[Rhodes22-list] Politics: Barack the Magic Negro

Sun Dec 28 11:55:01 EST 2008

Bill,

Funny you mention Animal Farm, Dr. Hanson just wrote a column on that
(attached).

Rummy obviously missed the article in the LA Times where the Magic
Negro theme originated -

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19,0,5335087.story

Is this the same Rummy who consistently called Bush 43 the stupidest SOB ever?

Brad

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Life At New Animal Farm Won't Be All That Bad

Posted By Victor Davis Hanson On December 27, 2008 @ 3:31 pm In
Uncategorized | 18 Comments

By July, we will come to feel that 2009 will be one of the most upbeat
years in our history, as what used to be the news media∗ begins to get
behind America and report on all the mysteriously wonderful things
that are suddenly taking place.

All the campaign talk of the Great Depression, a Vietnam-like war, and
our shredded Constitution will now thankfully subside as the Obama
administration assumes office and solves problems with conciliation,
dialogue, and multilateral wisdom, rather than shrillness,
unilateralism, preemption, and my-way-or-the-highway dogmatism. We
will hear that by historical levels unemployment is still not that
bad, that GDP growth is not historically all that low, and that
deficits, inflation, interest rates, and housing starts are all within
manageable parameters. "Depression" will transmogrify into "recession"
which in turn by July will be a "downturn" and by year next an
"upswing" on its way to boom times.

Indeed, almost supernaturally crises will be solved with the departure
of the hated Bush: no more flooding streets from cracked water mains
that were a result of a President's neglect of infrastructure, and no
more spontaneous crashes of Mississippi River bridges due to
diversions of critical federal aid from cash-strapped states to Iraq.
And when the temperatures rise or drop, the wind howls, the clouds
burst forth or go away, the snow melts or piles up, it will be, well,
nature that caused the havoc, not the current occupant of the White
House who failed to sign Kyoto.

As we watch the innocent die from natural mayhem, it will be due to
the breakdown of local responders who now suddenly kill people, not
federal inaction—except perhaps for an occasional few Bush federal
holdovers that have not yet been rooted out. Human nature, of course,
now will be seen more culpable, more selfish, as in needlessly
resisting wise and caring federal interventions, rather than being
inherently noble but shunned by an uncaring Washington. Yes, when
dikes collapse and planes collide on crowed run-ways, it will be due
to a cruel and unpredictable nature, or intrinsic design flaws, or
improper local use and maintenance, or the past President's nefarious
legacy, not current government policies. (But if you still must bash
the government, it will be wise to do it in 1950s style of inattentive
state and local officials, prone to regional and tribal prejudices,
blocking the infinite wisdom of a caring federal government.)

Some military action abroad could be necessary—and necessarily
reported on as measured and reluctant, rather than cowboyish and
gratuitous. European whining will be a result of miscommunications or
the Euros' unfair caricatures of Americans, not Bush's alienation of
allies. If radical Islam strikes, it will be, well, radical again and
sometimes even dangerous, not a figment of neocon pipe dreams. If an
administration official quits, goes on 60 Minutes, and writes a nasty
tell-all book about Obama's insensitivity and his government's
directionless ennui, he will be a heretic, a whiner, a turncoat, not a
truth teller or brave maverick who blew the whistle in need of a
bestseller hyped from NPR to the New York Times. We will come again to
hate the filibuster, obstructionist Congressional policies, and the
occasional loud-mouthed Senator who voices slurs against our nation in
unpatriotic fashion.

Those around Barack Obama understand that precisely those measures
most derided during the campaign—wiretaps, the interrogation of
prisoners in Guantanamo, the decimation of al Qaida members in Iraq
and Afghanistan, overseas detentions—probably account likewise most
for the absence of another 9/11-like attack. In other words, as the
Obamians privately ignore the media hype about flushed Korans and
hundreds of innocents caught in the cauldron of war and unfairly
detained, and instead examine the sort of killers who are presently in
Guantanamo, the type of intelligence gathering that led to prevention
of dozens of planned attacks since 9/11, and those who turned up and
were killed or arrested in Iraq and Afghanistan, they will realize how
dicey it will be to follow through with campaign rhetoric about Bush,
Inc. torching the Bill of Rights, fighting made-up enemies abroad, and
generally alienating our allies.

So all that will change for now will be the sudden absence of shrill
complaints that we live in an America without a Constitution. Static,
same-old, same-old government policy will, of course, be said to have
altered radically ("hoped and changed"), but it will also be
refashioned in the media as "sober" and "judicious", as the
administration moves "in circumspect fashion" to probe and explore
"complex" and often "paradoxical" matters of national security that
"indeed at the end of the day have no easy answers".

Expect much of the same on the economic front. For all the campaign
hysteria about greedy Bushites who destroyed the economy, Obama
realizes that in fact the seeds of the current financial weeds were
sown years ago, and watered and fertilized by an array of both
Democratic and Republican facilitators in Congress and hacks in
government-affiliated mortgage sinecures. So expect the bailouts to
continue. We will see Wall Street in about 24 hours after January 20
transmogrified from Gordon Gecko's habitat into a sort of the old
Robert Rubin/Warren Buffet-like necessary institution about which a
Sen. Schumer or Chris Dodd can offer invaluable advice and
consultation.

Socially, we will get a mix of Maya Angelou, Oprah, and Rick Warren, a
rich diversity of therapeutics that appeals to everyone's popular
feel-my-pain tastes. Rev. Wrights and Father Plegers are "that was
then, this is now" has-beens (not that they and their Blago-ilk with a
memoir or wierd disclosure won't try to crash the party from time to
time), replaced by the bromides of the Purpose-Driven Life. The Left
will once again see the U.S. as the last, best hope for mankind, a
flawed, often errant nation that nevertheless in its heart always
showed the world what was right in the end. "Diversity" and
"progressive" themes will replace Bush's hokey old-time patriotism, as
we return to a more nuanced and sophisticated love of country that at
last "came home."

In other words, one can also at last enjoy that nice wood-floored
study, tastefully granite-countered kitchen, with plenty of stainless
steel appliances, in a mostly un-diverse neighborhood, still send your
kids to a mostly predetermined racially-appropriate school, and still
make a pretty good salary, drive a comfortably large car (though
please—preferably a Volvo or Mercedes SUV rather than a Tahoe or
Yukon), and feel like you are out there on the barricades of radical
environmental, cultural, and political change (and hope too!).

Al Gore will be courted, get an occasional photo-op head-pat—but when
he gets too loud quietly sent back upstairs to the closet. Ditto the
uncouth Sharpton and Jackson, snapping pit bulls muzzled and
dispatched to the kennels. Jimmy Carter will once again be wierd old
jet-setting Jimmy Carter, a meddler, a spoiler, a PR junkie on the
verge of senility rather than the principled Nobel laureate of the
Carter Center.

Those inside the big house change, the commandments on the barn wall
subtly are crossed out and updated, but the farm for us animals stays
about the same.

______________

∗ I say used to be the news media, since when they report good news
about the Divine Obama we have no idea whether it's encomium or fact;
and if they are ever slightly negative, we don't know whether the
complaint derives from His real error or merely that they are stung by
past criticism and ostensibly trying to be periodically balanced. In
short, the age of Murrow is over—and the divine era of Augustus with
his Livy and Dio is upon us.

Article printed from Works and Days: http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Bill Effros <bill at effros.com> wrote:
> Brad,
>
> Not to worry.  I know where he lives.  I assume you do, too.
>
> It's time to read Animal Farm again.
>
> Bill Effros
>
>
>
> Brad Haslett wrote:
>> Rummy,
>>
>> You can't leave until you throw snowballs at Sarah Palin - more fun
>> than throwing shoes at Bush.
>>
>> http://www.peta.org/feat/HolidaySnowballFight/index.aspx
>>
>> Jeezo Peezp you people sure have thin skins!
>>
>> Brad
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 9:10 AM,  <R22RumRunner at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Bill and Brad,
>>> There is nothing funny about the direction this list has gone. I'm signing
>>> off....permanently. She's all yours boys.
>>>
>>> Rummy
>>>
>>>
>>> In a message dated 12/28/2008 9:38:11 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>>> bill at effros.com writes:
>>>
>>> It's  actually an Al Sharpton parody, but the lefties who thought nothing
>>> of  calling Bush a moron, or Palin a dunce, have remarkably thin skins
>>> when  anyone mentions that Barack is a Negro.
>>>
>>> "What goes round, comes  round."
>>>
>>> Or, as we used to say,
>>>
>>> "Repayment in kind."
>>>
>>> Bill  Effros
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Brad Haslett wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bill,
>>>>
>>>> How  funny, I almost sent that this morning.  One of the candidates  for
>>>> the RNC Chairmanship (from Tennessee) got in hot water for
>>>>  distributing that video with the PC police.  My guy is Michael  Steele,
>>>> who probably thinks it's funny.  What a  hoot!
>>>>
>>>> Brad
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 8:09 AM,  Bill Effros <bill at effros.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvXz2xaLNMQ
>>>>>
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