President Barack Hussein Obama pleaded with black voters on Saturday to regain the passion they felt for his unprecedented presidential campaign two years ago and turn out in force this fall to repel Republicans who are ready to “turn back the clock.”

In a Malcolm-esque speech to the Congressional Black Caucus, Chicken Little, errr, I mean Obama, warned that Republicans hoping to seize control of Congress want “to do what’s right politically, instead of what’s right — period.”

The King of the Teleprompter Obama said to cheers from a black-tie audience at the Washington Convention Center:

I need everybody here to go back to your neighborhoods, to go back to your workplaces, to go to the churches, and go to the barbershops and go to the beauty shops. And tell them we’ve got more work to do.  Tell them we can’t wait to organize. Tell them that the time for action is now.

This fiery piece of rhetoric was an acknowledgment of what pollsters have been warning Democrats for months:   that blacks are among the key Democratic groups who right now seem unlikely to turn out in large numbers in November.

Scooter tried to throw another log on the rhetorical fire:

It’s not surprising given the hardships that we’re seeing across the land that a lot of people may not be feeling very energized, very engaged right now.  A lot of folks may be feeling like politics is something that they get involved with every four years when there’s a presidential election, but they don’t see why they should bother the rest of the time.

But, Obama pleaded for more time, explaining that he’s just begun rolling back a devastating recession that’s come down “with a vengeance” on African-American neighborhoods that were already suffering:

We have to finish the plan you elected me to put in place. (Pretty please?)

In an attempt to force the audience to recall the joy many blacks felt at the election of the first African-American president, and borrowing the words of the late actor and activist Ossie Davis, he declared:

It’s not the man, it’s the plan.

Actually, Scooter, both are pretty weak.

Obama was given several standing ovations in the darkened cavernous Convention Center. Joining the pandered-to crowd: first lady Michelle Obama, dressed in a floor-length burgundy cocktail dress.

But as the hall got quiet, Obama tried a little race-baiting:

Remember, the other side has a plan too. It’s a plan to turn back the clock on every bit of progress we’ve made.

Obama did not have the courage to speak the name of the Republican party, but repeatedly referred to its policies.  However, he did name its House leader, Rep. John Boehner, a favorite target of Scooter and the Democratic Party lately.

Members of “the other side,” Obama said:

…want to take us backward. We want to move America forward.

To Socialism.

With polls showing the Democratic Party facing a wide “enthusiasm gap” with the Republican Party, the kid raised in an Indonesia private school and by his grandparents in Hawaii tried to appear down with the struggle.

What made the civil rights movement possible were foot soldiers like so many of you, sitting down at lunch counters and standing up for freedom. What made it possible for me to be here today are Americans throughout our history making our union more equal, making our union more just, making our union more perfect.  That’s what we need again.

The Black Congressional Caucus has its own problems.  The group is reeling from ethics charges against two leading members, Democratic Reps. Charles Rangel of New York and Maxine Waters of California.  Republicans are currently producing  TV ads spotlighting the cases, even though House trials have been postponed until after the November election.

Obama avoided mentioning either case in his 27-minute speech.

Obama has spent the last week in a concerted outreach to minority supporters, a traditional wellspring of Democratic strength, capped off by the caucus dinner at the Washington Convention Center last night.

The smell of desperation is in the air, isn’t it?

Do you remember back during the campaign when “the smartest people in the room” were promising us that Scooter would be the first post-racial president?

What happened?  Dr. Thomas Sowell, noted Black Economist, and one of the smartest people in America, explains:

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.

President Obama, apparently, has never learned the lesson taught to the young lad who got a kick out of crying WOLF! over and over again.  Eventually, people will ignore you and you will be devoured by your own game.