Frank Rich decides that we really don’t mind ObamaCare – but we don’t like the fact that Obama is black:
If Obama’s first legislative priority had been immigration or financial reform or climate change, we would have seen the same trajectory. The conjunction of a black president and a female speaker of the House — topped off by a wise Latina on the Supreme Court and a powerful gay Congressional committee chairman — would sow fears of disenfranchisement among a dwindling and threatened minority in the country no matter what policies were in play.
One does begin to wonder: are they really that stupid, or is it that they money-bags writing the checks are just insisting upon such hackneyed, party-line views? I mean, come on.
Meanwhile, out in the real world, two of the people causing the most excitement in grass-roots conservatism are the hispanic Marco Rubio and the black Allen West. And, as we reported, there are a very large number of black Americans seeking GOP office here in 2010.
Some of my neighbors are black. My department manager is black. My boss is a woman (and she voted for Obama!). I have gay friends. My parish priest is from south Asia. If I’m out to save White America, then I’m a bit late. And yet a pinhead like Rich is telling his readers that I’m motivated by fear of “the other”.
Stupid. They’ll never learn. We’ll just have to beat them, very badly, and then reform the country so they don’t matter, at all.
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