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  1. One of the most consistent criticisms of Trump from the left is that he is guilty of “sowing racial divisiveness” despite the fact that the evidence overwhelmingly supports the argument that this is done by leftists for political advantage, and the events of the last several months prove this beyond any reasonable doubt. A very curious and noticeable feature of Obama’s oratory is his adoption of black cadences during speeches in black churches; his being of mixed race notwithstanding, this comes across as equally as inauthentic as when done by HRC.

  2. I second j e’s observation. When Obama gets back to his uber-elite milieu whether in D.C. or Hawaii or wherever, he abandons his black argot and becomes the suave, sophisticated, urbane Obama that we all got sick of hearing back when he was president.

  3. However, unlike Obama so far, George Wallace found the courage and humility to change, and even John Lewis paid him that respect:
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    George Wallace should be remembered for his capacity to change. And we are better as a nation because of our capacity to forgive and to acknowledge that our political leaders are human and largely a reflection of the social currents in the river of history.

    Whether at the bridge in Selma, at a bombed church in Birmingham or on the schoolhouse steps, George Wallace and I were thrust together by fate, by our personal conviction and principle and by what I like to call the spirit of history. The civil rights movement achieved its goals in the person of Mr. Wallace, because he grew to see that we as human beings are joined by a common bond.

    I can never forget what George Wallace said and did as Governor, as a national leader and as a political opportunist. But our ability to forgive serves a higher moral purpose in our society. Through genuine repentance and forgiveness, the soul of our nation is redeemed. George Wallace deserves to be remembered for his effort to redeem his soul and in so doing to mend the fabric of American society.

    –John Lewis, “Forgiving George Wallace”
    https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/16/opinion/forgiving-george-wallace.html

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    I rather doubt I’ll ever have the opportunity to make a blog comment like that on behalf of Barack Obama.

  4. Those on the left didn’t seem to notice it was a funeral…
    people who hate religion have no concept of sanctified, holy, etc…
    oh, they give lip-service to it because they know the meaning of words
    but they dont know beyond that as people who are religious do
    they do not get that their lack is the source of the problems
    they do not notice that the more they apply their projection cure
    the more things go in ways they ultimately do not like

  5. Personally, although I am 20+ years older, I want to live long enough to piss on his grave.

  6. I’ve never been a big Obama basher but he really has become Example #1 of the Entitled Elites Who Think Their Opinion Cannot Be Disputed.

    Mike

  7. check off another of the 45 communist goals:
    42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special interest groups should rise up and make a “united force” to solve economic, political or social problems.

  8. I wish someone would calculate how much Obama owes in reparations for the slave owners in his mother’s family. His father was never a slave, so Obama might lose his houses.
    Obama is a narcisstic Obamaphile. He doesn’t care a bit about other blacks- or whites.

  9. Expat beat me to it about reparations. Since Sasha and Malia are 1/4 white will they have to pay 1/4 of an annual amount? Since Malia is dating a white man does her bill up? You can make hay about asking inconvenient questions to the people advocating reparations. I am in the midst of reading Hugh Thomas “Slave Trade” and one thing is apparent that if the African tribes hadn’t poached from each other there would have been minimal slaves to export. I would demand each ancestor of any tribe to apologize face to face to those whose ancestors were captured and enslaved by theirs. Use Alinsky’s rule # 4 – make them live to their own rules and #8 – keep the pressure on.

    In what would be monumental political theater is to find some descendants of slaves owned by Kamela Harris’s ancestors and have a public confrontation about it and demand she pay reparations directly to them. It would be entertaining to say the least and also drive home the one point is that most blacks are of mixed race and they need to be responsible for their ancestors sins too.

  10. A quick final mind picture. Imagine the Hemmings having to pay reparations to the other slaves of Thomas Jefferson as Sally was a privileged slave. Imagine their reaction when you put that demand in front of them.

  11. To turn a funeral into a political event is the act of someone whose religion is politics. To use a funeral to create animosity between the races is the act of someone who is deeply racist. To make a political spectacle of the funeral of an important figure in our history is the act of a person who has no regard for John Lewis or his life or this nation.

    We can now see what he did as POTUS. He politicized the DOJ, CIA, FBI, Military, and IRS. He and Joe Biden were in on the plan to sabotage the campaign and first term of Donald Trump. If there was any justice, he would be facing indictment for his acts of sedition.

  12. IAS:

    I think most Whites would be blissfully satisfied if Blacks (see, I capitalized it!) would simply agree to be responsible for their actions and the consequences thereof in the here and now.

    As for any request for reparations, GTFO is too polite a rejoinder.

  13. Not quite as vulgar as the Wellstone funeral rally, but grossly inappropriate. And it’s a reasonable wager neither Obama nor Bush nor Clinton were more than tangentially acquainted with Lewis, so why were they offering eulogies?

  14. I think most Whites would be blissfully satisfied if Blacks (see, I capitalized it!) would simply agree to be responsible for their actions and the consequences thereof in the here and now.

    Zaphod: You may say that I’m a dreamer…

    Not being sarcastic.

  15. Diversity (i.e. class-based taxonomic systems, processes, beliefs), division, and exclusion, but I repeat myself, are first-order forcings of adversity.

  16. A situation report by Victor Davis Hanson: search this 20 minute interview at YouTube “The New Civil War. Victor Davis Hanson on AMERICA First | Sebastian Gorka Radio“
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ-KeMyPPY4&list=PL4RgQJPM6xtdBoAz4zKn08A4WyxwDbxCq&index=3

    Towards the final third, he reminds us that during the 1960s strife, there was no geographical polarisation manifest. Today, because of China trade and globalisation, there is: the far coasts versus the middle.

    This difference enables Civil War conflict today in ways that did not exist then. This gives our present polarisation different and more focused fissure points.

    There is more, such as the absence of establishment pushback today. This, too, is deeply troubling. But take heart. In the comments: people want to fight to the death.

    And a radio report indicates that Trump’s job approval numbers are back at 50%. While I have not checked out details, I’m not surprised. Our enemy have no agenda except reject Trump, embrace communism or whatever has failed before, again and again: Venezuela is not a model for progress unless you’re a gullible moron.

  17. “Venezuela is not a model for progress unless you’re a gullible moron.” – T J.

    Looking at the Democrats today, that’s a QED.

  18. I think he meant “using tear gas and batons against mostly peaceful protestors,” such as those setting federal buildings on fire, but mostly against those setting federal buildings on fire.

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