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| May 15, 2008 |
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Story #1: When Black People Go Off on Obama...
RUSH: While we're on Obama, I found something fascinating in The New Republic by a guy named Cinque Henderson. He's a TV writer. He's working on a book about Abraham Lincoln. He is a black man who supports Hillary, and explains why very cogently here. But what you'll hear, when black people go off on Obama, they really go off on the guy. Wait 'til you hear this! "Ninety percent of black Democrats support Barack Obama. So that might leave an observer wondering: What the hell is up with that other 10 percent? Are they stupid? Do they hate their own race? Do they not understand the historical import of the moment? I can shed some insight on this demographic anomaly. In gatherings of black people, I'm invariably the only one for the Dragon Lady. I'll do my best to explain how those of us in the ever-shrinking minority of a minority came to our position.
"But, before going any further, let me fully disclose my predispositions. I disliked Obama almost instantly. I never believed the central premises of his autobiography or his campaign. He is fueled by precisely the same brand of personal ambition as Bill Clinton. But, where Clinton is damned as 'Slick Willie,' Obama is hailed as a post-racial Messiah. Do I believe that Obama had this whole yes-we-can deal planned from age 16? No, I would respond. He began plotting it at age 22. This predisposition, of course, doesn't help me in making the case against Obama, especially not with black people. But, believe me, there's a strong case to be made that he isn't such a virtuous mediator of race. And it's this skepticism about Obama's racial posturing that has led us, the 10 percent, into dissent."
Then he goes on. "So much of the educated white people's love for Barack depends on educated white people's complete ignorance of and distance from the rest of us. Barack is the black person they want the rest of us to be -- half-white and loving, or 'racially transcendent,' as the press loves to call him. And, since picking a candidate makes you allies with his other supporters, why would I want to be allies with educated whites whose glorification of Barack depends in large part on their implicit denigration of the rest of us?... Why do black people love Obama? In large part, it's because of the dark-skinned woman on his arm. Black people (especially black women) are nuts for Michelle. Had Barack married a white woman, his candidacy would've never gotten off the ground with black people. And would whites really be so into him if he hadn't had a white mother? Based on US political history, you would have to conclude: not a chance. My suspicion is that people are ultimately comfortable with Obama because a member of his family looks like them -- and, if you think about it, that's not terribly transcendent... It's worth remembering that the majority of blacks still think O.J. Simpson is innocent."
Cinque Henderson, the New Republic. This is just about half of it.
 Story #2: California Court Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage
RUSH: Well, California has followed in the footsteps of Massachusetts with a landmark decision from the California Supreme Court legalizing same-sex marriage. It is all the rage on the cable nets now.
Story #3: Bipartisanship: Conyers Vows to Kick Rove's Ass
RUSH: Okay, while Senator McCain is out there playing nice, get this: "Just off the House floor today, [the blog at Politico.com called] the Crypt overheard House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers tell two other people: 'We're closing in on Rove. Someone's got to kick his ass.' Asked a few minutes later for a more official explanation, Conyers told us that Rove has a week to appear before his committee. If he doesn't, said Conyers, 'We'll do what any self-respecting committee would do. We'd hold him in contempt. Either that or go and have him arrested.' Conyers said the committee wants Rove to testify about his role in the imprisonment of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, among other things," based on a fraudulent 60 Minutes story. "'We want him for so many things, it's hard to keep track,' Conyers said."
So, Senator McCain's out there playing nice (paraphrase): "We're going to get rid of this partisanship; it's tearing us all apart! This has got to stop. We're all friends. We're all compatriots. We're all Americans. We're not from different countries. We're all friends, and we can argue. At the end of the day, we're all Americans." Meanwhile, Karl Rove works at Fox News. Karl Rove works at Newsweek. Karl Rove works at the Wall Street Journal. Karl Rove is not even in Washington. Well, he's not even in the White House, and the Democrats still want to "kick his ass." Yup: They want to go get Karl Rove and arrest him and put him in jail, and we're running around singing Kumbaya -- or at least our nominee is.
Story #4: Judicial Activism? Teen Wins Gay Rights Shirt Case
RUSH: Oh! I just got this. Get this. This is a press release here from the ACLU, but it's from Panama City, Florida, which is up there in the Riviera. "After a two-day trial in which a Florida high school principal testified that he believed clothing or stickers featuring rainbows would make students automatically picture gay people having sex, a federal judge today ruled that the school violated students' First Amendment rights of students. The case was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of a junior at the school who had been forbidden by her principal to wear any sort of clothing, stickers, buttons, or symbols to show her support of equal rights for gay people. 'Standing up to my school was really hard to do, but I'm so happy that I did because the First Amendment is a big deal to everyone,' said Heather Gillman, a junior at Ponce de Leon High School and the plaintiff in the case." So a federal judge has ruled that students cannot be barred from expressing support for gay people in the high school. Judicial activism, anyone?
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