In The Blood

A year into Obama's presidency, and people are still playing the foreigner "other" card with such clumsy ham-handedness that not only is it obvious racism, but it's also a dare to do something -- anything -- about it.  Now keep in mind Wesley Pruden is pretty much ironclad in the safety of his position at the Washington Times as opinion editor, and the guy gets paid to write stuff like this about President Obama.

But Mr. Obama, unlike his predecessors, likely knows no better, and many of those around him, true children of the grungy '60s, are contemptuous of custom. Cutting America down to size is what attracts them to "hope" for "change." It's no fault of the president that he has no natural instinct or blood impulse for what the America of "the 57 states" is about. He was sired by a Kenyan father, born to a mother attracted to men of the Third World and reared by grandparents in Hawaii, a paradise far from the American mainstream.

Oh please, there's no point in using 100 words when "The ignorant darkie is a goddamn embarrassment to my white America" will suffice.  You're an editor, you know.  Edit.

So the question is, what will become of Wesley Pruden here, for this new nadir in the field of spittle-flecked invective?

My guess is much like everyone else in the Village who says things like this, nothing.  You thought the racism was bad before?  Wait.  It's only going to get worse the more legislation Obama signs into law, and the closer we get to 2012.

Then again, even Clusterstock thinks Pruden is an asshole.