Despite his recent losses, Obama is still leading in delegates late in the primary election race. This obviously makes him the most viable black presidential candidate in American history.
On the other side of the coin, many who know me have been subjected to my morbid fascination with the American radical far right. It's fascinating to me that these kinds of yahoos exist, and the Internet is the perfect place to find them.
Have you ever suspected that the American government is actually a cover for a secret shadow government run by Freemasons, homosexuals, feminists or Jews? Come on down.
What do the Internet crazies think about Obama? While many of these Internet-racist types have gone the predictable route, predicting a racial Armageddon, Obama's campaign of hope has touched hearts in some unlikely places.
Well not quite, but you'd be surprised. "I don't think Obama will be any more negative for the United States than Hillary or John McCain," David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, told Michael Crowley of "The New Republic" magazine.
This is a far cry from when, in 1988, Duke - also (strangely enough) a former Louisiana state congressman - announced his candidacy as president mainly to counter that of Jesse Jackson's.
Duke said at the time that the potential for Jackson, a black man, to be elected president, "would be the greatest tragedy ever to befall this country."
Compare this to now."They say he's for change. What change? He's become almost a cult figure. I don't see any shining light around Obama's head. I don't see any halos," Duke said in the "The New Republic" article, published this month.
Not a ringing endorsement, but, as Crowley points out, Duke's second opinion is shockingly mainstream.
Bringing the love-fest up a notch, Rocky Suhayda, chairman of the American Nazi Party, actually wrote a report on the ANP Web site that pragmatically encourages party members to vote for Obama as an "affirmative-action candidate" to replace so-called "race-traitors" such as Clinton and McCain.
He predicts that Obama's presidency will falter, making him a symbol of the failings of racial integration, possibly causing ripples in "the system" that currently oppresses the American Nazis.
Kind of makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside, doesn't it? It helps to picture these white supremacists' convoluted, misguided ideologies as a winding 10-lane highway.
White supremacist support of Obama's campaign adds a triple-cloverleaf on the road to Crazytown. Bigotry is more convoluted than ever.
David Duke, Rocky Suhayda, Jesse Jackson and Will Smith support the same candidate. Sound weird? Welcome to American politics. t&c;
