P J O'donovan wrote:
> "The Leftist group identity obsession has never faded: ""The pillars
> of American liberalism -- the Democratic Party, the universities and
> the mass media -- are obsessed with biological markers, most
> particularly race and gender.
That was partly responsible for Hitler's downfall as well.
> They have insisted, moreover, that
> pedagogy and culture and politics be just as seized with the primacy
> of these distinctions and with the resulting 'privileging' that
> allegedly haunts every aspect of our social relations.
If any argument favors primacy of, it cannot e a part of American
democracy.
> They have
> gotten their wish. This primary campaign represents the full
> flowering
> of identity politics. It's not a pretty picture. Geraldine Ferraro
> says Obama is only where he is because he's black.
and at a time when primacy included such. Is race ever mentioned i hte
Declaration of Independence and the Bill or rights.
> Professor Orlando
> Patterson says the 3 a.m. phone call ad is not about a foreign policy
> crisis but a subliminal Klan-like appeal to the fear of 'black men
> lurking in the bushes around white society.....
another savant playing the race card.
The biggest problem with Obama is that he has come to believe that the
Race Card works in his favor.
It reminds me of some professional colleagues in days gone by. In
working to get federal contracts (called "marketing" these days), the
company for whom I was working hired military officers newly retired. We
soon found that they only served as "Door Openers". We engineers had to
do the heavy lifting once inside those doors, proposing real and
effective programs, and obliged to answer the toughest of questions.
Those retirees thence only served as doorstops.
Obama's "hired retiree" in this csae is the Race Card. That's been
played. He now has to do the heavy lifting . Surprise! For Hillary,
likewise, the "Woman Card".
> ...Perhaps liberalism has been led astray from a more politically
> wise, philosophically profound body of ideas. Perhaps some on the
> right are correct in diagnosing the problem as one of ideological
> excess that perhaps began in the 60's, or perhaps has been lurking in
> socialist, neo-marxist, anti-capitalist thinking here and elsewhere..."
You are on the mark.
Question is; What are you going to do about it?
AngeloCampanella
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