B-Rob:
You and I are on the same page. Running down Harvard’s worth and Obama’s intelligence is silly, unbecoming and counterproductive.
Likewise dismissing Bush as a semi-literate cowboy shilling for Big Oil. Or calling Cheney a Fascist and a war-criminal shilling for Haliburton.
Where we part company, B-Rob, is your smug and superior assumption that opposition to Obama is covertly (ahem) racism.
My wife and I voted for David Dinkins nearly two decades ago. We have offspring at Harvard and at equally prestigious and liberal universities. We are past contributors to Black causes. But neither we nor our children as far as we know are voting for Obama.
Obama’s shortcomings have no more to do with intelligence than Ralph Nader’s or Noam Chomsky’s. And (hats off to Geraldine Ferraro for the courage to say so)race has done Obama more good than harm.
I think you would have to agree that many white Americans are voting for Obama mainly to feel virtuous and fashionable. And 90% of the black vote is a racial tilt in Obama’s favor.
Obama’s is radioactive to voters like myself for the same reason your suggested candidates for the Supreme Court are radioactive. It has nothing to do with intelligence or academic credentials. Their smarmy leftist politics–contemptuous of honest merit and supportive of racial preferences, quotas and every form of social engineering–stink to high heaven.
Americans want change not revolution. We had a revolution in 1776 and we’re happy with the result. No Marxist, Fascist or Black National adjustments required.
