With friends like these, Barack Obama doesn't need Republicans. What in the blazing saddles are Jesse Jackson and Bernie Mac thinking with their respective off-mic and on-mic comments? Last night, Bernie Mac showed up at a fundraiser in Chicago, and told a sexual joke. Earlier in the week, Jesse Jackson--thinking a FOX news mic was off--made a nasty and borderline obscene comment about Obama, whom he (supposedly) supports.
These two actions give white racists, and possibly non-racists, ammunition: 'are these the kinds of people Obama is going to surround himself with if he becomes president?' is the question that folk may start asking.
Let me reiterate how hard it is for an African-American to get elected to a high office for the first time: Doug Wilder, running for governor of Virginia in 1989--and to become the first African-American elected as governor of any state--had a nearly nine percent lead in the polls leading up to the November election, and won by less than one-half of one percent. Barack Obama will be facing a potentially still-latent racism without his alleged allies aiding his opposition.
End of tirade. For now at least. Until someone else says something really dumb again.
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