Is anyone around to take offense at a little everyone-bashing?  Probably not.

Via Americablog:

I never thought I'd have to be calling out Barack Obama for race-baiting, but here we are. And he's not race-baiting whites, or Asians, or even Latinos. No, the African-American Senator from Illinois is race-baiting dark-skinned people. (A bit like me race-baiting Mediterraneans.)

I'd heard about this this morning - a memo that the Obama people were shopping around to the press - but didn't get the full story, or the full flavor of the story, until just a few minutes ago. I thought Obama was simply going after Hillary for supporting outsourcing of jobs, or for Hillary being supported by people who are in favor of outsourcing. And sure enough, the Obama memo talks a good deal about outsourcing, though in ways that do seem to skirt the line of racism or at least xenophobia (calling her "HILLARY CLINTON (D-PUNJAB)") and noting that "Hillary Clinton Accepted Almost $60,000 In Contributions From Employees Of Cisco Systems, Which Laid Off American Workers to Hire Indian 'Techies.'" (I was a bit uncomfortable with the use of the word "Indian" over and over and over again in the memo.) But I still wasn't sure that we had moved from outsourcing to racism until we hit the paragraph about all the money and support that Hillary has received from "Indian-Americans." Sure, the rest of the memo deals with how one of Hillary's top Indian-American supporters is allegedly a bit shady, and that's fair game, but the memo is about more than that. The memo is clearly trying to make the point that Hillary gets lots and lots of support from Indian-Americans, and apparently there's some kind of problem with that. I guess because their kin back home are stealing all of our good white jobs. (No word on whether they're sleeping with our women too.)

The full text of the memo is here. (I know, it's the NYDN, but they published it all, whaddya want from me?)

Needless to say, the Indian-American community is fairly disgruntled, as well should they be.  Hell, I'm pissed off about it, and I think everyone on the left should be.

From Sepia Mutiny:

So now the question is, how aware was Obama himself of the contents of this "anonymous" memo? If Obama doesn't distance himself from the memo immediately, this macaca is going to be sending his moolah to "Hillary Clinton, D-Punjab."

Aside from the utter stupidity of issuing such a transparently racist memo, what I also don't get is why being "too close to India" would be considered any kind of insult.  It's not like saying she's too close to, for example, Osama Bin Laden.  Who the fuck cares?

Honestly, when I first read about it, I assumed it might turn out to be another plant or fraud, like the whole Insight Magazine madrassa-gate thing.  But it seems to be authentically a memo from the Obama campaign, handed out to traveling reporters by his campaign staff.

Pastor Dan over at Street Prophets has been pro-Obama in the past, and he's none too happy at this point:

This is really simple: Obama talks a good game, and now he needs to come through with the walk. Fire whoever wrote this memo, and apologize to Sen. Clinton and Indian-Americans. Otherwise, he's just another phony in an expensive suit calling on the name of Jesus when it meets his needs.

So there ya have it.

It seems that while the media at the behest of the administration and the neo-cons is sowing seeds of fear and hatred in us, Mr. Cheney's old company, Halliburton is busy bidding for yet another project that has its foundations in blood.  The United States is hard at work pushing for a NATO base to be built in the abandoned Kleiaat air base in Northern Lebanon, it claims, to fight al-Qaeda and other terrorists, presumably Hezbollah.  Contenders for the billion dollar project, according to the Pentagon procurement office could be Bechtel and Halliburton and other contractors currently doing projects in Iraq. It is worthwhile noting that the late Prime Minister Harari opposed the base[vi].  AIPAC is pushing for it.  Keeping Lebanon busy, will clear the way for war with Iran.

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