Do you remember when then-Presidential Hopeful Barack Hussein Obama was running for the Democratic Nomination in 2008?

As reported on 4/12/2008 at  nydailynews.com:

Barack Obama described small-town Pennsylvanians as “bitter,” distrustful have-nots who “cling to guns or religion” – prompting his foes to accuse him of being a condescending snob.

During a private fund-raiser last weekend in San Francisco, Obama said “the jobs have been gone now for 25 years” in a lot of small towns.

“They fell through the Clinton administration and the Bush administration and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate. And they have not,” Obama continued in the riff first reported by the Huffington Post Web site.

“And,” he concluded, “it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

This should have given all Americans a little insight in to the character of the man.  But, nooo…

On 11/15/2008, Michael Myers (no, not that one) had a suggestion for the brand new president in an article for the New York Daily News, titled, “How Barack Obama can Become our First Post Racial President”.

President-elect Barack Obama, who has already shocked the world by shattering an apparently insurmountable racial barrier, can now go one better. He can ensure that, like Humpty Dumpty, the shattered pieces of racial politics as we know them won’t ever be put back together again – by leading us forever out of the old ethnic and racial divisions and affirmative-action lunacies.

Obama is ideally suited to the task. He has personally felt the stupidities of the labels assigned to him – “half black,” “hybrid,” “not black enough.” He even wrote a book about it. The word he chose to describe himself at his first postelection press conference, “mutt,” was not just funny. It was also subversive.

Over the course of this long campaign, the man has repeatedly defeated the race demagogues, who never thought white and Hispanic Americans would vote for him in large numbers.

Now, Obama can finish the job – by taking us into a 21st century world where race won’t matter. That would be a legacy every bit as lasting as energy independence or universal health care. And for the man with the mother from Kansas and the father from Kenya, it could be much more easily achieved than those other heavy lifts.

On 7/28/2009, the great Dr. Thomas Sowell, as he always does, got to the heart of the matter, in the article, “A Post-Racial President?”, published on nationalreview.com:

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 was 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 has actually done after getting elected.

Those who were shocked at President Obama’s cheap shot at the Cambridge police for being “stupid” in arresting Henry Louis Gates must have been among those who let their wishes prevail over the obvious implications of Obama’s 20 years of association with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Anyone who can believe that Obama did not understand what the racist rants of Jeremiah Wright meant can believe anything.

…For “community organizers” as well, racial resentments are a stock in trade. President Obama’s background as a community organizer has received far too little attention, though it should have been a high-alert warning that this was no post-racial figure.

What does a community organizer do? What he does not do is organize a community. What he organizes are the resentments and paranoia within a community, directing those feelings against other communities, from whom either benefits or revenge are to be gotten, using whatever rhetoric or tactics will accomplish that purpose.

To think that someone who has spent years promoting grievance and polarization was going to bring us all together as president is a triumph of wishful thinking over reality.

Fast forward, past America’s three long years of suffering…

In a CNN poll conducted by ORC International from November 11-13,  1,036 adult Americans were questioned by telephone.

White Americans give Obama a thumbs down by a 61%-36% margin, with non-white Americans give the president a thumbs up by a more than 2-1 margin.

Why are the numbers so different?

Is it a Racial thing, a historic pride thing, or a “Surely he can do better than he’s shown us so far” thing?

Whatever it is, there is no need for it, as heritage.org reported on 6/21/2011:

It’s bad enough that nationwide unemployment has risen back to 9.1 percent, but for some Americans that rate is significantly higher. Low-skilled workers, many of whom are African-American, are experiencing the worst of the down economy. The African-American unemployment rate stands at an outrageous 16.2 percent—not a number the Obama White House wants under the mantle of the nation’s first black president.

While CBS News reports that the national black unemployment rate is usually higher than the overall unemployment rate, these figures stand at Depression-era levels. Worse? Black teenagers have a devastating unemployment level of 41 percent.

Can you say “Misguided Loyalty”?