barak obama throws rosa parks under the bus

after the 97,000th time i have heard the same sound bites played, i decided to comment.

barak obama made a rousing speech, in part comparing democrats and republicnas to drivers of a car. he said things like (and i paraphrase here since i am too blond to look up the quote without losing this page): when you want to go forward, you put your car in D. if you put it in R it just takes you backward. now, my complete disdain for all things obama aside, i thought this was all pretty clever. and then he got to- if republicans want to come along with us, they can. they just can't drive- they have to ride IN THE BACK...

wait. inhale. did he just tell republicans to get to the back of the bus? did he just hint that we are second class citizens? in a world where pretty much everyone overreacts to everything, and even neutral statements are interpreted through the lense of oppressive racism, i have not heard one single person comment that obama's rhetoric here sounds eerily similar to old jim crow rearing up his ugly head. (by the way- for a GREAT book on northern migration of sharecroppers as a result of jim crow politics, read the warmth of other suns- wow!!)

anyway, we don't drive off the cliffs obama would like us to die on? got that. we go in a different direction. okay, that too. but we need to move to the back so the oligarchs can rule unobsrtucted? huh? what the heck is he thinking? is this nigerian/indonesian/banana republic politics or is the big 'o' being just a little too condescending for comfort?

for the record, this republican will drive, thank you very much. this R will drive, shoot, pray, and vote as many times as is allowed. because when it comes to unseating a power-hungry unhinged socialist like obama, i'm all about civil rights.

put that in your gas tank, dems.

BB