Monday, March 17, 2008
Now Back To The Story
Contrast that "two (or more) strike" posture with Obama's response to Don Imus's slanderous remarks about the Rutgers women's basketball team last spring. Obama was the first Presidential contender to call for Imus's firing by NBC. "I understand MSNBC has suspended Mr. Imus," Obama told ABC News, "but I would also say that there's nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group. And I would hope that NBC ends up having that same attitude." Now perhaps it can be said that Imus's remarks were part of a pattern of stupid and degrading comments by the radio shock jock, but Obama's call for Imus's firing was apparently based on this single event. "He didn't just cross the line," Obama said. "He fed into some of the worst stereotypes that my two young daughters are having to deal with today in America."
If by "America" Obama means "The Trinity United Church of Christ", well, I'll give him that.
Back to the story, that last sentence about his daughters intrigues me. I'm sure the American people would be very interested in hearing Obama describe the stereotypes his two daughters are facing. Surely the Obamas would never allow their daughters to be placed in a school environment that tolerated stereotyping, so perhaps it's happening in another environment in which they are placing their daughters but which they cannot control, for instance in their chosen house of worship.
I'm sure every idiot agrees that we should ignore the Obamas' apparently shoddy parenting, so let's focus on the battle against stereotyping. I Believe it would be uplifting to the nation to hear how the Obama girls are dealing with these stereotype-thingies they face. Surely so luminously gifted a writer and orator as Obama can't wait to share with all Obamericans the audacity of overcoming stereotype-thingies.
This is right up Obama's alley. And since he is all-knowing, he will do this. Fer shure.
Patterico: as Barack Wright Obama likes to remind us, words matter. This will be a recurring theme.
