In yesterdays Washington Post (Outlook Section) there was an article about the possibility of Obama becomin' a Supreme Court justice... Now I'm sure the authors meant well becuase they said alot of flowery things about his background and his knowledge and his temperment and, and, and...

But as I was reading it there was something that was really buggin' me about it and that is...

...even well intentioned people seem to buyin' into this notion that he's not presidential material???

This is just how institutional racism is part of our society... I mean, well intentioned folks sometimes don't realize just how condescending an article like that is... It's like becuase the right has mounted the largest PR campaign since Clinton that alot of folks now have doubts that Obama, who BTW is black, as president...

Think about it this way...

On any given night during the massive right-wing PR campaign during the health care debates Obam would get 15-20 seconds a night on the news, the right-wing, insurance owned politican would get 15-20 seconds on the news and then for the rest of the night it would be one 15-30 second commercial paid for by the insurnce lobby after another... With the average American watching 3 hours of TV per day that left the score card looking somethin like this:

Obama: 15-20 seconds
The Right-Wing: 600 seconds

Hmmmmmmmmmm???

This is what alot of us are talkin' about here about the recent Supreme Court ruling... We allready know that the candidate who spends the most money (from dog catcher to president) wins 90% of the time... The Right-Wing ownes the media... The Right-Wing owns the corpoartions which 80% of the wealth... Hmmmmmmmm???

Maybe after the Right-Wing buys enough Obama-doubters they can get their guy back in as CEO... That is the plan...

So, yeah, I find it very disturbing that even well meaning people have bought into this high $$$ PR attack... But that is just how powerfull the media and medai buys are...

B~