Redefining racism

Bookworm's putting out a new dictionary:

It’s becoming increasingly clear what the Democratic campaign strategy is going to be this election season:  Vote for Obama or you’re a racist. I’m not sure I think too much of this approach to bullying the American electorate into selecting a candidate. Aside from the fact that, if you’re a Republican, it’s always a mistake to let your adversary define you, it also seems to me to free people from certain otherwise laudatory restraints.

As for me, because I’m preemptively being defined as a racist (since I most certainly won’t vote for Obama), I’ve decided to step up to the plate and embrace that definition. From here on in, I’ve got my mantra.

When I vote against Obama on November 4, 2008:

• It won’t be because Obama wants to withdraw from Iraq, which I think will weaken America’s interests beyond repair, it will be because I’m a racist.
• It won’t be because Obama thinks that a nuclear Iran is no threat to the Western World, it will be because I’m a racist.
• It won’t be because I think it’s an incredibly stupid idea for the most powerful nation in the world to approach evil totalitarian dictators as a supplicant, it will be because I’m a racist.
• It won’t be because I hate the idea of a President who will subordinate America’s interests to the UN (as he inevitably will), it will be because I’m a racist.
• It won’t be because Obama has the thinnest resume ever in the history of Presidential candidates, it will be because I’m a racist.
• It won’t be because I think Obama’s Leftist connections (Ayres, Dohrn, Soros, Pfleger, Wright, etc.) show him to be either stupid about or complicit with an agenda antithetical to basic American values, it will be because I’m a racist.
• It won’t be because Obama consistently chooses as advisers people who have opted for the wrong side in the completely binary debate about Israel’s right to exist, it will be because I’m a racist.
• It won’t be because Obama wants to socialize American medicine, which I believe will destroy the high quality of medical care available to most Americans, it will be because I’m a racist.
• It won’t be because Obama wants to gut the military and reduce us to a nation with a big target painted on our collective backside, it will be because I’m a racist.
• It won’t be because Obama wants to gut the Second Amendment and destroy Americans’ Constitutional right to protect themselves from foreign and domestic enemies, it will be because I’m a racist.
• It won’t be because Obama has already announced loud and clear that he will support activist judges who place their “feelings” above the law, it will be because I’m a racist.
• It won’t be because Obama supports judicial decisions creating a right to gay marriage, when I think that decision is one for the voters, it will be because I’m a racist.
• It won’t be because Obama’s announced that he will dramatically increase taxes, putting the slow, inflexible, ill-informed government in charge of what should be a quick-reacting, knowledgeable marketplace, it will be because I’m a racist.
• It won’t be because Obama’s record in the Senate (albeit short and undistinguished) has been so liberal he makes Teddy Kennedy look like a reactionary, it will be because I’m a racist.
• It won’t be because Obama’s an open-borders kind of guy, it will be because I’m a racist.
• It won’t be because Obama has shown himself to be a scarily slow thinker and speaker when released from the teleprompter (which really doesn’t bode well for those cozy private chats with Ahmadinejad, Jong-Il, and Assad), it will be because I’m a racist.
• It won’t be because Obama’s wife clearly loathes America and everything it stands for, despite the fact that she’s done pretty well out of it, it will be because I’m a racist.
• It won’t be because Obama was affiliated for more than 20 years with a church that preached white hatred and began to care only when it looked as if it would affect his campaign, it will be because I’m a racist.
• It won’t be because Obama was good buddies with Tony Rezko, and other sleazy characters (showing again that Obama was complicit or a singularly bad judgment of character), it will be because I’m a racist.
• It won’t be because Obama’s a compulsive liar who clearly thinks we in the public are too stupid to catch up with his lies, it will be because I’m a racist.
• It won’t be because Obama’s campaign has proven to be fly-paper for every two bit troofer and anti-Semite in America, it will be because I’m a racist.
• It won’t be because Obama’s promised already to start down the totalitarian path of purging his predecessors through criminal prosecutions, it will be because I’m a racist.

All things considered, when I think about being a racist as I’ve defined it, not as they have, let me say it loud and let me say it proud:  I am a racist — and, on November 4, 2008, this racist is not voting for Obama.

Hammer meets nail. So, since it's clear that I'm not voting for Obama, I too am, per Bookworm, a racist.

And oh by the way, using very similar logic, I'm probably also a homophobe and a misogynist.

Just saying.

Comments

[Mommynator]

Yep.

Racists. Every last one of us.

[Settembrini]

Settle down. Nobody will accuse you of racism. Just stupidity.

[Mommynator]

Ah, so now delineating a candidate's record and policies is stupid now, instead of just blindly bowing to the new Messiah.

I see.

Makes me wonder who really is stupid.

[Rick]

Settembrini,

Here at Brutally Honest, when people make these kinds of accusations, we ask them to come back and substantiate the charge...

So c'mon back, define stupidity for us... and be substantive about it.

We'll hold our breath in anticipation.

(and yes, he/she posted an e-mail address so I sent he/she this response).

[Locutisprime]

This points directly to how Obama came to be the democratic nominee to begin with. As soon as he won Iowa (which should mean absolutely nothing in contemporary presidential politics), the media train left the station and began targeting as racists, anyone who stepped up to question his credentials or challenge his ascendancy.

Why? Because that's what they do. And the race pimps immediately answered the call.

I won't vote for Barack Obama either. But that doesn't make me either a racist, bigoted or prejudiced. I vetted the man all through the primary process and no matter how many times I shuffled his deck of policies and proposals for this country, I didn't like what I saw laid out as his hand on the table.

I am a realist, an independent thinker and highly judgmental. But I come by my conclusions and opinions based upon knowledge, experience and education.

In any political campaign where you intend to participate and vote? You should educate yourself on the candidates and utilize your experience and judgment to make your choices.

The candidate's history and record and any information that points directly to the individual's character are the primary qualifiers that I examine. You also should examine who they consider friends and why and how those friendships and associations have shaped and molded their thinking, perspectives and politics.

Obama is a socialist and a Euro statist of the first order and the man has demonstrated his lack of character by his associations with the same.

I won't vote for him. Call me a "Obamaphobe" if you like, or stupid if you dare think you know my heart better than I, a racist.

[Rudy]

Well then color me racist! I think I am gonna put that on a t-shirt. And for the record, my parents immigrated from Mexico to the US, and I am first generation American. I am joining the Minutemen since ICE no longer wants to stop the wetbacks. Does that also make me a racist?

[Bernie]

Do not forget that he believes in killing babies. 100% for abortion. I wonder how a Christian can vote for someone who promotes abortion and homosexuality (which is condemned in the Holy Bible)