As We Know From the O.J. Simpson Criminal Case,

if the defense has no case at all, and they didn't, they simply played the "race card," which worked in that instance, at least for a time.

The same cynical nonsense is at play with the lamebrained support of Barack Obama despite his lousy record as president. I would go further and say he is the Clarence Thomas of the Democratic Party in that he is proposing policies that are anathema to liberalism or to any group of people who were and are the traditional constituents of the Democratic Party, including African Americans, yet his "race" is supposed to inoculate him from criticism.

As the link points out, Carter and Clinton were NEVER the "darlings" of the "left," what "left" there was left after the 1960s and early 1970s. They were way to the right politically, especially when it came to matters like trade and deregulation. Obama, however, is far, far worse. But at least they made some stabs at being traditional Democrats, and for Clinton, he was victimized an an attempted coup by the right with those ridiculous "scandals." Obama is openly neoliberal, a University of Chicago flunkie, and neoliberals are the enemies of the United States. They are in both political parties, but they have infiltrated the Democratic Party to the point that there really is no fundamental difference between that party and the Republicans on matters of economics, social programs, and foreign policy.

We have a crook to thank for that, Robert Rubin, who should be wearing an orange jumpsuit instead of buying off politicians, putting up puppets as economic advisers, and still getting rich at taxpayers' expense.

But what do I know despite following American politics, which I have followed closely since 1968? I am a filthy racist.

Amazing I can write tripe that is truthful and I don't make a dime from it (not even BlogHer has paid me this year), but this woman writes unabashed horseshit and gets paid for it.