Great read fron Huffopo's Paul Jenkins: Obama Still Does Not Know His Place

[flpoljunkie]

Obama Still Does Not Know His Place

Posted July 29, 2008

When Barack Obama started running for president, he was widely described as arrogant for daring to take on the Clintons after just two years in the Senate, despite the fact that polling at the time showed him to be the only threat to Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary.

Eighteen-months later, we are told by the McCain campaign and its traditional media parrots that Obama is at risk of looking "presumptuous" for his recent trip abroad, even as he has registered a small but significant bounce in the polls upon his return, presumably for doing what most of us expect of a presidential candidate.

The man who slayed Democratic royalty, who has raised more money than any political campaign in US history, drawn record-breaking crowds in the US and abroad, who has been ahead of John McCain since widespread general election polling began four months ago, this man is presumptuous for thinking he has a good shot at becoming president and should therefore get to know his potential counterparts and visit the sites of US military activity?

Most candidates Obama's age will be charged sooner or later with youthful conceit for taking on their elders, no matter how guilty those elders are of mismanaging the country. It happened to some extent to Bill Clinton, and surely to others before him. However, it is hard not to see in the ongoing attitude towards this presidential frontrunner, just three months before the election, something more uncomfortable that is not simply a matter of age, but one of race.

Throughout the primary there was a growing sense of disbelief in the Clinton camp that this young'un (older than Bill was in 1991 when he started running, mind you) really thought he had a shot at this. Bill, in particular, showed little patience for Obama's "fairy tale" campaign, eventually going ballistic because, in his own version of "some of my best friends are," he did not understand that even he, whose office is in Harlem, may be condescending towards African-Americans, and towards this African-American in particular. Perhaps more perniciously, some long-time African-American political and business leaders joined in with some of the worst stereotyping of the campaign, seemingly upset at the upstart who dared to go where most of them had not.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-jenkins/obama-still-does-not-know_b_115671.html

[damntexdem]

1. Well, I suppose that it is good to see the GOP widening its vocabulary.

For example, "arrogant" and "presumptuous" for "uppity."

[butterfly77]

2. Would we be hearing statements like these if..

he were just plain caucasian...

[TexasObserver]

3. unfortunately, many of MSM prefer a candidate who acts like their buddy

That's why they treated Bush better than they should have when he was running, and it's why they're treating McCain better. They LIKE him. He serves them drinks. He kids with them. Isn't that what America needs - a guy to hang out and have a good time?