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The Racism Card, Part Two (Why Obama Won’t Win the General Election)

Rich Lowry [1] notes something that’s been unsettling to me the last several days:

When an unimpeachably liberal former vice-presidential candidate of the Democratic party is likened to David Duke by a liberal media hero, the political apocalypse — or at least a grievance-politics cataclysm — is upon us.

In one of his sputtering-mad “special comments” usually devoted to damning President Bush to hell, Keith Olbermann of MSNBC accused Geraldine Ferraro of employing the “vocabulary of David Duke,” and of “insidious racism that is at least two decades old.” Back in the glory days of liberaldom, this would have been like Edward R. Murrow calling Eleanor Roosevelt a fascist — in other words, utter madness.

The Democrats are famous for forming circular firing squads. But apparently the real gunplay doesn’t begin until every member of the firing squad thinks he or she has been the victim of racism or sexism. Then, the smell of gun smoke is mingled with self-pitying and overwrought accusations of race or gender bias.

OK, I’ve said this before, I know… but it bears repeating:

Identity politics is of course, by its very nature, racist, sexist, etc. The real fun comes from watching its adherents try to avoid that basic fact. Certainly, identity politics is at the center of what the Democrat party is all about. Oh… they do have to have a certain mindset… they’d not be interested in Shelby Steele, or Condi Rice. I guess they’re just racist, huh? Or maybe this is simply a way [2]to keep your opponant on the defensive [3]?

And, here’s the thing; As Rich points out these are Democrats fighting Democrats with this nonsense. Imagine the charges of racism that will now be floating across the ether, toward McCain. I suppose that to be true regardless of who it is that gets the Democrat nod. But this gets particularly true if as we now suspect, Obama gets it. Fox News reports: [4]

Barack Obama’s longtime pastor once questioned America’s role in the spread of the AIDS virus, suggested that the United States bore some responsibility for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and said “God damn America” for policies he said has discriminated against blacks.

“We bombed Hiroshima. We bombed Nagasaki. And we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon and we never batted an eye,” Wright said.

“We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because of stuff we have done overseas is now brought back into our own backyard. America is chickens coming home to roost.”

The pastor also said: “The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.”

In another fiery sermon in April 2003, Wright said: “The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes three-strike laws and wants them to sing God Bless America. No! No No!

“God damn America …  for killing innocent people. God damn America for threatening citizens as less than humans. God damn America as long as she tries to act like she is God and supreme.”

This is a man who Obama has called a guide and mentor for 20 years.  What is equally alarming is the shouts of approval to this racist nonsense, coming from the man’s congregation. the charges this ‘pastor’ is laying out are pretty much the same as what William Ayers was spouting around the time he bombed the Pentegon…and about the time Obama was visiting him like a student at his master’s feet, as a right of passage, when he was coming up in Democrat Circles.

 These kind of charges and utter anti-american nonsense, is what’s currently being fired back and forth among Democrats.  If Obama takes this stuff seriously… and at the moment this is being written we still lack evdience he doesn’t…  we’re going to have even MORE rabid anti-American nonsense directed at McCain after the Democrat convention.

And here’s the thing; I doubt the majority of the American people are going to put up with it. If there’s a reason Obama cannot win the general election it’s because his rhetoric will have long since passed the limit of the patience of the American voter.