Obama’s popularity proves the image of a racially divided, divisive country is a false and manipulative one. Period. Perhaps that’s why Obama was basically arguing today that we ought to look past racial politics to the “real villains:” the corporations who, like, ruin lives man, just for a Profit.
The basic secret of the Obama campaign is that any PR consultant would know the following: of course you, a black man, don’t have to mention race – the media will do it for you!
Plus a nice baritone sermonizing in populist civil rights terms. C’mon – civil rights is pretty much the only thing we Americans learn about our history anymore anyway. Civil rights, race/slavery, and some vague gestures about the Founding Fathers and the Revolution. Obama has all that going for him before he even opens his mouth. All he has to do is not talk like Jesse Jackson – a thick-tongued rhyming idiot – and Voila! I give you the 2008 presidential nominee for the Democratic Party, free.
