re: Barack Obama, Ferguson, and the Evidence of Things Unsaid

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I understand that most white people simply aren't in a frame of mind to absorb these truths.

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Meh - this is the writer's truth - sort of a classic liberal's wishful thinking. BHO is a very far left - I'll just say it, he's a Marxist-lite. He does not sincerely believe in the exceptionalism of the American system, its people or its culture. This makes him ill-suited to bridge the gap between the country we are and the country we aspire to be - honestly, the liberal ideal of America is embodied by the television series Star Trek (the original series), as well as its sequel series - a technologically advanced, yet ethnically diverse group of idealists, striving to improve the condition of the human race.

But, Obama does not take lessons - at least in practice - from Washington, Lincoln, FDR or Reagan - he is only superficially informed by JFK (and to a lesser degree Clinton), speaking the words, using the language, emulating the tone, yet failing at the moment of execution or hard choices.

No - he is more informed by his background as a community organizer, an agitator (albeit a mild one), his battleground is the whim of the mob, a left-of-left agenda of fundamental transformation - not repair from within the confines of our powerful foundation and fundamentally optimistic, problem solving spirit (the one that makes us unique in all of human history, despite our flaws) - but revolution as envisioned by his true influences and mentors, Alinsky, Ayers, Jeremiah Wright and Frank Marshall Davis.

He is a divider because that's what agitators and revolutionaries do - divide and conquer. He's a radical because does not see a wonderful country with minor flaws - he sees a system, rotten to the core that needs to be discarded and replaced.



And before you say anything, this is about far, far more than the color of BHO's skin. He has as many, or more, radical influences from his white family, and white mentors/influences as he does black ones. If he were more MLK, Lincoln and the last version of Malcolm X, and less Saul Alinsky and Frank Marshall Davis - we would be a whole, whole lot better off.