Posted on 04/20/2008 5:15:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
When it comes to racial issues, the 2008 Democrat primary has been lowered to the most politically correct campaign in history. So low that it has smudged the lens in the way we look at both of the Democrats’ candidates.
Political correctness or “PC” -- a clothesline tool typically used as a wedge issue against Republicans -- has backfired. To steal a phrase from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, PC is “coming home to roost” for Democrats.
Purdue University political science professor Bert Rockman says we need to thicken our skins when it comes to race.
“Why did anybody take umbrage at Bill Clinton's remark about Jesse Jackson in South Carolina when it was patently correct?” he asks. Everyone knows that blacks are voting heavily for Barack Obama, he explains, and only a moron would be surprised.
Because of PC, race is the elephant in the room that no one is supposed to talk about, except to remark on how enlightening it is for America to have a black candidate for president.
Fair enough: That is a huge story. But at some point the lens should focus past Obama’s oratorical skills and his skin color to see who this man is who wants to lead our country.
Obama is black by heritage but also a product of liberal elitism, which appears to drive his thinking: Poor kid from single-parent home gets access to the best schools, the best opportunities, and is groomed for greatness.
Nothing wrong with that. Jack Kennedy’s father groomed eldest son Joe for the presidency and, when tragedy struck, turned his attention to Jack. That’s the American way.
That same “American way” led a young Obama to move to Chicago to become a community organizer and to join the church he chose -- to groom his political career. It is why he enlisted David Axelrod, strategist to the Chicago Democrat machine of Mayor Richard Daley, to handle his campaign; his bid for a U.S. Senate seat under machine-politics tutelage was won without any real challenge.
Political grooming also is why John Kerry picked Obama to give a keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.
To Obama's credit, he has met and exceeded expectations, has delivered in every sense of the word. However, his thinking hovers on liberal elite. That is why his comment in San Francisco about embittered Middle America was so revealing about who and what he is. Yet because of race, his political veneer was not scratched.
In ideology, is he different from Mike Dukakis, John Kerry, Al Gore or George McGovern? Probably not. He just looks really cool saying the kind of things once said by those four men who lost the presidency for the Democrats
And why did they lose? In large part, because of a lack of connection with bread-and-butter Democrats.
Love him or hate him, give Bill Clinton his due: He fought for the presidency against all odds, from a small white Southern town; when he won, he delivered without ever embracing liberal elitism.
That is part of the price Hillary Clinton is paying in this primary: The party’s liberal-elite side resents Bill’s performance, especially his move to the right after winning the White House but then losing Congress in 1994.
Clinton did it to survive. But Kerry, Gore or even George W. Bush would never have compromised that way, because their elite upbringing does not allow them to think that way.
Compare this with two modern presidents who are widely remembered and admired: William Jefferson Clinton and Ronald Wilson Reagan.
Neither came from or had access to the elite system, though at times they brushed against it; when push came to shove, they rejected it for their own survival. Both deeply wanted people to like them because of their upbringings -- both came from poor families in small-town America with abusive, alcoholic fathers.
Democrats will be successful in November only if they pick a candidate who mirrors the successful tickets that won the 2006 midterm elections -- candidates who connected with average Americans.
If the candidate who emerges from this primary season echoes the liberal elitism of McGovern, Dukakis, Gore and Kerry, then Democrats should start bracing for a losing year, one they should have easily won.
They managed to narrow down the field into two. Both are product and proud members of liberal elites.
Where did this notion come from? Obama's background is completely devoid of Black Heritage, especially American Black Heritage. His African father was long gone by the time Obama was walking and he was raised by his white mother, Indonesian step father, and white grandparents. He attended the most elite school in Hawaii where Blacks are practically non existent.
He manufactured his "Black Heritage" in South Chicago when he decided to craft a political career for himself.
The Obama identity politics really got started (no follow-through) in 1972. I remember at the Dem Convention that year, some guy made a nomination for Vice President and said something like, “this is the future..... Julian Bond!”
Well, that didn’t happen and the Dems were crushed anyway. But it seems to me that in Obama they’ve chosen a Julian Bond clone without the truth about him yet being uncovered. It’s starting to come out, but slowly and reluctantly by the MSM. We all know what a “blame America first” guy Bond is — peel back that Obama onion and I’m sure we’ll find a fellow-traveler.
Barack McGovern....
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
Thanks for that, my friend.
Also his father was from Kenya
"Bitter Gate: the gift that keeps on giving!!!
" Crackerquiddick ~ Bitter Gate " and “Wright is wrong Gate” are huge problems for the elitist would be Sneerer in Chief, Hussein Obamasnob!!
For an inside look at the real Hussein Obama and his elite hate America backers at San Francisco where Hussein Obama made his elitist remarks,
Go here to see the thread with all The Pictures posted and Here to see another thread about this meeting of elite left wing America haters.
There are some very interesting pictures and comments re the actual meeting on those threads.
"Hussein Obama’s big mouth, small brain, condescending, America-hating, grandkid-baby-terminating, born-alive-infant-abandoning, America-hating-wife, kooky-moonbat-America-hating-pastor, racially-divisive, race-baiting, crotch-saluting, America-flag-disrespecting ... chickens ... coming home to roost ...!"
Behold the would be Sneerer in Chief! 
“Love him or hate him, give Bill Clinton his due: He fought for the presidency against all odds, from a small white Southern town; when he won, he delivered without ever embracing liberal elitism.”
Ross Perot takes his medication and we would never have heard of the Clintons except when the MSM would have eventually reported that the Governor of Arkansas was indicted on 100’s of RICO counts.
Please. Starting with "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," Clinton was a hard core lefty. Just look at the vast majority of his appointments and executive orders. He just governed by the polls, and knew what the American people could tolerate, with the exception of gun control and scandals.
Bless their hearts, but this is a good composite of the very people who can make Oprah’s Obama President!
Bill's principles didn't extend beyond getting elected. And staying elected.
It was Hillary who was the hard core lefty. Had she been a closet right-winger, der Schlickmeister would've happily appointed Alito instead of Breyer.
If they do, I'm disowning them as kin! ; )
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