He’s Articulate, He’s Clean, and, You Guessed It…
Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden, campaigning in North Carolina where black votes could help swing the state to the Democrats, said today that electing a black person to the White House would be transformative.
Biden said the policies of running mate Barack Obama make his presidency even more urgent and declared this to be the most important election that any living person has seen in their lifetime. But he particularly singled out the meaning of electing someone who is black.
“That will be a transformative event in American politics and internationally,” Biden said. “That all by itself will be significant.”
So it’s okay to mention he’s black now—since race is all of a sudden so “significant”? Personally, I think it’s irrelevant, but there’s a lot about the liberals (progressives, whatever) I don’t get—and I used to be one of them.
But I recognize this as politics. When in states with large African American populations, Barack is Chris Rock; when in the white Midwest, he’s Rock Hudson (only straight). I saw him campaigning in Maine the other day looking like the Gorton’s Fisherman.
“Ay-yuh, I’m voting for the black fella. He’s pro-flounder.”