What's in a phrase? A lot when you think about it.

Barack Obama is a man of many metaphors and most of them are troubling once you stop and reflect on what the man has said and what the direct inference represents. For example, take this little pearl from a speech yesterday in Rhode Island.

He said Republicans had driven the economy into a ditch and then stood by and criticized while Democrats pulled it out. Now that progress has been made, he said, "we can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back."

Once again the president uses a metaphoric reference that on its face should be troubling to most Americans, especially blacks. Sit in the back of the bus? Is that really where America's first black president sees his opposition as rightfully placed?

Some have recently opined that much of what is coming out of this administration is what is known as "projection" in the world of psychology. Projection is where the person or group takes their worst traits and attempts to project them onto their opposition to paint them as they are. And there certainly is more than enough evidence to make that assertion as it applies to the democrat play book and the tactics they employ regularly to deceive the American people..

But we also have something else afoot here. Something far more sinister (if that is possible) than mere psychological projection as a ploy of political gamesmanship. What we have here is a president's subliminal attempt to subject the object of his anger and discontent (in this case white people/The Tea Party movement/republicans) to the same type of demeaning social ostracizing that blacks were subjected to fifty years ago.

That's right, Barack Obama doesn't simply want to throw people (the opposition) under the bus, Barack Obama wants to figuratively relegate his opposition in the republican party to the 'back of the bus.' The metaphor is striking in my opinion and not the first member of main stream media has made the first move toward drawing the obvious parallel concerning the president's metaphor.

Barack Obama may have promised to mend racial fences during his campaign, but he has gone out of his way to accomplish the opposite since taking office and this is but one more example in my opinion.

I hazard the thought of the reverse having been said by a white politician as it concerned democrats, who are comprised in large part by blacks in America. What would have been the cacophony of rage to follow in the media, had Sarah Palin said that she intended to see democrats relegated to the 'back of the bus' once republicans regained control of the house?

I believe the answer is obvious. And all the more reason that Americans black and white need to turn out in droves next Tuesday to vote these socialists out of office and to repudiate this interloping impostor that presently occupies the Oval office.