Barack: black enough?

Out in Amish country it is possible a few lucky souls have escaped the endless coverage of wunderkind Obama, but their ignorance is not to be blamed on the right-wing, which has grasped at the merest of straws (Did you know that his middle name is Zarqawi?) in valiant effort to discredit the young man. Crooks and Liars are peeved:

Crooks and Liars » Ann Coulter, Up To Her Usual Tricks

In reference to Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), Coulter said that "the first black president should be an American black, and a Republican."

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Stanley Crouch in the November 2, 2006, New York Daily News that "Obama did not — does not — share a heritage with the majority of black Americans, who are descendants of plantation slaves."

Dare I note that Coulter's statement, taken as a prediction (and ignoring the "American" part, which one has to learn to silently drop when parsing conservative text), is probably on the money? Young Barak, according to reliable anonymous sources, is not even a black dude. Henry Louis Gates is all the rage these days with his DNA analysis of Oprah's roots. In so doing, the Oprah fanboy has found his own ancestry including white people on more than one line. So, yeah, in that sense, perhaps we have already had a black president? And the Crouch fellow... he makes a class point doesn't he?

Neither Coulter nor her comrades will know truth if it popped out of their Adam's apples, but as the old saying goes, even two broken rights can clock in, every now and then.

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