Digby must have missed the memo:
What’s funny about this is that the author obtusely insists that the “two Americas” she’s talking about is generational rather than racial. I think most of us understand very well what she meant by that.
She’s talking about this (Mrs. Welch is the wife of Jack Welch, the ex-CEO of GE):
That advertisement features Mr Romney delivering an off-key rendition of “America the Beautiful”, while the viewer is treated to scenes of empty offices and factories and headlines alleging that Mr Romney moved jobs from the US to other countries and kept money in offshore accounts.
Mr Romney counter-attacked with a commercial noting the country’s dismal economic condition and suggesting that Mr Obama only cares about helping his campaign donors. To drive that point home, it concluded with the president singing “I’m so in love with you”, a line from the old Al Green hit “Let’s Stay Together” to cheers from supporters at a fundraiser this year that was attended by Mr Green himself.
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“It’s the difference between the songs that they’re singing,” Mrs Welch said. “Mitt Romney didn’t exactly do a beautiful job on that song, but think about what he’s singing, OK? I mean it’s that patriotic song and he goes all the way through it. Then you’ve got the very cool Barack Obama singing Al Green. That is the two different Americas. Isn’t it?”
As Charles Pierce is wont to say: it’s not about race, it’s never about race. In fact, she’s the racist for saying it might be about race.
