Campaign ’12 COMMENTARY
Obama Faces Serious Blacklash in 2012
BY DENEEN BORELLI O
bviously, i don’t dislike President Obama because he is black. Really, whether his skin color was
black, white, or green is irrelevant to me. I don’t like Obama because he is doing a horrible job as president. President Obama’s administration has advanced policies that are taking the country backward and his spending habits are out of control. But, some people apparently think that my economic concerns should supersede my ethnicity. There is this strange
notion that because I am black, I should agree with all black people. But all white people are not similarly expected to agree with Bill Clinton or George Bush. Nor are all women expected to agree with Hillary Clinton or Michele Bachmann. So why is it that black people — especially black women — aren’t allowed to have their own opinions? Let me set the facts straight. I
cash infusions, the jobless rate hit 10 percent. The plan was doomed from the beginning because it went to save state budget shortfalls. Facing persistently high unemployment in September 2011 and with more than 14 million people out of work and fearing another recession, Obama went back to the progressive playbook and proposed a $474 billion mini- stimulus before a joint session of Congress. Honestly, what was this man thinking? But what concerned
political and economic justice in this society.” Obama openly displayed the classic view of progressives that the Constitution is a barrier to their political agenda. Obama’s political philosophy demanded an activist government to level the economic playing fi eld, despite what the Constitution may say. These are among the many reasons I couldn’t be infl uenced by race when I went to the polls. I have two words for the old
Obama’s political philosophy demanded an activist government to level the economic playing fi eld, despite what the Constitution may say.
don’t agree with the president’s $787 billion failed stimulus package. He says it was aimed at curbing the then- 8 percent unemployment rate, but did he ever really think through the implications of it? Following these
DENEEN BORELLI
Deneen Borelli is a fellow with Project 21, a network of black conservatives and an initiative of The National Center for Public Policy Research. She is a columnist and a regular contributor to Fox News.
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me the most were the many ways in which Obama’s overarching radical political philosophy seemed to fi nd the Constitution as a barrier for his activist government agenda. According to Obama, our Constitution is defi cient because it did not allow the government to take an active role in redistribution of wealth. During a 2001 interview with a Chicago radio station, Obama noted what he considered the failure of the Supreme Court to address economic justice. The Warren court, Obama said, “never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of
civil rights guard: step aside. Your time has passed and your message is dated. These days you are
doing more to hurt the black community than you are helping it. And in the process, you are dismantling the greatness of the American nation. You aren’t just hurting
blacks with your backwards
tactics, but the country itself. Your archaic initiatives and your self- serving agendas need to end. It’s time to fi x the United States,
focus on the economy, and put your outdated 1960s agenda to bed — the civil rights initiatives that began over 50 years ago just don’t apply to today’s world. Unless by choice, we don’t sit at the back of the bus anymore. Let me be clear — we appreciated what you did, but now your old guard message needs to be modernized because hanging on to it only benefi ts you and hurts everyone else.
From Blacklash by Deneen Borelli. Copyright (c) 2012 by Deneen Borelli. Reprinted with permission of Threshold Editions, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
BORELLI COURTESY OF PROJECT 21
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