{"id":3446,"date":"2008-10-10T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3446"},"modified":"2008-10-10T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T13:00:00","slug":"duelling-proxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3446","title":{"rendered":"Duelling Proxies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ray Suarez – the MPR\/NPR talking head responsible for making Talk Of The Nation<\/em> such an unctuous bore – says asking questions about The One is…well, racist<\/a>, of course, silly:<\/p>\n

The “pseudo controversies” about Obama’s background are symbols for a “racial calculus” hard at work in U.S. politics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Racial calculus” is one of those terms, like “political kabuki”, that people use to make a 25 cent theory sound like a dollar’s worth of thought.<\/p>\n

Opinions about Obama’s inexperience, his childhood in Indonesia, and the persistent but untrue rumors of him being Muslim are stand-ins for something his detractors cannot admit, Suarez said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ray.\u00a0 Bubbie.\u00a0 Get a grip.<\/p>\n

I’m hosed if I can think of a single credible <\/em>conservative commentator – one that 99% of us would claim – who’s said word one about The One’s childhood or the “M” word.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And if talking about his palpable<\/em> inexperience is “racist”, well, what’s the point of talking about Presidential candidates at all?\u00a0 I mean, the man makes John Edwards look like a solid professional<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Particularly, “religion has become a proxy for race,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And “has become a proxy for race” has become one of the many proxies for McCarthyism.<\/p>\n

“Do you now, or have you ever found anything about Barack Obama that led you not to support him?”<\/p>\n

Postlude:\u00a0 Remember all the Ashkkkroft Libertarians – the people who joked about Libertarians before January of 2001, the ones who thought Civil Liberties were the province of Rand-sodden bearded wackoes who lived in compounds in the Rockies, but suddenly became solem civil liberties junkies the moment John Ashcroft was sworn in as Attorney General, and spent the next eight years protecting this nation’s most vital liberties (flag burning, making statues of the Virgin Mary out of poop, and getting calls for people whom there is reasonable probable cause to believe are terrorists)?<\/p>\n

Betcha they say not one thing about the liberties that an Obama administration will try to bulldoze; the First, Second and Tenth are all at immediate risk.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ray Suarez – the MPR\/NPR talking head responsible for making Talk Of The Nation such an unctuous bore – says asking questions about The One is…well, racist, of course, silly: The “pseudo controversies” about Obama’s background are symbols for a “racial calculus” hard at work in U.S. politics. “Racial calculus” is one of those terms, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,30,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-liberty","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}