Liberals: Damn you rightwing nuts! Don't you understand the words that are coming out of our mouths?

...criticizing Obama is R-A-C-I-S-T!

You knew it wasn't going to last for long. The good doctah has returned to his senses and started seeing liberals for the opportunists they are. Coming on the heels of agreeing that the Birther issue is one not worth pursuing, comes a return to the theme that played throughout last year's presidential campaign...critiquing Obama is racist, especially if a white guy does it (if a black guy does it, like the good doc, then he's guilty of either not giving him a chance or a complete sellout). Borrowing a theme from conservatives about liberals' bouts with reality during the first eight years of the decade, comes their idea that conservative criticisms of Obama lie not only in racism, but because of ODS (if you have no clue about ODS, just replace the 'B' in BDS with Obama...and liberals always malign conservatives for not being original). Of course they believe the leader of the Obama Derangement Syndrome movement is none other than honorary senator, Rush Limbaugh.

Kleefeld goes on a tirade against Limbaugh for the parody, Barack the Magic Negro, based on an article in the LA Times, by a man of African descent, David Ehrenstein, who repeatedly lampooned Barack Obama on forgetting where he came from. In his first article, of the same name, Ehrenstein talks about how Barack Obama lent himself as the balm to assuage "white guilt," as Paul Shanklin's parody pointed out. His second article lampoons Obama for trying to play both sides of the fence on gay issues, by courting gospel singer, Donnie McClurkin, who claimed to be an "ex-gay," and complaining that the GLB"t" community was challenging his authenticity on gay issues. The final article went after Obama for allowing Pastor Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration. The bottom line, Ehrenstein was making it clear that Obama is an opportunist, the same theme Republicans and Hillary Clinton voters pointed out during the primaries. Are Obamabots going call the lot of us "racists" as well?

Kleefeld, nor his friend Zandar, pointed out at least two instances where Obama has shown that he's out for "whitey." There was no mention by them about the Obama Justice Department dismissing a blatant episode of voter intimidation by the New Black Panther Party, and playing the race card in Skip-gate before all the facts were known. He has offered nothing but scorn for the United States, and bends over backwards to embellish the record of other nations. This nation was founded by dead white guys, and the president believes he has to remind us they were racists, too.

Whenever the "race card" is played to shut down an argument, or cease criticism of a particular policy, the one it is played on should see the vulnerability in the other's argument. The "race card" is a distraction, and in this case, a distraction from Obama's failures as president. Democrats, namely San Fran Nan, are unpopular now as unemployment rises, and an increasing percentage of the electorate believes the government is wasting more money, and not helping the economy. The man is six months in his presidency and has very little, if anything, to show for it. And the best Obamabots have is to call us "racists"?

Liberals believe in this deluded notion that the more Republicans and conservatives go after Obama's vulnerabilities, they will alienate more members of the electorate. Oddly, this political strategy worked very well for them in 2006 and 2008. They continue to be deluded by the notion that Barack is indeed a "magic negro," who with a few words will make all our problems go away. Sometimes, I, too wish I was was dreaming...

Can the "magic negro" find the words soon? 'Cause my company is looking at layoffs if things don't get better...

Have a great day...

Birthers: We don't mind grasping for straws...

...we just wanna stay relevant...

Talk about strange, your humble blogger friend, Dr. Asten, agrees with Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo. I'm gonna get in trouble with some of my more conservative leaning friends based on my opinion about Obama's birth certificate. I believe conservatives have more valid grounds in going after Obama other than proving whether he is a citizen or naturalized based on the 14th Amendment. If his mother was an Amurican citizen, Barack Obama is a citizen as well. End of story. John McCain is a citizen, like any child born to military and civilian parents who live overseas. To continue to pursue this silly story makes Obama appear more credible and will make it that much harder to scuttle his disastrous agenda. I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories, and they often distract from our main goal, which is to keep our politicians honest.

Like the 9/11 Truthers and the deniers of Bush's election as president in 2000, Birthers come off as unhinged, and rightfully so. All of Barack Obama's ducks are in a row on this issue, it would be best if those on the Right (and possibly the Left) dropped it, and instead turned their efforts elsewhere. John Hawkins at Right Wing News, wrote an article about the Obama birth certificate, and I believe he's right when he says that based on all the evidence we have thus far on this issue, no minds are changed then it's best to let the issue go down the memory hole like the North American Union. I'd like to add when Alan Keyes is the de facto leader of the movement, that's reason enough to let the issue die a slow death (perhaps he's still reeling from being beaten by Obama in the Illinois US Senate race in 2004...).

I suppose it'd be easy to jump on this bandwagon in light of Obama's declining popularity, just like liberals, who thought that any given action by former President Bush was a scandal. With ObamaCare seemingly on the skids, the administration backtracking on its Porkulus rhetoric, and Obama believing that Emperor Hirohito signed a treaty on the USS Missouri in 1945, Obama opponents have a plethora of things with which to hammer him. So, for those of you who thought I, an ardent Obama opponent, was going to side with you on the Birther issue, you were sadly mistaken.

That doesn't mean we still can't be friends, though...

Have a great day...