Someone Doth Protest Too Much on Asking About Farrakhan

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

BARACK OBAMA

So let's think of those suburban soccer moms who will probably be swing voters in this election...

Barack Obama's pastor has praised Louis Farrakhan, traveled with him to meet Moammar Gadhafi and Farrakhan has praised Obama as "the hope of all the world." Soccer moms in suburbia are big fans of the Nation of Islam, right?

Obama offers an answer that seems to be hedging a bit - denouncing Farrakhan's anti-Semitic comments, but never quite saying what Obama thinks of the man himself.

Then, on CNN's post-debate show, one of the commentators suggested that it seems that every African-American officeholder gets held accountable for Farrakhan's remarks, but John McCain isn't held accountable for Trent Lott's (I'm saying this in memory, the transcript isn't posted yet). Byron reports that Jesse Jackson felt that there should have been a question about Bill O'Reilly instead.

You know what goes well with a couple of connections to Louis Farrakhan? Suggesting that there's something unfair about asking Obama about them, and that there's something inherently wrong about those who would be concerned about those links.

Soccer moms love hearing that their concerns are reflections of repressed racism.

02/27 10:25 AM Share