For years, Democrats have lamented how badly the Bush Administration has left our “standing” in the world. Other nations “hate” us; wish us ill, blah blah blah. Even Mexicans are thinking twice before sneaking across our border (and that's not a bad thing).

However, the race for the presidency has given some more reasons to look down on America. This time, their criticisms aren’t aimed solely at George W. Bush, but at the very people who whine because other nations don’t like us anymore.

The 2008 US election has all the makings of a Greek tragedy, in which noble heroes and heroines are forced to follow a course to catastrophe, divinely preordained as punishment for sins and blunders committed by their forefathers in the dim and distant past.

If this description sounds too grandiose, consider yesterday's results from the Pennsylvania primary. The outcome seemed to be precisely calibrated by the gods to maximize the agony of the Democrats. It gave Hillary Clinton just the support she needed to stay firmly in contention, but not quite enough to turn the tide in her favour.

Worse still, this result underlined the fear that senior Democrats have long been aware of, but have never dared to express in public: America may not yet be ready to elect a black President.
– Anatole Kaletsky , The Times of London, 4/24/08

To make matters worse, the Democrat presidential campaign is bringing out the very racial antagonism they consistently (and politically) accuse Republicans of.

House Democratic Whip James Clyburn, of South Carolina and the highest ranking black in Congress, also said he has heard speculation that Clinton is staying in the race only to try to derail Obama and pave the way for her to make another White House run in 2012.

“I heard something, the first time yesterday (in South Carolina), and I heard it on the (House) floor today, which is telling me there are African Americans who have reached the decision that the Clintons know that she can’t win this. But they’re hell-bound to make it impossible for Obama to win” in November, Clyburn told Reuters in an interview.

So according to The Times, if “America may not yet be ready to elect a black President” and the Clintons are now sabotaging the primary to keep their door open for the future, just what does that say about Hillary and the Democrat Party? If their attacks on Obama are race-based, then maybe the lie they’ve been living for decades has been exposed and the damage done to their standing with the black community has yet to be felt in full.

For years Democrats have used the black community (and their votes) as a wedge against Republicans. Every time the race card could be used against a conservative candidate, it would be. Something John McCain should be prepared for should Obama squeeze through the Clinton barbed wire. But most Democrats believed THEY were above the stench of racism.

Let’s not forget Michelle Obama’s college thesis, in which she lamented her feeling isolated by her white liberal Princeton peers and professoriate.



If you listen to smiley, liberal whiners like Dr. Mark Lamont Hill of Temple University, who Bill O’Reilly must feel is representative of black opinion in America (which is both insulting and scary), whites are still to blame for everything wrong in the black community. I included Hill’s picture here as I cringe every time he comes on The Factor, knowing that many in white America believe people like him speak for people like me.

That’s could be one of the perceived reasons Brit writers like Kaletsky believe America’s not ready for a black president. I would like to ask him, seeing how he’s come to this public conclusion, just how many black prime ministers, let alone black representatives in the House of Commons, have the British elected? You know, the old “judge not” and “glass houses” phrases come to mind.

After years of encouraging separate, ultra-sensitive minority student unions in colleges, pushing Affirmative Action decades after the need for it has passed, making black New Orleans a victim of racism as well as Hurricane Katrina, exploiting the O.J. debacle, hyphenating everyone in America not white, indoctrinating children in schools with liberal race pity and guilt, and using rich and privileged blacks in academia, the media, and Hollywood to pitch the institutionalized inequalities in America, it’s no wonder that Hillary Clinton and her Democrat minions could use those very liberal tactics to create a blacklash against Barack Obama.



If the Reverend Jeremiah Wright was right about anything, the chickens have come home to roost. Democrats have played the race card to their political advantage to the point it’s so second nature, they’ve now turned it on one of their own. This time, instead of going after a white Republican or conservative Uncle Tom, they’ve politically lynched someone who many in their party admire and have been energized by. His destruction may cost them the election this fall, and if this is purely by design to help a conniving white woman’s political future, the Democrat Party will have no one but themselves to blame for the racial divide in America.

That’s not to say, they won’t try and somehow pin racism and insensitivity on McCain and Republicans later this fall. Stand by….

But the Democrat’s game plan is now out in the open, and many across the pond are watching. If our standing in the world has been diminished, it may not be just George W. Bush’s doing. The Democrats may have to look into the mirror.

The pond is a very big mirror.

Author’s note: This is where I originally ended this column. But after careful consideration, I felt compelled to continue.

There are many black Democrats who parrot the sentiment that Republicans don’t care about them. Republicans perform admirable contortions every election cycle to “reach out” just to have that overture spat back in their faces. I offer the following analogy.

If I invited you to my home for a gathering and the minute you walked in the door, my guests booed and jeered you, and every time you spoke, you were jeered and laughed at, how anxious would you be to come back should I invite you again?

And should my house burn down and I demand you help me, knowing that should you do so, your efforts would be called insufficient and racially inadequate, just how anxious would you be to help?

Think about it.

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