Republican Rep. Joe Walsh: Obama Was Elected Because He’s An Articulate Black Man

Dave Weigel’s profile of Illinois Congressman Joe Walsh isn’t flattering.

“Why was he elected? Again, it comes back to who he was. He was black, he was historic. And there’s nothing racist about this. It is what it is. If he had been a dynamic, white, state senator elected to Congress he wouldn’t have gotten in the game this fast. This is what made him different. That, combined with the fact that your profession”—another friendly tap of the bumper sticker—”not you, but your profession, was just absolutely compliant. They made up their minds early that they were in love with him. They were in love with him because they thought he was a good liberal guy and they were in love with him because he pushed that magical button: a black man who was articulate, liberal, the whole white guilt, all of that.”

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.