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Racial polarization

Posted on March 22, 2008 | Comments Off on 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.

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The country he loves

Posted on March 19, 2008 | Comments Off on The country he loves

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So he said yesterday, anyhow, in the speech reviled by historian Victor Davis Hanson. The phrase reminded me of this picture and Barry’s, at the time, seemingly little protest against lapel flags and the old hand-over-the-heart when the anthem is played. However, after learning that he listened to anti-American, anti-Israel, anti-white screeds every Sunday morning for twenty years, I have to wonder who he really is. His anti-war stance turned me off before his questionable messianic persona surfaced, but I still liked the boldness of his race speech at first read–even when he threw his white grandma under the bus. (In the process, lying about her.) But I evidently missed some things. Mickey Kaus lists a few critical ones.

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Barry’s good speech

Posted on March 18, 2008 | Comments Off on Barry’s good speech

Sen. Obama could have taken the normal political course and run from the contradictions inherent in his initial denials about his mentor/pastor Jeremiah Wright. But he didn’t. At least not in his speech today in Philadelphia. I didn’t see it but read the transcript here. He didn’t explain why he chose twenty years ago to align himself with conspiracy-minded Black Liberation Theology, divisive as it is for a man who talks unity. But he made a fine stab at explaining why it is the way it is, and going some distance to refute it. His overall "from many, one" message also was impressive, and truly unifying. Now, if I only believed in the reliability of Democrat-run government to right all these wrongs he enumerates (though I disagree with him on Iraq, his attacks on corporations and the idea that government should help people "find good jobs"), I might want to vote for him. But I don’t, and so I won’t. But I do admire his unusual willingness to confront the Wright issue that, all by itself, could yet bring him down.

MORE: OTH, the speech really P,Oed Roger L. Simon, who calls it B,S. He makes a good point:

"…anyone who finds moral equivalence between Wright’s racist screeds and (Obama’s) white grandmother’s admitting to him in private that she feared black men on the street has got a serious problem."

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If Oprah left, why not Barry?

Posted on March 17, 2008 | Comments Off on 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?

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The Texas Primary

Posted on March 4, 2008 | Comments Off on The Texas Primary

Dropping Mr. B. off at school this morning gave me a full dose of identity politics. The school is a precinct in the primary so I had to thread my way through the last-minute campaigners waving their signs: the white women waving signs for Hilarity, and the black women waving signs for Barry–whose middle name, by the way, is Hussein.

UPDATE: Campaign sign in ground outside a polling place: "Come Back, Vote Again. Obama." Must be how they do it in Chicago.

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Bad Barry

Posted on March 1, 2008 | Comments Off on Bad Barry

Mr. Hope and Change is a phony and a liar when it comes to NAFTA. No surprise there. Just wait’ll his political fixer pal Tony Rezko goes on trial. But I wonder if he really does hate America. I think he’s headed for defeat in the general election in the heartland, anyhow, but that would cinch it. Meanwhile, his secular preacher routine is getting a little frayed.

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Enough politics already

Posted on February 26, 2008 | Comments Off on Enough politics already

Okay, that’s enough on Barry. Even I am getting tired of writing his name. Besides, I have my domestic tranquility to think of, and I am already being accused of too much cynicism in the face of Barry’s niceness. And his hope. Did I mention his hope? Mr. Hope, to be polite about it.

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