Posted by
Conservatarian on Friday, September 29, 2006 1:40:42 PM
George Allen's latest bit of race pandering doesn't prove that he is not a racist, it only goes to show what a weak-kneed, finger-in-the-air politician he has become. His latest shenanigan involves sponsoring a bill that would extend the deadline for black farmers to file for damages as part of a class-action discrimination suit against the Department of Agriculture.
Not knowing anything about the lawsuit, I can't judge the merits of it nor can I judge the merits of the actual award. Maybe black farmers were discriminated against, maybe they weren't. That information is beside the point.
What is the point is that everytime Allen is accused of being a racist, he goes out of his way to justify the charges by appearing guilty and remorseful, such as his little taxpayer-funded jaunt to Birmingham or this latest episode. His behavior lends credence to the charges levied against him if anything at all. If he really wants to dispute the charges, he shouldn't allow it to change his priorities, but instead, I have a feeling we'll see him pretending to be a member of the choir at some random black church in the near future (one nearby his Congressional office of course), all in the vain hope of picking up the votes of a handful of black soybean farmers in Southside.
Unfortunately, the alternative to Allen this election go-round sounds like an even bigger macaca.