Now the left plays the race card for Obama

[Chris_]

Opinion article:

Now the left plays the race card for Obama

America’s golden age of race relations, which began when Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 with a seven-point lead over Republican Sen. John McCain, came to a tragic end a couple of weeks ago in July 2009.

That’s when, according to the left, the country that had elected him awoke from its state of denial, or stupor, and realized, to its unrelieved horror, that the man it had chosen was ... black. How else for them to explain why his poll numbers slipped from astronomical to just about 50 percent, his approval ratings for his pet projects fell even further and his golden-tongued eloquence failed to persuade?

To the saner among us, these developments were due to one of three things, or perhaps all three together: the inevitable end of the honeymoon period; the fact that hopes for him were so overblown that the soufflé was bound to sink sometime; and the large block of people seduced by his temperate manner came to believe there was nothing temperate at all about his agenda, which was far more extreme than they cared to accept.

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To those on the left like Krugman and Durbin, racism inspires the birthers and all other deranged political concepts, which is why liberals never concoct kooky theories themselves. They never insist that mothers didn’t give birth to their children, never compare conservatives to demonic mass murderers, never obsess that Diebold voting machines have been rigged to steal millions of votes from their party, never hang people in effigy (Sarah Palin, Halloween 2008), never insist that elected officials lie to start wars for no reason, never  proclaim that our leaders knew in advance of plots to attack and to damage the country and just let them happen, for fun.

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So the left has this problem of trying to explain how the enlightened and race-neutral country they imagined last November became the tragically race-obsessed America it now sees today.

That race card is getting mighty old and worn.

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