Political Pyro

Greta van Susteren recently sat down with Bill Clinton, who is in the middle of a media blitz promoting the Clinton Global Initiative, and asked a simple question that caught the former president uncharacteristically off guard:

VAN SUSTEREN: You raise the issue of values. And let me ask you a question that I ask very carefully because I don’t want to be misinterpreted. I don’t want anyone to read anything into my question and — you know, because this is one of the hottest items that any of us can talk about and we have to face it.

But what is the difference between an association with someone like David Duke and an association with someone like Reverend Wright?

CLINTON: ………………Well, I think that — first, we don’t have to go there because Senator Obama left the church.

VAN SUSTEREN: After two things happened.

CLINTON: That is correct.

VAN SUSTEREN: One was a lot of pressure from the media, and then the second thing was after Reverend Wright at the National Press Club took a personal strike at him. That’s when — well, that’s when..

CLINTON: That’s correct.

VAN SUSTEREN: … He disavowed him. It wasn’t until that point.

CLINTON: But to me, it’s not necessary for those of us who are surrogates on either side to weigh into that now. To me, this election is fundamentally about how the American people are going to live and who is most likely to do things that will be helpful and empowering to them and their children.

If this were still a big issue, then, you know, we could all deal with that. But I think that — I think that that was something that was exhaustively looked at in the primary, and I just don’t — you know, I don’t have anything to say about it.

In other words, there is no difference. If there was, Clinton would have simply stated it minus the song and dance.

Born in Arkansas, no doubt Bill is aware of another adage about a pig that does not include lipstick:

“You can lay a million bricks in your lifetime, and no one will call you Billy the Bricklayer….. but if you screw one single pig, from that day on, you will forever be known as Billy the Pigf**ker”.

Unless of course, your name is Barack Obama. This man spent 20 years attending a racist, black separatist church and no one in the media seems to give a damn. Let a white politician spend 20 minutes in the company of David Duke, and watch the media ensure that his political career crashes and burns faster than the Hindenburg.

This was Greta’s point, a problem of hypocrisy that still resonates with rural American voters today despite attempts to gloss over the facts and move on.

Several news organizations are preparing for a Barack Obama loss, already attacking Americans as vile racists who don’t like the man simply because the color of his skin.

I beg to differ. It isn’t that we don’t like him. We’re simply afraid he doesn’t like us.

Tiger Woods lovingly embraces all the various ethnicities that are his makeup by referring to himself as a “Cablinasian”. Unfortunately, Barack Obama doesn’t appear to possess that same embracing quality. Rather than refer to himself as biracial, which is what he is, he insists upon being simply black.

Come election day, like the media would do to an associate of David Duke, rural America should do to an associate of Reverend Wright.

With any luck, on November 4th, Obama’s racebaiting, sexist, fear-mongering, hydrogen-filled dirigible will meet the spark of the Heartland. And then……

UPDATE — 11/05/08: Bad luck.