Since 2007, Hillary Clinton partisans were complaining that while Obama pretended to be post-racial, in fact he was sending out his minions to make the bitterly racist attacks, while he floated above it all, clean.Go read the whole thing.
They couldn't actually prove their case -- well, they knew Obama's supporters were making these bitterly-racist arguments on a daily basis, and that Obama did little to restrain them, but they couldn't prove he directed such attacks.
Same thing in the general election, of course -- Obama spoke behind closed doors about "bitter clingers" in Pennsylvania with their guns, religion, and racism, but pretended to be post-racial in public declarations. And his minions of course savagely attacked any who opposed him, often in racial terms.
I was just watching (for the first time) John Ziegler's Media Malpractice and I was struck how the media cast every charge against Obama -- such as Palin's statement that he "palled around with terrorists" -- as "racist."
Well, the terrorists Palin had in mind were white -- Ayers and Dohrn -- and a PLO guy. Who I guess isn't white per se but also isn't black, and no one can claim with a straight face that charging a PLO guy with terrorist-support was due to "racism."
But they did. They rushed to claim that Palin was fishing in racist waters, rather than just noting a provable fact.
In this way, 90% of Obama's election campaign was highly racialized -- anyone opposing him was a racist, and every criticism made of him was also racist, and therefore not worthy of discussion.
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
Obama: The Post-Racial Racist
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I have noticed that anyone who calls another a racist is actually the racist..
Carol-CS
I'll say this for Obama's campaign for POTUS: the campaign did a good job of shutting up the opposition.
IMO, white Americans suffer from white guilt and are, therefore, particularly vulnerable to accusations of racism.
CS,
It does seem like that is the case, most of the time.
I think, however, as a for instance, when the ADL pointed out the recent anti-Semitic content of Charlie Sheen's statements, they were right in doing so. Likewise when the ADL points out Mel Gibson's anti-Semitism, they are right in doing so. Likewise, when people criticize David Duke for being a racist, they are correct.
I could name a bunch of cases, of course, but they would not take away from your point, which is largely valid.
It's a very valid point. It's what got this pos elected. That and his union goons bussing people in to vote for him in the primaries. But yes, if there is a bigger group of people that have done more for world progress than anyone else and yet is being demonized for their accomplishments, it's white people.
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