One option to describe the philosophical and ideological divide between former President Barack Obama and Sen. Tim Scott is that the optimistic Scott views the glass that’s America as we speak as far more than half-full, whereas the ungrateful Obama nonetheless sees it as half-empty — or worse.
Practically 6½ years after leaving the White Home, Obama — appallingly, however unsurprisingly — continues to denigrate the nation that twice elected him president in pooh-poohing the candidacy of the South Carolina Republican senator who aspires to grow to be the nation’s second black president.
Showing on David Axelrod’s “The Axe Information” podcast on June 15, Obama disparaged Scott’s sunny perspective on race. Grudgingly acknowledging that projecting a hopeful message like Scott’s is essential, the Democratic former president nonetheless added: “That must be undergirded with an trustworthy accounting of our previous and our current.”
Cynically questioning the South Carolinian’s bona fides, Obama rambled in a useless seek for a coherent thought and a whole sentence: “And so, if a Republican, who might even be honest [emphasis added] in saying, ‘I would like us all to stay collectively,’ doesn’t have a plan for a way will we deal with crippling generational poverty that may be a consequence of tons of of years of racism on this society, and we have to do one thing about that.”
If Obama’s personal election — not as soon as, however twice — as president doesn’t refute that reflexive, kneejerk depiction of America as irredeemably racist, it’s arduous to think about what would persuade him in any other case. That’s not solely gratuitously divisive, nevertheless it’s additionally deeply disturbing.
Persevering with to stir the pot for the sake of stirring the pot, Obama added: “If someone isn’t proposing, each acknowledging and proposing, parts that say, ‘No, we will’t simply ignore all that and fake as if every part’s equal and honest. We really must stroll the stroll and never simply discuss the discuss.’ In the event that they’re not doing that, then I feel persons are rightly skeptical.”
To start with, nobody is suggesting that every part is 100% equal and honest. That’s not solely an unimaginable normal to satisfy, nevertheless it’s additionally a complete canard, and Obama is aware of it. However he and the Left refuse to acknowledge the big strides towards racial equality the nation has revamped the practically 60 years because the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
It’s completely cynical, however in no way shocking, as a result of Democrats know that with out stirring the racial pot, they wouldn’t be capable to proceed each election cycle to rely on greater than 90% of the black vote, with out which they might by no means win the presidency and even some Senate seats in in any other case blue states.
That the racial arson of Obama and his fellow Democrats has achieved its desired finish was mirrored in a ballot revealed in The Washington Submit on June 16, only one the day after his remarks on the podcast of Axelrod, who was a senior adviser in his presidency.
The survey discovered: “An amazing share of black Individuals assume the U.S. financial system is stacked towards them, and a slim majority consider the issue of racism will worsen throughout their lives, in line with a Washington Submit-Ipsos ballot that explored the attitudes of the nation’s second-largest minority group.”
As disheartening as that’s in and of itself, Obama’s remarks are notably galling coming from somebody who has a web price estimated by Enterprise Insider at $70 million and who owns 4 lavish houses, together with island oceanfront properties on Oahu, Hawaii, and on Martha’s Winery, Massachusetts.
By any measure, Obama has finished terribly effectively for a black man in a supposedly “racist” nation — and vastly out of proportion to what he has contributed to the well-being of the nation.
Scott, extra in sorrow than in anger, responded to Obama on Twitter the identical day the podcast aired.
“Allow us to not neglect we’re a land of alternative, not a land of oppression. Democrats deny our progress to guard their energy,” the two-term senator wrote. “The Left needs you to consider religion in America is a fraud and progress in our nation is a fable.”
“The reality of MY life disproves the lies of the novel Left,” he added. “We stay in a rustic the place little Black and Brown girls and boys could be President of the US. The reality is, we’ve had one, and the excellent news is, we could have one other.”
Initially revealed at WashingtonTimes.com
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