Liberal Guilt

There was a political cartoon in the Tampa Tribue the other day that suggested that the only thing keeping Obama afloat was "White Liberal Guilt".

As a person who voted for Obama in our primary (even though it didn't count), I find this to be utter crap. I don't have any guilt associated with my being a white person. I was born that way. And I'm certainly not voting for Obama because he's (half) black. There are a bunch of people who have attempted to run for president who were black that I wouldn't vote for at all, among them Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton (scary!), and Alan Keyes. I need no excuses for being irritated by those people. They're irritating. Another mark against two of the three in my book is that I would never vote for an ordained priest of any religion. Call it a church/state issue. Alan Keyes is far too far to the right for me, being anti-gay and pro-life.

So yes, Obama is afloat because he's a charismatic leader, and not an annoying idiot.