Day-O

Had not heard from Harry Belafonte in a while, but I never doubted that he would once again make a complete fool of himself in a vain attempt to explain liberal ideology. It is difficult. Check that, impossible, particularly if you plan to follow the rules of logic and express a coherent thought. Liberalism demands no trail of logic. To them all tenets exist independently and any conflict or paradox is simply ignored.

But it was his bashing of Herman Cain that got my attention. First, he says that Cain was "denied intelligence." Now calling somebody stupid is not a new political tactic. But usually it's done by one with some degree of academic accomplishment to call their own. I mean, it looses some punch when a high school drop out is saying it about a rocket scientist. And with a straight face no less.

OK, I don't really know if Belafonte was a dropout. His Wiki article says that he "attended" George Washington High School before joining the Navy. The tip off being that it doesn't say "graduated." But I do know that Hermain Cain has an academic record that, in my opinion, puts him amongst the smartest people to have ever run for president. (And that small group would not include the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.) Herman Cain got his bachelors degreee in mathmatics and then his masters degree in computer science from Purdue (A pretty respectable school for engineers.) He then went to work for the Navy as a mathematician in their
balistics program. That's right, he actually was a rocket scientist!! But, hey how can that compare to singing The Banana Boat Song? (Which was actually written by actor Alan Arkin!) Cain had a famously successful business career with Pilsbury, turning around Burger King and later Godfather's Pizza, before serving as a member of the board of the federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

So, as you can see, he was a natural target for Mr. Belafonte. And Herman Cain's greatest sin is, of course, not being black. That is, not black enough or not a real black. Belafonte puts Cain in some pretty good company on this point. He mentions other people who are not authentically black, like Condoleeza Rice and house slave, Colin Powell. Let's see, Colin Powell got his bachelors in geology and then his MBA before attaning the rank of four star General and becoming the youngest Chairman of the Joint Cheifs of Staff. Rice: Phi Beta Kappa, cum laude, Masters from Notre Dame and PhD from University of Denver. Do I detect a pattern here? Here is how he characterized them:

“The Republican party, the tea party, all those forces to the extreme right have consistently tried to come up with representations for what they call black, what they call the real Negroes. They’re heroes for some people. But for a lot of us, they’re not."

Yes, nothing admirable about those records. Why would you want role models like that?