"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast" -Oscar Wilde |
"The liberal soul shall be made fat, and he that watereth, shall be watered also himself." -- Proverbs 11:25 |
Editor, Daily News:
At last, the Democrats’ charade of selecting a presidential candidate is over. The black won!
I remember the days when the question was can a Catholic win the presidency? This game can go on forever — can a Jew, a Muslim, a homosexual, and so on? All great reasons for choosing a president!
There is no question that the show was perfectly orchestrated. With the unpopularity of the Bush administration affecting the Republican Party, it was a good time to try either a black or a woman for the presidency.
The choice of the woman was easy. Hillary Clinton was there — clever, articulate, ambitious and, thanks to her husband’s indiscretions, with excellent name recognition.
The black was more difficult to choose. Although the Democrat elite pretends to support the American blacks, they couldn’t find a presidential candidate among the 34 million descendents of slaves who have been in this country for over 300 years. Never mind they produced people like Barbara Jordan (for whom I voted), Thomas Sowell or Condoleezza Rice.
So they had to bring out Barack Obama, son of a black Kenyan and one of the many young white American girls who, during the 1960s, had a child from a black man as part of their rebellion against American middle-class values (I personally knew a couple of them).
So Obama has the perfect hippie credentials, and in addition is very eloquent and convincing. He only needed introduction to the public, and Hillary Clinton took good care of it.
Georges Pardo, Naples
Especially the kind who would prefer to have certain like-minded specimens of Afrikanerdom down South Africa way among their penfriends, never mind airmail postage costing 94 cents.