Race, Class, Nation

The common touch- or as Vice President Joe Biden said on ABC Good Morning America "the ability to relate to people" has long been held as a virtue by office seekers and those who hold public office in the United States. Potential Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan was said to possess this ability, but she did not grow up in a log cabin in the way of Lincoln but in one of the tony sections of Manhattan reserved for the wealthy. In her time running that down to earth institution, Harvard law school, she did not appoint a single black or Hispanic to its staff, just twenty-eight whites and a single Asian. Kagan claims to wish to defend and represent the "despised and disadvantaged" of society which sounds a lot to me like a jurist who will rule on empathy not the Constitution as written or precedence of our laws which are said to be "no respecter of persons". And as far as love of country goes, which would be held as a virtue if sane people still ran the country, one must question Kagan's decision to ban military recruiters at Harvard based on don't ask- don't tell which might also shed some light on Kagan's somewhat dubious sexual preference. But who else would a phony black man purporting to be risen from the streets appoint to the nation's highest court. When Barack Hussein Obama was seeking office from his first campaign on, he pretended an affinity for the African-American street. Entering office in the racial hotbed of Chicago, Obama sought "race cred" by joining the politically influential, large, black liberation theology church of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Obama used this association successfully in every political campaign except against someone with vastly greater street cred- former (notorious) Black Panther Bobby Rush. Obama could not convince black voters in the one race that he lost that he had made anywhere near the bones that sixties lightning rod Rush had when it came for standing up for black rights. As far as American perceptions of class go, Obama came from just as rarefied a background as his Supreme Court nominee Kagan. Though Obama tried to prove he was down for the struggle and up with the brothers, he could not share their experience in many ways for his was a background of protection and privilege. Obama pose of humble and modest roots does not jibe with the facts. Obama did not come from public schools but was one of only two black students at that time attending Hawaii's most exclusive private secondary school, then attended selective Occidental College, next entering Ivy League Columbia, before finally completing Harvard law. Not exactly a Horatio Alger story when race preference in admission is taken into account and certainly a path smoothed for Obama's ascension. Despite protestations to the contrary, Obama and Kagan have more in common with country club Republicans than the average person on the street. As far as Obama regarded and regards our nation, he never seemed to laud it much before he achieved its highest office, citing problem after problem with America in his campaigns, fundamentally altering us now that he is in the Oval Office, and worst of all, as he goes around the world literally bowing to foreign tyrants, Obama is constantly apologizing for the evil that America has (in his eyes) wrought. Defaming us around the world, Obama does not seem a stalwart patriot or even to like the America that elected him so much. Overall and throughout his career, Barack Hussein Obama has been a chameleon, always adopting positions of convenience aimed at advancing himself. Now stuck where he can rise no higher, Obama is displaying his shiftiness as he attempts to conjure a second term and appoints people like Kagan who will rubber stamp perpetuating Obama's big intrusive government legacy.