Then there was the cab driver on the way back from the Caltrain station last month who spent the entire trip assailing me with visions of how Obama was going to "fight the corporations" and "end the war."
Look, up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's Obama!
But a dinner in the Castro District with three liberal, Jewish friends last week was truly enlightening. All three had decided that Obama's apology speech was the most brilliant thing they'd ever heard and, subsequently, all was forgiven in regards to the pesky intrusion of the unsavory Rev. Wright.
I injected some counterpoints, but to no avail. Neither the rabid anti-Semite, Louis Farrakhan, receiving an award from Trinity United Church, Obama's unbelievable claims never to have heard the objectionable sermons at hand, nor the discord between Obama's "post-racial" image and Wright's brand of black nationalism would sway them.
"He's starting a really important dialogue," one of them insisted, apparently buying into the idea that it is white people, and not the black people attending churches such as Trinity, who have a problem with race in America. "Who's holding up a dialogue?" I asked, pointing out that it was hardly the 1950s anymore. "That
kind of victimhood doesn't help black people anyway," I added.
But, again, it made no difference. Apparently, Obama is going to eliminate racism too.
Indeed, here in San Francisco, it seems that Saint Obama is going to solve all our problems. God help us.
Morons, idiots, failures, leaches and the insane have ALWAYS been with us — but originally - they weren’t allowed to vote..
Now they can....and we see the consequences..
No one can doubt that John Adams was right about insisting that great care be given in awarding the privilege to vote.
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