Thursday, July 28, 2011

Meanwhile, Down In Rock Hill, South Carolina...

...a local peckerwood gets the attention of the Rock Hill newspaper and also McClatchy Newspapers, of which the Rock Hill paper is a property.

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wally said...

It takes a peckerwood to think people voted for Obama simply to prove they weren't racist.

7/28/2011 06:13:00 PM
Bob said...

@wally: I think that white guilt (especially of the liberal variety; liberals tend to feel guilt over all sorts of things) did in fact play a role in some people's decision to vote for Obama. Joe Biden, now our VP, expressed that universal yearning when he was a candidate competing against Obama for the Dem nomination in 2008:

“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” he said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”

7/29/2011 12:11:00 AM
wally said...

Of course it played a role, just as unwillingness to elect a black person played a role in some people's decision to vote for McCain. The implication here, though, is that it was THE REASON people voted for him.

7/29/2011 09:49:00 AM
wally said...

I think that some of what you ascribe to guilt is a feeling of pride that America had reached the point where we could elect a black man president. Did you not feel one iota of that pride?

7/29/2011 09:53:00 AM
Bob said...

@wally: yes, an iota. It was far outweighed by worry that this totally unqualified man, unvetted by the MSM and one of the most liberal members of the Senate, would swiftly proceed to fuck up the country. Lo and behold, two years later the cost of gasoline hovers closer to $4 than to $2, unemployment is nearing double digits and inflation is on the rise, and all he can do is point at George W. Bush and say HE DID IT!

7/29/2011 01:40:00 PM
wally said...

Yeah, Obama engineered all those things singlehandedly. How different do you think things would be if McCsin had been elected? You know, the qualified one?

7/30/2011 12:38:00 PM
Bob said...

@wally: We can only speculate on what McCain would have done differently than Obama, but it's a good bet that he wouldn't have gone on the spending spree that Obama and the Pelosi/Reid combine did. No Obamacare, for one; GM and Chrysler wouldn't have been re-structured to reward the UAW with part ownership of those two companies; there would be oil drilling permits creating jobs in the Gulf of Mexico, Alaska and the Atlantic Continental shelf, so gasoline prices would probably not be up in the $4 range; there would be NO talk of "sharing the burden" with increased taxes on the wealthy and on business, which has been the main reason businesses haven't been hiring; and the ATF would not be accessory to MURDER in the death a US Border Patrol officer and numerous Mexican police officials. And it's doubtful that McCain would have gotten us involved in non-wars in Libya and Somalia.

7/30/2011 03:27:00 PM
wally said...

Lordy. We have covered several of these topics,publicly and privately. I can't wait to see what the coming nuance-shunning elite-disparaging guilt-free republican dynasty is going to be like. Should be an eye-opener.

7/30/2011 11:43:00 PM
Bob said...

@wally: Reagan after Carter. We lived through it already.

7/31/2011 11:10:00 AM

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