Something for the Other Hero Twin
If we have an Obama supporting reader, your preferred candidate is the target of a screed penned by a Chad Smith and John McCain supporting member of the Cherokee Nation. The writing is bad, the style worse (I read five prior pieces, dreck), the politics more of the same and the message -- pan-tribal rejection of your candidate and the Congressional Black Caucus -- a bit overblown.
Make no mistake, the astroturf that went out Saturday night has legs, its wrong on many levels, but Indians are no more gifted than any other demographic at own-BS detection, so this Congressional Black Caucus has WMDs thing will stick.
Where this particular fleck of shit is well beyond the curve of the earth is the association of your candidate, because of his membership in the Congressional Black Caucus, with the advocacy lead by Congresswoman Diane Watson. Only 33 of the 43 CBC members signed a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid that they will try to block a Native American housing assistance bill if the measure does not include language that prevents the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma from receiving any of the benefits. As far as I can tell after 6pm EDT, your guy isn't one of the 33, and I'd be surprised out of my socks if he were, but my idea of good policy and your guy's advisers' ideas of good politics don't necessarily have to have non-zero overlap.
In other words, your guy is being hit by a guy who flakes for Chad Smith and is pumping for John McCain. The hit is that because your guy is black, he's part of Diane Watson's posse.
This is where the racism in Chad Smith's base, the same base that kept Ross Swimmer in power in the Nation, and after him, Wilma Mankiller, is evident. But that's a Cherokee problem, a Cherokee Nation problem, not your guy's problem.
Your guy's problem is that Chad's flake isn't right, that your guy hasn't turned the light on, and the cockroaches have the run of the kitchen.
