Ohhhh hyperbole much?

If Bush is Hitler, then the next obvious fallacious liberal rhetorical comparison would be of Barack Obama to Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr. I'll get to that reference later, but here's a great unsubstantiated charge of subliminal racism to hold you over from Alice Walker:

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

If anyone can tell me what the hell that means, please do.

I am a supporter of Barack Obama because I believe he is the right person to lead the United States at this time. He offers a rare opportunity for the country and the world to do better. It is a deep sadness to me that many of my feminist white women friends cannot see him, cannot hear the fresh choices toward movement he offers. That they can believe that millions of Americans choose Obama over Clinton only because he is a man, and black, feels tragic to me.

This is a prime example of liberalism's divide and conquer strategy I mentioned a while back in another post. The irony of that last statement is that the core principle of the column is that Barack is black and that should matter. Here's that great comparison I was talking about:

When I have supported white people, it was because I thought them the best to do the job. If Obama were in any sense mediocre, he would be forgotten by now. He is, in fact, a remarkable human being, not perfect but humanly stunning, like King was and like Mandela is. He is the change America has been trying desperately and for centuries to hide, ignore, kill. The change it must have if we are to convince the rest of the world that we care about people other than our (white) selves.

Let's get some context around King and Mandela. Nelson Mandela fought against Apartheid in South Africa, was placed in prison for it, and King faced much of the same in America, and was put in jail in Birmingham (anyone who's taken an 8th grade English class knows this story). Both men actively participated in civil disobedience. They, right so, thought the laws of the time were unjust and were willing to take the consequences for it. Unless you're a cocaine enthusiast, it's hard to come up with a time in Barack's life where he knowingly broke the law for a just cause. Furthermore, his being black, if anything, has propelled his candidacy, whereas Mandela and King were persecuted for their race. Of course none of this matters if you're a liberal.

King and Mandela were black and were persecuted for it. Obama is black, so he must have been persecuted for it (of course you have to discount his upper-class status and Ivy League credentials for this train of thought to appear logical). Therefore, we must support Obama so the persecution will end.

But wait..... the column gets even more batshit.

I want a grown-up attitude to Cuba, for instance, a country and people I love. I want an end to the war immediately, and I want the soldiers to be encouraged to destroy their weapons and drive themselves out of Iraq. I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the US to cease acting as if they don't understand what is going on. But most of all I want someone with the confidence to talk to anyone, "enemy" or "friend", and this Obama has shown he can do.

Those of us who use the common vernacular have a word for the part I bolded. It's called desertion. If all the soldiers destroy their weapons, the Islamofascists will be shitting their pants with glee, because an unarmed soldier is much easier to kill than one with his weapon held down, because he thinks you're sincere about surrendering. Of course again, she offers absolutely no evidence to support the claim that Obama can or will "talk to anyone."

Her last paragraph is so lewd, I'm going to take a sentence-by-sentence approach to analysis.

We have come a long way, sisters, and we are up to the challenges of our time, one of which is to build alliances based not on race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, sexual preference or gender, but on truth.

If she doesn't want to build alliances on "gender" why does she direct her column at women by using the term, "sisters?"

Even if Obama becomes president, our country is in such ruin it may be beyond his power to lead us to rehabilitation.

Jeremiah Wright: Now including a vagina and feminine touch! The reason unabashed Obama supporters are so dismissive of the Wright controversy is that they share his views, so it's impossible to be outraged.

If he is elected, however, we must, as citizens of the planet, insist on helping him do the best job that can be done; more, we must insist that he demand this of us.

Imagine going in for a job interview, and when asked for documentation to prove American citizenship, you replied, "I'm a citizen of the planet!" You'd be pissing in a cup about three minutes later.