So, I guess you Obaminates saw this, right? I particularly like this:
Let’s begin with the locus classicus of Obama love, Andrew Sullivan’s encomium in The Atlantic. He writes:
Earlier this fall, I attended an Obama speech in Washington on tax policy that underwhelmed on delivery; his address was wooden, stilted, even tedious. It was only after I left the hotel that it occurred to me that I’d just been bored on tax policy by a national black leader.
This is presented as a confession, and Sullivan honestly admits his reaction is based on his stereotyping of blacks. Add to that another Obama supporter, Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri, calling Obama the first black politician to “come to the American people not as a victim but rather as a leader.” You hear this kind of talk all the time. Never mind the dignified glories of Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., Colin Powell, Kurt Schmoke, and others. We have arrived at the crux of the matter. So much of the educated white people’s love for Barack depends on educated white people’s complete ignorance of and distance from the rest of us. Barack is the black person they want the rest of us to be–half-white and loving, or “racially transcendent,” as the press loves to call him. And, since picking a candidate makes you allies with his other supporters, why would I want to be allies with educated whites whose glorification of Barack depends in large part on their implicit denigration of the rest of us?
Ouch! I think that pretty much sums it up, don’t you? As does this:
And now the evidence suggests that Barack didn’t, in the end, break with Wright over his outrageous racial claims, but over his suggestion that Barack is just a politician.
That so many people have a stake in ignoring these real concerns is troubling. At least the Hillary supporters I know seem to be aware of her more unsavory traits: that she carries a knife with her that she could pull out at any minute. Not so with Obama’s fans. It’s nearly impossible to get them to admit any wrong in him. Given the choice, I prefer to side with the group that knows their candidate can be a jerk, rather than the group that believes their candidate is Jesus.
Yeah, I agree. I know my candidate is a jerk and a politician but I wonder if the Obamanites do. From some of the responses to posts about Obama, I don’t think so.
posted May 16, 2008 at 8:41 am
How interesting that the only ties Obama has to the Black community in America is a white American mother. He is not the son of a former Ameerican slave’s son (etc., etc.,). All of my friends that have very dark melenin skin, are tiring of the whining Black racist. Black people are far more racists than any other “culture” in America. This is found to be true by their abandoning Hillary Clinton as soon as a Black candidate was viable. Forget the fact that Obama has yet to do anything that would be valuable in a president. The racist cares only for his own race. The whites voting for Obama have shown where racists are in this country. I’m not voting for Obama no matter how many Black people and liberals and progressives rant in hysteria and label and insult me. I know that I am choosing a president out of the three choices remaining. I will have to vote for McCain due to experience. Isn’t that the way you “fairly” give someone a job?
posted May 16, 2008 at 10:04 am
Thank you, Donny, for reminding me why I left the conservative wing of the Republican Church.
posted May 16, 2008 at 11:46 am
This post is right-on. Obama supporters treat him like he is JFK and Jesus Christ rolled into one (but not promiscious like JFK). They treat Hillary like she is the Wicked Witch of the West.
Hence, the inability of Obama supporters to find him at fault for anything, including calling a woman reporter “Sweetie” or being part of Jeremiah Wright’s congregation for 20 years.
I am well aware of Hillary’s flaws and also aware that she is not going to be the Democratic nominee. But, I’m afraid Obama supporters are headed for a rude awakening.
posted May 16, 2008 at 11:48 am
Donny, I rarely take offense at what people post but think your last post was a wee bit inappropriate, and hope Michele will consider taking it down.
posted May 16, 2008 at 12:29 pm
“Donny, I rarely take offense at what people post but think your last post was a wee bit inappropriate, and hope Michele will consider taking it down.”
I don’t think the last post was Donny’s. I removed it.
posted May 16, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Thanks, Michele.
posted May 16, 2008 at 9:00 pm
no, michele, please put it back. let everyone know what kind of fundienut donny is. i missed his comment this round, and i’d like to see it and possibly respond to it. i can’t believe that he could have written anything worse or more off the mark than any other comment he’s contributed.
because many of us are not voting for him because of race, but because of the person. i don’t denigrate any of the other leaders he mentioned. it’s unfortunate that the author sees it that way.
“I know my candidate is a jerk and a politician but I wonder if the Obamanites do.”
yes, we all know that your candidate is a jerk.