Multiculti Myopia

(Red Skirt also here.)
Blue Skirt: "I am an Obama supporter, and I do so because he IS a Black man."

"I am a Huckabee supporter, and I do so because he IS a Christian man."

Something is wrong about these statements, I can't say quite what. At his best, (and his best is on display very often), Senator Obama is really beyond the divisions of black and white. But what is he when he's not at his best, when he's away from the podium.

Take that podium away and you are left with a middle class kid with two professors as parents, one with a legacy to Harvard. A kid who earned academic distinction at two Ivy League schools, working for a liberal non-profit in between, and after graduating from law school did more of the same, became a professor himself and involved in Leftist/Chicago machine politics. Most people would view this path as one of limited appeal for a national constituency.

But you can't really separate all this out, so it's really better not to try. Barack Obama is a unique individual and should be judged accordingly--at least that's how Republicans, committed to a color-blind society, the one Dr. King dreamed of, like to look at things. So let's look at the resume, shall we? A few years in the state Senate where his supporters had marked him as a bright young man who would go far and smoothed his path. Elected US Senator in a crowded field of Dems (major opponent sidelined by a divorce scandal hyped by the press). From the state of Illinois, where the winner of the Dem primary is usually the winner of the general election. But he did have a very good-looking, smart, charismatic opponent on the Republican side, sort of the flip of him, who was also sidelined by a divorce scandal hyped by the press.

Almost as soon as he is elected to the Senate he starts running for president.

Does this sound like someone with more ambition than gravitas?

Geraldine Ferraro's statement reflects upon herself, and not well. Of course, she does realize and in fact says she was picked as Vice President by Walter Mondale because she was a woman. There was no other reason. She was not a governor, nor even a distinguished legislator--and her husband was a tax evader.

Of course, the main drawback for Democrats is that of Barack Obama's inexperience. And for the rest of the country, add to that his liberalism. So the great symbolic multiculti hype, uh hOpe may not be enough.

And for me and others, add to that his complicity in the corrupt Democrat machine of Chicago, Crook County, and the bankrupt state of Illinois, currently on trial. Capped off by his at least tacit acceptance of anti-American radicals and their beliefs.

As for Samantha Power she has only herself to blame--very unwise talk--talks too much--not diplomatic at all (which, after all, is Obama's preferred method of dealing with the world) and harsh--ethnic cleansing?! No need to spare too many tears for her, she can always go back to just being a leftist professor who writes a book or two. (Maybe she'll run for president?)

If Democrats want to vote for a triumph of hope over experience, be my guest. Multiculti myopia may sweep the land.

But whatever happens, Rush won't be voting for Hillary in November.

UPDATE: Charles Krauthammer, RCP has a piece on this:

The pillars of American liberalism -- the Democratic Party, the universities and the mass media -- are obsessed with biological markers, most particularly race and gender. They have insisted, moreover, that pedagogy and culture and politics be just as seized with the primacy of these distinctions and with the resulting "privileging" that allegedly haunts every aspect of our social relations.

They have gotten their wish. This primary campaign represents the full flowering of identity politics. It's not a pretty picture.

Related posts: Obama's Convenient Conversion, God Damn America, The Obama Master Plan