Obama: Let's Face It, Republicans Who Are Spun Up About the Border Crisis Are Racists
Guy Benson
Posted: Sep 29, 2022 10:05 AM
Ah yes, there it is -- Barack Obama's inner race-baiting demagogue that's never lurking too far beneath the veneer. Mr. Hope and Change, who shot to stardom decrying the binary and polarized notion of blue vs. red states, was more than willing to take cheap shots at his opposition throughout his time on the national stage. Some of his loudest defenders were even worse, conflating opposition to Obama's policies to hatred of the man due to his skin color. Far from adopting a statesmanlike, above-the-partisan-fray approach to his post-presidency, Obama has waded back into the mix with some regularity. One of his more egregious recent episodes was his highly partisan jeremiad at the 2020 funeral of the late Rep. John Lewis, in which Obama used the occasion to call for various left-wing power grabs, including eliminating the filibuster, which he condemned as a 'Jim Crow relic.' He didn't mention, of course, his enthusiastic participation in filibusters as a Democratic Senator. I wrote this at the time:
Here we have classic Obama. Brass-knuckles partisanship dressed up as high-minded virtue, which only cretins could oppose. Of course, he employed a similar approach in defending the filibuster while he was briefly a member of the Senate. Here's what he said at the time, when keeping that particular tool in place was widely embraced by the Left based on the relevant power dynamics: "What [the American people] don't expect is for one party - be it Republican or Democrat - to change the rules in the middle of the game so that they can make all the decisions while the other party is told to sit down and keep quiet. The American people want less partisanship in this town, but everyone in this chamber knows that if the majority chooses to end the filibuster - if they choose to change the rules and put an end to democratic debate - then the fighting and the bitterness and the gridlock will only get worse..."
"...If the right of free and open debate is taken away from the minority party and the millions of Americans who asked us to be their voice, I fear that the already partisan atmosphere of Washington will be poisoned to the point where no one will be able to agree on anything. That doesn't serve anyone's best interests, and it certainly isn't what the patriots who founded this democracy had in mind." A high-minded, virtuous defense of the filibuster that only power-hungry cretins could oppose. Indeed, Obama himself participated in filibusters -- including, famously, a failed attempt to block the Supreme Court nomination of Justice Samuel Alito. But he later claimed to regret that action when the political moment required him to disavow his previous stance. It's never about principle or good governance, you see; it's about power. Pure and simple.
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