Smears

The Obama Smear

Posted by ptristam from Pierre Tristam

To Obama’s detractors, whose ranks grow in proportion with his popularity, Barack's middle name, “Hussein,” is a gift, the bait that keeps snagging on just the right smears that, Obama’s race being off limits, can always attach to his Arab-sounding past. It’s guilt by ethnicity, a vague, unspoken coloring that just hangs there, like an unmovable obsidian cloud over an otherwise sunny stretch of Norman Rockwell canvass.

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