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Right and left read the same writing on the wall from Scott Brown’s upset victory in Massachusetts, and draw conflicting conclusions. Both Pat Buchanan and Thomas B. Edsall of The New Republic see Obama’s agenda as slanted toward minorities — but each views that agenda in a starkly different light.
Here’s Pat Buchanan:
So what have Obama and Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi been doing for a year? Crafting a federal takeover of health care with a vast plan that provides coverage for the uninsured—most of whom are minorities—while sticking it to Medicare recipients, 80 percent to 90 percent of whom are white.
Immigrants are 21 percent of the uninsured, but only 7 percent of the population. This means white folks on Medicare or headed there will see benefits curtailed, while new arrivals from the Third World, whence almost all immigrants come, get taxpayer-subsidized health insurance. Any wonder why all those Tea Party and town-hall protests seem to be made up of angry white folks?
Buchanan sees an opportunity for Republicans to reverse their 2008 loss if they stake out positions that will attract white voters:
An end to affirmative action and ethnic preferences, an end to bailouts of Wall Street bankers, a moratorium on immigration until unemployment falls to 6 percent, an industrial policy that creates jobs here and stops shipping them to China appear a winning hand in 2012.
I’d vote for that.
Now, back to Mr. Thomas B. Edsall, who sees the same social-political alignment but takes the opposite side. The magazine he writes for, The New Republic, combines liberal social and economic policies with a hawkish foreign policy. Translation: It’s another Neocon tabloid. (No wonder homosexual activist Jamie Kirchick used TNR to launch his smears against Ron Paul, and Neocon patriarch Robert Kagan toils there as an associate editor.)
Edsall is even more explicit in describing the significance of the Federal takeover of health care:
The harsh reality is many voters consider the health care bill a multibillion-dollar transfer of taxpayer money to the uninsured, a population disproportionately, although by no means exclusively, made up of the poor, African Americans, Latinos, single parents, and the long-term unemployed. Providing medical care to this population is an explicit goal of the legislation, and a worthy goal, but political suicide in the current environment.
As everyone knows, the United States is undergoing a profound demographic transformation. Non-Hispanic whites are likely to become a minority by the year 2042. This shift underlies the theory of a Democratic realignment: Pro-Democratic groups are growing while the pro-Republican white population is declining.
And that’s a good thing, according to Edsall. The progressive agenda — shared by liberals and Neocons — requires a demographic revolution to succeed. That’s why Bush/Cheney pushed amnesty for illegal aliens, and why Obama planned to take it up after he passed his health care takeover. But despite that temporary setback, Edsall sees hope for the progressive agenda in current population trends:
From 1988 to 2008, [Ruy Teixeira of the Center for American Progress] wrote, the importance of moderate and low-income white voters had steadily diminished: “The minority share of voters in presidential elections has risen by 11 percentage points, while the share of increasingly progressive white college graduate voters has risen by four points. But the share of white-working class voters, who have remained conservative in their orientation, has plummeted by 15 points.” It was the dawn of an enlightened political era, he explained: “A new progressive America is on the rise.”
That’s the fork in the road we’ve paused at. Will we agree to go down the path toward that new progressive America, or not?
D B Allyn on 23 Jan 2010 at 3:11 pm #
Obomber never had the smart white people.
roho on 24 Jan 2010 at 12:35 am #
HB-2…………….I’m embarassed to admit that Obama’s future is not in the hands of ignorant, white, christian, voters?
His future is being decided by the liberal Jew that thought they liked him, encouraging stupid white christians to have more abortions, and the neocon Jew that hopes stupid white christians will continue to donate their children to Israeli wars?
They all are nervous about his comitment to Zionism, and that alone will determine if he even get’s a shot at a second term?
I suspect that he is toast!……….The most liberal-progressive Jew will send his money to the candidate that works with the Knisett.
All else is show business!
D B Allyn on 24 Jan 2010 at 9:02 pm #
He will win the second term easily if we get amnesty for illegals.
Tony Caputo on 05 Jun 2010 at 10:11 am #
DID YOU REGISTER TO VOTE”?
Alan Keyes (below) states Obama is a Radical Communist and will destroy America……Well, Obama is doing just that.
Tired of the Non Believing Politicians and Atheists taking God and Jesus Christ out of America?……Tired of the Baby Killers?
Tired of Racist Black and Spanish Politicians ruining America and ignoring White America?
What percentage of blacks voted for Obama?
According to Politico.com, 95%
DON’T CALL US RACISTS!
Tired of the Democrats forcing White Americans to support Illegal Immigrants and Career BUMS on Welfare for the past 50 years?
Tired of Obama bringing Muslims in to The Pentagon and Home Land Security?
Tired of Obama Anti-White American and Racist behavior?………….see below:
Obama or Attorney General Eric Holder DID NOT prosecute The Black Panthers for breaking Voting Laws.
Obama gave ACORN, a Census Contract before they were investigated for wrong doings.
April, 2010: Obama call for young Black, Latino, Women voters. Obama wants to write off White Voters.
Well it is up to White Christian America to turn it around!
Campaign for White Christian America and here is how you do it:
Get every Family Member, Relatives, Friends, Acquaintances, Club Members, Church Members, everyone you know who is legally eligible to Register to Vote for the 2010 Elections………. (SORRY NO ACORN MEMBERS OR OTHER CHEATERS PLEASE)…………….Then VOTE OUT these Anti-White Christians Racists!
Take their Power away! White America still out numbers the others……..(If “Obama can ask the young, Black, Latino, Women voters you to vote for him”, We can ask White Christians Americans to Vote………
If need be, take these unregistered White Christian People to Register to Vote, then pick them up on elections day when you are on your way to Vote……Vote these BUMS out or lose America!
Are tired of America being ruined by Illegal Immigrants, Homosexual Politicians and all the other evil creeps? Want to get off you hands and do something about it, this is something you can do to help. Please pass the word on!
“To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men.” Abraham Lincoln
The Christian Patriot from Florida….June, 2010.
“DID YOU REGISTER TO VOTE”?
IN ALL 50 STATES:
Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illiniois Indiana Iowa Kansa Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesoto Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakata Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisonsin Wyoming
C.Pate on 07 Aug 2011 at 3:57 am #
Man I hear you, Im black and voted for Obama .I hate some of the things that he suports that is clearly a violation to scripture but i also voted Bush who done the same thing by supporting the muslims and not standing up for Jesus and many biblical values.Only True justice comes from God . The way I saw it as a black man was that obama would be more concern about his neighbor thats hurting than McCain would have.And regardless of the don’t likes and even hate policies he supports I still think he would be better than Mc Romney who is a Mormon and do not have the spirit of Christ.When someone says that they are a christain even when God knows their not at least you can use the bible to show them their eror of their ways and they have to make a chioce to be obedeint or not.
Now the only problem with family members asking other family members to vote is that many families are broken .Many have a homosexaul family member that most simphatize with ,many families members are interacialy maried and the family loves them.And the majority the christain people that your calling on are MORE CONCERN ABOUT THEIR MEDICARE THAN THE THINGS OF CHRST.You don’t sound like a racist but rather concern about biblical principles,however your fithing a losing battle because were heading towards the end times.The way to beat Obama is to have some one ( non-offensive )to simply go aginst obama policeis on obortions and same sex marrieges in wich most americans, black and whites are against, and not critisize Obama as much. I ponder how Jesus would react to the Repulican who comes aross as not being their brothers keeper in helping the poor in policy making and the demacrates who violates biblical moral standards of living.There were many blacks who did not turn out to vote for Obama the first time but after seeing the hate towards him by the republicans your going to see the the black vote double this time around with the latino vote also. C.Pate