Posted by
Longplay on Saturday, November 08, 2008 10:05:06 AM
This from the AP article "'Mutts like me' - Obama shows ease discussing race":
'WASHINGTON – It popped out casually, a throwaway line as he talked to reporters about finding the right puppy for his young daughters. But with just three offhanded words in his first news conference as president-elect, Barack Obama reminded everyone how thoroughly different his administration — and inevitably, this country — will be. "Mutts like me" '
"Just popped out"? Yeah, right. Everything Obama does is calculated. I wouldn't be surprised to find the line's in his regular repertoire and that he's used it more than once before.
The title of the article claims that this comment shows Obama is at "ease discussing race". No, it shows that he can't stop discussing and thinking about race. If he were truly "beyond race" he wouldn't have said it. And this context wasn't a "discussion" either.
But, though the author didn't intend it this way, he was correct in saying that this does indeed start to tell us how "thoroughly different" "the country - will be". And not in a good way.