post-racial my ass!

I absolutely disagree with all the people who have been saying that Obama getting elected means that racism in U.S.A. politics is a thing of the past. Take a look at this chart:

http://www.pollster.com/blogs/StateVotebyRace2.php



In Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi - notoriously the worst racist states in the Union - despite the debacle of the Bush Administration, despite the wars, despite the swelling deficits, despite the growing gap between the ultra-rich and the working class, despite $4/gallon gasoline, surging unemployment and wages in decline, Obama still won less than 15% of the white vote there.

Keep in mind that, when comparing average income, these states rank 45th, 46th and 50th, so there was no sensible reason that these white voters should have so strongly preferred the candidate who offered tax cuts to millionaires to the one who offered tax cuts for the working class - on the contrary, in terms of simple economic self-interest they should have been more pro-Obama than the national average.

I can’t see any other way to interpret the results shown on that chart except to conclude that anti-black racism is as vigorously purulent as ever among the pinch-eyed pro-Klan swine who infest these pestholes. And that this country will never be free of their foul influence until they carry their unbending racist fanaticism to their graves.

looking back

I read here that George W. Bush is unhappy about how uncooperative fate has tarnished his legacy.

Do you remember January 2001? Right after Bush and his staff moved in and began "restoring dignity" to the White House, staffers complained to the press that the departing Clintonoids had pried off the "W" keys from the computer keyboards. They complained and complained and complained; the fuss over the insanely trivial issue of the missing "W" keys went on in the media for a solid week.

At that time, the unemployment rate was 3.9%, the Dow was at 10,600, the U.S. Army was currently fighting zero foreign wars, and the Federal budget had a surplus of approximately $100-billion.

If anybody has a right to complain about anything, it will be President-elect Barack Obama, not that horrible malicious fuck-up George W. Bush who has deliberately left him such an unspeakable mess to clean up after. And even this late the Bush Administration is still sabotaging the future President; see, for example, this article about last week's incursion into Syria.

Now there's a nice "welcome" present for the new President: dead U.S. soldiers, killed by the weapons and fighters currently swarming across Syria's now unpatrolled border with Iraq. What was that about "Country First"? Oh yeah: hogwash!

It will take not eight years for America to recover from the malign idiocy of this Administration, but the next twenty years.