Charlotte, North Carolina: Barack Obama’s Political Dumping Ground
By Truthteller on September 15, 2008 at 4:08 PM in Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Hoodwinking, Joe "Bro" Biden, Michelle Obama, North Carolina, Obama's Thugs, Qualifications, Race, Race Card
Charlotte, North Carolina, will be the site where the Obama campaign will cynically drop the race card again and again with the “hope” that racial polarization will garner a victory in the Tarheel state; it will be the dumping ground for all the race baiting and political toxic waste the Obama campaign will deploy in order to eek out a victory in November. I quote the an article published in yesterday’s edition of the Asheville Citizen-Times:
CHARLOTTE – Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden, campaigning in North Carolina where black votes could help swing the state to the Democrats, said today that electing a black person to the White House would be transformative.
Biden said the policies of running mate Barack Obama make his presidency even more urgent and declared this to be the most important election that any living person has seen in their lifetime. But he particularly singled out the meaning of electing someone who is black.
“That will be a transformative event in American politics and internationally,” Biden said. “That all by itself will be significant.”
North Carolina last voted for a Democrat in 1976, when Jimmy Carter won much of the South. But the state has a large population of blacks galvanized by Obama’s candidacy, and the Illinois senator has competed aggressively here for months.
The race card will have to be dropped aggressively in North Carolina, for African-Americans comprise only 21.7% of the state’s population. This is by far smaller than the number of African-Americans in states such as Mississippi and Louisiana. Compounding this demographic constraint for the racially polarizing Obama campaign is recent polling data: McCain respectively leads Obama 17 points and 20 points in recent Research 2000/DailyKos and SurveyUSA/ABC11-WTVD polls. The Obama campaign is desperate, and they will try to mobilize each and every single African-American in that state to vote for Barack Obama, even if that entails asking Joe Biden to go for broke at the Phillip O. Academy in Charlotte, North Carolina. Yes, the Obama campaign had the audacity to asked the man who uttered to following questionable words to drop the race card in inner city Charlotte:
“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” Biden said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”
Everyone, it seems, suffers from amnesia when race is invoked in any political discussion. Perhaps one should say those inspired by Joe Biden’s Charlotte, North Carolina, race card have been hoodwinked and bamboozled. Or maybe Michelle Obama simply prefers the word “storybook” to the phrase “fairy tale” when Democrats discuss her husband’s candidacy. Too bad Michelle failed to remember that Bill Clinton was referring to her husband’s Iraq policy and not to her husband when she shamelessly criticized the former President at the Trumpeter Awards before the racially charged South Carolina primary. But why should we expect consistency from those who recklessly exploit the politics of race for electoral and personal gain?
How odd it is that Biden is now the weapon the Obama campaign will deploy in North Carolina as they racially polarize that state’s population in the name of cynical electoral politics. Michelle’s deck of cards must be out of aces of race. For on 5 MAY it was Michelle Obama who laid down her entire hand at the Ovens Auditorium in Charlotte on the eve of that state’s important and in many ways decisive primary. I quote The Hill:
It was an hour-long tale of resentment and anger.
First, she complained at great length that her husband had been treated unfairly in the Democratic presidential race. Every time he made a move forward, she said, “they” — she never spelled out exactly who “they” were — moved the goalposts a bit farther away from him.
First, “they” said he couldn’t raise the money necessary to run a big-league campaign.
But “once he proved that he could raise the money, then all of a sudden money didn’t matter,” Mrs. Obama told the crowd. “Everybody said, ‘Well, money isn’t important.’ ”
Then “they” said the test for Obama would be whether he could build a political organization. But “once it was built, they said it’s not an organization — the stakes changed again.”
Next, “they” said Obama had to win Iowa. But “once he won Iowa, then all of a sudden Iowa was no longer important.”
“They” had moved the bar again. This time, Obama had to win a primary state.
“Then we rolled into South Carolina,” Mrs. Obama said. “Then you know what they said? They said South Carolina didn’t count, because Barack was supposed to win.”
Then came Super Tuesday, and after that Obama’s stretch of victories in a series of primary and caucus states.
Still, Mrs. Obama complained, “they” tried to undermine her husband every step of the way.
“We’ve learned that we’re still living in a time and in a nation where the bar is set, right?” she said.
“They tell you all you need to do is do these things and you’ll get to the bar, so you go about the business of doing those things.
“You start working hard and sacrificing, and you think you’re getting closer to the bar, you’re working and you’re struggling, you get right to that bar, you’re reaching out for the bar, and then what happens?
“They raise the bar. Raise the bar. Shift it to the side. Keep it just out of reach.
“And that’s just what’s been happening in this race.”
According to Michelle Obama on 5 MAY, “they,” the Clintons, were raising the bar on her husband, and they did this to him solely as a result of her husband’s “race.” It is a scenario Michelle claims she understands. I quote the author of The Hill article again:
Even Michelle Obama herself. “I’m not supposed to be here,” she tells the crowd. “I am a statistical oddity. As a black girl raised on the south side of Chicago, I’m not supposed to be here. I wasn’t supposed to go to Princeton. They said my test scores were too high” — surely a verbal slip, because in the past she has said she was told her test scores were too low — “I wasn’t supposed to go to Harvard Law School, because they said it might be a little too hard for me. And I certainly am not supposed to be standing here with a chance to become the next first lady of the United States of America.”
The Obama campaign complained about the raising of the bar during the North Carolina primary, but now they are clearly lowering the bar with more race baiting and more racial polarization in Charlotte, North Carolina, a city they view as a receptacle for their political and racial toxic waste. First it was Michelle Obama, and now it is Joe Biden: same message, different people, more divisiveness, more distractions, more sleaze, more race cards.
The people of Charlotte, North Carolina, will be hoodwinked and bamboozled into submission. But even worse is how Obama will subject all the African-Americans of that city and state who will vote for him to so much “okie-doke” if he manages to make it to the White House on their backs. Is this post-racial politics, or am I right to view it as so much regression?
More commentary on and analysis of Biden’s event in Charlotte, North Carolina, is available at Memeorandum. Also be sure to visit Charlotte Front and Center.
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