I’ve not much cottoned to the idea of “First Irish” or “First Swede” or “First Woman” or “First Black” or “First <stick the tired descriptor here>” no matter what area of life it is. Your ethnicity, your sex, your religion, your skin color….meaningless. It’s what’s inside and the results that count. Prof Sowell has the right of it – voting for someone just because it would be Politically Correct is stupid.
The fact that Obama is half-black is not the reason we are against him – it’s his political stances and his overwhelming urge to change America to be in the Progressive mold. The idea that he should be treated as special simply because of his skin tone, that any criticism of him is racist from the get go is simply the argument of those that really have no argument at all.
And now we’re hearing the same thing about Hillary – the first Woman President! What an achievement that will be!
Er, no, not at all. From my standpoint, it would be just another Progressive who believes that the Proper Role of Government is to turn my idea of Utopia for me a living hell by taking it all away and replacing it, by force, with hers and her pack of lower Progressives. Black / White, Male / Female – makes no difference to me.
What matters is will they use Government to enhance my Freedom (pretty much by dialing it back in cost, reach, regulation, and intrusiveness) or ramp it up such that we live in a “walk around jail” with every little thing proscribed by Law and Decree?
(H/T: Liberal Logic 101)
