The Long View

The Republican Party didn’t get it in the 2008 elections, so there’s no reason to expect that the Grand Old Clueless would get now even when the inauguration of Barck Obama is only weeks away.

 The New York Times reports:

. . . a candidate for party chairman from Tennessee, Chip Saltsman, distributed [as his holiday greeting] the parody ["Barack the Magic Negro" sung to the tune of "Puff the Magic Dragon"], which was broadcast on the Rush Limbaugh radio show last year and questions President-elect Barack Obama’s racial authenticity. Speaking to The Hill newspaper on Friday, Mr. Saltsman, a longtime Republican operative, described it as a “light-hearted” gift that would be received in “good humor” by members of the Republican National Committee.

I thought that Christmas was supposed to be about the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, God Incarnate, especially for Republicans, but apparently I was mistaken. Saltsman must be post-Christian.

As the Times notes: “The dispute illustrates a larger Republican challenge in the months ahead: how to oppose the first black president without seeming antiblack. There are no black Republicans in Congress, and a party spokesman could name only 2 blacks among the 168 members of the national committee.”

Your mother always told you that you are judged by the company you keep and by the jokes you tell.

Judge for yourself.