Barack Obama Watch: Playing on the White Man’s Court . . . by the White Man’s Rules

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. acknowledges the crowd at the state Democratic election celebration party in Manchester, N.H.

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Long before the national media spotlight began to shine on every twist and turn of his life’s journey, Barack Obama had this to say about himself: “Junkie. Pothead. That’s where I’d been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man. . . . I got high [to] push questions of who I was out of my mind.”

The Democratic senator from Illinois and likely presidential candidate offered the confession in a memoir written 11 years ago, not long after he graduated from law school and well before he contemplated life on the national stage. At the time, 20,000 copies were printed and the book seemed destined for the remainders stacks.

Obama’s revelations were not an issue during his Senate campaign two years ago. But now his open narrative of early, bad choices, including drug use starting in high school and ending in college, as well as his tortured search for racial identity, are sure to receive new scrutiny.

Senator Obama has scared the Clinton cabal. This is the second of an opening salvo in Hillary’s attack of personal destruction against this upstart who would DARE challenge her for the presidency. Drug use, abandoned by his black African father and raised by a white family under White Man’s Rules is quite an opening.

But, effective – nonetheless.

Barack has cleared the field for Hillary’s right – Warner and Bayh are OUT. Now, it is time for Obama to exit the arena.

Will he take the hint?

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, listens to concerns from Terry, right, and Phyllis Keca, prior to testifying before the Federal Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health field hearing in Naperville, Ill.

Obama writes extensively about his struggle to come to terms with being a black man whose African father returned to Kenya when he was 2, leaving him to be raised by his white Kansas-born mother and grandparents in Hawaii. He describes an identity crisis arising from his realization that his life was shaped by both a loving white family and a world that saw in him the negative stereotypes frequently ascribed to young black men. He recounts a search of self that took him from high school in Hawaii to Columbia University, and then to the streets of Chicago as a community organizer.

“We were always playing on the white man’s court . . . by the white man’s rules,” he writes. “If the principal, or the coach, or a teacher . . . wanted to spit in your face, he could, because he had the power and you didn’t. . . . The only thing you could choose was withdrawal into a smaller and smaller coil of rage.

“And the final irony: should you refuse this defeat and lash out at your captors . . . they would have a name for that too. Paranoid. Militant.”

Damaging revelations – a surprise? Not when you are running against Hillary and the Clinton cabal who has kept private detectives busy researching Obama’s life.

So, will the good Senator continue in his quest for the presidency?

Only if Barack has the COJONES to hit Hillary back and hit back hard. Flap can recommend a few for help.

Stay tuned…….