Obama's Hideous Howard Speech; divisive, racialist

"I never was post-racial!"  "Don't expect me to be a healer. I have no intention of healing any wounds in society" Obama channels his mentor, Jeremiah Wright and serves notice that he has only begun to bring division and anger to America. TD

. . . "Obama's at Howard University, said, "Hey, I was never about that! Other people said that I was into this post racial America stuff. I was never into that! I never said that," and he's right. He never did.

"But a lot of people thought it.

. . . "They were hoping that a black president would send such a message and that it would mean substantive improvement for African-Americans in this country. And again, I want to reiterate: Nobody thought that meant more welfare or more benefits or more dependence, but that actual, quality standard of living improvements would take place. And there haven't been any, at large. And here's Obama saying: I will remember what I was about. Other people out there were saying that, but that was not mine.

"So he's admitting it. Post racial, post... He was also supposed to be "postpartisan," if you know what that means. How many of you remember during the campaign Obama he was gonna end all the division? He was gonna unify us. We were gonna come together. We were gonna be a nation at one with each other. Yeah, "No red states, no blue states; no Democrats, no Republicans." That's from his convention speech, Democrat convention, what, in 2008? So postpartisan. That means that partisan America, the divide is gone.

"Obama was gonna do all that. He's telling the students at Howard University, "Hey, I never said that. That was not me. I never said it," 'cause he doesn't want it to end."

Here is a sound bite from Obama's speech:

"OBAMA: Be confident in your heritage. Be confident in your blackness. ... Remember the tie that does bind us as African-Amer'cans and that is our particular awareness of injustice and unfairness and struggle. ... We have cousins and uncles and brothers and sisters who we remember were just as smart and just as talented as we were, but somehow got ground down by structures that are unfair and unjust. And that means we have to not only question the world as it is and stand up for those African-Americans who haven't been so lucky."  Rush Limbaugh

The most interesting line in Obama’s Howard speech was about empathy, not ‘blackness’
And follow Obama's pattern of being full of yourselves.

More signs of racial polarization under Obama

"Under the section marked “political activists,” the Army Command Policy states that West Point cadets may “register, vote, and express their personal opinion on political candidates and issues, but not as a representative of the Army.' ”

White House Hails ‘Historic’ Election Of Muslim London Mayor

Obama’s Iran scam: The President hard sale of the nuclear deal with the mullahs was chock full of spin and half-truths

"Obama used half-truths and misdirection to sharply tilt the regional balance of power toward a radical, terror-exporting regime that will grow in economic power with U.S. assistance, eventually able to operate a nuclear program easily perverted toward hostile use."

NY Daily News

"Looking far down the road to regional domination, Iran’s radical Islamist leaders made a calculated decision to present a less menacing face to the world.

"No longer, for example, would the country’s secular leadership vow the annihilation of Israel and rail against the Great Satan United States.

Worldly President Hassan Rouhani, who earned a Ph.D. in Scotland, took office in 2013, declaring an intention to engage with the West. Foreign minister Mohammad Zarif, educated at American universities, cultivated a close relationship with Secretary of State John Kerry.

"Here, finally, were moderates with whom the U.S. could negotiate as President Obama sought to normalize relations with a sworn enemy.

So the Iranian propaganda went as the mullahs hoped for relief from economic sanctions via a nuclear deal with the U.S. and Western powers.

Why would anyone believe such obvious nonsense? One reason — in fact the key reason — is that Obama joined Iran in knowingly peddling the same false propaganda to America, according to an extraordinarily revealing New York Times profile of the President’s deputy national security adviser, Benjamin Rhodes.

“The way in which most Americans have heard the story of the Iran deal presented — that the Obama administration began seriously engaging with Iranian officials in 2013 in order to take advantage of a new political reality in Iran, which came about because of elections that brought moderates to power in that country — was largely manufactured for the purpose for selling the deal,” the profile states, providing evidence aplenty.

“Obama’s closest advisers always understood him to be eager to do a deal with Iran as far back as 2012, and even since the beginning of his presidency,” the profile discloses, quoting Rhodes as saying, “It’s the center of the arc” of an Obama strategy of remaking U.S. relations in the Mideast." . . .

Why so many fear the bathroom gender issue

N.C. fires lawsuit back at feds over LGBT law

"Officials in North Carolina filed a lawsuit Monday against the Department of Justice over the feds' demand that the state not implement its controversial LGBT law or risk losing federal funds.

"The Justice Department had set a deadline of Monday for Gov. Pat McCrory to report whether he would refuse to enforce the last that took effect in March. McCrory's defiance could lead to a protracted legal battle.

"McCrory's lawsuit, filed in federal court in North Carolina, asks a judge to block Justice Department action that could threaten billions of dollars in federal money flowing to the state.

" 'I do not agree with their interpretation of federal law. That is why this morning I have asked a federal court to clarify what the law actually is," McCrory said at a news conference.

"He said he hopes other states will join North Carolina in court as it fights the Justice Department's position that the Civil Rights Act requires that transgender people be allowed to access facilities matching their gender identities.

" 'This is not a North Carolina issue. It is now a national issue," McCrory said." . . .More...

CAMPAIGN: It’s common sense: No men in the women’s restroom  "Policies permitting access to restrooms, locker rooms, and changing rooms based on a person’s gender identity, rather than their biological sex, are being enacted across the country. These policies open up  private facilities to members of the opposite sex as part of an effort to push a political agenda. But showering, changing, and using the restroom should be first and foremost about privacy and safety, not advancing a political agenda. Not only do these policies strip away our privacy, a constitutional right that has been recognized by courts across the country, but they compromise safety because individuals will take advantage of these policies by claiming to identify as the opposite sex in order to gain access to these private facilities." . . .

At the link; what can be done about this:

UPDATED: Virginia Tech takes back disinvitation of black conservative scholar, apologizes

The College Fix  . . . "In fact, Riley has spoken at dozens of colleges over the years. Here’s Mr. Riley — author of Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed — in his own words in The Wall Street Journal about the disinvitation:"

     Students who disagree with my lectures don’t hesitate to speak out during the Q&A. The back-and-forth is spirited but civil, and I have never been shouted down or physically threatened.     Still, a disinvitation at some point may have been inevitable. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), which fights campus censorship, has compiled a “disinvitation database” that dates to 2000 and today includes nearly 300 incidents. According to FIRE, the “number of ‘disinvitation incidents’—i.e., efforts to prevent invited speakers from conveying their message on campus—has risen dramatically.”     I’ve lost count of the times I’ve been approached by conservative students after a lecture to a mostly liberal audience and thanked, almost surreptitiously, for coming to speak. They often offer an explanation for their relative silence during question periods when liberal students and faculty are firing away. “Being too outspoken would just make it more difficult,” a Wellesley student once told me. “You get to leave when you’re done. We have to live with these people until we graduate.”

"The disinvitation problem is one symptom of a larger disease eating away at the heart of higher education. And the patient? America itself."

Obama’s Gift of Immunity to Trump

"Obama lowered the bar and Trump skipped over it."

Victor Davis Hanson

"It is now old wisdom that Barack Obama created Trump—as in the idea of a national pushback to Obama’s out-of-the-mainstream agendas and the unconstitutional way in which he pursued them. Forgotten is the insulation that Obama has also provided for the excesses of Trump as a candidate and, especially, if he were to be president.

"Last week, in sober and judicious tones Obama all but warned Americans that they cannot seriously support Trump, who, he implied, is little more than a reality-TV conman. But such admonitions come from a president whose chief foreign policy advisor, a failed fiction writer and D.C. insider, just bragged how he deceived the media and Washington’s insider world by feeding amateurish journalists misleading talking points. Is it serious or in the spirit of reality TV for a president to invite to the White House a rapper whose court-ordered ankle monitor goes off in a presidential ceremony, or to give an exclusive interview with YouTube personality GloZell, noted for her selfies of eating breakfast cereal floating about her in a bathtub? Obama has lectured the media that they have to vent (Ed. Vet?)Trump, this from a candidate who never released his medical or college records, whose speech in praise of Rashid Khalidi was suppressed by the media, and whose entire memoir was only belatedly found out to be impressionistic fiction. Obama lowered the bar and Trump skipped over it." . . .

Trump L'oeil*

HopeNChangeCartoons  . . . "If you support Trump, then why not have faith that in the coming months his good qualities will become apparent to everyone? And why not turn down the volume on your attacks on other conservatives so we can hear what Mr. Trump has to say? 

"Now, for all of those who define themselves as "Never Trump"...

"Not to be unsubtle, but with Hillary Clinton cackling in the wings, declaring yourself to be in the "Never Trump" camp is insane.  If you don't want to support Trump on election day, so be it (we're still unsure about it ourselves). But why make up your mind now and declare that you'll reject all further evidence and developments?

"A lot can happen in half a year. Legal troubles could take Hillary out of the race. Obama might (and surely will) further degrade the country. The economy could crash, and terror might again scar our nation.

"Or on a more positive note, over the next 6 months we might see The Donald assemble a stellar team to take into the White House, hear refinements to his bold plans that make them practicable, and get greater insight to his character and complexity of thought.

"Hope n' Change doesn't know which way things will go and neither does anyone else. So let's all take a deep, cleansing breath and agree that unity will be necessary to beat Hillary, but such unity will take time to develop naturally.

"Neither adversarial aggressiveness nor intractable close-mindedness will help that process.

*"ABOUT TODAY'S TITLE   If our punning title left you scratching your head, allow us to explain. There is a style of art (traditionally murals) called Trompe L'oeil - which is French for "Deceive the Eye.' "
. . . 
"And that's where we're at right now with Trump L'oeil - trying to separate the illusion from the reality." (How to Pronounce Trompe L'oeil)

File this under "American Silliness".

"The Justice Department announced Thursday that the U.S. government will no longer refer to convicted criminals as convicts or felons. They feel that using pejorative labels stigmatizes large numbers of minority men. O.J. Simpson is not a murderer or an armed robber, he’s legally challenged." Comedian Argus Hamilton