Or lack thereof...
Illinois Democrat Senator Barrack Hussein Obama is, of course, the Media Darling for President this next go ‘round, at least du jour and for the moment.
After six months (years?) of their extended coronation of Hillary Rodham Clinton, they chose to depose her after but one loss -- in Iowa, the Ethanol State.
The Queen is dead, long live the King.
Having won the Iowa caucuses, and having placed second in the New Hampshire primary, Obama is unquestionably a Top Two contender for the Democrat nomination, and is the media's new Donkey heartthrob.
He is a man of inordinately limited experience, but that by no means serves to dampen the enthusiasm and in fact could not matter less to the Jurassic Press charged with providing the information We the People are to use in doing the choosing.
He is, however, a man of much ballyhooed heritage, being the progeny of a black Kenyan father and an Irish mother. Lacking a substantive political past, it appears the Media has chosen to instead focus on his biological one.
Obama is undoubtedly more than happy for the distraction. Though he repeatedly proffers at the inception of his stump speeches, in an attempt at immodest diffusion, that "(t)here is a certain audacity" to his candidacy given his but two year tenure at the Washington trough, anything that serves to divert us from his extraordinarily limited resume, undistinguished in its utterly conventional Liberalism, is just fine by him.
Obama, of course, pretends to be exhausted by the subject, rolling his eyes and sighing as if to say, in Rodney King fashion, "Can we not all just get past this?". But being a rank and file Leftist, Obama actually loves and can not help wading into the racial waters whenever afforded the opportunity, as he was again by Steve Kroft on February 11th 2006's 60 Minutes.
Steve Kroft: "Your mother was white; your father was African. You were raised in a white household. Yet at some point you decided you were black."
Obama: I'm not sure I decided it. Uh, I think, uh, you know, if you - if you look African-American in this society, you're treated as an African-American, uh, and, uh, when you're a child in particular, uh, that is how you begin to identify yourself.
So Obama is not the Decider, even on something as individual and personal, not to mention realistically irrelevant, as his melanin-based classification.
Once this assessment was made for him, however, Obama had no problem settling right in to the racial identity mindset that in no small part led him to the Democrat Party once his fancy late in life lightly turned to politics.
It also must have led him to choose the church he attends when back in his home state. The Trinity United Church of Christ of Chicago is certainly not shy about expressing its immense pride in something over which they had no control; that being its assemblage's skin color.
It revels in it, and from all appearances it is race, rather than God and His worship, for and about which this congregation has been convened.
It exhibits that for some Liberals, even God is of secondary import to ideology, racial or otherwise. It exhibits that for the media, highly questionable matters in a Democrat's life are unworthy of questioning.
Remember this the next time a member of the press excoriates Republican candidate Mitt Romney for the Mormon Church's less than stellar past with respect to race. Obama's house of worship's racial deficiencies exist in the here and now, and remain heretofore unexamined.
So we shall. From Trinity United's About Us page:
We are a congregation which is Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian...
Please note that "Black" comes before "Christian".
Our roots in the Black religious experience and tradition are deep, lasting and permanent.
We are an African people, and remain "true to our native land," the mother continent, the cradle of civilization.
We constantly affirm our trust in God through cultural expression of a Black worship service and ministries which address the Black Community.
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