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Political cartoon I saw somewhere on the Web last ...

2008-05-14T15:13:00.000-07:00

Political cartoon I saw somewhere on the Web last week:

Obama making a speech. The only thing in his word balloon is "CHANGE! CHANGE! HOPE! CHANGE! CHANGE! HOPE! CHANGE! CHANGE! CHANGE!"

There has been a lot of immigration from the Carib...

2008-05-13T19:13:00.000-07:00

There has been a lot of immigration from the Caribbean, Africa and so forth. I'm sure at least 30% of blacks in this country don't have slave ancestors.

Of course, in the long run, we all have slave ancestors, because I don't remember ever reading about a society that didn't have the custom. Maybe the Eskimos. But you can't expect the US to pay reparations to anyone not enslaved in the US.

Mr. Change means no change. He is part of the Dale...

2008-05-13T09:50:00.000-07:00

Mr. Change means no change. He is part of the Daley machine and very good at voting they way they want him to vote. Good at speechifying, as long as you don't actually read what was said.

I had an interesting thought this morning. You know, Obama is not a descendant of slaves. It should be obvious, but I've not seen it talked about anywhere. Sort of throws a monkey wrench into reparations somehow if we wind up with a black president from that background.