Another subtle knife-job? (w/poll)

...but consider the source.

Mark Davis, a Dallas/Fort Worth-area wingnut talk-show gas-bag (sorry for the redundancies, there) has a regular weekly column in the Dallas Morning News. Most weeks, it's typical RWCM bull, and easily discarded as red meat for his followers. Today, it's actually a seemingly reasoned consideration of whether there will be a so-called "dream ticket" of either Obama/Clinton or Clinton/Obama.

Until you get to the last paragraph, that is. And, then, Davis finds a subtle way to knife Obama. It's even subtler than the HRC "as far as I know" method -- and therein lies the tale. More below.

OK, so Davis lays out reasons for why it's unrealistic to think there might be a BHO/HRC or HRC/BHO ticket:

He will not choose her because he knows he cannot utter the word “change” 5 million times in a campaign and then run with one of the most familiar political faces of the last two decades.

He also knows that Bill Clinton will be a de facto cabinet member, if only in perception. Whether it's 1992 or 2008, when you take one Clinton, you get them both, and Mr. Obama needs that like a hole in the head. ... Plus, an Obama presidency will be sold on a heavy mantra of ethics and above-board behavior, a tough case to make if you are umbilically attached to the Clinton legacy. She helps him not one bit.

Conversely, the “dream ticket” is a nightmare for her, too. It violates one of the wisest rules of a presidential race — don't pick a running mate whose star shines 10 times brighter than yours. For a variety of reasons, millions of voters would spend each day wishing the ticket were flipped.

Fair enough. But then, he jams his knife in Obama's back with his closing paragraph:

I have no idea who will prevail in the Obama-Clinton derby, and I have no idea who the winner will choose as a running mate. But I do know that 100 percent of the barrier breaking will be done by the nominee. Vice presidential consideration will be limited to a list of white Christian men.

OK. Your inferences are welcome, of course, but here's how I read that...

Davis is implying a need for balance. The "white" and the "men" part are one thing (although I don't think anyone seriously thinks a two-female ticket would have a chance, especially since McCain may well put a woman on his ticket and thus blunt that considerably).

But "Christian"? The only reason you'd have to make that a specification for balance is if you're saying that one of the two remaining Democrats is something other than a Christian.

Hmm. Guess which one he must mean.

Pretty disgusting. But par for the course.

•  Tip jar

  Tips welcome. Davis's comments almost never welcome.

  by bwintx on Wed Mar 12, 2008 at 05:40:03 AM PDT

•  tipped but

  i don't think it was a knife job. He was just emphasizing the Christian religion as something everybody would need to be a "safe" choice.

  by amnesiaproletariat on Wed Mar 12, 2008 at 05:45:59 AM PDT

  •  Sorry that I didn't add

    "None of the above" or "Neither" to the poll. (Guess I was too mad.) But your opinion is duly noted. I wish I could believe you was right, but I've come to expect the worst from this guy.

    by bwintx on Wed Mar 12, 2008 at 05:49:57 AM PDT

    •  "You WERE right" - - sorry

      Guess I'm madder than I thought! :-)

      by bwintx on Wed Mar 12, 2008 at 05:51:09 AM PDT

•  I agree.

  The ticket can't be to "other."  That's his point.

  by bugscuffle on Wed Mar 12, 2008 at 05:48:54 AM PDT

•  What a disappointment,

  that

  Vice presidential consideration will be limited to a list of white Christian men.

  I was kind of hoping his choice would be Deval Patrick.

  by nupstateny on Wed Mar 12, 2008 at 05:57:43 AM PDT

  •  I personally am rooting for

    an Obama/Sebelius ticket, now, although I hate to deprive KS of a popular Democratic governor since that's been such a pleasant aberration for them.

    by bwintx on Wed Mar 12, 2008 at 06:00:56 AM PDT

•  a Jewish VP candidate is possible for Obama

  Thus deflecting the Barack Hussein Obama crap. Plus someone like Feingold could put WI away or Wyden could do the same for OR.

  by Belvedere Come Here Boy on Wed Mar 12, 2008 at 06:12:43 AM PDT

  •  Would love it if

    he'd give a nomination acceptance speech containing words to this effect:

    "My name is Barack -- Hussein -- Obama.  [Drawing it out for full effect.] That's because my father, who was from Kenya, also was named Barack --  Hussein -- Obama. Just like my opponent's name is John -- Sidney -- McCain. Because his father's name was John -- Sidney -- McCain.

    "My middle name is not a 'Muslim word.' There is no such thing.

    "I have never been a Muslim in my entire life. Now, it would be OK if I had, because we have millions of Americans who follow Islam and are just as loyal to America as anybody in this hall or next week's Convention in Minneapolis. The religion itself isn't evil. It just has some evil people in it. As do all religions. But I've never been a Muslim. Ever.

    "And, finally, I've been a Christian, and praising Jesus in the same Chicago church, for twenty years.

    "OK. Now that we have all that settled, let's talk about the future of America!"

    by bwintx on Wed Mar 12, 2008 at 06:29:01 AM PDT