Sometimes I depart from writing fake news when the real news is too ridiculous to top. This is one of those times.
Barack Obama sure knows how to throw a bad party. Last night's Rose Garden get-together was the most awkward beer bash in history. It was as if Obama invited a couple over and didn't know they were exes. Good times.
Seriously, this was our teachable moment? What exactly were we taught -- that racism can be fixed with a cringe-inducing photo op?
I'm not saying that the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, in his own home and after providing ID, was racist. I wasn't there so I don't know. Only Officer Crowley knows. But as Obama correctly said in his press conference last week, black men are too often pulled over by cops because of race. (Actually, everything he said about the Gates case in that press conference was correct, including his use of the word "stupidly." Too bad he was cowed into retracting it.)
The phenomenon called "Driving While Black" is nothing new. But now the so-called Birthers have come up with a novel variation on it: President While Black. They are essentially pulling Obama over and asking him to show his license and registration.
Here's my teachable moment: let's not be afraid to use words like "stupid" and "racist" when they apply; let's stop using the word "post-racial" altogether; and please, just when the conversation is starting to get interesting, let's not settle it over a few beers. More here.
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"You think the Republicans aren't gonna come out with all kinds of false accusations against Obama? You look at it right now and Obama looks cleaner than Hillary, but then he hasn't been down in the trenches fighting tooth and nail for us for twenty years either."
And you can beleive that after the "birther" bull#@it dies out the Republicans will come with something else.
If anything good comes out of this maybe it will be that some of the younger liberals who only remember the accusations the conservatives made, will look on the Clintons in a new light.
Brilliant. That's exactly it.
The good news is they are increasingly painting themselves into a corner. A shrinking southern old white male corner.
It's amazing you can't see that.
When do you think Obama can speak and not have anyone comment negatively? Maybe his press conferences and speeches should be MadLib...you fill in the blanks.
Amen, that is exactly what they are doing. You hit the nail on the head.
In terms of politics, though, he was smart to have the beer sit down. The sad fact is he can't stop the careful strategizing necessary to keep uneasy white people in the middle from political white flight.