Racism
Posted at 1:03pm on Jun. 3, 2008 The End of the primary season portends to be the start of the entertainment.
Hey Moe, pass the popcorn!
By Mark Kilmer
The Dem primary season ends tonight, but methinks the show is just starting to get good.
In case you care, TV Newser has a guide to tonight's coverage, on all the outlets, of the last primary results of 2008: in Montana and in South Dakota.
The Associated Press, for some reason, reported earlier that Hillary was going to announce that she was quitting the race tonight.
Hillary's peeps shot back with a press release:
"The AP story is incorrect. Senator Clinton will not concede the nomination this evening."
The AP says things.
We're going to fight this thing to Denver!
Richard Cohen of the Washington Post loathes the racism and the sexism of Americans.
But Cohen loathes the Democratic Party.
He loathes the racism used against Barack Obama, and that was lit and fueled by Clinton's campaign.
He loathes the sexism used against Hillary Clinton, and that was lit and fueld by Obama's campaign.
Yes, it has been ugly. The Democrats are an ugly party. Their phony veneer of equality, justice, and harmony has been stripped, and they were the ones splashing the turpentine.
In the words of Tolkien's Feanor: "Let their ships burn!"
And burn they will, as maneuvers become more important than mere votes. When will Harold Ickes get around to writing a political thriller? Could be it's what he's doing now.
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Posted at 7:49pm on May 10, 2008 Not a racist? Prof. Alan Abramowitz thinks that makes you even more of one.
By Jeff Emanuel
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Tomorrow's Washington Post (h/t Adam C) will feature an op-ed by Emory University PoliSci professor Alan Abramowitz ("In These Primary Numbers, Warnings for the Fall") that seeks to turn logic and rationality on its head for the purposes of calling White America racist.
"Voting patterns in Indiana and North Carolina show that resistance to a black candidate among some white Democrats remains a serious threat to his chances in November," Abramowitz writes. "Obama continues to have particular difficulty with one segment of the Democratic electorate: white working-class voters."
His explanation of this is long on unsubstantiated, not-rationally-supportable conjecture, and his conclusions lack anything remotely resembling evidence or facts. I suppose that's the price one pays for (or the benefit of) being a political "scientist": rather than having an academic specialty that prepares one to conduct research (and draw conclusions from that research) and analysis, all a political "scientist" like Abramowitz seems to feel the need to do is obtain numbers. His analysis and conclusions drawn from those numbers are all assumption, with no explanation added as to how those conclusions were reached, or why they should be accepted as correct.
The backdoor assault on working-class whites begins with Abramowitz's declaration that, despite a dearth of "overtly racist beliefs" (which he concedes "are much less prevalent among white Americans of all classes today"), "a more subtle form of prejudice, which social scientists sometimes call symbolic racism, is still out there -- especially among working-class whites."
"Symbolic racism," he explains, "means believing that African American poverty and other problems are largely the result of lack of ambition and effort, rather than white racism and discrimination."
Read on.
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Posted at 9:22pm on May 6, 2008 B-b-but Moe, I thought *Republicans* were the Racist ones in America!!
By Jeff Emanuel
Ambinder concludes:
The basic demographic breakdowns suggest that the black/white split has widened as well (although I can't say too much about that now), which might mean that racial polarization (along with SES polarization) is driving the Democratic race to an unprecedented degree.
Um, yeah. Yeah, I'd say that when you have whites voting for your white candidate by a 2-to-1 margin, and blacks voting for your black candidate at a 9-to-1 margin, you do indeed have just a bit of a "racial polarization"/identity politics issue going on among your base of voters.
Just a bit of a problem with race in the Democratic Party. Race, race, race, Democrat, Democrat, Democrat...am I taunting a bit too much?
Ah, identity politics...as Rev. Wright might say, the chickens are a-comin' home to roost.
Posted at 2:47pm on May 5, 2008 It’s Not You, It’s Us
Tu freakin quoque, %$#&@#^$%&!^
By streiff
As we watch the Obama Hope-and-Change fraud collapse in on itself a garden industry is springing up with the purpose of psychoanalyzing those who are critical of Wright.
The criticism of Wright, we learn, is a function of our own prejudices and has nothing to do with Mr. Obama’s politics, statements, business associates, wife, friends, or pastor. You, too, associate with unseemly people. You, too, possess offensive beliefs. You, too, have said things which would lead to your public pillorying if you were running for president. You certainly have no right to criticize Mr. Obama. If you are critical of Mr. Obama, it is because of your own prejudices.
Read on.
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Posted at 1:33pm on May 2, 2008 Regarding racist language used in the Democratic Primary.
Which is, by the way, completely uncalled for.
By Moe Lane
It has come to our attention that there is a video being passed along that purports to be of a Clinton staffer using racist language. See Ben Smith for further details, including claims that it's all bogus anyway (I don't have a link to whichever site's leading the charge that it's not; if you have one, leave it in comments).
Whether or not the specific attack is false or true, one thing is clear: somebody in the Democratic Party's primary process seems to be intimately involved in the act of race-baiting. They should stop doing that.
Now.
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Posted at 11:45pm on Mar. 28, 2008 Wright and Obama: A Union of Thought
By absentee
"The statements that Rev. Wright made that are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity or heard him utter in private conversation." - Senator Obama on The Huffington Post
I wrote about that statement in my blog here, in which I called Barack a liar for it. Shortly thereafter, Senator Obama delivered his now-famous race speech, A More Perfect Union, which I wrote about here. Here is an excerpt from the speech:
"Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes. Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views? Absolutely -- just as I'm sure many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests or rabbis with which you strongly disagreed."
Senator Obama, A More Perfect Union"
Today at Powerline there's a post up about the Senator's first sermon at Trinity United Church of Christ, which he wrote about in his autobiography Dreams of My Father. This sermon excerpt was also previously discussed at The Corner.
Read on for an excerpt ...
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Posted at 8:05am on Mar. 2, 2008 re: Kevin Drum
By streiff
Let's not be hasty.
We all know subliminal messaging is real. The Dems spent a lot of time on this in 2000 with the infamous "RATS" message.
Given the seriousness of the allegation, I think it deserves serious investigation.
Posted at 7:33pm on Dec. 24, 2007 Turnabout Is Fair Play
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
This is dedicated to Paul Krugman.
