RACIAL POLITICS BLOWS UP IN OBAMA'S FACE By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN Publis

RACIAL POLITICS BLOWS UP IN OBAMA'S FACE By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN Published on DickMorris.com on July 21, 2010 Whenever race is mentioned, it hurts Barack Obama's presidency.  The very basis of his presidency is that he is the post racial president.  Now he finds himself knee-deep into racial politics.   Some is of his own doing.  In suing Arizona over immigration reform, he takes a step that alienates the three-quarters of Anglo voters who back the law.  In refusing to prosecute the Black Panthers for their blatant intimidation of white voters in 2008, he alienates fair thinking people of both races.  But in firing Shirley Sherrod, he showed African-Americans that he was caving in to pressure from FOX News and the conservatives.  Then, by reversing field and reinstating her, the president and his Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack show whites and Republicans-Independent voters that he is caving in to pressure from the African-American community.   There are two common denominators to this equation: race and weakness.  Any involvement in racial politics has to hurt Obama at his core.  It goes to his fundamental selling point: That he is post racial.  By dealing with race repeatedly, he is vulnerable just as Bill Clinton was when he had always to deal with sexual scandal.  It is not his strength but can ultimately destroy his credibility.   And then there is weakness.  By caving in first to the right and then to the left, Obama acts and looks indecisive and weak.  He comes across as out of control and projects the same image of incapacity and chaos that he so amply demonstrated when the oil was gushing in the Gulf.  He reminds one of the opening days of the Clinton Administration when it tied itself in knots over the issue of gays in the military.  It looks like amateur hour at the White House.   Obama has two conflicting goals: He wants to expand his base among whites and heighten enthusiasm of blacks.  Good goals, both.  But if he uses racial issues to accomplish either objective -- as he appears to do in the Sherrod controversy -- he alienates one group in order to win the other.  Not a good strategy.   Carl Ray Louk "FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS" SG-1996 "LET LOVE LEAD THE WAY" SG-2000 "THE PHOENIX SHALL RISE" SD "EVEN A MAN WHO IS PURE IN HEART AND SAYS HIS PRAYERS BY NIGHT, MAY BECOME A WOLF WHEN THE WOLFBANE BLOOMS AND THE AUTUMN MOON IS BRIGHT." LT-1941 "FLESH OF MY FLESH; BLOOD OF MY BLOOD; KIN OF MY KIN WHEN SAY COME TO YOU, YOU SHALL CROSS LAND OR SEA TO DO MY BIDDING!" CVTD-1895 "FROM HELL'S HEART I STAB AT THEE, FOR HATE SAKE I SPIT MY LAST BREATH AT THEE" CA-1895  "I HAVE BEEN, AND ALWAYS SHALL BE YOUR FRIEND" Spock  "TRICK OR TREAT, TRICK OR TREAT CANDY IS DANDY BUT MURDER, OH MURDER, IS SO SWEET" CRL-2003  "EYE OF NEWT, AND TOE OF FROG, WOOL OF BAT, AND TONGUE OF DOG ADDER'S FORK, BLIND-WORM'S STING, LIZARD'S LEG, AND OWLET'S WING. FOR A CHARM OF POWERFUL TROUBLE, LIKE A HELL-BROTH BOIL AND BABBLE. DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE, FIRE BURN, AND CALDRON BUBBLE" WS MySpace.com: www.myspace.com/carlraylouk http://www.myspace.com/carlraylouk Yahoo Group: Yahoo! Groups : LouksHauntedGraveyardhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/LouksHauntedGraveyard/ Yahoo Group: Yahoo! Groups : TheWorldAccordingtoCarlRayLouk http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheWorldAccordingtoCarlRayLouk/