During Senate debate on the Obamacare bill on December 20, Senator Whitehouse (Democrat) said:
”They are desperate to break this president. They have ardent supporters
who are nearly hysterical at the very election of President Barack Obama.
The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia
and Aryan support groups, it is unbearable to them that President Barack
Obama should exist. That is one powerful reason. It is not the only one.”
This statement was issued today by Bob Parks of the national black leadership network Project 21:
“President Obama’s almost-constant apologies to the world for our
nation’s actions and his socialist economic policies at home have energized
a normally lethargic American people into gathering in American cities and
storming the steps of the Capitol in protest. Senator Whitehouse would have
us all just shut up and give Obama his political victories unchallenged.
Not doing so makes us all guilty of unprecedented rudeness and – dare I say
it – racism.Despite liberals’ historically dismal and revisionist civil rights history,
when things with this President fall apart, they are all too willing to
resort to playing the race card. The problem is – whether it’s the Black
Panthers in Philadelphia or Professor Gates in Cambridge – Barack Obama and
his administration have conducted themselves so poorly in office that the
race label really doesn’t bruise the skin anymore.“If President Obama had not entered the presidency with his signature
arrogance, the American people may have had more patience, but he and his
liberal allies have talked down to the American people like we were
stepchildren they were forced to tolerate. Statements like those of Senator
Whitehouse only further harden the opposition’s resolve.”
Project 21, a leading voice of black conservatives since 1992, is sponsored by the National Center for Public Policy Research.
