“George Washington Under the Bus”

Just caught part of ABC News (peripherally, because someone else was watching. I am a dedicated boycotter). All I heard was:

Obama accused the McCain Campaign of using the race card, and being negative. McCain has taken an aggressive tack. Some think that if they get too negative, it could backfire on them.

Deja vu all over again. How incredibly transparent. Gee, where have I heard this refrain before?

Cowardly whining weasels: “They’re picking on me!”

I don’t think it will work the way it did against Hillary. Her hands were tied because she was from the same Party. McCain has no such allegiances, and the conservatives, and even moderates, are going to want to see how tough McCain can be and it will reveal how weak Obama is. I say: GO FOR IT!

Biraqorgasm is not only acting like, but beginning to look like the “Joker” from the new “Batman” movie. He’s desperate!

As Bill said…

“They always planned on using the race card”

Nice job Ob!

Now you have pissed off all the whites!

The only racist running is Oblahblah

HONOLULU: Barack Obama plans to travel to his native Hawaii for a fundraiser Aug. 12 and while he’s there he will get a better copy of a FAKE birth certificate

That pesky George Washington. That General and American hero is such a Washington insider! I can’t stand him.

Or of his kid’s mother. Ick.

Oblahblah ought to be teaching elementary school mathematics. He can divide like no one’s business.

Barack starts off his repetitious “Oh, and by the way did they tell you, he’s black” speech with: “You’d think we could have a serious debate.”

Well, no. You won’t show up without your teleprompter to debate Grampa.

Just heard: tonight on AC 360 Anderson Cooper is gonna investigate who’s saying Obama is a Muslim and why. Wonder how he’ll bend this one. I don’t watch that but if you know someone who’s not boycotting him, let us know who the guilty parties are.

Obama is a liar.

Obama is a fraud.

Obama is inexperienced.

Obama lacks judgement.

Obama has an unclear past, unseen birth certificate, and unclear citizenships.

So, where does he go next? Of course, the all-dependable, valuable, golden, RACE CARD. He will use it anytime he can. He used it against Hillary when the going got rough. And now, he will use it to get the sympathy, white guilt vote.

I am sick of it. SICK of it. He blames everyone else for not talking about issues, and yet he lowers himself to bring up race? Then LIES about it later?

If you do not vote for Obama, you are racist.

If you criticize Obama, you are racist.

If you say Obama is “articulate”, which is a compliment universally, you are a racist.

If you say Obama is a black candidate, even though he is and he himself says it is “historical”, you are a racist.

If you say his middle name, even though it is on his birth certificate (if it exists), you are a racist.

If you use the term “black hole”, which is a term of physics and astronomy, you are a racist.

How have we americans come to this? HOW? Have we gotten so ridiculously politically correct that it has gotten to the point of lunacy?

Is this how we will elect a President, because it is politically correct?

Congratulations. The President of the United States of America, brought to you by affirmative action.

God help us all.

Monty Python couldn’t have come up with crap like this.

“No one expects the racist inquisition. Our main weapons are fear, surprise, and an almost fanatical devotion to the One. Reverend Wright, bring out the comfy pew”.

Zounds! Obama, please put down “Schemes from My Father” for a while and read “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” (racist remark not implied, merely stating the f**king title of the piece!)

Obama’s race-baiting is a pre-emptive swift-boating manuever. The opposition, both democratic and republican, needs to respond to this ploy immediately without getting drawn into a war. What the opposition needs is a reliable, anti-Obama African-American spokesperson, perhaps funded by a 527. Maybe Willie Brown, who reviles Obama, will step up to the plate.

Obama is a walking, talking embarassment, a man who is systematically ripping apart the democratic party and destroying progressive hopes for the White House. He has given liberals and moderates around 18 million reasons not to vote for him.

And his pathological race-baiting is yet another flip-flop. They crucified Kerry for flip-flopping in 2004 and he had a record to run on. Does the MSM think that the GOP will not lambast Obama for flip-flopping because he’s black?

if you believe that, then there’s a bridge in NY I can sell you for $10.

I can see the ad now. When it comes to understanding National Security, the economy, and the American People..John McCain is on the Money… Barack Obama is not!

I read yesterday 35% of registered Democrats are telling pollsters they’re undecided. If that’s true the DNC must be shaking in their boots.

Obama is getting on people’s nerves with his lofty “this is the moment” rhetoric and no real talk of issues.

Telling people that if they air up their car tires to save gas it will be equal to the gas we’ll get with offshore drilling … it’s been all over the news. The talk shows.

He’s clueless as to how that comes across to the average voter.

Bill Clinton said, “I feel your pain.”

Obama says, “Eat less and drive less.”

There’s the difference right there.

It has nothing to do with racisim — the man is out of touch with Americans of all races.

Well, there’s only ONE President on the “dollar” bill–that’s George Washington. Gee, he doesn’t know our money, either? To be fair, maybe he was speaking sloppily…what else is new…but a couple of those people on those other bills weren’t “Presidents”–that charming urban term “Dead Presidents” notwithstanding. Alexander Hamilton and Ben Franklin never made it to the show, now, did they?

Eh…once again, a slovenly remark to make an aggrieved point. When the hell will he get over it?

He probably ought to delve into history, and learn that, oops, he might not be the first, not black, because he isn’t that (despite the mean bastards who continue to deny people the full measure of their multifaceted ethnicities because they’re racist jerks) but BIRACIAL President. We’ve had a couple of them already. Abraham Lincoln was said to have native American, and possibly African, blood through his mother’s side, and Warren G. Harding, dead Republican and really dreadful President–crooked, lazy, corrupt, just freakin’ AWFUL–was part black, as well. This isn’t one of those “pulled out of one’s ass” rumors, the New York Times has discussed it, as noted by Kathy G at this blog: http://thegspot.typepad.com/blog/2008/04/the-first-black.html

In Sunday’s New York Times, there’s a fascinating piece by Yale historian Beverly Gage which suggests that Warren G. Harding may have been “the first black president.”

The story is as follows: in the early 1920s, a historian named William Estabrook Chancellor wrote a book alleging that Harding’s great-grandmother was African-American; therefore, as Gage explains, “under the one-drop rule of American race relations” Harding would be considered black.

Harding’s political allies quickly went to work to get Chancellor fired and suppress his book, but the rumor lived on. Chancellor quoted dozens of individuals who supposedly swore that the Harding family had been considered black “for generations.” And as recently as 2005, there have been press reports of African-Americans claiming to be Harding’s kin.

Until “genetic testing and genealogical research” settles the matter, says Gage, we can’t know the truth. But there are a couple of points I find interesting:

1. Gage says that Chancellor’s book, while clearly a “laughable partisan screed,” also “contains a remarkable trove of social knowledge — the kind of community gossip and oral tradition that rarely appears in official records but often provides clues to richer truths.” And certainly there is often truth in the oral tradition, as was shown when the Sally Hemmings/Thomas Jefferson relationship, stories of which had been passed down by generations of Hemmings’ descendants, was proven.

It’s intriguing that historians seem to be looking more closely at this kind of evidence, but how does a historian analyze gossip and oral tradition? Are there specific tools and methodologies that have been developed? I’m not questioning the value of such material; I’m just curious as to whether it’s evaluated differently than more traditional sources, and if so, how.

2. Given that there was so much gossip at the time about Harding’s racial background, it’s interesting that this allegation is not well-known today. And I have to think this has something to do with the fact that Harding was such a colossal hack; indeed the term “smoke-filled room” originated to describe the dubious circumstances of his nomination. Harding’s administration was one of the most sordid in American history and he is more or less universally regarded as one of the very worst presidents. He himself even pathetically admitted, “I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.” Says U.S. News and World Report, “Once in the White House, the 29th president busied himself with golf, poker, and his mistress, while appointees and cronies plundered the U.S. government in a variety of creative ways.”

It’s understandable why you’d want to claim kin with the author of the Declaration of Independence. But the presider over Teapot Dome? Eh, not so much.

3. Gage’s conclusion is, I think, well-struck. She mentions Harding’s hometown of Marion, Ohio:

The town gained national fame in 1920 as the site of Harding’s “front-porch campaign”; for weeks, he delivered stump speeches from his well-tended home. Far less well known, as the historian Phillip Payne has noted, is what happened the year before, when a mob of armed white Marion residents drove more than 200 black families out of town, one of a wave of postwar race riots that served to segregate the industrialized north.

As he campaigns to become the nation’s first (openly) black president, Barack Obama likes to say that we’ve begun to put that divisive history behind us. The truth may be that we don’t yet know the half of it.