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June 22, 2008

On The Audacity of Racism

Topics: Political News and commentaries

"We know what kind of campaign [the Republicans are] going to run. They're going to try to make you afraid. They're going to try to make you afraid of me. He's young and inexperienced and he's got a funny name. And did I mention he's black?" - Barack Obama in Jacksonville Fl on June 20.

Maynard writes at Tammy Bruce.com on a clip from Obama's Florida fundraiser on Friday (see above quote and video below) played by Tammy on her Saturday show:

Obama was working the crowd, and he got a huge snicker on that last line. Yeah, I'm running against racists who appeal to racist voters, haw haw haw.

This is an absurd twist of words. Obama's history at the forefront of his racist, hatemongering church exposes him as the candidate favored by the real racists. His track record, as brief as it is, is thoroughly tainted. He can't explain this away, so he changes the subject by accusing the other guy of his own crime.

It seems the unfounded accusation of future white racism is a lot more damning than the actuality of present black racism.

Does everybody remember McCarthyism? That was during the era when America faced down the Communist block. And indeed there were Communists among us, not to mention a cadre of useful idiots. Sadly, the excesses of some opportunistic anti-Communists ultimately did more harm to the noble ideal of fighting Communism than it did to the Communists.

Today's witch hunters pursue racists. And indeed there really are racists, just as there really were traitors and Communists. But the endless self-serving accusations of racism against innocent people merely serve to harass and intimidate and divide us.

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Now just think about what Obama is doing; isn't this very much like the pot calling the kettle black (pun most definitely intended)? In Obama's world view if you disagree with him or call his judgment and/or character into question, for which there are an astoundingly large and growing number of reasons to do so, you're a racists.

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