Is Barack Obama a racist? I've often said there is no difference between a race-baiter and a racist. In order to race-bait, an individual must be race-based in his/her views. Barack Obama is playing the race card here, of that there can be no doubt.
Obama speaks with unusual demographic frankness about his coalition in his appeal to "young people, African-Americans, Latinos, and women who powered our victory in 2008 [to] stand together once again."
If you ever needed a clearer example of Projection - a defense mechanism in which an individual accuses others of what that individual is in fact guilty of - I give you Barack Obama.
Last week, New York Senator Chuck Schumer (D) raised eyebrows when he appeared on a conservative Jewish radio show and publicly chastised both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for their treatment of Israel. Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch echoed similar sentiments in a recorded statement leading up to a pro-Jewish protest in front of NYC's Israeli Consulate.
Click here to view Koch's statement. More on Schumer's interview here. Schumer is a far left liberal who agrees with practically all of Obama's agenda. However, if Obama loses Schumer over his Israeli policy, it could be politically disastrous for the president.
Here is the audio from Schumer's radio interview with Nachum Segal.
Al Sharpton isn't just calling for "civil disobedience" in response to the passage of the new state law in Arizona (S1070) signed by Governor Jan Brewer (R). He's also comparing its passage to Nazism, Apartheid, and Jim Crow.
New York activists, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, compared Arizona's new immigration law to apartheid, Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South - and vowed to shut it down with mass protests.
"We will bring Freedom Walkers to Arizona just like Freedom Riders went to the deep south 50 years ago," Sharpton said yesterday.
PAGING BILL CLINTON! PAGING BILL CLINTON! Last week, Clinton compared the Tea Party Movement's anger with the anger that caused the Oklahoma Bombing. Not only was the motivation for the OK City bombing actually Bill Clinton's handling of the Branch Davidian compound two years earlier but he blamed talk radio.
Just last week, Clinton warned that the Tea Party movement could be responsible for some future event. Don't hold your breath waiting for Clinton to publicly denounce Al Sharpton's extremely incendiary words that could inflame the situation in Arizona. Also, unlike the Tea Party movement which has been peaceful and law-abiding, Sharpton is advocating civil disobedience on the part of his marchers to the point of being arrested:
Standing with local clergy, elected officials and a leader of the Hispanic Federation, Sharpton said he would mobilize people from across the country to march in Arizona - and get arrested, if necessary - to stop the controversial new law.
The hypocrisy of the left is beyond palpable at this point. Al Sharpton is literally inflaming tensions by advocating non-peaceful assembly and behavior that will lead to arrests. Perhaps Bill Clinton should come out and publicly warn Mr. Sharpton.