There was a guy named Bill who saw the Punch And Judy puppet show for the first time. Punch is a puppet. He was being manipulated by a puppeteer who was himself repeating the lines of a show that is over five hundred years old.

Punch kills his wife. Punch kills his baby. Punch kills a policeman.

Bill got up and screamed at Punch. He tried to attack Punch and tear the puppet up, but the crowd restrained him.

Above all, he kept yelling that Punch was insane.

Finally some nice guys in white coats came along and took Bill off to where he could get a long rest and some helpful drugs.

I get the same feeling when I hear people, in all seriousness, attacking Obama.

Seriously. It gives me the creeps.

Sure, it’s my racial “prejudice” talking. But the reason I was considered prejudiced was that, unlike the Yankees back then, I actually KNEW blacks. I was raised with them, I led them in Africa, I worked with black members of the Senior Executive Service in Washington. They were PREjudiced. I was POSTjudiced.

I remember when Thurgood Marshall “led” the NAACP lawyers in the Brown arguments. It was his picture on the cover of Time Magazine.

It was Marshall, not any of the legal team that did the thinking in the Brown case, who was appointed to the Supreme Court. Woodward’s book on the Supreme Court described Justice Marshall, as one reviewer put it, “as a stereotypical lazy Negro.”

You know how everybody says that when they retire they are going to write a book or pursue a hobby they didn’t have time for before? Well, a reporter was astonished when he asked Marshall what he was going to do when he retired. Marshall replied, “I’m going to sit on my ass.”

That was the one remark Marshall made that was original with him and I LIKED it. But the point is, Marshall was the token Negro in the NAACP legal team. The NAACP did not have a black president until the 1960s, when it took an actual floor rebellion to finally elect a black president after sixty years.

Blacks are excellent at repeating lines. But the idea that Marshall or Obama ever said anything for themselves is absurd. When I hear people seriously attacking Obama personally it gives me a creepy feeling.

They’re exactly like old Bill above.

They need HELP.