Today, Sen. Barack Obama, having let a racial stew fester on a slow boil for a couple of days to demonstrate the impotency of the Clintons’ aspirations to alpha victimhood in the Democratic presidential campaign, deftly stepped back into his role as Uniter, officially proclaiming that he, former Sen. John Edwards, and Sen. Hillary Clinton all share the same goals when it comes to civil rights and equal justice issues. He then mounted his campaign’s unicorn mascot and rode off through a field of buttercups into the Nevada sunset.
Clinton remains likely to win the nomination if her political machine can turn out her vote in each state. But Obama showed that he is currently in control of The Narrative.™
This has been “Today in Identity Politics.”
he’s got unicorns?
f*ck!
what color was the unicorn?
I’m not sure. The light was blinding.
Rainbow, if he knows what’s good for him.
Posts like this are very hurtful to people of my ethnic background. If anyone needs me, I’ll be in my anxiety closet.
When was the last time a senator became president anyway?
JFK in 1960.
(speaking of identity politics…)
Monday, January 14th 2008, 7:52 AM
MIAMI – Rudy Giuliani began his Sunday in an unusual place for him – at church –
The mayor has staked his political life on winning Florida’s GOP primary, against a field that includes a former Baptist minister, Mike Huckabee, whose support among evangelicals helped him win Iowa and has positioned him strongly here as well.
“This is a beautiful church, and I can feel the spirit of God in this room,” Giuliani told the 7,000 or so worshipers.
I’ll be in my anxiety closet.
Heh.
Remember what we talked about, okay? Paper, not plastic. And breathe into it — don’t put it over your head.
Somewhere, out there, sits the magnificent bastard (probably with a cigar) and he just laughs and laughs…
This campaign has taken a sour turn. I have no idea how Obama and Clinton intend to address either the tanking economy, or the Middle East mess. It’s their job to communicate their positions to me, not my job to mount some comprehensive research project to tease out their stances. Race and gender are smoke and mirrors.
Obama the “uniter” is looking damned prezidenshul!
I gotta say, if he can unite Hillary! and Edwards, then damnit, let’s just collapse the GOP tent and go home.
Whaddya say?
Should we throw in the towell? Or turn and face the “Uniter!”?
I think Barak Obama should not be accused of igniting the racial wars. I think Hilary Clinton was very wrong for undermining MLK’s role in the Civil Rights movement. The comment was just a poorly analyzed analogy. Sen. Clinton should feel responsible for apologizing to Sen. Obama for her remarks. Clinton is obviously hitting with low blows and is not standing up for attacks against Obama. I think thats what upsets me the most. I think Bill and Hillary should just say what they truly feel about Obamas credentials and campaign strategy. There is no race and gender issue. Just an gender issue raised by Hillary and the media; which was essentially sparked when some lady asked her how she prepares herself for the presidential race. I like the Clintons. I just don’t support them using race as leverage for their political campaign in SC. She doesn’t have to win this way. Great job of Obama for steering everyone back to the main issues. Thats the true Democratic Party!
Let’s put on a show in the barn! Mom can help with the costumes!
I still see thug action up ahead. Would like to see both take the high road, but it’s High School Musical: the Election.
“Clinton is obviously hitting with low blows and is not standing up for attacks against Obama. I think thats what upsets me the most. I think Bill and Hillary should just say what they truly feel about Obamas credentials and campaign strategy. There is no race and gender issue. Just an gender issue raised by Hillary and the media; which was essentially sparked when some lady asked her how she prepares herself for the presidential race. I like the Clintons. I just don’t support them using race as leverage for their political campaign in SC. She doesn’t have to win this way.”
I almost feel guilty about how much I am enjoying this. Almost.
That’s easy, cynn. They’re gonna pass out money and run away.
If Hillary! was any kind of speaker she could put this to rest with something like, “Look. Make no mistake. Through strength, inspiration, and sound argument, MLK lead us all down the path. All we had to do was cross the bridge — and we did”.
You righties had better pay close attention to this. I don’t see much of an early divisiion in your campaign, but here the shit comes. I’m just going to hibernate in a hole until August.
Pablo, I think all the candidates are equally unresponsive.
I have no idea how Obama and Clinton intend to address either the tanking economy, or the Middle East mess.
Cynn, since they are both democrats the answers are obvious. They are going to tax the shit out of everyone. That is always the answer for the donks.
WE WILL TAX OUR WAY TO GREATNESS, THE DEMOCRAT WAY!!!!111!1!
How that solves the Middle East, who knows, but mark my words.
cynn, unfortunately there is no hole deep enough.
What is becoming crystal clear is that none of those people have any clue as to what to do once in office. They know how to campagn and how to do political dirty tricks, but for anything resembling substance they have the sort of Plan people sneer at. You know, the ones in four steps where Step 4 is “Win!” (or “Profit”) and step three is ???????
In fact, it’s worse than that. None of them seems aware that there will be things that need doing once they attain office; they seem to regard the campaign as an end to itself, with what comes after one of them wins totally undefined. Presumably they put the bat and ball away and slope off to McDonalds for a burger and fries; the adults will manage things… except there don’t seem to be any adults around. Their supporters don’t seem much better. Blacks will vote for Obama because he’s black; women will vote for Hillary because she’s female. The office itself is just a prize to be awarded according to best conformity with the Narrative; the content of the office is irrelevant, and as nearly as I can tell, for most of them it’s nonexistent. They aren’t running, or voting, for President. The office in question is Most Exalted Token N*r.
There are a lot of candidates on Our Side that I don’t like. If the nominee is McCain I will have to use both hands to force myself to mark the little circle, for instance. But they all, except perhaps Huckabee, appear to have some idea that there is a job to be done and at least some hazy notion of how to do it. I find some of those suggestions pretty repugnant, but at least they have suggestions.
Regards,
Ric
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Ric,
Next over at the “Chelsea Speaks” post, there’s a link to Healine Junky which (in a part I did not quote) reminds us that the Clintons governed by the permanent campaign. So nothing comes after the campaign. Voila!
cynn,
If you have not seen divisions in the GOP race, you cannot be looking very hard. Just run a search for posts here on Huckabee or McCain.
Karl, you aren’t giving cynn enough credit. Read back over her last few posts. The Dark Side is whispering sweet nothings in her ear.
You know, we’ve all gotten used to the Token Whatever — the individual hired to meet the nonexistent but strictly enforced quota, who can’t do the job and gets insulted if you ask because they are people who don’t believe there is such a thing as “the job”; it’s a position, like Mr. Collins’s “living”. It’s just another form of tax, and the rest of the employees sigh and shoulder the wheel.
The entire workforce of the Oval Office is a single individual. If the occupant is the Token Black or Token Woman, who takes up the slack when there’s work to be done?
I reckon we’re about to find out. I don’t think it’ll be pretty.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by monique beacham on 1/14 @ 7:59 pm #
Someone, please tell me this was a parody, please…it has to be.
Comment by cynn on 1/14 @ 9:40 pm #
You righties had better pay close attention to this. I don’t see much of an early divisiion in your campaign, but here the shit comes. I’m just going to hibernate in a hole until August.
Bingo, Bango, Bongo!!!! we have a winner for the biggest, most embarrassing Golden globe for projection! Evah!!
Lefties have barfing up and imagining all the terrible things the GOP will do and low and behold, they gone done the dirty, ugly, sleazy, shameful, slimey, racist, smear awful unspeakable themselves!!!
Heh Haw.
Ric,
I am giving cynn credit. My point was merely that you noted that they know how to campaign but have no substance. The HRC logic is that it is all campaigning, thus magically removing the problem (that’s the ???? in your equation). Thinking that substance doesn’t matter didn’t seem to work for HRC in ’94, she thinks she has learned to boil the frog slowly with S-CHIP. Of course, that is merely tactical or strategic; long-term it’s still magical thinking. And the frog dies.
Now what other kind of unicorns would Obama have if not Black ones?
“Follow me not where I lead you to go,
for then your soul will be devil-bound
There is but one who rides my back,
and keeps his soul ever free
His heart is cold and will not crack,
and he is as cursed as me!”
Well, the fractures in the democratic party are no big surprise- its been bile and vitriol for almost 8 years now and people don’t change overnight. Democrats seem to stake out positions (in this case, for a particular candidate) and then attempt to destroy anyone that disagrees with them. Right now, Clinton’s camp and Obama’s camp are fighting about race- it will be something else tomorrow. This the democratic party -short on ideas, long on innuendo and insults.
In contrast, while there’s some infighting in the republican party, most of it is subtle and based on policy differences and/or legitimate concerns about positions these men are taking- the closest thing to the “race” issue the repubs have had is Huckabee the preacher seeming to claim the Christian vote. Other than that, most of the “insults” have been low key. There’s several men on the republican side I’d vote for without holding my nose- if McCain gets the nod (which I dont think he will), like Ric, I’ll force myself to go to the poll and vote, solely to keep hillarybama out of the White house. In the end, when you spend 8 years hating everybody and everything, its hard to change that mindset.
I wonder which GOP candidate is going to do the push poll about McCain’s “black child” this time around.
Huckabee.