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This is just a brief comment about the double standard which does exist in our country's battle for the White House. We all know that the Republicans and even Hillary Clinton have used the Reverend Wright story to smear Barack Obama and to question his character. This must be some white republican thing because you aren't hearing anything about John McCain and his endorsement from Hell-Raising, War-Mongering, Pastor John Hagee, who has some pretty nutty/radical views, even for a preacher.
Anyway, let's take a quick look at the Republican's and their bigoted political party. Just a few facts Here from the NYT.
The Clintons and Mr. Obama are always held accountable for their racial stands, as they should be, but the elephant in the room of our politics is rarely acknowledged: In the 21st century, the so-called party of Lincoln does not have a single African-American among its collective 247 senators and representatives in Washington. Yes, there are appointees like Clarence Thomas and Condi Rice, but, as we learned during the Mark Foley scandal, even gay men may hold more G.O.P. positions of power than blacks.
An all-white Congressional delegation doesn’t happen by accident. It’s the legacy of race cards that have been dealt since the birth of the Southern strategy in the Nixon era. No one knows this better than Mr. McCain, whose own adopted daughter of color was the subject of a vicious smear in his party’s South Carolina primary of 2000.
