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The Last Black President

By: Bob Parks (Diary)  |  May 23rd, 2009 at 10:12 AM  | 

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As a resident of Massachusetts, I see real parallels between the rise and fall of our first black governor Deval Patrick, and the rise and coming fall of the first black president, Barack Obama. Let’s get to some politically correct, uncomfortable-to-say for some, specifics.

1. The Ballot Becomes The Race Card
Both Deval Patrick and Barack Obama had the same campaign guru: David Axelrod.

Using white liberal guilt to his political advantage, Axelrod created candidates that were immune from the normal political vetting process, as any attempt to do such would be called veiled racism. With that, they run with vague slogans that touched at progressive heartstrings, and they did. Patrick’s campaign “Together We Can” and Obama’s “Yes, We Can” offered what the beholder thought he or she wanted, without the nasty details.

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  • 6eorge Jetson

    on another site. Ironically, your diary provides its own vetting test.

    I’m not a RedState insider, so I don’t have any “skin” in the site traffic game, but I’ve seen other diaries called out when they are more links to other sites than they are their own articles. (As well as occasional excuses of “breaches of protocol”, when taken in the total context of the poster’s contributions.) I’m speculating here, but I think that’s one reason for the lack of comments.

    As to your content, I couldn’t agree more. Especially to

    Axelrod created candidates that were immune from the normal political vetting process, as any attempt to do such would be called veiled racism. With that, they ran with vague slogans that touched at progressive heartstrings, and they did. Patrick’s campaign “Together We Can” and Obama’s “Yes, We Can” offered what the beholder thought he or she wanted, without the nasty details.

    which I’ve tried to capture as

    and the money quote

    Barack Obama has been a bull-in-the-china-shop when it comes to his “reshaping America” promise. The long term problem for Obama is that the people aren’t digging what he’s turning America into.

    Unfortunately, IMO, the present loci of Republican leadership doesn’t sense that as evidenced by acts such as the endorsement of Charlie Crist in Florida. Fortunately–call me an optimist–there’s a groundswell afoot that I believe has the potential to serve as the wave that comes crashing down on this lefty agenda and those meek Republicans that are acquiesing to it.

  • Vegas_Rick

    Most of the other diarist who have other venues for their work, will post the entire diary or article here and then say something like: “Previously posted at…”

    But it was worth the trip to read your work. :)

  • penguin2

    Followed your link and your whole column. I bet you get a lot of grief for being a conservative. I agree with your points. Thank you for saying them.

  • jeffreywturner

    The free market is fixing the problem of the liberal print media, by killing it, but the television media still has Obama’s back. I wonder how long they will be able to prop him up before the “soundbite driven” American public actually notices that this guy sucks? They won’t go down easy. They ( the media) are going to fight tooth and nail to protect this presidency, which they created.

  • Return to Revolution

    Patrick most likely won’t have the same type of media boost as Obama. Other than that, the parallels you laid out are indeed striking.