dean_acheson
04-27-07, 09:58 AM
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1709893.ece
My inital observations are:
1. Why does the Times really care about something like this this early in the cycle?
2. What the hell is a 'resume' candidate? Is it now passe in political circles to have worked hard and achieved big things? Isn't this why so many on the left have given in to fits of Bush derision?
3. A reporter could write "'There is not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America – there’s the United States of America!' he said. Tears ran down faces, the hall was transformed into a rainbow of joy, the party was filled with the audacity of his hope, and a new brand was born." and the next sentence not be, having stated that, Obama has been quick to toe the line on affirmitive action http://www.ilsenate.com/issuesmatchup.asp?IssueID=20, and be against school vouchers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Barack_Obama#Education_vouc hers
4. "Then along came the skinny figure of Obama with his jazz-cool looks, exotic name and caramel skin..." In our enlightened, modern society this is what we base our decisions on? Someone's 'jazz-cool' looks? What makes it worse is that this is our of our overseas cousins writing this....
5. "The US is, nonetheless, still a country obsessed by race. An African-American TV executive tells the story of how he “deblacked” his New Jersey home when he put it on the market by removing pictures of his children from the walls, along with any other evidence that a nonwhite family had lived there. “It was probably worth a couple of hundred thousand dollars to me,” he said last week, “but I still felt shame.”" I'm sorry, but this paragraph might be the biggest pile of malarky that I have read in forever. The only people obsessed by race here are the Al Sharptons, the Reconquista Latinos, and the estimated 3000 KKK members still left over here, of course I don't include Obama's fellow Democrat Senator Richard Byrd, who has apologized for being a Klan member..... and it is hard to believe in that in a progressive place like New Jersey, ran by Obama's fellow Democrats for forever could still be a place where individuals would need to 'deblack' their home.
6. "Nor do you have to live among white liberals in Washington for long to realise how they have almost entirely disconnected from the majority black population in a city that remains segregated geographically along ethnic lines." Unhappily enough, I was not rich enough during my four years in DC to be either a liberal or live in the 'white liberal' part of town. These folks that used to suck up to Eleanor Holmes Norton and toe the above lines on School Vouchers, but never never never cross over to Anacostia or Silver Spring used to rise the ire in me like few other things could. The simple level of self absorbtion has to be beholden to be believed. (the Cheryl Crow thing, however, is a good example of the mindset.)
Gees, I'll stop there, before the foaming starts.....
My inital observations are:
1. Why does the Times really care about something like this this early in the cycle?
2. What the hell is a 'resume' candidate? Is it now passe in political circles to have worked hard and achieved big things? Isn't this why so many on the left have given in to fits of Bush derision?
3. A reporter could write "'There is not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America – there’s the United States of America!' he said. Tears ran down faces, the hall was transformed into a rainbow of joy, the party was filled with the audacity of his hope, and a new brand was born." and the next sentence not be, having stated that, Obama has been quick to toe the line on affirmitive action http://www.ilsenate.com/issuesmatchup.asp?IssueID=20, and be against school vouchers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Barack_Obama#Education_vouc hers
4. "Then along came the skinny figure of Obama with his jazz-cool looks, exotic name and caramel skin..." In our enlightened, modern society this is what we base our decisions on? Someone's 'jazz-cool' looks? What makes it worse is that this is our of our overseas cousins writing this....
5. "The US is, nonetheless, still a country obsessed by race. An African-American TV executive tells the story of how he “deblacked” his New Jersey home when he put it on the market by removing pictures of his children from the walls, along with any other evidence that a nonwhite family had lived there. “It was probably worth a couple of hundred thousand dollars to me,” he said last week, “but I still felt shame.”" I'm sorry, but this paragraph might be the biggest pile of malarky that I have read in forever. The only people obsessed by race here are the Al Sharptons, the Reconquista Latinos, and the estimated 3000 KKK members still left over here, of course I don't include Obama's fellow Democrat Senator Richard Byrd, who has apologized for being a Klan member..... and it is hard to believe in that in a progressive place like New Jersey, ran by Obama's fellow Democrats for forever could still be a place where individuals would need to 'deblack' their home.
6. "Nor do you have to live among white liberals in Washington for long to realise how they have almost entirely disconnected from the majority black population in a city that remains segregated geographically along ethnic lines." Unhappily enough, I was not rich enough during my four years in DC to be either a liberal or live in the 'white liberal' part of town. These folks that used to suck up to Eleanor Holmes Norton and toe the above lines on School Vouchers, but never never never cross over to Anacostia or Silver Spring used to rise the ire in me like few other things could. The simple level of self absorbtion has to be beholden to be believed. (the Cheryl Crow thing, however, is a good example of the mindset.)
Gees, I'll stop there, before the foaming starts.....