Considering the amount of Republican’t angst about Wes Clark’s remark about his military experience (or lack thereof), I think I can safely predict that they would be somewhat less eager to rationalize the inappropriate comparisons in that case…

As Quaker pointed out, go ahead, compare the two all you want. Knock yourself out. Skin color has nothing whatsoever to do with it.

Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

I turn my back for one weekend and look what a mess you people make.

‘Wingers:

Mr. Norquist could have easily made his point thusly:
“Obama is as liberal as John Kerry.”
“Obama is just this year’s version of John Kerry.”
“Obama is John Kerry 2.0.”
“Obama is John Kerry without the flesh wounds.”
“Obama is John Kerry, 2008 edition.”

Any of those would have served. But where was Mr. Norquist just dying to take us? To skin color, of course. Instead of any of the above, Mr. Norquist gives us, in essence:

Obama is just like John Kerry–and he’s dark!!

Play innocent all you like, but let’s not kid each other. We know exactly what game we’re playing here. Mr. Norquist is seeing just how cleverly he can insinuate race into his comments while leaving himself enough room to deny he’s doing so.

As Farris correctly reminds us, Mr. Obama warned us this would happen. (Yet, oddly, Farris seems to think it’s Mr. Obama who is trafficking in race rhetoric by making a correct prediction about Republican behavior.)

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Wow. You’re a complete idiot, aren’t you?

Let me try this another way: mccann, is Obama’s skin color the way it is because he got a tan or is it because he’s black? Answer me.

Paranoia that bad can be managed under the right anti-psychotic medication. I would suggest you consult a psychiatrist as soon as possible.

On the other hand, if you think blacks have been in a position to discriminate against whites in any meaningful fashion, then you are delusional, which can also be managed by medication.

no such thing as “reverse racism.” There is only racism.

Reverse-racism, or the notion that racism is defined as “whites oppressing blacks,” is something that’s been forced down the throats of too many in society by self-loathing whites from the 60′s in order to create another load of self-loathing whites in this generation and those coming. They need whites to feel bad about things they had nothing to do with in order to get them to vote for dems.

Am I going to hell because I laughed at that?

Since you are defending Norquist’s race-baiting comment regarding Kerry and Obama, I take this sentence as an expression of admiration for the left.

Arriving late, I see others have addressed this most basic point: J mccann, Barack Obama does not have a tan. He’s black. There’s a big, big fucking difference.

Norquist’s statement is as obviously offensive as if he had said, for example, “John Kerry is a Max Cleland who can jog a mile.”

Parthenon: “Are you certain you know what Marxism is?”

Dammit, I was going to ask the exact same question.

Yes. We were pissed off when Clinton’s camp used the specter of racism to hurt Obama’s chances. (“People won’t vote for a black man, so vote fore me instead.”)

The fact that racism doesn’t seem to bug you leads me to believe you are racist.

On the off chance that you’re trying to make a serious point here, yes, this would be racist. Against both.

so long as it’s against a white heterosexual male

I feel compelled to again voice my awe at the ability of white men (usually, but not always, white Christian men) to paint themselves as victims. But no, liberals don’t generally accept racism against white men either, and inasmuch as any of them do, I suspect it has something to do with the fact that white guys are one of the few demographics that haven’t been consistently shit on for the past several centuries.

Please elaborate Marxists.

Are you certain you know what Marxism is? I’m not positive but I’m fairly certain we’re all unabashed capitalists around these parts, although some of us are less eager to return to the unregulated working environments of the early industrial revolution.

“The eight-hour work day was once just a communist plot…”

See: Robert Byrd, Cynthia McKinney, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Maxine Waters, Charles Barron, Louis Farrakhan, Jeremiah Wright, etc…..

The left has a monopoly on race-baiting, that’s for sure.

And now people can’t compare Obama to Kerry without them calling it racist, bla bla bla.

Let me ask you this…..would you be in such a pained liberal tizzy if someone called John Kerry “Barack Obama without a tan,” and would that be racist against Kerry, or Obama.

Please elaborate Marxists.

I humbly suggest that I speak for the majority of humanity here when I say – whether it comes from an American conservative, an American liberal, a British Labour member, a Canadian Tory, an Israeli Likud member, a Chinese Communist or a Japanese Liberal Democrat, yes, racism really ‘bugs’ us.

You didn’t mention any specific examples regarding your ‘whiff of hypocrisy,’ although I’d do what I could to help explain (or, if you’re correct, try to figure out why) if you’d like to do so. Did you mean liberals by ‘you guys,’ or just specifically the liberals on this website? And by hypocrisy, are you suggesting that liberals only point out racist remarks when made by a conservative? If so, do you have some examples of racism that liberals ignored or happily forgave? (Aside from Senator Byrd, that is – try to stick to something a little more current.)