From Andrew Sullivan
22 Sep 2010 07:46 am
Patrick Buchanan plays it in an unexpected way, denigrating president Obama for failing to give black Americans preferential treatment:
[W]hile conservatives always get one of their own on every national ticket, and all of their own on the Supreme Court, African-Americans seem to settle for a few back-of-the-bus Cabinet seats. Say what you will about the right. But if their party took them for granted the way Democratic presidents take black constituents for granted in plum appointments, there’d be a whole lot of shakin’ going on.
Of course, if Obama ever did give blacks preferential treatment, Buchanan would be the first one to seize on the matter in the most demagogic way imaginable. And insofar as Democrats do take black constituents for granted, it is due in no small part to the fact that those constituents are powerfully averse to voting for the party of Pat Buchanan, who has replaced the outright racism of his early career with a new affinity, suddenly shared by so many on the right, for race-baiting.
1 comment:
No matter what President Obama does the Right puts a bad spin on it. That is their strategy and it is working. They can do that because they have no morals.
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