The Fake Race Card

It's pretty despicable, albeit predictable, to see intellectual troglodytes like Limbaugh and Buchanan play the race card in trying to dismiss Colin Powell's decision to back Obama.

Despicable because they are essentially calling Powell a liar. They are saying all the carefully enunciated reasons why he said he was supporting Obama are falsehoods put out there simply to hide the fact Powell wants to support an African-American.

This is a smear on Powell's character, intellectual prowess, and his decades of service to this country, where he has consistently presented his positions in an articulate and reasoned fashion.

But now all of a sudden his words are meaningless? Now all of a sudden Powell is as simplistic and thoughtless as David Duke?

Funny, I don't hear the right wing wackos criticizing all the racists who are supporting McPalin because it's the 'white' ticket. I haven't heard one word of outrage from Limbaugh or Buchanan about the disgraceful, openly racist man in Ohio who hung a figure of Obama in effigy in his front lawn.

I haven't heard them come forward and say they are liars, and they're voting for McPalin because they want to vote for white candidates.

Powell has never played the race card in his life.

Unlike the people who accuse him of playing the race card.

There's a type of haikulike poem, known as jiji senryu, which is essentially about politics. Here's one for the morning.

his vote
is based on race
scream the racists