Barack Obama Is Not a Black Democrat

By Gavin DeFreese - Senior Writer
02/01/2006

I guess being a white, southern republican I really don’t need to give the Left or the MSM any more ammunition, I feel rest assured they will find a “hidden message” in the title of this commentary anyway. It is a known fact that the progressive ears of liberals can decipher the ultra-high frequency dog whistle encryption they claim is incorporated into conservative and Republican messages. I know the KosKids can do it can do it, the faithful at MyDD most assuredly can, even Wolf Blitzer has shown to have this superhuman talent.

Lacking stamina? The gist is in the last 4 paragraphs...

So eager are the minions of the Left to use the race card and yet flustered by their inability to play it against Republicans, they have come up with a type of racism (dog whistle) that is so vaporous it is difficult to rebut, or prove. Not that proof of the accusation is really important to them anyway. They seem to care little that racism is a characteristic trait of only the extreme regions of both sides of the political spectrum. Racism is no longer main stream and the efforts of the Democrats to use it as a dividing wedge are starting to come back to haunt them. Senator Joe Biden recently realized this after making a questionably racist remark about Senator Barack Obama. It was made out loud and center stage, nothing really open for a finessed interpretation.

"“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” he said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”

So according to Joe Biden, the Democrats have a beautiful swan with Barack Obama after years of ugly ducklings. I mean, that’s storybook, man. No wonder the MSM has been parading him around the media arena like a show dog at Westminster; they finally have a bright, clean, nice-looking African-American groomed for the main stream.

Remember, Senator Biden said this, not me. Actually, this is the second time he has made race based comments that would have had aRepublican drawn, quartered, and stripped of rank.

"You don't know my state," he said. "My state was a slave state.”~ him or his hair plugs
in the first place, but still politely avoids the word racism in his brief criticism, and there are those that defend his statement by saying it was a speech typo, a precedent set by the Jon Cary Irak blunder. The Congressional Black Caucus didn’t even comment, of course it would be hard to worry about the silly senator from Delaware when you have John Conyers blocking Stephen Cohen from the doorway like a modern day George Wallace. No 24 hour coverage of this story demanding multiple apologies and resignations (Lott was hounded incessantly for 2 straight weeks), just a few red-faced apologists saying his words were controversial (strangely enough, WAPO doesn’t mention racism either).

For those that claim to be able to hear a dog whistle, it seems strange they tend not to hear the bullhorn of their own party.

I could continue ranting and linking with how Democrats can say just about anything and get a pass while racism is a known fact™ plank of the Republican platform but I shan’t, because there is something more important to explore. The real story here is what Joe Biden was really trying to say. I’ll let the words of Martin Luther king, Jr. set the stage.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.~

You see the times have changed but Democrats have not.

Republicans have chosen for positions of power such people as Condoleezza Rice, Michael Steele, Colin Powell, and Clarence Thomas because of their intelligence, sterling character, and leadership capabilities. Their race is not an issue, except possibly to their ideological opponents. They are not segregated into their own caucus, nor or they thought of as being different because of the color of their skin.

Conversely, Democrats have John Conyers, Maxine Waters, and Sheila Jackson Lee who are the polar opposites of their GOP counterparts. Though equally smart and capable, the party itself seems to encourage or at least enables their behavior that is characterized by clinging to an institutionalized racist past. As individuals, who have fought this scourge much of their lives, I am sympathetic to their situation. The Democrats as a party however, are not be able to set aside the past to build a brighter future. Instead they seem intent on propagating racial divide and eager to make this an issue in all matters for political gain.

IMHO Barack Obama is one of the first Democrats on a national scale to break this mold and to embrace the body politic as himself instead of as a black man. Senator Biden, in what could be considered as a blatant racist statement or at least parapraxis, chose some very poor words to describe Senator Obama’s emergence. I do not believe Senator Biden intended his comment to be offensive; however I do think he meant to say that Barack Obama is “unique” as far as Democrat African-Americans go on the national scene.

I think Joe Biden meant to imply is that Barack Obama is potentially a strong opponent, but his limited experience will hold him back in the primaries, not the fact that he is black. His foot-in-mouth disease combined with the Democrat tactic of making race an issue in everything made him fumble the snap. The habit of making race and racism an issue even where it does not belong has come home to roost. It is shameful yet indicative of what the Democrat party and its pervasive use of class/race warfare politics has come to, because while Barack Obama long ago broke the race barrier, but his peers refuse to admit it.

Senator Obama is not a black Democrat, he is a Democrat contender.
I understand that Senator Biden called Mr. Obama to straighten things out, I wonder if he reminded the senator from Illinois again that he is black?