How subtle is “Goddamn America!”?

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Thomas Sowell is on to the Obama con.  He notes how tempting people find Obama’s words:

Barack Obama is much smoother. Instead of issuing explicit denials, he gives speeches that sound so moderate, so nuanced, and so lofty that even some conservative Republicans go for them. How could anyone believe that such a man is the very opposite of what he claims to be — unless they check out the record of what he has actually done?

But when it comes to deeds things are very different:

In words, Obama is a uniter instead of a divider. In deeds, he has spent years promoting polarization. That is what a “community organizer” does — creating a sense of grievance, envy, and resentment — in order to mobilize political action to get more of the taxpayers’ money or to force banks to lend to people they don’t consider good risks, as the community organizing group ACORN did.

After Barack Obama moved beyond the role of a community organizer, he promoted the same polarization in his other roles.

That is what he did when he spent the money of the Woods Fund bankrolling programs to spread the politics of grievance and resentment into the schools. That is what he did when he spent the taxpayers’ money bankrolling the grievance and resentment ideology of Michael Pfleger.

When Barack Obama donated $20,000 to Jeremiah Wright, does anyone imagine that he was unaware that Wright was the epitome of grievance, envy, and resentment hype? Or were Wright’s sermons too subtle for Obama to pick up that message?

How subtle is “Goddamn America!”?

As Sowell points out, however, raising any of these issues is seen as divisive and distracting from the issues.  And he notes how this leads to the Obama con:

Does anyone in real life put more faith in what people say than in what they do? A few gullible people do — and they often get deceived and defrauded big time.

That is what is at the heart of this election.  Are we going to take what Obama says over what he has actually done?  Are we going to take his word when he has consistently proven himself untrustworthy?

The media doesn’t want to have these questions asked, but they are necessary and valid.  It is up to the voters to ask them and think about what the answers mean.

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