I don’t think that means what Obama thinks it means:
In any other circumstance, if an administration 1) claimed utterly bogus privileges never before recognized by law, 2) dragged its feet for 16 months on a rather simple internal investigation, 3) put partisan officials in place to oversee or skew the investigations, and 4) stiffed Congress and the media and an independent agency on formal, legally weighty information requests, then the axis of CBS/New York Times/AP/White House press corps would be in full-on Watergate mode with breathless updates about the latest nefarious occurrences.
Yet that’s just the cover-up. In this case, the “crime” (metaphorically speaking) really is worse. For well over a year now, the biggest normative violation has not involved the actual Panther intimidation, or even anything focusing on the Panthers at all. Instead, the more important focus has been on the convincing evidence that both the DOJ Civil Rights Division and the Obama political team at the Department, up to and including Holder, exhibit a pervasive hostility against the idea of race-neutral enforcement of laws related to civil rights, and have both spoken and acted accordingly. Most concretely, did Deputy Assistant Attorney General Julie Fernandes adopt a policy of not enforcing, or not enforcing in an equal manner, two separate laws relating to voting rights and procedures? Two sworn testimonies say that she said as much at specific, widely attended Civil Rights Division meetings in the fall of 2009, and further sworn testimony says she and the Obama team directly ignored a key lawyer’s recommendation to enforce one of those laws against eight states in obvious violation thereof.
Remember when a vote for Obama was the best way to prove your non-racist bona fides?
Well, that still works, I guess, if you re-frame “racism” to mean “color-blindness.” Which is why that’s exactly what the left has long wanted to do.
I see what you did there.
Of course, if the MBM weren’t the MBM they would be covering this shit out of this issue. This is a serious problem that goes to the core of Obama’s beliefs.
Every time I see this stuff, it’s like my country has become even less recognizable to me. What’s worse is that this kind of thing is not an isolated incident. It’s systemic.
The new and improved post racial left.
Now with lynchings!
True courage is calling someone who lies a liar, no matter the color of his skin.
Same goes for the idiot thing too.
Isn’t it RAAAAAAACIST! to even consider this question without the fortified absolute moral authority if the proper melanin content?
You ought to see the comment section of Politico’s hitpiece on Virginia Thomas.
Trust me when I tell you, if you are white, there is nothing you can do that will prove you aren’t a racist.
That’s rather bigoted, Lee.
(but true!)
With Whitey now knee deep everywhere (even in friggin’ Houston, TX) I call RACIST! on global warming.
Want proof? State Departments of Transportation and State Troopers across the nation are on a seek & destroy op against “black ice”.
Wake up people.
Also, I think it’s obvious to anyone with a pulse that the Tea Party has stolen Dick Cheney’s evil weather machine.