Steven Waldman

Steven Waldman

Mocking Obama’s Historic Achievement

posted by swaldman | 7:53pm Thursday September 4, 2008

Since Obama and Biden saluted John McCain’s service, I’ve been surprised that the Republicans haven’t acknowledged or even celebrated the basic historic nature of Obama’s nomination as the first African-American. It was an easy way to look generous without fundamentally undermining their basic argument.
But Palin definitely didn’t, and other Republican speakers have actually mocked it:
Fred Thompson: “To deal with these challenges the Democrats present a history making nominee for president. History making in that he is the most liberal, most inexperienced nominee to ever run for President.”
Rudy Giuliani: After talking contemptuously about his career as a “community organizer” to senator, he joked: “His rise is remarkable in its own right – it’s the kind of thing that could happen only in America.”
Prediction: McCain will now come off as the generous one, and praise Obama’s achievement.



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jestrfyl

posted September 4, 2008 at 9:39 pm


“Grace” – and graciousness – these do not seem to be in the vocabulary or style of a certain party embodied by what is actually a very graceful and caring enormous mammal. They would do well to learn from their mascot (and animal “they”, or the pachyderm persuasion, choose not to protect even though the real animals are being killed by human encroachment and failing environments. But there isn’t any “global warming” anyway.)



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Mike

posted September 5, 2008 at 10:24 am


Grace? While watching the RNC, I heard what I have known for years, there is no grace; there are only arrogance, meanness, violence, and mockery of anyone who differs from them. And then they try to say that they are better for America? That they exemplify our values? That they will bring ‘change’? Yeah. Riiiight…



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Gordon R. Vaughan

posted September 5, 2008 at 8:08 pm


This may be true at the convention, but I recall hearing a news report the day of Obama’s acceptance speech that McCain had made a TV commercial congratulating him for his historic accomplishment.



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Jordan

posted October 3, 2008 at 5:07 pm


Hmm… I have never heard any Republican mocking Obama for being the first African American presidential nominee. The incidences you cite are talking about Obama’s left leaning philosophy, which is a perfectly acceptable thing to talk about. You are falling for the trap that any criticism of Obama is based on Racism. This simply is not true. We just don’t care what race he is. We don’t like his policies. Looking at it that way, with one side wanting him to win based on his race, and the other not caring about his race, which side is racist?



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