Posted by
Cary Wesberry on Saturday, March 08, 2008 6:46:17 PM
Well, we will have Hillary Clinton to kick around some more, at least for another few weeks. The Mummy (as my radio pal Hugh Hewitt calls her) kicked open the sarcophagus door and, despite the rotting bandages dating back to Iowa, began staggering around terrorizing folks all over again. “She is a monster,” Obama adviser Samantha Power told a reporter from the Scotsman — and not a monster in a cute Loch Ness blurry long-distance kind of way but something far more repulsive and in your face. “You just look at her and think, ‘Ergh,’” continued Ms. Power, warming to her theme perhaps more than is advisable even in an interview with an overseas newspaper.
The New York Times took a different line. The only monster is you — yes, you, the American people. Surveying the Hillary-Barack death match, Maureen Dowd wrote: “People will have to choose which of America’s sins are greater, and which stain will have to be removed first. Is misogyny worse than racism, or is racism worse than misogyny?”
Do even Democrats really talk like this? Apparently so. As Ali Gallagher, a white female (sorry, this identity-politics labeling is contagious) from Texas, told the Washington Post: “A friend of mine, a black man, said to me, ‘My ancestors came to this country in chains; I’m voting for Barack.’ I told him, ‘Well, my sisters came here in chains and on their periods; I’m voting for Hillary.’ ”
When everybody’s a victim, nobody’s a victim. Poor Ms. Gallagher can’t appreciate the distinction between purely metaphorical chains and real ones, or even how offensive it might be to assume blithely that there’s no difference whatsoever. But, if her sisters really came here in chains, it must have been Bondage Night at the Mayflower’s Swingers’ Club. On the other hand, Barack’s ancestors didn’t come here in chains either: his mother was a white Kansan, so was presumably undergoing menstrual hell with the Gallagher gals, and his dad was a black man a long way away in colonial Kenya. Indeed, Senator Obama would be the first son of a British subject to serve as president since those slaveholding types elected in the early days of the republic.
As always, Mark Steyn's columns are required reading and well worth your time. Hit the link above to read the whole thing at NRO. One of the more amusing columns I've read in a while actually. Thoroughly enjoyable.
I find it fascinating to watch all those Obama supporters proudly touting their candidate as a black Messiah. As Mark points out, B. Hussein Obama is half-white and the son of a British Subject; much closer to the tradition of our nations early slaveholders than the people put in chains and forced into America against their will. But shhh! Don't tell anyone! You could shatter the glass house and ruin everything.
As for the silly feminists constantly comparing their fabricated plight to that of black slaves; stop it already. No one listens to you anymore and those who still hear you don't care. You're boring, ugly, and you smell. So sit down, shut-up, grow your hair back, and put on a bra.