Old Crazy Joe and his friend, B.O.

The annual August 6 Peace Memorial Ceremony, 2012, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. 

At the end of his speech, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda says, “I would like to conclude my address by offering my heartfelt prayers for the repose of the atomic bomb victims' souls and my best wishes for the future to the atomic bomb survivors and the bereaved families, and for the well-being of all participants today and the people of Hiroshima City.”

Joe Biden steps up to the podium and, after the obligatory niceties, begins speaking about the relationship between Japan and the United States; he then offers a political caution: “Look at what they [Republicans] value … And look what they’re proposing. [Romney] said in the first 100 days, he’s going to let the military write their own rules — unchain the military.  They’re going to drop more nuclear bombs on you!”

What would be the world-wide response to that Joe Biden rhetoric?

Biden’s Danville, Virginia comments to a half African American crowd “They’re going to put y’all back in chains” was the racial equivalent to the above hypothetical Hiroshimo remarks.  And anyone who thinks for one minute that the Danville quote was just another “old crazy Joe” misstatement just doesn’t understand the Machiavellian racial machinations of the Barack Hussein Obama clan. 

The Administration knows that African Americans have been sorely disappointed by Barack and  do not feel the passion necessary to guarantee the huge black turnout and the 95% plus black vote that he enjoyed in 2008.  Since good cop Obama cannot get away with overtly inflammatory race speech, old crazy Joe Biden, the bad cop, does the dirty work.  And once the message has been delivered to the African American community, Barack disavows responsibility, plays down the significance of the remarks, and reaps the “firing up the base” benefits at no personal cost. Thus, when asked about the “put y’all back in chains” remark, Obama tells People magazine, "The truth is that during the course of these campaigns, folks like to get obsessed with how something was phrased even if everybody personally understands that's not how it was meant."

To Obama, as to Bill Clinton, where verbiage is concerned one can always resort to the "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is” strategy."   Barack Obama and his water carrier, Joe Biden, use words to manipulate, not to inform.  Their language is the language of Humpty Dumpty in Alice in Wonderland who advises, "It means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."  If you do not agree with the Administration’s double speak, you must be mad, a Mad Hatter.

Obama and Biden care not one bit if their words stoke racial discord so long as it actives emotions that further the President’s personal, self-agrandizing agenda.  Obama et al know that they can say whatever they want, obfuscate around it, and ninety percent of mainstream media will support whatever rationalization they ultimately present.

Some African Americans, however, do see through the White House race mongering and are not afraid to say so.   According to the Washington Post (August 16, 2012), Douglas Wilder of Virginia, The nation’s first black governor, reacted to Joe Biden by asserting, “First of all, without question they were appeals to race.  The important thing I got out of this was Biden separated himself from what he accused the people of doing. As a matter of fact, what he said is they are going to do something to y’all, not to me. Not us. So he was still involved with that separate American.”  And the August 16, 2012 Daily Caller quoted Wilder as further saying,

The unfortunate thing for the president as I said yesterday, he doesn’t need this.  He doesn’t need anybody injecting race into a campaign in which one of the persons running is of a different race and that has been there all these years — the last thing Obama needs.

Like Wilder, The international media is coming finally to recognize Obama’s double standards, double speak, and double binds.  Detektor, Danish Broadcasting Corporation did a “mock Barack” segment on television showing that during news interviews with international leaders Obama used the phrase “strongest and closest ally” to describe our “special relationship” with each and every one of them.  He spoke those words with the very same cadence, inflection, and body language to characterize the United States’ relationship with Australia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Israel, Italy, Japan, Poland, and South Korea.   

Detektor also showed the disingenuous Obama in press conferences with leaders from Denmark, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, and the Philippines during which he spoke of those countries as “punching above their weight” in world affairs.  Barack could not be bothered—did not care enough—to give the country-specific compliments needed to show our sincere appreciation for each nation’s long-standing support. 

One also must wonder why the President chose the “punching above their weight” metaphor.  Could the statement lay bare Obama’s underlying condescending attitude that “little” Denmark, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, and the Philippines are not quite worthy of his attention.  If so, it would be consistent with Edward Klein’s The Amateur that quotes Barack as commenting, "I don't know why I have to spend so much time with congressmen from Podunk City just to get my bills passed."                

The narcissist Barack Obama thinks that he is so far superior to mortal men that he should not be constrained by conventional rules of discourse and conduct.  He can manipulate racial emotions because he sees himself as a racial hero and guardian of the black community.  He can schmooze or denigrate foreign representatives with inauthentic banter because he believes he has a magnetic personality and knows just how to “play” people to get what he wants.  Should anyone disagree with him or with his vice president, Barack Hussein Obama states or implies that they are “folks [who] like to get obsessed with how something was phrased;” in essence, persons who do not instinctively, blindly understand and accept what the Administration says must be dumb, little, or dumb and little.   

P. S. Thanks to my friend, Tad, for sending me the Detektor link.  It is only a 3 minute clip and well worth the laughs.   http://www.youtube.com/v/erYpXzE9Pxs%26