It was disappointing the other day to see President Barack Obama embracing the vulgar race hustler Al Sharpton.
President Obama once eloquently confronted race in a memorable speech in Philadelphia in 2008. That speech was remarkable and honest and, to borrow a favorite word of the political left that still fawns over him, it was nuanced.
But there was nothing particularly remarkable about Obama standing next to the preening Sharpton, speaking in New York to his National Action Network. Except that Obama expertly used a message of victimization to begin energizing black voters, who provide the electoral foundation for the Democratic Party.
This wasn’t about nuance. This was about the class-war elections of November 2014.
“The right to vote is threatened today in a way that it has not been since nearly five decades ago,” Obama said, reaching back across time.
He didn’t quite touch Jim Crow and the poll tax and the civil rights struggles, but he didn’t have to. There were the broad presidential hints and they did the job.
“Across the country, Republicans have led efforts to pass laws making it harder, not easier, for people to vote,” Obama said, adding, “We won’t let voter suppression go unchallenged.”
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His own words make him one not to be believed. Why would a republican who needs a voter make it "harder, not easier, for people to vote"?
It just doesn't make good sense, unless you're a stupid demoncrat.
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