[Peace-discuss] Frank Rich calls "left-liberals" racists

[C. G. Estabrook]

Incredible. I couldn't have written that even as a parody of the 
all-our-enemies-are-just-racists line.


On 4/4/10 11:46 AM, David Green wrote:
> Frank Rich, the barometer of the liberal denial of issues of economy and
> class, in today's NYT:
>
> Last week, after I wrote about the role race plays
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/opinion/28rich.html> in some of the
> apocalyptic right-wing hysteria about the health care bill, a friend who
> is a prominent liberal Obama supporter sent me an e-mail flipping my
> point. He theorized that race also plays a role in “the often angry and
> intemperate talk” he has been hearing from “left-liberal friends for the
> past many months about what a failure and a disappointment” the
> president has been. In his view, “Obama never said anything, while
> running, to give anyone the idea” that he was other than a “deliberate,
> compromise-seeking bipartisan moderate.” My friend wondered if white
> liberals who voted for Obama expected a “sweeping Republicans-be-damned
> kind of agenda” in part — and he emphasized “in part!” — because “*they
> expect a black guy to be intemperate, impetuous, impatient*” rather than
> “measured, deliberate, patient.”
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/opinion/04rich.html?hp

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