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Obama’s Hidden-Hand Politics
There has always been a measured slickness in how Barack Obama’s political operation has handled race, the third rail in politics. They have taken the guards off the rail and made an old obstacle an instrument of fashion. And they have done so with an instinct for the genuine and legitimate guilt surrounding race in American life. As political maneuver, it is a thing of grace in some ways.
At least until the thing turns shameless and expedient. Bill Clinton got the first dose of the treatment, when he protested that Obama’s credentials as an anti-war stalwart were “the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen.” That comment was then shape-shifted from a hard political jab at Obama’s rhetorical dodges on the Iraq War to an insinuation that the notion that Obama could win the presidency was wishful fantasy. No dispassionate observer who saw the video and heard Clinton in full cry would have arrived at the seamier interpretation, but with the nudging of Axelrod and Co., and with a little help from South Carolina’s congressman Jim Clyburn, the idea that Clinton meant much worse took hold.
The punch that Clinton absorbed was uncocked repeatedly. Sometimes on defense — when the Jeremiah Wright tapes surfaced, for example, the reasonable question of what drew Obama to a church with a history of incendiary rhetoric was cleverly converted to a teaching moment about an older generation’s fixation with race. When questions about the link between Obama and his old neighbor and fundraiser William Ayers started to burn, the line of inquiry was brushed off as an indirect method of raising fears about black radicalism, and it soon faded.
h/t Stranded in Sonoma
Jethro
August 16th, 2012
It’s amazing what Soros’ billions can buy…
Dickey Monkey Do
August 16th, 2012
O/T — possibly the most moving post Ann ever wrote :
http://barnhardt.biz/
” lay awake at night strategizing about potentially living out of his car and staring down the IRS on felony tax evasion charges”
AvgDude
August 16th, 2012
How to converse with an Obamite douchenozzle:
“You’re a racist!”
“No, you’re an asshole… and fuck you too.”
AbigailAdams
August 16th, 2012
This is a clear summation of the situation by Davis. Thank you. Have the greivance mongers knee-capped him yet?
Chuck U Farley
August 16th, 2012
This is a remarkable piece because it shows the enlightenment of the author.
Arthur Davis is the past Congressman from Alabama that seconded Obama’s nomination in the DemonRat 2008 Convention.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artur_Davis
It takes a courageous man to jump the plantation.
CrustyB
August 16th, 2012
“The Garden Gnome and The Lawn Jockey”
Edith McCrotch
August 16th, 2012
ha Crusty !!
Niggerizing Monkey
August 16th, 2012
@Chuck U Farley Very interesting angle.
Niggerizing Monkey
August 16th, 2012
“No Criminal Case Is Likely in Loss at MF Global”
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/no-criminal-case-is-likely-in-loss-at-mf-global/
After 10 months of stitching together evidence on the firm’s demise, criminal investigators are concluding that chaos and porous risk controls at the firm, rather than fraud, allowed the money to disappear, according to people involved in the case.
Niggerizing Monkey
August 16th, 2012
If Romney wins in Wisconsin & Iowa, he could afford to lose Virginia and Colorado.
webbie h
August 17th, 2012
“If Romney wins in Wisconsin & Iowa, he could afford to lose Virginia and Colorado.”
Levin said sometime last friday or monday (just don’t remember…tues?) that he was extremely concerned that the country might suffer a split in voting: popular for vote for the pResident, electoral vote for romney
guess what it will take to settle those lawsuits