"He's got the same skin color but he's no soul brother," thinks Maxine Waters of Barack Obama.
"Where's the black Barack Obama?" "Where's the bro that I voted for three years ago?" "I can see him with my eyes but can't feel him in my soul." "Where'd he go?" These questions are being asked by more and more black Americans about the man they voted for in overwhelming numbers believing that he'd be the solution to all their problems; that he'd greatly enrich them with many thinking they'd become instant millionaires, with the Treasury transferring wealth to them-reparation for the evil days of slavery or just a simple entitlement. But after 900 days in office and their community worst off today than it was under Bush (
see), suffering in a veritable depression with 16% unemployed (the highest of any ethnic group), America's first Afro-American president seems like a stranger to them, distant, foreign, remote. Indeed, blacks are beginning to sense an aching disconnect with Obama, a growing divide from their dear friend and savior of the 08 campaign when he intentionally raised their hopes that he'd make life beautiful for them.
It's more than just buyers remorse, it's spiritual loss. "He's got the same skin color but he's no soul brother," feel a growing number of blacks. And their instincts are correct. In reality he's not one of them and never was, which is why black issues have such a low priority for him. Indeed, Maxine Waters and many blacks are joining the chorus of disenchanted supporters who feel America has an alien presence in the White House; a man who doesn't share their values and beliefs; who differs radically from them; who has little interest in them; who couldn't give a damn no matter how much he spends.
More and more Blacks, Latinos, Asian and Native Americans feel let down, deceived, betrayed. "Yes We Can" "Hope and Change" what did it mean? The folks are catching on: it was the triumph of image, charisma and color over character, competence and substance; it was all an elaborate well orchestrated hoax; a charade to get out the vote.
Truth is Obama loves neither black people nor white people nor Latinos, Asians or Native Americans. In fact in his heart he has little love for most citizens of this land or people around the world. Above all this excessively cerebral, unfeeling man is a leftist intellectual belonging to a spaced out class of transcendental political and media elitists who inhabit the stratosphere miles above the earth. They embrace the whole world but barely see its peoples below who look ant-like from the distance crawling in the soil to be manipulated and controlled to gain and keep power. When Arianna Huffington passed from Right to Left she boasted that she "transcended political time and space." And so she had leaving behind reality and good sense.
Like most of his ilk Obama mostly loves ideas, ideals and wonderful, ennobling romantic dreams of what ought and should be, not real living human beings working and toiling in the concrete world*. Maxine Waters outburst Tuesday was emblematic of Black Americans catching up to the truth that the president isn't truly one of them.
*Paul Johnson
In truth, Obama is an un-American ideological alien stuck in a mental world of obsolete leftist revolutionary ideas outside of which his life has little purpose or meaning-which explains his stubborn, ruinous, unpragmatic rigidity. He is neither patriotic, compassionate or practical. Patriotism for him means "never being satisfied with one's country*;" and compassion means spending other peoples' money until the IDEAL becomes real (which it never can). Obama hates America as it is; it's injustices, inequalities and deficiencies sicken and appall him. "I love my country right or wrong" is not his song. "If it's not all right America's all wrong" believes Obama and his creed of extraterrestrial perfectionist lefties. There's no middle way for him and them. Totalitarianism by degrees is what he and they believe. Not "Revolution Now!" with guns blazing killing their way to power; but Alinsky's bloodless revolution in slow motion by deceit. Turning crises into power grabbing opportunities until freedom is crushed and the State is supreme. That's the extent of Obama's practicality; and predictably it's failing.
*Marxist singing star Paul Robson's definition of patriotism.
What these idiot intellectuals love, honor and revere (what they pledge allegiance to) is a pure, pristine, absolute idea of what America should be. "We must pursue the world as it should be," said our idealistic leader in a recent foreign policy speech. And he meant what he said. Until America's perfect it's unworthy of respect; until it perfectly transcends the evil of social injustice and everyone's living the American Dream as social and economic equals America is "downright mean," "nothing to be proud of," as Michele Obama said.
EQUALITY OF INCOME, OUTCOME AND CONDITION; this is Obama's dream and what he means by "A More Perfect Union" one of his 08 campaign themes-a phrase taken out of context from the preamble to the Constitution written by classical, small government, freedom loving liberals who'd puke over Obama if they were alive, as they puked over the French revolutionaries, the Obamas of their day.
Society can't be "perfect" until each individual is perfect. Until each one of us perfects his intellectual and more faculties to the highest human degree making us close to the angels. And even then economic equality can't be guaranteed. But for Obama and the Left-the "angels" among us, forerunners of a new enlightened human race-the way to social perfection is not the spiritual evolution of individuals; the way is massive and persistent government engineering and intervention until society is equalized and the government withers away having completed its mission and destiny.
The State is Obama's Philosophers Stone with magical powers able with enough spending, regulation and control to transmute this unlovely, mean, unjust land into pure unvarnished socialist gold-into the promised Golden Age of classless equality, harmony and peace evermore. This is the childish twaddle inspiring Obama and the Left; the nonsense driving the nation off the fiscal cliff; the lunacy that few of us (white, black, yellow, red) can relate to as it defies common sense and ages of experience. This is why so many feel we have an alien being for president.
Obama's magic moment is past; and try as he may with bus tours, speeches, new plans and town halls he can't conjure it back. As I said before: After his first year in office the bloom came off the rose; after his second year the rose pedals withered and died. And now what's left is the thorny stem to tear his flesh and bleed him to death until he's defeated and politically dead. As the tragedy of Obama unfolds he'll soon be an object of pity, contempt and national scorn; and never again will someone like him be president.