Susan Estrich: The Final Days [Only Racism Could Explain an Obama Loss]

Creators Syndicate ^ | October 31, 2008 | Susan Estrich

[2ndDivisionVet]

It is time for this election to be over. It is time because it has been going on for what feels like a lifetime, because the final days have been full of noise and fury and very little light, and because we need to start solving problems rather than just debating them.

It is time because we all know how it should turn out and because thinking about what could happen if it doesn't is too upsetting.

Are Democrats in danger of being too confident? The short answer is no.

It's no because we've lost too many times when we were supposed to win. It's no because it's easier to convince people to go to a wedding than a funeral, to show up at a party instead of a wake. The California Democrats I've talked to, even the tired and cynical ones, are heading off to Colorado and Nevada and New Mexico, leaving nothing to chance, eager to be part of celebrations across the country.

And the truth is that no matter what the polls say — and they couldn't be much better — we're all still holding our breath. We're holding our breath because as many times as we tell each other that with the economy the way it is, with the wrong track numbers the way they are, with consumer confidence as low as it is, race shouldn't matter, it really shouldn't matter enough in enough places to make every single poll wrong.

It shouldn't. It really shouldn't. Because, let's face it, God forbid if it does.

This is the unspoken what-if, the whispered fear.

It's not just that Barack Obama should win because he's ahead and the economy stinks and he's run a disciplined and well-financed campaign while John McCain struggled for a message and chose a running mate whose inability to answer easy questions has left women embarrassed and fuming.

It's what it will say if he doesn't. And what will happen if he doesn't.

There is only one reason the polls could be this wrong. There is only one reason a contest that is not even close, that is somewhere between clobbered and landslide, could wind up with the other guy on top. Every pollster in America is not incompetent. Every pollster in America is not failing in precisely the same way when it comes to pulling a sample, screening for voters and assigning weights to the various groups.

The only way all these polls could be that far off is if people are lying in numbers never before seen in American politics.

Why would they do that?

You tell me it has nothing to do with race. I'll laugh. What else could it possibly be?

It is too awful to think about, for reasons having nothing to do with what kind of president McCain would be and everything to do with what it would say about us, how we would see each other, the distrust and the anger that it would unleash. Obama could say all the calming words in the world — and I have no doubt he would — but it wouldn't matter.

It's time for this election to be over so we can stop worrying about what could go wrong and how bad things would be if it did. We need to think better of each other. After Tuesday, hopefully we will.

[Grizzled Bear]

;-)

[Cracker Jack]

In this campaign, we have been forbidden to judge Obama on the content of his character. The only thing important is the color of his skin, and if you oppose him, you have shown yourself to be racist.

I guess realizing Martin Luther King’s dream will have to wait a while.

[Warrior Nurse]

The moral of the Boy who cried wolf:

Don’t tell the same lie twice

Every time the Dems and Blacks scream racism I cringe. Just the other day I was telling someone that white people are too busy with their own problems to try and keep black people down. They are doing that fine all by themselves. Then I dare ask where is the racism in black on black crime? The liberal response is I am a sellout and I am blaming the victim. I wonder how open minded and liberal these people would be if someone broke into their home and tried to rape or kill a loved one? My guess is they would try to kill the b@#$ard.

[Lexinom]

Nah, that can’t be it. His policies are perfect - just ask Susan Estrich!

[taxesareforever]

Poor poor Susan. I wonder if she will leave the country after Tuesday. That facelift if going to look awful ugly when McCain/Palin stomp her favorite minority.

[Just mythoughts]

The only way all these polls could be that far off is if people are lying in numbers never before seen in American politics.

My favorite babel out of the babble head.

[Yaelle]

He made it as far as he did with the little he has, dear pretty, pretty Susan, BECAUSE you all adored the melanin in his skin so much that you lowered your qualifications for your nominee quite far below what you Democrats usually accept.

So if someone is a racist around here, it aint us.

[MarkL]

The only way all these polls could be that far off is if people are lying in numbers never before seen in American politics.

Why would they do that?

You tell me it has nothing to do with race. I'll laugh. What else could it possibly be?

I'll be happy to tell you, you blithering harpie! It's FEAR. But not fear of race, of electing a Black man as president. It's FEAR of being called a RACIST! You booger eating morons on the left have been calling people racist for so long and for every reason having nothing to do with race, that you've even managed to intimidate your own base! Couple that with the fact that I believe that a rather large percentage of leftists are bigoted (note I didn't say "racist" here) and believe that Black people ARE incapable of being president. Of course, I can understand that... The Black leaders installed into powerful positions have often had disastrous results. Of course, on reflection AND careful examination of the situations, we can easily see that it's NOT the fact that people like Nagin are Black. It's that they're liberal, currupt, and incompetent. Interestingly enough, when White people are in charge who are liberal, corrupt, and incompetent, we can see the same results. When Black people who are conservative and competent are in charge, people prosper, and things go well. The same happens when similar White people are in charge.

What it boils down to is that it's the character of the person, not the color of his or her skin, that matters, and that's something that leftists like this booger eating moron (who reminds me of a brain damaged Carol Channing on Meth) just don't seem to get. I guess because it's so much easier to blame everything on "racism."

Mark

[MarkL]

It never ceases to amaze me just how little some of these liberals know about their ‘enemy’. They just cannot believe that people will vote against the ideology of the left. They assume their efforts to stereotype people is accurate and unchanging.

That's part of the hubris and mental illness that makes up today's liberalism. You see, the reason that these policies have failed everywhere they've been tried isn't because the ideals and policies are flawed, it's just that the people who have tried to implement those policies just weren't up to the task. But interestingly enough, today's liberals are just the people who WILL make those policies work, because they're better and smarter than the other liberals who failed.

Mark