his skin color.
ITguy on January 11, 2012 at 1:19 PM
Oh, and of course, funneling our hard-earned to failing “green” companies that promptly go bankrupt, shipping arms to drug cartels in Mexico, making “recess” appointments of controversial candidates when the Senate isn’t in recess, enforcing civil rights laws only when it’s black against white, and all the other nonstop power grabs, are just minor nuisances we should ignore because, after all, Barack is The One Who Won.
RebeccaH on January 11, 2012 at 1:24 PM
Whether we’re “all in this together” is debatable, but America is not, at its core, about looking to the Feds to solve all of the problems.
mel23059 on January 11, 2012 at 1:29 PM
It takes a racist to think in terms of race; and it’s the progressives and liberals who always bring it up first.
ss396 on January 11, 2012 at 1:40 PM
Obama is the racist and the only card he has left to play is his worn out race card, which has become nothing more than a Democrat political tool and everyone knows it.
jqc1970 on January 11, 2012 at 2:08 PM
So now Obama’s plan is to follow the Mary Tyler more show theme song?
we are so $crewed
DSchoen on January 11, 2012 at 3:01 PM
What I don’t understand is why O is playing the race card. In 2009 he and his advisors correctly understood that would not get people to vote for him. So, why now? His base will vote for him already, and conservatives and R’s won’t.
What makes him think the race card will pull indies his way? It’s a huge risk, will turn off a lot of people and undermines his fiction of bringing people together. He’s doing lousy among whites as it is, so why make things worse? Why are his advisors letting him (or telling him) to do this? Makes no sense on a practical level.
Mayday on January 11, 2012 at 3:05 PM
I miss TheRaceCard.
Schadenfreude on January 11, 2012 at 3:14 PM
The LIAR-In-Chief is tellegraphing to the Republicrat establishment that the race card is coming (although some in the Jack@$$ Party have already jumped the shark). Hey STUPID Party … What exactly do you think Axlerod is going to do with 3.2 million stories on the www about “Racism Throughout The History Of Mormonism?” Hmmm??? Wake up SOMEBODY!?!?!
Colatteral Damage on January 11, 2012 at 4:57 PM
O-zero is just doing what all Libertards do when they are losing an argument; a debate; or any point…they label the other side “racist”…color doesn’t matter! Usually they play the “victim” card too, or they start name-calling, i.e., Nazi, Hitler, terrorists! They are all brain damaged!
Dawgwood on January 15, 2012 at 6:14 PM