The American Spectator

p> VERY SPECIAL INTERESTS br> Re: George Neumayr’s The Dirty Secret of Identity Politics : /p>

Boffo! Another one goes over the fence and out of the park for Mr. Neumayr. For at least fifteen years (and probably more) I have been telling everyone who will listen that the “Party of special interests” is not the Republican Party, but rather, the Democratic Party. These tap-dancers in the Donkey Kong set have been balancing their pandering among Blacks, Gays, Hispanics, Attorneys, enviro-wackos, et cetera, for at least that long, if not much longer. Now we have Mr. Obama awakening to the trumpeting of Reverend Wright, proud new owner of a 1.6 million dollar mansion.

p>Betraying my low comedic background, I am reminded of the old Three Stooges gag in which Moe tells Larry and Curley to “Get the tools,” to which they respond, “What tools?” Moe then tells them, “The same tool we’ve been using for the past twenty years,” and Curley says, “Oh, those tools!” For a Harvard educated lawyer, U.S. Senator, and college professor, this guy is not too swift when it comes to processing information that he hears. I guess he has that in common with Curley Howard. br> — Joseph Baum br> Garrettsville, Ohio /p>

The Democrats who buy into identity politics are phonies. The major difference between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is that Clinton is a genuine phony and Obama is a fake phony. She believes everything she says, even when she lies. He’s nothing more than a cynical calculator who gambled on an oblivious media keeping all of his skeletons closet-bound.

p>Obama has ostensibly dissolved a twenty-year friendship because he “suddenly” realized the Rev. Wright is an unhinged bigot? Two weeks after saying he could no more disown him than the “black community itself?” No one but the Kool-aid drinkers are buying that one, Senator. Democrats richly deserve having to choose between these two. br> —