Fistful 'o Jokers

I always wondered what would happen if the knee-jerk compulsion of liberals to play the race card ever turned cannibalistic.  I guess now we have our answer: sheer head-scraching incoherence:

Both New York Senator Clinton and her husband, the former president, have engaged in damage control this week after black leaders criticized their comments shortly before the New Hampshire primary last Tuesday.

The senator was quoted as saying King's dream of racial equality was realized only when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, while Bill Clinton said Illinois Senator Obama was telling a "fairy tale" about his opposition to the Iraq war.

Far be it from me to ever come to the defense of the Clintons on anything.  Let me instead suggest that I don't have the foggiest idea what about either Clinton comment was the remotest bit "racially insensitive."  What Mrs. Clinton said was, believe it or not, absolutely spot-on factual; probably a lot more factual than she intended, since by declaring that racial equality was realized in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, she's implicitly acknowledging that Affirmative Action and the whole crazy-quilt of racial preferences and set-asides that have arisen since are both unnecessary and even, yes, racist themselves.  I sure hope the RNC was paying attention and grabs that video clip for near-future use when Her Nib wields her own race cards down the line.

Saying that Dr. King's dream was realized in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in no way minimizes or diminishes the role of him and the civil rights movement in making the CRA possible.  It's fair to say that the CRA wouldn't have happened without MLK, and I can't imagine the Empress was attempting to communicate anything else but that.

As to Sick Willie's "fairy tale" comment, trying to make something racial out of that by cutting and pasting a different context around it is beyond the pale of silliness.  Even sillier is the gusto with which B.O. and Opie Edwards have climbed their moral high horses and launched finger-wagging barrages in Hillary's direction.  If I didn't know better I could almost believe that the whole thing is a sting operation designed to make Senator Clinton look sympathetic to the center-right.  Triangulation, anyone?

I wonder if anyone will be surprised when, several months from now, Rodham and Obama are standing together on stage at the Donk convention, raised hands clasped, and proceed to launch their "If you don't vote for us, you're a racist and a sexist" barnstorming campaign from sea to somnolent sea.

Given the high unlikelihood of that ticket losing in November, I guess I'll have my answer.

UPDATE - More silliness:

As Obama and his wife Michelle walked triumphantly into his victory party following his surprising win over Hillary in the Iowa caucuses, the sound system blared rapper Jay-Z’s song 99 Problems, the Huffington Post reported.

The song contains the lyrics: “I got 99 problems, but a bitch ain’t one.”

I can only shake my head in cynical wonderment.  If a Republican campaign had done that (yeah, yeah, I know, rap music at a GOP event?), the media outrage would be deafening.  Yet I can't help but notice that the Clintonoids haven't said anything about this, even as they've tried to go after B.O.'s alleged childhood drug use.  Maybe that's why they launched into the vicious attacks on Martin Luther King and his spiritual son, Hillary's future manserv....um, vice president.

Whatever.

Well, I guess that settles it.  I've been holding back my ultimate Hillary Clinton update theme, but darn it, if the Generalissimo can use the "b" word, so can I.  Log in to Hard Starboard Radio this Saturday and catch the debut!

UPDATE II: Hear's my [*AHEM*] warmup act: