From the Obama campaign's Bill Burton, in an email to journalists:
We wish the McCain campaign well as they try to figure out the difference between Iran and al Qaeda.
--Dana Goldstein
Posted by Dana Goldstein on March 19, 2008 6:00 PM|Permalink|
COMMENTS (6)
instead of starting a conversation on race, Obama today immediately tried to change the subject, but the country and media won't let him.
He thinks he's done with race as an issue, i think--he reassured whites and further enabled their racism to thrive and didn't alienate blacks--but he didn't put any of the totally-expected fires he should have been ready to put out years ago.
How is it now that Obama doesn't tackle a bit of that seething black racism? Isn't he in fact enabling it? He "contextualized" Rev. Race-Baiter's decades of diatribes by likening them to Ferraro's single remark or to his grandmother's private remarks. Maybe the allegedly high-minded and post-racial uniter should climb down off his high-horse and confront a few extremist blacks.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! I can't talk about crazy McCain's blaming Iran for Al Qa'ida so I'm still attached to that Obama black preacher story that's now going away!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Speaking of racism-- McCain's mis-statement itself is a racist product. The neoconservatives and at least some "liberal hawks" (ie Paul Berman) have been so busy tarring the entire Arab middle-east with the "Islamofascist" brush that someone who hangs out too much on that side of the fence, and who has a very good chance of being our next President, is out there *actually in* the region and unable to draw critical distinctions.
This is bad news for McCain, except that perhaps too many Americans already think exactly the way he talks, and it won't make the difference in the campaign that it should.
McCain's mis-statement itself is a racist product. The neoconservatives and at least some "liberal hawks" (ie Paul Berman) have been so busy tarring the entire Arab middle-east with the "Islamofascist" brush...
especially when you consider that iranians aren't arabs, but i quibble. good point.
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From the Obama campaign's Bill Burton, in an email to journalists:
COMMENTS (6)
instead of starting a conversation on race, Obama today immediately tried to change the subject, but the country and media won't let him.
He thinks he's done with race as an issue, i think--he reassured whites and further enabled their racism to thrive and didn't alienate blacks--but he didn't put any of the totally-expected fires he should have been ready to put out years ago.
Posted by: Anonymous | March 20, 2008 2:41 AM
How is it now that Obama doesn't tackle a bit of that seething black racism? Isn't he in fact enabling it? He "contextualized" Rev. Race-Baiter's decades of diatribes by likening them to Ferraro's single remark or to his grandmother's private remarks. Maybe the allegedly high-minded and post-racial uniter should climb down off his high-horse and confront a few extremist blacks.
Posted by: n.t.t. | March 20, 2008 4:15 AM
WAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! I can't talk about crazy McCain's blaming Iran for Al Qa'ida so I'm still attached to that Obama black preacher story that's now going away!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Posted by: El Cid | March 20, 2008 9:04 AM
Speaking of racism-- McCain's mis-statement itself is a racist product. The neoconservatives and at least some "liberal hawks" (ie Paul Berman) have been so busy tarring the entire Arab middle-east with the "Islamofascist" brush that someone who hangs out too much on that side of the fence, and who has a very good chance of being our next President, is out there *actually in* the region and unable to draw critical distinctions.
This is bad news for McCain, except that perhaps too many Americans already think exactly the way he talks, and it won't make the difference in the campaign that it should.
Posted by: Anonymous | March 20, 2008 9:19 AM
McCain's mis-statement itself is a racist product. The neoconservatives and at least some "liberal hawks" (ie Paul Berman) have been so busy tarring the entire Arab middle-east with the "Islamofascist" brush...
especially when you consider that iranians aren't arabs, but i quibble. good point.
Posted by: Anonymous | March 20, 2008 10:34 AM
that was me
Posted by: benjoya | March 20, 2008 10:35 AM