The Demonization Begins (UPDATED)

What I said in the last post is still true, but and it's due to be exacerbated by the following racist demagoguery. This is just pathetic.

[The Republicans are] going to try to make you afraid of me. 'He's young and inexperienced and he's got a funny name. And did I mention he's black?' [SNIP]

That old stuff just divides us," he said.

Obama, born to a white mother from Kansas and a black father from Kenya, has cast himself as a candidate who can bridge divides within the country, including those involving race.

Most people couldn't care less about your name and your color, Senator Obama. They fear being lead by you because you have no substantive legislative record, you're a chronic liar and, after explicitly stating that you choose your friends carefully, you have repeatedly and systematically made friends with people who hate this country.

You would "bridge the divide," Senator, by burning that bridge.

Folks, don't let this Sower of Discord shut you up.

(Thanks to HA)

UPDATE: Cassandra gets a hold of one of the senator's ID cards (note the seal):

Yes, they took mine away. Good riddance.

(Thanks to Sister Toldjah, who points out that it hasn't been the Republicans who have beaten the public over the head with Obama's race.)

UPDATE: Hi, denizens of lots of places.

UPDATE: In my comment section, someone named Kibbitzer writes:

Poor little wingnuts. Such whiners. You're going to be buried. Do you know that?

Nikita, is that you?

Poor little Nikita comes all the way over to my blog to taunt me about politics, as if winning an election were all that's at stake.

Check this out, Baby Boy. If your candidate wins, we all lose. Yes, you too. Mark my word.

Comments

[DarkStar]

Enough people appear to care about his name and color that it is an issue that stays around.

He is a liar but so are all politicians at the national level, including Flip Flop McCain.

[baldilocks]

Enough people appear to care about his name and color that it is an issue that stays around.

Don't pretend that Internet opinion means a hill of beans worth of difference on most (see that word?) subjects.

And why do people keep bringing up McCain? Do you see me shilling for Mr. Amnesty? No.

[Nate Whilk]

DarkStar wrote, "He is a liar but so are all politicians at the national level"

But he brings change!

[Limerick]

Hey baldi! I stalked over from you know where.

Sorry to go OT on my first ever post on your blog. Just wanted to say howdy. My normal hangout gets too damn noisy sometimes. If you can put up with my spelling and grammar I promise I'll try to stay on topic when I drop by next time.

[baldilocks]

Lim!

Welcome.

[Limerick]

We all knew that this ugly subject was coming. That doesn't help alter the taste any.

McCain (like him or hate him) is in a rough spot. He is going to have to answer for any numbskull on the right who pulls out the race card. The Obama campaign will make sure of it, and so will the media.

[DarkStar]

Don't pretend that Internet opinion means a hill of beans worth of difference on most (see that word?) subjects.

It ain't just the Internet.

And why do people keep bringing up McCain? Do you see me shilling for Mr. Amnesty? No.

I bring him up to drum up support for Bob Barr.

[baldilocks]

Dude, you slay me.

[RushBaby]

Peoples' families and personal lives are packed with natural diversity these days. I don't think Obama's insinuations will sit well with the public today. These are not the 60's and 70's that you knew, Obama.

[DarkStar]

Dude, you slay me.

I'm serious. Just wait until "presumptive" is removed.

I caught no heat for being an Independent or when I switched to a Republican for this election. I wonder if I'll survive the in-laws 2morrow. I've already primed the pump by saying they are placing too much hope and not enough thought on Obama.

[Ray]

Darkstar, are you seriously trying to justify Obamas lies with the "all politicians lie" argument? So just because all others lie, means we should hold Obama, the king of lies to a lower standard? This man has lied and stuck his foot in his mouth so many times, and the kool aid drinkers like your self give him a pass time and time again. If this was McCain making this many mistakes, i know you and people of your ilk would be all over him. Obama should be killing McCain given the disgusting biased media coverage hes received. But hes not, and you know why? cause the majority of Americans arent as stupid as you to believe this shlub is truthful in anything he says. Wake up Darkstar. The Obama cult is not going to last much longer if he keeps up the lying. And if he does get elected, then you can say Good Bye a Great America and Hello to a quasie Marxist one who no longer leads the world in Freedom.

[Beto Ochoa]

For all the whining in the democrat ranks over the patriotism branding, to use the racist brand is the lowest, most pernicious and hypocritical smear of all.

Lowest of the low. That's the democrat brand now.

[Karmi]

Love your blog, Baldilocks. You have a great way with words!

[Emerson]

I think it's legitimate to ask Obama directly if he wants to be treated equally as a candidate or does he demand special treatment. It's also legitimate to demand that Obama be treated equally to himself and everyone else who's ever run for office.

Victim culture fails on every level.

[Tully]

Wow. Not content to wait for actual race-baiting, he imagines some race-baiting so he can get a jump on blaming people for it!

That's uber-pathetic.

[icyblonde]

Of course Republicans will be racist. What else can you expect when White folks' greed drives a world in need? If you disagree with me, you're a bigot.

[CalGrad]

Yeah, well, Baldilocks is younger than McCain and black and has a funny name too, Mr. Obama. Plus she's a girl. But ya know? People don't mistrust her and aren't "afraid" of her--because she's not a lying power-hungry race-baiter, even if she's young and black and named Baldilocks. And a girl.

Sheesh. But we knew this was going to happen, so...I personally think it needs to be aggressively addressed by the RNC and McCain's campaign before it gets more legs than it already has.

[baldilocks]

named Baldilocks

That's on my birth certificate certification, even.

;-)

[Ernie G]

He's like the obnoxious kid who goes around the playground provoking everybody. Then, when somebody has had enough and goes after him, he says, "You can't touch me! I've got glasses on!"

[Samir]

Obama has the upper hand here and it is making the whiny conservatives look like fools by playing into it.

[Mars vs Hollywood]

Obama has the upper hand here and it is making the whiny conservatives look like fools by playing into it.

Because if there's one thing we've seen about Obama, it's how skilled he is at laying traps for his opposition.

Of course, he steps in half of them himself, but hey, that's Change™ for you.

[baldilocks]

Obama has the upper hand here and it is making the whiny conservatives look like fools by playing into it.

How, exactly, do Obama's statements in this matter give him the upper hand, Samir, and how, in turn, is he making the conservative look like fools by playing into it?

And, no, "just because I say so" doesn't wash around here. You have to 1) explain yourself and 2) make sense.

[b]

"Enough people appear to care about his name and color that it is an issue that stays around."

Yeah like Obama supporters themselves--or is it just that 90%+ of blacks and feel-superior-about-myself white liberals love his Marxist politics? Exactly who is bringing up the issue in this case? What's the reason I keep hearing that the rest of the world going to respect us again? Who's the one who gave a speech about wanting to have a dialogue on race? Which campaign was accusing Bill Clinton of being a racist? Who's the one going around telling people not to mention his middle name? (He's the only one who's allowed to do that.)

The reason Obama's color is "staying around" is because he wants it to. It's a travesty that at a time of war and crucial geopolitical change, we'll have to spend the whole campaign listening to nonsense like this and its justification from true believers like Samir.

[Paul M Hupf]

Obama doesn't want to debate issues. He wants to tell us what to do. What other reason can there be for him to accuse his opponents of being against him because of the color of his skin. Such charges turn the focus of the debate away from issues.

[Sigmund, Carl and Alfred]

Obama has no choice other than to use the race card.

If he can direct the conversation, no one will be talking about Wright, the Chicago Democrat Machine that created Obama or who he is beholden to.

Make no mistake, Chicago Democrats are all beholden to the machine because without that machine there is patronage to hand out (a long time Chicago tradition), no precinct wardens to get out the vote (with appropriate threats and intimidation) and worst of all, no mystery voters.

Obama is about a 'new' kind of politician as I am a candidate for Miss Sweden.

Baldilocks is right to point out the 'burned bridge' analogy. Burned bridges also isolate- and the last thing Obama wants or needs is real merit based access or opportunity- because then he'd be held accountable. His campaign motto/image ought to be 'Burn baby, burn' in front of a burning bridge.

I'd have been a lot more impressed with Obama had he challenged the century old Cook County Democrat legacy of corruption, racism and voter disenfranchisement.

Finally, black voters who believe they ought to vote for Obama only because he is black are only shortchanging themselves.

The African American community deserves better than Obama to be a standard bearer- and it isn't as if there aren't outstanding candidates to be found.

That the Chicago Democrat machine (with a long history of racism that no one seems to want to talk about) has no business selecting and 'managing' the first African American candidate for president.

[mega]

I get what Obama is up to. This is only a slightly different version of the "anti-smear" website. His strategy is to take legit criticisms, mix them into a big gloppy muddle with false ad-hominem attacks that no one's actually made, and present it as the terrible criticism that he has to endure. This gets the media bashing the so-called critics for things they never said, and for being more extreme than they are, while simultaneously insulating Obama from the legitimate points that were made in the first place. In this case, everyone's talking about his race comment, but the real action is the bundling of race with inexperience, young age, etc., as "off limit" topics. Just as his smear site bundles legit questions about his religious background with outrageous attacks that no one's made. He and his campaign are exceedingly clever; the media is going along with it; and he's gonna be very, very tough to beat.

It is interesting that most people are focusing on the hubris of his comments, rather than their strategic intent, which is far more important and interesting.

[baldilocks]

He's been mixing truth into his BS for quite some time now. Probably 46 years.

[Mwalimu Daudi]

For some reason, I think that the "post-racial" candidate should be, well, post-racial and not be whipping out the race card every time he drops in the polls.

As one of Senator Obama's embittered G*d-and-guns-clinging typical white folk (who is married to a beautiful black African woman and has a son), the words I want to use to describe what Obama is trying to do might not make it past the comment filter.

So I will say this: the race-baiting that Senator Obama and some of his supporters use is like a shot of heroin to our political system. It produces only a momentary bump in the polls, creates a craving addiction for more "quick fixes", and has long term damage that only grows with time.

[Indga]

Obama is simply charming. Here is a guy who spent 20 years at the foot of an America-hating racist and he has the gall to play the race card?

Incredible as it may seem, a President Obama is likely to worsen race relations in this country because he thought he had to learn how to be black, and he made the error of thinking that blackness involves grievance and race-baiting. All you had to do Obama was just be the best human you could be!

I think Obama has yet to get over being the brown son of a white woman—he has yet to get over that his mother was white and he isn't. That's part of why he spent 20 years genuflecting at Wright's pathetic altar. As long as Obama is not at peace with himself, racially, he can only sow discord. That's all he learnt from Wright.

Had Obama been as comfy with his racial heritage as Tiger Woods is, he wouldn't have needed Wright, and wouldn't be tossing racial bricks. He wouldn't be ramming his race down everyone's throat and using it as a weapon to choke and stifle dissenting opinions.

[mega]

Obama is supremely comfortable with race and his own background. He has mastered and fine-tuned how to use race to win the election, that is all there is to it. In moments when it seems opportune to sell the "racial healing" message, that's what he sells. In moments when he and his campaign believe they can leverage race to set people against each other to his advantage, that's what they do. It is not Obama's race which is a problem, it is his astounding inauthenticity. The man is a walking, breathing media/political invention, sold to dupes who really do want to "heal" and "get beyond the divisions". There's only one certainty about Obama - whether he wins or loses, this country is going to spend every waking minute of at least the next four years, and probably a lot more than that, talking non-stop about race. This is the most racially divisive moment the country has had in decades, and it is going to get worse and worse, thanks to Obama's unbelievably cynical campaign team.

[Kibbitzer]

Poor little wingnuts. Such whiners. You're going to be buried. Do you know that?

[baldilocks]

See my response in the update to the post, Mr. Khrushchev.

[Kibbitzer]

I love surfing the wingnut blogs lately. Your panic is showing, and I am laughing my ass off at your discomfort. Which is going to get worse. Much worse.

You know all of that surveillance that you people wanted? Better be careful what you wished for, wingnuts!

[baldilocks]

Okay, baby.

[Bill]

I am no fan of Bush at all. And if there is one thing this presidency has taught us it's what happens when a naive underqualified isolationist has to cultivate his inner hawk. The DNC have simultaneously forgotten this lesson while rubbing our noses in it as some kind of "teachable moment" 24-7. And the past two election they've given us.. isolationist, underqualified naifs rahter than a strong firm "don't tread on me" executive. Left-of-center hawks, even reluctant ones, have been purged from the party and associate groups (Lieberman, Blair and well... me) with a party without resolve or fortitude.

Oh! What I'd do to have a hawkish democratic governor who plays with guns and isn't afraid to say so in San Francisco running for the office instead of the post-racial serious candidate who'll call you a racist if you call him Strike 3!!

[Cover Me, Porkins]

I have to remind myself that Obama is Different™ from me. My focus remains instead on the slow transformation of Obama's classical rhetoric into nursery rhymes.

[baldilocks]

Hey Porkins,

Even though his father and my father are from the same tribe--the Luo tribe of Kenya--and I also have one of those "funny names" that he keeps talking about, I don't have to remind myself at all that Obama and I are vastly different people.

You must have some sort of disability.

[abinitioadinfinitum]

"named Baldilocks
That's on my birth certificate certification, even."
.
LOL

[ErikZ]

I love surfing the wingnut blogs lately. Your panic is showing, and I am laughing my ass off at your discomfort. Which is going to get worse. Much worse.

You ever get the feeling that someone doesn't even know what words mean? They just push buttons on a computer until they get a combination of words that gets them the result they're looking for.

FYI: Wingnuts don't panic.

[DarkStar]

Darkstar, are you seriously trying to justify Obamas lies with the "all politicians lie" argument?

No, I'm not doing any justifying. I am saying that they all lie.

This man has lied and stuck his foot in his mouth so many times, and the kool aid drinkers like your self give him a pass time and time again.

How can I be a kool aid drinker when I've stated I'm voting for Bob Barr?

And if he does get elected, then you can say Good Bye a Great America and Hello to a quasie Marxist one who no longer leads the world in Freedom.

You do realize that we are already a nation of people who live on the government teat, right? Let's start with businesses who get subsidies to promote their business? Or the existence of farm subsidies that continue the inflated cost of diary, grain, and sugar products?

How about the Medicare cost time bomb? Combined with the Social Security time bomb based on natural demographics?

Or what about the recent bailout of banks and investment companies who practiced poor business models?

You, Ray, are a joke.

Yeah like Obama supporters themselves--or is it just that 90%+ of blacks and feel-superior-about-myself white liberals love his Marxist politics?

It's interesting that when 99.some percent of Blacks didn't support Al Sharpton, the so-called Black leader as deemed by the media and as supported by most public conservatives, white and Black, not one thing was said about it. Or, when most Blacks in the voting district of Jackie Winters supported Jackie Winters, a Black Republican.

The African American community deserves better than Obama to be a standard bearer- and it isn't as if there aren't outstanding candidates to be found.

The U.S. deserves better than the candidates that we have, but such as it is, you go for what you got. I don't see why your comment is no less condescending than the comments coming from some white liberals towards Blacks.

[Kibbitzer]

How can I be a kool aid drinker when I've stated I'm voting for Bob Barr?

I'd say you're a sterno drinker. But as long as you drain votes away from McCain, more power to you.

[waltj]

"I'd say you're a sterno drinker. But as long as you drain votes away from McCain, more power to you".

So why would that matter to you? You were going to bury us, remember? What's the difference if he votes for McCain or Barr? Your candidate has it all in the bag, right? Or maybe not...

And what's with the threat on the surveillance, bubba? You tacitly admit that it isn't doing any harm now (else you couldn't write the ignorant twaddle you do without putting yourself in jeopardy) but then you express your hopes that it will be abused during an Obama administration. At least you're honest about your aims, Comrade Commissar, and yes, that is what you're saying. Most of your ilk aren't so forthright.