The American Spectator

br> — Mike Showalter br> Austin, Texas /p>

Based on Jeremy Lott’s article and the opinions of others in the AmSpec blog I wonder whether we watched the same Barack Obama speech. Let me at least reassure you, Jeremy old chap, that while I don’t hate Obama, I now despise him very nearly as much as I despise Bill Clinton. Too bad you find yourself unable to share my feelings.

What I saw was a flat unemotional reading of a speech that seemed to have been written by someone else, although we were assured Barack wrote it himself. There was no passion in his words, only a robotic attempt at nuancing serious concerns.

The message I got was that it’s all our fault — our cruelty to blacks, our unwillingness to treat them as full-fledged citizens, our stubborn refusal to comprehend the way they feel about things. And to top it off, he sacrificed his grandmother on the altar of political correctness. What a man!

Instead of blaming all his troubles and all Jeremiah Wright’s insane rabble rousing on white Americans, he should have included something along these lines: “People of color should remember that while our ancestors were enslaved, the white population sacrificed hundreds of thousands of lives to free us. While we have been mistreated and abused, large numbers of non-black Americans struggled to give us full civil rights. While we have suffered from poverty, millions today pay taxes that go to our welfare in one form or another.”

But that wouldn’t have fit in with his strategy, which is to ride white guilt to the White House, and to raise the specter of racism at every turn.

p>Wise up, Jeremy, this guy is every bit as bad as the rest of those would-be totalitarians on the left — just a lott smoother. br> — Richard Donley br> New Lyme, Ohio