Posted by
CW on Sunday, April 06, 2008 1:28:57 PM
This post was a response to Ann Coulter's 4/3/08 column,
Obama's Dimestore 'Mein Kampf.' In it she comments on the racist tone of some of Obama's remarks in his book, Dreams From My Father:
For some 30 or 40 years now the Left has enjoyed a certain political advantage known as the race card. It could be used at the slightest provocation, with or without justification, and it was always certain to put the enemy on defense, sometimes taking them out of play altogether. By always being the ones to go on offense with the race card the Left managed to cultivate the universally accepted myth that they themselves were above this type of thinking. And through their abuse of the race card – frequently using it indiscriminately as a political weapon with no regard to reason or veracity – they managed to turn it into something both meaningless and destructive at the same time.
So while their might once have been a time when we could thoughtfully consider Obama’s book in the context of his life’s experiences, perhaps balanced by his actions, now I can only take a sort of cynical pleasure in seeing the tables turned for a change. In the words of infamous lefties Ward Churchill and Jeremiah Wright: “The chickens have come home to roost.”