As IF Times

link When race is mentioned in the Chicago Tribune – chicagotribune.com.

More idiocy masking as objectivity.  The ill advised policies of political correctness actively pursued by liberal sensibilities are fast becoming caricatures of stupidity.  In the animal world, only the highly advanced humans would ignore the most basic tenets of survival.  The natural equivalent of all of this politically correct nonsense would be if Wildebeest were to blithely frolic about while all around them lions began to gather. This is fantasy, we would never see this because Wildebeest are not that stupid.

In the human world, thanks to moronic notions of fairness, people are asked to literally turn a blind eye to the nefarious elements of society.  Apparently, the label of racist is the most heinous of all things one can be accused of, more to be avoided than other sundry labels such as, oh let’s say, murderer, child molester, or Internet creep.  We know this thanks to the exploits of Fidel Castro, Roman Polanski and of course recently, Anthony Weiner.  Because of this mentality, we have an entire expensive and cumbersome bureaucracy dedicated to making life miserable for the travelling public at airports including the prototypical Swedish grandmothers and nursing infants.  Rather than scrutinize the segment of society that has historically been most at risk to cause grief and mayhem to innocents, why not be inclusive and give the Mexican prisoner treatment to everyone? This despite the fact that troublemakers tend to have distinct characteristics of appearance and background.

The non-reporting of all the facts that pertain to the rash of mob attacks in many US cities, but in particular as depicted by this Chicago paper is fomenting the same type of willful stupidity.  If the ‘kids’ involved in the mob attacks are not only generally, but almost exclusively black, wouldn’t that be germane to the story?  When the Tribune reports that packs of ‘kids’ were attacking innocent civilians, are the readers supposed to imagine a gaggle of Richie Cunninghams mobbing them?  What if you had to fill out a police report?

“Well, let’s see, there were 7 or 8 of them…they were young… all had arms…some had hair….”

“Any other distinguishing characteristics? Hair color, race perhaps?”

“Oh no, we didn’t notice whether they were all black kids wearing baseball caps askew,  baggy pants  and speaking Ebonics or not, no sir, none of that occurred to us because we’re not racists at all, no sirree…”

The whole charade is farcical.  For some to pretend that racial issues don’t exist and that those dynamics don’t come into normal social interaction is ostrich behaviour at its best.  When the current President of the United States is elected into office coming out of nowhere, with no executive experience, no history of legislative achievements and with a closet full of sketchy collaborators, there is no explanation for it other than the naked truth.  He was elected because he was black.  Given similar qualifications, no other person would have been elected if they didn’t have the racial advantage.  If fact, much has been made of this milestone in American history.  This achievement has been endlessly trumpeted by the liberal left as proof of society’s evolution.  The only thing this has really proved however is that a black president can be just as incompetent as a white president.  But hey,  at least they were inclusive.  The policies and results derived from Obama’s time in office would never be tolerated by the public and media if he were not black.  In fact, any criticism of his agenda is construed as a racist attack.

Nevertheless, Obama proves that people of color can achieve high office and indeed THE highest office, so the on going arguments for politically correct sensibilities are outdated.  The old chestnut of the disadvantaged inner city black youth has less validity.  The  achievements of Obama, of Oprah, of Condaleeza Rice, of Colin Powell, although exceptions, prove that the possibility for great success exists for black people and that resorting to anti social, criminal lifestyles is an option, not a destiny.

The delusion of the left over the foibles of people of any color perpetuates the segmentation of people and prevents true equality in society.  It’s unclear to me why people should be regarded as one big homogeneous glop.   It is an affront to rational thinking.  Stupidity and brilliance are present in all peoples and as such, instances of both should be pointed out, especially by an ‘objective’ media.  Those that ignore this are the true racists.

link RealClearPolitics – Video – Obama Ditches Tax Cut Presser, Bill Clinton Takes Control.

Ok hands up anyone who can imagine George W Bush being brought back to the Presidential podium to address the media and offer advice.  Anyone?  What a shock, no hands.

With each passing day and dramatic event, it appears as if the present administration has less and less control and grasp of what’s going on.  This should alarm everybody.  Without regard to any partisan bias, if one considers the big picture, it’s all unravelled astonishingly quickly.

It was only 2 years ago when this administration was swept into office on a wave of popular support on the theme of ” change”  wherein the Democrats wound up controlling both the House and the Senate in addition to the White House.  It was a complete three-fer.  The Republicans retreated to the status of backbenchers on the backlash of the unpopular George Bush.   The fawning liberal media were like 12 year old girls at a Justin Bieber concert and were breathlessly reporting every move and gesture of the new hero.  So big was the political victory that many were predicting the end of conservatives in America. 

In an almost unprecedented circumstance, the Dems had the opportunity to introduce and pass whatever legislation suited them since there was no legislative manoeuvre that the Republicans could use to stop them and most of the supposedly watchdog  media was on side.  And that’s just what happened,  the new universal health care plan was introduced and passed.  The plan to buy up GM and Chrysler, passed.  The plan to shovel money to overstretched banks , admittedly a Bush proposal  called TARP, passed.

But a funny thing happened on the way to one party government.  The public took notice.  It wasn’t the Republicans.  They were in ICU trying to rebuild a devastated party.  It wasn’t the skeptical media; for the most part, they were cheer-leading every move.  It soon became obvious that the new health program, dubbed Obamacare was not well thought out.  They couldn’t even explain it to people.  It was expensive.  Most damningly, some of the President’s own constituency, ie: unions,  who supported and fought to have it implemented were themselves excused from having to participate in it.

Suddenly, the roster of ideological issues that the Dems ran on all collapsed during implementation.  Gitmo didn’t close.  War in Afghanistan didn’t stop.  Terrorists were to be tried as civilians in NY despite widespread skepticism from regular people.  Global warming was exposed as fraudulent, so cap and trade died.  Nations such as Iran, N. Korea, Venezuela and China essentially thumbed their noses at U.S. foreign policy overtures.   Now, Wikileaks is outing dirty laundry and nobody seems to be able to stop them.  Most poignantly, unemployment remains high.    The dissatisfaction was most clearly manifested during the mid-term elections when the Democrats lost an historic number of House seats as well as being wounded in the Senate.  All of a sudden, the majority was gone.  So, apparently was the magic.  Even some notables within the party dared to voice critical complaints, something that would not have happened only a year ago.  Even the fawning press began offering some skeptical views. 

In this most comical political tactic anyone’s ever seen, they have now resuscitated Bill Clinton to sell the present tax deal…to Democrats!  Enough grumbling has swelled up among the ranks of the faithful, that they had to draw upon the “charisma” and wisdom of the old master to calm the waters.  The idea was to use the supposed capital Clinton had to sway the jittery faithful  What they fail to understand though, is that Bill had the support of a Republican congress when he was taking credit for all the good results.   They made him look good.  If the present administration weren’t so inept, they would have figured out that if the Dems had wanted Bill redux, they would have anointed Hilary as leader in the first place, not Barack.   There is no more clearer admission of ” I have no idea what to do”,  than to hand the microphone to Bill Clinton in order to run off to have dinner with the wife.  It was so painful, even Obama had to excuse himself.   It’s vaguely reminiscent of the time during Ronald Reagan’s tenure when he was shot and Alexander Haig stepped up and announced that he was now in charge.  

This event has to rate high on the list of incompetent things done by this President.  To leave Clinton unsupervised at a microphone in front of a helpless crowd is like telling Roman Polanski to watch your daughter while you go out.  It’s going to be pretty difficult to re-assert your authority once you’ve given it away to the experienced guy.   We will see incidents like the famous one when  Hilary was asked if her husband agreed with her on a policy issue.  To which she icily responded, “he is not the secretary of state, I am”.