Bookworm on Jul 14 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
I know that you’ve already read about, and probably seen, the New Yorker’s latest cover, the “parody” of “right wing” views about Mr. and Mrs. Barack Obama. I think Charles Johnson has the best summation of the New Yorker’s thinking (along with a reproduction of the cover):
The cover is obviously a moonbat parody of what [...]
Bookworm on Jun 26 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Media matters
From 1987 through 2003, I listened to NPR with religious fervor. It was my church. Everything I knew, I knew from NPR. In 2003, I discovered the internet and began following up on stories I heard on NPR. I learned for the first time that NPR had not only an anti-Israel bias — one that [...]
Bookworm on Jun 21 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
I’ve reminded you to be proud of your new age racism — a racism firmly based, not on Obama’s skin color, but on his political views, scary associates, corruption and incompetence. It’s becoming more and more clear that we all need to hang onto the fact that our Year 2008 racism problem is grounded in [...]
Bookworm on Jun 16 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Feminism, Hillary Clinton
Christopher Hitchens has written a post-mortem on the alleged sexism characterizing Hillary Clinton’s abortive race to the top. Aside from scathingly examining both Hillary’s and the media’s myriad failings, he has this wonderful point to make about the double-edged sword her gender became in the race:
Going as far as it dared on the point, [...]
Bookworm on Jun 11 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
It’s becoming increasingly clear what the Democratic campaign strategy is going to be this election season: Vote for Obama or you’re a racist. I’m not sure I think too much of this approach to bullying the American electorate into selecting a candidate. Aside from the fact that, if you’re a Republican, it’s [...]
Bookworm on May 12 2008 | Filed under: Education
When I last traveled, I bought Larry Elders’ superb book Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card–and Lose. I promptly took the cover off, worried that I would be subject to harassment as a white woman reading a book entitled “Stupid Black Men” — never mind that the book was written by [...]
Bookworm on May 08 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, John McCain
Despite stories of his explosive temper, there is absolutely no doubt that McCain has been playing it nice so far in this election season. It’s easy to do right now, of course, with Obama and Hillary acting as his surrogates against each other. They sling the mud so he doesn’t have to. [...]
Bookworm on May 07 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
In the late 1980s, I went to a party at a beautiful Victorian house that a young white yuppie couple had bought — cheap — and begun to remodel. The reason this house was cheap was because it was in San Francisco’s Western Addition neighborhood, which was (at least then) a predominantly poor black neighborhood. [...]
Bookworm on Mar 24 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama
Many have commented on the fact that Barack Obama, both in his race speech and in interviews he gave after the speech, threw granny to the wolves, painting the woman who raised him, not only as a racist but, negatively, as a “typical white person.” The way in which he did this was to say [...]
Bookworm on Mar 21 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Government
I found myself in the car yesterday afternoon listening for perhaps the 30th time to an episode of Avatar being played on the car DVD. I happen to think that Avatar is a rather unusually good kids’ show. Since this was routine car pooling, with the same passel of tired and cranky kids getting [...]
Bookworm on Mar 18 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama
In that portion of the speech in which he refused to disavow Wright by comparing Wright to his grandmother, Obama essentially “forgave” his grandmother for the “sin” of being worried about seeing black youths on the street as she walks by. I kind of ignored that attribution when I said Grandmother Obama never bad-mouthed anybody. [...]
Bookworm on Mar 18 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama
As is always the case with me for any speech, especially an Obama speech, I’ve opted to read it, not listen to it, so that I can have the best sense of the words themselves, without getting sidelined by someone’s rhetorical style (or lack thereof).
Obama opens by talking about the promise of the new nation’s [...]
Bookworm on Mar 14 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama
Yesterday, the print news, the blogosphere, and the radio world were filled with stories about the MSM’s sudden discovery that Obama’s spiritual mentor is a very angry man, who speaks hatefully of whites and of the United States of America. The common conclusion: Jeremiah Wright is a racist, and it doesn’t help Obama’s [...]
Bookworm on Mar 13 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama
God bless Geraldine Ferraro for pointing out the obvious, which is that a slightly corrupt, vapid (albeit intelligent) neophyte could never have risen as fast and as quickly as he did in politics if it hadn’t been for the fact that he has the skin color the media is looking for in a presidential candidate. [...]
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