Wednesday, August 06, 2008

 

Will Cohen get goin'?

To listen to B. Hussein Obama tell it, he's a candidate who transcends racial and partisan politics. I'm sure to prove that point, Obama went to bat for Georgia U.S. Rep. John Barrow, a conservative Democrat, in his bitterly contested primary election this June. Keeping that in mind, I can only wonder why Obama hasn't done the same for Tennessee's Steve Cohen?

From the day that Cohen (a white guy who represents the majority-black 9th Congressional District) assumed his place in the U.S. House of Representatives, there's been a rather vocal crowd in Memphis who've been out to get 'im because his skin isn't sufficiently dark. Last year, said crowd recruited a mediocrity named Nikki Tinker to run against Cohen; and the Tinker campaign has unleashed one outrageous ad (stating that Cohen, a Jew, doesn't "love Jesus") after another (more or less linking Cohen to the KKK).

If ever there was someone who needed the post-racial, post-partisan Obama's assistance, it's Steve Cohen. Cohen, it should be mentioned, endorsed Obama when a majority of Democrats were stating for the record that Hillary Clinton's nomination was all but inevitable. Has that gotten him any thanks from the Chosen One? Obviously, as the Cohen campaign can tell you, NOPE!

So why hasn't the Chosen One come to the defense of an early supporter - an elected official who most likely would carry water for an Obama Administration - who's been the subject of blatantly bigoted and anti-Semitic attacks? I don't think anyone knows.

If Steve Cohen officially becomes a one-termer at 7 p.m. tomorrow (Tennessee's Primary Election Day's polls close at 7 tomorrow) reckon B. Hussein will give him a call? If he does, what do you think he'll say? "Sorry you lost to a female Tennessee version of Al Sharpton!" You think I'm kidding, but what else could B. Hussein say?





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