Posers

I'm sure that even if you didn't see the Sunday news shows, you got to hear all about Hillary "I've always been a Yankees fan" Clinton, and Barack "Am I black enough?" Obama. Both of them decided to court the African American vote by going to Selma to commemorate the Bloody Sunday march of the Civil Rights movement. As tempting as it is, I will refrain from going off on a tangent about how affirmative action has gotten away from it's original intent and has simply become revenge racisim.

Hillary was downright insulting. The only way she could have been more patronizing is if she had been wearing black face and had her hair done up like a Quepie doll. Just to recount her background: Hillary was raised in Illinois, attended Wellsley College and Harvard, did a brief stint as Arkansas' first lady, spent eight years in the White House, and is currently in her second term as a U.S. Senator...from New York! Let's face it, she a blue state, upper-class, elitist snob. By all (honest) accounts, she despised her time in Arkansas. The only reason that she stayed with the "Horn-Dog in Chief" was because he was her political meal ticket. Her affected Southern drawl made her posturing all the more ridiculous (as though her pretending to be a preacher wasn't bad enough). The silver lining: she was "showbizzed" by Obama!

Now, that is not to say that Obama was not also rather silly. He himself is also a "Yankee", though he claimed to be "conceived at [Selma]" (an aide had to later clarify that he did not mean it literally). At first, I could not place the enunciation and cadence of his speech. Then it dawned on me: Obama was impersonating Jesse Jackson! Mr. "clean, bright, and articulate" was saying "befo'" where he used to say "before". "Movement" became "move-ment" (as if it were composed of two separate words). This "down-home" act is not going to be enough to hide his extreme left (bordering on Communist) views.

I'm certain there are those floating on the cyberspace ether, reading this, and sneering "You say all sorts of mean-spirited things about their delivery, but nothing about their message!" Rest assured, gentle readers, I would gladly give commentary on what they said...had they said anything at all! However, like many politicians of late, they manage to use a bucket full of words to say a thimble's worth. My purpose here is to point out the ridiculousness and the hypocrisy.

If Senators Clinton and Obama court their African American constituents by standing before congregations, invoking the Name of God, and adopting a stereotypical dialect, what do they plan to do to get the Hispanic vote? How about the "NASCAR Dads"? I have a really hard time imagining either of these two showing up at the Indy 500 to root for Dale Jr. The hypocrisy lies in the fact that if a Republican (even a RINO like McCain) were to step up to the pulpit in a house of worship and even utter anything that could be interpreted as political, they would be drowned out by cries for the ACLU and a lietmotif of "Separation of Church and State has been violated!" If the liberals keep this up, they will eat each other alive...maybe they could use some ketchup.