A full wardrobe of guilt

The Washington Times ^ | 3-10-08 | Mark Steyn

[JZelle]

Well, we will have Hillary Clinton to kick around some more, at least for another few weeks. The Mummy (as my radio pal Hugh Hewitt calls her) kicked open the sarcophagus door and, despite the rotting bandages dating back to Iowa, began staggering around terrorizing folks all over again.

"She is a monster," Obama adviser Samantha Power told a reporter from the Scotsman — and not a monster in a cute Loch Ness blurry long-distance way but far more repulsive and in your face. "You just look at her and think, 'Ergh,' " continued Ms. Power, warming to her theme perhaps more than is advisable even in an interview with an overseas newspaper. She later resigned from the campaign.

The New York Times took a different line. The only monster is you, the American people. Surveying the Hillary-Barack death match, Maureen Dowd wrote: "People will have to choose which of America's sins are greater, and which stain will have to be removed first. Is misogyny worse than racism, or is racism worse than misogyny?"

Do even Democrats really talk like this? Apparently so. As Ali Gallagher, a white female (sorry, this identity-politics labeling is contagious) from Texas, told The Washington Post: "A friend of mine, a black man, said to me, 'My ancestors came to this country in chains; I'm voting for Barack.' I told him, 'Well, my sisters came here in chains and on their periods; I'm voting for Hillary.' "

[JZelle]

My ancestors came here on a boat, and McCain was in the Navy. So I'm voting for McCain! /asinine

[Hegemony Cricket]

My ancestors drove here in Corvairs, so I guess I won’t be voting for Nader...

[kempo]

I’m against slavery but I just wonder how many African Americans really wish there ancestors were never brought here from Africa. I’ll bet the number would be tiny. I’m just saying.

[VanShuyten]

I’d bet that pretty much all African-Americans wish their ancestors hadn’t come here in chains to be slaves.

[skr]

LOL!!!

[Republic of Texas]

I often tell my liberal black friends that they should wake up everyday and thank GOD that their ancestors were brought here in chains, otherwise they would be living in Africa. I know I am glad my ancestors came here or were brought here, under whatever circumstances. I’m just grateful to be an American.

[flowerplough]

The West is unique not in having slavery but in abolishing it. Moreover, although slavery was terrible for the slaves, it has proven to be beneficial to the descendants of slaves because it was the transmission belt that brought them to America, where their lives are immeasurably better than if they were living today in Africa.

When Muhammad Ali returned to America from Zaire after winning the heavyweight title, a reporter asked him, “Champ, what did you think of Africa?” Ali replied, “Thank God my grand-daddy got on that boat!”

Q&A with Dinesh D’Souza, Enter Stage Right.com, 10 Feb. 2003
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0203/0203dsouzaint.htm

[JoeFromSidney]

My ancestors came to this country in chains; I'm voting for Barack/p?

I'm more than a little tired of that argument. He had exactly as much choice as I did about what country to be born in. If he does't like the country he was born in, let him move to another one that he likes better.

[ARE SOLE]

My ancestors came here on a boat, and McCain was in the Navy. So I'm voting for McCain! /asinine

McHale was in the Navy too.

[JZelle]

Borgnine '08!!

[aruanan]

"People will have to choose which of America's sins are greater, and which stain will have to be removed first. Is misogyny worse than racism, or is racism worse than misogyny?"

Oh, Maureen, you idiot, before misogyny and racism come insufferable arrogance, inexperience and politistitution. The latter three are all sufficient to knock out Barack and Hillary without consideration of either their race or gender.