Posted on 08/03/2008 4:09:38 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
In which the single dumbest, most paranoid racial charge of the campaign is recycled on national television by a former presidential advisor and current Harvard professor. I said it before but it bears repeating: If you take this logic to its conclusion, there’s literally no non-racist way to accuse a member of a minority group of having an outsized ego. Any synonym you can conjure — elitist, arrogant, “megalomaniac narcissist” (to quote Hitchens) — can all happily be dismissed as “code,” regardless of whether the subject might in fact (a) display his very own presidential seal, (b) be known to describe rural voters in terms that call to mind Cletus the slackjawed yokel on “The Simpsons,” and (c) oh, by the way, lead his very own cult with himself as godhead.
George Will makes a point I made myself last week, that the irony of all these bad-faith charges of racism is that most of the GOP’s knocks on Obama’s ego are straight out of the playbook they used against “haughty, French-looking Democrat” John Kerry. Granted, there was no “Moses” ad for Waffles, but that’s because most people hated him; Obama is adored to an absurdly iconic extent, especially vis-a-vis his actual accomplishments (in Lindsey Graham’s words, “fame without portfolio”), which is why he gets goofed on as leading people to the Promised Land whereas Kerry got the windsurfer treatment. (Although there are plenty of goofs on Obama along the same dorky windsurfer lines to be found if you look around.) The real “tell” here, though, is what Gergen offers as further evidence to support his point — that McCain, when asked about affirmative action, said he opposes quotas. A perfectly mainstream conservative position, and certainly one McCain would also hold if he was facing Hillary, but because he’s facing Obama McCain’s no longer allowed to talk about it. Presumably he should be responding to questions on the subject with a terse “no comment” lest halfwits like this whip out their secret racial decoder rings to tell America what he “really” meant.
That’s okay. The more ridiculous the left’s demagoguery becomes, the more credibility they lose with voters. See, e.g., the new Rasmussen poll on McCain’s Britney ad. Not only did a vast majority see nothing racist about it (Democrats themselves are evenly divided) but fully 53% found St. Barack’s “dollar bill” comment over the line, including 44% of blacks. Keep talking, Gergen. Click the image to watch.
I stopped caring about David Gergen’s opinions when he came on board with the Clinton administration in 1993.
I sat behind him on a flight from DC to NC.
All he did was play touchy feely with the stewardesses and then walk from first class down up and down the aisle to the back of the plane so people could recognize him.
Am I the only one who never “gets” what the media accuses us of doing?
If the shoe fits...
Bad combover Gergen doing his part for the media wing of the Liberal democrat party. Gergen is just trying to insulate the Liberal from criticism. It won’t work. Obama is not above criticism.
How does Gergen explain the Clintonites jumping to McCain’s defense, saying that Obama played the race card against them every time the polls got close. Huh, Dave?
PBS’ favorite “Republican”.
“Davis Gergen” is code for “dumb@ss”
Gergen has a voice but has no credibility.
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Who gives a flip about what David Roidham Gergen thinks?
david gurgle
babbles
on and on and on...
Obama played the race card against the Clintons with much success.
I don’t think Gergen was this dumb before he went to Harvard. Which once again proves Dennis Prager’s adage, “There are some ideas so stupid they could only come from a university”.
I lost my codebook too.
..hey Gergen, here’s a code for ya....your an idiot
It amazes me how much air time he gets on CNN; he is so blatantly in the tank for Obama. He is a useless commentator, filled with himself, just like the one.
When Clinton hired Gergen, Rush did a lampoon of Gergen’s cred as a conservative that almost made me drive off the road. He role played Gergen and Mark Shields on McNeil and Lehrer, each character saying the exact same thing in agreement with the other. It was hysterical.
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