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Elizabeth Warren Roundup

I haven't posted much, if any, about this opportunistic far-left character since she bashed "factory owners" for having the nerve to be successful. With revelations that Ms. Warren cashed in on her being 1/32 Cherokee (which may not even be true), here's the latest from the right-osphere:

Learn from Elizabeth Warren.

I think the attacks against Elizabeth Warren, who pretended to be an American Indian to advance her career, are wrong.  To the contrary, she simply did what we all should be doing!  She sabotaged America's racist affirmative action regime, or -- the term I prefer to call it -- America's affirmative apartheid.

She should be our role model.  We should all do the same thing she did and proclaim ourselves members of whichever fashionable list of preferred "minorities" the racists administering affirmative apartheid happen to be promoting this week. ...

The problem has to do with the most common error in social science: the superstitious belief in "natural homogeneity."  This is the ridiculous belief in the axiom holding that, in the absence of discrimination, every single demographic and ethnic group in society should have numerical representation in all things, in all professions and all salary classes, proportionate to their numbers in the population.  Thus, according to this superstition, any departure from perfect numerical homogeneity in "representation" must be due to discrimination.  Never any need actually to document or prove discrimination.  The statistical disparity is all the proof needed.

Meanwhile ... from Althouse:

Catching up on the news about Elizabeth Warren.

1. "The University of Pennsylvania, where Warren worked from 1987 to 1994, listed her as a minority in a 'Minority Equity Report.'  The report comes after Harvard Law School claimed Warren as a diversity hire in 1996."

2. "There is nothing left of the claim that Elizabeth Warren is 1/32 Cherokee. The documentary sources have been debunked, and the genealogist and genealogical society which originated the story and upon whom the Warren campaign relies are not talking." 

And finally ... Preach it, brother Zo. "Spitting Bull" - love it!

Articles: Elizabeth Warren's Whiter Shade of Pale

Articles: Elizabeth Warren's Whiter Shade of Pale.

The seediness of Elizabeth Warren's claim to be Native American naturally follows from the lockstep leftist demand for "social justice."  The term, in fact, means the opposite of what it purports to: social justice means simply injustice, just like politically correct science is really anti-science.  It has been used by some of the creepiest characters in American politics, like Father Coughlin.

The reason this nonsense persists is because it is, like nearly everything that the left touches, a racket.  It provides payoffs for those types who play along: the brutal cadre; the union thug; the political boss; or, in Warren's case, the academic dilettante. ...

What Elizabeth Warren, who would fit seamlessly into a campus cocktail party or bridge club, did is play the game of social justice simply to benefit herself alone -- to secure a safe and comfortable place in the public sector.  Not only is Elizabeth Warren just white, but in the words of the old Procul Harem song, she is "a whiter shade of pale."

Trayvon Martin: Just Another Leftist Pawn

As a father, I weep for the parents of Trayvon Martin and can't even imagine what they are going through right now.

But as an American citizen and human being, I am appalled by what the Left has done with this tragic shooting. The lies being spread by black "leaders," the pandering by President Hope&Change, the hate being spread by Obama's friends the New Black Panthers and the unabashed refusal of Obama's (in)Justice Department to do one damn thing about it. Websites dedicated to finding and killing a private citizen, George Zimmerman. The tweeting of said private citizen's (wrong!) addresses by Obama-connected Hollywood celebrities. The error-filled reporting, doctored photos, and deliberate editing of 9-1-1 tapes by the mainstream media.

Actual photo                            MSM's photo

The rash of stores being ransacked, yet more Occupy destruction, and violent attacks by blacks against non-blacks all around the country after this story went national.

I am just appalled.

Do not think for one second that President Hope&Change, the professional race hustlers Jackson and Sharpton, the opportunistic clowns in the Black Congressional Caucus, or the hateful Hollywood Left like Spike Lee give one rat's ass about Trayvon Martin. The only reason his death made national news -- a whole month after his shooting, by the way -- is because he has exactly the same thing in common with Sandra Fluke. And Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. And Debbie Bosanek (Who? I know, right?). And Crystal Mangum (Who? I know, right?). And that is: they are pawns. They are pawns used simply to score political points and to advance their political agenda.

The Left claims that Trayvon Martin is a victim of persistent white racism (even though the shooter George Zimmerman was half Hispanic, half white) and that blacks are being "hunted down like dogs". Despite substantiation that emotion-based claim, thousands have taken to the streets and even to the floor of Congress in hoodies to stand in solidarity with this purported victim of white racism!

But what of the thousands of blacks who are killed by other blacks and minorities every year? 

Rich Lowry at National Review Online spells out the Martin shooting issue well:

The Murders That Don’t Count 
In America, the lives of young black people are cheap, unless they happen to fit the right agenda.

Everything about the Trayvon Martin case is a matter of contention. About this, though, there should be no doubt: If Martin had been shot by a black classmate, if he had been caught in a random crossfire, if he had looked at a gang member the wrong way, his death would have been relegated to the back pages of the local newspaper. Not a cause, not even a curiosity: Just another dead young black man. Nothing to see here. Please, move on.

Jesse Jackson is right that “blacks are under attack.” According to a 2005 FBI report, blacks accounted for 13 percent of the population and 49 percent of all homicide victims. In 93 percent of the cases, the killer was black. Half of the victims were ages 17 to 29. That works out to 4,000 murders of young blacks in one year, overwhelmingly at the hands of other blacks. In the communities where these killings occur there is, to put it in Jackson’s inimitable terms, no justice and no peace.

There is no comparable epidemic of half-Hispanic neighborhood-watch volunteers like George Zimmerman shooting young black men. Nor is there an epidemic of cops doing the same. Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute notes that in New York City, there were nine civilian victims of police gunfire last year, whereas there were “several hundred black homicide victims in the city, almost all shot by other blacks or Hispanics, none of them given substantial press coverage.”

An allegedly racially motivated killing, though, gins up the outrage machine in a way the routine murder of young blacks doesn’t. Cable-TV outlets get to host fiery debates. Chin-stroking commentators get to urge more “dialogue.” Black leaders get to relive the glory of a civil-rights cause that won its major victories decades ago when it took real courage to be on the front lines. And everybody gets to evade the intraracial mayhem that blights the country’s inner cities.

An injustice may well have been done in the handling of the Martin shooting, but let’s not fool ourselves. Zimmerman could be arrested, convicted, and hanged tomorrow, and it will have no effect on the lives of young black people in communities beset by social disorder. Whatever happens to Zimmerman, the drip-drip of spilled blood will continue, all but ignored except in the police blotter. In America, the lives of young black people are cheap, unless they happen to fit the right agenda.

One such example of a minority victim unusable as Leftist political fodder is Aliyah Shell, age 6. She was killed St. Patrick's Day weekend while sitting on her Chicago porch with her grandmother, caught in the crossfire of a gang shooting. The Chicago Tribune writes:

From Jan. 1 through Sunday [Mar. 18], homicides soared 42 percent, to 94 from 66 a year earlier, according to a police spokeswoman. ... That continues a troubling trend that started in the last quarter of 2011. Police say gangs are to blame for much of the violence, including Aliyah's killing.

This leaves blogger Doug Ross to wonder:

So where are the professional race-baiters like Al "Not So" Sharpton and Jesse Jerkson? Where is MSNBS, ABS, CBS and NBS Nightly News? Where are the New Black Panthers and the other thugs seeking to profit from Trayvon Martin's death?

They don't give a crap about Aliyah Shell, or the hundreds of others killed and wounded every year in Obama's hometown of Chicago.

No, they care only about fomenting hatred, division and dissent.

P.J. Salvatore at Breitbart.com picks it up from there, arguing that the exploitation of Trayvon Martin's death by the Left has all the familiar political motives:

“If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.” 

Why? Why would the president weigh in on this specific case at this specific time? 

It’s not about wrong or right. It’s not about justice. It’s not about Trayvon Martin.  

“The despair is there; now it’s up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.”- Saul Alinsky

An interesting quote to consider, from the man who shaped the minds of those who shaped President Obama.

Now consider Obama’s former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s notorious statement: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” 

The meaning is the same. It is calculating and it is dangerous, part of a bigger picture--a multi-faceted war to divide America for the sole purpose of securing Obama's re-election and subsequent radical social change. 

Look at the contrived conflicts on the left wing's political chessboard:

Move 1   Occupy Wall Street: the (self-appointed) 99% versus the 1% 

Move 2   Contraceptive/abortifacient mandates: government versus religion

Move 3   Sandra Fluke: women versus conservatives (supposedly)

And now…

Move 4   Trayvon Martin: black versus "white" (so-called)

This is not complicated. President Obama is organizing. It’s that simple, and it’s straight out of the radical playbook:

“Once you organize people, they’ll keep advancing from issue to issue toward the ultimate objective: people power. We’ll not only give them a cause, we’ll make life goddamn exciting for them again — life instead of existence. We’ll turn them on...” – Saul Alinsky

This is not about Trayvon Martin. This is about divide and conquer. Hope and Change has been replaced with Us vs. Them. This about pitting Americans against Americans.

Yup.

Interestingly, all the people I mentioned above -- Martin, Fluke, Bosanek, etc. -- are extremely flawed specimens in the Left's utopian tinkering with America. Every one of their stories concocted and promulgated by the Left -- including our own preisdent! -- false apart after just a mere examination of the actual facts.

But the Left is allergic to facts. Facts prevent them from "fundamentally transforming" America, as one particular president has put it. So they use these "victims" all the same. The rewrite history just as quickly as history occurs. They point fingers at imaginary culprits (e.g., Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, right-wing Islamophoooobia, right-wing homophoooobia, etc.).

And millions of Americans buy in to their fallacious stories because the Left knows that enough Americans have been dumbed down enough to believe anything they are told.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Trayvon Martin deserved to get shot or even that George Zimmerman is not guilty of a crime! But let's face facts: Despite the attempts of the mainstream media to paint him as a boy scout, he had multiple suspensions from school and was clearly well-steeped in the drug-filled, profanity-laced, sex-abusing, bling-sporting gangsta thug lifestyle that has claimed many a young African-American's life.

This is where we are, folks: A country where blacks are at war with whites, women with men, Muslims vs. non-Muslims, the 99% with the 1%, the uninsured vs. the insured, etc. There is rioting in the streets from Manhattan to Oakland. This is Obama's America. And don't tell me for a second that he does not love this. He and his closest relations have purposely opened up this can of worms. What better way to distract the populace while he and his administration continue to tear down the foundations of this republic bit by precious bit.

Just above P.J Salvatore argued that "Hope and Change has been replaced with Us vs. Them." I disagree: Hope and Change is and has always been Us vs. Them.

Welcome to the future, suckers.

Conversation with a Latino Independent

This morning I had a conversation with an acquaintance from work. Having immigrated here from Costa Rica in the 70's while still in his teens, "Rosario" is the head custodian. While talking politics, he shared some comments on politics and current issues that were contradictory with themselves-- at least to me.

Rosario is the consummate independent. He is extremely opinionated; he's just never hitched his wagon to any political party and looks at each politician and issue in isolation. (For this reason I describe him as an "independent" rather than "moderate" because, as I see it, a moderate is someone who's too uninformed, uncommitted, or indifferent to pick a side of an issue and ultimately jumps on the popular bandwagon.) 

He's voted for George W. Bush, but he also voted for Barack Obama. Understandably, he leans toward candidates whose policies are favorable to Latinos. For whatever reason, he believed the Republican fit that description in 2004, the Democrat in 2008. I can respect that.

If at this point you'd accuse Rosario of being a political chameleon, here's where it get really interesting.

First and foremost, he emphasized he came to the U.S. legally and proudly considers himself an American. He and his wife both work hard, pay their bills on time, and expect not one red cent of welfare from the government. He loathes those who come over here for nothing other than to collect welfare checks, commit crimes, and feed off the system while never integrating themselves or their families in the American system. He speaks fluent English, although with a strong accent, and his young son, who I've met, speaks perfect English as well.

Based on all this, one would think -- as I did -- that Rosario is the type of Latino-American who despises illegal immigrants, supports the efforts of Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and admires politicians like Cuban American Senator Marco Rubio.

Wrong!

Rosario is a strong proponent of the DREAM Act and is disgusted with any politician who opposes it -- especially Marco Rubio. He argued that Rubio doesn't represent him or many Hispanics.

He considers Joe Arpaio an abusive thug and even told me about an instance when he handcuffed a Hispanic woman to her hospital bed while in labor (an incident I couldn't believe happened but it apparently did). 

The last thing Rosario said is the most discouraging of all: While he believes the U.S. is the most humane and civil nation in the world, he believes that whites in America have and still do suffer from a sense of superiority over non-whites. He sees it where he lives; he's the only non-white in his community and senses his white neighbors look at him and his family with suspicion.

So here is a man who is living the American dream for himself and his family. He has the diligence and integrity to come to the U.S. legally, to pull himself up from his bootstraps without taking a dime from the government, and presumably teaching his child the same work ethic. These are Republican ethics. (That's not, of course, to say that Democrats don't behave this way, but it's sure not the way Democrat politicians look for in their electorate).

Yet his recent voting patten and positions on issues are blatantly Democrat.

This isn't the first minority American to exhibit this split personality -- hell, look at many blacks and my fellow American Jews. 

My friend Rosario should be a Republican; he's the type of immigrant that makes America work. But as long as he sees America as a place of "white superiority" and sees opposition to the DREAM Act as inhumane, it seems he's not going to be voting that way for a while.

What could Republicans do to reach out to hard-working proud minority Americans like Rosario?

Some New Vids: The Great One and a Great American

Everyone should watch this video taken at the Reagan Library last Friday. It is Mark Levin at last Friday's book signing -- Levin's last for his latest book "Ameritopia."

There is also this young up-and-coming great American by the name of Kira Davis. She's the one whose "Apology" video went viral last month. Here she is again doing a "Smart Phone Smart Minute". Go get 'em, Kira!

Liberal Racism: Jim Moran (D-VA) Whips Allen West (R-FL)

Michelle Malkin tells the story:

Congressman Jim Moran is an old white Democrat from Virginia who thinks he can judge whether we minority conservatives are acting sufficiently non-white enough. Moran's an inveterate bully, a brawler, a crook and a bigot. And not one of his civility-preaching liberal colleagues has the courage to call him out.

Responding on cable news to GOP Rep. Allen West's blunt criticisms of President Obama this week, Moran derided the retired U.S. Army colonel, who is black, as "not representative of the African-American community." Moran then launched into the kind of tired race-traitor tirade I've heard from progressives of pallor for more than 20 years.

How dare we "people of color" stray from the left's ideological plantation? If we choose personal responsibility over entitlement, capitalism over statism or self-determination over identity politics, presumptuous white liberals appoint themselves spokespeople for our forefathers and deciders of our true destinies. ...

 

Another Black History Month: The Left's Favorite Time of the Year

From the inimitable Lloyd Marcus at AT.

Alas, another Black History Month...or as the left likes to view it, their annual "Opportunity To Exploit Race Month."  It is the month in which liberals attempt to convince us that race relations in America have progressed very little since the days of police unleashing dogs on civil rights activists.

Rather than presenting a balanced, honest look at black history, leftist schoolteachers and the media say America is still racist and whites should feel eternally guilty.  Also included in the left's message is that blacks must continue to vote monolithically for Democrats in order to keep rich white Republican racists at bay.  Yes, for the most part, Black History Month is a propaganda tool of the Democratic party. ...

 

Liberal Media Bias: PBS Caught Cutting Belafonte's Criticism of Obama

The ever-vigilant Brian Maloney at Radio Equalizer noticed that PBS curiously cut Harry Belafonte's anti-Obama rant from last Saturday's re-feed of the Smiley and West Show (Why a taxpayer-funded station has a show featuring two left-wingers ideologically pleasuring each other in their cozy little echo chamber is beyond me, but ...). 

Melanie Morganstern at the Blaze has the story:

Legendary singer Harry Belafonte hasn’t been one to hold back his political opinions: He’s attacked the Tea Party, then-GOP presidential candidate Herman Cainand in July even voiced his dissatisfaction with President Barack Obama, saying Obama lacked courage and vision.

Interviewed recently on the “Smiley & West” radio program — co-hosted by PBS talk show host Tavis Smiley and Princeton University professor Cornel West — Belafonte came down on Obama again, saying the president lacks a “moral compass.”

But as Brian Maloney of the Radio Equalizer pointed out, Belafonte’s comments about Obama, available in full on the “Smiley & West” website, appear to have been edited out when the program was broadcast to its public radio affiliates around the country.

When trying to get an explanation ...

Joe Zefran, the producer of “Smiley & West,” said in a phone interview with The Blaze that the show was edited for time, not to try to cover up Belafonte’s remarks.

There are always two versions of the show, he said: A broadcast version that goes out to affiliate stations that’s limited to 59 minutes, and the longer, unedited version that is posted online and in podcast form.

But, as Morganstern notes, PBS omits Belafonte's offending words in the online transcript of the show. That's certainly not a time constraint issue!

But why cut that segment specifically?

“It was the least interesting part to be honest,” he said. “A lot of people have been saying that [about Obama], Fox News says that every night.”

Ah, that's right, Zefran. Try to deflect by going to Fox News! Nice try. But it's not going to work. Taxpayer-funded PBS is as much an Obama love fest as it ever was. For that reason, a black ultra-liberal criticizing him is very interesting, and your leaving that segment on the cutting-room floor is very suspect.

Meet the F.O.C.ers*: AG Eric Holder's "Disenfranchised Minority Voter" Lie

It's the most ridiculous and uncontroversial issue in the world, but leave it to a liberal/Democrat to make it serious and controversial. According to them, demanding an official picture I.D. to vote "disenfranchises" poor people, particularly poor minorities.

How? No freaking idea.

But this, apparently, is why most Republicans -- nay, most Americans -- believe that voter I.D. is just plain common sense.

Because it is.

Think of all the things you have to do in your lives that require an official photo I.D.: from driving a car to boarding an airplane to renting a video to borrowing a library book to buying a bottle of liquor or pack of cigarettes. I've never heard of a single example of a minority, poor or otherwise, complaining about being barred from any of these activities because access to such I.D.'s were financially or otherwise prohibitive.

Yet for some reason, the notion that engaging in the very important civic activity of voting should require a proper state issued and most likely free (i.e., taxpayer-funded) voter I.D., is raaaacist. Right?

Wrong, according to liberal/Democrats who never waste a moment poisoning an important issue with wholly unsubstantiated claims of discrimination against minorities and other poor people.

As the 2012 presidential election approaches, Eric Holder, arguably the most despicable and politically abusive Attorney General in U.S. history, is playing the worn out race card to prevent states from implementing voter I.D. An editorial in last Friday's WSJ reads in part:

The Obama Administration's re-election mobilization continues: Witness Eric Holder's attempt to play the race card and perhaps twist the law in a campaign against voter identification laws.

In the Attorney General's telling, the movement in the states to require voters to show some ID is a revival of minority disenfranchisement a la Jim Crow. A growing number of minorities, he said in a speech last week, are now worried about "the same disparities, divisions and problems" that beset the country in 1965 and "many Americans, for the first time in their lives . . . now have reason to believe that we are failing to live up" to the promise of democracy for all.

If you haven't heard about this national crisis, perhaps that's because you don't travel in Mr. Holder's political circles. He is merely repeating the howls of groups like the NAACP and the George Soros-funded Brennan Center, which claim without evidence that voter ID laws hurt minorities. ...

Mr. Holder says the Civil Rights Division led by Thomas Perez will review the policies and impartially "apply the law." If that's true, Mr. Perez's job should be easy: In 2005, Justice approved a nearly identical law in Georgia. In 2008's Crawford v. Marion County Election Board, the Supreme Court likewise ruled 6-3 that an Indiana law requiring photo ID at the ballot box was constitutional.

The court's liberal lion, then-Justice John Paul Stevens, wrote for the majority that Indiana's law "is unquestionably relevant to the State's interest in protecting the integrity and reliability of the electoral process." Indiana offered free voter ID cards to all citizens, so the inconvenience of picking up an ID at the Department of Motor Vehicles wasn't an undue burden and was reasonably balanced by the state's interest in reducing fraud, Justice Stevens wrote.

That isn't good enough for Mr. Holder, who says his department's priority is to "expand the franchise." But expand it for whom, exactly? The vast majority of voters already have the necessary photo ID, which they need to get through airport security or register for a grocery-store savings card.

Of course it's not good enough for Holder, or any liberal/Democrat because the whole issue is based on a lie. In other words, they're all F.O.C.

Directly related to this lie about "minority voter suppression" is another thing Democrats are F.O.C. about: Voter fraud. This crime, libs/Dems will tell you, is a Republican tactic. You all remember the Bush-Gore fiasco of 2000, right? How did Bush ultimately win? Republican voter fraud. But that wasn't enough. When Bush won decisively in 2004 against John Kerry, how did the Dems explain that? Republican vote fraud.

Yet, the vast majority of election fraud convictions of recent years has been committed byDemocrats. Just last week four Democrats in New York state pled guilty to voter fraud in a 2009 primary. And the week before that, the chairman of Indiana's Democrat Party resigned as investigations into voter fraud in the 2008 presidential primary got underway. 

And in 2010, Obama's tight buds at ACORN -- i.e., Democrats -- have been convicted in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida, Washington state, and elsewhere.

And need we rehash the way the bitter partisan Democrat Al Franken squeezed his way into the Senate for Minnesota in 2008?

Make no mistake: Democrat opposition to voter I.D. is all because it makes voter fraud significantly more difficult to get away with. And Democrats need fraudulent votes to win elections. They need felons to vote. They need illegal immigrants to vote. They need dead people to vote. And they apparently need Mickey Mouse and Adolf Hitler to vote as well. All the while accusing Republicans of engaging in voter fraud!

So pardon me for saying so, Eric Holder, but you and your race-baiting minions of liberals/Democrats are F.O.C.

*F.O.C. = Full of cr@p (But you probably figured that out by now)

MSNBC analyst: Cain popular with the right because 'he knows his place' [UPDATED 10/31]

Projection: One of the two official Defense Mechanisms of the Democrat Party (the other is Denial).

H/T Rick Moran at the American Thinker blog, via Weekly Standard: The Tea Party likes Herman Cain because he's a black man who knows his place? These are the words of a liberal racist named Karen Finney. She said it on MSWTF to a nodding, approving Martin Bashir.

Moran calls this a perfect example of projection. And he's right. It is racist liberals like Finney, Bashir, Garofalo, Matthews, Olbermann, and the rest of the MSWTF freak show who like blacks who know their place. That's precisely why they don't like Herman Cain.

To the racist Democrat left, the black man's place is stuck in crime-infested ghettos of the city, where poverty and unemployment is rampant and black-on-black crime is abysmally high.

To the racist Democrats, the black man's place is on multigenerational welfare and food stamps. 

To the racist Democrats, the black man's place is on line by the thousands just to get an application -- not actual money but just an application for money!  --  for housing money from the gubmint.

... as well as waiting on line by the thousands to apply for jobs.

To the the racist Democrats, the black man's place is in failed public schools rather than being given Republican-supported vouchers to go to schools of their choice. The current black illiteracy rates are totally fine to the Democrats. Keep 'em stupid, keep 'em controlled, right, you folks at MSWTF?

To the the racist Democrats, the black man's place is in gangs and racist violent organizations like the New Black Panthers, whose president was caught on video engaging in voter intimidation wielding a club at a Philadelphia voting site in 2008 and on another video shouting that "white cracker" babies should be killed.

So as long as black Americans stay on welfare and food stamps, in urban hell-holes where crime is high and blacks are killed by other blacks, where they "graduate" dilapidated public high schools virtually illiterate, where their only hope for relief is standing on line with thousands of other blacks signing up to get money that the government stole from other Americans, to fall in with gangs and violent racist groups.

And vote Democrat. Ninety-freaking-percent of them.

Actually in a way they're right. I like Herman Cain because he does know his place: His place to me is as an upstanding, educated, successful, and patriotic man of good character who has lifted himself up from his bootstraps and went from being dirt poor in the segregated South to being a millionaire.

Herman Cain is has two college degrees. He's held executive corporate positions for three decades. He's been a successful talk show host. And now he's on top of several polls for the GOP presidential nomination. That's a place I like to see any decent American regardless of his color.

Herman Cain was smart enough to escape the Democrat plantation. Racist Democrats like Karen Finney and Martin Bashir will be damned if he gets away with it. So they project their own racism onto the Right by claiming their support for Cain is because he knows his place.

UPDATE 10/31. Columnists and bloggers continue to weigh in:

Bob Beauprez at TownHall informs us that:

Karen Finney is not just any Democrat; she was the spokeswoman for the Democrat National Committee, served in the Clinton White House, was the press secretary for Hillary Clinton's New York Senate race, and is a veteran of four Presidential Campaigns. ...

In her attempt to disparage both Herman Cain and the Republican Party, Finney actually told us volumes about herself and the Democrat Party for which she was the designated singular voice. 

 James Taranto at WSJ's Best of the Web:

Like some others on the left, [Finney] accuses Cain's supporters of backing him because they are racist. That the targets of such a charge would find it offensive is understandable though not interesting. What is interesting is that she made a mind-bogglingly illogical statement on national television, and the host meekly accepted it.

Think about what she said: "I think they like him because they think he's a black man who knows his place." In reality, he is a black man who thinks his place is in the White House. If Herman Cain is "a black man who knows his place," then so is Barack Obama.

 

Liberal/Democrat Racism Toward Herman Cain Already in Full Force

I hear people keep asking if liberals/Democrats really believe the crap they spew daily. For instance, are the Democrat-media complex aware of their hypocrisy as they credit President Hope&Change for the killing of Muammar Qaddafi when several months ago — and remember : this operation was only to take “days, not weeks” — they were dutifully parroting the president’s promise that U.S. troops were not directly involved in the Libyan invasion?

Does President Hope&Change even care what a hypocrite he looks like when, after the Democrat-media complex blamed the likes of Sarah Palin and right-wing radio for creating an air of “incivility,” he goes around the country praising figures who call his ideological opponents “sons of bitches” and “barbarians at the gate,” and voices his support for the hate-filled, violent and destructive Occupy Wall Street?

Does Veep Biden realize what an imbecile he looks like when he accuses Republicans of being responsible for violent crimes and robberies in cities like Flint, Michigan when it has precisely been liberal Democrats like Biden who for 40+ freaking years have enacted policies that have aided and abetted such crimes and coddled their perpetrators?

Does Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid realize what a moron he looks like when he actually states with a straight face that the private sector is doing fine, that it’s the public sector that needs rescuing? (Oh did you hear, this week Washington, D.C. became the nation’s richest city.)

Do the DBF* media realize what blatantly biased Democrat mouthpieces they are when they continue to act as cheerleaders for the hateful, violent, extremist Occupy protests while at the same time smearing the peaceful, patriotic Tea Party as such?

Do the “fleabaggers” attending the Occupy protests realize (or even care) that, if they are truly angry about the state of the economy and unemployment in this country, they are aiming their rage at the wrong targets?

Do the Occupiers realize what hypocrites they are when they are joined by multi-millionaires like Michael Moore, Susan Sarandon, Russell Simmons, and Kanye West? Multi-millionaires

Yes, to be a liberal Democrat means to occupy a world irrevocably divorced from reality and to act like an utter hypocrite.

But while all the above are examples of this, the one that takes the cake is the Democrat-media complex’s treatment of Herman Cain. For seven years now, they have worshiped Barack Hussein Obama like a god and willingly ignored (or openly celebrated) his radical Marxist-socialist past.

And anyone who had the audacity to criticize President Golden Calf, from Rush Limbaugh to the Tea Party, were smeared as hateful racists who “just don’t like a black man in the White House.” The news media like the NY Times and MSNBC still say it. Self-appointed spokespeople for the black community like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton say it. And celebrity blowhards like Jeneane Garofalo, Joy Behar, Harry Belafonte, Morgan Freeman and Samuel L. Jackson say it.

Liberal/Democrats’ Public Enemy #1

So now that Herman Cain is hitting the top of the GOP polls, what do all these wizards of smart have to say? First, political genius Jeneane Garofalo told an approving Keith Olbermann that the Tea Party was supporting Cain simply to hide their racism. Karl Rove, she went on to say, keeps his racism very covert. Which is weird since Rove is an establishment “Beltway” Republican and is most likely not even backing a Tea Party conservative like Cain, just as he was not supporting a Sarah Palin candidacy.

O.K., whatever helps you sleep at night, Jeneane.

But what is the most hypocritical is how the Democrat-media complex are themselves treating Herman Cain. All the racism and condescension and hostility they projected upon Obama’s critics they are now all overtly enacting upon Cain!

On MSNBC Lawrence O’Donnell conducted a thoroughly insulting, abusive and condescending interview with Cain. (To its credit, the left-leaning Atlantic called O’Donnell out on that.)

Even more outrageously, people have called Cain—a black man, mind you—a “bigot” and a “racist.” (Wait, I didn’t think black people could be racists. I’m so confused!) Among those hurling those accusations are the Obama-worshiping NY Times, the Obama-worshiping Time Magazine, and the Obama-worshiping NY Times again.

Democrat strategist Cornell Belcher has even called into question the authenticity of Cain’s blackness, as has Princeton’s most humiliating hire, “Professor” Cornel West and PBS’s affirmative action hire Tavis Smiley. Hugo Chávez’s pal Harry Belafonte has called him a “bad apple” and a “false Negro.”

A nice Yahoo! News contributor even declares that Herman Cain’s existence proves that “minorities can be racist too.” (Isn’t that nice? I wonder where this cupcake was when Obama was palling around with Malik Zulu “Kill Cracker Babies!” Shabbazz and the New Black Panthers. Where is she while Obama’s A.G. Eric Holder has made it the official policy of the DOJ not to pursue cases with black defendants such as the aforementioned New Black Panthers?)

It’s already started, people. Just as Sarah Palin was the target of the most hateful, sexist, misogynist, and violent rhetoric from the Democrat-media complex, so is Herman Cain already getting the “lynch the n*gger” treatment from the same people. And it’s going to get worse and worse.

Just sit back and watch the racism continue to come from the party of slavery, KKK, and Jim Crow from now until 2012. Herman Cain is on a roll and if there’s one thing the Democrat Party can’t stand, it’s a black man who’s left the plantation. If Herman Cain happens to win the GOP nomination and then capture the White House, watch the Democrats expose their hate and racism even more.

Related reading: Cain in the Cross-Hairs (Robert Stacy McCain)

*DBF = Democrat-b*tt-f**king

Liberal Stupid-Ass Comment: D.L. Hughley Tweets Offensive Comments About Herman Cain

Gee, the Hollywood A-(hole) List gets longer and longer and longer. Last Saturday, after The Herminator trounced in the Florida straw poll, pundit George Will said it would make liberals' heads explode. And indeed it has.

First, actor Morgan Freeman -- who, after playing roles like "Crazy" Joe Clark in the movie Lean On Me and other movies that send a wholly Republican message -- bashed the Tea Party as a bunch of racists.

At least the DBF media reported that comment. But there was apparently a Tweet by black actor D.L. Hughley that has stayed under the media radar for an entire week already.

Crystal Wright, who blogs at ConservativeBlackChick.com, writes at the Daily Caller:

Black comedian D.L. Hughley is at it again, making racist and incendiary comments about Republicans. Apparently, Herman Cain’s victory in the GOP Florida straw poll was too much for the liberal-minded Hughley to bear. On September 27, Hughley launched into a stream of demeaning, racially charged tweets about Cain on his Twitter account @RealDLHughley, which his loyal followers responded to in kind. You may remember Hughley’s fleeting CNN talk show was cancelled in 2009 because he said during an interview with former RNC Chairman Michael Steele “the Republican National Convention literally looks like Nazi Germany.”

Literally, Mr. Hughley? They were actually wearing Nazi uniforms and swastika armbands? Were theyliterally marching in goose step and burning books and rounding up Jews and throwing them into cattle cars, Mr. Hughley?

No, of course not. The only thing that made the RNC Convention "literally look like Nazi Germany" as that the attendees were predominantly (but not all) white. For some reason this has become a sin to the mentally deranged left. So, to Dem-wits like Hughley, being white = being a Nazi. He's judging a group of people purely by their skin color. Don't know about you, but that sounds pretty freaking racist to me!

Wright goes on:

Hughley’s tirade against Cain may have gone unnoticed were it not for @blackrepublican tweeting about Hughley’s incendiary commentary. “Herman Cain won the Florida straw poll by a lot! I loved Herman Cain when he played Mr. Gaines on a different World,” Hughley tweeted. This prompted other tweets by Hughley and his followers that implied Cain was an Uncle Tom and not REALLY black because he is a conservative who doesn’t choose to believe in Democrat plantation policies that keep blacks economically oppressed.

Apparently, Hughley was too absorbed in his racist Twitter banter to notice a recent Rasmussen poll that found Cain trailing Obama by just 5% in a hypothetical match-up.

Several tweets later, Hughley wrote:

Here are some other tweets from this genius:

This enticed others to compare Cain to the “original Cream of Wheat,” “Stepin Fetchit” and the “butler in Gone with the Wind” — all of which conjure up demeaning, racist caricatures used during the pre- and post-Civil War era to describe the “dutiful slave.”

It’s shocking that, in the 21st century, blacks would so viciously attack a black man because he didn’t agree with their politics. Martin Luther King Jr. would be horrified because this isn’t the freedom he fought and died for.

Even more surprising is the fact that Hughley hasn’t removed or denounced any of the tweets, particularly the one which makes an offensive reference to Sarah Palin.

Most shocking of all, the liberal media has completely ignored the story. If the shoes were reversed and a white conservative comedian or radio host like Rush Limbaugh authored and incited such offensive commentary about Barack Obama or a black Democrat, the left-wing news media and politicians would be outraged. They’d demand apologies, firings and boycotts. But when a black comedian says racist things about a black Republican, he gets a free pass.

Indeed. In fact, in order to brand Rush and other conservatives as racist, the left has needed to make up racist quotes out of whole cloth and propagate them as fact. That's how morally corrupt the Democrat left has become.

And now, as we are seeing, being black does not protect Herman Cain from racist and offensive comments. Just ask Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

While the liberal establishment is busy protecting the double standard, their policies are doing nothing to create jobs for the 16.7% of blacks and 45.6% of black teens who are unemployed. Instead of mocking black conservatives, maybe it’s time for black liberals to turn their attention to some new ideas. After all, the Democrat hand of government isn’t helping blacks rise up. It’s only keeping them enslaved and dependent on a promise that is never realized.

Amen, sister.

I hope Herman Cain gets the GOP nomination. And I hope more black Americans wake up and realize the shackles their Democrat massas have kept them locked up in all these years. 

Liberal Media Bias: ABC's Racism and Condescension Toward Cain [UPDATED]

If ABC News spoke of Barack Hussein Obama they way they did about Herman Cain, the Democrat-media complex -- ABC included! -- would've crushed them.

But it's true: As Scott Whitlock at NewsBusters reports, John Hendren at ABC News said that "nobody" won Saturday's Florida straw poll (the one where Cain got 37% of the vote). Got that? Herman Cain is a nobody. No one worth noting, not mentioning, not giving credit to.

When he actually called Cain by name, Hendren referred to him as a "pizza baron". Got that also? "Baron" = evil greedy rich guy who you should viscerally hate and want to get even with.

As usual for a DBF* media outlet, only Cain's pizza experience was mentioned. Nothing about him being an executive at Pillsbury or Burger King or president of the National Restaurant Association.

What a condescending piece of sh*t. And racist.

Let me tell you who is a real nobody, Hendren: Barack Hussein Obama is a nobody. Jesse Jackson is a nobody. Al Sharpton is a nobody. The incompetent race-baiting Marxist-socialist Castro-loving members of the Congressional Black Caucus are nobodies. Or they would have been were it not for lib media whores like ABC News giving them years of undeserved legitimacy.

Herman Cain is not a nobody. And when (hopefully) he wins the GOP nomination and ultimately the presidential election against the current nobody president, you will eat crow and I will enjoy watching it.

* DBF = Democrat-butt-f**king

UPDATE: [H/T The American Glob blog]: The Politico apparently thinks Herman Cain is a nobody as well. Look who they omitted from their web page on the GOP race:

Can we call them racists now? Why the hell not?

Liberal Media Bias: Is There Anything the NY Times Gets Right?

It's bad enough NY Times lets editorialists like Paul Krugman rant hypocritically about Republicans being against science, or that Frank (Ain't That) Rich and Moron (oh sorry, Maureen) Dowd have free reign to write their own nonsensical screeds. But the bigger problem is that their news writers also inhabit a fact-deficient leftist bubble. 

Mona Charen has an article out today aptly called "Don't Confuse Us With Facts; We're The New York Times". She writes in part:

An Aug. 31, 2011, story by Al Baker covers a federal judge's ruling that a case challenging the New York Police Department's, NYPD, "stop and frisk" policy can go forward. But the story is so one-sided that it practically topples over as you're reading it.

The suit was brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights, CCR, a leftist outfit that sued Reagan over Grenada and El Salvador, represented performance artist Karen Finley in a suit against the National Endowment for the Arts, represented a Palestinian "immigrant activist," and so forth. The New York Times naturally omits this history. The suit alleges that the NYPD's policy is based "not on reasonable suspicion of individuals but on racial profiling."

The judge (who sounds like she might have done a stint at the CCR during some time in her career), declined to dismiss the case, saying, "This case presents an issue of great public concern. Writ large, that issue is the disproportionate number of African-Americans and Latinos who become entangled in our criminal justice system, as compared to Caucasians." Note the passive voice. Like flies in a spider's web, they become "entangled" in the criminal justice system.

The New York Times' story then duly repeats statistics offered by the CCR's Assistant Legal Director, Christopher Dunn. "In 2010, city officers made more street stops — 601,055 — than in any previous 12-month period." Proving what exactly? The story editorializes: "As a practical matter, the stops display a measurable racial disparity: black and Hispanic people generally represent more than 85 percent of those stopped by the police, though their combined populations make up a small share of the city's racial composition." ...

With the exception of the glancing reference to Kelly's explanation, The New York Times never provides the most relevant statistics regarding minorities and violent crime, which concern not the percentage of blacks or Hispanics in the population, but the percentage of those who commit violent crimes. City Journal's Heather MacDonald supplied them:

"Blacks committed 66 percent of all violent crimes in the first half of 2009 (though they were only 55 percent of all stops and only 23 percent of the city's population). Blacks committed 80 percent of all shootings in the first half of 2009. Together, blacks and Hispanics committed 98 percent of all shootings. Blacks committed nearly 70 percent of all robberies. Whites, by contrast, committed 5 percent of all violent crimes in the first half of 2009, though they are 35 percent of the city's population (and were 10 percent of all stops). They committed 1.8 percent of all shootings and less than 5 percent of all robberies."

So I guess the CCR and its stenographers at the NYT are right: There is a disproportionate amount of blacks and Hispanics being stopped than Caucasians -- Too many whites are being stopped and too few blacks and Hispanics are.

But as liberals whose brains have been smashed in by the PC hammer, they get the facts bass-ackwards.

Kind of how they get it completely bass-ackwards with the tax burden in this country. While the NY Times propagates the Democrat lie that "the rich" pay disproportionately too little income tax at the expense of "the poor", the inconvenient truth is the complete opposite.

And also kind of how they completely get the whole "Islamophobia" thing 180 degrees wrong. While the NY Times propagates the Democrat lie that Muslims in America are experiencing disproportionately high instances of hate crimes, the inconvenient truth is that -- even though virtually every terrorist act in the past decade has been committed or attempted by Muslims -- they have a disproportionately low percentage of bias crimes. It is, rather, American Jews who suffer a proportionately high level of hate crimes, which, in fact, are committed quite regularly by American Muslims. Go figure!)

Notice a trend? If you do, and you happen to be a NY Times subscriber, I would suggest demanding your money back. If only journalistic malpractice was an actionable offense ...

 

Black Workers Discover 'Help' From Washington Often Isn't

From Walter E. Williams, also at Investors.com.

Good intentions motivate most Americans in their support for minimum-wage laws, but for compassionate public policy, one should examine the laws' effect.

That's seen by putting oneself in the place of an employer and asking, "If I must pay $7.25 an hour to no matter whom I hire, does it pay me to hire a worker who's so unfortunate as to have skills that enable him to produce, say, only $4 worth of value an hour?"

Most employers would view hiring such a worker as a losing economic proposition; therefore, a minimum-wage law discriminates against low-skilled workers by reducing employment opportunity. ...

 

More Tea Party Violence and Racism: Milwaukee

Oh wait, that's not the Tea Party. It's Obama-supporting Democrat-voting* public union teacher protesters -- again.

Yes, the Democrat-media complex still smear the Tea Party and anti-Obama conservative Americans as vitriolic and racist, and most recently "the real enemy" who can "go straight to hell." Meanwhile in the real world, actual vitriol and (by the left's own standards) racism occurred at the hands of union protesters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin both Thursday and Friday.

As reported by Milwaukee's local Fox-TV affiliate:

Vandals super glued the locks of several doors and a parking gate at Messmer Preparatory School in Milwaukee. School officials believe the people responsible for the vandalism were protesting the visit of Gov. Scott Walker Friday afternoon.

Gov. Walker was expected to arrive at 1 p.m. to speak to kindergarten and first grade students about reading.

Late Thursday night, school officials were informed that building alarms had been set off. Then, Friday morning, they discovered that nine locks on the property's exterior doors had been sealed with glue. The doors tampered with included a parking gate, several doors to the building and even a church building door.

That was Thursday. Then on Friday, a throng of protesters converged on the school while reviled Republican Governor Scott Walker was inside. The protesters shouted such intolerant things as for the school to get out of their neighborhood (specifically Christians; Messmer is a Catholic school).

This is bone-chilling. Here is a throng of left-wing Democrats intimating children while at school and shouting that they should get out of town. You know what that kind of activity is called? (Used to be at least): Terrorizing. And it's the Tea Party that's compared to the KKK and Jim Crow-era bigots?? Puh-lease!

So, where does the racism part come in? Well, the president and CEO of the Messmer schools, Br. Bob Smith, is black. One of the principals of the three schools (who I don't believe was present at the protest) is also black. And, at least according to these online images -- I couldn't find ethnic data on their website -- most of Messmer's student body are black or another ethnic minority. When Brother Bob came out of the school (as you will see in the video below), he was quite obnoxiously harrassed. (You might say he was given the John Lewis treatment. Hey, who's to say Brother Bob wasn't spat upon by a racist white public union teacher protester?)

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air links to this video below and goes on to explain that Messmer is a “choice school,” it operates outside the clutches of public teacher union and boasts a +85% graduation rate. By alarmingly stark contrast the public school graduation rate of blacks and Hispanics, is 49% and 54%, respectively. No wonder Wisconsin's left-wing Democrats hate this school and seek to demonize and eliminate it!

Bret Healy at Big Government also writes about this protest, saying:

The event was a perfect storm for the unhinged Left: A chance to combine their absolute hatred of the Republican governor with their complete disdain for the nation’s longest running school choice program.

SEIU, AFSCME and Milwaukee Public School officials combined forces with Students for a Democratic Society, self-professed Hippies and others to march, sing, chant and yell at not only the governor, but the students and staff of Messmer Preparatory School.

The Messmer story is inspiring, and one I’ll tell in greater detail here soon. What’s really striking to me is this obnoxious display of thuggery comes onthe heels of the release of the MacIver Educational Choice Census, which shows that throughout Wisconsin, parents are embracing educational options. In Milwaukee, nearly 4 out of 5 children attend a school other than the one geographically assigned to them by the public school bureaucrats.

By the way, other than local Wisconsin affiliates, have any mainstream news media outlets covered this blatant videotaped exhibit of violence, vandalism, and racism? Of course not. It doesn't fit the liberal lie that it's the Tea Party that's violent, destructive and racist and that it's liberals/Democrats who aren't.

Spread stories like this far and wide, dear readers. The real documentable truth is out there; more people just need to see it.

*How do I know these violent protesters were Obama-supporting Democrats? Believe me, I know.

Why I Left Liberalism #16 - They Reward Failure: Hurricane Ray

It's bad enough when MSNBC recently gave race-baiter and violence-inciter Al Sharpton his own show (talk about rewarding failure!). But yesterday when discussing hurricane preparedness, anchor Martin Bashir brings on ... wait for it ... Ray Nagin. For those of you who get your news mostly from the DBF* media, Nagin is the mayor of the long-time Democrat stronghold New Orleans who (1) failed to properly evacuate and protect his citizens during Hurricane Katrina, (2) blamed Bush and Republican "racism" for the federal governments alleged failure to help, and (3) later got reelected by his own stupid electorate -- yes, New Orleans residents, I am calling you stupid. Because you are -- by using typical Democrat race-baiting tactics to divert attention from his own incompetence.

As noted by Jeff Poor at the Daily Caller:

Nagin didn’t deny that he made some errors with Katrina in 2005. But he put much of the blame on New Orleanians themselves:

“Well, I would tell you this, Martin: It was a historic, catastrophic event … “[N]ow that I have had a chance to really go back and take a look, there are a number of things that I think that I could have done better. But in an evacuation situation where a catastrophic storm is approaching, the leader has one responsibility, but also the citizen has a responsibility to heed the warnings and act appropriately.”

So, Nagin goes on to admit he's not exactly the poster child for a government official exhibiting hurricane preparedness. But MSNBC doesn't care about that. All they care about is, just like Al Sharption, he's the right color and is on the right (or, rather, left) side of the spectrum.

The successful need not apply.

*DBF = Democrat-b*tt-f**king

 

Gallup Poll Shows More Blacks Becoming Racist ...

Well, sorta. Ruh-oh! It's not just the general American population President Golden Calf is having problems with. CNS News is reporting on this recent Gallup poll. As ZIP at Weazel Zippers says, "One in five blacks are now racist by the standards put in place by the Democratic party and their MSM lapdogs.":

President Barack Obama’s job approval tied its all-time low among black Americans last week, according to the Gallup poll.

When asked by Gallup in the week of Aug. 8-14 whether they approved of the way Obama was handling his job as president, a record-low 81 percent of blacks surveyed said that they did. Back in the week of Feb. 28-March 6, Obama’s approval among blacks also dropped to as low as 81 percent.

After that, Obama’s approval among black Americans had rebounded to as high as 91 percent in Gallup polling conducted the week of May 9-15 of this year.

As recently as the week of Jan. 10-16, Obama’s approval among blacks was at 94 percent in the Gallup poll ...

Wait, 94 percent of blacks supported Obama at one point? Now that's racist. Clearly more than a fair share were supporting the loser just because of his color.

But I digress ...

 

 

Maybe It Was a 'Love Crime'

From Fred Kopp at American Thinker, on the ridiculousness of "hate crime" laws and the vicious flash mob in Milwaukee:

In the future, when the detritus of American jurisprudence is mined for clues about what went wrong, the advent of hate crimes will rank right up there along with prohibition and affirmative action. A murder is a murder. An assault is an assault. A robbery is a robbery. Each crime must be prosecuted for what it is. Any fatuous "enhancement" because of race, gender, religion, sexual preference, disability, or any other liberal "protected class" serves only to diminish those victims who do not meet such criteria, and falsely elevate those who do. It is a slap in the face to our bedrock principle of "equal justice under law," and a violation of our sacred American contract.

Meanwhile, back at the state fair, Milwaukee police watch as black thugs single out white fair goers to attack. The blood is real, the pain is real, the screams are real, but is it a hate crime or not? WHO CARES? I contend that the blood, the pain and the screams are quite real enough for an arrest. Any manufactured motivation beyond simple criminality cannot accurately be determined, and any attempt to do so is justice denied, or worse.

One hapless Deputy Police Commissioner says, "You can't simply look at the race of the offender and the race of the victim and say it's ethnic intimidation. It may be, but we're not sure. Does it give us pause? Yes, it does."

But that's the wrong question. The question is, "Has a crime been committed?" No pause is necessary. There should be an immediate arrest. The commissioner has been unfairly saddled with a vague, unenforceable pseudo-legal concept that should be none of his concern. His job is to acknowledge that a crime has occurred and to make an arrest. It should not include psychoanalyzing some underlying, totally subjective, social excuse for bad behavior.

Liberals would have us believe otherwise. They find hate in everything. In fact, they love hate. They think that they are doing us all a favor by tacking on enhanced penalties for criminals who, they determine, have some mythical axe to grind against their victims because they are, in some slight way, "different." If I were asked to dream up a narrative more ridiculous, I'm sure that I could not. ...

 

Here's Stimulus Money Well Spent ...

As usual, WSJ's James Taranto hits one out of the park:

Remember the "stimulus," or, as it was officially titled, the Recovery Act of 2009? It was President Obama's first major legislative initiative, enacted the month after he took office with only Democratic votes in the House and just three Republicans in the Senate (one of whom was a Democrat by that summer). The price tag was huge, some $800 billion, or 50 times the size (in nominal terms) of the stimulus Bill Clinton proposed at the outset of his presidency. Congress killed the $16 billion Clinton stimulus because it was too expensive.

Unemployment that January was 7.6%, and Obama's economic advisers warned that it could rise as high as 8% without the stimulus. With the stimulus, it rose as high as 10.2% in October 2009. Last month's rate was 9.2%, still 1.2 points higher than the level the stimulus was supposed to prevent us from ever reaching. By contrast, in January 1993 unemployment was 7.3%. Without the Clinton stimulus, it had declined to 6.5% by the end of that year.

Oh well, at least school janitors in Nebraska have "diversity manuals," as the Omaha World-Herald reports:

The Omaha Public Schools used more than $130,000 in federal stimulus dollars to buy each teacher, administrator and staff member a manual on how to become more culturally sensitive. . . .

The authors assert that American government and institutions create advantages that "channel wealth and power to white people," that color-blindness will not end racism and that educators should "take action for social justice."

The book says that teachers should acknowledge historical systemic oppression in schools, including racism, sexism, homophobia and "ableism," defined by the authors as discrimination or prejudice against people with disabilities. . . .

The Omaha school board approved buying 8,000 copies of the book--one for every employee, including members of the custodial staff--in April.

Your tax dollars at work! Or rather, your tax dollars will be at work for years paying the interest on the money the federal government borrowed from the Chinese to pay Omaha's diversity-manual bill.

Now, one might reasonably object that this is but an anecdote. The law of averages makes it a certainty that some of the stimulus money found its way to less utterly appalling uses than this one. What it didn't do, however, was accomplish its stated objective: keeping unemployment from rising above 8%. ...

It's a common refrain among those who lust to increase government's size and power: Every failed measure justifies more of the same. Poverty programs make it harder to escape poverty? We need more poverty programs! Racial preferences heighten racial division? We need more racial preferences! And a diversity manual for every janitor in the country! When ObamaCare ends up driving the costs of medicine up and the quality and availability down, you can bet the people who created that monstrosity will claim it failed only because it didn't go far enough.

Let's generalize this into the First Rule of Liberalism: Government failure always justifies more government. As Obama said today, complaining about Republican pressure to cut spending: "I'd rather be talking about stuff that everybody welcomes--like new programs." Fortunately for the country, the voters don't always agree.

Fortunately is correct. The 2012 elections can't come soon enough.