THE ATTACK ON RUSH LIMBAUGH - AN ANATOMY OF FABRICATED RACISM By Frances Rice Fear is as effective in enslaving us as iron shackles.  One more nail was hammered deeply into America's freedom coffin when a group of private sector entrepreneurs were intimidated by race hustlers into ousting talk show host Rush Limbaugh from the consortium formed to buy the St. Louis Rams. Armed with nothing more than demonstrably false charges of racism, fabricated to destroy Limbaugh, several black NFL players claimed publicly that they would never play for a team owned by Limbaugh.  Into the cauldron of racial slime jumped the usual race mongering suspects, The Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton - aided by the liberal media, including CNN, MSNBC and their ilk.  The phony charge of racism is continuously used as a weapon to silence conservatives who dare stand up for our nation's traditional values and oppose the radical socialist agenda of Democrats and the Obama Administration.  Limbaugh deserves our gratitude for showing no fear of the race-baiters, fighting back and helping to preserve the freedoms that have made this country great. Frances Rice, a retired lawyer and US Army Lieutenant Colonel, is chairman of the National Black Republican Association and may be contacted at: www.NBRA.info

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BE CIVIL? By Frances Rice It's a sure sign that Republicans are winning a debate on issues when Democrats, aided by well-meaning civility police pundits and activists, demand that Republicans stop showing their passion and "be civil". I am still waiting for those with such a keen sense of civility to demand that Democrats cease their unrelenting and uncivil, even racist, attacks on black Republicans. I won't hold my breath. High on the Democrats' list of those to be denigrated are accomplished black Republicans who do not toe the Democrats' liberal agenda line. Shamefully, Democrats do not want poor black children to have as role models any black person who does not engage in victim mongering and works hard to become prosperous rather than become dependent on government handouts. The message that Democrats gives to poor blacks is despicable. If you remain poor, uneducated and vote for Democrats, we will celebrate your victimhood. If you get a good education, get a good job and vote for Republicans, we will denigrate you as "acting white", a "sellout", an "Uncle Tom", a "House Negro", a "House N-word", a "Lawn Jockey", and worse.. Brazenly, on the left-wing Internet website called "The News Blog," Democrats posted a doctored photograph of then Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele (now chairman of the RNC) when he was running for a Senate seat, depicting Steele as a "Simple Sambo" with a blackened minstrel-style face, nappy hair and big, think red lips. The cartoon caption read: "Simple Sambo wants to move to the big house". This contemptible racist stereotype is the same one Democrats used to demean black men during the era of slavery and segregation. In addition to other outrageous racist images of Dr. Condoleezza Rice produced by several Democrats, cartoonist Jeff Danziger depicted Dr. Rice as an ignorant, barefoot "mammy", reminiscent of the stereotyped black woman in the movie "Gone with the Wind" about the slave era black woman who remarked: "I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no babies". This is the type of racist stereotype Democrats used to demean black women during the era of slavery and segregation. Democrats now love Gen. Colin Powell, but spewed out racist attacks on Powell before he endorsed Obama and embraced the liberal agenda of higher taxes and a bigger government to provide poverty producing handouts to blacks. A video was shot by WKRN Video Journalist Beau Fleenor at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee that shows Al Sharpton demeaning Gen. Powell and Dr. Rice, when Sharpton was asked to give his opinions about whether Powell and Rice were "House Negroes". That video can be found on the Internet. An article that appeared in a Portland, Oregon paper was one of many exposing how hardly a ripple of protest was made by black Democrats when Harry Belafonte publicly denounced Gen. Powell as a "House Negro". With impunity, the late Democrat Senator Ted Kennedy called black judicial nominees, including Judge Janice Rogers Brown, "Neanderthals". Democrat Senator Harry Reid slurred Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as an incompetent Negro who could not write good English. "Slap at Thomas stinks of racism," was the headline of the New York Daily News' December 7, 2004 editorial. Even black Democrats will be maligned if they dare step off of the Democratic Party's political plantation. When black Democrat Juan Williams wrote his book entitled "Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-end Movements and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America" that exposed the deplorable conditions in black communities caused by the Democrats running those communities, Williams was denounced on national TV by another black Democrat as a "Happy Negro". For details about how Democrats during the 1960's even smeared Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who was a Republican, see the article posted on the NBRA website. "Civility, Ours and Theirs" is an article that provides more details about how Democrats vilify black Republicans while wagging their finger at Republicans about being civil.  Our political discourse can be elevated to the high standards demanded by the civility police only when Democrats are also required to play by the rules of civility. Frances Rice, a retired lawyer and US Army Lieutenant Colonel, is chairman of the National Black Republican Association and may be contacted at: www.NBRA.info

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OBAMA – CARTER'S BLACK BOY By Frances Rice During the 2008 election in a video, former Democrat President Jimmy Carter, without batting an eye, called Democratic Party presidential candidate Barack Obama a "black boy".   Carter's racial slur earned him not one word of condemnation.  If a Republican politician had called Obama a "black boy", a phrase most blacks deem to be an offensive epithet, that person would have been labeled a racist and drummed out of the political arena by Democrats and their liberal media allies.  Unscathed by his insensitive remark, Carter now has the audacity to scold average Americans, calling them racist, merely for protesting against Obama's government-run, rationed health care scheme and out-of-control spending designed to turn our country into a failed socialist nation. "A million march to US Capitol to protest against 'Obama the socialist'" by David Gardner shows how the White House was shocked by the massive rally of Americans in Washington, the biggest crowd of people since Obama took office in January.  The reaction of the White House was to attack the protestors, calling them a "mob" of racists. The charge of racism is like fire, a dangerous weapon that can be used to destroy all it touches.  Without regard to the damage caused to our nation, Obama, aided by Carter and other race hustlers, continuously fans the flames of racism to intimidate into silence Americans – black and white – who oppose Obama's socialist policies. In his book "The Drama of Obama Regarding Race", inner-city minister Rev. Wayne Perryman provides a clear-eyed look into how the Democrats – from the time of slavery until the age of Obama – have used racial politics for partisan political gain. "Some Blacks Now Have Doubts About Obama" by Star Parker exposes how – despite slurs, intimidation, and widely reported physical attacks from union thugs – a few brave black souls have showed up at tea party protest rallies.   "Black Tea Party Express Tour Team Member Experienced Racism" is an article by black Singer/Songwriter Lloyd Marcus who traveled with the Tea Party Express Tour of 16 states and 34 rallies before ending at the Taxpayers' March on Washington. Marcus explains how during the tour he experienced vicious racial verbal attacks, not from tea party protesters, but from the left – people who support President Obama's radial socialist agenda. The video entitled "Tea Party Racism Rev Perryman Says Enough" gives details about Perryman's participation in tea party protests. In his video, Perryman expertly and accurately summarizes the Democratic Party's 150-year history of racism, demonstrating the absurdity of Democrats trashing him and other average Americans as racists when the Democratic Party is the architect of modern-day racism.  Additional information about the Democratic Party's shameful history of racism – for which they have never apologized – can be found in the NBRA Civil Rights Newsletter that is posted on the NBRA website.    Democrats seem not to understand that a backlash has begun against their insidious use of racial politics.  Average Americans, incensed about being unfairly tarnished as racists, are fighting back.  Showing that the Democrats' charge of racism has lost its sting, some people are scoffing at the accusation and even laughing in the faces of the race-baiters.  The video "Testing The Racism Theory" demonstrates this attitude and exposes the hypocrisy of Democrats who favor white Democrat candidates over black Republicans.  Why is it not racist when Democrats demean black professionals such as Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Gen. Colin Powell, Justice Clarence Thomas and RNC Chairman Michael Steele, denigrating them as 'sellouts', "House Negroes" and 'Uncle Toms'? Racist pictures and cartoons of black Republicans generated by Democrats are included in the article "Simple Sambo and Ignorant Mammy", and more details about racism in the Democratic Party are in the article"Can Republicans Win Back the Black Vote?" The article "Backlash: The Race-Baiters Get Carded" by Christian Toto provides a hard-hitting assessment about Democratic Party race mongers.  Toto describes them as an "appalling crop of hustlers" who are keeping racism alive even though voters have chosen this country's first black president.  "But like the proverbial boy who cried wolf," Toto opined, "the race card loses its potency each time it's unfairly applied."  "It's not racism, it's being an American" by RNC Chairman Michael Steele is an article that explains why Steele is "outraged that Democrats today, including former President Jimmy Carter, are injecting race into the debate over President Obama's policies".    Author Larry Elder provides a levelheaded view of race in America in his article"Jimmy Carter and the Elvis Factor".  Elder wrote: "The notion that we can reach a sort of non-racist, non-sexist, non-homophobic nirvana is romantic, unrealistic and nonsensical. Wing nuts will, unfortunately, always be with us.  It is, however, even more unfortunate that a former President of the United States sits among them".   Frances Rice is a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel, a lawyer and chairman of the National Black Republican Association.  She can be contacted at:  www.NBRA.Info  __________________ It's not racism, it's being an American By Michael Steele Charges of racism are among the most serious that can be made in America because of our nation's history on race relations. There is no doubt America has come a long way in healing past wounds, but there is certainly more to be done. That is why I am outraged that Democrats today, including former President Jimmy Carter, are injecting race into the debate over President Obama's policies. Voicing opposition to the president's policy proposals is not being a racist. It is being an American. Such assertions by leaders of the Democratic Party are a pathetic attempt to shift attention away from the president's wildly unpopular government-run health care plan that the American people simply oppose. Injecting race into the debate over critical issues facing American families does not create jobs, reform our health care system or reduce the growing deficit. It only divides Americans rather than uniting us to find solutions to challenges facing our nation. This summer, Americans had an opportunity to witness the miracle of our political system. All over the country ordinary American men and women, concerned about the Democrats' policies coming out of Washington, took a stand and expressed their opposition. It was grassroots American political activism at its finest. Republicans, Democrats and Independents alike voiced their opinions in public forums to public officials. It was a shining example of how our Republic was designed to function. This activism has not faded with the summer sun. Last week Americans from all walks of life flooded Washington D.C. and continued their public opposition to President Obama's government-run experiments. As an African American, I know what racism is and that is not racism. Just like the millions of African Americans in this country who have fought and overcome on their way to the American dream, I have experienced racism firsthand. It is something you never forget. The civil rights movement helped to elevate the nation's conscience on matters of race. Proud Americans, black and white, fought for too long and too hard to have the claim of racism be used in such a cavalier fashion. Blind charges of racism, where none exist, not only are an affront to those who have suffered the effects of racism, but it weakens our efforts to address true acts of racism and makes them more difficult to overcome. It is becoming increasingly clear that some in the Democratic Party need a serious history lesson. Slavery was racist, Jim Crow laws were racist, segregation was racist - opposing a radical political agenda is not. Americans of all races and political mindsets applauded the election of America's first African American president; it was a proud moment for every American. But our pride in electing an African-American president does not override our right to disagree with President Obama's policies. It is obvious certain politicians are attempting to exploit racial anger to make up for their own policy failings. Americans have an obligation to stand up for what they believe in and that is exactly what they are doing. As a whole, Americans are exercising their First Amendment rights and are rejecting President Obama's massive government-run experiments. They want common sense reforms and economic security. These principles are not found in the Democrats' health care plans. The Democrats' health care plan is the antithesis of these ideals. President Obama's campaign promised to move America beyond the bitter divides of yesterday. But for leaders of the Democrat Party to characterize Americans' disapproval of the president's policies as being based on race is an outrage and troubling sign about the lengths Democrats will go to disparage all who disagree with them. Playing the race card shows that Democrats are willing to deal from the bottom of the deck. Our political system has no place for this. President Obama should join me in calling for an end to these attacks by members of his party and a renewal of honest debate. __________________ Jimmy Carter and the Elvis Factor By Larry Elder    The former President is not content having left office with high inflation, high interest rates and high unemployment. Nor is he content with having signed into law the Community Reinvestment Act -- strengthened by President Bill Clinton -- which played a major roll in the eventual housing market meltdown. Nor is he content with having cut the legs from under the Shah of Iran, which led to the establishment of the Islamic theocracy in Iran -- a state that pursues a nuclear weapon, funds the terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah, and continues to undermine the fledgling democracy of Iraq. Nor is he content -- as ex-President -- with writing a book in which he likened the state of Israel and its treatment of the Palestinians to South Africa under apartheid. Now the former President claims the opposition to President Obama in general -- and his attempt at "health care reform" in particular -- stems from ... "racism"! "I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African-American," Carter said in an NBC interview. "Racism ... still exists, and I think it's bubbled up to the surface because of a belief among many white people, not just in the South but around the country, that African-Americans are not qualified to lead this great country." That same day, during a town hall meeting at his presidential center in Atlanta, Carter also called Rep. Joe Wilson's "you lie!" outburst -- shouted at Obama during his health care address to Congress -- racist. "I think it's based on racism," Carter said. "There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president." Let's analyze this. The President overwhelmingly carried "the black vote." Recently, California voters changed the state's constitution to abolish same-sex marriage. Obama publicly opposed this change. Yet opposition to same-sex marriage by black voters -- the very ones who voted for the President -- helped to strike down same-sex marriage. Black voters differentiated their general support for the President from their opposition to him on the issue of same-sex marriage. Similarly, most Republicans who voted against the President in November 2008 support his decision to increase our troop commitment in Afghanistan. Republicans, not unlike the black voters in California, differentiated their opposition to the election of the President from their support for his decision on an issue -- the war against Islamofascists in Afghanistan -- with which they agree. In 2000, many Republicans urged a black man, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell, to run for president. If Powell had chosen to pursue it and had secured the Republican Party's nomination, he could well have become the country's first black president -- with broad GOP support. In 2006, a black man, then-Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, ran for U.S. Senate as a Republican. Then-Sen. Barack Obama campaigned against him and in favor of his white Democratic opponent. Obama told an audience at the historically black Bowie State University: "Listen, I think it's great that the Republican Party has discovered black people. But here's the thing. ... You don't vote for somebody because of what they look like. You vote for somebody because of what they stand for." Did this make Obama a "racist" against his own people by opposing a fellow black? Mr. Carter, please ponder the following question. Why, in 1993, did "racist" conservatives oppose President Clinton's attempt at government seizure of health care? Clinton, remember, was -- and remains -- white. Do some Americans oppose the President because of his race? Yes, 3 percent. Back in 1958, only 35 percent of whites said they would vote for a black president. By 2006, a mere 3 percent of all voters said they would not vote for a black president. Call it the "Elvis Factor." A local branch of the Anti-Defamation League, a few years ago, invited me to speak. Before my speech, the head of the organization addressed the audience and gave them the results of the latest poll on American anti-Semitism. Good news, he said, anti-Semitism stood at a historical low -- 12 percent. Before I began my prepared remarks, I commented on the poll results. "Yes," I said, "this is good news that anti-Semitism has declined to its lowest point. But don't expect that number to get much lower. A recent poll found that 10 percent of Americans believe Elvis Presley is still alive, and 8 percent believe that if you send him a letter -- he will get it." The audience laughed. But there was a serious point. The notion that we can reach a sort of non-racist, non-sexist, non-homophobic nirvana is romantic, unrealistic and nonsensical. Wing nuts will, unfortunately, always be with us. It is, however, even more unfortunate that a former President of the United States sits among them.

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OBAMA – A CHARMING LIAR? By Frances Rice President Barack Obama is a charming liar.  That assertion was made by a liberal talk show host on Air America, a far left-wing radio station.  Where is the caterwauling about racism or a lack of "civility" from Democrats and liberals in the mainstream media or else where.  When ardent Obama supporters start calling him a liar, it's a sure sign that the wool has been pulled off of the Obama wolf. In a laughable attempt to keep the Obama fig leaf of truthfulness in place, Democrats and their media allies are now castigating Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina for spontaneously and truthfully calling Obama a liar during Obama's address to a joint session of Congress.  There was no such hand wringing when Democrats booed President George W. Bush when he addressed Congress.  Ignored is the fact that Obama during his speech trashed as liars average Americans, Republican leaders and all who do not agree with Obama's radical government-run, rationed health care agenda.  Lost in the media coverage is the fact that laughter erupted in Congress during Obama's speech when he readily admitted that details of his healthcare plan still need to be worked out.  Sadly, Obama's duplicitous speech was an insulting campaign ploy to further deceive Americans and divide our nation. From the moment he stepped onto the national stage to campaign for the presidency, Obama has consistently lied to the American people in order to convince us to trust him with our economic and national security.  Since becoming our president, he has betrayed that trust. During his first eight months in office, Obama has exhibited his admiration for dictators and disdain for our allies.  He offended the Queen of England and bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia.  He praised the Marxist Daniel Ortega, kissed Socialist Hugo Chavez on the cheek and endorsed the Socialist Evo Morales of Bolivia.  He sided with Hugo Chavez and Communist Fidel Castro against Honduras, a country that followed its constitution and stopped its president from illegally turning himself into that country's dictator.  Obama announced that he would meet with Iranians with no pre-conditions, while they're building their nuclear weapons. Obama displayed a blatant lack of concern for what is in the best interest of America when he circled the globe and publicly apologized for America's world leadership.  He told the Mexican president that Americans are responsible for the violence in Mexico.  He announced a cut in funding for our new missile defense system the day after an ICBM was launched by North Korea.  He released information on U.S. intelligence gathering despite contrary urgings of his own CIA director and the four prior CIA directors.  He ordered that the word "terrorism" be stricken from our discourse and replaced with the innocuous words "man made disasters."  He appointed a Homeland Security Chief who identified military veterans and abortion opponents as "dangers to the nation."  In a scary bid to increase the political power of the Democratic Party, Obama politicized the census by moving it out of the Department of Commerce and into the White House. His dogged determination to turn our country into a failed socialist nation was in full evidence when Obama nationalized General Motors and Chrysler.  He gave to the unions control over the two giant automobile manufacturers, while freezing out retired investors and allocating billions of taxpayer dollars to this socialist power grab.  As a further slap in our economic face, he expanded the corporate bailouts, including giving billions to AIG without pre-conditions.  Then, to add insult to injury, Obama doubled our national debt with his out-of-control spending. Obama is spending so brazenly because he is counting on Americans being lulled into complacency by the time of the 2010 elections.  By design, the bulk of the "stimulus" funds will be spent, just in time, to spur a false recovery.  The "recovery" will be hailed as proof of Obama's wisdom by the liberal media.  It will not matter that the so-called recovery will not be real, or that it won't last – as long as Obama and liberal Democrats stay in control of our government. Demonstrating his willingness to operate without regard for our laws, Obama fired two inspector generals (IG's) who were investigating illegal activities by Obama cronies.  Obama fired the IG's even though, by law, inspector generals are authorized to conduct investigations without interference from government officials.  Blatantly, Obama refused to prosecute Black Panthers caught on video intimidating voters at a polling place in Philadelphia during the 2008 election.  Further, Obama filled his cabinet with five people who have cheated on their taxes, and two of his other nominees withdrew after they were exposed as tax cheats. The lack of any check on Obama's power, due to a veto-proof Democrat-controlled Congress and a lap dog liberal media, has caused Obama to boldly assert his radical agenda and surround himself with a stable of over 30 advisors called "Czars".  These unaccountable Obama-appointees are beholden only to Obama.  They are not unanswerable to Congress or the American people, as was intended by our Constitution which requires congressional confirmation hearings and oversight of  political appointees.  Among those Czars are Communists, Marxists and other characters with troubling backgrounds and questionable credentials who should not be allowed anywhere near the White House.  Gone is media outrage over abuse of power or an imperial presidency, as well as any angst about the shredding of our Constitution. Truly disturbing is White House advisor Mark Lloyd, the "Diversity" Czar at the FCC, who was inspired by Marxist Saul Alinsky.  He is pushing a "confrontational movement" designed to give a dominant role to public broadcasting and silence voices in alternative and conservative media outlets. Most troubling of Obama's unaccountable appointees is the recently resigned "Green Job" Czar Van Jones, a self-described Communist.  Van Jones indicated his belief that America deserved to be attacked on September 11th and signed a petition that claimed the attacks were orchestrated by our own government.  He stated in a video that white environmentalists deliberately steer poisons into minority communities.  Just as chilling is Jones' desire to destroy our free enterprise system and replace it with Marxist-inspired socialism.  Van Jones made it into the White House because Obama shares Jones' radical views, as is demonstrated by Obama's past associations with Marxists and anti-American characters, such as unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers and black theologian Rev. Jeremiah Wright who spewed out anti-America rhetoric. The Marxism embraced by Lloyd, Jones and Obama is anchored on the strong-armed tactics of tyrants.  A prime ploy is scapegoating the rich and all "enemies" of the ruling regime.  The latest Obama administration's "enemy" is the insurance industry. Other Marxist methods include controlling the media, exploiting ethnic hatreds and demonizing the opposition, as has been done to average Americans protesting Obama's disastrous public option, rationed-health care scheme.  Obama and his supporters scoffed at parents and called them racist for not wanting their children indoctrinated by Obama with his K-12 speech.  Obama's talking about the value of education was not the problem.  What rankled citizens was the lesson plan from the Department of Education – before it was changed under pressure from the public – that required children to write papers about how to help Obama achieve his radical agenda. The article "Another Failed Presidency" by Geoffrey P. Hunt explains how and why Obama considers himself to be a Third World Socialist, like his Kenyan biological father, the inspiration for Obama's book "Dreams From My Father".  Hunt opines that Obama's determined adherence to failed socialism is why he is on track to have the most spectacularly failed presidency since Woodrow Wilson. Charles Krauthammer in his article "Obama, the Mortal" recounts how Obama in his first address to Congress gave the boldest social democratic manifesto ever issued by a U.S. president.  Krauthammer demonstrates how Obama is laboring under the mistaken belief that his election imbued him with the kind of "banana-republic plebiscite" to enlarge state power and increase our national debt with massive spending.  Obama's actions to implement his socialist vision for America inspired a powerful outburst of public outrage at tea parties and town hall meetings, legitimate anger that Obama and his minions derided as mob-like and "racist".  Krauthammer points out that while Obama was castigating protesting Americans, Obama's administration was "cutting backroom deals with every manner of special interest – from drug companies to auto unions to doctors – in which favors worth billions were quietly and opaquely exchanged".  "The Death Book for Veterans - Ex-soldiers don't need to be told they're a burden to society" by Jim Towey provides a chilling look into how government bureaucrats at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are using cost containment analysis to systematically deny health care to our veterans.  ObamaCare will put our entire nation on the slippery slope to the "death panel" end-of-life decisions being made now at the VA. Author Larry Elder wrote the following on the Patriot Post blog. "What does it take for some to wake up?  When Obama publicly asserts that some corporations, including 'Big Oil' and medical insurance companies, make 'obscene profits' (they don't compared with many other industries) and that his 'compensation czar' will look into executive compensation, what does that tell you? "When he argues that medical insurance companies need a 'public option' (before public opinion forced him to back away from it) to keep them 'honest,' what does that say? "When he arrogantly claims that fighting 'global warming' and tackling the 'health care crisis' are not just moral imperatives but also necessary to keep our economy robust (?!), what does that show? "Voters last year elected a left-wing former 'community organizer' with one of the Senate's most liberal voting records.  He seeks to take the country -- over the growing resistance of even those who voted for him -- to an idealized world of government-guaranteed equality of outcomes. "He wants a government-guaranteed 'level playing field' of wealth redistribution via taxing those deemed to have too much. "Obama's goals are open, blatant and confidently asserted, backed by a filibuster-proof, supermajority, Democratic-controlled Congress. "There is no Big Secret, no subterfuge, no bait-and-switch.  This is who and what he is." Larry Elder is correct.  During the 2008 election the liberal media helped Obama hide who he really is from the voting public.  Then, when Obama took the oath of office as president, he vowed to protect and defend our Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.  We now find that Obama and his appointed Czars have formed a sinister, shadowy government of domestic enemies against whom we have no defense. Obama's ultimate insult is that he has no remorse. Frances Rice, a retired lawyer and Army Lieutenant Colonel, is chairman of the National Black Republican Association and may be contacted at: www.NBRA.info

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NBRA NEWS: FEET TO THE FIRE VIDEO, A MUST SEE FEET TO THE FIRE VIDEO - Don't miss seeing our new NBRA video featuring the song "Feet to the Fire" by Lloyd Marcus that is posted on our website and YouTube. NBRA BLOG - Linked on our website is our NBRA Black Republican blog that includes our current and past articles that you may have missed.  We had over 5 million hits on our website in 2008 alone, and our blog site is also becoming very popular. NFRW CONVENTION - For those who will be in Florida during September, please note that NBRA Chairman Frances Rice will be a guest speaker at the National Federation of Republican Women's 35th Biennial Convention that will be held from September 10-13, 2009 in Orlando, Florida.  She will speak at 12:00 Noon on Sunday, September 13th during the NFRW's Awards Luncheon that will be held at the Caribe Royale Hotel & Convention Center.  Among the other confirmed speakers for the four-day convention are Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, Motivational Speaker Mason Weaver and Angela McGlowan, founder and CEO of Political Strategies & Insights.  For additional information visit the NFRW's website. CELEBRATING THE LINCOLN BICENTENNIAL – The NBRA is paying tribute to the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial during 2009.   We encourage you to join in the celebration and plan bicentennial activities to honor the legacy of President Abraham Lincoln, our great Republican President.  To obtain information and materials for your Lincoln Bicentennial activities, contact Randy Wiseman, elementary education coordinator with the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois at:  Randy.Wiseman@illinois.gov Wayne Perryman, author of the book "Unfounded Loyalty" designed a marvelous poster for President Lincoln, using a portrait of Lincoln drawn by an 18 year old young lady from Longview, Washington.  The poster honors Lincoln and sets the record straight regarding his relationship with black Americans, reminding all Americans of the tremendous contribution that he made to the world at-large by re-uniting our country.  The Curator of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has added the poster to their permanent collection. NBRA EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN DONATIONS – We need your help.  All who wish to help put up our "Martin Luther King was a Republican" billboards around the country are encouraged to please send a donation by check or money order made payable to:  NBRA and send to:  5824 Bee Ridge Road, #419, Sarasota, FL  34233.  We are also partnering with groups of college and young Republicans, assisting them with their campaigns to educate young people about the core values of the Republican Party and the true history of civil rights.  Our effort includes purchasing copies of Perryman's poster for use in our NBRA educational campaign.  Thank you in advance for your contribution. THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S CULTURE OF CORRUPTION – Author Michele Malkin's new book "Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies" is a New York Times Bestseller.  If you want to gain an inside look into just how corrupt is the Obama Administration, this is a must read. It is available on the Internet website for Barnes & Noble.   www.NBRA.Info

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DEMOCRATS – WHY ALL THE NAZI RHETORIC? By Frances Rice "NYTimes: Obama's Economic Ideas Great... Just Like Hitler's Were?" by Warner Todd Huston provides an analysis of the stunning comparison of President Barack Obama to Adolph Hitler made by David Leonhardt in "The New York Times" which is owned by a Jewish family. Huston's article can be found on the Internet at: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2009/04/03/nytimes-obamas-economic-ideas-great-just-hitlers-were .  Leonhardt's article "Times Topics: Economic Stimulus" is on the Internet at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/business/economy/01leonhardt.html?_r=4&ref=business In his article, Huston expresses amazement over two equally astonishing facts. First, Leonhardt's admission that Obama is just like Hitler, and second, Leonhardt didn't mean it as an insult. Leonhardt, Huston points out, was saying that it was a good thing that, in an economic sense, Obama was being like Hitler. Huston explains how Leonhardt encourages Americans to ignore World War II and the Holocaust and just focus on how Hitler's polices were good for Germany because Hitler, in essence, made the trains run on time. With a level of hubris reserved only for Democrats, Leonhardt wrote approvingly about how Obama is emulating Hitler's economic policies with massive "stimulus" spending and the take over of private industry. Obama, incredibly, provided credence to Leonhardt's assessment of Obama as being Hitler-like when, with a straight face, Obama looked Americans straight in the eye during his New Hampshire town hall meeting and declared that he has never favored a single-payer health insurance plan. Yet, there is a video of Obama stating, unequivocally, that he does favor a single-payer health insurance plan. That video can be found on the Internet at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpAyan1fXCE . Just as deceptive was Obama's declaration that Senator Johnny Isakson of Georgia was the author of the "end-of-life" language, but Isakson later publicly stated that he had nothing to do with the Democrat-devised legislation. Democrats expressed no outrage over Lenohardt's favorable comparison of Obama to Hitler. Yet, Democrats reflexively use Hitler references to denigrate average Americans who oppose Obama's government-run health care scheme. The reason Americans do not what ObamaCare are clearly explained in a video by the Cato Institute on the Internet at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-1ZfFBMf8s . Details about ObamaCare can be found in the article "Physicians speak out on health care bill - Many say the costly plan won't fix problems" by Cindy Horswell on the Internet at: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6563705.html . The Democrat's 1,000-page health care scheme would: Restrict the enrollment of people with special needs (page 354) Decide what level of "end-of-life" treatment you receive, according to a pre-determined government-mandated schedule managed by a government "death" panel (page 430) Build government databases which include your private, personal medical history (page 503) Work to systematically "increase birth intervals between pregnancies," opening the very real possibility of forced, tax-payer funded abortions (page 768) Have the federal government serve as the final, ultimate authority on which health care conditions will be treated, dramatically increasing the likelihood of rationing (page 800). Average Americans are alarmed by the $1 trillion increase in entitlement spending. They are incensed by the failure by Democrats to explain legislation that would cause 119 million people to lose their private health care insurance and socialize 17 percent of the economy, while leaving 36 million Americans uninsured. Americans understand that what is truly "un-American" is the very idea that 300 million Americans should place their personal health care decisions in the hands of a Democrat-controlled Congress. Seniors are opposed to the $500 billion cut in medicare and the Government having the right to decide if health care for seniors is worth the cost. Those seniors exercising their freedom of speech at town hall meetings are accused by Democrats of being the kind of people, according to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who go around "carrying swastikas." Closer to the truth is Leonhardt's analysis of Obama's socialist actions, since the word "Nazi" is an acronym for National German Socialist Workers' Party. In his article "Obama's Authoritarian Style" found on the Internet at:  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204251404574341111401651266.html   James Taranto writes about how one of Obama's special assistants urged supporters on the White House Web site of ObamaCare to report dissent: "If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov ". If ever there was an example of a totalitarian tactic and an assault on our civil liberties, that White House website is it. Texas Sen. John Cornyn accused the White House of compiling an "enemies list" and asked Obama to halt the collection of information on Americans who are merely exercising their constitutional right to seek from the Government a redress of grievances. A video of Sen. Cornyn can be found on the Internet at:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QLpErbWGLA  and an article at:  http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/state/stories/DN-cornynflag_06nat.ART.State.Edition1.4bb4d44.html Part of the Democrats' orchestrated effort to silence opposition includes accusing protestors of being "un-American" and an "angry mob". An even more troubling aspect is the deployment of union thugs to intimidate and attack protestors. Goons from the SEIU (Service Employees International Union) physically assaulted a black Conservative, Kenneth Gladney, who was handing out "Don't Tread on Me" flags after a town hall meeting in Missouri. According to "The St. Louis Post-Dispatch", six people were arrested by the St. Louis County police after the Gladney beating -- two on suspicion of assault, one for resisting arrest and three on suspicion of committing peace disturbances. There was no media uproar over the racial slurs, including calling him the "N-word", hurled at Gladney by the angry mob of liberal Democrats. Thuggish Democrats stomped Gladney, time and again, sending him to the emergency room of the St. John's Mercy Medical Center, where he was treated for injuries to his knee, back, elbow, shoulder and face. The video of the Gladney beating can be found on the Internet at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqpfU_AC7Ls . An interview of Gladney is on the Internet at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgjMF3y1ytQ&feature=related The assault on Gladney calls to mind the fact that during the 1960's, Democrats physically attacked Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a Republican, and bombed his home several times because he dared to protest peacefully against the Democrats who were denying civil rights to blacks. Democrat Public Safety Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Conner in Alabama let loose vicious dogs and turned skin-burning fire hoses on black civil rights protestors. In March of 1968, while referring to Dr. King's leaving Memphis, Tennessee after riots broke out where a teenager was killed, Democrat Senator Robert Byrd, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, called Dr. King a "trouble-maker" who starts trouble, but runs like a coward after trouble is ignited. A few weeks later, Dr. King returned to Memphis and was assassinated on April 4, 1968. For more details, see the article "Democrats Smeared MLK in the 1960's" at: http://cache.trustedpartner.com/docs/library/NationalBlackRepublicanAssociation2009/Democrats%20Smeared%20MLK%20in%20the%201960's.pdf "You Are Terrifying Us - Voters send a message to Washington, and get an ugly response" by Peggy Noonan shows how attacking American citizens is a desperate move by Democrats. That article is on the Internet at: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204908604574334623330098540.html When President George W. Bush was in office, Democrats and their leftist groups, such as ACORN, ANSWER, Code Pink, USAction and MoveOn.Org, are famous for declaring that "dissent is the highest form of patriotism" as is demonstrated by Glenn Harlan Reynolds in his article "Remember when protest was patriotic?" which is on the Internet at: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Sunday_Reflections/Remember-when-protest-was-patriotic-52767517.html Hypocritically, when left-wing groups protest, Democrats call it "community organizing," but when conservative groups protest, Democrats call it phony "astroturfing", that is conservative protestors are fake grassroots, just like astroturf is fake grass. Obama encouraged leftist groups to "argue with neighbors and get in their face", and that video showing Obama is urging his supporters to act like an angry mob is on the Internet at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCMDur9CDZ4 . Even more chilling is the video of Obama stating his intention to set up a civilian national security force that is on the Internet at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwaAVJITx1Y&feature=related "Mr. President, Americans are not an 'angry mob'" is an Washington Examiner editorial which shows how the Obama Administration is turning America into a country that is at war with its own people and can be found on the Internet at: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Mr_-President_-Americans-are-not-an-_angry-mob_-8076144-52674832.html "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." – George Orwell The truth about how Americans gave of their lives and treasure to gain freedom for ourselves and others around the globe was not learned by Obama at the feet of his childhood mentor and avowed communist, Frank Marshall Davis, nor in college where Obama was taught by Marxist professors, nor in the church of his anti-American pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Obama's failure to understand that Americans are freedom-loving people is the reason he is blind to the depth of opposition to the universal, single-payer health care scheme that will result in expanded government and a loss of freedom. "When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." – Thomas Jefferson In The Declaration of Independence, our founders wrote: "In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." Showing his passion for freedom on March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry spoke on behalf of all who love liberty. "They tell us, sir, that we are weak -- unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance, by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? "Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of the means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. "The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable -- and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! "It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, "Peace! Peace!" -- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" – Patrick Henry Frances Rice is a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel and Chairman of the National Black Republican Association. 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IS OBAMA A RACIST? By Frances Rice How do we decide who is a racist?  The dictionary tells us a racist harbors feelings of antagonism and superiority based on biological differences, such as skin color.   So, what demonstrates that President Barack Obama harbors such feelings toward white people? Glimpses of Obama's mindset can be obtained from reading his two books, "The Audacity of Hope" and "Dreams from My Father" where Obama describes his animosity toward white people. In "Dreams from My Father" Obama wrote:  "I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race."  This book also contains an explanation of why Obama joined and remained for 20 years in Trinity United Church of Christ, the church of black liberation theologian Rev. Jeremiah Wright who preached hatred against whites.  Obama wrote: "It came about as a choice and not an epiphany".  The core of black liberation theology is black separatism, a movement that, for more than a century, has been opposed to racial integration.  Equally troubling is Obama's church giving a lifetime award to one of our nation's most racist men, Louis Farrakhan. Obama's belief system on race was on full display during the 2008 campaign when, on a Philadelphia radio sports program, he described his grandmother as a "typical white person" who fears blacks. From the roots of Obama's enmity toward white people sprang his gratuitous attack on Cambridge Police Sergeant James Crowley.  Obama declared that the sergeant "acted stupidly" while doing his duty, when all Obama knew, admittedly, was that the sergeant was white and the person arrested, Obama's friend Harvard Processor Henry Gates, was black.  Without bothering to learn the facts, Obama used the power of his position as President of the United States to demonize an American citizen because of his race.  Details of the arrest are in the article "Obama Plays the Race Card" by Ronald Kessler that is on the Internet at: http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/obama_race_gates/2009/07/23/239408.html A video featuring the testimonial of two black officers in support of Sergeant Crowley, including the comments of Officer Kelly King who states that she supported and voted for Obama, but would not vote for him again, is posted on YouTube at:  http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2009/07/26/nr.comrade.in.arms.cnn Obama, in his rush to judgment, ignored pertinent facts, such as one of the arresting officers is black, the Cambridge Mayor is black and the Massachusetts Governor is black.  From his lofty perch as the leader of the free world, Obama focused like a laser beam on the skin color of one man and engaged in grievance mongering about "racial profiling," a charge that hampers law enforcement in black communities and was not even a factor in the Cambridge case.  In an instant, Obama abandoned any pretense of being "post racial" and, before our very eyes, was transformed into our "race-baiter-in-chief". How ironic that the wrongs against blacks that are the genesis of Obama's racial hostility were committed by the whites who supported the racist agenda of the Democratic Party (not that many years ago), the party Obama now heads.  During his research, author Wayne Perryman uncovered documents which reveal that the Democratic Party was once proudly called the "Party of White Supremacy".  According to Perryman, Democratic Party campaign posters issued from 1868 to the early 1900's declared: "This is a white man's country - let the white man rule".   Perryman further pointed out that Democratic Senator Ben Tillman in 1909 said: "We reorganized the Democratic Party with one plank and only one plank, namely, that this is a white man's country and the white men must govern it." Today, Obama is changing the Democratic Party into a party with the sinister premise that America is a black man's country and the black men must govern it.  Perhaps this is why Obama refused to prosecute Black Panthers who wielded weapons, hurled racial insults at voters and blocked the entrance at a Philadelphia polling place during the 2008 Election.  "Protecting Black Panthers" is an editorial by "The Washington Times" that reveals how Jerry Jackson, one of the Black Panther defendants, is an elected member of Philadelphia's 14th Ward Democratic Committee and was a credentialed poll watcher for Obama and the Democratic Party.  That article can be found on the Internet at: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/29/protecting-black-panthers/ The intimidation tactics by Black Panthers are a chilling reminder about how the Democrats not long ago used the Ku Klux Klan, the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party, to intimidate and terrorize Republican voters, black and white.  Democratic Party racism is precisely what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a Republican, was fighting against.  In Obama's world, the civil rights accomplishments of Dr. King have been abandoned, and we are now encouraged to judge people by the color of their skin, not the content of their character.  An analysis of Obama's embracement of racial bigotry is provided in the article "How Our Post-Racial President Uses Race Card As Both Sword And Shield" by Larry Elder and is on the Internet at: http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=483546 The article "A Post-Racial President?" by Thomas Sowell reveals in stark relief how destructive to our national fiber is Obama's racial politics and can be found on the Internet at: http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/07/28/a_post-racial_president?page=full&comments=true Frances Rice is a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel, a lawyer and chairman of the National Black Republican Association.  She can be contacted at: www.NBRA.info _______________________ A Post-Racial President? By Thomas Sowell Many people hoped that the election of a black President of the United States would mark our entering a "post-racial" era, when we could finally put some ugly aspects of our history behind us. That is quite understandable. But it takes two to tango. Those of us who want to see racism on its way out need to realize that others benefit greatly from crying racism. They benefit politically, financially, and socially. Barack Obama has been allied with such people for decades. He found it expedient to appeal to a wider electorate as a post-racial candidate, just as he has found it expedient to say a lot of other popular things-- about campaign finance, about transparency in government, about not rushing legislation through Congress without having it first posted on the Internet long enough to be studied-- all of which turned to be the direct opposite of what he actually did after getting elected. Those who were shocked at President Obama's cheap shot at the Cambridge police for being "stupid" in arresting Henry Louis Gates must have been among those who let their wishes prevail over the obvious implications of Obama's 20 years of association with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Anyone who can believe that Obama did not understand what the racist rants of Jeremiah Wright meant can believe anything. With race-- as with campaign finance, transparency and the rest-- Barack Obama knows what the public wants to hear and that is what he has said. But his policies as president have been the opposite of his rhetoric, with race as with other issues. As a state senator in Illinois, Obama pushed the "racial profiling" issue, so it is hardly surprising that he jumped to the conclusion that a policeman was racial profiling when in fact the cop was investigating a report received from a neighbor that someone seemed to be breaking into the house that Professor Gates was renting in Cambridge. For those who are interested in facts-- and these obviously do not include President Obama-- there has been a serious study of racial profiling in a book titled "Are Cops Racist?" by Heather Mac Donald. Her analysis of the data shows how this issue has long been distorted beyond recognition by politics. The racial profiling issue is a great vote-getter. And if it polarizes the society, that is a price that politicians are willing to pay in order to get votes. Academics who run black studies departments, as Professor Henry Louis Gates does, likewise have a vested interest in racial paranoia. For "community organizers" as well, racial resentments are a stock in trade. President Obama's background as a community organizer has received far too little attention, though it should have been a high-alert warning that this was no post-racial figure.  What does a community organizer do? What he does not do is organize a community. What he organizes are the resentments and paranoia within a community, directing those feelings against other communities, from whom either benefits or revenge are to be gotten, using whatever rhetoric or tactics will accomplish that purpose. To think that someone who has spent years promoting grievance and polarization was going to bring us all together as president is a triumph of wishful thinking over reality. Not only Barack Obama's past, but his present, tell the same story. His appointment of an attorney general who called America "a nation of cowards" for not dialoguing about race was a foretaste of what to expect from Eric Holder. The way Attorney General Holder has refused to prosecute young black thugs who gathered at a voting site with menacing clubs, in blatant violation of federal laws against intimidating voters, speaks louder than any words from him or his president. President Obama's first nominee to the Supreme Court is, like Obama himself, someone with a background of years of affiliation with an organization dedicated to promoting racial resentments and a sense of racial entitlement. An 18th century philosopher said, "When I speak I put on a mask. When I act I am forced to take it off." Barack Obama's mask slipped for a moment last week but he quickly recovered, with the help of the media. But we should never forget what we saw. Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute and author of "The Housing Boom and Bust".

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