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Thank God For Barack Obama and Wanda Sykes

By Larry Johnson on May 10, 2009 at 10:35 PM in Current Affairs

(Bumped up from Sunday afternoon.)

It is Sunday and time to get your God on. Let’s praise the Lord (or Allah or Buddha) for the glorious chanage Barack Obama has brought to Washington. The man has changed the tone. The man has changed the debate. Instead of fear there is hope. Don’t believe me, just check out the following from Wanda Sykes.

Change we can believe in. Right?

I will give a comedian some leeway, normally. But Wanda Sykes crossed a fucking line here. And it was not even remotely funny. I am not a Rush Limbaugh fan. I think he is a self-important propagandist. But this attack on him is wrong and worrying.

I do not recall a single attack by the Bush Administration singling out, say, Keith Olberman, for a comparable attack.

So what does Obama do? Does he stand up and chide his acolytes for crossing a line? No. Does he show one shred of damn leadership in reminding the assembled mass of disciples that he supposedly insists on a bipartisan, kinder Washington? Hell no. Barack Obama, just another low life partisan hack.