Back in the 1970s, when I had not been on active duty in the Army long, a senior NCO told me in conversation one day, "The Democrats told me in 1964 that if I voted for Goldwater, I'd wind up being sent to to Vietnam. And they were right - I voted for Goldwater and got sent to Vietnam."
Republican Goldwater, of course, lost the election to Democrat Johnson. Today Glenn Reynolds writes,
NOW THEY TELL US: Obama’s “Not Black,” according to a piece in the Washington Post. Hmm. Gates reappointed at Defense, an Iraq-Hawk Secretary of State, keeping the tax cuts, and now the next President turns out not to be black — hey, they told me if I voted for McCain we’d get a third term for Bush, and I guess they were right!Heh, as he sometimes says.
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"Obama's not black". First off, to me it makes no difference. What does make a difference is that he seems a bit more liberal than conservative.
Next, let's hearken back to Toni Morrison, in 1998:
"In 1998, Morrison wrote a column for the New Yorker magazine in which she wrote of Bill Clinton:
"White skin notwithstanding, this is our first black president. Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children's lifetime. After all, Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas."
I have to assume that Morrison and Ms Arana are in agreement.
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