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How can we pull together when Obama pulls us apart?

Posted on Monday, April 25, 2011 at 06:26 PM

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When Obama ran for President the first time, he was the fresh face promising hope and change. He didn't have a record of accomplishment to match his flowery speeches. Many overlooked the vacuum of Obamas past qualifications & executive experience in their eagerness to elect the well spoken, but little known freshman Senator from Chicago.

This time is different, he will have to explain and defend his record as President of the United States....and he has a lot of explaining and defending to do. Blaming Bush for everything is not going to work anymore.

President Obama is in re-election mode and the rhetoric is getting ratcheted up. It is plain the President and his political advisers know he can't win by running on his record. So their default battle plan will be negative. The tactics will be classic divide and conquer. Use class warfare to split up the populace, pit one segment against the other, fracture the citizens and try to win the election.

We got a dose of those tactics when the latest budget was put forth. Immediately, the claim was made that old people would starve, children would be denied health care and people would be thrown out on the streets, yada yada yada, yawn....Obama himself was leading the charge and all of this in response to an attempt to balance the budget.

In a time when the citizens of the U.S. should be pulling together, they are being pulled apart for political manipulation. The "haves, ie: the "lucky" and the have nots" will be center stage. The entitlement classes are drawing their battle lines and Obama will take advantage of this.

The best leaders know that you appeal to the higher character of the people, inspire them to greatness. As President Kennedy said in his most inspirational speech: "Ask not, what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country". Now that's the way to galvanize the people.

President Obama, the country needs an inspirational leader. Be a uniter, not a divider.

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Monsoonman | May 04, 2011, 11:33 AM EDT

Nothing to do with the color of his skin Mamaginnity, but everything about the color of his character.

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mamaginnty | May 02, 2011, 04:13 PM EDT

Ah, just a quick glance and thought you were all cpmplaining about Ireland. No, it's the black man that is getting it this time round.

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joanxis | Apr 29, 2011, 09:19 AM EDT

Ratslayer, you are right on.

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seamusmoore | Apr 29, 2011, 08:13 AM EDT

@ratslayer if you read his book "Dreams from My Father" he or more less adopted his "black" identity when he went to Occidental. His blackness came from Michelle and her church, Reverend Wright's Church of the Poisoned Mind (to reference the Culture Club). Why do you think he threw his granny (who wrote the checks for him to attend the most exclusive school in Hawaii) under the bus in attempt to defend Reverend Wright. BTW, now he is trying to adopt an "Irish" identity, albeit a Proddy one. Just too rich, REALLY!

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Monsoonman | Apr 27, 2011, 09:05 PM EDT

Yer race card is getting stale. Anybody that critiques obama is a racist, LOL!!!Empty suit.

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hancock | Apr 27, 2011, 08:16 PM EDT

Race card whiner alert..

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Ratslayer | Apr 27, 2011, 05:07 PM EDT

The blog post offers NO SPECIFICS to support yer lame argument that Obama is a divider or playing the class-warfare card. It's typical right-wing hyperbole: broad generalizations based on emotion (racism??) rather than facts. The folks who are dividing America are the wealthy and corporate elites (Koch brothers, for example) who demand more tax cuts, govt subsidies, credits, etc. for themselves while advocating that the middle and lower classes carrying more of the burden through regressive taxation and fewer social benefits. Paul Ryan's sick budget plan and Scott Walker's boneheaded attack on unions are very good examples of CLASS WAR BY THE WEALTHY (and their GOP lapdogs) on suffering middle/working class Americans. And one more point, how the hell can Obama UNITE the nation when the likes of the teabaggers, Hannity, Beck, Palin, Bachmann and ED call the man 24/7 a socialist, a communist, a nazi while questioning his place of birth! Come on, rightwingers, grow the hell up and accept that a black man is sitting in the White House.

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Monsoonman | Apr 26, 2011, 11:58 PM EDT

You want some whine with your cheese lad? You didn't deal with one issue in the article. Why? Cause every point was true and you can't refute anything in the article. So in typical liberal fashion you name call instead of debate the points. typical.

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Ratslayer | Apr 26, 2011, 11:00 PM EDT

Seriously, yer incessant whining, ED, about Obama and liberals (whatever that means) is getting tiresome. You have no original thoughts of yer own and you sound very naive and terribly misinformed. BTW, you should pay close attention to the Paul Ryan budget debacle. Yer on the fringe, Ed, and I can't understand why IC is giving you a forum to express yer hatred of the president. One Sean Hannity is enough.

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Shmrck5S | Apr 26, 2011, 04:33 PM EDT

As opposed to the Tea Party, who are all for holding hands and bringing us all together? The TP'ers say nothing about working together. Their opinions are the only ones, and if you don't agree with them your opinions don't count for anything. Now THAT'S divisive.

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Ajreaper | Apr 26, 2011, 02:34 PM EDT

I'll throw this out there but the rich got that way because of great iniative and drive and many, not all poor are very content living off society and make no effort to improve their lot. I completely understand their are those who need a hand but many, a great many in our society are happy to let the rest of us support them in every way shape and form. Nothing will change for those people no matter what the government does or does not do.

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staps62 | Apr 26, 2011, 01:29 PM EDT

Personally I liked Bush and I also like Obama. But Bush was clearly the more divisive president we ever had. And you are correct that other than Health Care Obama has done little to prove himself. However, Obama would be foolish not to point out the statistics, of which there are MANY...that in America the rich are getting richer and the poor-poorer. Social programs, while certainly needing some adjustments, are as needed as ever if we keep going in this direction.

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