"In this week's Newsweek (and on Slate), Jacob Weisberg reasoned that only some "crazy irrationality
over race" could prevent Mr. Obama from winning the White House. If he does win,
America will have reached post-prejudice Nirvana. "If Obama loses, our children
will grow up thinking of equal opportunity as a myth," Mr. Weisberg continued. "To the
rest of the world, a rejection of the promise he represents wouldn't just be an
odd choice by the United States. It would be taken for what it would be: sign
and symptom of a nation's historical decline." Wow. Vote for Barack, or America is as
irredeemable as many foreigners believe."
It's an odd thing to suggest that in order for America to enter a post-racial era, we should vote for someone solely because of his race. That's what Weisberg and his cohorts are saying isn't it? It doesn't matter that his resume' doesn't objectively qualify him for any high executive position, much less Presidency.
No, we're supposed to apply the same affirmative action criteria that has enabled Obama to get this far, despite radical and criminal associations that would have sunk a white candidate faster than you can say "Dennis Kucinich". I guess white voters are expected to ignore trivial matters like policy as well.
I can't think of anything more racist than the condescending notion that minorities can't and shouldn't be expected to earn their place in life on merit alone.
What these leftists are really doing is projecting their own obsession with race on everyone else and concluding that anyone who won't vote for their token minority must be doing so with that subject in the forefront of their minds.
They conveniently forget all the minorities that have been elected to high office over the years by whites who they now say are racists if they don't vote for Obama. They also forget the racism from the left visited upon any conservative blacks, such as the pelting of Michael Steele with Oreos or the portrayal of Condoleeza Rice, Clarence Thomas and Colin Powell as house slaves of the Republicans.
What the left fails to understand is that most of us "typical" White People have no inclination to waste our time thinking about such trivialities and only will when it has some relevance. In Obama's case, the only relevance his race has (he is half white BTW) is that given it by himself and his own party. Insulting me with the accusation of non-existent, racist motivations only reveals the left's divisive obsession with race and results in just ticking me off.
Makes perfect sense if you live in their upside-down world, where tolerance means intolerance, division means unity, etc.
ReplyDeleteThing is, they're too dull of sense and spirit to understand that voting for someone of color, especially this empty-suited racial arsonist, has absolutely nothing to do with overcoming whatever final barrier they think still exists.
BTW: Given that the population of the country is much more toward half and half, women and men, it certainly would've made sense to promote a woman.
Not just HRC, though.
But rather her than Obama.
I'd much rather have had an attempt at the first woman president actually being made by a woman.
why will people not vote for him.... it is not because of the color of his skin, but because he simply lacks experience and he is not knowledgeable enough to make up for the lack of experience.
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