The National Debt is not about Race!

In "GOP's disrespect of Obama goes beyond the debt fight", Mr. Wickham crassly devolves the internice and national spat about running deficits and national debt into one more baseless charge of racism against the party which presumably stands for fiscal discipline.

Wickham seems to lack extensive awareness of how our system of government works. Senae Minority Leader McConnell seeks to keep President Obama a one-term President precisely in order to effect a wide-spread repeal of the statist policies which are cramping this nation's growth. It's a matter of politics, not race.

Decrying the Republican Leadership's conduct during negotiations with the White House as "palbable disrespect" and failing to live up to the higher standards of Frederick Douglass, Mr. Wickham fails to recognize that a brazen Democratically controlled Capitol ushered in debts and deficits to rival the previous presidency. How can we forget jarring condescension in his forums with the Republican minority up to the 201o "shellacking", in which he contemptuously referred to his Republican colleauges by their first names and refused to recognize the growing national opposition to his liberal agenda.

Has Mr. Wickham failed to realize that a nation in fiscal disarray can serve no one, include the minorities--like Africa-Americans--whom he claims to champion?

Yet the President's current economic policies are harming the very people whom the writer claims to support. Contrary to the writer's contentions, it is President Obama who represents the old order of "reactionary liberalism", and the emergence of the grassroots Tea Party movement, disaffected independents, unemployed workers and businessmen are attacking his assault on their freedoms.