Posted on 11/10/2008 4:54:56 AM PST by condi2008
Alan Wolfe, announcing the end of the culture wars with the election of Obama, accuses the South of voting against Obama because Southerners are racists: “The single most disturbing aspect of last night’s election is the transformation of the Republican Party into the party of the Confederacy. Yes, Republicans remain strong in states such as Wyoming and Idaho, and Obama won Virginia and is leading in North Carolina. But both these latter two states flipped to the Democrats because they contain large numbers of white professionals who moved there from other parts of the country and because blacks came out to vote in such force. Long-time Southern whites, by contrast, opposed Obama–those in the Deep South most of all. Despite having lost the Civil War and having been instructed by the laws of the land to treat members of both races equally, large parts of the South resisted–and they continue to resist.”
Alan Wolfe, announcing the end of the culture wars, advises Obama to ignore a significant swath of the country: “Perhaps they will be able to control the Republican Party for the next electoral cycle or two, but the white South has finally lost its privileged position in American political life; Jesse Helms’s Senate seat is now held by Kay Hagan. Like all those who lose their privileges, especially those who never earned them in the first place, they are unlikely to show much grace, despite the effort by John McCain, in his concession speech, to point the way. Obama would do well not to try to win them over but to ignore them. They have for too long been a malignant force in American political life, and we should not miss their passing.”
Alan Wolfe, announcing the end of the culture wars, ignores the fact that over 50 million people voted against Obama - are they all bigots?
Alan Wolfe, announcing the end of the culture wars, does his best to reignite them and to stoke up the flames.
Never heard of him.
“Over, I’ll tell you when it’s over. Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?”
I hope that he is right, in one aspect - the return of the Confederacy.
Why aren't the people of the 22nd Congressional District in Florida racist for voting against Lt. Colonel Allen West? Why doesn't one of these Republican cowards get out there and refute these clymers with this?
Not until we can say RIP to the culture of death....
looked him up... he’s a marxist. not worth listening to
Oh, THAT Alan Wolfe, the draft dodging professor from Boston College who works out of a boston tudor style home styled “center”, complete with garage. The republicans fielded a weak candidate in a bad year and garnered poor results. We’ll see the domestic enemy, and that is precisely what they are, in 2010.
Precisely. But I’m glad Dr. Leithart could stomach listening long enough to get a cogent response on record.
Three states banned homosexual marriage, one banned homosexual adoption, the homofacists in California are threatening the lives of Mormons, Catholics and Evangelicals and threatening to burn their churches and the culture wars are over?
People living in Virginia below Woodbridge more or less are totally disenfranchised at this point and the only hope would be that of splitting NOVA off as a separate state.
Yes. Please. Ignore us.
Only half the people say it is over.
Alan Wolfe only wishes “Uh”bama to ignore our basic civil rights, and not our property: “Just squash them, Oh Great Leader! Rape them and take their lands!”...
Well Viginia was split once already.
Run a black CONSERVATIVE and we’ll see who the racists are.
When a wolfe mingles with the sheep, the results are usually deadly for a few sheep first. But the farmer exterminates the wolfe.
This guys opinion counts for nothing.
I can see it now, any attempt to resist any aspect of Komrade Obama’s new socialism will be met wit screaming charges of racisim. Before it is over, I wouldn’t be surprised if a new “Reconstruction” was implimented.
STAND UP AND FIGHT!
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