Unquiet on June 3, 2008 at 2:51 PM

I know it’s late, but I’d like to add a mosque to your list. And yes, all those places.

“I loathe everyone to whom I feel superior, which is pretty much everyone.” -Richard Cohen.

Akzed on June 3, 2008 at 12:24 PM

According to his wiki entry, Messr. Cohen attended 3 different universities, but there is absolutely no mention of his having recieved a degree.

have turned her into a caricature of what her caricaturists long claimed she already was

The chicken came before the egg on this one for sure, pal. Hillary was defined by what she is, she did not become what she was defined by. Fool.

the Democrats will choose a woman or an African American and, to invoke that tiresome phrase, history will be made.

They just can’t help themselves, can they? Cohen will never understand just how racist/sexist his own statement is. We do not need a president who is elected by their gender or race. But if ti happens, it will make it all okay in liberal eyes.

As a female friend of mine once said “When has a Republican ever done anything for Black people.” She is a Middle School Principal with a Masters degree.

Regarding Democratic and\or Republican History:

Although one almost has to proint out

Abraham Lincoln was a Republican

and the others, I don’t think any of that History really matters. What matters to me is: “Who is increasing and who is decreasing racism today, now, this year?”

If you just showed up one day her in the USofA and stuck you head into a few meeting places (bablefish in ear would be helpful) without the participants knowledge, armed with some sample audio recordings of KKK meetings for comparison, where would you find matching language patterns and parallel content?

Trinity? A meeting of Chicago Community Organizers? A meeting of MSA in the Student Union basement of one of our fine public universities? A meeting of the Young Republicans?

I wonder….

The perpetual self loathing white guilt of the left wingers is pathetic.

Given their paltry records, none of these candidates would have had a shot at the nomination had it not been for the exact same impulses that Cohen now derides. — Capt. Ed

Trenchant. I hope Cohen sees your comments. He could use some humility.

“When has a Republican ever done anything for Black people.” She is a Middle School Principal with a Masters degree.

Swinehound on June 3, 2008 at 1:41 PM

Clearly the Master of Education degree is the most meaningless and overrated advanced degree in all of academia, and that’s saying a mouthful.

As a female friend of mine once said “When has a Republican ever done anything for Black people.” She is a Middle School Principal with a Masters degree.

I wonder if her MA is in History.
Abraham Lincoln was a Republican.
The Voting Rights Act was first proposed by Dwight Eisenhower, a Republican.
The 1964 Civil Rights Act was filibustered by Democrats and passed due to support of a majority of Republicans.

It’s remarkable that Nixon’s “southern strategy” of appealing to disaffected southern Democrats is used to tar Republicans as enemies of “Black people” after a century of support for equal rights, while the party of Jim Crow and the KKK, the Democrats, get a free pass on its documented history of racism.

“When has a Republican ever done anything for Black people.” She is a Middle School Principal with a Masters degree.

Clearly, that masters was not in history.

“What is that, if not a kind of racism/sexism that prevails in identity politics?”

You couldn’t sling a dead cat a Democrat gathering without hitting a racist. White, Black no matter.
As a female friend of mine once said “When has a Republican ever done anything for Black people.” She is a Middle School Principal with a Masters degree. That hasn’t stopped her from not seeing the racist attitudes among her fellow Democrats however.

Those voters didn’t even know enough to lie, which is what, if you look at the numbers, others probably did in other states.

Yup, those liberals only have respect for closet racist. Idiot!

Typhonsentra on June 3, 2008 at 12:34 PM

Assumes facts not in evidence. Do the exit polls even go into the motivations, or are you imposing something extraneous on the data?

That belief is even more true to them with a black as the pending nominee for president, which is also why they are so irate at Hillary. By taking on some of the talking points Republicans will use against Obama in the general election, especially over foreign policy issues and experience, Hillary is forcing Democrats to either brand her and Bill as racists, or admit that Republicans might be opposed to Obama for the same reasons they opposed Kerry in 2004, Mondale in 1984 or McGovern in 1972 — because he comes out of, and gets his greatest support from, the furthest left base of the Democratic Party.

There are a lot of those on the left who have no qualms about accusing Bill and Hill of being the second coming of George Wallace and a right-wing Republican in all but name. However, Democrats like Cohen who know the party has to be united to beat McCain in November don’t want to go that far, but get angry because Hillary won’t get out of the race to allow that unity effort (and the combined assault on McCain) to begin.

Voting for a minority or woman because of underrepresentation isn’t the same as voting against one because you don’t trust them based on ethnicity or gender.

Yes it is. In both cases you are voting for or against a candidate based solely on exterior characteristics, be it skin color or gender.

Mr. Cohen gives a long laundry list of things he loathes about this campaign, but I want to add a few of my own. I loathe:

- the transparent double standard of not mentioning by far the most obvious example of racial bias in the current campaign – blacks voting 90+% for Obama.

- the grudging admission that there might be non-racial reasons for not voting for Obama. Wow, thanks – I suppose there might be some valid reasons to respect the average journalist too, but I can’t think of one for the life of me.

- the hackneyed vitriol about Bus and Cheney. Have another chug of the kool-aid, why don’t you? The Goebbels-scale lies repeated endlessly by America’s journalists about this administration make such comments the height of hypocrisy.

- the tiresome habit of decrying all manner of bad behaviors by the Democrat candidates, slyly without reference to party, as if they were practiced by McCain too. They haven’t been, and an honest journalist would have said so. Okay “honest journalist” is a ridiculous construct, I admit.

- and the equally tiresome facade of criticising the practice of dirty politics in this camapign as if it was something new, when in fact the only new aspect of it is that it is being practiced by Dems on Dems… if it was being directed at Republicans, you have long ago proven you not only wouldn’t utter a peep, but would probably be gleefully helping out.

Just exactly how dumb do you think we are anyway, that you can write such a pile of drivel and expect it to be taken seriously? However dumb that may be, it cannot approach the stupidity of whoever pays you to shovel out this sophistry.

drunyan8315 on June 3, 2008 at 12:42 PM

QTF, from the headline thread.

his willingness to abide his minister’s admiration for a racist demagogue

And just why would a racist demagogue have anything but admiration for another racist demagogue?

Cut the number of racists in half.

Every article talks about “historic”… meaning its important that he’s black, but then they decry the idea that even thought THEY think its important, others might as well.

Voting for a minority or woman because of underrepresentation isn’t the same as voting against one because you don’t trust them based on ethnicity or gender.

Typhonsentra on June 3, 2008 at 12:34 PM

This is the attitude that is the exact problem. Its OK to use it as a Positive, to judge them primarily on their group to vote FOR them, but its EVIL to use it to judge them negativly…. You can’t have it both ways.

Either race and sex don’t matter… or they do.

Obama’s problem is not that he is a Black Candidate, but that his campaign is using his “Blackness” as a campaign issue. Most of America distrust the Black Agenda, because they see it as Racist in and of itself.

Voting for a minority or woman because of underrepresentation isn’t the same as voting against one because you don’t trust them based on ethnicity or gender.

Typhonsentra on June 3, 2008 at 12:34 PM

No, it’s not the same. One’s negatively racist, the other’s positively racist.