The Card
Posted on June 23, 2008
Either it’s this,
If there was ever really any doubt that the card would be played, you can now set it aside. It’s already been played. This afternoon, for example, we came across the following Reader’s Article at Real Clear Politics: “The Perfect Site For Racist Obama Haters “. Clicking on the article title brings you to the website of that notorious racist and antisemite David Duke. http://www.davidduke.com/ This, then, is how they will fight.
If anyone still believes that this contest isn’t going to be about race, or that the Obama supporters aren’t fully prepared to use that proverbial card whenever they see it to their advantage, then they’d better wake up. This is how they intend to fight the fight. These are going to be their tactics. “Racist Obama Haters” — how comfortably those three words fit together. The message is clear and undeniable, isn’t it? Either you’re for Obama or you’re for racism.
For those who still somehow held out hope that the other side wouldn’t actually sink that low, that they wouldn’t attempt to reduce this immensely important presidential race to a showdown between blacks and whites for racial hegemony, all one has to do is recall the disillusioning travesties of the Rodney King or the OJ Simpson trials to be disabused of those unreasonable expectations. Did those ludicrous charades have anything whatsoever to do with justice? Or were they just about a black man standing up to the white man’s system? And now that the stakes are even higher — as high as they could possibly be — can we expect the battle to be any less ferocious, or the tactics any less ruthless? Can we reasonably presume that this great national contest will be solely concerned with electing the best candidate for the job regardless of race? Not anymore. The card has been played; it’s on the table.
Now more than ever, isn’t this November going to be about a black man standing up to the white man’s system? A black man standing up to the Racist Obama Haters?
Of course, to even pose such a question is to automatically be indicted of the crime. And this, my friends, is precisely why, despite its inherent absurdity, that overused card is such a formidable tactic. The opposition is effectively silenced.
Was the OJ Simpson trial about a cold-blooded double murder, or about racial retribution?
One can only wonder, what will November’s Obama trial be about?
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This isn’t about race but about who’s politics are the best. Obama is so far left that he makes Ted Kennedy look like a right-wing conservative.
It isn’t the color of his skin but he color of his politics.
The opposition is NOT “effectively silenced.”
We will go right on critizing Obama on his positions and the issues. My “Nobama” (with a hammer and sickle represent the “O” will remain in the window of my car, and I plan to add others.
One of the most powerful weapons we have is the words of Martin Luther King Jr.; “I have a dream…they will be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Hammer on how Obama is disgracing King’s memory with his playing of the race card.
The Republican candidate in Florida, a military man, was not “silenced” by Obama’s playing the race card. He issued a brief, eloquent and powerful statement that packed more substance than Barack’s long-winded race speech ever could.
And most importantly, votes are still private. We speak silently, and powerfully, by pulling a lever or punching a card.
And by the way, trials come down to twelve people under intense pressure and scrutiny. People will feel no such pressure in the voting booth. There will be no one calling them “racist” as they pull the lever for McCain. They will not vote out of guilt, and they will feel no shame for voting for the most qualified candidate. And no one will know how they voted unless they choose to tell.
Right on Gregg. I agree.