When President Barack Obama and others on the left are not busy
admonishing the rest of us to be “civil” in our discussions of
political issues, they are busy letting loose insults, accusations
and smears against those who dare to disagree with them.
Like so many people who have been beaten in a verbal encounter,
and who can think of clever things to say the next day, after it is
all over, President Obama, after his clear loss in his debate with
Mitt Romney, called Governor Romney a “phony.”
Innumerable facts, however, show that it is our Commander in
Chief who is Phony in Chief. A classic example was his speech to a
predominantly black audience at Hampton University on June 5, 2007.
That date is important, as we shall see.
In his speech — delivered in a ghetto-style accent that Obama
doesn’t use anywhere except when he is addressing a black audience
— he charged the federal government with not showing the same
concern for the people of New Orleans after hurricane Katrina hit
as they had shown for the people of New York after the 9/11
attacks, or the people of Florida after hurricane Andrew hit.
Departing from his prepared remarks, he mentioned the Stafford
Act, which requires communities receiving federal disaster relief
to contribute 10 percent as much as the federal government
does.
Senator Obama, as he was then, pointed out that this requirement
was waived in the case of New York and Florida because the people
there were considered to be “part of the American family.” But the
people in New Orleans — predominantly black — “they don’t care
about as much,” according to Barack Obama.
If you want to know what community organizers do, this is it —
rub people’s emotions raw to hype their resentments. And this was
Barack Obama in his old community organizer role, a role that
should have warned those who thought that he was someone who would
bring us together, when he was all too well practiced in the arts
of polarizing us apart.
Why is the date of this speech important? Because, less than two
weeks earlier, on May 24, 2007, the United States Senate had in
fact voted 80-14 to waive the Stafford Act requirement for New
Orleans, as it had waived that requirement for New York and
Florida. More federal money was spent rebuilding New Orleans than
was spent in New York after 9/11 and in Florida after hurricane
Andrew, combined.
Truth is not a job requirement for a community organizer. Nor
can Barack Obama claim that he wasn’t present the day of that
Senate vote, as he claimed he wasn’t there when Jeremiah Wright
unleashed his obscene attacks on America from the pulpit of the
church that Obama attended for 20 years.
Unlike Jeremiah Wright’s church, the U.S. Senate keeps a record
of who was there on a given day. The Congressional Record for May
24, 2007 shows Senator Barack Obama present that day and voting on
the bill that waived the Stafford Act requirement. Moreover, he was
one of just 14 Senators who voted against — repeat, AGAINST — the
legislation which included the waiver.
When he gave that demagogic speech, in a feigned accent and
style, it was world class chutzpah and a rhetorical triumph. He
truly deserves the title Phony in Chief.
If you know any true believers in Obama, show them the
transcript of his June 5, 2007 speech at Hampton University
(available from the Federal News Service) and then show them page
S6823 of the Congressional Record for May 24, 2007, which lists
which Senators voted which way on the waiver of the Stafford Act
requirement for New Orleans.
Some people in the media have tried to dismiss this and other
revelations of Barack Obama’s real character that have belatedly
come to light as “old news.” But the truth is one thing that never
wears out. The Pythagorean Theorem is 2,000 years old, but it can
still tell you the distance from home plate to second base (127
ft.) without measuring it. And what happened five years ago can
tell a lot about Barack Obama’s character — or lack of
character.
Obama’s true believers may not want to know the truth. But there
are millions of other people who have simply projected their own
desires for a post-racial America onto Barack Obama. These are the
ones who need to be confronted with the truth, before they repeat
the mistake they made when they voted four years ago.
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