On Poseurs and Racists
John Heilemann tries for… well… something; ends up looking like a complete poseur.
To wit:
… the Democrat would still need to win 40 percent of the overall paleface vote to prevail in November.
But McCain is whipping the hopemonger among white men…
… a background alien to much of Wonder Bread America…
I’m not sure if he was trying to be edgy, build up some progressive cred, or was just getting in a few partisan cheap shots, but the whole “Obama-as-hapless-victim” narrative is starting to get pretty threadbare.
When even Paris Hilton, who figured in the McCain campaign’s ad supposedly filled with “coded racism”, gets the point of said ad, Obama supporters, to say nothing of Obama himself, look especially cynical whenever they busy themselves by invoking the chimera of rampant racism in this campaign.
Is race a factor? Yes. Is racism a factor? Of course it is. Is saying that the main thing stopping Obama from steamrolling McCain is “racial prejudice”? No. That’s a facile argument.
You know nothing of Grim Gnarlicon.
Carl Chainslash? NOTHING compared to GRIM GNARLICON!
Oh hush, Bladine, you old roustabout.
THE THING STOPPING OBAMA FROM STEAMROLLING MCCAIN IS THAT HE’S A DAMN, DIRTY LIBERAL.
LONG LIVE LUCIFER!