See Elaine Krewer (lapsed Illinois reporter) on this subject. Chicago ward politics is labor intensive retail activity. It requires you have people skills and take an interest in your constituents’ mundane problems. Obama is nothing like that.

I honestly don’t think this will go the way the Democrats think it will. In my experience Hispanics tend to be socially conservative and Catholic. Of course not all are particularly devout. But still, Catholicism has to some extent formed them. How do you think the Democrat party’s social agenda will go over with them? That they want among other things to trans their kids?

Frankly, I don’t see them embracing the Dem freak show.

https://www.germanwithantrim.com/rhabarberbarbara-a-german-tongue-twister-with-english-translation/

“One of my favorite German tongue twisters is the story of Rhabarberbarbara (Rhubarb Barbara).”

Maybe yes, maybe no. There’s a basic point here that, in our time, people are generally uncomfortable with. But it’s important and was handled superbly by the late Lawrence Auster in a blog entry titled “IMMIGRATION AND RACE: FACING THE ISSUE HEAD-ON.” Here are two key paragraphs:

“Race and race differences are a part of the total fabric of human reality. Further, racial and ethnic differences overlap to a great degree with cultural differences. While race and culture are not identical, there is no human way to separate out race entirely from culture. The result is that if the majority population of a country opposes the mass immigration of foreigners because they are culturally unassimilable to themselves, the foreigners’ racial difference from the natives is going, ineluctably, to be part of the total package of traits describing the foreigners. Similarly, a restrictionist policy aimed at keeping out people from backward countries because they will drag down our economy to Third-world conditions is going to affect non-whites disproportionately. The point is that even if you sincerely do not care about race at all, but only care about preserving certain cultural or political or economic qualities of your country, your position is still going to have racial implications.

“As long as restrictionists keep running away from the racial side of the issue and frantically denying that they’re racist, they are trapped in the left’s own definitions and moral terms. In the eyes of the left, they will always seem at best hypocritical, claiming that they’re not racist while pursuing a policy that would disproportionately slow the immigration of non-whites. There is therefore no alternative but for us to take the initiative and deal with the racial issue head on. We need to acknowledge the simple, commonsense fact that race is an integral part of human and social reality, one of several factors that significantly differentiate human groups from one another. Race and culture are to a certain degree linked, though of course, as I said, they are not identical. Individuals of any racial background can, potentially, assimilate into a culture different from their own. But the greater the racial and cultural differences between the newcomers and the host population, and the greater their numbers, the more difficult and unlikely such assimilation becomes. The upshot is that if it is legitimate to want to preserve our own culture, it is legitimate to want to preserve a country in which people like ourselves continue to be the majority, culture-defining population.”

From http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/003531.html

Obama, the racist heller.

During the 2008 campaign, after my friend and I figured out who Obama was, we agreed Obama would set back race relations by decades.

Nailed that one.

Consequently, he did more to hurt race relations than any president in my lifetime.

IMO you greatly misjudge Obama’s influence in the democrat party and on the left, as well as the content of his character.