Posted by
Furious on Sunday, August 03, 2008 1:13:19 PM
[Whatever you think about Barack Obama, he does not want the race issue to be front and center in this campaign.]
This amazing statement was written by Bob Herbert in today’s N.Y. Times.
I’m not sure if it is possible to be any more wrong than Herbert is on this detail. Granted, he is almost never correct in his assertions anyway, but man, this is a whopper! I guess if you are going to lie, go ahead and make a big lie.
It has been asserted by liberals and conservatives and moderates alike that race is now and always was the central theme in Obama’s campaign. No one really knows the guy and no liberal even attempts to explain the man’s ever-changing positions. He will be the first black President. That is enough for them.
When it suits him, he uses his color as a weapon of mass distortion. It succeeds brilliantly among the ever guilt-ridden far left, academic fringe of his party.
These people can never be truly happy, since they (incredibly) feel unworthy of whatever they have accomplished. I guess they feel because they have something that somehow, they are depriving another person of it. Or, everything must add up to zero. My success has to be hurting someone.
Guilt and false sympathy rule their pitiful existence. Their votes can be bought with simply a mention of skin color and a reminder of our racist history. Race is Obama’s trump card when all else fails. It is truly his default position on everything. Never mind that he is half white and half African. For political purposes the man claims he has suffered the struggle along with Jesse Jackson and M.L. King, when there is absolutely no validity to the arguement. But, it works.
When Geraldine Ferraro let the cat out of the bag during the primaries; a feigned uproar met her logical statement by the Democrat masses that were it not for Obama’s color, he would not be thought of as a viable candidate. She had a valid logical point, but when was the last time liberals embraced validity and logic?
Answer: never, when feelings and emotions and fairness are its competition.