Posted on 11/16/2008 8:14:32 PM PST by Lorianne
Well, as it happens, our new president has no slave ancestry, and neither branch of his parentage could have been owned by anybody, or at least not by anybody American. (Muslim-run slavery, though, is an old story in Africa as well as a horribly contemporary one.) And there were not a few elected black American representatives 40 years ago, even if mainly in Northern states. The objection I make is therefore twofold. First, the election of Obama is the effect not the cause of the changes. (One of my questioners appeared to think that our president-elect had been responsible for the decision in Brown v. Board of Education.) Second, a Republican victory would have had absolutely no effect on the legal or political standing of black Americans, which is a matter of our law and our Constitution and cannot be undone by any ephemeral vote or plebiscite.
The recognition of these obvious points should also alert us to a related danger, which is the cousinhood of euphoria and hysteria. Those who think that they have just voted to legalize Utopia (and I hardly exaggerate when I say this; have you been reading the moist and trusting comments of our commentariat?) are preparing for a disillusionment that I very much doubt they will blame on themselves. The national Treasury is an echoing, empty vault; our Russian and Iranian enemies are acting even more wolfishly even as they sense a repudiation of Bush-Cheney; the lines of jobless and evicted are going to lengthen, and I don't think a diet of hope is going to cover it. Nor even a diet of audacity, though can you picture anything less audacious than the gray, safety-first figures who have so far been chosen by Obama to be on his team?
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I'm stealing that word, I am.
Where is the “Change” if all he is doing is recycling the Clinton era with his appointments. And adding some more lefty etremists to these?
***Obama’s victory didn’t magically eliminate America’s problems and enemies.***
WHAT?! Are you sure? That’s not what everyone keeps telling me... Does this mean no skies of blue, rainbows, meadows of gumdrops, or rivers flowing with milk and honey?
He’s not gunna torture.
So the terrorists are pretty chuffed.
All African tribes and groups, not just Muslim ones, practiced slavery until forced to stop doing so by evil white colonizers.
However, only Muslims and Europeans succeeding in making slavery a thriving export trade.
I put in for a pony. This article makes it sound like I may not get one.
That’s a GREAT tagline! It should cause us to reflect a bit...
Well, all very well, but as he admits, Christopher Hitchens voted for Obama, mainly because he couldn’t stomach the idea of voting for a Christian like Sarah Palin, apparently.
So, now he’ll get what he voted for.
He was elected by 27% of registered voters. Hard to get euphoric over that.
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Are you referring to Reagan in 1980? Because that is what he got. Turnout in 1980 was about 53%, and Reagan got about 51% of the vote, which equals 27% of registered voters.
Obama got about 32%, not 27%. Still nothing to write home about, of course.
The same can't be said for the new First Lady, of course.
I asked for a unicorn.
*sigh*
He is adding the Chicago Daly mafia too which is probably what put him into office. The Clintonistas are to calm us down (cough cough) and then he thinks he will get a second term and go wild. Remember, his people said it wouldn’t go socialist overnight allegedly
I was using total registrant numbers from the NY Times. There is no official count that I know of just yet. But as you say, whether it’s 27% or 32% there’s little floor there.
It is going to be fun watching Hitchens, and maybe even Matthews, watch a rerun of the Clinton years. Hitchens hated the Clintons, it will be interesting to see if he grows to despise Obama.
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