Andrew Malcolm, IBD:

“Romney wants to let the–he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules, unnnn-chain Wall Street. They’re going to put y’all back in chains.”

A guy from Scranton living in Delaware on the public payroll since Obama was in grade school suddenly talking like a faux Southern preacher. The crowd approved. But elsewhere, the vice president of the United States looked, in the vivid image of Charles Krauthammer, like a crazy uncle in the attic. And this guy’s a heartbeat away from the presidency?

The campaign reacted to the public shock in typical Obama fashion. It’s the country’s fault for hearing anything racial in that. Just like the lousy economy and poor job growth is always somebody else’s fault.

Remember back in 2008 when Obama was mocking then-opponent Hillary Clinton to a North Carolina crowd? As he spoke of her, he scratched his cheek with a middle finger, like some defiant high school boy behind the teacher’s back. The crowd knew exactly what he was doing and hooted. Obama dragged the moment out. (See video below.)

His campaign spokesman then was shocked, he said, shocked that anyone could see anything like a senatorial bird. Again, someone else’s fault.

Thankfully for this campaign we have former Obama buddy Artur Davis to help interpret Biden’s racial Democrat-speak. A four-term congressman from Alabama, Davis seconded Obama’s nomination at the national convention four years ago this month and was national co-chair of his friend’s successful campaign.

Davis told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Wednesday Biden’s remarks were “racial viciousness,” adding:

“It’s a divisive tactic that’s insulting to African Americans. It’s insulting to the American people. It’s insulting to the legacy that he used to build up as an orator who used to know how to inspire people instead of strike fear in people’s heart.”

Davis, who is black, added: “I know what Joe Biden was doing yesterday, and every black person in the room knew who the ‘y’all’ was, they knew what the chains were about, and they knew what the metaphor was.”

In May Davis officially abandoned Obama, the Democrat party and Alabama and has since endorsed Romney. Back then, Davis criticized “an administration that has lapsed into a bloc by bloc appeal to group grievances when the country is already too fractured: frankly, the symbolism of Barack Obama winning has not given us the substance of a united country.” Davis will address the Republican Convention late this month.

According to all reports, such criticism doesn’t sit well with Obama and Valerie Jarrett, his constant crony. An Obama campaign spokesman said that the man, who once gained so much stature and the nation’s highest office and hopes by talking about a united United States, had no problem with Biden’s pandering comments.

Judging by Biden’s practiced histrionics, the disappointing moment may well have been planned. Nor was Obama bothered by a recent super-PAC ad suggesting that Romney causes fatal cancer.

But maybe Obama should have a problem with all this.

Clearly, with no achievement record to run on, the Oval Office occupant has decided there’s more to gain politically this time by dividing Americans into tiny camps and attempting to cobble enough of them together with treats, promises and windmill subsidies for victory come Nov. 6. Then what?

Oooh, ooh,  ooh ooh! (RIP, Ron Palillo) — allow me:  Then comes an escalation of spending, debt, crony capitalism, higher taxes, the collapse of the private health care industry, and the inevitable collapse of the US economy, out of which we’ll be told we need to rebuild — only this time, to build smarter, fairer, and with social justice built into the system.  We need less individual autonomy and more “collective achievement” and “shared prosperity.”  And we need a kindly progressive government, centralized and powerful (to preserve uniformity and “fairness”) and built around tolerance and an intolerance of intolerance, to administer this shared prosperity, with a little tough love, if necessary.

That is, what’s next is an attempt to bring about the last phases of Cloward-Piven, to crash the system, to blame the collapse on the failed idea of capitalism, state sovereignty, a hoary old document that prevents government from providing you with the positive rights you deserve, and a too greedy and self-interested people, and to call for the remaking of the US, fundamentally and gloriously transformed into a soft socialist state that in reality will be based around a model of liberal fascism, with a permanent ruling elite deciding winners and losers, corporations signing on to the plan in exchange for the crushing of its competition, and an administrative state — using “safety” or “the children” or “the environment” — left to molest erstwhile free men and women into tacit submission, at which point, broken, they will be embraced by the State as one of the “tolerant” and “fair” and “progressives” who give to the collective and are champions of social justice.  And they will rejoice in their acceptance by the collective.

— Is then what.

Or, if that’s too kooky sounding, rent Brazil, subtract a bit for artistic license, and voila!  Progressive Utopia!