Racist! Or maybe not so much.
Posted By Russ Emerson on August 4, 2011 at 1:04 pm
James Taranto at the Wall Street Journal writes about our Victim-in-Chief:
For the purpose of argument, let’s stipulate that the assertion is true: that racism is the reason Barack Obama is unable to govern effectively. What are the implications?
Obviously it lets Obama off the hook by framing his presidency as a failure not of leadership but of followership. In this view, Obama is an adequate leader, maybe even a great one, but American racism is too strong a force to overcome.
The trouble with this for the president’s supporters is that one cannot assert Obama is unable to govern effectively because of racism without conceding that he is unable to govern effectively. To put it mildly, that is not a strong argument in favor of re-electing him.
So: are you a racist?
Do you like him any better now?
No?
Congratulations. You are not a racist.
(Via Instapundit.)
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