President Obama and race relations in the U.S.A.

Another old post being preposted here for my dozens and dozens of fans.

Original post date, July 25, 2009

Gotta say I kinda called this one, and I especially have to point this out to certain folks, who actually said that Obama's election would somehow help move this country past racial politics. It hasn't and if anything the President has only served to use diversive race issues for his own benefit whenever he can.

Lets recap some of the "lowlights" so far in his time running for President and some notable moments since.

Most folks remember Rev. Wright and the Trinity Church. If you missed it don't worry too much, the media did a pretty good concerted job of sweeping it under the rug, from downplaying Wright's comments to Obama's connections to the man. President Obama as a young community organizer in Chicago started attending Wright's trinity church around 20 years before his run at the Presidency. He had Wright baptize his children, marry him to his wife, described Wright as a his spiritual mentor and as the man that brought Christ into his life, and tittled one of his books after one of Wrights sermons.

Now to most folks this would seem like a pretty solid connection between two people. I mean, the only real way to establish more of a connection would be if someone got a picture of them frenching in time square, and considering President Obama's stance on gay marriage, that is unlikely to happen, but I digress. In the campaign trail Obama did the politician thing and simply downplayed what Wright said, at one point equating it to an confession by his Grandmother that she was sometimes nervous around black men. "I can no more disown this man than I can the black community." Is what President Obama said at the time. Now, Obama would not have had much political damage from this if Rev. Wright would have remained quiet, he didn't. three weeks later he appeared at the national press club here in DC and again affirmed himself to be the race baiting moron he appeared to be in most other clips played. The same day Wright did this Obama had a press conference where he denounced and disowned the man he could not disown three weeks prior. The press gladly ignored it.

Obama's troubles were not quite over though, around a month or so later audio of a sermon given by a white priest at Trinity came out in which Father Fleger(sp?) was heard denouncing Hillary Clinton characterizing her mindset by saying "I'm white, I'm entittled... there's a black man stealing my throne." Following this Obama formally left Trinity church. Again, the media happily held back on coverage of this, instead giving us another report on what a nice smile Obama has.

Following the election Obama first gave us his racial politics BS with his nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. The same day as her nomination Senator up-chuck shumer of New York made the politics of the decision clear. Referring to Republicans Shumer stated "They oppose her at their own peril" making it known that any opposition to Sotomayor would be viewed as racially based, regardless of the validity of the opposition. Prior to her confirmation hearing Sotomayor created some controversy when comments highlighted a beleif by her that the Judicial branch is "where policy is made." The absurdity of such a comment should appear obvious to most. The other comments were one's in which she, in prepared statements over a 5 year period, stated that she would hope that a "wise latina woman, with the richness of her experiences, could more often come down with a better judgement than a white male that had not lived that life." During the confirmation hearing she downplayed the comments stating that the comments were not meant to target or maginalize any ethnic group and that she was unaware that the comments would offend anyone.

Really? 5 years of making these comments and it never occured that such a comment might not resonate with a certain group? 5 years and nobody said anything to you? Opps it was an accident over a 5 year period? Really? Yeesh.

And now we come to our present situation with the arrest of Professor William Gates for disorderly conduct. Now, after reading the police report on smoking gun, and reviewing the fact that all police and neighborhood witness accounts back the cop in this case I find it a bit difficult how anybody can back the professor here. This jerk was belligerant and insulting to a uniformed officer who was performing his duty by responding to a call and seeking to resolve a situation in which a neighbor mistakenly thought Gates home was being broken into. This situation could have been resolved so easily had Gates simply acknowleged the mixup, provided ID, and allowed the cop to leave. Instead he immediatly accused the cop of racial bias, stating many times "do you know who I am" and after the cop asked him to talk outside on the porch stated to the policeman "yeah, I'll talk to your momma outside." Wow, what a class act. While outside police officers again attempted to de-escalate the situation and asked Mr. Gates to calm down. When he refused they informed him that he becoming disruptive and could be arrested if he refused to calm down. He didn't and thus, he was arrested for being a moron.

And here President not so bright comes in. During his prime time news conference Obama was asked to comment on the situation. A fair question to ask the first black President of the US. Obama started off by stating he did not have a full understanding of the facts, and that his friendship with William "I'll speak with your momma outside" Gates might make him bias. With that the proper course would be to excuse yourself from making a comment until you know the situation, but instead President not so bright termed the cops actions as being stupid, and went on seemingly giving validation that this was some sort of case in racial profiling. The American public did not respond well to this stance by the President and as of Friday, July 24th, his approval numbers dipped below 50% for the first time in his Presidency. In response to this Obama did the politician thing where he stated that gosh, some of his comments may have seemed like they were criticism's of the police actions which they weren't intended to be. Really? Calling someone's actions stupid is no longer a criticism? Meanwhile race baiter William "Do you know who I am" Gates has made repeated appearances feigning outrage over the arrest, linking it to treatment of the black community in America and stating "in the end this isn't about me." This is the guy Obama still calls a friend today.

Folks, people like Gates should be ashamed of themselves. They went after a good cop to push a devisive agenda which does nothing to move this country ahead in race relations, but instead they are impowered by fools who need a scapegoat which as of today still appears to be our commander and chief.

Wow, I really didn't mean to make it this long, just kinda got a lifie of it's own i guess.

-Zach

President Obama's amateur hour foreign policy

An old blog I made during the whole Honduran coup deal. I was a bit upset over our President's foreign policy decisions and his actions during that incident kinda snapped something in me so I wrote this up. enjoy.

Original post was on July 1sr, 2009

Lets recap our oh so great President's current foreign policy highlights.

First he announces the closing of GITMO within a year without a clear plan on what to do with the detainees. As of this writing there still is no clear plan on what to do with them and we are less than 6 months away from the planned closing. A fabulous start.

Second, he goes to Europe and begs forgiveness for America being an arrogant nation. The European nations thank him for his apologies by refusing to take any GITMO detainees and making no new contributions to the war in Afghanistan.

Third he bows while meeting the Saudi King

Forth, he fails to drive a wedge in Iran's ruling class and to create doubt across the world on the legitimacy of the Iranian government. What did he fail to do? Oh, just to say he disapproved of the regime crack down that's all.

Fifth, he follows up the Iran whiff by supporting the wannabe dictator of Honduras after he is ousted. The dictator was ousted with the unanimous approval of the Honduran congress after President Zelaya openly made it his intention to violate the constitution and to make and illegal seizure of power. The ousting was bloodless, with an interim President taking the helm until the next round of elections can be held in November. Somehow President not so bright has objected to these moves despite the very democratic motivations behind them.

Folks, as I list these Obama has been President for only six months. I'm tired of amateur hour, we need to call for protests nationwide to let this man know that we are not going to sit back and accept this garbage anymore. 2010 is not close enough, fix it now or there will be a way found to impeach him and get him of the white house.

The starting point. 10/24/09

Well looks like I'm finally going to start blogging and become one of "those guys." This probably would have been better for me a year ago as I followed the news a bit more rapidly and found that writing out my thoughts on current events was a pretty relaxing thing to do. For now I'm kinda in the middle of a ton of work that has and no doubt will hamper my ability to track the latest news headlines will also limiting my ability to sit down and think exactly about how I wish to say something.

I will thank my friend Allen for suggesting that I start this blog and I will note for those who don't know me that I am someone who loves politics and who generally falls along the fiscal and social conservative ideological lines. My opinions are what they are, if you differ please do not hold back but always show the same respect with which you would expect to be treated and you'll be fine.

That's all for now. I have a Halloween party to get ready for, yeahhh!!! The whole lack of time really bit me in the butt though. I love creating my own costume but no time this year so I went out and got a costume as one of the "immortals" from the movie "300" simply because it's looks pretty bad ass on me.

Later

-Zach