Priceless... a day after black actor Morgan Freeman makes news with very public, adamant and heavily reported statement declaring racism the reason Obama is doing so badly, that the extremist intolerance of small minded Tea Party elements and their racist machinations are behind the chosen one's fall from grace, the very next day these vile extremists make African American Herman Cain winner of the Florida republican straw poll. Priceless. Straw polls of course are infamous for being platforms for ideological agitation on the extremes of each party. Is there any chance this idiocy stops? Jesus, this was already tiresome in 2008 when moronic Obamaphiles were accusing Hillary of being a racist for saying bad things about Dear Leader - now it's just absurd. And yet these idiots go on - and worse, they're actually convinced of what they're saying, are convinced that their opinions are the fruit of reasonable, considered thought and keen analysis. It's very annoying.
News flash - racism exists, it's a very common human response to cultural frictions - all cultures, not just white males of western European decent hating on others who look different. All cultures dislike and distrust and fear all other cultures they come in contact with to some degree - this is fundamental human behavior - hell, it's pretty much fundamental behavior for anything alive and processing oxygen in order to stay so - of course there are those who deny the chosen one because of his somewhat dark pigmentation and the culture they may associate with it - but mostly the repudiation is a response to the man being very liberal and apparently incompetent - possibly 'Tea Party' activists should be happy he's incompetent - maybe he's incompetent because of his left wingedness, possibly the two go hand in hand - whatever - point is for anyone of a moderate or conservative bent there are very, very good reasons to dislike Obama that have absolutely nothing to do with race - I've not been a fan since his breakthrough speech in 2004 and I'm pretty sure I'm not a racist - like a lot of conservatives there was a time when I would have gladly entertained the idea of Condi Rice or Colin Powell being president - there's a very good chance that in the not too distant future both Nikki Haley [of Indian decent] and Marco Rubio [Hispanic] will run for president and like most conservatives I'll probably be open to supporting them if they prove capable - and you see, that's the key - prove capable - it's about performance and skills and beliefs, not skin color - in fact the only way race in any credible way factors into discussions about Obama is when we start wondering about what it means, what it says about the continuing viability of democracy when a guy can be elected leader of the most powerful nation on earth simply because he's black - and that's pretty much the only context within which Obama's race can be seen as an issue worth discussing.
But I'm wondering - would Mr Freeman be happy if a man demonstrably ill suited to running the country were to be reelected simply because voters were sensitive to charges of looking like racists if they didn't comply? Cause the only way his opinions make sense is if he's a complete and utter fool or he actually does think it a good idea to shame people into reelecting an incompetent - but, hell, ya know what, given the way liberals think, they probably wouldn't have a problem with incompetence just so long as it meant well.
God, we are screwed, aren't we.
