To hear the Obamaites, those raucous crowds pouring into town hall
meetings are "mobs" of "thugs" whose rage has been "manufactured" by K
Street lobbyists and right-wing Republican operatives.

Press secretary Robert Gibbs compares them to the Young Republicans of the "Brooks Brothers riot" during the Florida recount.

But
is it wise for the White House to denigrate and insult scores of
thousands with the fire and energy to come to town meetings in August,
and who appear to represent millions? Is this depiction fair or
accurate?

Most K Street lobbyists could not organize a two-car
funeral. They don't storm meetings. They buy friends with $1,000
checks. And if GOP operatives are turning out these crowds, why could
they not turn them out for John McCain, unless Sister Sarah showed up?

The Obamaites had best wake up. Opposition to health-care reform is
surging, and Barack Obama's campaigning has gone hand-in-hand with
collapsing support, just as George W. Bush's barnstorming did for
Social Security reform.

There is an anger out there unseen
since Ross Perot was leading Bush I and Bill Clinton in the
presidential trial heats in 1992.

Who are these folks? Why are they angry?

In
his essay "Decline of the American Male" in USA Today, David Zinczenko,
editor of Men's Health, give us a clue. "Of the 5.2 million people
who've lost their jobs since last summer, four out of five were men.
Some experts predict that this year, for the first time, more American
women will have jobs than men."

Ed Rubenstein, who has written
for Forbes, National Review and the Wall Street Journal, blogs on
VDARE.com that if one uses the household survey of job losses for
June-July, Hispanics gained 150,000 positions, while non-Hispanics lost
679,000. Guess who got the stimulus jobs.

Going back to the
beginning of the Bush presidency, Rubenstein says that "for every 100
Hispanics employed in January 2001, there are now 122.5. ... (But) for
every 100 non-Hispanics employed in January 2001, there are now 98.9."

Since
2001, Hispanic employment has increased by 3,627,000 positions, while
non-Hispanic positions have fallen by 1,362,000. For black and white
America, the Bush decade did not begin well or end well, and it has
gotten worse under Obama.

African-Americans remain loyal, but among white folks, where Obama ran stronger than John Kerry or Al Gore, he is hemorrhaging.

According
to the latest Quinnipiac poll, which showed him falling to 50 percent
approval, whites, by 54 percent to 27 percent, felt Obama behaved
"stupidly" in the Sgt. Crowley-professor Gates dustup.

Fifteen
straight months of job losses by non-Hispanics explains the anger, but
columnist Lowell Ponte raises an issue that may explain who is
protesting health-care reform and why.

Under the civil rights
legal doctrine of disparate impact, used in the New Haven firefighters
case, if tests for hirings and promotions consistently produce results
disadvantageous to minorities, the tests are, de facto, suspect as
inherently discriminatory, and the results are tossed out. New Haven
canceled the promotions for firefighters when all but one of the
firemen who passed the test were white, and not a single
African-American made the cut.

The city argued that New Haven
was acting true to the letter of the Civil Rights Act, which says that
tests that consistently produce a disparate and unfavorable impact on
African-Americans must go.

Ponte applies the disparate impact doctrine to the trillion-dollar health-care reform.

Who
are the principal beneficiaries? The 47 million uninsured who will be
covered. Who are the principal losers? The elderly sick who, in the
name of controlling costs, are going to lose benefits, be denied care
at the end of their lives and have their lives shortened. For half of
all health-care costs are in the last six months of life, and cost
control is priority No. 1.

Here is where the disparate impact
hits. Among those who benefit most –– the uninsured ––
African-Americans, Hispanics and immigrants are overrepresented. Among
the biggest losers –– seniors and the elderly sick –– well over 80
percent are white. Ponte quotes Fox News' Dick Morris:

"The
principal impact of the Obama health-care program will be to reduce
sharply the medical services the elderly can use. No longer will their
every medical need be met, their every medication prescribed, their
every need to improve their quality of life answered."

Under
Obamacare, adds Morris, "the elderly will go from being the group with
the most access to free medical care to the one with the least access."

America is already divided ideologically and politically on
health-care reform. And with seniors having to sacrifice care, while
the young are all insured, a generational divide is opening.

Now
Nobel prize-winner and New York Times pundit Paul Krugman writes in his
"The Town Hall Mobs" column that, as did Richard Nixon's men, "cynical
political operators are ... appealing to the racial fears of
working-class whites."

Pulitzer prize-winning black columnist
Cynthia Tucker says 45 percent to 65 percent of all vocal opponents of
Obamacare are motivated by racial hostility to a black president.

We are headed for interesting times.