http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3775
by Richard Spencer
Just as I was spell checking my post on how the GOP is a bunch of wimps afraid to attack http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3013 doing his thing emerged on cablenews. Obama quickly dispensed with his “spiritual adviser.”
None of this disproves my thesis, for it’s important that the material was released by the right-leaning media—NewsMax, FOX News etc.—not the McCain campaign nor a 527 group associated with the GOP à la the Swift-boaters.
I don’t have much to say about the video; it doesn’t strike me as particularly surprising: the “God Damn America” being but a rhetorical flourishes on a self-evidently black nationalist program that has long be available at the Trinity http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1922’s website.
It is worth noting, with satisfaction, that long before NewsMax broke the story of http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2947’s thesis that Obama would be a sitting duck might for right-wing snipers might soon be proven true. Average Americans, especially Democrat voters, are willing—eager—to vote for a black candidate who gives them the hope of finally “getting beyond race,” “turning a new page,” yada-yada-yada. They are, however, rather repulsed by the Al Shartpon’s of the world, and Obama’s new association in their minds with black nationalism and anti-Americanism might prove extremely damaging.
I don’t want to get in the habit of quoting from Jonah Goldberg, but he’s clearly onto something important when he writes:
“t says something fascinating about our political and racial landscape that the Democratic voters with the most experience living in multiracial, multicultural communities are the ones most immune to Obama’s “beyond race” rhetoric. At the same time, the whitest states are the most gaga for Obama. (He beat Clinton 80 percent to 17 percent in white-supremacist-rich Idaho.) […
[A plausible reading would be that increased diversity breeds not so much resentment as realism — at least among rank-and-file voters.
It’s easy for upscale liberals to talk about the glories of diversity because they live at Olympian heights, above the reality of multicultural America. For Obama’s wealthy, white, liberal supporters, diversity is knowing a rich black lawyer, a wealthy Latino accountant, and lots of well-to-do gay folks.”
If Obama looses that “beyond race” aura and begins to be associated with a crazy black-nationalist minister, then Americans, even the overeducated, upper-middle-class Obamaniacs, will begin leaving his camp in droves.
http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/the_twilight_of_obamania/