The Favor Jimmy Carter Did Us All

Thanks, Albertacowpoke and Sara Star for your assistance! It is greatly appreciated.

Karen, a good post on a very crazy subject!

Calling the protesters all racist is stupid....AMERICA elected him...obviously if they were all racist would not have...plus, last time I check Obama had a WHITE mother.....perhaps those DISCOUNTING that are the racist....or does she not count?

Projection: what happens when thieves won't acknowledge they steal and go around paranoid worrying about thieves being everywhere.

When people make accusations of moral failure of others, the accused will often ask the obvious: has the accuser lived up to the standard?

If black America refuses to come to terms with its own racism, then the accusation of racism in whites will always be amplified beyond the reality of the situation. The whites who do this, who agree, are whites in denial of their own un-overcome racism and project it onto other whites.

Beyond that, there will be resistance to any objective test of the hypothesis that racism is less than described.  No accountability. No possibility of verification or falsification.

The accusation becomes a self-fulfilling bit of circular reasoning.

Racism exists. The reason people disagree with that is that they are racists. The disagreement proves that the accusation is correct.

From pseudo-logic such as this, Inquisitions are born.

And from Inquisitions such as this, accusers sew strife and civil unrest and even civil war can result.

For years, P2, an deviant Masonic lodge in Italy, sought to create conditions for a war between the right and the left to give an excuse for a coup.

You create the conditions for instability, and out of the civil unrest, you impose martial law, and you will look justified to round up your political enemies.

This won't happen, but it is not because the left doesn't want to do this. Nancy Pelosi's crocodile tears, Carter's accusations- they are all meant as subterfuge by the "weak" to create an atmosphere of sympathy in which harder measure will look justified.

Once again: until black America acknowledges its own racism and the whites who agree acknowledge their own, the degree of racism by whites in the US will be overestimated. This is called "projection", and projection is at the root of all unnecessary civil unrest that tears at the fabric of community.

If Colin Powell were president, we would not be having this discussion. His policies and ideas are real-world tested from several tours of duty in Vietnam, and his role as a general in several campaigns.

Powell is an adult. Obama is what the Jungians call a "puer", a Peter Pan figure who has not grown up, who is taken by his own fairy tales about what can be done in life.

Obama's wings are getting clipped. That is all that is happening. Racism manifest in some of the demonstrators is less than what was commonplace about Bush in terms of the expression of extremes.

We forget so quickly. There was an actual movie made about the assassination of Bush, which got an award (where?) in a Canadian film festival (where else in North America!).

Bush was regularly compared to Hitler, which meant all of us who supported the war, not his handling of it, were Nazis. What a great projection that was of personal evil onto others.

So, if we subtract all the extreme imagery of Bush-level intensity, we don't see anymore wild accusations against Obama then we saw against Bush.

Result: accusation of racism falsified.

Let me repeat that.

To judge the moral failings of others, you must overcome them first in yourself. My African-American wife and I are both aware of existing racism on both sides and we just got done discussing something that happened to her the other day.

We don't exaggerate nor minimize the racism because we see it on both sides.

If you want to make an accusation, you must quantify it at some point and have an operational definition and a means to assess accuracy and precision.

Vague statements about extremists without numbers encourage projection, the finding of racism in others by those who can't seem to find it in themselves.

Looking at what happened in the Bush years, movies about assassination and the rest, the degree of vitriol is actually less and less dangerous in the protests against Obama then it was against Bush.

One more thing: Carter is a putz!

We forget so quickly. There was an actual movie made about the assassination of Bush, which got an award (where?) in a Canadian film festival (where else in North America!).

I.m not sure what that statement is supposed to mean.  The film was made by a British Filmmaker, Gabriel Range.   A lot of films debut at the Toronto Film Festival. 

Just an attempt to tweak some  Canadian noses, Mr CowPoke. Nothing serious. And, your nose was not among the intended targets.

The point is that the left in Canada is extreme and what is really extreme comes to pass for "normal". So, instead of being appalled at a film depicting the assassination of our president, the left-wing artsy-fartsy community gives it an award.

Some other example of extremes, American extremes: Randy Rhodes, Air America rabble rouser, called for Bush to be treated as "'Fredo" was in "Godfather II", i.e., shot in the head in the middle of Lake Tahoe.

Mr. Robinson's failure to see why some of us view Obama as being unqualified to run the country amazes me.  The man had very little Executive experience if any at all.  He has far less than George Bush had which is why our criticism is sharper.  He never had to meet a payroll and he never had to display leadership in ways that even come close as that the job of POTUS requires.  It had nothing to do with the color of his skin.  Experience is colorblind and he simply did not have it and frankly, he still doesn't.  I have yet to see him step up to the plate the way he needs to.

I wouldn't hire the man to run one of my branches so how can I expect him to run the country.  Oh, and 3 of my Branch Managers are African American and one is Hispanic.  I have 5 branches so do the math.

This Sunday we will see a perfect example of Obama's lack of leadership.  Instead of doing what he needs to do and accomplishing what he feels is important, he is doing the rounds of just about every Sunday morning news show with the exception of Fox News Sunday.  I find that interesting.  Chris Wallace isn't exactly Glenn Beck, I have always found him to be fair.  Instead, Obama chooses to play softball with the others.  (God I miss fellow Buffalonian Tim Russert!)  A leader shouldn't have to take his case to the American people to get their approval, a leader leads regardless of popular opinion.  This man is driven by the polls and that is not what a leader does.  Bush didn't care about the polls and whether you liked or disliked his decisions, he led and got it done. 

The frustration with Obama's lack of leadership is crossing party lines by the way.  If anything, his lack of leadership is hurting him with Democrats more than it is with Republicans. With the Independents, it is destroying him.

Karen I respect your opinion but I disagree with it.  While I think racism may be a factor more for this President than it has with others, I don't feel it is the underlying cause of the dissent.  Racism is alive and well in America and it always will be.  No law or laws will ever change that but it is the exception rather than the rule.  If it was the rule, the man never would have been elected.

In my opinion, the cries of racism are nothing more than an attempt to silence the dissent.

It won't work.

Everyone agrees there are racists who oppose Obama and that not all who oppose him are racists.

It is very likely that less than 1% of Obama opponents are racists and we need perspective when making accusations  of racism.

This is similar to the fact that less than 1% of Arabs are terrorists.

Pointing out that racists oppose Obama should be accompanied by the facts that racists are a small minority.

Interesting, after reading, then re-reading, the article, i still took it as putting forth the idea that, absent a small few, most of Obama's critics are racist.

Quote from the article: "and I can't find any explanation for it other than race".

If that isn't the premise of the article, then what is?