 merrie says: resurgence (Johnson), and under threat of other varieties of violent, disaffected white supremacist extremism (U.S. Department of Homeland Security). Barack Obama is smart enough to know this is not true. He knows he has sold his initiative poorly, that his timing is bad and his politicking is worse. At some point in the not-too-distant future, whether his health-care plan continues to crash and burn or is resurrected in a new figleaf evolution, the president needs tell the nation that it is OK to disagree with him, that political dissent and even anger do not equal racism. [...]Not simply as a throwaway remark in an interview with a TV news anchor, or an aside in speech. He could invite U.S. representatives Joe Wilson and Johnson, former President Carter, New York Times scribbler Dowd, shrill standup act Garfalo and a lot of Tea Party organizers over for beers, but that approach was trite before he tried it last time, and this situation is more serious than a . . . Harvard professor’s attention-grabbing antics. Given the level to which Democratic race-baiting has now risen, it is becoming apparent that Obama is going to have to do it in a more purposeful and sober manner, possibly in a major prime-time speech. The good will has since been squandered by a string of actions, inactions and utterances, but mainly, apparently, by his insistence on pushing his bad ideas about health care at the wrong time, without preparing the ground. Obama can let a growing chorus of prominent Americans call his failure racism and his opponents racists, a development which is itself driving a deeper partisan wedge and heightening the rancor and bitterness. He can ... |
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