Political Corectness Continues At Breakneck Speed, In 2008 Campaign as Well

The country along with the rest of the world has become so paralyzed by political correctness in this pathetic day and age that there is now debate as to whether or not the man playing Barack H. Obama on Saturdaqy Night Live pictured below is black enough to play the character, and whether or not it's a slight to blacks in general, Obama, and the black cast members that a non black is playing Obama, with face paint mind you God forbid!!!!

OOOhhhhNNoooooo!!! Memories of Minstrel Shows, Amos and Andy, etc etc etc .

Give us a break! Is it just possible that the man actually playing Obama, one Fred Armisen, former Chicago drummer with the once local known post-punk band Trenchmouth and then Blue Man Group just looks and acts more like him number one than any other cast members available? That would be too easy an explanation I guess.

And isn't Obama supposed to be half white anyways or are we caucasians not allowed to say that along with his middle name Hussein? Or is it one third Asian, a third white and a third Black, who the hell knows nor cares....It's the liberals that classify people as such in the first place, not conservatives.

All I see in Obama as an Illinoisan quite familiar with him more than most around the country is a liberal politician who's inexperience in anything outside of the Illinois senate and schooling is simply weak, and who's political positions scare the hell out of me, not his color or ethnic makeup.

So then why in the he** can a white man of Asian descent (as this actor/comedian is btw), not play the Obama role in a freaking comedy skit without the race baiters and equal opportunity crybabies moaning and groaning about it, as was uselessly taking place this past weekend after the second Faux-debate by "FauxBama" as they're calling him, shown in this post I penned over the weekend and also below.

Get a grip I say.



(NBC's embed sucks the big one so go here to view the tape if the above video doesn't play...)

Barack 'Fauxbama' 'black enough' on 'SNL'?:

SFGATE Weekend"When Barack Obama announced his candidacy for president last year, some observers questioned whether the senator from Illinois was 'black enough' to embody the hopes and aspirations of African Americans.

Now a variation on that theme has emerged: Is Fred Armisen, who is not African American, 'black enough' to embody Obama on 'Saturday Night Live'?

Debate over that question has been pinging around the Internet since Armisen, a veteran cast member, donned darker makeup to portray the Democratic candidate for the first time Saturday. Armisen played Obama opposite Amy Poehler's Hillary Clinton in a sketch satirizing the supposedly cushy treatment his candidacy has received from the media.

'SNL' impresario Lorne Michaels said Thursday by phone that he thought the sketch played so well that the show intends to air another Obama-Clinton debate spoof Saturday night, with Armisen and Poehler reprising their characters."

White and Asian heritage

Nobody much cared about Armisen's racial background (he is of white and Asian heritage) when he played Prince and Steve Jobs in previous seasons of the NBC show. Nor did it seem to matter that Darrell Hammond, who is white, has impersonated the Rev. Jesse Jackson for years on "SNL." Or that decades ago Billy Crystal played Sammy Davis Jr. on the show.

But in 2008, Obama isn't just any politician or celebrity. Which is why Armisen's DNA became something of an issue when he became "Fauxbama" in the first "SNL" show back since the writers' strike ended.

Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune put the question bluntly: "Call me crazy, but shouldn't 'Saturday Night Live's' fictional Sen. Barack Obama be played by an African American?" Ryan went on to conclude: "I find 'SNL's' choice inexplicable. Obama's candidacy gives us solid proof of the progress that African Americans have made in this country. I guess 'SNL' still has further to go on that front."

Hannah Pool, a writer for the Guardian newspaper in Great Britain, suggested the whole setup had "minstrel" overtones.

"Casting a black actor wouldn't have guaranteed the quality of the sketch, but it would have made the whole thing a lot less shoddy," Pool wrote. "Let's get one thing straight. The moment anyone starts reaching for 'blackface,' they are on extremely dodgy territory. Anyone who thinks it's either necessary or, for that matter, remotely funny to black-up needs to have the gauge on their moral compass reset."

TV Guide, on the other hand, called Armisen's impression "surprisingly subtle." continued

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