Will Payback Be A Bitch?

This is funny. I seem to remember back in 1988 when Jesse Jackson was a Presidential candidate, some little white girl in Iowa asked something like "if he becomes President will he make us slaves?" I cannot fathom where a child would get an idea like that but I've often wondered if there isn't a secret little fear that if black people get too much power, they will flip the script. Jon Stewart asked Obama
the same thing.

Appearing on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" Monday night on the eve of the Pennsylvania primary, Barack Obama denied a hot rumor -- just started by host Jon Stewart -- that he planned, if elected to the White House, to "enslave the white race."

He quipped, "That is not our plan, Jon, but I think your paranoia might make you suitable as a debate moderator."

Obama, on a more serious note, said he had closed the gap in the state to "6 to 8" points behind Hillary Clinton, setting himself up for a "defeat" if he does worse than that.

He also said Clinton's tough campaigning did him "a favor...She has put me through the paces." If he wins the nomination, he said, everything's "going to be old news" by the general election.

Unfortunately, if Obama thinks that the penny ante "paces" he's been put through by "the Clintons," he's not ready. The GOP will eat him alive and the "race card" will played using far less innuendo than Bill Clinton mentioning Jesse Jackson's name in the same breath as Obama's.