Those paying attention will recall that last week I wrote about the fact time's running out on the race card.
Prior to that piece, I wrote that President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder owed the Ferguson Police Department (and eventually Officer Darren Wilson) an apology.
Now imagine you're President Obama and your side – the Democrats – have just lost badly in the 2014 midterm elections on Nov. 4.
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Badly is the wrong word. A historic defeat is the proper two-word description for what the Republicans did to Democrats nationwide two weeks ago.
But imagine you're President Obama, down to the last few political chips of your career.
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It's Nov. 5, and you're sitting in the Oval Office completely oblivious to the fact your political capital has eroded away and the voters have spoken loudly for the Republican Party to stop your agenda.
Instead of realizing the importance of working with the newly Republican-controlled Senate and the energized House of Representatives in crafting an agenda for moving America forward, it turns the president decided to move the country backward.
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I'm not talking about his decision to rush an executive amnesty through, but his decision to meet with the Ferguson protest leaders – in a meeting that was kept off his public schedule and only divulged because of the hubris of Al Sharpton – and implore them to "stay on course." As the New York Times reported:
Some of the national leaders met with President Obama on Nov. 5 for a gathering that included a conversation about Ferguson.
According to the Rev. Al Sharpton, who has appeared frequently in St. Louis with the Brown family and delivered a speech at Mr. Brown's funeral, Mr. Obama "was concerned about Ferguson staying on course in terms of pursuing what it was that he knew we were advocating. He said he hopes that we're doing all we can to keep peace."
"Staying on course"?
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What in the world does the president of the United States mean when he tells the Ferguson protest leaders he "was concerned about Ferguson staying on course in terms of pursuing what it was that he knew we were advocating."
And what exactly are the Ferguson protest leaders "advocating" at this point, considering more than half a dozen black witnesses testified before the grand jury to the truth of Officer Darren Wilson's account of the events on Aug. 9.
Not only did these black witnesses confirm Darren Wilson's account, but they now hide in fear of what could happen if their identities are released to the general public.
The fact that multiple black witnesses to the Darren Wilson/Michael Brown altercation are fearful for their lives should have been enough to convince President Obama to tell the Ferguson protest leaders he met with (in secret) to immediately deviate from the course and realize they had the facts wrong.
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Egregiously wrong.
But justice doesn't seem to be anything President Obama or Attorney General Eric Holder are interested in seeing come to fruition in Ferguson. Instead, it's the overcoming of racial injustices in Ferguson and St. Louis these two men are convinced the Wilson/Brown incident now represents.
It's racial justice Obama sees the Ferguson protest leaders advocating, which makes his comment – related via Al Sharpton – about how he "was concerned about Ferguson staying on course in terms of pursuing what it was that he knew we were advocating" particularly odious.
At a time when the country needs an actual leader at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the great Community Organizer in Chief comes shining through again to illuminate exactly why he's unfit to be president of the United States.
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Facts are irrelevant to Barack Obama, and it's obvious he still harbors lingering resentment for having to hold a beer summit with his friend Henry Louis Gates and Sgt. James Crowley. In the case of Obama meeting secretly with the Ferguson protest leaders, it's obvious who truly "acted stupidly" in once again displaying a complete aversion to being a leader interested in healing wounds instead of pouring salt on them.
But then again, Democrats nationwide attempted to utilize the unrest in Ferguson to drive black voters to the polls, filled with the type of racial resentment that must keep Obama and Holder awake at night thinking there's a Klansman behind every door they encounter.
In Georgia, the Democratic Party sent out a flyer with the words "If you want to prevent another Ferguson" on one side, and "Vote: It's up to you to make change happen," on the other.
Flyers were also distributed in Illinois with a photo of protests in Ferguson and the headline "Enough" on them. The almost entirely black-on-black gun violence in Chicago isn't "enough" to convince voters in the Windy City to desire change; only a shooting in Ferguson is apparently enough to galvanize black voters to go vote.
The New York Times editorial page editor, David Firestone, was upset conservatives would even notice these obviously race-baiting ads, but those who should be upset about these insanely divisive – and dishonest – ads are those conservatives and Republicans who won on Nov. 4 despite such scare tactics by a shameless Democratic Party.
Drumming up racial resentment and animosity is all this Community Organizer in Chief has left, with Ferguson-influenced, "scaremongering" political ads a reminder of the only fuel President Obama has in his tank.
With Obama uttering the words "Staying on course," to Ferguson protest leaders (secretly!) Nov. 5, only one day removed from the historic electoral beat down of Nov. 4, it's obvious racial resentment is all we'll see in the final years of his term in Office.
It's high time a conservative leader or recently elected Republican calls him and the political party he represents out on this fact.
For if riots erupt in Ferguson and throughout St. Louis when the grand jury decides not to press charges against Officer Wilson, the buck of blame will stop at the desk of President Obama.
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