Obama Is Dividing the Country, Not Sarah Palin

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I cannot believe what I heard in the above video.

First off, Kathleen Parker is a disgrace. She uses Sarah Palin in her articles because Palin is her gravy train. Before she attacked Palin during the 2008 election, Parker was an obscure and talentless writer. Now Parker is a famous and talentless writer.

This outrageous panel basically accused Sarah Palin of racism simply because she is a white woman. Merely being a white woman and challenging Barack Obama means that you are racist.

Apparently anyone who disagrees with Barack Obama about health care, cap and trade, and his fiscal policies is a racist or fomenting racism. The term socialist is now apparently a racial epithet. (Question: If I call Gordon Brown a socialist, am I calling him a racial epithet?)

This panel accuses Sarah Palin of being evil just because she challenges Barack Obama. They are accusing all of us of being evil simply because we disagree with Obama’s leftwing policies.

This website is, I’d like to think, a premier community for Sarah Palin's supporters. As all of our readers know, we have a banning policy for anyone who posts comments about the Obama birth certificate conspiracy. Obama was born in Hawaii. He is an American citizen. We don’t tolerate conspiracy kooks. In other words, we have nothing to do with these birth certificate conspiracists, and we are deeply offended that anyone would link Gov. Palin and her supporters with them.

Obama himself can put to rest this conspiracy nonsense any time he wants to. All he has to do is release his official birth certificate (not the "certification of live birth"). John McCain released his. What’s the big deal? It’s not an invasion of privacy. It’s just a document. What’s the problem?

These conspiracists are driven to these nutty theories because no one really knows who Barack Obama is. His biography is full of holes, as this article by Andrew McCarthy at National Review makes clear:

Yet we now know that this life story is chock full of fiction. Typical and disturbing, to take just one example, is the entirely fabricated account in Dreams from My Father of Obama’s first job after college:

Eventually a consulting house to multinational corporations agreed to hire me as a research assistant. Like a spy behind enemy lines, I arrived every day at my mid-Manhattan office and sat at my computer terminal, checking the Reuters machine that blinked bright emerald messages from across the globe. As far as I could tell I was the only black man in the company, a source of shame for me but a source of considerable pride for the company’s secretarial pool. They treated me like a son, those black ladies; they told me how they expected me to run the company one day. . . . The company promoted me to the position of financial writer. I had my own office, my own secretary, money in the bank. Sometimes, coming out of an interview with Japanese financiers or German bond traders, I would catch my reflection in the elevator doors — see myself in a suit and tie, a briefcase in my hand — and for a split second I would imagine myself as a captain of industry, barking out orders, closing the deal, before I remembered who it was that I had told myself I wanted to be and felt pangs of guilt for my lack of resolve. . . .

As the website Sweetness & Light details, this is bunk. Obama did not work at “a consulting house to multinational corporations”; it was, a then-colleague of his has related, “a small company that published newsletters on international business.” He wasn’t the only black man in the company, and he didn’t have an office, have a secretary, wear a suit and tie on the job, or conduct “interviews” with “Japanese financiers or German bond traders” — he was a junior copyeditor.

What’s unnerving about this is that it is so gratuitous. It would have made no difference to anyone curious about Obama’s life that he, like most of us, took a ho-hum entry-level job to establish himself. But Obama lies about the small things, the inconsequential things, just as he does about the important ones — depending on what he is trying to accomplish at any given time.

In the above fairy tale, he sought to frame his life as a morality play: the hero giving up the cushy life of the capitalist “enemy” for the virtues of community organizing. But we’ve seen this dance a hundred times. If Obama wants to strike a connection with graduating students in Moscow, he makes up a story about meeting his “future wife . . . in class” (Barack and Michelle Obama met at work). If he wants to posture about his poverty and struggle in America, he waxes eloquent about his single mother’s surviving on “food stamps” so she could use every cent to send him “to the best schools in the country” (Obama was raised by his maternal grandparents, who had good jobs and were able to pull strings to get him into an elite Hawaiian prep school). If he wants to tie himself to the civil-rights struggle of African Americans, he tells an audience in Selma, “There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma . . . so [my parents] got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born” (Obama was born in 1961, four years before the civil-rights march in Selma — by which time his parents had divorced and his mother was planning a move to Indonesia with the second of her two non-African-American husbands). If he wants to buy a home he can’t afford, he “unwittingly” collaborates with a key fundraiser (who had been publicly reported to be under federal investigation for fraud and political corruption). If he wants to sell a phony stimulus as a job-creator, he tells the country that Caterpillar has told him the stimulus will enable the company “to rehire some of the folks who were just laid off” (Caterpillar’s CEO actually said no, “we’re going to have more layoffs before we start hiring again”).

The fact is that Obama’s account of his background is increasingly revealed as a fabrication, not his life as lived; his utterances reflect the expediencies of the moment, not the truth. What is supposed to save the country from fraudulence of this sort is the media. Here, though, the establishment press is deep in Obama’s tank — so much so that they can’t even accurately report his flub of a ceremonial opening pitch lest he come off as something less than Sandy Koufax. Astonishingly, reporters see their job not as reporting Obama news but as debunking Obama news, or flat-out suppressing it. How many Americans know, for example, that as a sitting U.S. senator in 2006, Obama interfered in a Kenyan election, publicly ripping the incumbent government (a U.S. ally) for corruption while he was its guest and barnstorming with his preferred candidate: a Marxist now known to have made a secret agreement with Islamists to convert Kenya to sharia law, and whose supporters, upon losing the election, committed murder and mayhem, displacing thousands of Kenyans and plunging their country into utter chaos?

I suppose Andrew McCarthy is a racist for even writing the above facts debunking Obama’s mythic narrative.

In 1987, Allan Bloom wrote “The Closing of the American Mind.” It had been closing for over 20 years before the 2008 election slammed it shut for good. Ideology has defeated all philosophy and all common sense. We’re not even allowed to question the dogmatic beliefs of the left. If we do, we’re racists.

Questioning Barack Obama’s policies or even his biography does not make a person a racist.

C4P has a very diverse readership. How dare these Obama supporters suggest that terms like “ordinary American” mean anything other than “ordinary American” of every possible race, religion and lifestyle.

Obama is not uniting this country. He is dividing it. His shameful involvement in the Professor Gates affair is a perfect example of his divisive hatred. He was championed as a “post-racial” president, but anyone who disagrees with him is smeared as a racist. That’s not racial healing. That’s dividing. That’s dangerous and harmful.

I’ve never criticized African Americans who voted for Obama because they wanted an African American to be president. I've never held that against them because my own father, who was a staunch Republican and a devout Catholic, used to say that he only voted for a Democrat once in his life and that was just to prove that a Catholic could be president. John F. Kennedy was a not a divisive president. He didn’t turn Catholics against Protestants. He didn’t denounce America as a bigoted country even though the 1960 election was filled with anti-Catholic slurs against him. We haven’t had another Catholic president since JFK, and yet the latent anti-Catholicism of American culture was put to rest after his presidency. Unfortunately, I don’t think the same will be said about Barack Obama’s presidency, though many Americans elected him with the subconscious hope that he would put to rest our troubled and tragic history of racism. Far from healing us, he has only wounded us even more by recklessly hurling the accusation of racism against anyone who has an honest disagreement with him.

His supporters are also dividing this country. They show their antipathy for ordinary people who disagree with them. They use bullying tactics to intimidate and to shout down anyone who wishes to protest. And if those tactics aren’t enough to shut you up, they'll simply call you a racist.

They accuse Sarah Palin of dividing the country along geographic lines simply because she is proud to be an Alaskan. Being proud of where you come from is apparently divisive. She never tore down anyone's hometown. They tore down hers. She doesn’t hate the Big City. She vacations there!

They mention that Sarah Palin is in Manhattan this week, and yet they still accuse her of being divisive. How is she divisive? I think they are the ones who are divisive. They hate Middle America. They mock it. They loathe it. They have contempt for it. Middle America doesn’t hate Manhattan or Hollywood. Middle America buys the stuff Madison Avenue sells. Middle America watches the movies Hollywood makes. Who are the real divisive people? Who are the real haters? It’s not Sarah Palin or the average everyday Americans she represents.

All she has ever done is demand respect for the ordinary Americans who want their voices heard among the power players.

We’re not racists. We’re not divisive. We love this country. We love all of it. We love our fellow Americans – all of them.

We’re tired of this leftwing president dividing us. We’re tired of his contempt for us. We’re tired of his apologies for us to foreign nations.

And we’re tired of his supporters smearing us on television.