Man, Jonah Goldberg just lays into President Obama, guns a-blazin’ and completely dissects the race climate in this country in a profound way.
Here are a few choice quotes from Mr. Goldberg in a piece that made me jump for joy, mainly in that someone with a bit of exposure was finally saying what’s been bugging me most about The Great Onetm.
[I]f you question his tax policies, energy plans, or health-care ambitions, you are “hoping he will fail” — and that, with the help of roundabout reasoning, is tantamount to hoping we cannot transcend race.
Loading the deck in such a way is a gift of Obama’s. Time and again, he pre-empts dissent by claiming he’s open-minded, pragmatic, and non-ideological, and therefore if you disagree with him, you must be some sort of zealot.
And this one…
Two weeks ago, town hallers were supposed to be members of the Brooks Brothers brigade, Astroturf division. Now they’re well-armed anti-government militias. At this rate, they’ll soon be android ninjas with laser vision. Wait, strike that. They’ll be really racist android ninjas with laser vision.
Suddenly, if conservatives want to transcend race, we have to agree to massive increases in the size of government and socialized medicine.
That’s not transcending race, it’s using Obama’s race to bully the opposition into acquiescence. Actually transcending race would require treating Obama like any other president. Which is pretty much exactly what conservatives have been doing. Seriously, if Hillary Clinton were president, would conservatives really be rolling over for the same health-care plan because she’s white?
Sure, racists don’t like Obama. (In less shocking news, bears continue to use our national forests as toilets.) But that doesn’t mean everyone who dislikes Obama is therefore a racist.
Thank you, Jonah Goldberg, for saying exactly what needed to be said.