Why McCain Is a Racist

It is the 31st of July 2008. McCain just accused Obama of playing the race card.

1. Obama has bent over backwards NOT to play the race card. He has bent over so far that he has thrown his back out.

2. Exactly how does one play the race card? Claim victimhood? Blacks have been and still are victims of discrimination but Obama has not claimed that.

3. In fact, Obama is always talking about the great life this country has given him. This may not be true for another person of color who has, for example, suffered discrimination but it is true in Senator Obama's case. I take his word for it. I have not suffered discrimination either but I don't presume to say others have not suffered. Indeed, I know it for fact because I have seen Native Americans and Japanese-Americans and others done injustice.

4. Does McCain want to make a false charge in the hopes of inflaming a racist backlash against Obama? Probably. It is a tactic that some Republicans use. Code talk like "the bloc vote" as if people were too stupid to decipher the cryptograms. Fortunately, not all Republicans appreciate that kind of mental molestation. That is why there are so many Republicans for Obama.

5. Perhaps one plays the race card by referring to race. This is America people. Unless you are dead and have been dead for centuries in a grave on some desert island, it is impossible to go through a day without someone (like McCain) claiming that something you said or did has something to do with race. America is a race-drenched country. We've come to accept that and, consequently, cut people slack. We give people the benefit of the doubt unless they get insulting like Don Imus.

6. At some point you have to ask, what will satisfy McCain? If Senator Obama loses the election, that's what. So discount McCain's crankiness as the early signs of Tourette's Syndrome.

7. All this McCain camp activity is, of course, leading up to a rehash of the estrangement with Reverend Jeremiah Wright. I will bet anyone including God Almighty that I can take his or her words out of context and make them say ANYTHING. Even the exact opposite of what they meant. If you doubt that I am that good (and that bad), then get out your wallet sucker.
The tabloid media (Fox) specializes in splicing out sound bites and twisting an interpretation. For example, no one present at Howard Dean's rally thought anything was unusual. But when the evening news came out, a sound engineer isolates one microphone and the pundits declare Howard Dean to have cheered off key. Burn him at the stake. I cannot understand why foreigners do not think all Americans must be satanic imbeciles with an incurable psychosis. Even I teetered on the brink before slapping myself: "Snap out of it! It is just a yah not Hitler's Holocaust." I was not a Dean supporter either but it was because of one of the planks in his platform not his wooden voice. Policy not fallacy.

8. McCain has a lot of nerve to point the finger. It was Romney, Giuliani, Thompson, and McCain who refused to show up at a Republican debate. The reason? It was held at Morgan State University (historically black) and the host (Tom Joyner) was black. This was a real slap in the face to Black Republicans and African-Americans.

Governor Huckabee said: “I’m embarrassed for our party, and I’m embarrassed for those who did not come because there’s long been a divide in this country. And it doesn’t get better when we don’t show up.”

Senator Brownback said: “I think this is a disgrace that they’re not here. I think it’s a disgrace for our country, I think it’s bad for our party, and I don’t think it’s good for our future. You know you grow political parties by expanding your base, by reaching out to people and getting more people. What they’re doing is sending a message of narrowing the base.”

The Gang of Four (including McCain) is one reason why the Republican Party is perceived as racist.

9. Senator Byrd, a former Klan member, endorses Obama. If he has no problem with the color of a man, why should we?

10. I get tired of cheering when Obama says something I agree with: "people are bitter and cling to their religion and their guns" and then some jackhole complains and Obama has to retract the statement. I am bitter. I do cling to my guns. I do cling to my religion. I am bitter because you can't speak the truth without some jackhole forcing you to shut up. Believe it or not but I am a Fundamentalist Christian. Who uses salty language when necessary. Who sees no conflict between science and religion or between the Book of Genesis and Darwinian evolution. God knows Bush believes in Social Darwinism. And I have no problem with all the happy and cheering people at the Obama rallies. They have the audacity to hope for better things. I have been to two Obama rallies. I saw old people, young people, Asian, Hispanics, whites, blacks (not many though), middle class, working class, women, men, and people I knew were not Democrats. By the way, I am not a Democrat.

11. I admit it. I don't understand how Obama's appeal cuts across categories. But I do understand that it is driving McCain crazy to play the Nixon to Obama's JFK. Fortunately, Obama does not have Hodgkin's or Addison’s (the diseases that made JFK so horny). Unfortunately, McCain may be playing Nixon too well complete with the dirty tricks of Tricky Dick. Karl Rove used to work for Nixon. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe Obama is Harvey Gantt and McCain is Jesse Helms. If so, McCain should remember that the USA is not North Carolina writ large.

12. The hate websites love Obama because they can drum up new members out of fear. Fear of what? Foreign policy seldom changes because of the CFR and all the other conspiracies. Domestic policy seldom changes for the better because the Establishment is entrenched. That leaves nothing. There is no other category besides foreign and domestic affairs. Presidents know that if they change too much they will be assassinated. I'd be surprised if Obama made it to November. Shocked if he got elected. Flabbergasted if he got sworn in without a shot ringing out. And, I would be amazed if Mr. Obama got through four years without any harm coming to him.


Dear God, please let me be wrong. Show me to be too much a pessimist and cynic. Amen.