Posted by
Always To The Right on Saturday, April 26, 2008 6:01:44 PM
. . . the logic here is the same as in that moronic LA Times op-ed
declaring “elitist” to be the newest racial slur. Any personal attack
on Obama from the right — and that includes Hillary Clinton, even
though she’s but a hair’s breadth further towards the center than he is
— will be spun by his apologists as motivated by racism. It’s a totally
disingenuous, totally irresistible way to render damaging criticism of
him illegitimate; in that sense, it goes hand in hand with his weaselly
nonsense about everything that he doesn’t want to talk about
constituting a “distraction.” Which, of course, is why conservatives
are tearing their hair out over McCain’s squishiness about the ad: He’s
ceding this point to the left, declaring any challenge to Obama’s basic
judgment in his personal dealings to be some sort of ad hominem.
Someone should ask him whether he
considers the ad racist. I’m almost afraid to know.