Louise Lucas (D) is a Virginia state senator from Portsmouth, who is also part of of what President Obama calls his "Truth Team". (I get e-mails from them all the time. I'm still waiting for the truth part.) Interviewed on a local radio show this week, Ms Lucas had this to say about Mitt Romney. (You have to go past the 2-minute mark to hear her tell the interviewer that Romney appeals to people who don't like black people-especially black presidents or something like that.)
Hope and change, truth and a post-racial president
Here is what I think is appropriate. I think it would be appropriate for President Obama to publicly denounce these comments and have Ms Lucas removed from the so-called Truth Team. Then, perhaps, he can still claim to be president of all the people.
There is nothing more boring, or inconsequential, than news pundits poring over the latest polls, parsing what they mean, and asking campaign staffs to comment on the pundits comments.
ReplyDeleteWhat are campaign staffs going to say?
a) Yeah! Everything is going our way!
b) That doesn't mean anything.
(Depending on whether today's poll is favorable or unfavorable to the campaign being interviewed.)
Romney does appeal to the substantial minority that doesn't want a black man in the White House. They aren't enough to put Romney in the White House. But they are with him. Where else do they have to go? David Duke isn't running.
But that's not especially relevant either. The whole conversation is irrelevant. The polls mean that the voters who really decide elections are all over the map, slipping and sliding, and both campaigns know it.