Ricky Ray Rector

Reading about Hilary Clinton’s attempts to play the race card, I suddenly remembered Ricky Ray Rector. Rector shot a man in a nightclub in Arkansas in 1981 and killed a policemen who came to arrest him. He then turned the gun on himself, but the bullet didn’t kill him, it left him permanently lobotomized. Rector was first saved by the doctors but then sentenced to death by the courts.

In 1992, Bill Clinton took time off from the presidential campaign to fly back to Arkansas to confirm the death sentence. Democrats, Clinton insisted, “should no longer feel guilty about protecting the innocent.” Yes, Rector was indeed mentally retarded. He left the dessert from his last meal, insisting that he would eat it “after the execution.”  In 2002 the American Supreme Court banned the execution of mentally retarded people, labelling it a “cruel and unusual punishment.”

Ricky Ray Rector was black, and Bill Clinton was worried that the Republicans were going to accuse him of letting black killers go free. White voters don’t like that. This, after all, was what undid the Dukakis campaign in 1988.

The Clintons have a history of walking over black corpses in order to get to the White House. I really hope Obama won’t be one of them. I’m with Michael Moore — if you play the race card, you’ve disqualified yourself for the presidency. Go Barrack Hussein!

(No, I can’t vote in the US, but Diane can, and my four daughters will one day).

Reading about Hilary Clinton’s attempts to play the race card, I suddenly remembered Ricky Ray Rector. Rector shot a man in a nightclub in Arkansas in 1981 and killed a policemen who came to arrest him. He then turned the gun on himself, but the bullet didn’t kill him, it left him permanently lobotomized. Rector was first saved by the doctors but then sentenced to death by the courts.

In 1992, Bill Clinton took time off from the presidential campaign to fly back to Arkansas to confirm the death sentence. Democrats, Clinton insisted, “should no longer feel guilty about protecting the innocent.” Yes, Rector was indeed mentally retarded. He left the dessert from his last meal, insisting that he would eat it “after the execution.”  In 2002 the American Supreme Court banned the execution of mentally retarded people, labelling it a “cruel and unusual punishment.”

Ricky Ray Rector was black, and Bill Clinton was worried that the Republicans were going to accuse him of letting black killers go free. White voters don’t like that. This, after all, was what undid the Dukakis campaign in 1988.

The Clintons have a history of walking over black corpses in order to get to the White House. I really hope Obama won’t be one of them. I’m with Michael Moore — if you play the race card, you’ve disqualified yourself for the presidency. Go Barrack Hussein!

(No, I can’t vote in the US, but Diane can, and my four daughters will one day).