Obama cynically attacked me after I dared to say America is NOT racist. Does Barack Obama think he’s the only minority who could be elected president? It sure sounds like it.
Nikki Haley (June 21)
Barack Obama could have been more than the front man for an elite vanguard within the Democrat party. He attracted a coalition of minorities, told them ad nauseam how cruelly they’d been treated by a mostly white and Christian majority, but never actually helped them. Obama might be the most divisive Democrat ever, and Tim Scott is onto him.
“Whenever Democrats feel threatened, they drag out the former president and have him make negative comments about someone running, hoping that their numbers go down. Let’s not forget we are a land of opportunity, not oppression. The truth of my life disproves the lies of the radical left, so Democrats deny our progress to protect their power.”
Scott was just responding to Obama’s cheap shot; that Scott “talks the talk but will not walk the walk to address crippling poverty that is a consequence of hundreds of years of racism.” Really? Because Reuters reported Tuesday that Scott’s forebears “were enslaved” and Obama is “descended from white slaveholders” (on his mother’s side). Turns out Obama’s the black politician NOT walking the walk.
Black conservative Horace Cooper blames Obama for black Americans “having more of their cars repossessed (and) 16.8% unemployment” on his watch. In 2016, the People’s Policy Project detailed how black wealth was destroyed by foreclosures under Obama. Statista shows the share of black households living in poverty (22.4%) was higher under Obama than under either Bush or Trump. He left office with higher black unemployment (8.4%) and lower black home ownership (41.3%) than when he entered.
Those pitiful numbers are why Kanye West said, “Obama was in office for eight years and nothing changed.” Black conservative Candace Owens agreed: “Look at our neighborhoods, the condition of our families, the crime statistics, the father absences – Black Americans are better off with Donald Trump than we were after eight years of Barack Obama.” Both felt betrayed by an “elitist” black president. So did GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley.
“Obama had eight years [and] chose to further divide us by race and gender. Now he’s doubling down by accusing America of being defined by racism. You’d think the first black President of the United States would have hope and pride in America, that he’d say my candidacy for president – the first female minority governor in US history – is further proof of our national progress. Instead of confronting their failed policies, Democrats are blaming America itself.”
Like Scott, Haley was responding to Obama’s cheap shot; that Haley is part of “a long history of minority candidates within the Republican party who will validate America.” Shame on Obama, whose “lived experience” includes Columbia and Harvard educations and 8 years in the White House, who ran for president worth $1.3 million and is now worth $130 million (source: Business Insider). In contrast, Haley went to Clemson and is worth $2 million (source: Naija News).
Obama is so divisive he was called out by Hillary Clinton in April 2008 for “demeaning remarks about people in small-town America.” Trailing in Ohio and Pennsylvania, he accused working-class whites of “antipathy to people who aren’t like them.” Shame on him, because he won 45% of both white and rural votes in 2008 (source: CNN) – and recent polls found just 1% of Americans say racial and ethnic diversity is “bad” (source: National Review).
Obama has to lie because his party has a leadership problem; siding with teacher unions rather than black voters who are overwhelmingly (80%) for school choice (source: Morning Consult). Know why Florida and Atlanta have the most black-owned businesses, rather than California or New York City? Same reason the Brookings Institute recorded “black household income rising across the United States” under Trump (deeds, not words, Mr. Obama).
Obama is the messiah of identity politics; his disciples changed the very language of campaigns, saying “equity” rather than monstrous wealth transfer, and “emerging coalition” rather than citizenship for 15.5 million illegal aliens (source: FAIR). It’s a deception designed to keep college-educated suburban voters focused on global warming and abortion. Joe Biden’s dubious compliment of Obama in 2007 was not a gaffe – he was spinning an illusion for swing voters.
I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.
Joe Biden (January 31, 2007)
Americans have slowly wised up to Obama. He dropped 7 points with Independents – and 5 points with Blacks – between 2008 and 2012. This spring, CIA Director John Brennan’s handwritten notes proved Obama was briefed in August 2016 that Ms. Clinton approved “a campaign advisor’s proposal to create a [Trump] scandal claiming interference by the Russian security services” (source: DOJ report).
Ask yourself who’s the real “threat” to our democracy. Is it Tim Scott, who questioned the integrity of the 2020 election, or Barack Obama, who knowingly allowed the Trump-Russia hoax to poison the news in 2016? Is it Nikki Haley, whose spouse just deployed to Africa with his regiment, or Barack Obama, whose spouse just disparaged the Supreme Court for ending discrimination against Asian-American students? Hint: it’s the man who lied to his own party.
There is not a liberal America and a conservative America. There is not a black America, a white America, a Latino America, an Asian America. There’s the United States of America.”
Barack Obama (2004 Democrat Convention)