HOPE ON Project, Day 9: Let’s Never Find Out Part 9 — ‘Not This Time’

Note: This is the ninth of what will be 13 daily posts on why Barack Obama is a dangerous, objectionable, and objectively unfit candidate to be president of the United States (while many other candidates are not).

Previous Posts — Part 1 (Obama “Part of the Problem” on Fan and Fred); Part 2 (”Energy”); Part 3 (”Punished”); Part 4 (”Number One”); Part 5 (”Earmarks”); Part 6 (’The Chicken Button’ and the Chicken Who Pushed It); Part 7 (”Trust” on Bill Ayers); Part 8 (”Middle Class”).

The daily videos involved are from NeverFindOut.org, a project of Let Freedom Ring (donation link is here).

This post is part of the HOPE ON Project (Help Ohio Prevent Electing Obama Now).

Today’s SOB Alliance author is Cornell McCleary of American Experience-US.

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Video (direct YouTube link):

Transcript:

MAN: Senator Obama, as a Black American, I long for the day that we will see a Black President in the White House. That day will truly be a sign of real change.

VIDEO: Photo of Martin Luther King, Jr.

MAN: But a wise man once said that we should judge people not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

So while that day will be a source of pride, my vote will not be based on race. I will heed that wise man. So Senator, this is not that time.

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Commentary by Cornell McCleary of American-Experience US (excerpts):

(The) Video ….. will tick off a lot of black people.

….. From the first moments of the Revolutionary War and every struggle since, blacks have been a part of the American Experience but has not, as a people, considered themselves truly Americans or America their new Homeland until now, embracing the persona of U. S. Senator Barack Obama.

….. For all intents and purposes, because we have a strong federal government, Adam and Hamilton’s Federalist government did in fact become the American government of the future and, is what it is today.

The nation’s Founding Fathers first embarked upon creating a nation, any kind of nation free or otherwise. The issue of slavery was a matter to be resolved at another time. Because Jefferson and his Democrat-Republican Party dominated early American politics and strongly embraced the concepts of a weak federal government and states rights, the issue of slavery and the emancipation of blacks would not become a matter for the American Experience for a time to come.

….. No matter what happens November 4th, America is no going to be the same. These moments should have been and could have been special but they are not because the wrong man with the wrong past is center stage. He should have been the son of a former slave. He should have been an American Experience but what he is, what he claims to be, is a “Citizen of the world.”

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Additional BizzyBlog Commentary:

Obama has, of course, frequently played the race card, perhaps most notably here (HT MarkedManner Blog):

We know what kind of campaign they’re going to try to run. They’re going to try to make you afraid. They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. He’s young and inexperience and has a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?

Well, I sure didn’t say that “The One” I refer to as “Mr. BOOHOO-OUCH, PUNK” (Barack O-bomba Overseas Hussein Obambi” Obama – Objectively Unfit Coddler of Haters, Previously Unaccomplished Nonsupporter of Kin) is black. I could care less about what race he is. Those around him, however, are obsessed, from the bogus construct known as Black Liberation Theology to the R-word they won’t utter but long for (reparations).

Because — and here’s perhaps the biggest joke of all on race-ethnicity-gender-orientation-identity-obsessed Obama supporters — he isn’t “black,” i.e., African-American. Read the link, and the follow-up. The only reason Obama can call himself “black” or “African-American” is that he self-identifies himself that way.* Based on ancestry, he isn’t.

Obama could have, and should have, chosen to run as an ambitious American citizen who believes his ideas are better and can make the country better who “just happens” to be non-white; but, as Cornell notes, he didn’t.**

We are all poorer for it.

* – “Self-identification” permits a person to claim any racial or ethnic identity he or she darn well pleases, even on any given day.
** – Though I don’t agree that the first non-white to hold the highest office in the land will have to come from slave ancestry for the perceived racial breakthrough to occur.