The Passion of the Barack

The media in the backdrop of Barack Obama’s now infamous “whose ass to kick” comment has argued that this President’s critics are angry at him for not showing more emotion. That conservative bastion CNN features an article entitled ‘Why Obama doesn’t dare become the ‘angry black man’ that reads:

Who would have ever expected some white Americans to demand that an African-American man show more rage?

If you’ve followed the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, you’ve heard the complaints that Obama isn’t showing enough emotion.

But scholars say Obama’s critics ignore a lesson from American history: Many white Americans don’t like angry black men.

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“Folks are waiting for a Samuel Jackson ‘Snakes on the Plane’ moment from this president as in: ‘We gotta’ get this $#@!!* oil back in the $#!!* rig!’ But that’s just not who Obama is,” says Saladin Ambar, a political science professor at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

A few observations here. First, notice how it is only leftists like Bill Maher, Spike Lee and the elites in academia and the media coming out and making this a race issue. Second, how unintelligible is this argument? People are upset because the President is not getting upset, but they are wrong to be upset because they don’t like President’s that play into stereotypes? What exactly does this have to do with an oil spill that is crippling the nation? And who is perpetuating such a stereotype? Third, which Americans are demanding that Barack Obama show rage? People of all stripes and colors are looking for a President to stand up and show calm but confident and steadfast leadership, irrespective of the President’s race. If Barack Obama happened to be purple it wouldn’t make a damn difference.

The race issue is simply devised as a smokescreen by which the left seeks to distract us. Since the President has done a poor job leading the nation in the wake of the ongoing BP spill, the media pulls the race card to shift the focus away from Obama and towards his critics who after all are all clansmen. Yet notice again that throughout this Presidency, the only people talking about race are the leftists themselves.

There is another aspect however to the President’s aloofness with regard to the oil spill, aloofness leaving aside the candid putting the “boot on the throat of BP” line, which I might add if Bush’s administration had taken would have likely led to mass impeachment for conspiracy to reinstate the Third Reich.

The BP situation reflects that the President is only serious, empathetic, emotional and unscripted when it comes to issues that he is truly passionate about with folks he is really passionate about, such as ACORN, Henry Louis Gates and illegal immigrants in Arizona.

Hence, we see the returning of the bust of Winston Churchill to Great Britain, the sticking of the finger in Benjamin Netanyahu’s chest, the demonizing of capitalists, the concluding that Daniel Pearl’s beheading “capture[d] the world’s imagination,” and the attending of countless concerts and basketball games while the nation burns.

For a President who makes a thrill go up some peoples’ legs, who is considered so polished and intelligent, what are we to make of such behavior?

Some have argued that Obama is simply not that competent nor politically astute. Given his trajectory from the Ivy League through the Windy City to the White House, I find this to be impossible.

I read President Obama differently. Sure the man is narcissistic and unable to handle criticism; what are we to expect from a man having led such a charmed political existence? But the actions he takes and the words he chooses that make the right so apoplectic are highly calculated and symbolic.

Barack Obama’s message is quite clear: he is spiteful with regard to traditional Americans with traditional American values, spiteful with regard to America’s traditional allies and spiteful with regard to America’s traditional place as the beacon of liberty. Barack Obama prefers an America that is nuclear-neutered, bankrupt, statist and paralyzed with dhimmitude to an America that is exceptional.

This President intentionally makes a mockery of the Presidency — the leadership of the free world — because he believes the notion of the free world, as we have traditionally understood it, to be a mockery. He wishes it seems to reduce us from the free world to the Third World. The fundamental principles of Western Civilization are completely anathema to those of President Barack Obama. Hence Dorothy Rabinowitz’s characterization of him as an alien President.

A serious President in Obama’s shoes would stand up and lead, inspiring confidence in his administration but far more importantly in the American people themselves because after all it is not the President or the Congress that makes the country great, but its people. The government is supposed to be the servant that protects us from the tyranny of others, not the master that tyrannizes us itself.

A serious President in light of the oil spill might show continued, genuine heartfelt compassion for the Americans that are bleeding, noting that though the government is limited in its capability to carry out such efforts, it will dedicate its full resources and efforts to work with BP, Governor Bobby Jindal and others in any and all capacity possible. A serious President might give an impassioned speech condemning the terrorists on the flotilla, defending Israel’s right to sovereignty and reiterating our unwavering support for her. A serious President might honor our fallen troops on Memorial Day and D-Day.

But who cares for such things when you’ve got social justice to fight for.