It's rather remarkable when the first African American twice elected as President of the United States claims racism.
Thomas Lifson tells us in Barack and Michelle playing the race card in People Magazine that Obama believes he was a victim of racism in an incident in which he claimed someone handed him a set of car keys while he was standing outside a restaurant. He assumed that person thought he was a valet. Sounds more like a case of mistaken identity than racism, but it has become a part of the Obama story.
While this might sound like an example of black privilege -- being able to claim racism for something that could happen to anyone -- we should probably assume he's got an ulterior motive. As someone noted a few weeks ago, Obama is positioning himself within the Democrat party as the person through whom the white wing of the party has to go to get the black voting bloc. He was and is a community organizer.
Meanwhile, Dailycaller.com provides us with a flashback to the time when Valerie Jarrett, Obama's left hand man, mistook a four star general for a waiter. The general certainly didn't suffer any trauma.
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