The left doesn’t want voters exposed to black candidates with different political opinions.
The recent dust-up between Barack Obama and Republican presidential hopeful Tim Scott might seem strange at first glance. Mr. Scott is polling in the low single digits and is more likely to be nominated for the vice presidency than the presidency. Why pick on Mr. Scott?
In a podcast discussion with David Axelrod, chief strategist of his 2008 and 2012 campaigns, Mr. Obama was critical of Mr. Scott and other minority GOP candidates for presenting their personal biographies as evidence of America’s racial progress. That is precisely what Mr. Obama did when he ran for president, a point that wasn’t lost on his interviewer. “I listened to Tim Scott,” said Mr. Axelrod, “and half of it sounds a lot like us. Half of it sounds a lot like what you were talking about in the speech in 2004 and in all of our speeches from that point on, which was: ‘I’m living proof that we are making progress as a country. I wouldn’t be here but for that progress.’"
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Jason L. Riley is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a columnist at The Wall Street Journal, and a Fox News commentator. Follow him on Twitter here.
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