{"id":6484,"date":"2008-10-17T14:46:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T22:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=6484"},"modified":"2008-10-17T14:46:11","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T22:46:11","slug":"is-obama-a-victim-of-white-republican-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=6484","title":{"rendered":"Is Obama A Victim Of White Republican Racism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/10\/16\/AR2008101603182.html?hpid=opinionsbox1\">Charles Krauthammer writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Let me get this straight. A couple of agitated yahoos in a rally of thousands yell something offensive and incendiary, and John McCain and Sarah Palin are not just guilty by association &#8212; with total strangers, mind you &#8212; but worse: guilty according to the New York Times of &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/08\/opinion\/08wed1.html\" target=\"\">race-baiting and xenophobia<\/a>.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>But should you bring up Barack Obama&#8217;s real associations &#8212; 20 years with Jeremiah Wright, working on two foundations and distributing money with William Ayers, citing the raving Michael Pfleger as one who helps him keep his moral compass (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/falsani\/726619,obamafalsani040504.article\" target=\"\">Chicago Sun-Times, April 2004<\/a>) and the long-standing relationship with the left-wing vote-fraud specialist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acorn.org\/\" target=\"\">ACORN<\/a> &#8212; you have crossed the line into illegitimate guilt by association. Moreover, it is tinged with racism.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that, when John McCain actually heard one of those nasty things said about Obama, he <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/the-trail\/2008\/10\/10\/mccain_asks_his_supporters_to.html\" target=\"\">incurred the boos<\/a> of his own crowd by insisting that Obama is &quot;a decent person . . . that you do not have to be scared [of] as president&quot; makes no difference. It surely did not stop John Lewis from <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/the-trail\/2008\/10\/11\/john_lewis_condemns_gop_campai.html\" target=\"\">comparing<\/a> McCain to George Wallace.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Krauthammer writes: Let me get this straight. A couple of agitated yahoos in a rally of thousands yell something offensive and incendiary, and John McCain and Sarah Palin are not just guilty by association &#8212; with total strangers, mind &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=6484\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11912,36],"tags":[31876,13658,13659,30834,9282,13348],"class_list":["post-6484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-krauthammer","category-race","tag-charles-krauthammer","tag-chicago-sun-times","tag-fraud-specialist","tag-jeremiah-wright","tag-michael-pfleger","tag-william-ayers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6485,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6484\/revisions\/6485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}