I can't help it. "Even when he's on the wrong side of the tracks, he's on the right side." It's like Chuck Norris played by Ricardo Montalban. The conceit is that there's nobody cooler or smarter on the planet than the Spanish guy with the beard.
The commercials are so awesome that the President decided that he had to be in one. So he invited two regular guys and Joe Biden to film it...
Oh, wait, that wasn't it?
See, here's the thing. "The Most Intersting Man in the World" got replaced this week by "The Most Self-Important Man in the World." Thankfully, according to the press, President Obama has healed the nations' racial wounds and moved us past race.
But wait...didn't he do that last summer, too?
Frankly, the whole "post-racial" thing was overblown, much like everything about Obama. Obama is a talented opportunist, a man with the ability to make cutting your own hand off sound perfectly reasonable. But you can only go to the well so many times, like a flamethrowing pitcher who never learns another pitch. Eventually, they catch up to you. And that's started to happen; the Obama Show is wearing itself thin.
Look on the bright side, though, Mr. President. You now have your own little Dos Equis statement: "He can heal the same racial wound...twice."
Showing posts with label Racism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Racism. Show all posts
Monday, August 3, 2009
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Of Bill Minor, Eric Holder, and All Us Cowards
We're all cowards when it comes to a conversation about race, says the Attorney General.
Nobody wants to talk about it, he says. When he says nobody, I assume he means, much like his boss, something else. See, "Nobody" is code for "none of you people." Eric Holder and many with beliefs like him desperately want to have a conversation about race. But the Attorney General and I define conversation differently.
Which brings me to the dinosaur of Mississippi political writers, the somewhat-lucid Bill Minor.
His columns recently have been the typical Minor Race Columns, which blame white, conservative Mississippians for just about every racial problem (and that's being kind-usually, he blames us for problems outside the state too) in the state while giving a pass to anyone of his political inclinations. He ignores fellow fossil David Jordan, a Senator from the Delta, who recently remarked that voter ID was only supported by those whose ancestors owned slaves, and others (white and black) of a similar ideological bent.
Because of this, I figured out what General Holder's idea of a conversation about race is.
See, the Eric Holders of the world, along with the Bill Minors, when he's not chasing down Karl Rove in seedy Biloxi parking garages, get to tell all of us why we're evil racists, and we get to sit there and listen to them. That's what a conversation with Eric Holder and Bill Minor would be like.
And frankly, its a conversation we've been having for a long time. See, the only reason Eric Holder thinks we're 'cowards' for not incessantly talking about race is because most of us, when its brought up, know the lecture is coming. So pardon us regular, non-enlightened folk, General Holder and Mr. Minor, for wanting to bow out. I finished taking lectures when the degree hit my hand. Lectures are for little children who screw up and people who don't know better. I'm neither.
Nobody wants to talk about it, he says. When he says nobody, I assume he means, much like his boss, something else. See, "Nobody" is code for "none of you people." Eric Holder and many with beliefs like him desperately want to have a conversation about race. But the Attorney General and I define conversation differently.
Which brings me to the dinosaur of Mississippi political writers, the somewhat-lucid Bill Minor.
His columns recently have been the typical Minor Race Columns, which blame white, conservative Mississippians for just about every racial problem (and that's being kind-usually, he blames us for problems outside the state too) in the state while giving a pass to anyone of his political inclinations. He ignores fellow fossil David Jordan, a Senator from the Delta, who recently remarked that voter ID was only supported by those whose ancestors owned slaves, and others (white and black) of a similar ideological bent.
Because of this, I figured out what General Holder's idea of a conversation about race is.
See, the Eric Holders of the world, along with the Bill Minors, when he's not chasing down Karl Rove in seedy Biloxi parking garages, get to tell all of us why we're evil racists, and we get to sit there and listen to them. That's what a conversation with Eric Holder and Bill Minor would be like.
And frankly, its a conversation we've been having for a long time. See, the only reason Eric Holder thinks we're 'cowards' for not incessantly talking about race is because most of us, when its brought up, know the lecture is coming. So pardon us regular, non-enlightened folk, General Holder and Mr. Minor, for wanting to bow out. I finished taking lectures when the degree hit my hand. Lectures are for little children who screw up and people who don't know better. I'm neither.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Obama Camp: You Are Racist If You Vote McCain
It's been all over the place this week.
There was the Kansas governor suggesting that. There was a poll out on MSN this morning which stated it. The Obama camp put out a Spanish-language ad saying McCain favored immigration restriction, which is laughable (sadly). Jack Cafferty of CNN says that the only explanation for opposition to the Messiah is racism. So did two Democratic reps in Ohio.
Yes, it can't be because Obama has no resume-forget experience, he's not ever done a great job at anything other than writing about his favorite subject, Barack Obama-or his connection with terrorists and various left-wing loonies, his underhanded Chicago background-getting his opponenets thrown off the ballot or having their private records unsealed-or because he speaks in vague self-help terms when he's not espousing outright socialism. It must be, has to be, racism.
There was the Kansas governor suggesting that. There was a poll out on MSN this morning which stated it. The Obama camp put out a Spanish-language ad saying McCain favored immigration restriction, which is laughable (sadly). Jack Cafferty of CNN says that the only explanation for opposition to the Messiah is racism. So did two Democratic reps in Ohio.
Yes, it can't be because Obama has no resume-forget experience, he's not ever done a great job at anything other than writing about his favorite subject, Barack Obama-or his connection with terrorists and various left-wing loonies, his underhanded Chicago background-getting his opponenets thrown off the ballot or having their private records unsealed-or because he speaks in vague self-help terms when he's not espousing outright socialism. It must be, has to be, racism.
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