112 Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biographythe adjustments and corrections of frontiers, and in regions of colonization, are a plowing of the
sands... I know perfectly well, just as well as all these tremendously clever intellectuals, that in
the scientific sense there is no such thing as race. But you, as a farmer and cattle breeder,
cannot get your breeding successfully achieved without the conception of race. And I as a
politician need a conception which enables the order which has hitherto existed on historic
bases to be abolished and an entirely new anti-historic order enforced and given an intellectual
basis. Understand what I mean... I have to liberate the world from dependence on its historic
past. Nations are the outward and visible forms of our history. So I have to fuse these nations
into a higher order if I want to get rid of the chaos of an historic past which has become an
absurdity. And for this purpose the conception of race serves me well. It disposes of the old
order and makes possible new associations. France carried her great revolution beyond her
borders with the conception of the nation. With the conception of race, National Socialism will
carry its revolution abroad and remake the world. (Hermann Rauschning, Voice of Destruction
[New York: Putnam, 1940], 231-232)
It is worth underlining that a racist outlook and the outlook of the modern state are antithetical.
The US financier elites may have found that playing the race card has functioned as an effective
form of counterinsurgency over the last four decades, but they also need to recognize that the
politically correct and multicultural cult of racial diversity is a highly corrosive factor weakening
the American state and polity.
OBAMA’S RACE SPEECH: A HYPOCRITE WITH A TELEPROMPTER
Obama’s speech on race, delivered with much fanfare in Philadelphia on March 18 in response
to the initial explosion of the Jeremiah Wright controversy, was a microcosm of the moral and
intellectual bankruptcy of his presidential campaign. Prior to any content, the setting and method
deserve attention. Obama as a candidate is as controlled and scripted as, say, Elizabeth Dole most of
the time. He avoids answering questions and does not like unstructured repartee or give and take.
His typical formats often offer no opportunity for questions and answers, only soaring rhetoric and
platitudes. He is no debater; he is a pontificator. His favorite approach is the Nuremberg rally, with
the speech read off the glass panes of a teleprompter to his left and right, an apparatus not noticed
by so many of his fawning disciples and dupes. This was the method used in his Iowa victory
speech, and this was the method in Philadelphia. Obama appeared with his head thrown back,
literally looking down his nose at the audience: he was literally talking down to them. The tone was
self-righteous, lecturing, even hectoring. His approach was condescending, patronizing, belittling
his audience. Voters have complained that Obama simply lacks any credible credentials for talking
down to them in this way.
Obama had been caught consorting with the racist provocateur, Jeremiah Wright. But he did not
apologize. He turned the actual moral situation on its head by portraying Wright as a reflection of
American racism, and blaming the American people and their inveterate racism. This method of
blaming the public for one’s own blunders and incompetence has been a staple of the Trilateral
political faction going back to Carter’s infamous malaise speech of July 1979. Obama has never
sincerely apologized for anything. Those who were shocked in 2004 when Bush was unable to think
of any error or mistake that he had made should be more concerned about Obama, who also lacks
the moral courage to admit a mistake or a failing. The sole exceptions are his attempt to get off the
hook for shady and unethical transactions that may have crossed the line into actual felonies: thus,
his stock line for responding to questions about his smelly house-flipping deal with underworld
kingpin Tony Rezko is to say that this was a “boneheaded” mistake. In the case of Wright, Obama