Reply #13: I think more than anything about this post [View All]

[Kind of Blue]

is that you are upset with the phrase "Magic Negro." It's funny how it sticks in so many DUer's craw. Really, you don't need to explain Flynt's point, we (I) GET IT, nor do I agree with your characterizations of them. But I think what you don't get is that basically, from what I can tell, Congress is completely left out of the equation. It seems that Obama is to Magically get things done - and he better get it right the first time - by fighting both the right and the left, particularly the Blue Dawgs within our own party. Kind of unprecedented for the number of years I've been following politics.

It's amazing to me that you don't see him engaged more in the healthcare fight when I see the exact opposite. And equally amazing is how many expect a bitch slapper when that was never ever his style during the primaries or on the campaign trail. So to expect a change in personality in far less than a year is truly naive. May be he'll change. I dont' know.

There is no denying, in my book, expectations are waaay to high for a man in office for 6months and "Magic Negro" is a very apt term - and that goes for anyone in his position, be it Magic Caucasian or Magic Asian - if you think that in this short amount of time he can wade through and clean up the massive worldwide, historical and incomprehensible dirty work that he was left with; I never ever forget that in assessing Obama.

As far as I'm concerned I think it is cheap and lazy and terribly naive to expect more and exactly what you want in this little amount of time. So criticize all you want but you should really get used to understanding the phrase "Magic Negro," as I have with the "where's my pony" crowd.