Jack Cafferty: in ultimate denial

Though the scoffing has been very loud, for a very long time those with any contact with American political reality have been certain that any and all opposition to Barak Obama's candidacy would eventually be loudly attributed by the moonbats both in and out of the media to racism. It's the way the brain-dead Left works; it's easier to question the motives of others or to look down their noses at them or to call them nasty names than examine one's own prejudices and presuppositions.

And if Obama loses in November, I have absolutely no doubt that in addition to whining on the basis of no particular evidence that the Republicans have once again supposedly taken a page from the historic Democratic playbook and stolen the election, the loony Left will attribute his defeat to racism. But this piece of garbage by shrill, arrogant CNN leftist Jack Cafferty goes even farther.

McCafferty suggests that racism is the only reasonable explanation for the fact that the clearly less qualified of the two candidates isn't not only ahead, but far ahead!

This is a campaign between a distinguished veteran U.S. senator of legendary integrity whose knowledge of military and foreign policy matters is first-hand and of long standing, on one hand, and a wholly unqualified man who served briefly in a state legislature(!) where his "present" votes on the relatively unusual circumstances when he actually was present are the only thing legendary about him; who has introduced not a single meanful piece of legislation or made a single significant legislative contribution in less than a single term in the U.S. Senate; and whose foreign policy is so flawed that would collapse were he simply to admit the obvious fact that he was wrong about the surge in Iraq, and that- his repeated denials to the contrary- our policy there has indeed succeeded politically in bringing the Iraqis together in a political climate in which they may just succeed in their efforts to build a stable government and a peaceful country.

I suppose it might be possible for somebody with a serious ideological agenda to pick the second guy. But unlike McCafferty, I choose not to call the motivations of those who will be voting the opposite way from the way I plan to vote into question simply because we happen to disagree.

On the other hand, anyone who looks at the choice between John McCain and Barak Obama and claims that racism is the only reason why a majority of the American people at the moment seem to favor the more qualified candidate is either being willfully dishonest, or has lost touch with reality as regards this election even more completely than Barak Obama has lost touch with it as regards Iraq. More than that, he is clearly being malicious. He is, in fact, foaming at the metaphorical mouth!

There is simply no way that a rational human being could honestly believe that only racism can explain the fact that an utterly unqualified candidate is behind in the polls, and a far more deserving one is ahead.