If You Had "By 6:00 PM, First Day" In The "When Will They Throw The Racism Flag" Pool, Congratulations, You Doubled Your Money

Obama "privileged"?

That's racist. Everyone knows one of the deepest, darkest stereotypes about blacks is that they grow up rich and privileged.

"That's the dog whistle that Rick Perry is going for. The president was not raised privileged. He wasn't handed anything. He absolutely had to work for everything that he got. But for Rick Perry to say that President Obama was privileged and didn't have to work for what he got, the code is, he got into Columbia University, he got into Harvard University not through merit, not because he's smart, but because he took the place of someone else through affirmative action, that someone else being someone white," Mr. Capehart said on Martin Bashir's MSNBC show.

Let's just stipulate for the record that anything we say about the Pampered Princeling is racist, and move on.

Guys?

By your definition of "racism," we're going to have a lot of "racism" this campaign. Because your definition is "anything that isn't super-positive esteem-boosting about a black person!," and, I hate to break this to you, but we've got some negative things to say.

Brace yourselves and pace yourselves, is I guess what I'm trying to say. I don't want you to have aneurysms.*

* Well. Actually, I stand in solidarity with any aneurysms that should befall you, and Tommy Christopher tells me that's okay to say.

Thanks to RD.

posted by Ace at 06:23 PM

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