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Thursday, 3 March 2011

Barack Obama plays the race card - again

The Blaze reports that:
'On March 12, 2010, President Barack Obama welcomed to the White House Kenneth T. Walsh, a former White House reporter and author of “Family of Freedom: Presidents and African Americans in the White House.”  As the first African American to win the White House, Walsh says a “serene and confident” Obama had agreed to sit down for a candid interview for the book.

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In May 2010, he told guests at a private White House dinner that race was probably a key component in the rising opposition to his presidency from conservatives, especially right-wing activists in the anti-incumbent “Tea Party” movement that was then surging across the country. Many middle-class and working-class whites felt aggrieved and resentful that the federal government was helping other groups, including bankers, automakers, irresponsible people who had defaulted on their mortgages, and the poor, but wasn’t helping them nearly enough, he said.
A guest suggested that when Tea Party activists said they wanted to “take back” their country, their real motivation was to stir up anger and anxiety at having a black president, and Obama didn’t dispute the idea. He agreed that there was a “subterranean agenda” in the anti-Obama movement—a racially biased one—that was unfortunate. But he sadly conceded that there was little he could do about it.
His goal, he said, was to be as effective and empathetic a president as possible for all Americans. If he could accomplish that, it would advance racial progress for blacks more than anything else he could do.
This reported dinner conversation marks the first time President Obama has publicly linked the tea party movement to accusations of racism many on the left have made toward the conservative resurgence.  Whether or not the president meant for this conversation to rise to a level of public awareness is not clear, but the unguarded moment offers insight into the president’s personal views of the tea party movement.'
There we go, if you dare to disagree with the Obamamessiah then you must be upset at having a black President. If the Tea Party is racist will some please tell Colonel Allen West because he's obviously in the wrong party

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