Above All Else, Irony

Mike Huckabee did it as a joke.  An unfunny, ill-advised, sick, racist joke but still, he claims it was a joke.  Hillary Clinton says she was using it as a time line statement to justify her staying in a race she has already lost.  The references to assassination should not have come from any politician regarded as astute yet, within a day or two of each other, two of our candidates for president of the nation have made just such a reference. 

Republicanism isn't funny.  Sure it is frustrating, annoying, deceptive, and several other unflattering adjectives but, funny just isn't one of them.  A reference to the possible lynching of a black presidential candidate made to a gathering of paranoid, xenophobic racists is particularly not funny.

Unfortunately, all to frequently the path democraticism takes to funny goes right through irony.  In my experience of direct conversations as well as what I have overheard and read, Hillary is hated and feared by the Reich-wing above all else.  I don't know why and efforts to explain it to me haven't clarified shit but, it is so.  Given the attitude of that wing of American politics toward her, it seems incredibly unlikely that any plan to eliminate Obama by assassination would be timed so as to help Hillary Clinton an any way.  And there indeed is the irony.  As long as Hillary is his presumed replacement, Obama is likely safe from any organized attack.  (One can never discount possible actions from individual psychos.) 

Irony is tough.

CAFKIA

Comments

[Tom]

Yeah, strange there are not more "references" to the "assassinations" perpetrated by our military, to the tune of half a million or so. Notice how the right wing has seemed to give Obama a free pass to this point, and wonder: is he really the candidate most desired by the elite? If you were designing the ultimate subverter for this election, it would be someone who talks in empty phrases like Bush, but wears the hat of a 'crat; someone who may have roused a little rabble in days past, but those days are waaay past; and someone who, because of the color of his skin, will stir fear in the bleeding hearts of any who might want to question him. Hillary is feared because she has a mind of her own, and as a woman, is less controllable. (No prostitute scandals like Spitzer with which to blackmail her.) Obama is liked because the common fools are scared to challenge him, and because the elite know he is their staunch ally.

[CAFKIA]

You are loving the insults aren't you. So a black man can't possibly be an independent thinker? You mean, not like a white woman. Did I get that about right?

Hillary's and Barack's written positions vary in small ways. I suppose you think that he always copied off of her test. She is the white one after all, right? And besides, everybody knows you can alwyas control a black, right? Just take away the fried chicken and basketball and he'll do anything they want, right?

Please feel free to come back when you have a logical and defensible position. Until then, please respect the fact that the grownups have actual work to do.

CAFKIA

[deuddersun]

Uh-oh. I like fried chicken and basketball, and I'm, (gulp) white! Does this make me a self-hater?

Hill had many opportunities to champion progressives causes. She could have stood up to Pelosi when Fancy Nancy took impeachment off the table - she didn't.

I don't want to "forgive and forget". I want the Bush Crime Cartel in prison, our Constitution honored, our jobs saved, our fighting men and women out of Iraq, bin Laden killed or captured, our honor as a nation restored. And I believe Obama is best qualified to achieve those goals. Therefore he gets my vote. Pretty simple.

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[CAFKIA]

See??? See how that works?? You have a reason for believing or supporting one over another and you can support it or defend it or whatever. Unless, your position is indefensible. Never mind then.

CAFKIA