Every culture has scapegoat group, and in USA blacks are "it." Given the disasterous results of USA policies under clinton and bush, it was useful to the powers that be to run Obama as president, and those whose premise was "race matters, ideas don't" got Obama elected. Chris Rock joked George Bush made it so no white man could ever get elected president again. I am afraid when the blame Obama project is finished, no black person will ever get elected again. We will remain "race matters, ideas do not."
Now comes a neocon publisher with a series of books specifically naming and blaming Obama for America's problems, capitalizing on and promoting the blame obama movement. There are seven titles so far, such as "How the Obama Administration Has Politicized Justice." The title is so tendentiously stated one may forget that George Bush fired a half dozen US Attorneys around the United States for pursuing republican election fraud and other political matters. We are to believe the problem started with the black guy. Nonetheless, the amazon sales rank for this book currently is 33,000 overall (it changes hourly) which means it sells perhaps a dozen copies a day on amazon. It's rank among those who are interested in government is 42. The titles take the most pressing bush/clinton policy disasters and blame them on Obama. Check out the whole range here. which I first saw at the San Francisco airport.
Let's update google search results for the terms blame bush and blame obama:
Blame bush: 5,600,000 hits
blame obama: 23,300,000 hits
Bear in mind Bush was in office 8 years (count 12 if you assume the term Bush will include his fathers 4 yeas in office.) Obama has been in office one year. Whole lotta blaming going on.
A funny title is Obama's Betrayal of Israel, as though the necons never criticized bush or clinton for the same. And never mind that Obama;s Chief of Staff, the gatekeeper to the President, Rahm Emmanuel, is an Israeli Defense Forces officer.
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