[Morgan in Denver]

We can also remember ‘black liberation theology’ of Rev. Wright and blatant racism now in the Justice Department under Eric Holder. I’m sure there are others as well over the past three years.

[Alas Babylon!]

The Reverend Wright story actually came out in the campaign in 2008. Obama saw a drop in the polls due to that also. However, he corralled the media into playing it down and to stop mentioning it, and they willingly did so. So he stopped the hemorrhaging poll-wise and the people (who don't follow politics like us) forgot.

To a very great extent, Rush Limbaugh is absolutely correct in his use of the “Magic Negro” meme. That didn't come from Rush, as we know, but from a BLACK writer for the Los Angeles Times. Sure, Rush parodied it pretty good, and suckered in a bunch of liberals who attacked him for it, as it wasn't his term, but one of their own’s.

Still, the Magic Negro theory fits. From the article:

He's there to assuage white "guilt" (i.e., the minimal discomfort they feel) over the role of slavery and racial segregation in American history, while replacing stereotypes of a dangerous, highly sexualized black man with a benign figure for whom interracial sexual congress holds no interest...

Obama's fame right now has little to do with his political record or what he's written in his two (count 'em) books, or even what he's actually said in those stem-winders. It's the way he's said it that counts the most. It's his manner, which, as presidential hopeful Sen. Joe Biden ham-fistedly reminded us, is "articulate." His tone is always genial, his voice warm and unthreatening, and he hasn't called his opponents names (despite being baited by the media).

Like a comic-book superhero, Obama is there to help, out of the sheer goodness of a heart we need not know or understand. For as with all Magic Negroes, the less real he seems, the more desirable he becomes. If he were real, white America couldn't project all its fantasies of curative black benevolence on him.

So now that he's gone off of that role, what do the white voters think?

He's not so magical.

[Girlene]

This week, ABC. George reports Santorum won Louisiana but he’s way behind in the delegate race.

Asks Plouffe = is this huring the republicans to have this process grind away (new trending word in MSM, BTW - grind) (sorry, I got lost to report what he said.

George asks about Ryan’s plan. Plouffe says it will be the Romney/Ryan plan which fails the test of shared responsibility (Huh? we have a test now?), no balance (iow, no new taxes)