Jonah Goldberg, African-American Studies expert

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from the SF Chronicle:



What Obama brings to conservatives
His election suggests an end to quotas, rededication of education and the restoration of the black nuclear family.

Jonah Goldberg
January 20, 2009


I am proud and excited by the fact that we are inaugurating the first black president of the United States. He wasn't my first choice for president, but he is nonetheless my president. And if ever there were a wonderful consolation prize in politics, shattering the race barrier in the White House is surely it.

Conservatives who try too hard to belittle the importance of this milestone are foolish on several fronts. First, this is simply a wonderful -- and wonderfully American -- story. Any political movement that is joyless about what this represents risks succumbing to bitter political crankery.

For instance, you will not soon see a German chancellor of Turkish descent. Nor will a child of North African immigrants soon take the reins of power in France. It will be a long time before a Pakistani or Indian last name appears on the mailbox at 10 Downing St. And yet these countries bubble over with haughty finger-waggers eager to lecture backward and provincial America about race and tolerance. Why not enjoy rubbing Barack Obama in their faces?

Of course, there's a partisan angle to Obama's presidency -- he is the head of the Democratic Party, after all -- but his success comes on the heels of a bipartisan racial success story. For instance, President Bush appointed the first African American secretaries of State. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-goldberg20-2009jan20,0,5562665.column

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1. Yeah, they WISH ...

And he could possibly CUT CAPITAL GAINS TAXES, too ...
but I think he has other priorities. Still, they can
dream, I guess.

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2. It doesn't take much to be labeled an "expert"...does it? n/t