A trashy decade threatens Obama By Wesley Pruden
The Bear on May 05 2008 at 8:28 am | Filed under: Election 08’
“The race card” was for decades the most reliable card in the Democratic deck, and even today, as we’ve seen this spring, Democrats play the card with residual skill.
The card must be played carefully, and with exquisite subtlety. No place for George Wallace or Orval Faubus here. But now race is all that Democrats are talking about as they stagger and stumble toward agreement on a presidential candidate, maybe next week in Indiana and North Carolina, or if not then maybe the week after that in West Virginia, and if not then surely the week after that in Kentucky and Oregon. They’ll always have Denver. At least for now they’ve got the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the gift who keeps on giving (to John McCain).
Barack Obama’s early campaign was based on a subtle playing of race. By loudly proclaiming that his campaign was traveling the high road “above race,” race became the alligator in the bathtub. This so infuriated Bill Clinton in South Carolina that he couldn’t resist comparing Sen. Barack Obama to the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Bubba, once idolized as “our first black president,” insists that race was the farthest thing from his mind when he made the comparison. (Would Bubba tell a lie?)
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