A Black and White Issue – NOT!

September 17, 2009

Is the Democrat left so intellectually vapid that “they’re racists” is the best response they have to people protesting the irresponsible spending spree in Congress and the threatened takeover of our private medical profession, insurance and pharmaceutical industries?

Maureen Dowd of the New York Times was the first to say that the reason Joe Wilson said, “You Lie” during Obama’s speech on Health Care was because he was a racist.  As time goes by we learn about more and more “inacccuracies” in Obama’s speech, so it may just be that Joe Wilson said Obama was lying, not because Obama is black, but because Obama was LYING!

Then this week, former President Jimmy Carter, who never met a Marxist dictator he didn’t like, said he thinks that the “bulk” of people criticizing Obama’s policies are doing so because he’s black.  Poor Jimmy.  He’s finally gone around the bend.

So let me get this straight:  when people opposed Hillarycare, which was the same general idea as Obamacare in the ’90s, they were racists?  Sorry, I’m having a little trouble with the logic.

Then there’s the video of a gun-toting health care protester shown by MS-NBC, the cable news outlet with the microscopic ratings.  The video showed a close up of a man’s waist with a pistol and a semi-automatic machine gun at a tea party.  Solemnly the MS-NBC reporter intoned how this was an indication that the protests were racists.  After all, Obama is black so anybody who disagrees with him must be a racist, and see, white people are bringing guns to their protests as an intimidation tactic.  Interesting though, if you look at the entire unedited video, it turns out that the man carrying the gun WAS BLACK!!!!  And he was probably a plain clothes policeman.

Dan Rather would be proud.

MS- NBC’s actions in falsifying their video and the angle of their report betrays a desperation that would almost be pitiable if it were not so dangerous.  Is that really all they’ve got to answer the concerns of 55% of Americans who oppose the Health Care Reform plans now under consideration?

But if you’re a racist when you criticize a black president, why are you NOT a racist when you criticze the black chairman of the Republican National Committee?

I’ve said from the beginning that there is no racial angle to Obama’s presidency.  After all, he’s African-American, but the American part is whiter than I am.