Legal Commentary

Excuses, Excuses

Here?s another chorus of the liberals? racism refrain, this time bleated by Jacob Weisberg of SLATE. ?If Obama loses,? he wails, ?racism is the only reason....? If Obama loses, he repeats, he will do so ?for a simple reason: the color of his skin.?

Refuting this myopia by pointing to all the reasons millions of people, of all hues, will vote against Obama that have nothing to do with ?the color of his skin? would be about as fruitful as pointing out the various hues in a vista of brilliant Fall foliage to a blind man.

But I do think one point is worth making. This liberal excuse for what might be simply the latest example of the Democrats snatching defeat from the jaws of victory is already so widespread that it may have an unintended but wholly beneficial effect on the outcome of the election. (Have you noticed that liberals often engage in behavior that has unintended but wholly predictable consequences?)

The argument that white (and Asian? Hispanic?) racism is the only reason Obama can lose amounts to saying that the only way to show you are not a racist is to vote for Obama. Some voters will no doubt be cowed by this threat into voting for Obama (or more likely, simply telling pollsters that they?re voting for Obama), but I suspect that it will send many more to the polls to vote against him simply as a way of expressing their justified resentment of this smug, supercilious, elitist attack on their intelligence and character.

Full post as published by Discriminations on August 24, 2008 (boomark / email).