Conservative Blogger Endorses Barack Obama
My good friend Jules Crittenden, who seems to respect the Dutch a bit more than your average conservative American blogger, wrote a post which was published at his blog today, in which he endorses Senator Barack Obama for president.
Although I have said many times that I would not vote for Obama were I eligable to vote in American elections (I am of course eligable to donate to the Obama campaign), Jules caused me to reconsider:
I was briefly heartened by the simple, no-nonsense message of Joe the Plumber. Obama wants to redistribute wealth. Of course that’s bad. It’s not only bad, it’s unAmerican. It’s downright socialism, and last time I checked, in America we send people to the electric chair for that. But then I learned Joe the Plumber is not a union member and may have trouble paying his taxes. Also, he’s got a 13-year-old kid and John McCain said his name 26 times…
Unfortunately, America is still a fetid swamp of frothing racism, as the BBC, the UK Guardian, the New York Times, the AP and virtually all other major media outlets have gone to pains to point out. So maybe it is time for America to take the next step. Some people might say, yeah, OK, Obama’s black, but he’s not experienced enough. Community organizer, state senator, showed up on the national scene five minutes ago, no executive experience. I think you have to ask yourself, does that really matter? The issue, when you’re trying to end racism, isn’t whether he’s up to running the country and the world or not, or whether all his friends are left-wing wackjobs, or whether his ideas make any sense, or even whether he actually believes anything he says. It’s whether he’s black or not, and that’s pretty well been established. OK, biracial, same difference. What do you think the last 40 years of affirmative action have been all about? Anyway, Obama has a stodgy old white geezer in the jump seat to make sure he doesn’t do anything too radical or, I dunno, too young or too black, I guess. At least I think that’s why he picked Old Hairplugs.
Read his entire endorsement. It’s well worth your time.
An interesting post, Michael. But I came to exactly the opposite conclusion after reading Jules Crittenden’s full post. I don’t think racism is the problem that should be at the top of the next president’s list of problems to fix. Yes, there are still some bigots out there. But I really cannot subscribe to the perspective of the NYT and the BBC that American is a swamp of racism.
For starters, there should be more independently verifiable reports of actual abuse. Not hurt feelings and nasty remarks, but people actually being denied their rights, assaulted, or abused. What seems much more evident, even though the New York Times tries its best to ignore it, is the evidence of a racial and gender grievance industry. Al Sharpton’s Tawana Brawley hoax, or Jayson Blair (at the New York Times), or Crystal Mangum are NOT evidence of white racism. They show that race hustlers have made a good business out of shaking down businesses and governments.
I am sure there are probably some people who will vote for anyone but Obama because of his race. But this group of small, and they certainly don’t get any public support. But the people who make accusations that anyone critical of Obama is a racist are doing what they profess to be opposing – they are judging everyone on the basis of race, and discriminating against the people that do not have the racial characteristics they approve of. Too many of Obama’s supporters have made those arguments to make me comfortable; and then there is the question of Helen Jones-Kelley, the Ohio Jobs and Family program head who decided that Joe Wurzelbacher was asking disrespectful questions of Obama, and she violated his right to privacy. Jones-Kelley is an Obama supporter who has made the maximum contribution to his campaign. No one sees anything wrong with this, but I ask you – would you think that it was acceptable for a McCain contributer, who was the head of a public agency to divulge the confidential records of a private citizen who asked McCain an uncomfortable question? This is a much more serious problem – a double standard, which seems to be blandly accepted by many of Senator Obama’s supporters.
An interesting post by Crittenden, but I drew the conclusion opposite to his.
Am I missing something, or wAS THE cRTITTER JUST DOING SPOOF? The next post is a flip flop back to McCain…
Rudi: yes, it was irony.
So, does one read Crittenden because one dosn’t know good humor or does one lose his sense of good humor by reading Crittenden?
Not, funny.
I think Steyn is one of the scummiest and most disgusting voices on the net but even I think he can actually do irony.