Return of the Scary Black Guy

As far as I am concerned, there has been so much written about Jeremiah wright that I am reticent to even bother. But I did find this interesting from a columnist in the Chicago Sun-Times. I will add that he is a white guy and he got a wicked response for saying something that, frankly,  is pretty accurate.

I’ve seen this happen so many times in politics where black candidates are involved that I’ve lost track. An opponent has trouble attacking the black candidate, so they find somebody connected to the candidate and attack them. I can’t say why this is more prevalent with black politicians unless it’s that the black experience has produced more fringe players who can be used for this purpose. Plus, there’s always Farrakhan.

Then the opponent starts in with the disavowal game. Will you now disavow this black person who is of some stature in the black community to prove to us that you really aren’t one of “those” black people?

And now that Obama has provided the disavowal, left with no choice by Wright’s latest display, the reaction is “too little, too late.”

The amazing thing is in that same paper, another columnist pretty much echoed his point by saying that Obama had perhaps distanced himself “too late.”

My own question (and this point has been made but just seems to keep getting lost) is that why aren’t all white candidates held up and made responsible for everything that their pastor has said or a religions leader has said?  For example GOP candidates still go to Bob Jones University every election to pay homage at a school which dropped their prohibition against inter-racial dating in 2000.

Why hasn’t Hillary Clinton been asked to repudiate her pal and Bill Clinton’s spiritual advisor Billy Graham who said (and who has later apologized when caught) that Jews control the media and are ruining this country and AIDS is a punishment from God?

Perhaps it’s because white people don’t make other white people responsible for what someone has said or done just by a virtue of knowing them. If we were really to make Bill and Hillary accountable for the misdeeds of their various cohorts throughout the years – people who have been sent to prison by the way, there wouldn’t be enough Rev. Wright clips on all of YouTube to drown out the noise.

Beyond stoopid (and a prediction)

I am not really sure if it’s because, while we were waiting for today’s Pennsyvlania primary, we were also waiting for winter to end, but it has been a looooooooong 6 weeks since the Texas and Ohio primaries. So now that the entire state of Pennsylvamnia has had its 15 minutes, let’s just move on with a quick prediction:

Clinton by 8 points

Obama put up the good fight  and he will crush her in Philly but the folks from Scranton are gonna put Hillary over the top and by no short measure because many of them just will not vote for a ‘colored Muslim.’ Well, at least they are half right.  Gov. Ed Rendell, a strong Hillary supporter, called this months ago and 8 points is probably as much of a victory as Obama could expect.

Still, this whole Pennsylvania race with its Bosniagate, its Wrightgate and possibly the most insipid debate that I have ever seen (and I have seen debates for high school student council president) has really put the scare in me that we might just be too stoopid to save.

Specifically, I will point out a question that the ABC moderators Charles Gibson and George Snuffalufugus couldn’t bring themselves to ask so that had to get some idiot yahoo to ask for them. It went something like this:

“Sen. Obama, I am not questioning your patriotism (uh huh) but do you believe in the American flag?”

Really? REALLY? Ten million people are watching a presidential debate for the most important job in the world and you ask this? DO YOU BELIEVE IN THE AMERICAN FLAG??!!

Well, I have a question for you, Ms. McCabe, “Are you a complete and utter moron or do you have some kind of vitamin deficiency that causes you to ask incredibly stoopid and pointless questions” Seriously, because you just made and ass out of yourself in front of 10 million people.

I mean I guess she could have asked “Sen. Obama, do you believe in puppies and rainbows and sunshine?” Or perhaps she could have followed up with “Sen. Obama, people here in Pennsylvania believe that giving crack to babies or having crack-addicted babies is bad. Do you believe that crack babies are bad or are you pro-crack baby?”

Honestly, I could not even listen to his response. I felt embarrassed for him, for her, for everybody watching and most of all for the United States of America. Kind of like the way you are embarrassed when you see a couple of jackasses giving a waitress a hard time and even though you are not doing it, you still feel bad.

Once again, “Do you believe in the American flag?” Um, did she mean did he believe it has special powers? Or perhaps she meant did he believe that it should be around like the designated hitter rule. No, wait, I am pretty sure she’s just a moron.

Please Hillary, please God, please American flag, please end this wretched primary fight soon so we can move on to the General where there are actual differences between the two candidates and people who ask questions like this are too busy buying ceramic angel figurines at the Cracker Barrel to pay attention.