The fact is, having one black parent is good enough to make Barack Obama America's first "black president." So what that he didn't know his father? So what that his father bedded and illegally wedded Barack's mother? So what that his father's influence in his life is an after the fact construct for a book ghost written for a future president by a past domestic terrorist? If a person of the general incompetence and sloth of Barack Obama had sought the presidency but had brought to it the pedigree of two Caucasian parents, Hillary Clinton would have been the Democratic nominee in 2008. So, how is it that having a black father that one really never knew is better than having two Caucasian parents?
Because the guy with one black parent he never knew can get away with anything, because the danger is constantly present for his political opponents that confronting the man will be made to be the stuff of racial intimidation.
The Attorney General of the United States told us that, as to matters of race, we are a nation of cowards. No. Not being hyperbolic here, the words were "a nation of cowards."
Well, I suppose I think he's right. We all knew the dangers associated with targeting a man with dark skin for public chastisement and political excoriation as soon as Clarence Thomas uttered the words "high tech lynching of a uppity black man."
So what else explains the refusal of John Boehner to institute impeachment proceedings against Obama?
Is it that Barack Obama has not committed acts justifying impeachment?
No. Without effort, sitting here at my computer, I can identify a dozen or more grounds on which impeachment is justified. Remember that among the key articles of impeachment against Richard M. Nixon was the abuse of using the IRS against political opponents. This Administration's abuse of Tea Party and conservative organizations through the IRS is just the same kind of political abuse that warranted the article of impeachment against Nixon. The naked criminality of destroying and "losing" the hard drives of seven involved IRS computers is self-evident.
Is it that the Republicans in the House would be committing electoral suicide in a year they had hoped to gain House seats, and perhaps control of the Senate?
Well now, that's entirely possible. It is possible that by doing their constitutionally sworn duty they would be risking electoral success in November. I guess I think that it is that very concern that proves the truth of Holder's race cowardice indictment of the Nation. If the things done by Obama had been done by a man with two Caucasian parents, rather than just one, there is little doubt that severe consequences, likely impeachment, would have long since followed.
The thing is, and I do not know the answer to this question, if the standing of the Congress is so very low while it has done so very little to protect this Nation from this Administration, will it cause further damage to impeach the President, or, instead, will impeachment actions by the House lead the People to rise in hope that this long national nightmare is over?
We won't know.
As much as Obama likely despises Clarence Thomas because of the Justice's principled constitutional conservatism, there's little doubt in my mind that the House would have to be prepared to deal with an echo of Thomas' "high tech lynching of an uppity black man" allegation. And, that, my friends, is why I think that Holder, like a broken clock, is proved right.
No principled constitutionalist of my ken thinks that this President cannot be properly made the subject of Articles of Impeachment. Without regard to the wisdom of any particular effort at impeachment, there is no question that the House has the power to impeach, a power sufficiently broad that it might impeach a President for putting mayo on a Reuben. So we are left to the COWARDICE of the Republicans in the House, who, for fear that they might be portrayed as conducting a "high tech lynching" of Obama, are refusing to do their duty.
