I think I've made it pretty clear -- I hate the race card. Hate it. So you know my brain was near exploding this past week as three new allegations of racism were leveled against critics of Barack Obama.
First there was an "I see racist people" black Congressman leveling the charge. There seems to be at least one of these asshats from every state that has at least one city with a population of 500,000 or more. This is what the doofus walking stereotype had to say.
"They are trying to throw out these codes," said Representative Gregory Meeks, a Democrat from New York.Okay, next to the race card, the "speaking in code" canard makes me the most insane. Since when is the insinuation (true or not) that someone who hangs out with people who hate America "isn't one of us" racist? The implication had nothing to do with race and everything to do with Obama's predilection for hanging out with Marxists and other America haters. That, and nothing more.
"He’s 'not one of us?'" Mr. Meeks said, referring to a comment Sarah Palin made at a campaign rally on Oct. 6 in Florida. "That’s racial. That’s fear. They know they can’t win on the issues, so the last resort they have is race and fear."
But for people who see racists behind every bush (and I don't mean GW), ANY comment that isn't flattering is racist.
Okay, you say. It's expected that walking stereotypes like Mr. Meeks will make wild accusations of racism. Who else is making you crazy with accusations of racism? Well, there's one of the sainted members of the media.
"What makes John McCain plausible is Barack Obama," news anchor Ray Suarez told a local crowd Wednesday.I see. The fact that Obama isn't slaughtering McCommie in the polls means that racist people are dredging up "controversies" out of thin air, with no basis in reality, and that racist people are rejecting Obama because of this.
The "pseudo controversies" about Obama's background are symbols for a "racial calculus" hard at work in U.S. politics.
Opinions about Obama's inexperience, his childhood in Indonesia, and the persistent but untrue rumors of him being Muslim are stand-ins for something his detractors cannot admit, Suarez said.
Particularly, "religion has become a proxy for race," he said.
Yes, internet traffic is full of ridiculous accusations about Obama that are downright ludicrous on their face. But questions about Obama's inexperience are valid questions, not racist grasping. Questions about his associations with Marxists are valid questions, not racist smears. Mr. Suarez is one of those individuals who can't believe that there are reasons other than race or a need to oppress for anyone to reject the DoublePlusGoodHopeChange. What a tool!
But these two are rank amateurs. The true master of all that is evil (I mean, besides King George the Dim) had to get in the 2 cents he had left after the economic bailout.
Democrat Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid echoed Time’s Tumulty on the McCain camp’s Obama/Raines broadsides: "The only connection that people could bring up about Raines and Barack Obama is that they both are African-American, other than that there is nothing."The Post is racist. The critics are racist. The microphone into which Mr. Reid spoke is racist.
The Washington Post reported that Obama’s office phoned up Raines for housing advice and has stood by its reporting. Is the newspaper part of the McCain/Palin hooded racists’ coven, too?
The money that Fannie Mae gave to Obama, second only to the money they gave to greasy Connecticut parasite Chris Dodd, IS a legitimate issue, and IS a legitimate reason to link Obama to Mr. Raines, who only happened to be the CEO of Fannie Mae.
So, you gotta ask yourself...is this what an Obama presidency is going to look like? Is every little trivial effing criticism of His Holiness going to be shouted down as racism? Are there going to be hate crime trials for those who speak ill of the Lord's Anointed? Are we to suffer the same fate as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who spent years in the Gulag for writing derogatory comments in letters to a friend about the conduct of the war by Joseph Stalin? Oh yeah, he also called him "the whiskered one" in those letters, which is CLEARLY a racist comment, since Stalin was Georgian, not Russian like Aleksandr.
God help us.
Update
Now Fidel Castro has gotten in on the act. Fidel Effing Castro! Oy!Fidel Castro says a "profound racism" in the United States will stop millions from voting for Barack Obama in next month's presidential election.* the Vulture's head explodes *
The ailing, 82-year-old former Cuban president says it is "a miracle that the Democratic candidate hasn't suffered the same luck as (assassinated leaders) Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and others who harbored dreams of equality and justice."
Castro's written comments were published by state media Saturday. In them, he insists a "profound racism" exists in the U.S. and that millions of whites "cannot reconcile themselves to the idea that a black person ... could occupy the White House, which is called just that: white."
