Kathleen Parker on Howard Dean

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/oped/chi-0312100181dec10,1,2723665.story?coll=chi-newsopinioncommentary-hed

Of course, she focuses on race, that's what she does, ridicules any positive attention to race realtions.

And her cute little anecdote I bolded is extremely fishy to me. Kathleen has all these little stories and quotes that just so happen to support her intolerant arguments. I wrote her a very polite email asking for more details about this ceremony, including a name and date. Somehow I think this will be difficult to verify, including whether there ever was any ceremony at all.

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But somehow their message doesn't ring quite true. Some Confederate rednecks may be poor, but they tend to be independent-minded and distrustful of government. And though blacks may recall the civil-rights struggle with reverence, they don't necessarily feel the "conservative" oppression their brethren insistently invoke to tempt their votes.


Which reminds me of a ceremony I attended here a few years ago to celebrate Martin Luther King's birthday. When the young black man at the microphone asked if everybody was happy with their lives today, the all-black crowd shouted back: "Yeah!!!!" Whereupon the man shouted back: "Nooooo, you're not happy!"

Dean's truest comment may have been this: "It's time we had a new politics in America--a politics that refuses to pander to our lowest prejudices."

I couldn't agree more.

bumpersticker on the back of his pickup truck. What hypocrisy from one of the biggest panderers in American politics.

...when Democrats do his dirty work for him.