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Niggahz

Little Miss Attila seems to agree with Cobb, who says talk about race never works. He says it’s because we can’t get past our own self-interest. She would like to see a national shut-up about race, instead of the conversation Barry implies we’re going to be having with him until November. As Cobb says, everyone else can rest easy, this is just a black-white thing. Lucky them. Barry has no choice, of course, having painted himself into a corner with what Hitchens calls his thug priest. He now has to run as a black candidate. But we don’t have to listen to him. LMA, meanwhile, finds that some white kids are helping to undermine the ancient division by undercutting the famous racial slur. They go around calling each other "my niggah." It’s all in the spelling, and the pronunciation. I agree with LMA, however, that Jeremiah Wright, Minister Farrakhan and O.J. Simpson are worthy of the original spelling and pronunciation.

Via Baldilocks 

Barry’s mountebank

You can believe the usual prevarication of the Democrat house organ MSM ("the pastor flap") that poor ole Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s words were cherry picked or taken out of context by that nasty Fox News, whose alternative, contradictory voice they cannot stand. Or you can take the time to hear him out, in complete context, in his post 9/11 America-Had-It-Coming Memorial service. Courtesy of an obviously-angry Filipino, Wretchard of the Belmont Club, who mourns fifteen compatriots, ordinary folks lost in the Twin Towers.

Racial polarization

I agree with VDH that, if you think racial attitudes are divisive now, just wait, as he predicts, til you see the outcome of the Dems’ Pennsylvania primary and the legacy of Obama’s defeat for the presidency. I always thought the fellow might be nominated but never believed he could win the general election. That should be obvious now that he’s taken to preaching to us about slavery and oppression and making offhand remarks about "typical white people." He was a novelty before, a black man running for office promising to transcend race. Now, with his refusal to disassociate himself from his anti-American, racist pastor, he’s just another black scold in the JJackson, ASharpton race hustler mode, and white people aren’t going to buy it. Oh, some of them will, sure. But there aren’t enough of them to elect Barry. And the resulting black anger could be shocking–or would be if we hadn’t already had the preview that started it all, the "KKK of A" rantings of Barry’s paranoid pastor of twenty years and counting.

Return of the blood libel

Russians aren’t just having trouble with democracy, folks. Passover is coming. So they’ve decided to turn back the clock on anti-Semitism and warn Christians to hide their children. Isn’t that special?

Hold on to your Confederate money, etc.

The Seablogger, whose income has long been derived from his stock market investments, urges the rest of us, whose current income may be derived from 401K retirement accounts, not to panic this week as Wall Street goes wacko. "Keep calm, don’t throw good money after bad, or vice versa."

If Oprah left, why not Barry?

This, to me, is one of the most interesting aspects of the controversy over Sen. Obama and Rev. Wright–which might cost the O man the Pennsylvania primary. The famous television hostess was a Wright parishioner until she left the black-liberation theology congregation in South Chicago. Obama, whose half-white background would seem to make his membership more intellectual than emotional, never left. Cobb says we’re unfairly focusing on Barry’s membership, when we should realize that BLT is pervasive in the black church and not unusual at all. Then why did the easygoing Oprah see that it was not to her advantage, but Barry, the supposed unifying architect of "hope" and "change," did not?

Prosperity unimaginable

I always enjoy Victor Davis Hanson, but never more so than when he’s comparing America’s present to its past:

"Our 1972 Olds 98 (my dad bought it used) in terms of reliability, comfort, ease of driving, and safety was a relic, a deathtrap, a clunker compared to a 2007 Honda Accord or Toyota Camry. None of these considerations appear in statistics about income, unemployment, purchasing power, etc. After all, how do you measure the value of a lap-top with wifi, or the notion that you can sit at Starbucks and have a 10-million volume library at your fingertips? What does one pay for that privilege?"

He mentions a 1930s family with its wood-burning stove and prize-possession radio. Reminded me of my Mississippi grandmother, who still had both in the mid-1950s. I wonder, though, whether Americans today don’t just take their affluence for granted and get upset when they can’t afford more? Making the entitlement "promises" of a Barry or Hilarity attractive.