Would You Like Some OJ With That Race Baiting?

If you've been a conservative who has ever spoken his or her mind about our current president, you've undoubtedly been treated to the mindless, knee jerk reaction of a dull witted liberal (but I repeat myself), that the only reason you oppose Barack Obama is 'because he's black'. The recent 20 year anniversary of the slow moving, white Bronco (no, not John Elway!*), got me to thinking about O.J. Simpson. OJ was a very popular fellow. A football star in college, OJ played in the NFL for nine years: eight with the Buffalo Bills, one with the S.F. 49er's. He won the Heisman Trophy, among other awards, played in 6 NFL Pro Bowls, was drafted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, became a commentator on Monday Night Football, acted and starred in numerous motion pictures...oh, and did I mention that OJ is black??? I only mention that, insomuch, that I don't think of OJ as a "black" NFL player, a "black" actor or a "black" murderer, any more than I think of George Hamilton as a "chestnut brown" actor or John Boehner as the "orange" Speaker of the House. Their race and color is irrelevant.

So, here's OJ, a black man, a household name in most of America, well liked and popular, whose star was eclipsed suddenly because of something that he allegedly did. It wasn't his race that people took exception with, it was his actions, or at least those that people imagined he did.

Why can't you modern liberals conceivably apply the same standard to the OJ of the Oval Office? Conservatives oppose the exact same policies when espoused by Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid and they are white, orange and gray, respectively. Still, the same old, tired canard about race pops up in nearly every discussion. Can't we just 'cut to the chase', as it were, and get to the part where you have absolutely no argument apart from the race card? It would save ever so much time and then we could reserve the term "racist" for those few despicable folk who truly deserve it, and not just people who disagree with you politically.



The OJ of the Oval Office
Original art by John Cox. More at John Cox Art
Cross posted at LCR, Political Clown Parade


*BTW, He still hates that joke!

All Expense Paid Touré of a Racebaiter's Mind

Most of us have never heard of this guy Touré before. With any luck, most of us never will again.

Clueless Joe Biden is trying to brand Mitt Romney and the Republicans as racist, as wanting to put blacks "back into chains", and when Mitt responds to having been called a felon, a tax cheat and a racist, he notes the desperation of the Obama/Biden campaign. At this point, Obama's surrogates point a finger and accuse Romney of racism, of using "code words" for racism. I hardly know whether to laugh or cry, when Biden accuses Romney of wanting to enslave blacks and Romney is the one attacked for his imaginary "racism".

The evidence? Romney used the word "angry" twice. Twice I tell you!!! Obama must be one of those "angry black men" they were talking about in the sixties! Could the race card be any less subtle or any more obvious? And note, it is not the Republicans who are playing it. When I hear the word "angry" used for Barack Obama, as with most people, I believe it goes to his state of mind, not the color of his skin. The "content of his character", if you will. And it's not always a bad thing to be angry, either, if you are angry at the right things. My Bible tells me, if I remember correctly, that God is angry with sin every day. If Jonathan Edwards had written "Sinners in the hands of an angry, angry God", would he have been have been using code that God is black?

The Twitterverse was quite active in mocking the race baiting stupidity of Touré yesterday. I contributed (among other things) that #ThingsToureThinksAreRacist "Angry, Angry Birds".

Romney's audience, according to the biased, race baiting world of Touré, are "trained to hate him (Obama), who want to hate him". Really? When was this? Did I miss training camp somehow? Was I sick that day?? Does this mean conversely that Democrats are "trained to hate and want to hate conservatives and Republicans" (and fiscal responsibility)? Given the liberal bent of most institutions of higher learning, it it far easier to imagine the latter than the former.

Joe Biden, according to his own words, thinks we are still in the 20th Century, and while it is not uncommon for liberals to be a century behind in their thinking, it is no longer 2008. Barack Obama is not a blank slate for voters to project their hopes on. He is not the vague Hopey Changey candidate of 2008. He has a track record and it's all bad. People have had four years to come to grips with Obama's multiracial and ethnic composition. The problem for Democrats is not that people don't know what to think of Barack Obama. Their problem is that they do.

Touré further asserts that the GOP has been working with "racial codes" going back to Nixon with the War on Drugs, because obviously white people don't do drugs? He blames the "first Bush" with Willie Horton. Willie Horton was supposedly part of the "typical Republican playbook". But, facts are such stubborn things, Mr. Touré! Willie Horton was introduced into the campaign against Michael Dukakis by...Democrat Al Gore in the primaries. And as far as general election went, I did not see any ads about Willie Horton. When I heard the facts about the case, on the radio, my first impression was of some fat, white guy sitting around in a "wifebeater" shirt, like the Willie in "Willie and Ethel". It wasn't until some months later that I saw Mr. Horton's picture (in Newsweek), that I discovered he was black.

The "scary" thing about the Willie Horton affair was not his race, but the fact that the governor of Massachusetts willing gave hardened criminals a "weekend pass" to leave prison and commit acts of mayhem on the unsuspecting community at large.

Touré includes Reagan's remarks about "welfare queens" in his litany of imaginary racism. Is he once again ignorant of the fact, that by virtue of blacks being a minority in this country, the majority of people on welfare, in Reagan's day at least, were white? Is it such a foreign concept to liberals such as Touré (I keep wanting to say Tourettes!), that some people might be outraged not by the color of their skin, but by the fact that able bodied people were living off the toil and hard work of others? Or worse yet, outright defrauding the system?

And to prove he might be permanently stuck on stupid, Touré calls the Republican party an "all white" party. This will come as quite a shock to many of my black, Hispanic and Asian Republican friends, who in actually are less white than is Barack Obama himself!

As a matter of fact, MSNBC is more lily white than the Republican party! A photo from 2009:


So, in summing things up: Touré's evidence is scant, contradictory and unconvincing, his methodology is sloppy, and his appeal to the authority of unnamed "scholars" is more reminiscent of quoting from a talking points memo than any real scholarship.

I can see where he might be the darling of liberal dinner parties, but he is in no way in any danger as being characterized as an "angry, angry man". When people call him a "lightweight", as I do, they're not thinking "boxing division".


Video via The Last Tradition

Cross posted at LCR.

One Man's Debt Ceiling is Another Man's Floor

Do you remember not that long ago, that one of the race baiting, lesser lights of Congress was bleating that the only reason Republicans were resisting Obama in raising the debt ceiling was because he was black?

The fact is, the debt ceiling has been raised three times already since Obama became president. Where was the drama then, Mama? Sorry! Don't mean to let facts spoil a perfectly good narrative!

And all the current shills for the President, and Obama himself are telling us a "six month deal" is "no good". And "Why put the country through this crisis again in six months?"

The three debt ceiling raises to date in "Obamaville":

February 2010 - $14.294 trillion
December 2009 - $12.394 trillion
February 2009 - $12.104 trillion

Gosh! February '09 to December '09 was just ten months. And December '09 to February '10 was just three months! Mirabile dictu! How can this be??? Obama and the Democrats in Congress wouldn't put this country's credit rating in peril for a lousy three months, would they? Would they??

The answer is yes, they would. Because the debt ceiling crisis is a phony one. The matter of an ever increasing public indebtedness is the real crisis, which neither Obama nor more than a few in Congress are willing to even admit, much less discuss like adults.

Maybe the fact that the debt ceiling was only raised seven times in Bush's eight years, and already it's been raised three times, going on four, in Obama's two and a half years has something to do with it?
Or maybe it's the multi-trillion dollar, out of control spending with no end in sight that is causing people to resist giving the President another trillion dollar blank check?

Cross posted at LCR, Say Anything.