OJBama

The party of Abraham Lincoln constantly bends over backwards to avoid looking like racists. The reason for this is that it has been a favorite argument of Democrats and the mainstream media for so long to call us racists, in the absence of a worthwhile defense of the welfare state, that it is simply accepted as conventional wisdom today that conservative = racist. Such is the reason for blacks voting en masse for a political party that has enslaved them to just one acceptable way of thinking. Witness the treatment of Condoleeza Rice, who understands the black experience more than Bill Clinton ever could.

Trent Lott and Chris Dodd are good examples of the pressure Republicans face to constantly toe the line on their words, while Democrats needn’t bother with constant self-policing of their public statements. Lott suggested in 2003 that the country would have been a lot better off if Strom Thurmond had won the presidency when he ran. The media immediately jumped on the statement, pointing out that Thurmond was a segregationist at the time. The outcry was so swift and loud that Lott stepped down as the Senate majority leader after approximately eight dozen apologies to anyone who might have once met a black person.

Not a year after the Lott misadventure, Democratic senator Chris Dodd (whose other claim to fame was a waitress sandwich he made with Ted Kennedy, another Democrat hailed for his empathy to the plight of working women) made the statement that former KKK member Robert Byrd, senator from West Virginia, would have been a great president at any time in this nation’s history, presumably including during the Civil War.

Dodd’s statement was studiously ignored by the media and he suffered no punishment. He has even actually considered a presidential run.

With the media in their pocket, Democrats can continue to play the race card with impunity, knowing that they will never be held to an ideological standard in the arena of race. And already, before even August, Barack Obama has twice attempted to exploit this.

About a month before saying that the Republicans will keep reminding everyone that Obama doesn’t look like other presidents on dollar bills, Obama mythically quoted Republicans as saying “did we mention that he’s black?”

With Republicans constantly on the defensive about being called racists, especially McCain, who shows more fear of the media than he did for his captors in Vietnam, it’s hard to imagine that they would inject race into the campaign. The only person who has consistently injected race into the campaign is Barack Obama. He is the one constantly calling his candidacy historic. He is the one constantly repeating the word “change”.

While the media gets a warm feeling in their legs (which might just be pee) whenever they hear Obama speak, Americans may not be so receptive to this kind of politics. Especially the ones old enough to remember the OJ trial.

O.J. Simpson murdered his wife and her friend in a brutal butchering, and every speck of evidence in the case pointed to him. The only way to keep him from conviction was to convince the jury that he was framed like so many other black men.

Had I been part of the prosecution, I would have told the jury this: “the defendant has committed two vicious murders, and he has no alibi or defense that suggests otherwise. But now he is trying to sell you a larger fight, that you and he are part of a larger struggle, that you must do right by your race and let him walk. Do not let him get away with murder because he is reminding you of your struggles. If you do, it is the likes of him that will be associated with your race, not the likes of people who see past the color of one’s skin to do what is right.”

Today, McCain can state an almost verbatim response to Obama’s blatant use of the race card: “My opponent has no experience or qualifications, and he has no plan for the future or vision beyond “change” that suggests otherwise. But now he is trying to sell you a larger fight, that you and he are part of a larger struggle, that you must do right by your white guilt and elect him. Do not let him become the Commander in Chief because he is reminding you of your struggles. If you do, it is the likes of him that will be associated with America's racism, not the likes of people like you, who can see past the color of one’s skin to do what is right.”

Barack Obama isn’t a murderer (although he advocates it for infants who survive an attempted abortion), but he is using the same tactic O.J. Simpson used to walk on two murders to win election to the highest office in the land. He may be the only Democrat who can get me to vote for John McCain.