White guilt trip
By Mustang Bobby
In Tuesday's column, George F. Will basically conceded the election to Barack Obama, but he's not going gracefully or without some of his twee condescending snark:
In other words, the only reason Barack Obama was elected in the first place was that he was black, and now the only reason that he's going to be re-elected is that the nation overwhelmingly feels bad about firing him lest they be seen as racist. It had nothing to do with the fact that the previous administration had totally bankrupted the country, taken us into two unpaid-for wars, trampled all over our civil rights, turned party politics into the mission statement of the Justice Department, and embarrassed us on the stage of the world by sending forth a president who came across as too dumb to play dead in a cowboy movie.
Now they put forth a Republican nominee who, for all we can tell, is no different than the last GOP president except with better hair, who thinks nearly half the country is nothing but moochers and parasites waiting for a hand-out, and who has shown all the courage of his convictions as a bowl of warm Jello. But it's the White Guilt that's doing it for Barack Obama.
Sheesh.
(Cross-posted at Bark Bark Woof Woof.)
In Tuesday's column, George F. Will basically conceded the election to Barack Obama, but he's not going gracefully or without some of his twee condescending snark:
That Obama is African American may be important, but in a way quite unlike that darkly suggested by, for example, MSNBC's excitable boys and girls who, with their (at most) one-track minds and exquisitely sensitive olfactory receptors, sniff racism in any criticism of their pin-up. Instead, the nation, which is generally reluctant to declare a president a failure — thereby admitting that it made a mistake in choosing him — seems especially reluctant to give up on the first African American president. If so, the 2012 election speaks well of the nation's heart, if not its head.
In other words, the only reason Barack Obama was elected in the first place was that he was black, and now the only reason that he's going to be re-elected is that the nation overwhelmingly feels bad about firing him lest they be seen as racist. It had nothing to do with the fact that the previous administration had totally bankrupted the country, taken us into two unpaid-for wars, trampled all over our civil rights, turned party politics into the mission statement of the Justice Department, and embarrassed us on the stage of the world by sending forth a president who came across as too dumb to play dead in a cowboy movie.
Now they put forth a Republican nominee who, for all we can tell, is no different than the last GOP president except with better hair, who thinks nearly half the country is nothing but moochers and parasites waiting for a hand-out, and who has shown all the courage of his convictions as a bowl of warm Jello. But it's the White Guilt that's doing it for Barack Obama.
Sheesh.
(Cross-posted at Bark Bark Woof Woof.)
Labels: 2012 election, Barack Obama, conservatives, George W. Bush, George Will, race, racism
posted by Michael J.W. Stickings at
4:00 PM
1 Comments:
On the baseball point, Will is really spinning something and it ain't gold. He wants to make a point about how firing a black coach is something like the hiring of the first black player. I don't think Frank Robinson was the first black coach to be fired. And isn't the connection to Judy Johnson, the first black coach? I know, I know: they have the same last name. That's pretty lame.
Why don't MSM sources start showing that they are truly non-discriminatory by firing people like George Will. If Will weren't conservative, he would not be in syndication.
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Frankly Curious, at 4:14 PM
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