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Ecce Doofus [UPDATED]

Tavis the Twit

There's a lot of stupidity that flows from Lawrence O'Donnell, both his person and his television show.  But this particular episode has got to be right up near the height of lows.  Behold, as Tavis the race baiter tosses his pearls before all of us, well, you know :

"I said over a year ago that this was going to be, this presidential race, Lawrence, was going to be the ugliest, the nastiest, the most divisive, and the most racist in the history of this Republic"...

And so it will be as you say, Mr. Smiley; especially if professional griefers like yourself are playing the race card pre-emptively. I wonder how long until he gets his invitiation for a hard hitting Q&A from the ladies of "The View"?

Look, I get that Democrats resent guys like Trump pandering to the birthers; they're wringing their hands over what they see as the "otherization" of  O!. I would have to ask them though, why the secrecy? Forget about the birth certificate for the moment; why the secrecy regarding his academics, the deliberate lack of paper-trail from the Illinois senate, and the impenetrable "omerta" of all parties regarding the Chicago Annenberg challenge-specifically his close involvement with Billy "guilty as sin, and free as a bird" Ayers? Why Tavis, is it racist to insist that this President make such records open and available to the public, as every President of the modern era has had to; why the special set of rules?  If there's nothing to hide, well, why not walk the "transparency" that Obama's always blathering on about?  Release the records, Mr. President.

The race-card-playing is starting early because O! is struggling, things aren't going his way with regards to the economy as well as domestic and foreign policy. Simply put, folks are having serious reservations about giving Obama a second term, so expect the race-hustlers like Smiley to chalk it all up to racism; going to the well of race-guilt one more time in order to shore up some of the mushy-middlers who can be convinced that their "unconscious racism" is really why they're unhappy with the President.  I mean, surely there's no policy-based grounds for opposition, amIright?

No Tavis, 2012 will not be the most racist election, EVAR!, unless you consider the race-card-players such as yourself, the blatant tribal appeal of the identity politics playing Democrats, or, you know, the inconvenient truth that black Americans voted for Obama by a nearly 19 to 1 margin.

But I'm sure you'd tell me that none of these factors are racist whatsoever, and that I'm a horrible, horrible, race-traitor and racist h8ter for even pointing such things out.

If you can stomach it, watch the whole video-it's short-in order to fully get your righteous indignation on.

[UPDATE]: Well, it seems Trump's hammering, and the polls recently indicating a public uncertainty of Obama's origin have convinced the White House to release Obama's long form birth certificate. As I've mentioned, I never doubted his naissance, personally, but only thought the public had a right to see all of the usual and customary life history paper trail of their President. It's a good start. Now let's see the rest of the documents, so we can know the rest of the story ...

Rocketman