When Barack Obama won the presidential election in 2008, Americans had high hopes that he would be a unifying figure based on his campaign rhetoric – and his skin color.  While he was certainly expected to reach across the aisle and work in a bipartisan fashion, most people were focused on the expectation that he would serve as a role model in the black community. Unfortunately, rather than exemplify the values of Martin Luther King, Jr., Obama has worked tirelessly to set the civil rights movement back decades through divisive rhetoric and racist appointments.  Eric Holder wins the award for the Obama administration’s most obnoxious race-baiter, although Obama himself falls in at a close second with his ridiculous statements and actions in the Henry Louis Gates controversy and Trayvon Martin death.  Both are guilty of encouraging the violent protests we have seen in the wake of the Ferguson and Brown deaths. But Health and Human Services secretary...(Read Full Post)