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Rep. Walsh: Obama Was Only Elected Because He’s An ‘Articulate’ ‘Black Man’


In an interview this week with Slate’s Dave Weigel, Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) confirmed his reputation as a lightning rod for controversy and for being, as Weigel puts it, “the biggest media hound in the freshman class.” In the past week, Walsh has made a number of outrageous statements, most infamously his admonishment that American Jews “aren’t as pro-Israel as they should be.”

But even that seems to pale in comparison to what Walsh tells Weigel — that Barack Obama would not have been elected president if he wasn’t black. Walsh dismisses Obama’s meteoric rise as essentially a form of affirmative action and a manifestation of “white guilt” in which the media was complicit:

“Why was he elected? Again, it comes back to who he was. He was black, he was historic. And there’s nothing racist about this. It is what it is. If he had been a dynamic, white, state senator elected to Congress he wouldn’t have gotten in the game this fast. This is what made him different. That, combined with the fact that your profession”—another friendly tap of the bumper sticker—”not you, but your profession, was just absolutely compliant. They made up their minds early that they were in love with him. They were in love with him because they thought he was a good liberal guy and they were in love with him because he pushed that magical button: a black man who was articulate, liberal, the whole white guilt, all of that.”

Weigel notes that in the six months since he took office, Walsh has made more TV appearances than any other freshman in the House. He’s become a favorite of cable bookers, who can count on him as “a handsome freshman who will say anything.” This latest outburst certainly won’t do anything to dispel that perception

Sometimes if you have a little patience you be surprised at what could happen, to all of the people who said do not loan the car companies one red cent I say HA. Where are the jobs, well despite the republicans they are starting to roll in slowly but steady .     

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I really need not speak too this, sometimes you would think that people would just get over the dumb shit  President Bush dropped the ball he looked left instead of right. I'm not saying the old administration did not do anything it's just what they did was wrong, they never followed though and I firmly believe that was due impart to those around the President at the time with a little too much influence, I'm just saying.     

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My Baby Girl's Post-


When my father writes this blog, as is the norm, the issue of the day is something far-reaching, something that ripples through the American political landscape and possibly, out into the world. Today, I am writing about a national issue that has suddenly struck rather close to home; in particular, has struck me.


A little background may help. We are a black family, and I am a daughter in my last year of university. When I graduate I will have my bachelor’s degree in physics, and may even be the first person of my kind to graduate from my university with that degree. I discuss politics with my parents and friends regularly, as do all of my siblings, and while the mainstream media is just now starting to get the point it became clear to us long ago that the birther issue is one of delegitimization. It is nothing new to us; it is something that black people, African-Americans of every position, social standing, and income level, face continually. I would venture to say that every educated black youth in America knows they will have to work harder to achieve than a white youth with the same credentials, simply because the lingering sentiment that we are ‘less than’.


It is a sad notion, close to 150 years after the Civil War, but one that I was, until this week, prepared to live under. Then I saw this clip from The Last Word, in which a biographer of the President reminds us that this attitude, this certainty that the blacks in this country have neither the mental fortitude nor the linguistic capacity to be equals with whites, is one that has pervaded our society from the time of its very founding. With the publication of the autobiography of one Frederick Douglass, considered now to be a genius, a white man had to write an introduction letter assuring the reader that yes, this man was black. Yes, he has written this book.


Almost two centuries later, the same tactics are in use. Yes, Obama was actually born here. Yes, he did write those autobiographies. Yes, he did get in to a lily-white Ivy League school. Yes, he was a magnificent student – or, at least good enough to become the president of the Harvard Law Review. Whether you agree with his policies or not or some-of-the-time the fact stands that Barack Obama is one of the great legal minds of his generation. It is only the color of his skin that prevents these birthers, these race-baiters, accepting his hard-earned accomplishments.


It is an idea that struck me terribly, and I am not ashamed to admit that I cried thinking of it, as my father and I looked on. Near two hundred YEARS after my ancestors were freed from slavery, I am still, in the eyes of many, ‘less-than’. The idea that someone as brilliant as our President can be treated this way severely damages my hopes for a future in this country; if the president of the HLR is being struck this way, what hope do I have?


My father saw me crying, and I believe it hurt him. He took the time to remind me that yes, I will have to work harder – much harder – to be considered equal in whatever field I choose, but that that is not the end-all and be-all of the conversation. With the same dedication to my craft as the Obamas have shown theirs, I can be anything I choose in the Land of the Free. That doesn't mean I won't meet people like these birthers, these bigots - only that, as ever, someone has paved the way for me, so that I may achieve in this country. That is the strength of our people, those of us that can be called African Americans. No matter how much is put in our way, we can always achieve.

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