Obama No Miracle

Okay, can we just stop it already? Barack Obama did very well indeed in Iowa last night. Okay, whatever. Oh, by the way, isn't it amazing that all those racist white devils in the evil Midwest actually voted for Obama? I'm being sarcastic. I like Barack Obama. I disagree with 99% of his politics, but I'd love him as a neighbor or coworker. Oh, by the way, the fact that he's a white guy with a black father (oh, did I get that backward?) doesn't factor into anything. He's a person. We're all people. Sure, there are still racist assholes out there. But the listen to leaders of the Democrat Party, particularly those supporting Obama, it's some kind of holy miracle that he pulled it off. Sorry, folks. It's no miracle. It's 2008 and the worst of racism is far, far behind us. It keeps getting better. We've got a lot of work to do. But we're heading in the right direction, and that direction will take us to a place that Martin Luther King dreamed of. That most of us dream of. So the next time you hear somebody marvel that Obama - is he black enough? - pulled off something akin to parting the Red Sea, ask them what the hell they're talking about. If racism was half as bad as racial adversity pimps Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton want you to believe, Barack Obama would never have been elected to the Illinois State Senate, let alone to the U.S. Senate. For that matter, Jackson and Sharpton would have been shut down by now. Obama won in Iowa. Great. Now let's move on and leave race out of this, because it's far less an issue in reality than some politicos would have you think.