President Barack Obama.
He’s liberal. He’s black. He’s the President of the Untied States of America. What more could the Democrats want?
Well, apparently they’d prefer it if he was maybe just a skosh more effective, because his every failure — or even misstep — is now met with charges of “Racism!”
Funny how the American people weren’t racists when we elected him. We weren’t racists when he Rahmed his $780 billion special-interest payoff through Congress. We weren’t racists when the polls supported the non-specific, hopey-changey version of his health care reform.
But when Americans pushed back — against having their heating bills doubled, against having their health care plans usurped — suddenly, now, yes, we’re racists. No less an authority than Jimmy Carter (and his peanut heads from Kos and HuffPo on down to Garofalo and other, even less successful, hangers-on) has said so.
So. Has the America which elected President Obama by a comfortable majority not even one year ago, become suddenly more racist than it was on November 8, 2008? Or, implausible as it may seem, has a center-right country unsurprisingly soured on a left-left President and his left-left-left-left-left enablers on Capital Hill and in the Washington press corps?
And could it be just barely possible, that even some center-left folks here in America be a little put off by their Commander-in-Cheif telling them to knock off all that oh-so-inconvenient “bickering” and back-talking?
It doesn’t take Occam’s razor to slice this one, does it?
And it’s not even as if people didn’t anticipate this, back during the campaign. Whenever some glass-half-full type tried to find a silver lining in a potential Obama presidency (or, as in some cases, to justify their own willingness to vote for him) — “they can’t claim racism anymore” — others of us were right there reminding them that as soon as something Obama wants to do doesn’t happen…
On the day America elected its first (apparently) black president, everything changed. Except for, you know, everything.
Stephen, you could have written this post during the campaign and put it in a time capsule just to show how prescient you are. Was this at all hard to predict? I mean really, the list of center right, right, libertarian commentor’s who predicted this is too long to mention. And fortunately all those warnings have prepared us for this inevitability.
Mt favorite sign from the 9/12 rally went something like: “It doesn’t matter what I write here you’ll say it’s racist”
3 more years of this… ughhh..
There is partisan arguing, and there is partisan arguing with a dash of racism. The Birthers and their ilk have a huge amount of racism among them. What exists is a subset of anti-Democratic Party activists using racist nonsense, they aren’t getting called out much by the regular anti-Democratic Party folk, and it’s making their existence seem bigger than it actually is. There is racism, it is out there, and it’s not being acknowledged by the right because they know they don’t want a discussion on race.
Serious-minded folk can argue about policy without resorting to thinly-veiled racism such as Obama’s head photoshopped on a New Guinea (WTF? no images from old Tarzan movies available online?) tribesman’s body, but racists can’t resist. Serious people know that signs containing phrases such as “Robbin’ for the Hood” might not convey a good deal of respect for predominantly-minority urban areas or their denizens (though I am curious to hear their opinions on King John’s taxes to pay for foreign wars–would they rather he had borrowed from France or something?) But in a gathering of people with no set agenda other than an anti-Obama sentiment, the nuts will not get called out, instead they’ll be praised along with everyone else as “Good Americans” and such, bravely standing up for whatever it was they went to DC to do.
Saying they’re grass roots and such makes it hard for people like me to say that the whole movement is racist, so I don’t. I do say they’ve got some crappy people they hang out with, as any crowd will. The problem is, how do you call out your own? Democrats suck at it, Republicans suck at it, and the alleged independents who are angry about government (but mostly against this government) seem to be loathe to even begin to approach the notion that anyone, even racists who give their movement a bad name, should be called out unless they are named Charles Johnson.
Funny how the American people weren’t racists when we elected him.
We? Come, come, come now Vodkapundit. Neither you or Pajama Media have ever been part of the we, nor have you been part of the folks who health care as an impending crisis.
We believe in civility, and do not disrupt meetings legislators and the public. Of course some folks believe taking over a meeting with chants and shouts to be a true Patriotic expression. We believe it is thuggery and barbarism.
And, this will come as a shock to you. We do not run around screaming that the President was not born in Hawaii, or that he is a Muslim bent on the destruction of the free world.
However, we do find you infinitely amusing, the way a brain damaged dog is amusing as it chases its tail in an unending circle.
It only took four comments for the first charge of racism! to come out. Surely, there must be a corollary to Godwin’s Law for this.
It’s called the Non-niggardly Nod, and it’s name is itself racist so it’s rarely spoken of in polite company.
“We believe in civility, and do not disrupt meetings legislators and the public. Of course some folks believe taking over a meeting with chants and shouts to be a true Patriotic expression. We believe it is thuggery and barbarism.”
Heh. Please direct me to your contemporaneous disavowing the actions of “thuggish and barbaric” Democrats at this town hall meeting from 2005 (found in approximately twenty seconds of Googling):
http://www.iflipflop.com/2005/02/senator-rick-santorums-social-security.html
Fish. Barrel. Bang.
Paul does have a point.
The “we” who voted for Obama are far superior to those of us who oppose his agenda.
They merely run around claiming that Palin faked her pregnancy and that George Bush was behind 9/11, which are clearly much more realistic claims than those of the Birthers.
Their representatives merely boo the President during the State of the Union instead of interrupting an all important speech on health care.
They merely cheer the throwing of shoes at the President and grenades at the VP.
They merely assault conservative speakers when they’re not forcing them off of a stage.
Yes, truly they are our betters.
Racism is the last cry of the desperate…
or should I say the charge of racism is the last cry (or battle cry) of the desperate…
I think Bill Willingham nailed it in his response to Eric Holder:
“I don’t play your silly games anymore. I only ever talk about important matters like race and gender politics with those for whom there is still the possibility of serious discourse and reasoned debate. Your side has taken itself out of the game, and until such time as you on the left can get your house in order, you aren’t worth a reasonable man’s time or effort.
I’ll continue to live my life, free of prejudice, never oppressing anyone, hating no one on a group basis, and not participating in your cloud cuckoo world of vicious and hateful pan-victimology.”
It is — but the Left is using it to try to shut down serious discussion about anything, including race.
So, who is it again that doesn’t want a serious discussion on race?
Our Paul does a great job of demonstrating the heart of the problem.
Obama was sold to “us” by “them” as the man who would finally unite the bigger “us”, and move the country forward.
Pick your favorite issue, and insert the ultra left position as “them”, and anybody else as “us”. Really, pick any topic. Unions, environment, taxes, spending, race, trade, health care, GWOT, etc.
But now we see that was total bullshit. Instead, the default position is MORE divisiveness. If you disagree, it’s because you’re ignorant or racist or selfish or uncaring or unpatriotic or uncouth, yada yada label. And if that doesn’t quiet “us” down, its “Shut up bitches, we won!”
And here we have a prime example of one of “them” telling “us” that we are most definitely NOT part of the bigger “us”.
Maybe this is that audacity stuff “they” kept talking about.
I uppose if Thomas Sowell had been elected president (I wish) and was now pushing a pro-feeedom agenda, including massive tax cuts for all, we’d be protesting against him, too. Because we’re, you know, racists. We’d much rather elect Hillary Clinton, forego big tax cuts and surrender what’s left of our liberty, than have Sowell as president. Because, again, we’re racists.
5. Stephen Green:
“It only took four comments for the first charge of racism! to come out. Surely, there must be a corollary to Godwin’s Law for this.”
Yup Stephen, there is – but Clarice Feldman beat you to it: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/09/feldmans_law.html
Jebus jon…. That comment is the biggest piece of chickenshittery that I’ve read in a long time. And that’s saying something because I just got back from Huffpo to see their reaction of the ACORN shutdown. (I NEED A SHOWER)
Every party has crazies. Big whoop.. No insight required there. Score one for you… touche.. zzzzzzzzz…..
When racism charges rear their ugly head in a comments section, it usually means that someone wants to change the subject and does NOT want to discuss an issue on it’s mertis.
Way to go..
There is partisan arguing, and there is partisan arguing with a dash of racism.
And then there is partisan arguing based on false accusations of racism. Fortunately, the message of the Tea Parties was obvious to the top 98% of the country, who are able to identify Change! that has come to government since last year.
President Obama & his supporters such as fellow Democrats & the MSM use the boring, overplayed, brittle race card because they have no other weapon to use. They are desperate. However, I believe the overused race card thing is out of gas. It will have no real effect. After calling the the people at the Tea Parties & other protesters mobs, Nazi’s, & “evil-mongers” they sheepishly throw out the race card bomb. They are cowards & will be proven to be cowards as time moves on.
17.,
So Feldman’s law deals with reducto ad Klanum.
What would be the mirror image of claiming racists under every chair? McCarthyism? I’m not even going to bother asking these lefties if they have any sense of decency.
it is both laughable that Carter takes himself seriously and even more so that the press does.
if it was Carter giving the speech Joe might have called out “you’re stupid”
Carter …I hope the cheque from the Arabs doesn’t bounce. go away.
Our Paul @ 4:
Always the royal “we”. Aren’t you the precious little git? Glad to see us knuckleheads provide our betters such good fodder. Feh…
This racist card is getting worn out. It no longer has any strength.
I’m sorry, but we ARE in the post-racial era whether the left likes it or not. If a black man can be elected president, how racist can America possibly be? This isn’t a rhetorical question and the left can’t answer it. What opportunity is there left to be gained by black Americans if America were less racist? Race Card, meet the law of diminishing returns. If we can elect a black president, we can’t be racist enough to matter.
The reason, of course, is because the left positively thrives on racial division. Not only do they not want the wound to heal, they savagely tear the scab off and pour salt into it. Liberal politics is based on division and grievance-mongering.
The vicious racism of recent times has been that directed at Condoleeza Rice, Colin Powell, Clarence Thomas, Michael Steele; todays Democrats hate and fear an black conservative who has left their plantation as much as their forbears hated and feared Nat Turner.
As Morgan Freeman said: “The way to end racism is to stop talking about it.”
Liberals, this time you’ve unzipped and stepped on it. What political genius on Axelrod’s conference calls or JournoList thought it was somehow smart to call millions of Americans racists, when they themselves know good and goddamn well they aren’t? Stupid, stupid, stupid.
I smell desperation. Name-calling is always the last refuge of the left-wing scoundrel: ample proof of which can be seen on these boards.
Carter’s and other charges of racism when the policies of President Obama are opposed is pure “chickenshittery” or BULLSHIT! Can I say bull***t? I guess I just did.