http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2012/08/obamas_strange_dependence_on_valerie_jarrett.html

Jarrett is "Obama's Evil Genie With the Light-brown Hair"!

wait,,, what? was that sarcasm?

cause if it wasn't,, I think I need a drink,,,lol


I am an Obama supporter obviously, and I do believe ALOT of the attacks are stemmed somewhere and somehow by race,,, but that isn't to discredit that others have non racially motivated complaints

in this case though,, considering whats pointed out HERE,, Id say its safe to say your statement about this particular piece,, is spot on

whether it was meant sarcastically or genuinely

its as much a fact as stating some people are sick

he is correct, MANY don't what America lead by a black man,, I have spoken to some of them as well , via internet, who assumed they were speaking to someone who was not black,,,

I agree with everything you just posted Joe and I am VERY glad you're saying it because it's the only way 'too' many people will ever hear about it...Also....

If they vote, they matter...

and is there counter resource regarding how many voted McCain because he wasn't the black man running?

since he is the first black man to win, I guess any number would be a record though,, wouldn't it?


lol

oh wow,, just took me back to the days of paralegal training,,,,lol

and this was part of why she lost my vote

I was truly torn between the two of them, until her dirty politics really disappointed me,,, I expected more from her,, maybe she will have learned and improved in 2016

Id say there is NO DOUBT that there were blacks who voted for him because they wanted a black man as president. an option they never really had before

just as there is NO DOUBT there were whites who didn't vote for him because they didn't want a black man,,,,or because they wanted a white man,, not something they ever had to really think about before , but just took for granted,,,


RACISM is real,, individually against all races, systemically against minorities,,,


,,, but back to the statements of the op which I feel mrl very Thoroughly addressed,,,,

Answer, quite simple, he is but a reflection of the society that he represents, which is necessarily a reflection of society as a whole. Just look at the mid-terms, I believe the voter turnout, depending on the source, was less than 36%. One source even put New York at 22%.

And why are we in this position, again quite simple, we have deviated from the original trust that was established by the founders, the constitution.

The founders were very wary of tyranny, after all they have just fought for their freedom from tyranny. Most were also very astute scholars and had studied history. As a result they established this trust with more than a few checks and balances that have since been usurped.

First and foremost was their fear of a chief executive, hence the exclusion in the Articles of Confederation. As a result, the president was never supposed to be elected by the public in a popular election. They figured that the most important position in this fledgling country should be handled by a board, the electoral college, qualified to nominate, interview, and by majority vote select not only the president but a vice president. And this had nothing to do with "parties" nor huge campaign war chests.

And how right were they? Well let's look at a long string of supposed executives and you will have the answer, Odumbo being the latest in a long line of failures.

Wow, thought provoking.

So what is your point? That Odumbo is not a total failure because he joins such a long list of failures?


But one thing he gets to claim, he is a bigger loser than that long list of losers before him.

You're right about one main issue and it have noting to do with racism as that is just the excuse of the main causation, the total idiots that not just voted for him but will defend to the bitter end, and the end will be bitter.

Facts, please if there are facts stated, please point them out except for the obvious one that has nothing to do with the subject of the OP.

Really, what bull and your beliefs are on full display for all to read, hence see.

"As "democracy" is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissistic moron."
--- H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920

I find this remark to be hilarious. A good executive surrounds himself with people that know more about a subject matter than himself, as he is the executive not the petty detail collector.

But Odumbo can't handle that. He cannot have anyone around him that has a light brighter than his, even if only in an advisory capacity, outside deniable plausibility, that is. So what we have is all close to the crown are but a puppet of the head puppet.

And of course it's pure racism that we just can't accept all at face value.

there is so much in that Mencken quote that inspires thought

1st. that though we espouse openly to prefer 'experience' in any number of areas,, we also espouse just as often to believe that the 'common' person should be elected instead, because those who have attained any power/experience are by nature more corrupt,,,



2nd , that although fools are hard to suffer, fools who believe themselves superiors are even more difficult


so is 'plain' the standard by which everything should be measured as appropriate,,,for representing the 'plain' folks,,,

or is excellence in all things the preferred leadership?

Of course you would but without justification just opinion.

Truth vs Perception

Truth is objective, meaning that it is not based on perceptions of human beings (which is capable of wavering). Truth is simply that which is. It is that which has occurred in the past and that which is occurring in the present, that which is. No such thing as truth in the future.

Perception is not reality, but our work is to align the two, truth and perception.

"I've come to realize that the biggest problem anywhere in the world is that people's perceptions of reality are compulsively filtered through the screening mesh of what they want, and do not want, to be true." - Travis Walton

Another way of saying this would be to say that the presence of truth and morality in the lives of the people of any given society is inversely proportional to the presence of tyranny and slavery in that society. True freedom can never exist in a society that embraces "Moral Relativism" (the idea that there is no inherent and objective difference between right and wrong, so humanity may arbitrarily "create" or "decide" right and wrong for themselves).

Not really, just another analogy with absolutely no justification other than Moral Relativism.

No, it was for the most part purely racist. Blacks voting for Odumbo because he was black and whites voting for Odumbo because he was black. After all he presented no real attributes.

And then there are the Repugnacants that will only vote Repugnacants and Dumbocants that will only vote Dumbocants, some even being repulsed they were voting for a black person but not so repulsed as to vote Repugnacant.

But then:

"It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those who ought to lead them. It is impossible to believe that a liberal, energetic, and wise government can ever emerge from the ballots of a nation of servants."
- Alexis de Tocqueville