Keyes’ Company
Similarly, those who swoon at the sight of Senator Beefcake can find in his ponderous, ambiguous statements about serious issues whatever they want to hear. The shame that was Katrina isn’t about race, except that it is. He is a devout Christian who is proud of his brother’s conversion to Islam. He is black, except when he’s thinking of himself as a “half breed.”
Liberals have a well-known propensity for adopting mascots and purporting to speak for them. If they literally can’t speak for themselves (inanimate objects like trees, animals), all the better. Now they have applied this standard to the man that I call He Who Walks on Water and what at least one commentator has called an empty suit who is no doubt delighted to watch his political fortunes rise without his having to clarify what he really thinks, and his real agenda for this country. Come to think of it, we would be better off with Mr. Ed.
So the first African-American Harvard Law Review is a mascot who can’t speak for himself. A guy who was an Instructor at University of Chicago Law School? It’s legitimate to question his experience on the national and international level. It’s legitimate to want more details from him. However, suggesting he is a token who has to be spoken for is one of the most paternalistic and stupid comments I’ve read even including Joe Biden. This is straight out of the Keyes playbook with the irony being that Keyes’ was the mascot Syverson and Rauschenberger wanted to bring in because he was an articulate black man like Obama.
Are you fucking kidding me with this shit?
But most of all, they put the horse down. How exactly is this a comparison?
January 31st, 2007 at
At least Sen. Obama owns up to using phrases like “half breed” … hey, we were all a bit less mature at one point. Some of us grow out of it though.
Archy, just in case you want to start a “Joke of the Day” regular feature (alongside Daily Dolt and Today’s Tosser)… the Schlafly progeny are providing comedic material:
Conservapedia: Wiki-pedia’s alter ego.
January 31st, 2007 at
Senator Obama is just way too intellegent, talented and a force of nature to be any token. His ability to explain the complicated issues and break them down, to write the kind of bills like the one introduced yesterday and be taken as a serious candidate for president after just 2 years shows he is more than someone who can be put into any kind of box or type.
As for experience, with his years here in the state and the 2 years in the Senate, he has more than Edwards or Clinton.
And no one bothers to point out all the legislation he has done here or in the senate and the lack of it by Edwards and Clinton in their 6 years. Clinton has not done on major piece of legislation in 6 years and has the nerve to state she is more experienced???
No. Experience is not the issue if you look at Obama’s record here in the state as well as what he has accomplished in just 2 years in the US Senate.