@Benj
I hesitate to hit the keys since I can no longer make a presumption of reason in addressing you, but…
You seem to be living in an overheated fervor in a mental projection that has no basis in the real world.

That means unhinged, basically. And especially emotionally unhinged.

You quote from your Messiah’s self aggrandizing monologues like a religious fundamentalist spouts the Koran or the Bible.

You also trot out your brand of patriotism to bolster your gratuitously insulting comments about Wretchard. As if citizenship per se has any impact on a person’s ability to think and reason.

It seems to me that people are here at BC to discuss events of general interest and generally do so at a high level that tends to spin off emotive second rate personalities which makes this site somewhat self policing.
With your notable exception.

You are an Obama supplicant to an embarrassing degree, and I cannot figure out whether that is the basis of your exceptional emotionalism or the emotionalism a precursor to your Obama fetish.

But then I see other very odd bits you have written that make me think even more that your life is an emotional rollercoaster that has overpowered any reason you might have once had.

And your presumptiousness and silliness is breathtaking.

How dare you wank on about a political candidate who “promised to help all Americans overcome the legacy of white supremacy”.

There is no legacy to overcome. Just how many people do you think died in the Civil War?

And that was at a time when my family on both sides was still in Ireland. So I’m supposed to sign on for retrospective guilt and reparations??? Silly little man.

Why the state of moral panic, Benj? Why the cultural self loathing compared with nationalism/jingoism when it suits your mindless pursuit of Obama’s cause? Incoherent and schizoid.

Obama “calling out to Americans’ better angels”??? That is most breathtakingly foolish, intellectually vain bit of psycophantism I have seen off Daily Kos in years.

You’re out of your league, boy.

And you’re racist, too. You’re painting your boy colors he might not want to be when he grows up. He might not want your schtick at all but it sounds like you have it all bundled up for him, poor little sod.

If he gets the unconditional love he needs above all else from you and his mother at this crucial stage all else is secondary.

If you set an example of reason and open mindedness and love of life for him instead of trying to inculcate your dreary and erratic emotional baggage on him he will be far better off for it.

If someone else has a problem with him being black, let it be their problem, not his. The Constitution and the law are on his side in any significant contretemps and a well adjusted individual will handle minor stuff like graffiti without buying in to it.

“how much O’s presence has done for him”???
Get a life, Benj. O’s is a political hustler with ideas that have no resonance with anyone that understands the basis of American exceptionalism and concomitant freedom.

Most of his support comes from would-be revolutionaries, leftist hustlers, the corrupt Chicago political machine and black Americans who are caught up in identity politics on racial grounds.

That’s as boring (but perhaps predictable)as feminists backing Hillary who got where she was by being married to another vain political huckster and pants man.

Get a grip, Benj.

Look at the content not the color of his skin.

I couldn’t care less that Hillary is a woman and I couldn’t care less that Obama is part black.

I’m interested in the content of their characters, their accomplishments, their beliefs, their respect for the values that formed the basis for this wonderful experiment most of us grew up in (the US) and you’re getting emotive about the color of his skin.

And those two manifestly do not respect traditional American values.

You’re a racist yourself and the unnatural thing about it is that you are against your own race and paying your dues in the most tedious of ways.

For Chrissakes, Benj, say one Our Father and ten Hail Marys and fuck off.

Poor kid.

Sounds like he’s gonna grow up with an attitude like Michelle Obama’s.

Perpetual grievance.

Let him be happy, Benj.

He’s not here to be your ego extension.

Your legitimate function is to help launch him in this life not saddle him with your anger and list of personal grievances.

Poor little kid. With a goofball father waging idiot jihad in his behalf.

Arrrggghhhh.