First Black president?

That dumb-ass title always annoyed me. I don't care that it's Toni Morrison who said it or that it was said in the New Yorker. It basically reduced being black to playing the sax, loving fried chicken, being abandoned by your Daddy and screwing around on your wife. What's becoming clear is that Clinton has--and had--many virtues, but being black was never one of them. I love that he pushed the EITC, and maybe welfare reform had to come. I, frankly, don't know enough about econ to give him credit for the 90s boom.

But more than anything, Clinton was a masterful politician. And what mattered more than his actual policies, was the method the fact that he could charm the pants off virtually anyone--black people included. What's becoming clear from this piece by my old friend Chris Lehmann, is that some of us are waking up.

Peace to Andrew Sullivan for that Chris Lehmann link...