Borderfire Report

It will be beyond a “stolen election”. For that to happen, many Democrats and Independents will have to do the unthinkable: vote for a white man. Should John McCain win, I can hear it now: America is a racist country.

It’s not like the United States has never elected black people. Unfortunately, it’s some of the blacks that we’ve elected that have talked a good game to get elected, but have (in some cases) performed poorly once in office. Precedent can be a hard thing to shake.

The election of former New York mayor David Dinkins was to signal the dawn of a new day. His inauguration speech included the obligatory “references to oppression, human rights, and the need for equality. He vowed to be ‘mayor of all the people of New York,’ and declared: ‘We are all foot soldiers on the march to freedom.’”

However, “Dinkins faced a $1.8 billion budget deficit when he entered office which grew to $2.2 billion by the time he left office. The economy remained sluggish throughout his term, preventing the enactment of much of his agenda.”

There are few examples of Democrats (of any gender or color) leaving an area in better shape than they inherited it.

Today in Massachusetts, Deval Patrick (Massachusetts’ first black governor) has been a disaster, primarily because of his personal behavior, lack of common sense, and outright arrogance.

“Deval Patrick was the one who came into office claiming our state was in a bad financial situation. Yet, the independently wealthy Deval didn’t forgo his salary like Mitt Romney and Kerry Healey did when they took office. Instead, he upgraded his car, started accumulating frequent flier miles on a state police helicopter, got his wife an unnecessary chief of staff, and decided to redecorate his office with expensive furnishings at our expense.

“Deval Patrick has proven himself to be a liberal’s liberal and a Democrat’s Democrat. He sees our tax dollars as play money that can be thrown at anything to help him live a life of luxury.”

These things reflect badly, and are parked in the memories of those just looking for an excuse to vote against a black candidate.

“Patrick has directed a state budget process that is weighed down by deficits and spending, including a gubernatorial office budget that jumped 80% in one year.”

Now while Barack Obama has been touted as a break from the past and has received near-Messiah status from the mainstream media and his supporters (who call those who oppose him “haters”), he won’t easily shake the bad blood left by his electoral predecessors. We have elected blacks who garner questionable respect, like Congresswomen Sheila Jackson-Lee and Maxine Waters, and former senator Carol Moseley-Braun.

Let’s not forget the former mayor of Washington D.C., Marion Barry who served from 1979 to 1991, and again from 1995 to 1999. Despite the fact he was behavior-challenged, he was clearly reelected solely because of the color of his skin. That continues to irk many.

Granted, the Reverend Wright incidents are nowhere near the level of “The bitch set me up”, but Barry Obama has survived his share of media-ignored gaffes. Some people may still have Marion on their minds asking whether Obama will continue the incompetence and embarrassment legacy while holding the highest office in the land.

“I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600’s. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.”

“I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man.”
— Marion Barry

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