Thursday, March 20, 2008

A SINGLE ISSUE CAMPAIGN BASED ON RACE WON'T MAKE IT

The racial demographics of the United States, according to the Wikipedia, are as follows:

The U.S. population's racial distribution in 2006 was as follows:[12]

Blacks are 12.4% of the population. They are concentrated in the South, and in some major media markets in the North, where black issues have garnered a tremendous share of media and political attention over the past 50 years.

But the race issue that is specifically and particularly concerning to 12.4% is not going to decide a national election.

Barack [middle name redacted] Obama chose to devote the most important speech of his political career to a defense of angry, bitter, race-baiting, hate-mongering special pleading for the special needs and special rights of 12.4% of the population.

The novelty of his particular and appealing manner is wearing off.

As he wrote in his memoir, Dreams of My Father, Obama discovered a technique for allaying the suspicions of the white people with whom he came into contact:
It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied; they were relieved - such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn’t seem angry all the time. (Pages 94-95).
Well, he's been playing that trick. And it has been working.

But now that he's revealed that he has just been playing the courteous, well-mannered "Good Cop" to Jeremiah Wright's profane, threatening "Bad Cop" in another variation on the race-baiting scamming of the professional special-interest manipulators, the charm is wearing thin.

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