Wolking’s World

Governor Kathleen Sebelius was in Iowa today, propagating a favorite smear of The One:

Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius accused Republicans on Tuesday of injecting race into the presidential campaign, arguing that they are using “code language” to convince Midwesterners that Democrat Barack Obama is different from them.

“Have any of you noticed that Barack Obama is part African-American?” Sebelius asked with sarcasm. “(Republicans) are not going to go lightly into the darkness.”

This line of attack, calling Republicans racists, has been used before, multiple times. Quite frankly, it’s the lowest form of personal attack in existence. Not to mention, in Obama’s case, downright false.

You see, Barack Hussein Obama is not an African-American.

Hey, they’re the ones bringing it up.

As Kenneth Lamb notes:

Why is the fact that Mr. Obama is only 6.25% African Negro not reported?

Because to acknowledge it is to report this devastating truth about him: Mr. Obama is not legally African-American. It is impossible for him to be, in truth, America’s first African-American president.

Federal law requires that to claim a minority status, you must be at least 1/8 of the descriptor, but for the sake of this article, I’ve converted it to a decimal fraction for easier comprehension. You must be at least 12.5% of the racial component you claim for minority status. Mr. Obama, claiming to be African-American, is half the legal threshold …

Mr. Obama is 50% Caucasian, that from his mother. What those who want Mr. Obama to write history by becoming “America’s first African-American president” ignore is that his father was ethnically Arabic, with only 1 relative ethnically African Negro – a maternal great-grandparent (Sen. Obama’s great-great grandparent, thus the 6.25% ethnic contribution to the senator’s ethnic composition.).

That means that Mr. Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother’s side. He is 43.75% Arabic, and 6.25% African Negro from his father’s side.

Put another way, his father could honestly claim African-American ethnic classification. He was the last generation able to do so …

The question no one wants to answer – particularly Mr. Obama and his supporters, is, “Why do you think he has an Arabic name? Why does his father have an Arabic name? Why does every ancestor on his father’s side have an Arabic name?”

The answer is obvious: They have Arabic names because his father’s side of the family tree is Arabic.

Need proof? Research the Kenyan records for yourself. You will find that his father was officially classified as “Arab African” by the Kenyan government.

It’s not racist to report the facts. But it is pretty darn cynical of Obama to claim the title of the “first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review.” Or the “first African-American nominee for President of the United States from either major political party.”

Or to smear Republicans as being racist against African-Americans when, if he accused us truthfully, we’d all be racist against Arab-Americans.

Because that’s exactly what Obama is.

So the question isn’t why Obama is playing the race card–Democrats do that all the time. The real question is why Obama is playing the race card with the wrong race.