As we saw throughout the campaign and now the first part of his presidency, Obama has a full deck of race cards, which he plays with abandon and gusto. Disagree with the master, you're a racist.
Jonah Goldberg has it right:
Two weeks ago, town hallers were supposed to be members of the Brooks Brothers brigade, Astroturf division. Now they're well-armed anti-government militias. At this rate, they'll soon be android ninjas with laser vision. Wait, strike that. They'll be really racist android ninjas with laser vision.Suddenly, if conservatives want to transcend race, we have to agree to massive increases in the size of government and socialized medicine.
That's not transcending race, it's using Obama's race to bully the opposition into acquiescence. Actually transcending race would require treating Obama like any other president. Which is pretty much exactly what conservatives have been doing. Seriously, if Hillary Clinton were president, would conservatives really be rolling over for the same health-care plan because she's white.
It is getting quite old, but racism has been so effective (after all, it bought him the presidency) it's hard if not impossible to give up.
August 21, 2009, 0:00 a.m.A Deck Stacked with Race Cards
The great irony of the Obama presidency.By Jonah Goldberg
What if America transcended race, and Barack Obama wasn't invited?
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