Obama Hasn't Transcended &%*#

When Obama was on the campaign trail back in 2008, not only did he promise us hope and change, but he also promised to transcend borders, including the racial and partisan kind. Unfortunately, Obama is on the war path by creating an enemies list, and showing us once again how talk becomes cheap when your actions contradict your words.

Amongst this list of enemies is the Chamber of Commerce for opposing his "climate change" initiatives, Fox News because "it's not real news," (i.e., the "Messiah" hates any entity that bad-mouths him), and the health insurance companies for opposing Obamacare.  It's funny to note that the one thing that these three entities have in common are that they are being outed simply because they disagree with Obama.  Considering the fact that Obama's political roots are Chicago-based, I am not the least bit surprised that he is using intimidation as a method in hopes to silent dissent.  Karl Rove has accurately pointed out that this kind of mongering is an undignified conduct for the President of the United States.

Obama has transcended what exactly?  He surely didn't transcend race during his election campaign--it kept being brought up as a topic, not to mention the fact there was a good amount of "white guilt" permeating last election.  He hasn't transcended partisanship because he is putting forward Leftist policies, like a "good Democrat," while gaining no Republican support, particularly in light of the release of the nearly-2,000 page health care bill.  He's nothing more than a left-winged, Chicago politician who just happens to be black.  If you need more proof than my diatribe, the latest Gallup poll shows that 56% of Americans (which, for you mathematicians, is a majority) believe that racial relations will work themselves out, a number which is roughly the same as 1963, a year before the famous 1964 Civil Rights Act.  Also, it's humorous to find that after "St. Obama's" election, the confidence in the black community that racial relations will ameliorate decreased.

Obama's pandering to partisan politics is not a shocker for me.  This is how modern-day "liberalism" functions--it serves to divide people, not unite them.  Liberals are the ones always bringing up class warfare, and all the moreso with the recession.  They also use racial tensions to divide. Figures such as Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson remind us why we affirmative action--to affirm the "fact" that skin color is much more important than the actual character of a man.  That way, we can categorically view people into two ways: people who "are oppressed" and deserve affirmative action (i.e., blacks, gays, Hispanics, Native Americans, women) versus those who don't need a helping hand (i.e., [white] men, Jews, Asians, Indians).  Racial tensions are perpetuated in this Balkanization, which leads to "us versus them" mentality.

Although I have met some conservatives who do not, for the life of them, have anything to do with liberals, I would have to contend that this division is a bigger problem for liberals, primarily because for many liberals, liberalism is their religion.  It is what they base their entirety on, and anyone who opposes that is considered an enemy to liberalism. How can you adequately confront people who look different from you when you view them as "the other?"  This is what perpetuates liberalism.  As long as there are these tensions in society, black versus white, gay versus straight, liberal versus conservative, and those tensions supercede a harmonious society, there will always be internal strife.  Liberalism needs that strife because without it, no one would be dependent on government as an erroneous solution to their problems.  The markets would sort things out, and as a result, this world would be a lot more libertarian.  Obama hasn't transcended a thing--all he does is perpetuate the status quo of the already-failing welfare state.