Karen Tumulty at Swampland is talking about the elephant in the room regarding the Obama candidacy -- Race.
I listened to Joe Scarborough a couple of weeks ago saying that if Obama loses many people would blame it on racism and Joe said those people would be wrong because America isn't a racist country, at least not any more.
So here is the question: What percentage of voters would have to say "I did not vote for Barack Obama because he is black" before you would say America IS infected with racism. Ten percent? 20 percent? If five percent of Americans said that and Obama lost by less than a point or two, wouldn't racism be a factor?
Well, in some parts of the country, like Appalachia, you have 25 percent saying race was a factor in their primary vote. Ten percent in parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
The two big questions in the primary and even now have been, "Is America ready for a black president?" and "Is America ready for a woman president?"
If we ask and we really aren't sure about the answer, then America has deep seated problems regarding race and sexism. And that makes it fair game to ask if those factors affected the election outcome. That's not excuse making. That's introspection for a nation.
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from www.davidlimbaugh.com:
Get Back in the Kitchen, Sarah
If I were an aspiring sexist or racist -- God forbid -- yet still cared what people thought about me, I'd make sure I became a conspicuous liberal. I'd also make sure my targets were conservative. That's the ticket to immunity for all kinds of outrageous conduct and statements.
If you are a liberal darling, like Bill Clinton was for a decade and a half, you can exploit, abuse and sexually harass women and still be considered a champion of women's rights. When you're his equally leftist wife, you can be the commander in chief of bimbo eruptions, obliterate your husband's victims' characters, and be celebrated as a feminist icon.
If you're a liberal icon like Jimmy Carter, you can refer to Barack Obama as a "black boy" without anyone batting an eye. If you're a liberal like Joe Biden, you can "praise" Obama as clean and articulate or joke about Indians and Dunkin Donuts' with barely a whisper of disapproval from the monolithically liberal mainstream media.
If you're a liberal cartoonist like Ted Rall, you can caption Condoleezza Rice as the president's "House Nigga." If you're a liberal talk show host like Sly Sylvester, you can refer to her as Aunt Jemima. And when conservatives demand an apology, you can say: "It is with a heavy heart that I apologize this morning to Aunt Jemima. She wasn't a self-serving hack politician who got up in front of Congress and lied." And the quickest path to the top of the liberal class is to ridicule Justice Clarence Thomas.
So when it comes to the liberals' treatment of Sarah Palin, it's business as usual -- and then some.
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