Obama’s Playing Us, Stupid – Inclusion

Obama knows the political power the black bible-thumping church plays in every major election, which is why he has gotten into this triangulation with LGBTQ voters and black Christian conservatives. H. Alexander Robinson, CEO of National Black Justice Coalition, said that Obama is “too inexperienced at playing at his level. He’s stubborn and he refuses to back off because he wants it both ways.”

You may think Obama’s charismatic Orwellian call for justice only creates a triangulation for LGBTQ voters but truth be told, Obama’s playing us all. “It’s a piece of rhetorical wizardry, this conjuring of hope from the grounds of despair, the oldest trick in the preacher’s book, but Wright [Obama’s pastor] carries it off with exhilarating command, and one sees immediately how much Obama has learned from him,” writer Jonathan Raban for “The Stranger” wrote in “The Church of Obama: How He Recast the Language of Black Liberation Theology into a Winning Creed for Middle-of-the-Road White Voters”