By Ed Kaitz,Real Clear Politics
Obama likes to dance around on all sides of the issues
Barack Obama ran for office as a unifier,but it was all a hustle. His brand of politics needs enemies. Like southern slave owners of old,today’s conservative Republicans represent the enemy to be vanquished by enlightened progressives from the north. This is an old storyline that provides unlimited nourishment to America’s liberal elites. Many of us,especially those of us who work in education,have long seen this coming.
In the early stages of the diversity movement for example it didn’t take long to realize who was and was not included on the ubiquitous rainbow flag. “Diversity”was simply a codeword for a concerted attack on conservative,white,European traditions. The champions of diversity on college campuses rarely had any familiarity with other languages and cultures;rather,they defined themselves simply by their opposition to their white oppressors. For example,thinkers from Confucius to Adam Smith were curiously absent from diversity’s suggested reading list,while Marx and Engels seemed to always make the cut.