CNN’s Cafferty: Not Voting Obama? You’re a Racist!
Posted on September 18, 2008
-By Warner Todd Huston
To show the empty “logic” that Jack Cafferty of CNN employs in his political commentary all one need do is check out his September 16 Political Ticker blog post on why the race for the White House is so tight in the polls. Reason: the country is filled with racists. Yes, folks, if you are voting against Obama (and no matter who or what you are actually supporting and why) it must be because you are a racist. It isn’t because you stand against what Obama stands for, it has to be because you are a racist.
This delusional, preconceived notion is becoming the excuse du jour with Democrat supporters that have lately seen a dawning hint that McCain may just win this election. And, that is really all it is, too. An excuse. An excuse that ignores all the warts and obvious problems with Barack Obama, his record, and the fantasy stage show that is his campaign.
Here is what Cafferty posted:
Will race be the factor that keeps Obama from the White House?
Race is arguably the biggest issue in this election, and it’s one that nobody’s talking about.
The differences between Barack Obama and John McCain couldn’t be more well-defined. Obama wants to change Washington. McCain is a part of Washington and a part of the Bush legacy. Yet the polls remain close. Doesn’t make sense…unless it’s race.
Time magazine’s Michael Grunwald says race is the elephant in the room. He says Barack Obama needs to tread lightly as he fights back against the McCain-Palin campaign attacks.
Let’s devastate this absurd argument line by line…
His first line after the initial question claims that “nobody’s talking” about the race factor in Obama’s bid for the White House. What planet is this guy watching the campaign from, anyway? Nearly every single pundit, political maven, and news caster has brought up the race angle since the day Obama announced his intention to run.
Since day one it has been claimed that Obama’s run for president is an “historic” one. Well, what does “historic” mean if it isn’t because he’s the first black man to win the nomination of a major political party to run for the top job? It sure isn’t because he’s male or a Democrat. In case Cafferty isn’t aware, there have been more than a handful of male Democrats that have run for the White House in the past.
On top of that, Obama has thrown out the race card dozens of times, himself. Where Cafferty gets the crazy, uninformed idea that “nobody” is talking about race is anybody’s guess. All Jackie would have had to do was Google Race plus Obama and my guess is he’d get more than a hit or two!
Now, paragraph two is so free of reason and logic that it boggles the mind. And it serves not only to make his argument absurd, it shows what a failure he is as a political analyst.
Cafferty says that the difference between the two candidates “couldn’t be more well-defined.” That is a fair statement. Then he follows that with a lie so brazen that it chokes in the throat.
Obama wants to change Washington. McCain is a part of Washington and a part of the Bush legacy.
Cafferty just plain lied here. McCain has an actual record of challenging Washington. He’s done it for decades and raised the ire of his own party by being the “maverick” too many times to mention. Obama has talked a lot about change, sure, yet he has no history… not one scintilla of a record… of ever having changed anything. He’s never challenged the Senate. He’s never challenged his party. He never even challenged the status quo of corrupt Daley machine politics of Chicago when he was in state government back in Illinois. In fact, he benefited quite handsomely from that corrupt system.
Then Cafferty, employing his Einstein-like powers of observation, gives us this trenchant analysis:
Yet the polls remain close. Doesn’t make sense…unless it’s race.
First of all, Einstein, the electorate itself has been closely hewn in half since the Clinton years — heck even since Reagan realigned politics in this country. So, that reason alone could easily account for the close split in the polls today. But to ascribe it solely to race, while at the same time offering no real proof, demonstrates Cafferty’s utter lack of understanding anything in this campaign or this country.
Further, his sheer astonishment is based on a central assumption that also proves he has no capacity to understand American culture and politics and should, therefore, never be taken seriously as a political commentator. Cafferty’s amazement that anyone could possibly want to support McCain is based solely on his assumption that Barrack is clearly 100% right on all points. This assumption is so blindly partisan that it admits not one shred of understanding that there truly is a substantive difference between the philosophy behind Republican thinking and that of Democrats. It assumes that Democrats are all 100% correct in their political philosophy and that Republicans are merely racists for not following along.
Are there people who won’t vote for Obama because he’s black? Surely there are. Is it the predominant reason that millions won’t vote for him? What proof of this is there? Further, there were many millions who didn’t vote for Obama in the primaries for the reason that he isn’t a woman. Did Cafferty attack every feminazi for their assertion that people should vote Hillary because she was a she and not a he? If so, I’d like to see it.
Cafferty completely misses the salient fact that millions of Americans stand against Barack Obama because they feel his ideas are anti-capitalist, anti-military, pro-European policies that pull against American exceptionalism. They see his terrorist pals, his race-baiting pastors, his wife who isn’t proud of her country and they wonder why they should vote for such a person?
Cafferty is so blind to the real reasons that people vote the way that they do that he simply blows off the whole closely split political balance with the shadowy excuse of rampant American “racism.” This failure of Cafferty’s totally discredits him as a political observer.
Now, it is perfectly possible to assume that the “other” half of the electorate is wholly wrong in its thinking as Cafferty clearly does, and still be an effective political analyst (Michael Barone and Brit Hume are prime examples of this). For example, the philosophy behind the Democrats has long ago strayed from what it once was to a philosophy closer to a Euroesque amalgam of socialism, and populism. Democrats ceased being truly American in their thinking many decades ago. So, yes, they are horribly wrong. But to discount that those ideas exist and are a major player in American politics is simply absurd. So discounting that “other” side that it interferes with your ability to see the whole of the electorate dooms serious political analysis.
This, in truth, is where Cafferty has ended up. He so hates traditional American conservatism, so despises and discounts the Republican Party that he can’t even admit that many millions of Americans hold to those principles and will vote that way because of them. To Cafferty, no one is voting McCain because they adhere to Republican principles, they are just racists against Obama.
Lastly, in his final sentence, Cafferty uses someone else’s words to cement for us the fact that he has none of his own to offer.
Cafferty’s thinking process makes him completely unfit to be a political analyst. And his blog post serves as a prime example of why.
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Me? Racist?
What about Sen. B Hussein Obama?
He’s as racist as they come in that he supports the work and purposes of racist organizations such as Planned Parenthood.
Ms. Margaret Sanger, PP’s founder, was just as much a racist, in that she encouraged the destruction of unborn black babies.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
no, you aren’t a racist because you aren’t voting for Obama. You’re a racist because of the lies, falsehoods, and innuendo you are using in describing him. Grow a pair, you’re acting like a baby.
I’m a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight…..
* If you grow up in Hawaii , raised by your grandparents, you’re “exotic, different.”
* Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story.
* If your name is Barack you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
* Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you’re a maverick.
* Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
* Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you’re well grounded.
* If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate’s Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran’s Affairs committees, you don’t have any real leadership experience.
* If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you’re qualified to become the country’s second highest ranking executive.
* If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you’re not a real Christian.
* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you’re a Christian.
* If you teach children about sexual predators, you are irresponsible and eroding the fiber of society.
* If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state’s school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you’re very responsible.
* If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family’s values don’t represent America’s.
* If you’re husband is nicknamed “First Dude”, with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn’t register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that hates America and advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.
I have one question…..and that is, if someone votes for Barack Hussein Obama BECAUSE he’s black, does that make them a racist, or an enlightened citizen?
Believe what you would like to believe but RACE is a major factor in this race. Why is Obama labeled as African American when he is only half African American? I’ll tell you why, this one drop rule that was put in place to oppress black people in this country.
Seriously, McCain and Palin have lied to the American people and have proven time after time that they are not working to the best interest of the majority of us yet you find many willing to vote for him because they can’t bring themselves to vote for a black man. I’m not saying that all who don’t vote for Obama are racist but that population is big enough to make a significant difference. I am not a Democrat but I am voting for Obama.
politicjock wrote: “If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer”…
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Thank you for the segue! Yes, let’s check that out.
Google ACORN and Obama and see what Obama did as a community organizer and what his current involvement is with an organization that actively perpetuates voter fraud and misuse, AND had a major role in the housing crisis! I wish more people knew about this!
One other question, I’ll bet that Barry Hussein ZEROBama got into Yale/Harvard because he IS BLACK! How many other more deserving people were not admitted so that the “panty waists” can feel good about themselves by letting a loser (who happens to be BLACK) into those Ivy League Schools. How low did they have reduce the bar on that one? Next…………
I had someone who said that she was taking a poll call me several months ago. She asked “If I was going to vote for Hiliary?”. I said “No.”. She asked “If I was sexist?”. I said “No”. She asked “If I was going to vote for Obama?”. When I replied “No.” she called me a racist. I said to her “I’m neither a sexist or a racist. If Condi Rice wanted to run for President, I would not only vote for her, I would help campaign for her.”. The next thing I heard was something that sounded like someone choking and then she hung up.
J. Collins, you are truly a breath of fresh air. Honest and to the point! Thank you very much.
Why is Obama labeled as African American when he is only half African American? I’ll tell you why, this one drop rule that was put in place to oppress black people in this country.
50% Caucasian, 43.75% Arabic and 6.25% Africa Negro, does not make him African American.
Yep, it makes it makes him black as the Ace of Spades, and as such, he has been able to take advantage of Affirmative Action. If this black, muslim, commie does get elected, it will be the Crowning Glory of Affirmative Action—————-and if he does, man is he and the dummycrats in for some grief.
Mr Cafferty,
I will not stand by and have someone like you telling me I am a racist just because I will not vote for Barack Hussein Obama. Mr Obama’s political philosophy is totally opposite of mine and that is the main reason I can not vote for him. Mr Obama is absolutely not qualified to be POTUS. This is why Mr Obama will not get my vote, not because of the color of his skin.
77.3% of all statistics in blog comments are made up on the spot…
politicjock, most of what you listed about Barack is inaccurate.
He was a Lecturer. Not a professor.
He was not a brilliant community organizer. He said his efforts as one resulted in no change for the better, but instead, the kids in the neighborhoods he worked in became “edgier,” despite his efforts. He so much as said so in his book.
I wouldn’t extol his involvement with ACORN and their high incidence of falsified voter registrations, if I were you. That isn’t really a plus for the Dali Bama.
Also, anyone who derides the accomplishments of someone who has a record of accomplishments discredits himself. He, then, is not deserving of any respect or recognition of any accomplishments, himself, ESPECIALLY when he has a documented record of not having any.
Roger, I gotta say that yer barking up the wrong tree to correct the false claims of politicjerk. He is not interested in truth.
If you are black and over 95% of your “race” votes for Obama that’s not racist. If you are white and you won’t vote for Obama you are a racist. When will the American public wake up to the inherent liberal bias of the MSM and the white guilt they are trying to shove down our collective throats. I could not care if Obama is purple with polka dots, his economic policy is leftist socialism. If it makes me a racist because I won’t support it, then so be it.
Why is the fact that 94% of blacks support obamessiah not be considered racist as well?
me a racist never concidered myself as one, but if voting against the “great community organizer”means that i am a racist then sign me up. actually i would never in my life vote for anyone like the big O no matter what the color of his skin is. i was very much hoping for the chance of Dr. Rice becomming our next president. anyway boys and girls the reason we are seeing the increase in hostilities from our moonbat friends(i use the term friends loosely)is that they are very concerned about the obama/biden ticket failure. it is not what is supposed to happen, they COUNTED THEIR CHICKENS BEFORE THEY CAME HOME TO ROOST. so if someone calls me a racist based on this new concept i will proudly accept the label
CNN its the COMMUNISTS.NEWS.NETWORK and its a nasty bit of lies half truth and fruad run and owned by RED TED TURNER
If you vote FOR or AGAINST anyone based on race as a primary (or secondary or in fact any part of the equation) YOU ARE A RACIST (and this includes the intellectually dishonest crowd who are consumed with White Guilt)
Policies, politics, and ability are -all- that matter — or all that -should- matter.
I agree with Curious Fellow – the largest expression of racism and “mob think” is the fact that over 90% of blacks support Obama. If this is not a “red flag” expression of the bound-up internal racism of the black community I don’t know what is.
As a hispanic, my father-in-law experienced the same racism in the 40’s and 50’s that blacks did. I see the same type of “mob” uh, “community organizer” thinking that says me first America last.
I’m fed up with this type of “group think” – let’s be Americans first, look outside of ourselves and help others – is anyone helping the victims of Ike? I didn’t think so.
Just heard on Prager radio podcast: Republicans will not vote for Obama because we disagree with his policies. Skin color is a non-issue. Rather, his rabid anti-life position, his weak foreign policy experience, and his #1 liberal voting record in the US Senate are just a few of the reasons that conservatives will not vote for him. Thus ONLY those Democrats, who agree with his policies, but still vote against him, could possibly be racist. Ironic, no?