Quarantine 2008 has ended
Fair warning: possibly graphic post and not for the squeamish. So it all started Friday night. Wife and I had a long day (as usual) and had finally finished with dishes, laundry and the rest of the normal daily grind. The baby had been fussy most of the day and had spit up here and there. Mostly we thought it had been switching from formula to milk which can sometimes cause this type of thing. By the time kid #4 rolls around you tend to let these things slide. If this were #1 we'd have called in a medivac at the first sign of vomiting in a 1 year old. He finally calmed down and we got him off to sleep. We watched a bit of The Wire and retired (very) late. About 10 minutes later #2 wakes up crying complaining of a stomach ache. I ask if he has to go to the bathroom and he says no, it's not that. His stomach really hurts. OK, into my bed and I'll get the heating pad for a bit. We get him settled and he calms down. Knowing that he tends towards the dramatic, I s...
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One wonders what they would have to show in response.
It's not that they're objectifying white people, but that Obama's people are trying to show he has white support to keep him from being branded as the "black" candidate." We were in a similar siutation in 1996, when I was running the campaign of a white Republican against the first black mayor of Wilmington. We certainly made no appeals based on race, but through no fault of our own, we were stuck with a racially divided electorate. To show that we weren't appealing just to white voters (despite what the News-Journal claimed, even after we complained to them multiple times about their stating that), we made a definite effort to put our black supporters front and center. (We even held off on announcing our "Democrats for..." until we could find a black person willing to put their name as a member of the leadership team. We had plenty of black Democrat support, but many were afraid to put their name out publicly.)
That's all that Obama is trying to do here: show that he has white support, which is factually true. It's about controlling the message and images the campaign is displaying. Race is a means to that end in this case, not an end in itself and therefore not objectionable, in my opinion.