On Democrats' Lost Week

It should have been a good week for Democrats. The financial overhaul was signed into law. The extension of unemployment benefits passed. The Democratic Party finally looked like a party that could get things done.

But it didn't turn out that way.

The economic news was smothered by that most American of cacophonies – the race tempest. Add to the noise a scandalized old pol. It felt like the good (or bad) old days. Even the Black Panthers are in the news.

The headline came from the bastion of racy stories – the Agriculture Department. An official was fired for seemingly racist remarks. The White House soon realized these were not racist remarks. Context brought about a presidential mea culpa.

Here we were again. The politically correct police charged a black woman with insensitive words about whites. This was the novel part. The racial roles were reversed. It was ripe irony. Conservatives cried racial grievance. Liberals cried over racial comments taken out of context.

Of course, the tempest is anything but novel. About two years ago, a race spectacle spurred Barack Obama to speak about our tendency to "tackle race only as spectacle." One year ago, the cop and prof scandal brought about the silliest of spectacles – the beer summit.

More at the link at the top.

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Candidate Obama's "race lecture" in Philadelphia accompanied by 8 flags was meant to make him "look" presidential... and it was lip deep.  He is not as in tune with the race thing as he needs to be... or he would have been more sensitive to the issue before tossing his (white) grandma under the bus.  The important thing he needed to convey and still needs to is that it should not take tossing anyone to repair wounds.  [That goes for Breitbart too.]

Yes, the week's accomplishments got totally overshadowed by the Sherrod /race thing created by Breitbart.  Yep, it was triggered by the Tea Party movement and the WH overreacted to it.