Limbaugh’s parody was brilliant in that it pointed out the left’s double-standard in deciding who a “real black” person is. This goes hand-in-hand with the constant berating of Condi Rice and Colon Powell as “Uncle Tom’s”. It is the left, such as Ehrenstein and Wright, who are the proponents of modern-day racism, not the right. Limbaugh and others such as myself want a true color-blind society, where we measure people by merit and acitons, not skin color.

If Trent Lott can lose his Majority Leader status for some off-the-cuff remarks to a 100+ year old man on his birthday, then we can drag Wright and Obama through the mud as long as it takes to get a straight answer from our potential future President. So I would say that calling people out on what they say does run in both directions. I’m sure Obama doesn’t hate America, like I’m sure Lott doesn’t want segregation to come back, but unfortunately that’s the political world we live in.

What’s shocking about this is that the press is actually following through with this stuff on a Democrat! Remember Mark Foley’s nasty emails? Nothing compared to Democrat Gerry Studds actually sleeping with an underage male page! Studds got a Congressional achievement award before retiring from Congress a decade later. How about Democrat Barney Frank’s tryst with a male prostitute? He’s still a stalwart in the Democrat Party. I do think there is a press double standard that has favored the Democrats for far too long. My belief is that everyone, regardless of party, should be held to the same standard of scrutiny if they are running for President.

I’d actually like it better if we stuck to the issues more, but these are difficult times and since both Dems are nearly identical in their policy positions, this has become a personality election. Hence, personal issues take on more importance.

Also, on the 3/5 Compromise: it was actually pushed by the anti-slavery members of the Constitutional convention to punish the slave-holding states who tried to count a slave 1 to 1 in terms of counting for Congressional representation. The anti-slavery factions thought that was cheating since slaves had no civil rights and they wanted to make life difficult for slave-holding states. So really the 3/5 clause was an anti-slavery move by our Founders, which demonstrated the slave-holding states’ moral/ethical dilemma over the “peculiar institution”. Also, they ended the slave trade by 1808 and slave trading in DC in 1850 since both were highly embarassing to the nation.