Monday, March 26, 2007

Obama Exposed As Race Racketeer By Steve Sailer - VDare

You can blame winter for the slow erosion of Senator Barack Obama's image.

As I've been noting going back to my January VDARE.com article on Obama, much of what you hear about the fashionable Presidential candidate ranges from wishful thinking to sheer ignorance to outright distortion.

More recently, I wrote in The American Conservative one of the first detailed analyses of Obama's 1995 autobiography, Dreams from My Father that takes seriously his absolutely accurate subtitle: A Story of Race and Inheritance. Rather than being the racial healer of media legend, Obama has,—according to his own account—conducted a lifelong love affair with racial resentment and self-pity. [Obama’s Identity Crisis, March 26, 2007]

The response from liberals like David Brock and Matthew Yglesias was that it was not the politician who is running for President of the United States whose personality should be examined, but the journalist's who dares question Obama.

Baloney. Obama's vague, feel good, bring-us-together campaign as the half black-half white candidate who will enable America to" transcend" race is absolutely dependent on continued journalistic negligence regarding what Obama has actually written about race.

We elected a pig in a poke as President in 2000 and are paying the price today. But with George W. Bush, we at least had the excuse for not making the effort to understand him that he turns out to be not very interesting to understand—he's Peter Sellers' Chauncey Gardiner from Being There with a mean streak.

Obama, on the other hand, is a more intriguing individual, a man of parts, a fine writer and speaker. We don't have the excuse of boredom for not putting in the work to understand the passionately ethnocentric candidate's race obsession.

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