Political Humor

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Sen. Barack Obama (D) Illinois, and leading Democrat Party Presidential hopeful has been plagued throughout his short career by assertions that he may not be black enough. Half black, half white, Obama is hoping to be half of all things to a little more than half of all voters come this November.

Born to a mixed racial couple, young Barack was raised by his white mother and all but White Supremacist grandmother – who in a recent speech on race relations, he threw under the bus of Political Expediency.

His early life was one of mostly white schools and neighborhoods, and he had little contact with the Black Community. Sometime during these seminal years, Barrack began to feel that he was a black man trapped in a half white body. But it wasn’t until he got to college, that he applied the Black Face make-up – made famous in the early 1900 by famed actor, comedian, and singer Al Jolson.

In the 1927 film The Jazz Singer, Jolson – a Jewish immigrant – once again portrayed his Black Face character that he had made famous. Many have speculated that this was his way of fighting against racial bigotry and attempting to unite the country, much the same way Senator Obama has done by uniting the Democrat party along with his good friend, – the white – Sen. Hillary Clinton (D) New York.

In a side note, Jolson supported the conservative Calvin Coolidge in the 1924 presidential race, where as most other Jewish performers supported the losing liberal candidate, John Williams Davis, showing that the times have changed little in the entertainment field.

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Being a resident of New Hampshire, I got to vote in the primary Tuesday and I was a witness to the shocking win by Hillary. When you are done groaning, I will continue.

The pundits will tell you that Clinton beat the spread on the contest due to polling too soon or experts unwisely thinking momentum means anything.

She won because people seem to be really divided between her and Obama. It is just as wide-open on the red side as well. This is what happens when our society continues to churn out lukewarm Presidential candidates.

But the predictions were off in Iowa too. Either someone on the polling end is fudging the numbers, Gallup and Zogby are now using global warming computer models to forecast elections, or there is something else in play.

During my time in college, fraternities and sororities were just getting started. It was the job of the Greek Council, the governing body of fraternities and sororities on campus, to determine and vote on recognition, thus clearing a path to establishment of a chapter.

One of the groups wanting to start a sorority was a friend of ours so we helped lobby the others on their behalf. Being my guild’s rep on the Council, I asked the other reps who they were voting for.

We went back to our friends with the assurance of recognition. I heard nothing but yeses. What I didn’t know was that each rep was not really being truthful, they were being nice.

When it came time to vote, every single one of the sororities cast a nay ballot. That bothered me. I get it that each of them have the right to vote as their group wants, but don’t tell me one thing and do another.

It bothered me so much I used my position on the school newspaper to write a scathing op-ed piece calling them all out. That got me in a lot of trouble because it was in my Greek section, not the op-ed pages. But the papers flew off the shelf that day; that is for sure.

I learned early on in life that polls look the way they do because the people being asked the questions want to make themselves look like they are doing the right thing.

Or in this case, they want to be nice and say they will vote for a black man or a person who is a Mormon. Political correctness however stops at the polling booth curtain. The real tally, not the Gallup one is how America really thinks.

Chris Cameron is a weekly guest writer for Radioactive Liberty. Visit Angry Seafood for more of his odd and usually-funny writing.

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