Obama Makes White People Smile

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There was a show on ABC, now sadly cancelled, called “Better Off Ted”. It was about office life at a company called “Veridian Dynamics” (a bit like “The Office”), which conceivably made everything under the sun, from child’s toys to military gear. In between the segments of the episode, fake commercials for Veridian Dynamics were aired. On a show whose theme was workplace racism, there was a joke commercial whose tagline was “Diversity: It’s a Word That Makes White People Smile” – it then went into all of this politically correct imagery of all different races working and playing together in harmony, a perfect portrayal of a color-blind world.

Obama has a similar effect: when people look at him, they can feel proud that they elected the first multiracial African-American president. That pride continues even to today, when people polled say that they like him, but dislike his policies. Unfortunately, that pride has come at a price: if we just took a closer look at his ideology, instead of thinking about his race - then maybe we would have made a different choice. However, if you think back, we really didn't have one: its was either the soft socialism of McCain, or the harder socialism of Obama.