"Race"ing to the White House in 2008

The most deeply ingrained human flaw is racism, and it is on full display this week in the Democrat Party. The intramural race war that has been brewing in the left wing of American politics is finally an open conflagration exposing the hypocrisy of the liberal mindset.

As white liberals were trying to assuage their guilt by seeking absolution from the new messiah of the left, Barack Obama, the masters of the Democrat plantation were busy changing the locks on the doors of the mansion.

The timing of Geraldine Ferraro's remarks on Obama's lack of substance and being the recipient of political affirmative action nicely coincided with the surfacing of videos in which Obama's pastor goes into a series of anti-American rants complete with the paranoid conspiracy theories that pass as left-wing intellectualism. As Ferraro fell on her political sword, handily provided by Hillary herself, Obama was forced to "denounce", in relative terms, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Obama's effort to heal the racial divide in America started out with an attack on the founding fathers, the Constitution, the conservatives, and even a dead guy who couldn't speak up for himself, Ronald Reagan. He explained the anger smoldering under the brush in the black community, a rage that white America doesn't see because it manifests itself in the barber shops and churches of the black community.

He used the classical liberal ploys of generalizing groups of people as victims instead of seeing them as individuals, speaking of the "black experience", saying that the white guys will vote for McCain, and drumming up class envy among his followers by attacking corporate America.

Saying that there is a black experience is like saying that there is a white experience. Is the white experience defined by the experience of a boy raised in the Appalachians, or is it the experience of a girl raised in southern California? Maybe it's the experience of a Pearl Harbor survivor, or a lobster fishermen in Maine, or a steel worker in New Orleans.

And I can guarantee you that I am one white guy who won't be voting for McCain.

Corporate America has done more for lower to middle class Americans than any liberal Democrat entitlement program ever has. By providing jobs and low-cost goods, Walmart has raised the standard of living for millions of people despite the sabotage of liberals in government. Drug companies have developed life-saving medications, extending the lives of even the poorest; computer giants have made education more accessible than ever; and car companies have made cars that last longer, are more reliable and made financing them easier than ever. Mortgage companies made credit easier to attain and gave millions of high-risk individuals a chance to build equity and wealth through home ownership and break the cycle of poverty that they grew up in.

Obama wasn't building bridges in his speech Tuesday, he was rallying his liberal base by digging an even deeper and wider gulf between the two Americas. By poking at the raw nerve of racial tension, he elevated himself into the pantheon of black leaders in America, but did not make himself an American leader.

Obama's speech will remind his supporters that liberals judge them not by the "content of their character", but by the color of their skin. Prejudices lying dormant in the hysteria of Obama-mania will surface once again, which gives the Democrats the perpetual victims they need to prop up as evidence that America is still stuck in the 20th century.

And Hillary will be laughing all the way to the White House.