A Gem from the Racial Progressives at NRO
Ah nostalgia, eh, Rick Brookhiser? Yes, then were a time when even the horned liberal could appreciate the beneficence of Whites toward their Negro subjects. How far our society has fallen, really towards Darkness.
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White's off-handed bitchslap to "white trash" is characteristic of that breed of clueless, upper-class American honkey who proves his progressive, open-minded credentials by haughtily dismissing the poorest and most politically vulnerable of his own ethnic group, while hypocritically extolling virtues of others - as long as those "others" mind their place as content "noble savages" in the low-end of the social gravel pit. American literature and entertainment is full of those yowling "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" moments of blinkered pomposity. That it is not a dead-letter remnant of another age, long passed, is occasionally proven by such grating buffoonery as Bill Clinton's head-pat invocation of Jesse Jackson upon Obama's South Carolina win.
May 14, 2008 3:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Jesse Jackson won South Carolina in '84 and '88. Jackson ran a good campaign. And Obama ran a good campaign here."
I understand why Obama groupies find this statement offensive...ie it's truthful and it simply doesn't display enough Barry worship. Shameful.
May 14, 2008 4:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Jesse Jackson had as much chance of winning the Presidency as Stephen Hawking does winning a decathlon. THAT was Clinton's brushoff message. Primary voters thought otherwise.
May 14, 2008 5:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Your example makes no sense. Hawking never finished 2nd in a decathlon. Jackson finished 2nd in the 1988 primary. Included in the field of candidates that he bested were Gore, Biden, Gephart, Babbitt and Simon to name a few. On Super Tues that year, JJ won as many primaries as Gore (5) and one less than Dukakis. He actually led in delegates after the Michigan caucus and, overall, won 13 primaries/caucuses. He narrowly lost here or it would have been 14.
He was a serious candidate and Bill Clinton acknowledged that. Obama and his campaign seem to imply that Jackson was a nothing and that it's absurd to compare them in any way. That's an insult to Jackson who, years ago, plowed a lot of the primary ground that Barry is benefitting from today.
May 14, 2008 7:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Jackson won a handful of southern states that were guaranteed for the GOP in the general (and that's how the cards fell). No key Democratic states, no swing states - and after Wisconsin went to Dukakis, not a peep out of him. And, no, not a wisp of a chance at the Presidency.
May 14, 2008 7:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
won a handful of southern states that were guaranteed for the GOP in the general
Remind you of anyone? WTF do you think Obama's lead is built on? Do the handful of southern states that were guaranteed for the GOP in the general matter or not?
May 14, 2008 11:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
This year, for the first time in decades, the South is NOT locked up by the GOP. The Republicans know that. Obama knows that. Hillary Clinton knows it, too.
And nobody realizes and appreciates this turning-point fact better than Travis Childers.
May 15, 2008 9:57 AM | Reply | Permalink