Mac Johnson on Obama's 'audacity of hype'... (Updated)

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Mac Johnson discusses Barack Obama... The Human Rorschach Blot:

... He's a moderate. He's a third way. He's demographic fusion cuisine. He's a floor wax. He's a desert topping. He’s everything you'd hoped for and whatever you need. That's the beauty of being unknown. ...

... If any of the fawning were asked to name his greatest accomplishment, could they name an accomplishment? Other than being elected to the Senate just two and a half years ago, and being simultaneously black and yet likeable to white folks, I mean.

For emphasis, let's examine a list of Obama’s major accomplishments (so far):

Simultaneously black and yet likeable to white folks

Made the initials "B.O." cool again

Good oral hygiene

That's it. He's the Wayne Brady of politics - everything white folks had been hoping for in at least one black person, the big payoff for all that tolerance and diversity babble. That may not be the politically correct thing to say, but it is an honest assessment of exactly what pent-up desire is fueling Obamamania among his white, liberal fan base. ...

For a related read, try John Hawkins on Racist Democrats vs. Colorblind Republicans:

Here's the reality: there are racists in both parties. But, there are a lot more of them in the Democratic Party and there always have been. But ironically, Democrats have managed to use the GOP's belief in a colorblind America against us. Because so many Democrats have no problem with using racial discrimination for political purposes, they'll support policies like reparations, Affirmative Action, and racial quotas that Republicans simply won't. Then they deftly distort and exploit incidents like the Katrina rescue efforts and Bill Bennett's condemnation of the idea that black babies could be aborted to reduce the crime rate to convince black Americans that the GOP hates black Americans.

This is all despite the fact that for a large number of black Americans, the GOP is a much better fit than the Democratic Party. The GOP is the party that's friendly to religion, anti-abortion, against gay marriage, tough on crime, and for low taxes and school vouchers. Yet, so many black Americans have been deceived into sticking with the Democrats even though the Dems do so many things that are harmful to our country as a whole and to black Americans in particular.

That's why if you're a black American who thinks the GOP better represents your views than the Democratic Party, then it's time to join the Republican Party. Don't let the Democrats lie to you and tell you that the GOP is full of racists, especially when there are so many distinguished black Americans out there who can tell you otherwise. Look to Condi Rice, Colin Powell, Rod Paige, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Larry Elder, J.C. Watts, Michael Steele, Ken Blackwell, Lynn Swann -- and you'll see that the GOP judges people not "by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

Finally, take the latest (8th) GOP Straw Poll from GOP Bloggers.

Update: SNL - Reverend Al and Jessie J. rate Obama on the blackness scale...



Update: Ann Coulter...

If Obama's biggest asset is his inexperience, then if by the slightest chance he were elected and were to run for a second term, he will have to claim he didn't learn anything the first four years.

Beautiful.

Wallace: 'I felt as if a mountain was coming down in front of me.'

... The mountain that is Bill Clinton.

Talk about a disproportionate response!

Michelle provides us a great recap to this post:



Watch 'Vent' over at HotAir every Monday through Friday... it's required. (Click here to browse the archives.)

In addition to the very best video blog on the Internet, Michelle is still the top blogger in my book too. She's on the Clinton/Wallace story there also with a couple quotes from Wallace this morning on Fox & Friends...

"What it was was sheer wonder at what I was witnessing." (on his so-called smirk)

"There was no making up with him. He was angry. And when he left, he chewed out his staff." (on the post-interview mood)

Narcissistic rage.

This will be a hot topic in the blogosphere this week! A query for "Wallace" + "smirk" gives you an idea. Stay tuned...

Update: NewsBusters has a number of great threads going on the topic of Bill Clinton...

Michael Rule: "Harry Smith Taken Aback as CBS Analyst Blames Clinton for bin Laden Failures"

Noel Sheppard: "This wasn't Bill Clinton's finest hour"... quite an understatement.

Rich Noyes: Why Clinton Blew His Top: FNC's Wallace Only Interviewer to Ask About Pre-9/11 Failures

Update #2: I had completely forgotten about this. I watched this episode of Fox & Friends where they were discussing ABC's 'Path to 9/11'. They had Wallace on for comments, and Wallace was clearly on the Clinton side. Bill obviously missed it... right-wing hatchet job.
(hat tip Allah)

Update #3: Allah stays on it... more fact-checking - from the GOP.

More Wallace video... "he just blew".

Update #4: Condi speaks up...

September 25, 2006 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday accused Bill Clinton of making "flatly false" claims that the Bush administration didn't lift a finger to stop terrorism before the 9/11 attacks.
Rice hammered Clinton, who leveled his charges in a contentious weekend interview with Chris Wallace of Fox News Channel, for his claims that the Bush administration "did not try" to kill Osama bin Laden in the eight months they controlled the White House before the Sept. 11 attacks.

Pointed rebuttal.

Update #5: Dick Morris jumps into the fray:

From behind the benign façade and the tranquilizing smile, the real Bill Clinton emerged Sunday during Chris Wallace’s interview on Fox News Channel. There he was on live television, the man those who have worked for him have come to know – the angry, sarcastic, snarling, self-righteous, bombastic bully, roused to a fever pitch. The truer the accusation, the greater the feigned indignation. Clinton jabbed his finger in Wallace’s face, poking his knee, and invading the commentator’s space. ...

... In my frequent phone and personal conversations with both Clintons in 1993, there was never a mention, not one, of the World Trade Center attack. It was never a subject of presidential focus. ...

... The ex-president is fully justified in laying eight months of the blame for the failure to kill or catch bin Laden at the doorstep of George W. Bush. But he should candidly acknowledge that eight years of blame fall on him.

One also has to wonder when the volcanic rage beneath the surface of this would-be statesman will cool. When will the chip on his shoulder finally disappear? When will he feel sufficiently secure in his own legacy and his own skin not to boil over repeatedly in private and occasionally even in public?

The unraveling.

Update #6: Short & sweet... HotAir covers Olberdouche.

The fall of Lebanon and the rise of Hezbollistan...

The complete failure of the U.N. to enforce Resolution 1559 has once again proven it's uselessness. The feckless U.N. has allowed Hezbollah to infect Lebanon to the point where I would suggest that Hezbollistan may be a more appropriate name.

Will Resolution 1701 be any different?

The Devil may be in the details:

The world, which has seen the fate of UN Security Council Resolution 1559, is not very optimistic. Resolution 1559 reaffirmed the call on September 2, 2004, for the strict respect of the sovereignty, territorial integrity, unity, and political independence of Lebanon under the sole and exclusive authority of the Government of Lebanon throughout the country, but could not make it happen. It called for the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Lebanese territory and the disbanding and disarmament of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias, but was unable to enforce it.

Foreign powers like Iran and Syria remained formidable political, financial, and military influences in the country, stifling Lebanon’s sovereignty. By keeping Lebanon a hostage, Tehran and Damascus continued to use its territory to wage a war of attrition against Israel. Iran, driven by its imperialistic ambitions, established its military base right at the door steps of Israel with the help of its proxy, Hezbollah.

It seems unlikely, but maybe Kofi and the U.N. will see that they are fighting as much for their existance as Israel is. If 1701 fails, the U.N. will be seen as the complete and utter failure that it is. Motivation?


From FoxNews today:

Hezbollah's main backers — Iran and Syria — struck nearly identical tones a day after a cease-fire took effect in Lebanon: heaping praise on the guerrillas as perceived victors for the Islamic world and claiming that Western influence in the region was dealt a serious blow.

"God's promises have come true," Ahmadinejad told a huge crowd in Arbadil in northwestern Iran. "On one side, it's corrupt powers of the criminal U.S. and Britain and the Zionists ... with modern bombs and planes. And on the other side is a group of pious youth relying on God." ...

... Ahmad Khatami, a mid-ranking cleric, declared that Israel would face dire consequences if it "makes an iota of aggression against Iran."

"They must fear the day 1,250-mile range missiles land in the heart of Tel Aviv," he said.

In his address, Ahmadinejad also said his government would stick by its plans to reply on Aug. 22 to a package of Western economic and technology incentives offered in exchange for a suspension of Iranian uranium enrichment.

For those who think that the violence would diminish if Isreal would just leave the Golan Heights or some other territory considered to be "Arab Land", here's another quote of interest from Ahmad Khatami:

If, Allah willing, this resistance goes on, and Hizbullah continues to make progress, the prediction of the disappearance of Israel will be fulfilled, Allah willing.

From the NY Sun:

For those nursing their wounds in the wake of Israel's defeat in Lebanon, the thing to remember is that the fight with Hezbollah is not a war apart. It is but one engagement in one battle in one theater in a world war. ...

... Our task at the moment is to advance in our understanding and to be prepared, militarily and psychologically, for the next battle when it comes. This task will be opposed by many, as we have just witnessed in Connecticut. The left wing of the Democratic Party behind Ned Lamont routed Senator Lieberman by arguing, precisely, that Iraq is a war apart, that they are not opposing the war on terror, only the notion that Iraq is part of it. This ilk existed in World War II and the Cold War. No one would have suggested World War II could have been won by knocking, say, Japan out of the Philippines and leaving it at that. Or the Cold War by liberating, say, Grenada. This is a time to step back and comprehend the big picture. Neither Iraq nor Israel nor America can be secured until the regimes in Iran and Syria are defeated and we come to the recognition that it is one war.

Joel Rosenberg talks about what Mike Wallace should have asked Ahmadinejad at NRO:

Iran is the new Germany. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the new Adolf Hitler. Radical Shiite Islamic jihadists are the new Nazi storm troopers. The pursuit of the Twelfth Imam is the pursuit of the new Third Reich. CBS News had both the opportunity and responsibility to help the world truly understand this regime and the danger it poses. It failed miserably, and we are all poorer for it.

Bush and Rice apparently disagreed on how to handle this conflict:

Aides for Mr. Cheney have argued that the United States should have targeted Hezbollah and Syria during the war against Iraq in 2003. They said despite US intelligence warnings Hezbollah was allowed to dominate Lebanon and build a formidable force along the Israeli border.

"There was talk of taking care of Hezbollah and Syria, but Condi and [then-Secretary of State Colin] Powell said 'no way. We don't need another front,'" an official said….

But the sources said Mr. Bush has been dismayed by the Israeli failure to defeat Hezbollah. They said several high-ranking Republicans have expressed amazement at the plodding Israeli advance into Lebanon. "One Jewish friend of Bush actually called up a senior Israeli official and began yelling, 'What the hell's going on here,'" a source said. "'Are you going to fight or what?'"

Many recogninze that despite our efforts, Iran still pulls the strings in Iraq too.

... Iranian interventionist policy in Iraq has already attained a significant part of its objectives. In fact, despite US forces occupying the country, Iran has more influence over developments in post-Baath Iraq.

Here are a few ideas.

Know Islam.

Condi runs-off liberal professor at B.C.

OK...this is just ridiculous. I'm wondering if it can really be true that a 5-year English professor at B.C. would quit "as a direct result of your decision to invite Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to be the commencement speaker at this year's graduation." Huh?

His letter to the president of B.C. continues...

Many members of the faculty and student body already have voiced their objection to the invitation, arguing that Rice's actions as secretary of state are inconsistent with the broader humanistic values of the university and the Catholic and Jesuit traditions from which those values derive.

But I am not writing this letter simply because of an objection to the war against Iraq. My concern is more fundamental. Simply put, Rice is a liar.

She has lied to the American people knowingly, repeatedly, often extravagantly over the past five years, in an effort to justify a pathologically misguided foreign policy.

The public record of her deceits is extensive. During the ramp-up to the Iraq war, she made 29 false or misleading public statements concerning Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and links to Al Qaeda, according to a congressional investigation by the House Committee on Government Reform.

To cite one example:

In an effort to build the case for war, then-National Security Adviser Rice repeatedly asserted that Iraq was pursuing a nuclear weapon, and specifically seeking uranium in Africa.

In July of 2003, after these claims were disproved, Rice said: ''Now if there were doubts about the underlying intelligence . . . those doubts were not communicated to the president, the vice president, or to me."

Rice's own deputy, Stephen Hadley, later admitted that the CIA had sent her a memo eight months earlier warning against the use of this claim.

In the three years since the war began, Rice has continued to misrepresent or simply ignore the truth about our deadly adventure in Iraq.

Like the president whom she serves so faithfully, she refuses to recognize her errors or the tragic consequences of those errors to the young soldiers and civilians dying in Iraq. She is a diplomat whose central allegiance is not to the democratic cause of this nation, but absolute power.

This is the woman to whom you will be bestowing an honorary degree, along with the privilege of addressing the graduating class of 2006.

It is this last notion I find most reprehensible: that Boston College would entrust to Rice the role of moral exemplar.

To be clear: I am not questioning her intellectual gifts or academic accomplishments. Nor her potentially inspiring role as a powerful woman of color.

But these are not the factors by which a commencement speaker should be judged. It is the content of one's character that matters here -- the reverence for truth and knowledge that Boston College purports to champion.

Rice does not personify these values; she repudiates them. Whatever inspiring rhetoric she might present to the graduating class, her actions as a citizen and politician tell a different story.

Honestly, Father Leahy, what lessons do you expect her to impart to impressionable seniors?

That hard work in the corporate sector might gain them a spot on the board of Chevron? That they, too, might someday have an oil tanker named after them? That it is acceptable to lie to the American people for political gain?

Given the widespread objection to inviting Rice, I would like to think you will rescind the offer. But that is clearly not going to happen.

Like the administration in Washington, you appear too proud to admit to your mistake. Instead, you will mouth a bunch of platitudes, all of which boil down to: You don't want to lose face.

In this sense, you leave me no choice.

I cannot, in good conscience, exhort my students to pursue truth and knowledge, then collect a paycheck from an institution that displays such flagrant disregard for both.

I would like to apologize to my students and prospective students. I would also urge them to investigate the words and actions of Rice, and to exercise their own First Amendment rights at her speech.

Hat tip to Michelle Malkin (shown to the right with photojournalist Michael Yon at her house earlier today) who appropriately suggests that Condi should speak at more college campuses!

Steve Almond is a deranged elitist moron...and Condi rocks.





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John Howard & Condi Rice speak up on Abdul Rahman - Unfortunately, Muslim Clerics are speaking up too...

March 24 - Bloomberg

The case of an Afghan man facing a possible death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity is "appalling," Australian Prime Minister John Howard said.

"We're putting the lives of Australian soldiers on the line and this sort of thing is allowed," Howard told Melbourne radio station 3AW today. "When I saw the report about this I felt sick." Australia's government said last month it will send an additional 200 soldiers to serve in Afghanistan...

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"When I saw the report about
this I felt sick."

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...Howard said he would write to Afghan President Hamid Karzai to protest. The UN, the U.K. and U.S. have also raised the issue with the Afghan government, which has said it is up to the courts to decide the case. Afghanistan, supported by the international community, has moved toward democracy since the ousting of the Taliban, inaugurating its first parliament since 1969 in December.

The Australian government said Feb. 21 it will send an extra 200 soldiers to Afghanistan to help in reconstruction and security efforts in the south of the country. The deployment will increase Australia's military commitment to about 500 soldiers.

"The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious beliefs, and the idea that they might be executed is just beyond belief," Howard said. "I think this is appalling."

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"The idea that a person
could be punished because of
their religious beliefs, and the idea that
they might be executed is just beyond belief,
I think this is appalling."

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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday spoke by telephone with Karzai on the matter, White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters in Washington.

"She made very clear what our views were in the strongest possible terms," McClellan said. "She stressed the importance of Afghanistan finding a favorable resolution to this." U.S. President George W. Bush said March 22 the case was "deeply troubling."

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist yesterday said Rice should press Afghanistan for Rahman's immediate release.

"It is fair to say that the United States has not spent the last four plus years liberating, defending, rebuilding and assisting Afghanistan's democratic development only to see the Afghani people remain subject to laws reminiscent of the Taliban's reign," Frist said in a letter to Rice.

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"the United States has not spent
the last four plus years liberating,
defending, rebuilding and assisting
Afghanistan's democratic development only
to see the Afghani people remain subject
to laws reminiscent of the Taliban's reign"

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March 24 - WaPo

In an unusual move, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice telephoned President Hamid Karzai on Thursday seeking what she called a "satisfactory outcome" of the case of Abdul Rahman. The 41-year-old former medical aid worker faces the death penalty under Afghanistan's Islamic laws for becoming a Christian.

"Rejecting Islam is insulting God. We will not allow God to be humiliated. This man must die," said cleric Abdul Raoulf, who is considered a moderate and was jailed three times for opposing the Taliban before the hard-line regime was ousted in 2001.

...On Wednesday, authorities said Rahman is suspected of being mentally ill and would undergo psychological examinations to see whether he is fit to stand trial.

But three Sunni preachers and a Shiite one interviewed by The Associated Press in four of Kabul's most popular mosques said they do not believe Rahman is insane.

"He is not crazy. He went in front of the media and confessed to being a Christian," said Hamidullah, chief cleric at Haji Yacob Mosque.

"The government is scared of the international community. But the people will kill him if he is freed," Hamidullah said.

Raoulf, who is a member of the country's main Islamic organization, the Afghan Ulama Council, agreed. "The government is playing games. The people will not be fooled."

"Cut off his head!" he exclaimed, sitting in a courtyard outside Herati Mosque. "We will call on the people to pull him into pieces so there's nothing left."

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"We will call on the people to
pull him into pieces
so there's nothing left."

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...Said Mirhossain Nasri, the top cleric at Hossainia Mosque, one of the largest Shiite places of worship in Kabul, said Rahman must not be allowed to leave the country.

"If he is allowed to live in the West, then others will claim to be Christian so they can too," he said. "We must set an example. ... He must be hanged."

..."We are a small country and we welcome the help the outside world is giving us. But please don't interfere in this issue," Nasri said. "We are Muslims and these are our beliefs. This is much more important to us than all the aid the world has given us."

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"We are Muslims and these
are our beliefs. This is much
more important to us than all the aid
the world has given us."

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March 24 - NY Times

Afghan clerics used Friday Prayers at mosques across the capital to call for death for an Afghan man who converted to Christianity, despite widespread protest in the West.

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Afghan clerics used Friday Prayers
at mosques across the capital
to call for death for an Afghan man
who converted to Christianity

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As the international pressure on Afghanistan grew, the clerics demanded the execution of the Afghan, Abdul Rahman 41, if he does not convert back to Islam. His conversion 15 years ago was brought to the attention of Afghan authorities as part of a child custody dispute.

The Bush administration and European governments have strongly protested the case as a violation of religious freedom.

In Washington, a State Department spokesman was asked whether the United States had made it clear to the Afghan government that its conduct on the issue could have consequences for its relationship with the United States.

"It has been made abundantly clear to the government of Afghanistan how the United States feels about this issue and the importance that we attach to its positive resolution," the spokesman, Adam Ereli, replied.

Asked what should happen next, Mr. Ereli said, "The next step is for the issue to be resolved by the government of Afghanistan."

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A 'Third Term' for Bush...

Always love Fred Barnes...

"Condi Rice, Dick Cheney and Karl Rove need new jobs":

It's time for President Bush to think about a third term. No, he doesn't need to overturn the Constitution. He can start the equivalent of his third term now, by filling his presidential staff and cabinet with new faces--or old faces in new positions--and by concentrating on new or forgotten initiatives. The goal: rejuvenation of his presidency by shocking the media and political community with a sweeping overhaul of his administration. The impact would be enormous because it's exactly what his foes have been demanding and exactly what he is not expected to do. And it would give him a chance to escape the political doldrums that may otherwise doom his presidency through its final 34 months...

I agree...time for some changes. It's time for Bush to get proactive. Change would be a good thing.

The rest at the WSJ Opinion Journal... here.



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The Democratic Plantation... and the Victims of the Political Elite

Pandering to Blacks
by Walter E. Williams
Mar 08, 2006

Presidential aspirant Hillary Clinton used Rev. Al Sharpton's Martin Luther King Jr. birthday celebration to, as Professor Shelby Steele explains, "whistle for the black vote by pandering to the black sense of grievance." In response to a question from the audience: "I need you to tell us what distinguishes Democrats from Republicans right now," Sen. Clinton answered, "When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about . . . " Though the audience was largely black, I doubt whether any of the attendees had any plantation experience.

Sen. Clinton was simply employing the Democrats' political rope-a-dope for blacks. As Professor Steele asks in his Wall Street Journal editorial, "Hillary's Plantation": "Must blacks have their slave past rubbed in their face simply for Hillary Clinton to make a little hay against modern-day Republicans?" Steele also asks, "Does she really see us as she projects us -- as a people so backward that our support can be won with a simple plantation reference, and the implication that Republicans are racist?"

The conclusion...

If Condoleezza Rice threw her hat into the presidential race, it would be Clinton's worse nightmare. Ms. Rice's vision represents triumph rather than grievance. Steele says that by growing up in the segregated South, Ms. Rice might have claimed title to a grievance identity, but she's chosen the older black tradition where blacks neither deny injustice nor permit themselves to be defined by it. Blacks like Colin Powell, Clarence Thomas and Condi Rice are of no value to modern liberalism or the Democratic Party. Why? If blacks come to embrace triumph, rather than grievance, the wound to liberal Democrats would be mortal. It wouldn't take much of a desertion of the black vote to make Democrat hopes of recapturing Washington a permanent pipe dream.

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The Patronizing Racism of the Democratic Plantation...

Liberal Democrats and the Liberal Mainstream Media are completely ignoring the facts when it comes to the ongoing racist myth that Republicans and Conservatives don't care about...or don't represent...or can't relate to Blacks in America today. It's the political Left in this country that promotes the downtrodden and discards the successful. Why?

Democrats need people of all races to feel that it's the government that should be taking care of them. The black community especially, however, is very poorly served by liberal politicians that are merely pandering for a vote, and that don't want to see blacks rise up and be successful for fear that success might create a greater understanding and appreciation for Republican/Conservative values...God forbid.

There is no shortage of great commentary on the subject of the Democratic Plantation. The tide may be turning. Here is just a sample:

Rainbow Coalition racism, by Salena Zito. (Feb. 12, 2006)
Click here to read.

...Racism is based on fear and fear makes people behave in ways they might not normally consider. The Democratic Party is fearful of losing its black-voter base, so it attacks. But the same bile it hurls on a daily basis at white Republicans comes out racist when it attacks black Republicans...

Just ask Condi Rice. Numerous unflattering labels have been hurled in her direction.

Something to consider, though. The superheros of the black movement -- Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton -- are noticeably absent when a black Republican is attacked.

They have no problem donning their race-card capes when a liberal black is attacked. But they had a hard time finding Maryland on the map when New York Sen. Chuck Schumer's henchmen did an illegal credit check on Michael Steele.

Where was their outrage? Their circus-like news conferences?

Oh, wait -- Steele isn't black, he's Republican...

The "D" Stands for Demagogue, by Michelle Malkin. (Jan. 18, 2006)
Click here to read.

...These calculated moments of Democrat demagoguery illuminate liberalism's three-decade-old moral bankruptcy on issues of race. From the party's smearing of Clarence Thomas to the bigoted attacks on Condoleezza Rice and Maryland GOP Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, to its opposition to school choice for inner-city students and denigration of California businessman Ward Connerly's campaign against government racial preferences, to its latest desperate attempts to blame racism for Hurricane Katrina and to portray Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito as a red-necked bigot, the Left has offered nothing but slime and obstructionism.

Yet, there isn't a day that goes by without Democrats effectively using the race card against their opponents in every political debate ranging from education to border security to the courts. It's time for conservatives, Republicans in Washington, and minorities with half a brain to call their bluff. Stand up. Defend your honor. Don't let it pass.

Black Republicans should be able to live without fear, by Ted Hayes. (Jan. 2, 2006)
Click here to read.

American blacks who are affiliated with the Republican Party are vigorously vilified by Democrats, especially black Democrats. Uncle Tom, sell-out, Oreo--the list of slurs is long.

But it is not only insults. I am the founder and director of a unique, progressive homeless facility in downtown Los Angeles, known as the Dome Village. Yet the 35 men, women and children and their pets who call the Dome Village home are being "evicted" from privately owned property after 12 1/2 years--apparently on account of my political beliefs and activities. You see, though I am a leading homeless activist, I am also a conservative Republican and a strong supporter of President Bush...

...It is time for American blacks to have a conversation about the phenomenon of Democrats persecuting black Republicans. Why is this happening? What is it that the Democrats don't want black folks to understand about Republicans? What is it that the Democrats don't want black folks to know about Democrats? And how is it that we have come to this point--after having endured so much--where we have ourselves curtailed the freedom of political expression through the threat of retaliatory consequences?

'Party trumps race' for Steele foes, by S.A. Miller (November 2, 2005)
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Delegate Salima Siler Marriott, a black Baltimore Democrat, said Mr. Steele invites comparisons to a slave who loves his cruel master or a cookie that is black on the outside and white inside because his conservative political philosophy is, in her view, anti-black.

"Because he is a conservative, he is different than most public blacks, and he is different than most people in our community," she said. "His politics are not in the best interest of the masses of black people."

During the 2002 campaign, Democratic supporters pelted Mr. Steele with Oreo cookies during a gubernatorial debate at Morgan State University in Baltimore.
In 2001, Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. called Mr. Steele an "Uncle Tom," when Mr. Steele headed the state Republican Party. Mr. Miller, Prince George's County Democrat, later apologized for the remark.

"That's not racial. If they call him the "N' word, that's racial," Mrs. Marriott said. "Just because he's black, everything bad you say about him isn't racial."

Harry Belafonte Calls Black Republicans 'Tyrants', by Marc Morano (August 08, 2005)
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Celebrity activist Harry Belafonte referred to prominent African-American officials in the Bush administration as "black tyrants" at a weekend march, and he also compared the administration to Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany.

Belafonte, a featured speaker at Saturday's march in Atlanta commemorating the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act, previously ignited a political controversy in 2002 when he likened then-Secretary of State Colin Powell to a "house slave."

Belafonte used a Hitler analogy when asked about what impact prominent blacks such as former Secretary of State Powell and current Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had on the Bush administration's relations with minorities.

"Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich. Color does not necessarily denote quality, content or value," Belafonte said in an exclusive interview with Cybercast News Service.

"[If] a black is a tyrant, he is first and foremost a tyrant, then he incidentally is black. Bush is a tyrant and if he gathers around him black tyrants, they all have to be treated as they are being treated," he added. See Video

Who was really doing the indimidating, by Bob Parks. (August 2005)
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...The Voting Rights Act extension is critical because "the same old enemies of civil rights and voting rights will always keep up their ugly activities. Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town."
- Jesse Jackson (D-USA)

In rebutting Jesse Jackson's comment (of all people to talk about "race baiting") I would hope all would agree, profanity would be appropriate here....

What's most maddening is that in order for people to actually believe this bile, they would need the willing assistance from the press that either knows the truth, or is ignorant due to the lesson plans of liberal teachers and professors.

What's also maddening is that these "activists" who know better, consistently and constantly insult the intelligence of black people just to keep themselves in what semblance of power they think they have. And why to this day hasn't the evidence that voter intimidation on blacks is a myth been made truly public?

Because the truth hurts....

Liberals, Race and History:Left's House of Cards Threatened, by Thomas Sowell. (May 25, 2005)
Click here to read.

Liberal Democrats, especially, must keep blacks fearful of racism everywhere, including in an administration whose Cabinet includes people of Chinese, Japanese, Hispanic, and Jewish ancestry, and two consecutive black Secretaries of State. Blacks must be kept believing that their only hope lies with liberals.

Not only must the present be distorted, so must the past -- and any alternative view of the future must be nipped in the bud. That is why prominent minority figures who stray from the liberal plantation must be discredited, debased and, above all, kept from becoming federal judges.

Racism finds a home in white towers, by Armstrong Williams. (Dec. 2004)
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Has white liberal Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., no sense of decency?

His defamatory comments about Associate Justice Clarence Thomas as a prospective chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court support a corrupt racial universe, in which the best and brightest black thinkers are blacklisted by the white liberal elite because they threaten the power base of the liberal black establishment.

The evidence is voluminous. Without a dissenting peep from the high priests of blackness, white pundits indulge in racist calumnies against black conservative stars. Pat Oliphant and Garry Trudeau deride superstar secretary-of-State designate Condoleezza Rice as a parrot or as "brown sugar." Harry Belafonte maligns the gifted, courageous and accomplished Colin Powell as an "Uncle Tom." And now Reid, minority leader of the U.S. Senate, has sneered at Thomas' qualifications for chief justice because his conservative thinking does not follow the dogmas of the anachronistic black power structure or patronizing doctrines of its white liberal counterpart.

The Left and Black Authenticity, by Winfield Myers. (Nov. 2004)
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...It's hardly news that liberal elites depict liberal blacks as paragons of virtue and more, the more being the repository of sympathy and white liberal guilt. Black conservatives, however, are portrayed as traitors to their race -- Uncle Toms, backsliders, ingrates. We witnessed this with the confirmation of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, an event that one friend characterized as our Dreyfus Affair...

The New and Improved Racism, by Ann Coulter. (Dec. 9, 2004)
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...Still furious about the election, liberals are lashing out at blacks. First it was Condoleezza Rice. But calling a Ph.D. who advised a sitting president during war "Aunt Jemima" apparently hasn't satiated the Democrats' rage. Even the racist cartoons didn't help. (see examples here and here)

So this week, they've turned with a vengeance to Clarence Thomas. Only the Democrats would try to distract from their racist attacks on one black Republican by leveling racist attacks against a different black Republican. If Democrats don't nip this in the bud, soon former Klanner and Democratic Sen. Bob Byrd will be their spokesman...

Bill Cosby and Clarence Thomas: The new odd couple?, by Barbara J. Stock. (July 3, 2004)
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It will not be long before Dr. Cosby joins the ranks of Justice Thomas as an uppity rich Black man who can no longer identify with the real problems of the average Black American. What are those problems? Lack of good jobs? No, there are good jobs available but you have to be able to read, write, and communicate in the English language to get them. That means staying in school and learning something. That means having parents who take responsibility for their children's lives and give them guidance. That means community leaders who teach Black children to grab life by the horns and stop blaming everyone else for their failures. That means they must stop blaming slavery, white America, and the system. For some, those words are heresy. Are you listening Jesse? You could learn a lot from Bill Cosby. We all could.

Democratic Racism, by Robert Alt. (September 2003)
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...Who will be the next victim of the Democrats’ racism? Most likely California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown. While the Democrats in the Senate are likely to say that they only oppose her because she is conservative, their actions will prove otherwise. Listen for comparisons of her to Clarence Thomas, and note that she will be treated much differently than was her white fellow nominee John Roberts. That Teddy’s 45 should treat Republican minorities differently is disappointing but not shocking. After all, nothing upsets Sen. Kennedy and his pals more than when those they view as intellectual slaves dares to leave the Democratic plantation.

Politically Correct Racism vs. Justice Thomas, by Larry Elder. (May 17, 2001)
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Ebony, a monthly black magazine, puts out an annual list of the "100+ Most Influential Black Americans."

First, the magazine's criteria. Influential means, "1. Does the individual transcend his or her position and command widespread national influence? 2. Does the individual affect in a decisive and positive way the lives, thinking and actions of large segments of the African-American population, either by his or her position in a key group or by his or her personal reach and influence?"

Now supposedly the list neither excludes nor includes based on the influential person's ideology. "Being featured on the list," said Ebony, "does not necessarily constitute an endorsement of any particular individual or ideology." So guess which blacks never made the list?

...But it gets worse. The list excluded Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. That's right. No Thomas. But doesn't a sitting Supreme Court member, by definition, constitute one of the nine most influential persons in America, let alone the black community? But no surprise here. One now-defunct publication, called Emerge, (a black news monthly) once put on its cover a caricature of Clarence Thomas dressed as a lawn jockey, holding a lantern and sporting a big grin. The heading? "Uncle Thomas, Lawn Jockey for the Far Right." Inside we see a cartoon of a kneeling Thomas shining the shoes of fellow Justice Antonin Scalia.

So Clarence Thomas, because of his conservative ideology -- principally his opposition to affirmative action -- gets de-listed as black.

The Democratic Party's Legacy of Racism, by Mackubin T. Owens. (Dec. 2002)
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...It’s about time that Republicans quit pussy-footing around on the issue of race. They need to point out that in both principle and practice, the Republican Party has a far better record than the Democrats on race. Even more importantly, they need to stress that on the issues that most affect African-Americans today, the Democratic position represents racism of the most offensive sort—a patronizing racism that denigrates Blacks every bit as badly as the old racism of Jim Crow and segregation....