Rep. Clyburn:Sanford Zimbabwe Comparison is Racist

He's the governor of South Carolina (wink, wink, they're all racist down there) and is a Republican (they're racist everywhere) so you know, comparing the Obama plan to an African country where bread costs $1-million dollars is just plain racist:

Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) told me he thinks S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford's quip comparing President Obama's stimulus package to Zimbabwe's economic policies are "beyond the pale" — and suggested they might carry a racial subtext.

"For him to compare the president of this country to Mugabe. ... It's just beyond the pale," said Clyburn, who has sparred with Sanford over the Republican's refusal to accept all the state's stimulus funding.

Asked if his "beyond the pale" comment implied a racial overtone to Sanford's remarks, Clyburn replied:

"I'm sure he would not say that, but how did he get to Zimbabwe? What took the man to Zimbabwe? Someone should ask him if that's really the best comparison. ... How can he compare this country's situation to Zimbabwe?"

It has nothing to do with race and Clyburn knows that but if he brings race into it, it takes the publics eyes off the disaster the stimulus is and how Sanford is upstaging the president and Congress by saying "thanks but no thanks" to the ill-conceived plan and money. This has become the standard ploy whenever criticizing Obama and Sanford is just the latest to be the target of this garbage.

But Sanford--shoring up his conservative street cred--answers exactly as one would hope when being accused of racism:

"Rep. Clyburn always plays the race card," shot back Sanford spokesman Joel Sawyer, who said his boss has also compared the stimulus to failed government policies in Germany and Argentina. "This policy will result in hyper-infaltion (sic). ... [Clyburn] is ripping off the people he purports to represent."

Exactly. The way you shut off a race-baiter is to point out the idiocy of there statement. Rep. Clyburn has been played superbly.