Reply #13: No matter what the Democratic nominee does, he will get MSM jeers. Obama can walk on water [View All]

[McCamy Taylor]

and the corporate media is going to come up with the narrative "Obama is a Black Muslim"--in all its varied and provocative meanings.

Does anyone here really think that Al Gore deserved "Gore is a liar" or that Kerry earned The Swiftboat Vets or that Edwards deserves "Edwards is a phony" or that Hillary brought "Hillary is a bitch" upon herself? If you do, then you are incredibly naive.


The corporate media is salivating at the thought of what it can do with superimpositions of Elijah Muhammad and Obama. It is ready to recall horror stories of Black power movements that have died everywhere but in the imaginations of White America.

It will not matter how "safe" Obama makes himself appear, how gentlemanly he acts, how much he neuters himself. If the Republicans nominate anyone besides Huckabee, the corporate media will issue a fatwa against him, and he will be slimed. Anything that either of his fathers did will be fair game. His mother's politics will be fair game, too. By the time the press is done with him, he is going to be Brother Malcolm re-incarnate---Brother Malcolm pre-Mecca.

That is why I worry that he is too much like the all too statesmenlike Gore and Kerry. They would not lower themselves to respond to the ridiculous attack ads---and so the ads hurt them. Is Obama ready to fight back? Or will he worry that in fighting, he risks losing the nonthreatening "can't we all just get along" image that he has worked so hard to cultivate? Will he get on television and show anger when they slander his parents? Anger that Americans can identify with? Or will he worry that his normal anger will make him too polarizing?

He is trying so hard to be the Age of Aquarius candidate, but right now we are in the middle of a friggin' class war, and the Democratic nominee needs to be prepared to fight.