One of billym's Readers wrote, in wondering who was behind the "fuss" over Obama's birth certificate:
: WOULD THIS BE THE PEOPLE WHO THINK A BLACK MAN SHOULD NOT BE
: IN THE WHITEHOUSE?
: IT IS DISGUSTING AND I AM ASHAMED FOR OUR COUNTRY TO BE SO
: BIGOTED!
That was a heck of a leap. :) You went from discounting that any problem exists, to theorizing that the folks causing the ruckus must be specifically opposed to seeing an African-American in the White House, to condemning "our country" for being "so bigoted."
And you did it all right there inside your own imagination - no external evidence of any kind required. :)
Speaking only for myself (but probably actually speaking for many others, if we only knew), it might not even have occurred to me that Obama is "black" if Mainstream Media hadn't kept bringing it up, over and over.
MSM even suggested "white" voters were lying to pollsters about their willingness to vote for Obama, and MSM expressed concern that the final tallies might be less than the polls had indicated, because of it.
Frankly, I think MSM had been _instructed_ to make a big deal out of his color, specifically to "make points" with other peoples around the world about how "progressive" our country is. In other words, it was a PR effort with a purpose we probably didn't see at the time.
And now, the stage is set for charges of "racism" any time an Obama administration might take some action we don't approve of. It's a black writer who pointed this out:
BlackCommentator.com - AN OBAMA PRESIDENCY: MORE OF THE SAME - ONLY WORSE (PART 1)
hobie -- Saturday, 8 November 2008, 11:39 p.m.
THE REASON this whole birth certificate thing came up and turned into a kerfuffle is pretty simple. First, it's because Obama's speechwriter had him saying things that sounded wonderful but lacked any nuts-and-bolts substance - and those of us who are already awake to the sham that is politics took notice of that fact and had to wonder, "Why isn't he _saying_ anything...?"
Once we'd noticed that, we, naturally, looked around to find out what "the angle" was - that is, we saw that he wasn't quite what he seemed (a 'messiah' that people were falling in love with, for some reason) so we began looking harder to see who he really is (and why the powers-that-were so very much wanted him to be elected).
Chances are good the birth certificate issue is a bogus one, a "bone" they've left out for us to chew on and worry over, while other things are going on outside our range of attention. Either that, or someone _wants_ to stir a serious Constitutional question over this, so the people will be willing to endorse some kind of Constitutional revision that someone has in mind.
I think I could promise you that, if McCain had won, a similar kerfuffle regarding his status as natural born American would also be going on right now. McCain's white, by the way. :)
If folks are bigoted about anything these days, it's about being lied to. We're tired of it, and we're definitely prejudiced in favor of truth versus pleasing appearances.
Blessings.
--hobie
Serving Freedom
and Liberty
