Obama plays Race Card: Rallies Blacks, Latinos for '10 Upset

[bobbyw24]

YouTube - President Obama Announces Vote 2010 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh-yR1HWkbM&feature=player_embedded)

The Democratic National Committee this morning released this clip of the president rallying the troops, if rather coolly, for 2010. Obama's express goal: "reconnecting" with the voters who voted for the first time in 2008, but who may not plan to vote in the lower-profile Congressional elections this year.

Obama speaks with unusual demographic frankness about his coalition in his appeal to "young people, African-Americans, Latinos, and women who powered our victory in 2008 [to] stand together once again."

Turning out those so-called "surge" voters -- who turned out for the first time to back Obama, but who sat out gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia last year -- has become the Democrats' central pre-occupation for the midterm elections, and the new Democratic effort to nationalize the election around Obama and his agenda mark an attempt to energize those voters.

[stu2002]

Wow! Shocking

[The Patriot]

How Libertarian of Obama, I mean, I guess by the new definition as proposed by some of the people here. A free ballot to vote themselves a free lunch if they can crawl across the border from whatever third world country they came from. That is the American dream, apparently. :rolleyes:

[bobbyw24]

How Libertarian of Obama, I mean, I guess by the new definition as proposed by some of the people here. A free ballot to vote themselves a free lunch if they can crawl across the border from whatever third world country they came from. That is the American dream, apparently. :rolleyes:

Right-and a Libertarian Dream

[TheBlackPeterSchiff]

We'll, this black has not been included ;)

[bobbyw24]

We'll, this black has not been included ;)

Glad to hear it.

[specsaregood]

This racist is full of fail.

He just dismissed one of the largest blocks of people that voted for him
--------------Total--Obama McCain Other/No Answer
White Men (36%)-41%---57%---- 2%

Good luck getting reelected with that 14.76% of all voters. (white males)

[tangent4ronpaul]

True, but he's pushing 2010, not 2012 right now.

Still, if he keeps pushing this divide the country on racial lines, the nazi's and klan just might get what they want. He's doing incredible;e damage to the gains the civil rights movement made.

He's lost a ton of his base - especially the youth vote, after they found out what that "change" really was...

-t

[stu2002]

Very divisive words

[Sarge]

Wait, you mean the change we can believe in that we can now not believe in?

Well based on the poll released today he has some problems.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36778167/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/

67 percent think he is doing a bad job. And as many don't see things improving.

Great for you Peter and spread the word.

[Stary Hickory]

More leftist racism I am sick to death of this. Pandering to foreign nationals for political support. It's time we had a real break up and split. I am tired of this krap totally.

The AZ law at it's heart gives the state a means to enforce immigration laws. The states ought to have these rights. I don't believe in stopping people for no reason or based on skin color. I do however want in place the means to enforce immigration laws regardless of race.

[stu2002]

By Linda Kimball

There are two misconceptions held by many Americans. The first is that communism ceased to be a threat when the Soviet Union imploded. The second is that the New Left of the Sixties collapsed and disappeared as well. "The Sixties are dead," wrote columnist George Will ("Slamming the Doors," Newsweek, Mar. 25, 1991)

Because the New Left lacked cohesion it fell apart as a political movement. However, its revolutionaries reorganized themselves into a multitude of single issue groups. Thus we now have for example, radical feminists, black extremists, anti-war ‘peace' activists, animal rights groups, radical environmentalists, and ‘gay' rights groups. All of these groups pursue their piece of the radical agenda through a complex network of organizations such as the Gay Straight Lesbian Educators Network (GSLEN), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), People for the American Way, United for Peace and Justice, Planned Parenthood, Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), and Code Pink for Peace.


Both communism and the New Left are alive and thriving here in America. They favor code words: tolerance, social justice, economic justice, peace, reproductive rights, sex education and safe sex, safe schools, inclusion, diversity, and sensitivity. All together, this is Cultural Marxism disguised as multiculturalism.

Birth of Multiculturalism

In anticipation of the revolutionary storm that would baptize the world in an inferno of red terror, leading to its rebirth as the promised land of social justice and proletarian equality-Frederich Engels wrote,

"All the...large and small nationalities are destined to perish...in the revolutionary world storm... (A general war will) wipe out all...nations, down to their very names. The next world war will result in the disappearance from the face of the earth not only reactionary classes...but...reactionary peoples." ("The Magyar Struggle," Neue Rheinische Zeitung, Jan. 13, 1849)

By the end of WWI, socialists realized that something was amiss, for the world's proletariat had not heeded Marx's call to rise up in opposition to evil capitalism and to embrace communism instead. They wondered what had gone wrong.

Separately, two Marxist theorists-Antonio Gramsci of Italy and Georg Lukacs of Hungary-concluded that the Christianized West was the obstacle standing in the way of a communist new world order. The West would have to be conquered first.

Gramsci posited that because Christianity had been dominant in the West for over 2000 years, not only was it fused with Western civilization, but it had corrupted the workers class. The West would have to be de-Christianized, said Gramsci, by means of a "long march through the culture." Additionally, a new proletariat must be created. In his "Prison Notebooks," he suggested that the new proletariat be comprised of many criminals, women, and racial minorities.

The new battleground, reasoned Gramsci, must become the culture, starting with the traditional family and completely engulfing churches, schools, media, entertainment, civic organizations, literature, science, and history. All of these things must be radically transformed and the social and cultural order gradually turned upside-down with the new proletariat placed in power at the top.

The Prototype

In 1919, Georg Lukacs became Deputy Commissar for Culture in the short-lived Bolshevik Bela Kun regime in Hungary. He immediately set plans in motion to de-Christianize Hungary. Reasoning that if Christian sexual ethics could be undermined among children, then both the hated patriarchal family and the Church would be dealt a crippling blow. Lukacs launched a radical sex education program in the schools. Sex lectures were organized and literature handed out which graphically instructed youth in free love (promiscuity) and sexual intercourse while simultaneously encouraging them to deride and reject Christian moral ethics, monogamy, and parental and church authority. All of this was accompanied by a reign of cultural terror perpetrated against parents, priests, and dissenters.

Hungary's youth, having been fed a steady diet of values-neutral (atheism) and radical sex education while simultaneously encouraged to rebel against all authority, easily turned into delinquents ranging from bullies and petty thieves to sex predators, murderers, and sociopaths.

Gramsci's prescription and Lukacs' plans were the precursor to what Cultural Marxism in the guise of SIECUS, GSLEN, and the ACLU--acting as judicially-powered enforcers--later brought into American schools.

Building a base

In 1923, the Frankfurt School-a Marxist think-tank-was founded in Weimar Germany. Among its founders were Georg Lukacs, Herbert Marcuse, and Theodor Adorno. The school was a multidisciplinary effort which included sociologists, sexologists, and psychologists.

The primary goal of the Frankfurt School was to translate Marxism from economic terms into cultural terms. It would provide the ideas on which to base a new political theory of revoltuion based on culture, harnessing new oppressed groups for the faithless proletariat. Smashing religion, morals, It would also build a constituency among academics, who could build careers studying and writing about the new oppression.

Toward this end, Marcuse-who favored polymorphous perversion-expanded the ranks of Gramsci's new proletariat by including homosexuals, lesbians, and transsexuals. Into this was spliced Lukacs radical sex education and cultural terrorism tactics. Gramsci's ‘long march' was added to the mix, and then all of this was wedded to Freudian psychoanalysis and psychological conditioning techniques. The end product was Cultural Marxism, now known in the West as multiculturalism.

Additional intellectual firepower was required: a theory to pathologize what was to be destroyed. In 1950, the Frankfurt School augmented Cultural Marxism with Theodor Adorno's idea of the ‘authoritarian personality.' This concept is premised on the notion that Christianity, capitalism, and the traditional family create a character prone to racism and fascism. Thus, anyone who upholds America's traditional moral values and institutions is both racist and fascist. Children raised by traditional values parents, we are told to believe, will almost certainly become racists and fascists. By extension, if fascism and racism are endemic to America's traditional culture, then everyone raised in the traditions of God, family, patriotism, gun ownership, or free markets is in need of psychological help.

The pernicious influence of Adorno's ‘authoritarian personality' idea can be clearly seen in some of the research that gets public money.

"In Aug., 2003, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the results of their $1.2 million tax-payer funded study. It stated, essentially, that traditionalists are mentally disturbed. Scholars from the Universities of Maryland, California at Berkeley, and Stanford had determined that social conservatives...suffer from ‘mental rigidity,' ‘dogmatism,' and ‘uncertainty avoidance,' together with associated indicators for mental illness." http://www.edwatch.org/ ‘Social and Emotional Learning" Jan. 26, 2005)

The Orwellian cast of the pathologies named shows how far Gramsci's long march has led us.

A corresponding and diabolically crafted idea is political correctness. The strong suggestion here is that in order for one not to be thought of as racist or fascist, then one must not only be nonjudgmental but must also embrace the ‘new' moral absolutes: diversity, choice, sensitivity, sexual orientation, and tolerance. Political correctness is a Machiavellian psychological ‘command and control' device. Its purpose is the imposition of uniformity in thought, speech, and behavior.

Critical theory is yet another psychological ‘command and control' device. As stated by Daniel J. Flynn,

"Critical Theory, as its name implies, criticizes. What deconstruction does to literature, Critical Theory does to societies." (Intellectual Morons, p 15-16)

Critical Theory is an ongoing and brutal assault via vicious criticism relentlessly leveled against Christians, Christmas, the Boy Scouts, Ten Commandments, our military, and all other aspects of traditional American culture and society.

Both political correctness and Critical Theory are in essence, psychological bullying. They are the psycho-political battering rams by which Frankfurt School disciples such as the ACLU are forcing Americans to submit to and to obey the will and the way of the Left. These devious devices are but psychological versions of Georg Lukacs and Laventi Beria's ‘cultural terrorism' tactics. In the words of Beria,

"Obedience is the result of force...Force is the antithesis of humanizing actions. It is so synonymous in the human mind with savageness, lawlessness, brutality, and barbarism, that it is only necessary to display an inhuman attitude toward people to be granted by those people the possessions of force." (The Russian Manual on Psychopolitics: Obedience, by Laventi Beria, head of Soviet Secret Police and Stalin's right-hand man)

Double-thinking ‘fence-sitters', otherwise known as moderates, centrists, and RINOs bear the imprint of these psychological ‘obedience' techniques. These people-in some cases literally afraid of incurring the wrath of name-calling obedience trainers--- have opted to straddle the fence lest they be found guilty of possessing an opinion, one way or another. At the merest hint of displeasure from the obedience-trainers, up goes the yellow flag of surrender upon which it is boldly written:

"I believe in nothing and am tolerant of everything!"

Cultural Determinism

The linchpin of Cultural Marxism is cultural determinism, the parent of identity politics and group solidarity. In its turn, cultural determinism was birthed by the Darwinian idea that man is but a soulless animal and therefore his identity is determined by for example, his skin color or his sexual and/or erotic preferences. This proposition rejects the concepts of the human spirit, individuality, free will, and morally informed conscience (paired with personal accountability and responsibility) because it emphatically denies the existence of the God of the Bible.

Consequently, and by extension, it also rejects the first principles of our liberty enumerated in the Declaration of Independence. These are our "unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Cultural Marxism must reject these because these principles of liberty "are endowed by our Creator," who made man in His image.

Cultural determinism, states David Horowitz, is

"identity politics-the politics of radical feminism, ***** revolution, and Afro-centrism-which is the basis of academic multiculturalism...a form of intellectual fascism and, insofar as it has any politics, of political fascism as well." (Mussolini and Neo-Fascist Tribalism: Up from Multiculturalism, by David Horowitz, Jan. 1998)

It is said that courage is the first of the virtues because without it fear will paralyze man, thus keeping him from acting upon his moral convictions and speaking truth. Thus bringing about a general state of paralyzing fear, apathy, and submission-the chains of tyranny-is the purpose behind psychopolitical cultural terrorism, for the communist Left's revolutionary agenda must, at all costs, be clothed in darkness.

The antidote is courage and the light of truth. If we are to win this cultural war and reclaim and rebuild America so our children and their children's children can live in a ‘Shining City on the Hill' where liberty, families, opportunity, free markets, and decency flourish, we must muster the courage to fearlessly expose the communist Left's revolutionary agenda to the Light of Truth. Truth and the courage to speak it will set us free.

Additional References

Slouching Toward Gomorrah, by Robert H. Bork

Intellectual Morons, by Daniel J. Flynn


Related Articles

Trotsky's ‘Permanent Revolution' in America

Exposing America's Enemies, Part 2: Communist Progressive Democrats

Exposing America's Enemies: the ‘Social Justice Seeking' Communist Left


Linda Kimball writes on culture, politics, and worldview.

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[spudea]

hes talking about first time voters. I don't hear anything to get upset over.

[Sarge]

Listen to the video again. He clearly is asking for the 2008 voters. Read the bottom of the screen when he talks. He is asking the 2008 voters to spread the word to new voters.

[specsaregood]

Listen to the video again. He clearly is asking for the 2008 voters. Read the bottom of the screen when he talks. He is asking the 2008 voters to spread the word to new voters.

But then he specifically states: blacks, latinos and women.
Forgetting to mention that nearly a full 15% of his total votes came from white men. and I'm sure many of them were first time voters as well.

[Stary Hickory]

But then he specifically states: blacks, latinos and women.
Forgetting to mention that nearly a full 15% of his total votes came from white men. and I'm sure many of them were first time voters as well.

I am telling you this...I am sick of racism and sexism...all of it from the left.

[tangent4ronpaul]

I don't know if this made it into the Senate version of the HC bill, but the house version did have something in it that has largely been missed by most - Free or at least very low cost medical school. Non-minorities need not apply... it's toward the very end.

Not to derail the thread, and certainly non-libertarian, we are the only developed country that doesn't offer free medical school to ANYONE! - your grades matter, not your skin color. This kind of makes sense, as in our country the high cost of med school means many that have the smarts don't go because they can't afford it, it also means they are attracted to specialties rather than becoming GP's to pay off the loans. We have a growing shortage of MD's, and GP's in particular. Doc's in other countries are also paid less.

Back to race - minorities getting a free ride for med school kind of worry me. We already have a double standard on admission to college and grade inflation for minorities. Would you want to see a doc rhar would never have graduated if it was a level playing field - grade wise?

-t

[Southron]

He must be reading the Ron Paul Forums. He has learned well.

[BlackTerrel]

Obama speaks with unusual demographic frankness about his coalition in his appeal to "young people, African-Americans, Latinos, and women who powered our victory in 2008 [to] stand together once again."

Meaning these are people who usually don't vote in large numbers, but in 2008 they did. BTW I am also sure that "young people" includes white males. This had some unintended consequences, like prop 8 passing in California.

I do not like Obama but the stuff people WANT to be offended by is absurd.

[catdd]

Well he wants them all to go out and mindlessly vote a straight democratic ticket without the slightest idea of what policies they may vote into place.
This is craziness.

[BlackTerrel]

Well he wants them all to go out and mindlessly vote a straight democratic ticket without the slightest idea of what policies they may vote into place.
This is craziness.

Just like the majority of white evangelicals and white Mormons will mindlessly vote Republican.

I'll agree that the majority of minorities vote stupid if we can also agree that the majority of whites vote stupid too.

This is what annoys me when I see people here post things like "oh we can never get those blacks on our side, 90% of them voted for Obama". Well what percentage of whites voted for someone other than Ron Paul in the primaries? Also 90%!

[GunnyFreedom]

Just like the majority of white evangelicals and white Mormons will mindlessly vote Republican.

I'll agree that the majority of minorities vote stupid if we can also agree that the majority of whites vote stupid too.

This is what annoys me when I see people here post things like "oh we can never get those blacks on our side, 90% of them voted for Obama". Well what percentage of whites voted for someone other than Ron Paul in the primaries? Also 90%!

I agree that the majority of humans (period) vote stupidly. Does that work?

[Bman]

I agree that the majority of humans (period) vote stupidly. Does that work?

+1 for stupid humans!!!

[BlackTerrel]

I agree that the majority of humans (period) vote stupidly. Does that work?

Yes. I think we can unite on that.

Now let's work to change it :)

[Marenco]

Yes. I think we can unite on that.

Now let's work to change it :)

You cant. It's human nature unfortunately.

[bobbyw24]

Yes. I think we can unite on that.

Now let's work to change it :)

I agree with BT: many of us here at one point were not informed voters and we had never heard of Ron Paul. Now look at us

[stu2002]

By: Julie Mason

President Obama's tricky, midterm election strategy relies on luring back the first-time voters who supported him in 2008 plus re-engaging women, blacks, young voters and Hispanics.

In a video message emailed to more than 13 million supporters, Obama said Democrats need a 2008 repeat.

"It will be up to each of you to make sure that the young people, African-Americans, Latinos and women, who powered our victory in 2008, stand together once again," Obama said. "It will be up to each of you to keep our nation moving forward."

Conservatives said the move was racially divisive -- asking rhetorically what would happen if a president called for unity among white voters to win an election. But the strategy reflects political reality. Polls show Obama's support among white males has dropped off -- in large part over economic issues and his health-care plan.

"I think a lot of white men, a few Republicans but mostly independents, are the people leaving Obama in droves," said Aubrey Jewett, a political scientist at the University of Central Florida. "Realistically the Democrats don't think they have a chance of getting them back between now and November."

Exit polls from the 2008 election showed Obama fared relatively well with white male voters, garnering 41 percent of white men and 43 percent of the white voters overall.

By contrast, John Kerry in 2004 won 37 percent of white male voters and 41 percent of all white voters. Al Gore in 2000 picked up 35 percent of the white male vote and 42 percent of the total white vote.

But with polls showing Obama's job approval among men lagging women by 10 points and by a similar margin among white voters compared to the electorate, the Obama White House is looking elsewhere for votes.

"It's always a tough race if you're the incumbent in this kind of economic environment," Obama said.

And without Obama on the ballot in November, persuading his 2008 supporters back to the polls will prove a major challenge for the Democratic Party, particularly among the 2008 first-time voters and young voters.

Exit polls in New Jersey and Virginia statewide races last year showed a significant drop-off among younger voters compared with 2008. Just nine percent of voters under 30 turned out in New Jersey, compared with 17 percent in 2008.

To that end, the White House is pushing climate legislation and immigration reform -- keyed to specific special interests -- as another way to drum up support in the fall.

How far the administration is willing to push on either issue remains an open question. The long-awaited climate legislation fell apart over the weekend, after Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, a key backer, dropped his support over a concurrent push for immigration reform.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs declined to say which measure Obama would prefer to see completed first, saying the administration would like to see progress on both fronts.

Republican strategist Alex Conant noted the White House has yet to offer any policy draft on immigration reform, suggesting the administration wants to use the issue in the campaign without officially tackling it.

"This is an extremely political White House and no doubt the president's advisors view immigration within the political context of dividing Republicans and picking up some votes while publicly pushing it," Conant said.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/white-house/Obama_s-election-year-pitch-leaves-out-white-males-92135609.html#ixzz0mINhpfGH


http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/white-house/Obama_s-election-year-pitch-leaves-out-white-males-92135609.html

[tangent4ronpaul]

Yes. I think we can unite on that.

Now let's work to change it :)

Can anyone find a copy of deprogramming sheeple 101? The sensory deprivation, loud music, hours of repeated phrases and maybe a touch of electroshock done on a one by one basis is just taking too long.... :)

-t

[catdd]

[QUOTE=BlackTerrel;2665770]Just like the majority of white evangelicals and white Mormons will mindlessly vote Republican.
I'll agree that the majority of minorities vote stupid if we can also agree that the majority of whites vote stupid too."


We are talking about the PRESIDENT telling young people to go out and vote a straight democratic ticket without the slightest idea of what they may be voting on!
Don't turn that into some kind of tit-for-tat race issue.

[bruce leeroy]

Just like the majority of white evangelicals and white Mormons will mindlessly vote Republican.

I'll agree that the majority of minorities vote stupid if we can also agree that the majority of whites vote stupid too.

This is what annoys me when I see people here post things like "oh we can never get those blacks on our side, 90% of them voted for Obama". Well what percentage of whites voted for someone other than Ron Paul in the primaries? Also 90%!
you actually got a point there