Written by Herman Caine has been under attack in the media lately. A lot. Using the lessons learned from the left we know this can’t be anything except racism. After all hasn’t all the critiques of Barack Obama up to now been racist?
Remember this from October 09, 2008, By Joe Garofoli, published in the SF Chronicle? I mean it’s so clear!
“As CNN’s pundits wondered whether instant post-debate polls favoring Sen. Barack Obama meant he would win on election day, analyst David Gergen - who has been an adviser to Republican and Democratic presidents - stopped them.
“I think it’s too early to declare victory, because Barack Obama is black,” Gergen said Tuesday night. “And until we play out the issue of race in this country, I don’t think we’ll know and maybe (not until) late in the campaign.”
While Obama’s campaign has fended off racially rooted attacks since its inception, analysts say the ones surfacing in the past few days have been more overt, arriving as many undecided voters are making their final decision. They are part of a recent stream of attacks on his background, including his religion and his connections to a former ’60s radical.
“It is the Willie Hortonization of Obama,” said University of San Francisco associate professor of political science James Taylor. Horton, an African American man, was a Massachusetts felon who committed a rape and armed robbery while on a weekend furlough. Republican strategist Lee Atwater used a TV attack ad featuring Horton to create a negative impression of the 1988 Democratic nominee, former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, in the campaign’s final months.
Instead of using a grainy photo of a grizzled convict as Atwater did, the current attacks, analysts say, are embedded in “coded” language. They cite as examples Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin portraying Obama as a cultural outsider and friend to terrorists and the dismissive way his Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain, referred to Obama at their Tuesday night debate as “that one.”
Indeed every valid concern about Barack Obama in 2008 from Rev. “God Damn America” Wright, to Bill Ayers, all were considered racist attacks by those on the left. Funny now that we see some of the very same attacks on Herman Cain, surely they must be racist in nature?
What else could they be?
