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Posted on 01/24/2005 11:14:54 AM PST by presidio9
As we think back on the festivities down in Washington last week, it should be clearer than ever how complicated or contradictory the image of the Republican Party is. On that cold Washington morning, there were a number of people seated near the podium. At the center of the ceremony was Trent Lott, whose presence was taken as an insult even by black Republicans.
Sitting there in the chill with everyone else was Democrat Barak Obama, the new senator from Illinois, whose opponent was the carpetbagger Alan Keyes. A contemptuous quick fix by the GOP, the elephants flew him to the Midwest before he could even pack his carpet bag. Their idea must have been that a Negro long associated with the Eastern seaboard would be able to dupe black voters because they could only notice that he was of darker skin than Obama.
With Condoleezza Rice behind him, Colin Powell sat there, a man who had not been able to wield more influence on the President than the warlike so-called neo-cons and whose reputation was destroyed after he stood behind faulty CIA intelligence on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Rice is his replacement, and we will see whether she is walking up a gallows to swing before the world from suicidal policy or if she'll be able to chart her own path and make more international friends than enemies.
Though I did not see him, it is possible that Michael Powell, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, was there or somewhere near. Unlike his father, the war hero and the grave but warm presence, the younger Powell had no reputation to lose, but he has been repeatedly criticized for siding with conglomerates against the public interest.
The young Powell is now resigning his post, but one of his last acts was to order an investigation of the Armstrong Williams scandal, which left so much egg on the faces of the elephants because Williams was hired through the Department of Education to support "No Child Left Behind" and to - get this - convince other black journalists to do likewise. There may be more stink in that coffin of hanky-panky policy than we have yet to imagine.
With all of these small clusters of confusion and scandal rising around the President, it was not always clear what he meant when he spoke of breaking through the strictures of domestic racism. Perhaps he was speaking mostly of his appointments, which seem to glide so far above his party that they are beyond its perception.
***Sitting there in the chill with everyone else was Democrat Barak Obama, the new senator from Illinois, whose opponent was the carpetbagger Alan Keyes. ***
What about New York's very own carpetbagger, Hillary? Notice they never say that!
You forgot to put the big ole whiny Beotch / barf alert in the title....
So Stanley, recovered from your rendevous with Carlos and Billy last night?
Shhhh. There are no contradictions in the liberal philosophy.
It's ALL bad.
hold on a sec: Stanley Crouch is a fag?
Yes indeed.
What an ass! This moron proves the old saying "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than speak and remove all doubt."
Out of the closet too.
Ping.
Nice even-handed commentary there, Stan...If you're going to call Keyes a carpetbagger at least be consistent and call Obama a socialist who supports the slaughter of infant children.
Say it loud, say it strong: Barack is boring.
And what an image to invoke---Rice perhaps approaching the gallows.
To think I used to respect Crouch; he has become a complete disgrace.
(memo to Stanley: I'd rather be an elephant than an ass any day.)
Yes, but he's "articulate."
after I posted, I regretted using the word "fag." "Finnoch" would have been so much more appropriate when talking to you.
mhping
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I prefer the term "Morfordite" myself.
bump
I'm old school.
Queer.
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