Our post-racial President, Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) spoke to the National Action Network, the Reverend Al Sharpton’s civil rights group, Wednesday in New York City.

Obama told his gathered admirers that he knew that there are times when people “lose hope” over whether national politics will ever change.

However, Obama stood by his miserable record of the first two years of his feckless presidency:

In America, we rise and fall together.

Boasting about his pet projects such as Obamacare, education, and the Food Police, the president asked the crowd to keep working with him:

We will build an America where the ideals of justice and equality and opportunity are alive and well. And we will reclaim the American dream in our time.

Translation: Share the wealth, Baby!

Obama also told the crowd that he was not out of touch:

I remember what it was like pumping gas.

Excuse me, Mr. President.  Do you have any Grey Poupon?

Last night, Obama was keeping a promise he made to return to speak to the group, after appearing as a presidential candidate in 2007.

Scooter told Reverend Al’s group that his administration has more work to do to create opportunities for all Americans and close gaps in education and employment rates between different groups.

Translation: As I said, share the wealth, Baby!

Obama told those assembled that, Americans of all types are struggling to make good. Obama then said that the black community faces higher unemployment than other groups. And he made the claim that the poorest in society had to sacrifice the most during the recession.

About Reverend Al’s National Action Network…

Per discoverthenetworks.org:

The National Action Network (NAN) was established in New York City in 1991 by Al Sharpton (its founder and president) and a group of activists who were “committed to the principles of non-violent direct action and civil disobedience.” NAN was formally incorporated as a not-for-profit 501(c)(4) organization on April 4, 1994 — a date chosen for its significance as the anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1968 assassination; NAN’s founders saw themselves as “the keepers of the dream that Dr. King lived and died for.” The organization’s first national headquarters were situated in the heart of “Black Brooklyn”; in 1995 they were relocated permanently to Harlem. Today NAN consists of more than 40 chapters and thousands of members nationwide.

Viewing the United States as a nation rife with racism and discrimination against black people, NAN seeks to promote “the complete liberation of African-Americans from all injustices visited upon them as such so that they may receive ultimate recognition as free and equal members of the human community.” Toward that end, the organization is “vigilant and vigorous in fighting any discrimination based on the color of a person’s skin,” and works “for the passage of laws ensuring equal treatment … of all persons.” The motto of NAN’s “fight for social justice” is: “No justice, no peace.”

…NAN boasts with particular pride of having “spearheaded” the “historic Redeem the Dream March against police brutality and racial profiling.” Held in Washington, DC in August 2000, this event commemorated the 37th anniversary of the famous “I Have A Dream” speech which Martin Luther King, Jr. had delivered in that same city. At the NAN event, which was co-sponsored by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, one of the the featured speakers was Malik Zulu Shabazz. During his talk, Shabazz called on black young people, including “gang members,” to unite against their “common enemy” – i.e., “white America” and its allegedly racist police departments. He also articulated a “black dream that when we see caskets rolling in the black community … we will see caskets and funerals in the community of our enemy as well.”

Post-racial…yeah, right.

Earlier in the day , Scooter was trying to gin up excitement for American (Green) energy independence in Pennsylvania. Obama complained about how tough it’s going to be to get away from America’s dependence on oil. He then told those assembled at a wind turbine plant outside Philadelphia, that there’s little he can do to lower gasoline prices over the short term:

I’m just going to be honest with you. There’s not much we can do next week or two weeks from now.

Obama said that he wants to move toward

a future where America is less dependent on foreign oil, more reliant on clean energy produced by workers like you He has set a goal of reducing oil imports by one-third by 2025.

Especially since one of his best friends, Jeffrey Immelt, the head of GE, has heavily invested his company’s future in Green Energy.

According to Scooter, the move to Green Energy will not be easy, and anyone who says different, well…

they’re not telling the truth.

And as far as gas prices, gentle reader? He does not care:

Gas prices? They’re going to still fluctuate until we can start making these broader changes, and that’s going to take a couple of years to have serious effect.

With the Federal Government on the brink of a shutdown, due to his Democratic Congress kicking last year’s Federal Budget down the road, Americans struggling with outrageous gas prices and looming inflation hitting them in the face every time they go to the grocery store, Obama decides it’s time to start his re-election campaign.

Priorities…priorities.