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By Ceasar I. LeFlore III

Bill Clinton has got to be furious.  Not only has he lost his juice in the hood and is no longer considered the first black president by the brothers; he’s now being “out slicked” in getting away with scandalous behavior by a newcomer whose escapability when caught red handed in lies and controversial relationships is unprecedented.

It seems that no matter how much crap he steps in or how many crappy people he associates with, nothing sticks to Barack Obama - and nothing is held against him -making him the new Teflon Man of American politics.   It appears that most of the media and all of the mind numbed masses that make up the Obama-nation are determined to look the other way whenever chinks appear in their hero’s shinning armor, giving him free passes and excusing away the shameful behavior of those he has called mentors and close friends. 

Now, just watch how smoothly the excrement that has been splashed up by “Politics as Usual” - the horrible love song that rapper Ludacris penned in support of his boy - slides right off him as he deftly side steps the scrutiny of another questionable association.  Just watch how offended and surprised he will pretend to be as he publicly throws the artist who so passionately supports him under the proverbial bus.   If he did it to his pastor, he’ll do it to this player; just watch and see.

The Obama campaign has already moved quickly on this one - having learned a valuable lesson from the Jeremiah Wright debacle – and has publicly blasted the rapper for the offensive lyrics that crudely maligned John McCain, George Bush, and even Jesse Jackson.  But I’m wondering – as many others may be - what in Ludacris’ past would make us expect anything different.  He’s always produced vile and offensive music, which also makes me wonder why Obama would speak favorably of him recently in Rolling Stone Magazine.

But be that as it may, Ludacris will probably not stick to Obama; just like Jeremiah Wright didn’t stick; nor did Louis Farrakhan, or Father Pfleger; or William Aires, and others.  And he also won’t be called on the obvious duplicity of saying out of one side of his mouth that “rap lyrics today too often perpetuate misogyny, materialism, and degrading images that he doesn’t want his daughters or any children exposed too”; while out of the other side not only saying that he listens to the rapper on his “ipod”, but also consulted with him in 2006 about how to reach young people.

In the movie Rush Hour, Chris Tucker asked Jackie Chan “do you understand the words coming out of my mouth?”  Did we understand him several months ago when Obama said that “he could no more disown Jeremiah Wright than he could his own grandmother, or the black community?”  He said that not long before he threw them both under the bus to get himself off the hook for a twenty year membership at a racist church from which he was forced to resign in order to keep his presidential campaign alive.

Did we understand him when he said that bitter people cling to guns and religion?  Did we understand his commitment to campaign finance reform through public financing before he changed his direction and rejected it? 

Do we understand his commitment to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) that prohibits same sex marriages?  Do we understand his opposition to parental notification for minors who seek to get abortions?  Do we understand his promises to defy the generals on the ground and proceed with his troop withdrawal timetable – which he once said was a bad idea – so that he can placate Code Pink and Moveon.org? 

I’m sure I understood him.  Didn’t you?  I’ll tell you what I don’t understand.  How does he get away with it?

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