Obama's affirmative action college scheme

As we've seen countless times, Obama views the world through race-tinted glasses. Now in another executive order dumped on a Friday afternoon, the president is showing just how obsessed he is with affirmative action schemes. He's willing to kick more federal aid to Historically Black Colleges and Universities, but exclude all others.

The executive order establishes the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). As we've seen over and over, whenever Obama wants to grossly increase spending for something, he always appoints a commission first. The commission then always recommends increasing spending and Obama agrees. So when this long executive order says the commission will "identify Federal programs and initiatives in which HBCUs may be either underserved or underused as national resources," it means "find ways to spend more."

And it's not just racial ideology driving the president. Obama has many cronies in high places at HBCUs. One example is Howard University in Washington, DC, which is headed up by Barry Rand. Rand has strong connections to Obama and is also president of the AARP, which supported the health care reform bill at Obama's request. Rand took a lot of heat for supporting ObamaCare, so no doubt he'll appreciate the kickbacks to Howard U.

All colleges are suffering from the bad economy right now. If Obama is going to be a wild-eyed spender, why can't he appoint a commission to study all colleges, black, white, and everything in between?