President Barack Obama: A Transparently Opaque Demagogue

He has proven to be the consummate hyper of hope and conniver of change.   Should we have expected anything else from Barack Obama, the man of a thousand contradictory, conflicted identities?

Let’s recall just a couple of the double standards, double speak, and double binds of the Obama presidency to date.  The White House blog structures our discussion nicely, since Barack fancied himself to be a new, improved, technologically astute emperor determined to remake America in his own swaggering image and likeness.

Before the celebratory confetti had been shoveled away, Macon Phillips, Obama’s Director of New Media for the White House, wrote on January 20, 2009 at 12:01 P.M: “A short time ago, Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States and his new administration officially came to life. One of the first changes is the White House's new website, which will serve as a place for the President and his administration to connect with the rest of the nation and the world.”

Calling his posting, Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov, Mr. Phillips announced three priorities, quoted below:

Communication -- Americans are eager for information about the state of the economy, national security and a host of other issues. This site will feature timely and in-depth content meant to keep everyone up-to-date and educated. Check out the briefing room, keep tabs on the blog (RSS feed) and take a moment to sign up for e-mail updates from the President and his administration so you can be sure to know about major announcements and decisions.

Transparency -- President Obama has committed to making his administration the most open and transparent in history, and WhiteHouse.gov will play a major role in delivering on that promise. The President's executive orders and proclamations will be published for everyone to review, and that’s just the beginning of our efforts to provide a window for all Americans into the business of the government. You can also learn about some of the senior leadership in the new administration and about the President’s policy priorities.

Participation -- President Obama started his career as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago, where he saw firsthand what people can do when they come together for a common cause. Citizen participation will be a priority for the Administration, and the internet will play an important role in that. One significant addition to WhiteHouse.gov reflects a campaign promise from the President: we will publish all non-emergency legislation to the website for five days, and allow the public to review and comment before the President signs it.

Since the material relevant to Barack Obama’s abject failure to achieve his self-selected three priorities is inexhaustible, I will be brief and merely illustrative in my criticism of each.

Obama’s communication is best explained by considering his approach to race relations in America.  Whether black professor Henry Louis Gates versus white policeman James Crowley or black adolescent Trayvon Martin versus “white Hispanic” community watchman George Zimmerman, Barack’s comments never fail to contribute to the problem rather than to its solution.  Amazingly, even Newsweek (April 16, 2012) feels compelled to ask, “Is Obama Making It Worse? An exclusive Newsweek poll reveals the persistence of America’s stark racial divide.” For example, the article reports that President Obama’s comments, epitomized by, "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon" received support by 78% of blacks, but only 28% of whites.  And, to the question, “Was Trayvon Martin’s death racially motivated?” 80% of blacks agreed, but merely 35% of whites.

Sad, isn’t it, that a biracial man who should be able to understand, empathize, and constructively “communicate” with white and black Americans instead uses race to elevate himself politically rather than to promote racial understanding and harmony.     

Regarding transparency, we can refer directly to the literal words of the Whitehouse.gov priorities and ask whether Obama has published all non-emergency legislation to the website for five days, and allowed the public to review and comment on them before he signs legislation.  Politifact.com says “Promises Broken” and cites three examples:

“Credit card bill of rights passed without five-day break.” Angie Drobnic Holan, May 26, 2009;

“Still no ‘Sunlight before Signing’" Angie Drobnic Holan, February 4th, 2009; and

“Obama signs first law without Web comment.” Angie Drobnic Holan,  January 29th, 2009.

Finally, what about participation?  You know the answer to that one. Titillated Barack Obama signs a health care bill after which close Democrat confidant, Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, gleefully had said, “We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it.”   Or, more recently, Obama is caught on an open microphone saying to Russian President Medvedev:

Obama - On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it’s important for him [Prime Minister Putin] to give me space.

Medvedev - Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you…

Obama- This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.

Of course, any criticism of Barack Obama is sure to elicit a counter-charge of politically-based racism and/or partisanship—a most effective presidential divide and conquer, attention-deflecting strategy.  Unfortunate for Barack and his apologists, that rebuttal falls flat in the latest incident of his majesty’s freeze-out-the-opposition, anti-participation campaign.  When Obama tried to withhold details of his Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations, over 60 Democrats wrote to challenge him.  One of them, Senator Ron Wyden cited the President’s failures in all three alleged Obama priorities—communication. transparency, and participation—when he wrote:

The majority of Congress is being kept in the dark as to the substance of the TPP negotiations, while representatives of U.S. corporations -- like Halliburton, Chevron, PhRMA, Comcast and the Motion Picture Association of America -- are being consulted and made privy to details of the agreement.

So much for communication, transparency, and participation. 

      

What began as the Barack Hussein Obama brand of hope and change has degenerated into national dejection, division, and stagnation on a grand scale.  Not quite the same old political games, that’s true.  Today deception is wrapped in the garb of a fast-talking, back-slapping, dark-triad personality of presidential proportions characterized by narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy.  A disingenuous, deceptive, identity-conflicted man has rewritten the book on theory and practice of upper-echelon demagoguery, and millions of gullible Americans have accepted it as gospel.  

Obama and Friends: On Marriage

A biracial man thinks he is black and, in so doing, evidences egregious self-serving blindness to biological reality.  Perhaps that man, Barry Barack Hussein Soetoro Obama, rationalizes his eminently convenient “I’m black and only black” delusion by appealing to social factors–a cultural definition of black. 

The arrogant Obama contempt for biological reality prompts me to ask, “Is a mule a horse?’’  The simple physiological fact is that a mule has thirty-two horse chromosomes and thirty-one donkey chromosomes.  If a mule participates in, even wins, the Kentucky Derby does that make him a horse?  No more so than does social double speak make a man with twenty-three white and twenty-three black chromosomes black rather than biracial.  But, unlike the lowly mule, Barack not only gets away with claiming to be black, but is supported, even lauded, by like-minded others for saying so.

Emboldened by his socially accepted distorted racial reality testing, Obama does not hesitate to fully endorse what Joe Biden, his Vice President, said about gay [Is it possible to be gay and sad simultaneously?] marriage on the May 6, 2012 Meet the Press news program:

I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women and heterosexual men and women are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties.  And quite frankly, I don't see much of a distinction beyond that.

Failure to see a distinction between gay and heterosexual marriage is like failing to recognize the differences between a Thoroughbred and a Draft Mule.  Only a modern America Ass could forget the Sociology 101 lesson advising that families evolved primarily to procreate and nurture children who share an equal genetic endowment from its biological father and biological mother, and that having a biological father and biological mother provides the best opportunity for a child to learn to relate to men, women, and society. 

Perhaps Barack Obama and Joe Biden need a Survivor-like reality show in which two men or two women are dropped into the bush to “go forth and multiply.”  Week by week, we could watch their progress toward pregnancy and parturition and, if they successfully mate and produce a child,  I volunteer to babysit whenever they want to attend Obama-oriented fundraising events.

Obama and his elitist supporters do not care one bit about what is best for children or for the broader society, only about what is best for themselves.  Barack’s views of marriage have been influenced by his alcoholic, polygamist, wife-beating father and by his mother who taught him contempt for traditional American mores   Obama’s movie star friends think of marriage as no big thing: marriage as a state of being that can be initiated and concluded within the time required to read Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. 

The Washington Post suggests that “one in six of Obama’s top campaign ‘bundlers’ are gay.”   Barack panders to them because, being marginalized, gays are exquisitely vulnerable to Machiavellian manipulation; they also are where the money is.  Rainbow Referrals, a gay-oriented real estate referral agency, suggests the following:

GAY MARKET DATA:  Some Gay-Market Facts

·         Twice as likely to have household income over $60,000 than general US population.

·         Twice as likely to have household income over $250,000 than general US population.

·         Twice as likely to have graduated college.

·         Over 90% took a domestic trip during the year of research study.

·         60% took a foreign trip in the last 3 years.

·         65% identify themselves as having to have the “latest”.

·         68% upgrade to a product’s latest model.

·         77% “believe in indulging in themselves”.

·         57% “prefer to buy top-of-the line”.

·         59% buy themselves whatever they want.

Barack Obama regards gays as a minority oppressed by evil, mainstream white society and as a well-heeled group ripe for his financial and political exploitation–characteristics that make him swoon with giddy expectation whenever he is in their presence.  Since entertainment superstars are overrepresented among gays and gay supporters, the always elitist-loving Barack also gains in “swagggerly” stature through association with them.  For instance, on May 10, 2012, Forbes magazine reported that George Clooney hosted Obama at “his enormous estate in the hills of Studio City, Calif. at a $40,000-a-plate re-election fundraiser” and that Obama handlers were reluctant to disclose the names of the150 persons who attended.

But I should not be too hard on Barack Obama for his gay marriage stand; it merely is a natural extension of his personality.   Barack majored in political science at Columbia; biology never was his forte.  His failure to learn genetics accounts for the President’s preternatural beliefs about his racial heritage.  We should not expect someone who does not clearly comprehend the basics of his own racial physiology and social identity to understand the Gordian Knot of heterosexual and family relationships.

Barack Hussein Obama will continue to use gay marriage to draw a proverbial “bright red line” between himself and Mitt Romney.  The gay marriage issue is a just what the doctor ordered: an identity-assuaging elixir that reassures him about his personal identity, and a titillating stimulant that affords fun, profit, and elitist affiliation.  For a professional demagogue, there’s nothing better.                      

Gay Marriage: Obama Ran But He Could Not Hide

_{Can anything be sweeter than to find Barack Hussein Obama hopelessly ensnared and frantically squirming in his own identity trap?  Joe With-Friends-Like-Me-Barack–Needs-No Enemies Biden did what the Republicans have yet to do: forced the left, especially the left media, to unequivocally observe the doublespeaking hypocritical Obama in all his radiant glory.}

_{As you surely know, last Sunday on “Meet the Press” Biden said that he is “absolutely comfortable” with the proposition that same-sex  couples should have rights identical to those of heterosexual married couples. The press then parlayed the Biden opening to ask whether the President shared the VP’s view, and the fun began.} 

_{Of course, the intrepid Mr. O, now you can call me Hussein, locked himself behind the White House door (perhaps lighting up a smoke to ease his troubled mind) and threw Jay Carney, his favorite flunky, as a sacrificial lamb to the ravenous press.  As he had in the past, Jay mouthed  party line mumbo-jumbo, saying that Barack’s views on homosexual marriage are “still evolving.”  On May 7, 2012.  Felicia Sonmez of The Washington Post described the event as follows:}

_{More than 50 times, reporters pressed spokesman Jay Carney on President Obama’s position on gay marriage at Monday’s White House briefing.}

_{And each time, Carney’s answers elicited a new torrent of questions about the president’s views.}

_{Does Obama support same-sex marriage?}

_{“The next time the president has a news conference, if you want to ask him that, you’re certainly welcome to,” Carney said. “I do not have an update for you on the president’s personal views.”}

_{Is Obama “comfortable” with men marrying men and women marrying women, as Biden is?}

_{“The president is comfortable with same-sex couples, as the vice president said, being entitled to the same rights and the civil rights and civil liberties as other Americans,” Carney replied.}

_{So, is marriage a civil liberty?}

_{“You’d have to ask civil libertarians or lawyers,” Carney said.}

_{What about a pro-gay-marriage plank in the platform at this summer’s Democratic National Convention?}

_{“Well, on the issue of the platform, which hasn’t been developed yet, I would refer you to the DNC.”}

_{Is Obama getting ready to change his views on gay marriage?}

_{”Not necessarily.”}

_{Why none of the trademark Barack Obama attention-craving swagger on so transparently straightforward an issue?   Because gay rights strike at the very heart of the President’s hypocrisy.  He wants to be a god-like civil rights hero, but not so much that he is willing to suffer for it.  First and foremost, polls have shown that the African American community stridently opposes gay marriage; if Obama were to support it , he might alienate his black base just a few months prior to the election.  Equally important, going against popular black opinion might cause some to see Barack as “not black enough,” a criticism that has haunted him since his youth.}

_{Barack Obama had to be drug—kicking and screaming– into admitting his support for gay marriage.   He was inadvertently set up for it by his stumbling, fumbling, mumbling vice president, and shamed into it by being the butt of 1000 jokes having an “evolving” theme.   Timing is everything and timing also conspired against Barack Hussein, since just before the Biden blunder, Obama had been blitzing college campuses and cavorting with liberal elitist entertainers–groups for whom gay marriage is a Holy Grail.}  

_{What of the venue for announcing his position?  Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts.  With the world and the United States economy in chaos, the President chooses to fritter away his time making a special appearance to say what everyone knew –that when under the identity shame gun Barack Obama will endorse any liberal vote-acquiring, elitist-pandering issue.}  

_{The voting and civil rights champion Barack Obama, however, has not yet come out to condemn black racist actions such as New Black Panther voter intimidation against whites during the 2008 presidential election, or the April 14, 2012 black racist attack on white reporters Marjon Rostami and Dave Forster  by about 30 to 50 African American males.} 

When Barack Obama perceives oppression of blacks, other “people of color” and gays, he dons the mantel of civil rights hero and mugs for the press.  On the other hand, when white heterosexual civil rights are involved, Barack Obama both runs and hides successfully because of anti-white double standards, double speak, and double binds, especially as promoted by the American media.