Let's just call this staggeringly odious and misleading Internet ad what it is.
It's the right-wing crazy machine's "Where the white women at!?" moment. There's no other explanation for using that artwork of Barack Obama, and using it in the manner of Cleavon Little meets Snidely Whiplash.
Particularly when Obama hasn't been president for a year and a half now.
Boris Badenov . . . president's FSB handler |
The spectacle of Republicans resorting to Obama-baiting -- still -- to thwart an effort to continue regulating a utility like, well, a utility just beggars belief. Or it would have beggared belief a decade ago. You know, before the Great "The President's a What???" Freakout.
And now that Donald Trump is president, I'll believe anything. Except, of course, a single word that comes out of his mouth.
IN AN AMERICA lost somewhere on the wrong side of a pee-colored looking glass, the old Jim Crow political tactic of n***** baiting has become the postmodern coin of the realm for Republicans. That's fair enough. After all, they've been looking more like Klansmen every God-forsaken day in this deviant and dysfunctional Age of Trump.
Thus, we have the right resorting to this "Where the white women at!?" demonizing of a man who's no longer running things -- all in the name of letting Corporate America screw consumers and potential economic rivals as much as possible.
No doubt, this is another GOP "freedom" moment.
And, as Janis Joplin told us all 47 years ago, "Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose."