Obama's Kanye West Moment

In a new video that recently surfaced, dating from summer of 2007, then Senator Barack Obama can be seen having a Kanye West moment of his own. Obama told a mostly black audience that the countrys leaders dont care about the people of New Orleans.

One could almost understand such inflammatory rhetoric coming from a self-aggrandizing rapper who needs attention more than anything else. But from a sitting U.S. senator and aspiring president?

Obamas remarks centered around a law known as the Stafford Act, which normally requires communities hit by natural disasters to match 10 percent of federal aid. This requirement, however, was waived for victims of the Sept. 11 disaster. And occasionally it has been waived for other major natural disasters. The Federal Emergency Management Agency refused to waive the 10 percent requirement for communities affected by Katrina.

Obama claimed there were sinister reasons for this: When Hurricane Andrew struck in Florida, people said, 'Look at this devastation. We don't expect you to come up with your own money. Here, here's the money to rebuild. We're not going wait for you to scratch it together, because you're part of the American family.'"

In other words, if you read between the lines, Obama is saying that the mostly white communities down harmed by Hurricane Andrew were exempted from the 10 percent rule because they were part of the American family.

Obama continued: "What's happening down in New Orleans? Where's your dollar? Where's your Stafford Act money?" Obama said. "Makes no sense. ... Tells me that somehow the people down in New Orleans they don't care about as much."

Those people down in New Orleans whom they dont care about as much? By those people Obama seems to be referring to the largely black communities in New Orleans hit hardest by Katrina.

Thats what the liberal MSNBC anchor Chris Matthew! s likes to call dog whistle racism. Obama doesnt say whites or blacks but were all meant to understand what hes talking about.

We all saw the black bodies floating in the flooded