Playing the Race Card

David Boaz has noticed a pattern… one we’ve mentioned here before.

Some people on the left can’t see any excuse for opposition to collectivism except racism. (Which is, of course, as Ayn Rand said, “the lowest, most crudely primitive

Frankly I think there are few people on the sphere who bring greater gravitas to the entire matter about the Gates /Crowley affair than Sister Toldjah. Yesterday morning’s post on that point reinforces that perception.

— President Obama expressed “regret”

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• Men are from Mars and Earth Girls are Easy… or something: John

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• Suicide by Billing Rates: Let’s call this what it is; the Associated Press is busily committing

I can’t help but wonder, in passing what the agreed upon price for the Senate seat finally was? How much money had to pass between them to get Blago to name Burris?

Before you start tuning up your defenses, saying

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Tuesday. 28 days until the election.4 days until my vacation, and about 5 hours to the second debate. And if you don’t understand the joke

As those who can remember back to the 2006 elections realize, the political winds have been favoring the democrats of late. If you take all the ‘generic congressional polls‘ from April of 2005 through today, you get the

Bob Herbert, New York Times, attempts to slime John McCain, only to show his true and bigoted colors:

The racial fantasy factor in this presidential campaign is out of control. It was at work in that New Yorker cover

• It’s August, already? Where the hell did July go?   2/3rds of the summer is gone and I’m just getting started on the stuff I wanted to do this year.
• Honorable Mention at OTB’s caption Contest. I gotta admit, that

The mainstream media makes the case for John McCain, kind of, sort of.  The case against Barack Obama(BO),  Bob Hebert, New York Times:

[T]here can be no denying that an awful lot of Mr. Obama’s troubles have come from

• Busy watching the Sabres beat up on Tampa Bay, so I didn’t get to this until late. PLayoff time, you know… and it looks to me like they’ll be there. IN this win, they entered the third with a 4

So, Obama is going to try to diffuse the race issue he has so far benefitted from. How? By giving a  speech. The trouble with that idea, of course, is that the speech comes almost directly on the heels of

Oh… I’m sure you’ve not seen this, unless you’re from that neck of the woods… but it turns out the Democrat mayor in Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, is in some serious hot water, and criminal charegs are in the offing. Of

Interesting note from Baton Rouge by way of NOLA.COM

BATON ROUGE — The state Legislature on Friday wrapped up its second special session during the 2-month-old administration of Gov. Bobby Jindal by completing a full sweep of the governor’s proposed

•  The racist card and the sexist card. Is Geraldine Ferraro a racist? Eh, likely not. But it is of note that the charge is coming fast and furious against her from Obama’s supporters, isn’t it?I mean, look…You knew the race