WHO IS AFRAID OF BARRACK OBAMA?

WHO IS AFRAID OF BARRACK OBAMA?
The election of the first black president of the United States of America was a watershed nobody saw coming, not even Dr. Martin Luther King in all his prophetic gifting could be certain with timing. King only had a dream, but most Americans, for obvious reasons thought it was with a pipe. Prior to 2004, Barrack Obama was an unknown quantity; an innocuous figure. The name rang no bell. But the Democratic Party convention in 2004 changed all that. As a keynote speaker, Barry, as he was fondly called was masterful, oratory, and charismatic. Americans rose in salute of the dawn of a new era, an era that might erase past errors; errors of bigotry, racism, classism, and cronyism.
When Barrack joined the presidential fray, he stood no chance at all. There were prominent men with white legacy. There was Hilary Clinton, wife of former president Bill, and the crown princess of the Democratic Party. Bill Clinton was a political colossus who was in firm grip of the party structure at all levels. It was rumored that President Clinton saw the party’s presidential nomination as an opportunity to placate his wife for his past sins. As the son of a Kenyan immigrant, and raised by a single mom, Obama posed no threat. In a presidential lineup as we had it then, Obama was only qualified to serve coffee, and wait on the rest of the guys to fetch their cups. Bill Clinton reportedly alluded to this in a secret conversation with late Ted Kennedy.
Against what could pass as insurmountable odds, Barrack was elected the first black president in a dramatic fashion, America and the world went agog with festivities. However, the euphoria was short-lived as some Americans could not handle seeing a black man in the White House. Then all hell went awry. No other president in the country’s history ever went through what Obama was subjected to. Suddenly the Republican Party saw the birth of a new constituent: bigots and racists component. Every member of the RNC of any significance sought to appease this constituency. It became patriotic to belittle the American president openly. Those who hackled him leverage that for campaign contribution. Guns were openly displayed at public functions, even functions the president was slated to attend. The possible assassination of the president was openly canvassed, pastor Huckabee even joked about it.
The healthcare reform debate opened the gate of hell. In a concerted effort to delegitimize the president, Republicans and their sympathizers unleashed flurries of attacks, and nothing was off limit. His family, his religion, his upbringing, his place of birth, everything and all things about the president were and are still subject of intense scrutiny, with the intention to trifle and misrepresent. However, the president has continued to wax stronger even in the face of annoying partisan hostility. Today, not a single prominent Republican has the moral fortitude to dispel the lies that President Obama was born everywhere but America. Their hesitation to do what is right makes for excellent politics because it opens the issue of the president’s birth place to conjecture. But what is baffling to many is that despite the talk of him being the anti-Christ, Adolf Hitler’s reincarnate, socialist, communist, Muslim, President Obama is still a formidable opponent come November 2012.
Perhaps, it is this reality that has driven the Republican presidential hopefuls to take the de-legitimization agenda to a new ridiculous level. Huckabee, for instance has said things about President Obama that have questioned his mental stability and moral courage to aspire to the highest office in the world: President of the United States. Within one week, Huckabee concocted incoherent tales about the upbringing of the president. First, he said he was born in Kenya and a sympathizer of the Mau Mau spirit. When that drew a media firestorm, he retracted that just as quickly, and in another breath, said the president grew up in Indonesia. And yet in another media appearance, the former presidential candidate and ordained Christian minister said president Obama grew up and hung out at the Madrasa (school in Arabic), while people like him (Huckabee) grew around the Boys Scout of America. You see, all these are renewed calculated attempt to create the impression amongst voters that the President of the United State is “not one of us”.
It is unbelievable the enormity of hatred the right has for the president, such that one would think would be just enough to defeat him in 2012. But the right is not relenting. The bigots and racists component of the Republican Party, with active but subterranean connivance of party big wigs and operative have now resurfaced the issue of the birth place of the president. As of now over eleven states are seriously contemplating legislations that would compel President Obama to prove he was really born in the United States. This is independent of the fact that the White House has long posted the president’s birth certificate in the Internet for all to see. The Republican Party has no interest in authenticating the certificate, because it does not make for good politicking. The party has just figured out that they have no credible opponent to run against the president, therefore, their only chance of electoral victory in 2012 is to discredit and disqualify him from seeking re-election in view if his “questionable birth place.”
The Republicans have never focused on the mother of the president who was a white woman, and traveled the world with him. Rather they are fixed on his African root, about a father that never loved him, or cared for him. The man left when Barrack was only 2. It is laughable that Americans who fought one of the bloodiest wars against British imperialists are the ones frowning over the fact the president had replaced the bust of Churchill with that of Abraham Lincoln. If the United States had fought tooth and nail to liberate the country from British imperial rule, and Barrack Obama in his personal capacity had shown vestiges of anti-imperial tendencies, while should the pot call the kettle black? But, you see, that is Barrack Obama, a black man in the White House, something must be wrong with such a scenario. How many Americans know anything about the Mau Mau revolution in Kenya? Not many, but who cares so far as it serves the Republican purpose of painting President Obama as angry, combative and foreign.