Just a few hours ago, a smart chick I know predicted that the unscrupulous right would expand their smear-scope to dog Obama’s mama. She figured: ‘tramp who married a Kenyan then an Indonesian, getting her nice white genes all dirty. She’s a ‘ho.’ Foolishly, I couldn’t buy it. Well, she was right, but it’s even worse. Mrs. Obama had to have been a Commie (no doubt also a tramp). What else explains why a nice white girl went crazy enough to marry so suspiciously since it couldn’t possibly be love?
From NRO, via Andrew Sullivan:
…all of my mixed race, black/white classmates throughout my youth, some of whom I am still in contact with, were the product of very culturally specific unions. They were always the offspring of a white mother, (in my circles, she was usually Jewish, but elsewhere not necessarily) and usually a highly educated black father. And how had these two come together at a time when it was neither natural nor easy for such relationships to flourish? Always through politics. No, not the young Republicans. Usually the Communist Youth League. Or maybe a different arm of the CPUSA. But, for a white woman to marry a black man in 1958, or 60, there was almost inevitably a connection to explicit Communist politics. (During the Clinton Administration we were all introduced to then U. of Pennsylvania Professor Lani Guinier — also a half black/half Jewish, red diaper baby.)
I don’t know how Barak Obama’s parents met. But the Kincaid article referenced above makes a very convincing case that Obama’s family, later, (mid 1970s) in Hawaii, had close relations with a known black Communist intellectual. And, according to what Obama wrote in his first autobiography, the man in question — Frank Marshall Davis — appears to have been Barack’s own mentor, and even a father figure. Of course, since the Soviet Union itself no longer exists, it’s an open question what it means practically to have been politically mentored by an official Communist. Ideologically, the implications are clearer.
They’re not serious, are they? You can’t scare the kids with that played out nonsense. But maybe the plan is two-pronged: McCain’s refining his message that not only is Obama inexperienced (i.e. not in danger of a cardiac event), but he’s so focused on what’s wrong with America that he won’t pay attention to the dangers of terrorism. That message may not focus the kids, but it should bring out the greatest generation in droves. Just in case the right thinks they might give in to silly notions like returning to our bedrock values and not fighting a war we’ve already won.
