Sorry to rain on America's parade, but Barack Hussein Obama isn't up in the polls right now because Joe Biden won a vice presidential debate.
If Obama wins the election, we're going to be hearing a never-ending onslaught of ways that he was "bailed out" by various white men and/or women. It's typical of how America treats successful black leaders. We should all expect it, even from within our own party. But progressives should know better.
America isn't voting for Joe Biden.
America isn't thinking about Joe Biden's debate.
The numbers didn't magically start turning around because of Joe Biden.
Obama is the president and that's who people were judging for the last month.
Obama's numbers went down when he performed poorly. Obama's numbers went up when he performed well.
Nobody saved our president's butt.
He's not your pet, he's not your child, he's a black leader.
Show some damn intelligence and respect.
People are about to re-elect Barack Hussein Obama because he's the best leader for the job. He beat Joe Biden in the primary because of that fact.
Nobody's thinking about Joe Biden when they cast that vote. Joe's a great guy, but he's not the reason Obama is winning or the reason that Mitt hit his ceiling and Obama regained his own footing.
There will be enough people lining up behind Joe Scarborough to list the ways to emasculate a black leader like Obama if he wins this election.
We don't need progressives standing in that line. Progressives should be smarter than that, more sensitive than that, and should understand the way this all works so as to avoid emasculating and undermining our president.
Especially if all you've got is a half-baked theory on the polling. Just keep your speculations about our president's butt to yourself if you don't know better.