Posted on 06/09/2009 6:26:59 AM PDT by Tolik
And another part Jabba The Hut.
If you are a racist -- "soft" racism, in this case -- you can't hold him accountable, because, well, he's "black" don't you know(what do you expect?)... and, therefore: one must make certain "allowances" for him.
But if one Judges a man on an individual basis, by his merits and demerits and not the color of his skin, the answer is yes: we can and should criticize Obama for "what he does and says."
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Great post! Much appreciated history lesson.
Speaking of Rush, I've heard him say that if he had to have someone else's brain, he would chose Charles Krauthammer's, or Justice Scalia's.
No argument. I'd take VDH's brain in a heartbeat, except: all that IQ would never squeeze into my thick thick skull. ;-)
It hasn't always been this way.
Bi-partisanship in foreign relations and military affairs was the acknowledged standard -- even for Democrats -- in the fifties, during the Eisenhower administration.
By the seventies, everything had changed.
The intervening period -- the sixties -- never made any sense. LBJ, a Democrat, got us into -- and horribly botched -- Viet Nam. Richard Nixon, a Republican, got us out.
Yet, somehow the left always directed their vitriol toward Nixon.
If they hadn't controlled the media, they would've been recognized as confused...even stupid.
He was writing like this during the campaign. You must not have been paying attention.
Must’ve missed it. ‘Course, he’s the one who said he just noticed the Press wasn’t doing his job.
OMGosh. I just noticed that she looks a lot like the little “Latina” b**** who tried to beat me up in the bathroom in junior high. I grabbed her wrists, and when she tried to kick me, I put my shin crosswise in her way. Her thug girlfriends left when they saw that she was losing. Then I just forced her slowly down on the floor. She never bothered me again.
I wish I could do the same to sodastraw-or, who is too young to be the same gal, and get the same result.
A few years ago I was going through some retraining and I sat next to a younger Mexican female. She was married and had a couple of kids, but looking at her, she dressed really conservatively. She told me that in high school, she was one mean little cuss, and she was always in the middle of fighting and trouble.
Anyway, that was the past and she was working to improve her prospects to get a job. I helped her out in some of the rough spots of the training and I think I helped her qualify for something at a hospital.
Living in Southern California, I had a lot of Mexican friends, and back then, I didn’t notice. I mean, their ethnicity never occurred to me. They were for the most part good kids. It wasn’t until I was looking at my high-school annual just a few years ago that I saw how many Mexicans I went to school with.
I have no idea why that one gal wanted to beat me up, and at the age of 12, I didn’t care. She left me alone for the rest of the school year, and that was all I cared about at the time.
Yes, I hope that she changed her ways, but I wasn’t there to see it since I switched schools after that.
One of my sons has a mexican girlfriend and I have a mexican sister in law. Neither of these ladies would go around spouting crap like Sotomayor does about being “latina.”
Sonia is of Puerto Rican descent and grew up in New York. I grew up there, too, and went to school with many Puerto Rican kids. Like all immigrant kids, they had their problems with language and the fact that most of them came from very poor and uneducated families in PR. But like all immigrant kids, they were on their way to a better life: the father of one of my friends worked as an elevator operator for his entire life here, his daughter worked hard in school, and he sent her to Barnard with a scholarship from the elevator operators’ union. All this was prior to affirmative action.
Sadly, once affirmative action came along and it was beneficial to people to identify themselves as an ethnic group, Puerto Ricans started to get on the “Latino” bandwagon and portray themselves as oppressed descendents of native peoples. I always laugh at this, because Puerto Ricans in particular are mostly of European descent - there are a surprising number of people of German and Italian descent among them - or are mixed race African/European and have virtually no Indian blood. But heck, whatever gets you a few Federal bucks, right?
This happened to Mexicans, too, but I think that in some areas, there is such a long-standing Mexican-American presence that they actually think of themselves as - well, just human beings like anybody else in this country. Democratic pressure groups like La Raza hate people like your Mexican friends and family members because they won’t go along with the Dem strategy.
She’s Latina, you know.
BTTT.
The eye of this historian is discerning, even with respect to current events and future likelihoods.
Does anyone see a little Henny Youngman in her?
There’s one small comfort with all this. She admitted she was a product of Affirmative Action. That means she was given preference over people smarter and more qualified than she was. But that was already obvious without the admission.
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