racial resentment, the condition of fear present when you realize that the natural order is not what you always told yourself it was.

Anyway, that’s this old hippys take on it.

Bulletin to Geraldine: You ARE being left behind, Sugar Lump, if you still believe White people deserve special consideration and special privileges and special access and special, well, everything. The campaign for the nomination is, for all practical purposes, over. If her comments are any indication, she (and her ilk, of which I fear there are many) would rather see a John McCain in the Whitehouse than a Barak Obama. Sigh. So what else is new?

I think a lot of people just like to just redraw the boundaries of racism whenever they get too close to it. Resenting someone because of their race isn’t racism - it’s racial resentment. Also, hating someone because of their race is also not racism - it’s, uh, race-based hatred. Which is not racism. No sir.

I trust that you have come here in good faith, but these “sorry if” non-apologies need to go.

“Obama has benefited from a lot of breaks from the favorable media and labyrinthine DNC rules.”

I’d argue that Obama has received no more “favorable media” than Clinton has. Because y’know, all that “Obama is a Muslim terrorist,” “white people won’t vote for him,” and other such nonsense is just as caustic as this in my mind.

I can’t speak to the labyrinthine DNC rules, so I won’t, lest I make myself out to be a fool.

“Get used to the Affirmative Action meme. We Democrats are only just starting to use it.”

Another reason I’m glad I’m not a Democrat.

“Republicans are going to milk it for all it’s worth in the General Election.”

I have no doubt about that, but at least I expect it from them.

“Only a white candidate can be trusted to treat other white people fairly. This is what Geraldine means to say.”

I feel that that’s exactly what she said.

“And “they’re upset because they don’t expect to be treated fairly because they’re white”??? Irony, poetic justice, and just damn “Huh?”ness aside, what on earth are they expecting Obama to do?”

You know? Reading Ferraro, you’d think that it’s an official Obama platform position to just round up all white folks and send them away.

And “they’re upset because they don’t expect to be treated fairly because they’re white”??? Irony, poetic justice, and just damn “Huh?”ness aside, what on earth are they expecting Obama to do?

No, she’s talking about playing the race card or “reverse racism.”

Weary of the flip by Clinton and her supporters to demand Florida. If they give it to her now, after she pledged not to campaign or participate, and then broke her pledge…yeah, that won’t be fuel for any assault by Republicans. The sole name on the ballot in Michigan? Gimme a break.

“What she doesn’t seem to understand ( doesn’t want to understand) is those who prefer Obama want to wipe old the old and bring in the new. We are tired of legacy politicians, and it doesn’t have anything to do with what she blabs on about.”

Amen!

“And the way this primary season has played out, Obama has benefited from a lot of breaks from the favorable media and labyrinthine DNC rules.”

Sounds like the same excuses Bush uses. Bush doesn’t care what the media thinks, they’re all pundits dammit! Pundit pundit pundit pundit! He also doesn’t care what the rest of the world thinks…these things are not important, blah blah blah. If this is the way we arrive to today’s success, well, I’m ready to try failing with the other method. Just to see. You know.
As far as complicated DNC rules go, yeah, I’d think they’d get really maze-like when you agree to them and then try to twist them so that they benefit only one candidate. That would seem complicated.