Samuel Johnson famously said that patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. That being the case, accusations of racism (when losing an argument) is the last refuge of the liberal scoundrel. And, as time goes by, and the argument (on health care, say) continues to be lost, the accusation moves closer and closer to the head of the line, becoming the first refuge of the liberal scoundrel.
And the liberals are in a bad jam. Obama’s economic expertise is starting to look like a corpse that has been in the river for three days. They can do one of two things — they can accuse Obama’s opponents of wanting him to fail because he is black — and as the wheels continue to come off, look for that to become a daily theme. Or they could admit the fact that the first black president we elected is a shyster, and is in way over his head. Don’t look for this second option anytime soon.
I know this is kind of hard to fathom, but some might want to accuse me of racism. I know, I know, but it has happened before. So, just for the record, as I have said before, there are lots of whites who would be every bit as incompetent as Obama is being. I bet he learned a bunch of this stuff at Harvard, taught by distinguished looking white guy profs with silver hair and glasses on the ends of their noses. And patches on the elbows of their corduroy jackets. Talk about Whiteville, not really disturbed by the mandatory diversity sprinklings here and there.
What would these folks have done if the first black president had been a Clarence Thomas type? Right — the charges would have been that conservative whites were only comfortable with him because he was white deep down, he was an oreo — black on the outside, white on the inside.
There are different kinds of racism — the malicious kind, which we all recognize, and the patronizing, “benevolent” kind, the kind that liberals specialize in, and which is invisible to them. Smug platitudes make up the air they breathe, and you can’t point it out to them. How are they supposed to see their air?
If a black man who is steeped in the standards of real civilization — highly educated, industrious, hard-working, and he were to propose economic policies that would actually be a blessing, what will he be accused of by liberals? Right, he would be accused of being a race traitor. Liberals think that a black man cannot be a true black man without being dysfunctional, and dysfunctional in such a way as to require them to be his savior. How convenient. In their on-going self-narrative, they landed the starring role yet again. I call that real acting talent.