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| The Cynicism of Team Obama: Blame Racism |
| 2008-09-16 |
| Kevin D. Williamson, "Media Blog" @ National Review One of the great things about blogs is that they allow people to really be themselves: truly, anonymously, and sometimes horribly. Here's a nice big dose of Barack Obama's base, as they express themselves at barackobama.com, the candidate's own website. Why, you might wonder, is Obama lagging in the polls? The Palin Effect? His dodgy tax plan? His many associations with oddballs, kooks, and the odd bomb-planting terrorist? Team Obama says the only possible explanation is racism, or "white privilege," as they put it: White privilege is being able to claim your experience as a POW has anything at all to do with your fitness for president, while being black and experiencing racism is, as Sarah Palin has referred to it, a "light" burden. McCain, fighting in a war for his country, was held prisoner for years and tortured. And that's "privilege"? A danged odd definition of privilege for anybody, white or otherwise. On strategy, the Obamites are every bit as vulgar and crude as they are on "white privilege," wondering aloud how they can recruit Jewish supporters to "use" Gov. Palin for the purposes of spreading alarm in the Jewish community while assuaging fears that Obama is weak on national defense and on Mideast issues in particular: Also, we need some surrogates to start to spread the mesage, very slowly, that having Palin as VP is scary. This needs to be done but very subtle. And we need to use her with our Jewish friends, like Koch, to drive the message that Palin is not a good chice [sic] for Jewish voters at all.....We need to act fast and show we are fighting for it. In this way people will feel that Obama will be strong in National Security. In all fairness, these aren't sophisticated, professional Obama operatives; these are just garden-variety enraged Democrats of the subspecies Kos diarius punching away on their Macs in their mother's basement. But it does give one a little insight into the mentality that drives the lumpen Left and their slightly more eloquent media wing. But the ideas do bubble up from the bottom to polite society. The probability that any Obama stumbles, or his ultimate loss, will be immediately blamed on racism has been a subject of discussion around here for some time, and that meme has already made the jump from Obama diarists to mainstream media. See: Virginia, HuffPo, Georgia/Florida, Washington, South Carolina. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #10 "white privilege is the only thing that could possibly allow someone to become president when he has voted with George W. Bush 90 percent of the time" -It's painfully obvious that this dumb lib has never read the US Const. Is Bush a senator as well? Senators don't vote after presidents. Senators vote on bills that go to the president or possibly on policy initiated by the pres or the budget, etc. The president doesn't necessarilly vote on anything. Gov't 101. Fucking retards. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2008-09-16 22:25 |
| #9 Umm, bigjim - I know more than one such kid. But save the kiss for your BFF or whomever. ;-) And I know dozens of black kids who don't have those loans because they willingly joined ROTC or one of the service academies -- and did so knowing full well they will most likely be deployed into a shooting zone when they graduate. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-09-16 19:32 |
| #8 White privilege? Don't make me f*cking laugh. Show me one black kid who graduates from Univ. with $50,000 or more in student loans and I'll kiss your ass. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-09-16 15:59 |
| #7 Actually, now that I think of it. How could anyone vote with bush 90 percent of the time (or even 1 percent of the time). George W Bush doesn't vote in the Senate. He never has and probably never will. He's the P-R-E-S-I-D-E-N-T. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2008-09-16 15:47 |
| #6 And finally, white privilege is the only thing that could possibly allow someone to become president when he has voted with George W. Bush 90 percent of the time, As has been pointed out the vast majority of votes in the senate are unanimous in that they are to congratulate some baseball team or some silly thing. Obama himself probably voted with George Bush (the few times he did vote that is..) over 90 percent of the time. I guess Obama also enjoys 'white privledge'. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2008-09-16 15:44 |
| #5 Aside from the fact that the only campaign that has been racist from start to finish has been that of Sen. Obama, let's examine yet another of their erroneous presuppositions: White privilege is being able to claim your experience as a POW has anything at all to do with your fitness for president... The point that Sen. Obama and his willing dupes continually miss is simply this. Sen. McCain's stint in the armed forces (without any false posturing or self aggrandizement) shows social responsibility. Social responsibility (my definition anyway) nothing more, and nothing less, than the willingness to put the needs of your social group (family, city, state, nation) above your own. No one from the Radical Left has ever succeeded in doing this to any noticeable degree. And this is why they fail to win Joe Sixpack over. This is why all they ever end up with is a bunch of self serving sycophants whining to each other about how much more they know than the rest of us. They may know more than the common man (doubtful, but accept it for the sake of argument for the moment) but they don't have the moral foundation of social responsibility to build on. And so their political castle rests on a foundation of sand. And when it topples they have no clue why, so there must be a reason found or invented. And it must be an unreasonable reason since they, as the intellectual elite, could not possibly make such a mistake. |
| Posted by: DLR 2008-09-16 14:56 |
| #4 they're gonna do is piss people off. Been doin that, they have. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-09-16 14:35 |
| #3 White Guilt is dead. They'd better realize that or all they're gonna do is piss people off. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-09-16 14:33 |
| #2 the link "Georgia Flordia" below: Adam C. Smith, Times Political Editor Political Editor since 2001, Adam Smith was named the best political writer in Florida by washingtonpost.com and one of the country's top 10 political reporters by Columbia Journalism Review. He focuses on state and national politics. Smith has been with the Times since 1992 and has covered local and state government, as well as general assignment and investigative beats. He appears most Sundays on "Political Connections" on Bay News 9, is a primary contributor to The Buzz political blog. Smith grew up in New York City, graduated Kenyon College in Ohio, and when he's not chasing politicians tries to keep up with his wife, three kids and basset hound. Phone: (727) 893-8241 E-mail: asmith@sptimes.com Blog: The Buzz I wouldn't have posted the contact info but I notice that he posted name and town for some poor lady a pollster called and publicly named her a racist in print. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-09-16 13:41 |
| #1 publications of the slut at Huffington the article references: pubs bio her hubbie wrote this book: The estrangement of the rain god Jordan Fell is afraid that his passionate marriage is over. His wife Leah's affections have suddenly chilled. Her cautious eyes flash the cold visage of a stranger. Suddenly in pursuit of a new career, Leah renounces the freely chosen traditions of her family life. As she begins to walk her new career path with the help of another man, Jordan hears the certain footfalls of abandonment. Wracked by his wife's looming discontent, Jordan departs for Asia and his own fidelity is challenged. Upon his return, the fragile marriage ends. As his children suffer this great loss, Jordan plunges into drunken despair--to the edge of madness. An exotic song heard in a lonely Metro in Paris finally frees his possessed mind and Jordan learns the true nature of human estrangement. Fascinated by the spirit of a new woman from the mountains, Jordan unlocks her dark secret and recovers the sovereignty of the Rain God. so.. she doesn't do much good for him anymore? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-09-16 12:53 |