Too Funny

Arrogance?
Condescension?
Paternalism?
The dreaded R word?

Or is it just plain stupidity?

He wants to be the “second black president” and his wife insists on being called an “African American.”

Now, with Mrs. Kerry having been born in Mozambique, she definitely has a point (as I’ve said before), but let’s be real here. How many "African Americans" will see it that way? And is this really the time for this? (To be fair, the Mrs. asserted her proper claim on African American identity long before it was all the rage, so I'll cut her some slack.)

As for the senator, however, can he make any more tin-eared comments? Oh, I guess he can.

Why not go all the way, dude, and let your inner "blackness" show? How about getting tricked-out (pun intended) like Snoop Dogg in the new Starsky and Hutch and tick off every black person from the right of me to the left of Maxine Waters? You can do it. I'm counting on you...

Bro.

(Thanks to Lucianne.com, Michael King and Glenn Reynolds)

Comments

[John]

The arrogance and condescension remind me of Al Gore. I don't know if you remember the first debate between Bush and Gore, and that infernal sniffing Gore engaged in while Bush spoke.

I get the same feeling this time around, Kerry oozes disrespect towards the people, as well as having an air of the presidency being 'his due'.

[MommaBear]

Let's hope he waits until October to self-destruct TOTALLY !!

[Burgertime]

Mozambiquer? Mozambiqan? Mozambiqarian? Mozambiqite? Mozambiquette? Peh...

[Steampress]

So far all the liberal hit & run comments have been only annoying; the polls showing Kerry & Bush neck & neck; this is going to be such a loooong campaign. Your comments help temper the idiocy going on out there. Thanks.

[Emma]

I don't know about the foreign leaders, but the French evening news in France2 (goverment network) refer to Kerry's campaign as "Kerry continues to steamroller his way to the White House".
Yet another reason not to vote for him.

[Mark Shaw]

It gets even better:

"...when Matthew Shepard gets crucified on a fence in Wyoming...
only because he was gay, and Mr. King gets dragged behind a truck
down [in] Texas by chains and his body is mutilated only because
he's gay, I think that's a matter of rights in the United States
of America." -John Kerry, 8 March 2004, Jackson, Mississippi

King. Gay. Uh huh.

What do you suppose our supposedly impartial broadcast media
would have to say about this if the speaker had been Bush?

[Annoying Mike]

I hate the left. I really, really, do. I work at a Big 10 University and we certainly have our share of the Sandalista set. I used to work in the admissions office. My lefty colleagues (all white) were having a hissy fit becasue a student's application listed his race as "African-American" and his picture was "white." "We need to deny his application immediately," my boss huffily said, "he lied about his cultural heritage." I pointed out that he didn't lie. The kid was a resident alien (non-PC term) from Egypt who had been in country just a couple of years. I said it was amazing that he had the grades he did, considering he probably had to simultaneously learn a new language. Besides, Egyptians consider themselves to be part of the Arab and Afican communities of nations. I also pointed out that he could have come from some of the southern communities in Egypt, of non-Caucasian origin, and that I wasn't aware that you could determine a person's "blackness" (more non-PC'ness) by looking at a photo. I added, "do you really believe this kid would willingly deceive us as to his race AND send in a picture?" In any case, he was more African than any American ever born and raised in the USA. We admitted him, and my boss never treated me the same ever again. I guess it's hard to have your own stupid and narrow perspective of the world ridiculed before your own eyes. I guess what pissed her off the most was that I was ex-military and had lived around the world (including Africa) and didn't think or believe as she did.

[Mr. Lion]

How about we just dump him in Vernon or Compton with a "I am the next Black President" sign around his neck?

Now there's a pay-per-view event I'd buy in a heartbeat.

[La Shawn Barber]

Kerry is such an idiot.

[ic]

His wife is African, and he is a Jew, who pretends to be Irish all these years. In Mass, it helps to be an Irish; in New York, it helps to be a Jew; in the rest of the country, it helps to be African. I wonder if he has any Hispanic root in him.

[Noble Eagle]

Kerry as Huggy Bear? Now that's something I'd like to see. I can see his new campaign ad now:

John "Huggy" Kerry: Pimpin' for President!!

[JC]

IC, my Dad always said people would pretend to be black if there was an economic benefit (he was thinking of the reparations debate), but I never would have guessed doing that could help get you elected president, too. Kerry could claim to have some "Cherokee princess" in his family tree, too, and cover all his bases.

[Al Barger]

I think I've got the perfect Kerry campaign theme song that will really, really help him rally the base, courtesy of James Brown: "Say It Loud- I'm Black and I'm Proud."

Perhaps he can throw in a few of those classic black power salutes.

And he can start talking like Bulworth. Oh wait, he's already on that one.

[teal marie]

Good one, Al Barger. Kerry reminds me of Bullworf, too. I keep expecting him to crash into a poll, I mean pole.

[triticale]

We live on the edge of what passes for the ghetto in Milwaukee. I have no trouble saying to my neighbors that we aren't the whitest people they ever met, and they seem to know what I mean. We buy some of our groceries at Lena's Food Market and eat at the Parkview Cafe. I drive a nice, big, older car, I barbecue on the porch, and I dress casually but with style (but not by wearing FUBSE like the suburban kids).

I would never presume to turn that around and claim to be the least bit Black; least of all if I were running for office.

[Greyhawk]

Yo, high five...