Why We’ll All Want To Shoot Ourselves In A Month Or So
June 11, 2008 at 3:14 pm | In Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, MSM, WH '08 | 1 CommentTags: Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, race, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Rev. Michael Pfleger, Tom DeLay
I’m so glad that I finally overcame my Apple H8 and bought an iPod because I never would have discovered The Bugle, the best political podcast in the world. John Oliver (“The Daily Show,” yep) and Andy Zaltzman are genius.
From a recent episode:
Zaltzman: “But I wonder if this proves, John — the fact that Obama rather than Hillary has won — that America as a nation is more sexist than racist. Is that so? Or are they just saving up the racism for the really big one when the whole world is watching?”
Oliver: “I mean the beauty there is… they can just vote for John McCain and make a sexist and racist choice. That is for your quintessential American voter there.”
Boo-ya. Tell me how they’re wrong, people.
This does bring me to the very thing that has my tummy in knots these days. The Obamaniacs I know are just ecstatic and all I-Told-You-So because I was a Barry doubter from the beginning. Enjoy it while you can kids, cuz this election’s about to get super fug. Continue reading Why We’ll All Want To Shoot Ourselves In A Month Or So…
The Treatise On Obama & Race You’ve All Been Waiting For
March 18, 2008 at 4:14 pm | In Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, MSM, WH '08 | 1 CommentTags: Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, race
I love how the cable networks keep playing this up as “the most important speech” of Barack Obama’s campaign only to go back to playing those incendiary clips of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright on an endless loop. And people wonder why even some Democratic voters still mistakenly believe Obama is a closeted Muslim.
Obama absolutely had to deliver this address because of his decision to separate himself from Wright’s remarks and still count the retired pastor as a counselor and friend.
“I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community,” Obama said in a 40-minute speech delivered at Constitution Hall in Philadelphia. “I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother — a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.”
Obama added that he had not known Wright to be a racist in dealing with white people, but for voters who are disturbed by those sermon clips that’s besides the point. This controversy revived a question that many in Obama’s camp thought dead in the water: Whether Obama was that kind of black man.
You know, the stereotypically angry and resentful black man who feels this country owes him something. The only difference between white conservatives and white Dems on that black man is that white conservatives are open about their disdain for him.
For voters who began to fear that The Hope Fairy might be too good to be true, the sermon clips proved that instinct correct. Not only did Wright declare a class war on the “rich, white, privileged” Americans who control the country (and apparently include Hillary Clinton, who is not that wealthy), he also called out “negroes who just don’t get it.” One assumes that by “not getting it,” Wright meant they weren’t sufficiently angry, or something. Continue reading The Treatise On Obama & Race You’ve All Been Waiting For…
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