The Pandercrat Debate

The Democratic debate was held last night at Howard University. I didn't watch the debate, but for all accounts I've read and heard it wasn't much of a debate, with the candidates falling over each other to please the crowd and gain the whoops of approval from the spirited audience, or as the Washington Post more charitably phrased it, they "aggressively sought to outmuscle one another on the topics of race and poverty and derided yesterday's Supreme Court decision banning most affirmative action in public schools."

Barack Obama might have gotten second runner-up for the Preposterous Pander award when he denounced the Supreme Court's decision yesterday by citing Brown v. Board and other precedents: "If it were not for them, I wouldn't be standing here." There probably aren't too many black men in America more unaffected by Brown than Obama, having grown up in multi-racial Hawaii and Indonesia and raised by his white mother and white grandparents. Sure, maybe he wouldn't have gotten into Harvard with his unspectacular credentials, but he would have gone to a decent school which surely would not have held him back. This is another in his general pattern of rank disingenuousness.

But surely the absolute prize for Preposterous Pander goes to Hillary: Let me just put this in perspective: If HIV-AIDS were the leading cause of death of white women between the ages of 25 and 34, there would be an outraged outcry in this country. Wow, you don't get more pandering than that. Of course Hillary's correct, in the same sense that if the illegitimacy rate among white women were 65%, or there were widespread drug abuse among them, there would also be outrage. But there isn't, and AIDS is not one of their leading causes of death. I wonder why Hillary thinks that this is the case? Does Hillary think that AIDS is like the common cold, striking people seemingly at random though in this case only affecting one demographic group? Or perhaps she believes there is a conspiracy and AIDS is a weapon of genocide? Or perhaps she was playing off this fairly widespread myth? Perhaps some hard-hitting interviewer will ask her - Ha!

P.S. - There's a goldmine of material in this debate for the eventual Republican nominee to use to his advantage if he had the balls, though he'll probably leave it to some sleazy 501c group to exploit, being the coward he no doubt will be.