Criticizing Obama is Racist

Boy, with all the hyperventilating on the Lefty websites, I was expecting much worse than this.

That link is to the North Carolina “attack ad” against Barrack Obama, which incorporates the clip of his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, calling for God to damn America. The New York Times opens its editorial about the ad thus: “Manipulative. Shameful. Race-baiting.” Why?

The assertion that Mr. Obama is “just too extreme for North Carolina” is a clear bid to stir bigotry in a Southern state.

Huh? I’d say it’s more likely a clear bid to stir up stupidity in the Northeast, ’cause it sure as hell did. Last week, it was a Los Angeles Times columnist who claimed that “elitist” is the new racist code word, now the New York Times says we can’t call Obama “extreme” — at least not in the South. Can we call him “extreme” in the Northeast? West? Midwest? Please tell me, New York Times. I am dying to know!

All of this is especially rich coming, as it does, from the crowd that claims they are unjustly branded as anti-Semites every time they criticize Israeli policy (like, say, trying to avoid destruction).

It seems that criticism of Obama is simply off limits. That’s just another good reason to pray he doesn’t become president. As Ann Althouse puts it:

Come on. There is a serious question here about whether Obama is too left wing. We damned well get to talk about it. If you’re going to push us back and call us racists for trying to address an overwhelmingly important political problem with a black candidate for President, then what you are essentially saying is that America is not ready for a black President. And that would be racist. Either we can talk about him vigorously or we can’t. And if we can’t, he shouldn’t be President.

Exactly.

Left-wingers have been whining since 9/11 that they’ve been silenced, or been ostracized, or had their speech chilled, for daring to try to speak out against President Bush. You want chilled speech? Try electing Obama. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

Hat tip: Hot Air.