Sadly, I won't be surprised if the next dungbombs emanating from Camp Clinton, wingnuttia, and/or the media furies will be things like, "well, [Obama's] an instinctually good politician" or "he's got great natural ability" "but can he really 'manage' the nuts and bolts business of being president?" or other similar, highly insulting, and, yes, RACIST tripe I usually read or hear in sports journalism reports on black athletes.
Funny, but I don't recall EVER seeing a sports report suggesting that a particular black athlete might have attained his or her success by, oh, I don't know, maybe WORKING HARDER than anyone else, both mentally and physically...nope, it's always a matter of "natural" talent, just as, say, Peyton Manning's football success is attributed to "superior game management" and not at least in part because he's 6'5" and, oh, I don't know, I guess around 230 pounds (that said, I'd also guess Manning works as hard as any professional athlete to maintain his condition).
I dunno, maybe that's a good sign, in the sense that it's might be all that's left in their bag of dirty tricks--a flat out appeal to the basest of racist instincts, no pun intended, on the part of good old caucasians, who manage, without batting an eye, to maintain the ultimate contradictory position of demanding race-neutrality...provided that "neutrality" is rooted in, well, ad hoc white supremecy. Hence, the truly ridiculous notion that Obama needs to be "grateful" to the benevolent white benefactors who, in the spirit of "generosity," "allow" him to run and even take him seriously...provided he doesn't, you know, go all Jesse Jackson or Jeremiah Wright on "us".
Because then he'd be just another Kordell Stewart.
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