Obama's Star Falls
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How
pathetic:
Sen. Barack Obama and other black Democrats are defending Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's description of the House of Representatives as a "plantation." [snip]
The Illinois senator told CNN's "American Morning" he believed that Clinton was merely expressing concern that special interests play such a large role in writing legislation that "the ordinary voter and even members of Congress who aren't in the majority party don't have much input."
"There's been a consolidation of power by the Republican Congress and this White House in which, if you are the ordinary voter, you don't have access," Obama said. "That should be a source of concern for all of us."
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the full transcript. Notice that in the same interview Obama had no problem chastising a political lightweight like Ray Nagin for equally offensive remarks. Apparently, Obama's judgement on racial matters is governed by a mathematical equation: it decreases in direct proportion to his desire to be chosen as a vice presidential candidate. How truly disappointing.
Some of you might recall the brouhaha between Obama and Alan Keyes in 2004. Keyes, in classic fasion, ignited a firestorm by calling Obama's views on abortion the "slaveholder's position." Obama
responded to the outrageous remark by saying that Keyes, "should look to members of his own party to see if that's appropriate if he's going to use that kind of language." So here we are, two years later, and Hillary Clinton has said something similarly outrageous on racial matters that should, by almost any measure of decency, require repudiation by fellow Democrats - and Barack Obama is out in front defending Clinton.
Of course, then there was
Obama's rousing speech at the DNC, where he warned about those "who are preparing to divide us" and "who embrace the politics of anything goes." To rapturous applause, he continued:
Well, I say to them tonight, there's not a liberal America and a conservative America — there's the United States of America. There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America.
Blah, blah, blah.
If I seem a bit overly disappointed by Obama's naked partisanship, it's only because way back when - long before most liberals had even heard of Obama -
I expressed very high hopes for his future as a new type of leader for the African-American community. It's looking more and more like those hopes were unfounded.