An uncomfortable question . . .

October 9, 2008 on 1:28 pm | In Obama vs. McCain | 2 Comments

What if Obama were just another white guy?   This is one of those questions that should have come to mind a long time ago, but didn’t in my case, maybe because it makes one feel a bit uncomfortable at first.

But it is a fair question and not at all racist.  Pretending that this is a race-neutral election is the fantasy that big media and the Democrats want us to believe. 

But we know it isn’t true.  The same big media and Democrats treat the “black vote” as a monolithic block that will go for Obama by a 95-5 margin.  If so, this is not a race-neutral election.

If it is to be assumed that blacks will vote for Obama because he is “one of their own” and that’s deemed OK by the media, the self-annointed arbiters of political taste in this country, doesn’t that make anybody uncomfortable?  Isn’t that very assumption (and the reality that apparently accompanies it) a kind of racism? 

How many whites, also, are voting for Obama because he is black?  Another discomfiting question, but I am sure plenty of people are.

Now you can vote for anyone or against anyone for whatever reason you want.  That’s nobody’s business.  You can vote against McCain because he’s old or is on the shortish side or can’t lift his arms above his head or against Obama because he has big ears. I don’t care.

My point is, if Obama were a white Democrat politician from Chigago, in his late 40’s, who had a couple terms as a state senator preceded by a few years of community agitation, preceeded by a prestigious Harvard law degree, who was now only in his first term as a US senator, would he have even gotten any consideration by voters in the Democratic primary process?  I think we all know the answer to that question.

We are all expected to ignore–in the spirit of good taste as deemed by the political and media elites–that Obama is the first affirmative action presidential candidate.  He has gotten this far mostly because of his racial heritage.

In short, it is fine and even noble to vote for him because he is black, but shameful to vote against him for that same reason. 

My opinion:  it is equally shameful to vote for or against a candidate because of is race.

For those inclined to vote against Obama because he is an inexperienced, over-reaching street organizer schooled in the Saul Alinsky, Noam Chomsky, Ward Churchill ideology and techniques of grass-roots agitation, not to mention the fact that his policies are repugnant to us, don’t allow them to make you believe you are a racist.  You don’t like Marxists, whether black, white, or in between.

Think of this: What would the polls look like if 90% of white people were going to vote for McCain because he is white? 

It would be a landslide and it would be disgusting.  And it wouldn’t represent a country I would care to live in.

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  1. Who is this candidate: Lawyer. Preaches class envy/warfare. Talks of the need for “change.” First term senator with no noteworthy legislative accomplishments and who didn’t take that job seriously. The Senate was just a stepping stone to bigger things. Telegenic. Rousing speaker.

    We’ve already seen Barack Obama. Version one was called John Edwards.

    I really believe that if Obama was white, he’d have been no more successful than Edwards.

    Black people, who we dare not call racist, will vote at least 95% for Obama, with higher turnout than before.

    And while there are white people who will vote against Obama because he is black, there are a lot of other whites who think it’s the hip and cool vote and will choose him because he is black. Because, it will make us look so enlightened to the world.

    Comment by Ken — October 10, 2008 #

  2. Excellent point, Ken. Edwards was in many ways more effective than Obama, absent the race factor. At least he succeeded in his life (enormously) at something, winning some huge cases–and fees–as a plaintiff’s lawyer suing doctors and others with big insurance policies. Edwards could also give a pretty good speech, if you like the class warfare phony populist shtick.

    The unknown factor is your point about the “white people who will vote against Obama because he is black,” the much feared “racist” vote. Are there whites that are so perniciously racist that they will tell polsters they are for Obama but have no intention of voting for him?

    As much as I don’t want Obama to win (because he is a freakin’ marxist), I don’t think there is that much statistically significant racism in this country that will hurt Obama’s chances. Are there a few Archie Bunkers out there? Sure; but not in the millions that will make a dent percentage-wise in a national election. And we all have to pause a moment and agree that that’s a good thing.

    However, I do believe that two constituencies don’t want the white racism bug-a-boo to really go away, and they are the militant black activist movement (race baiters like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton), which makes its living battling the racism straw man eveywhere they imagine it to be; and the powerful and allied white liberal east-and-west-coast elite establishment. The latter uses racism as a way of “guilting” other whites into supporting ultra-liberal policies like affirmative action and voting for black candidates to “redress centuries of injustice” and such clap-trap.

    As we start looking ahead to the seemingly increasing likelihood of Obama’s ascendancy to the presidency, can we finally say with regard to race: Get over it; stop whining about racisim and using it to excuse every sort of anti-social behavior and faliure to achieve. That would be one (about the only one) good consequence of an Obama presidency, but somehow I don’t think it will happen. We can expect the Jacksons and Sharptons to find racism some where. And it will be your fault; and you will have to do something (like fork over more tax money and accept reverse discrimination against whites) to make it better.

    Comment by Administrator — October 12, 2008 #

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