The Obama administration trying to kill white kids with asthma. Um, that’s according to the rightwing American Thinker, “Obama Combats Racist Air:”

The Obama Administration has identified the latest front in its tireless war against America’s systemic injustice: asthma. A new report A new report, succinctly titled the “Coordinated Federal Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Asthma argues, in effect, that freedom has led to an unfair distribution of healthy lungs, and therefore steps must be taken to achieve respiratory justice.

The official press release for this report does not commit itself on the question of whether greater asthmatic-racial “parity” ought to be attained by reducing the incidence of asthma among minorities, increasing the rate among whites, or some combination of the two.

It is very clear from this statement that, were the asthma rate among whites equal to that among visible minorities, there would be nothing to talk about.  The concern of this report, in other words, is not asthma, but alleged racial and ethnic inequality.

The right wing will stop at nothing to smear Obama. It’s almost laughable that anyone can make the argument that Obama wants more white kids to have asthma. SMH. When will this BS stop? Here is what struck a so-called nerve in the writer of the article, Daren Jonescu:

Nearly 26 million Americans are affected by this chronic respiratory disease, including 7 million children, especially minority children and children with family incomes below the poverty level. Asthma rates of African American children are currently at 16 percent, while 16.5 percent of Puerto Rican children suffer from the chronic respiratory disease, more than double the rate of Caucasian children in the United States.

Really Daren Jonescu? That implies Obama wants more white kids to get asthma and make this all about race?

On the contrary, the solution is to create regulations and penalties to limit economic growth, and to divert greater amounts of societal wealth into make-work projects aimed at producing cleaner slums for the perpetually impoverished dependent class that can always be bought off in its induced hopelessness and desperation by a few unsubstantiated promises, in exchange for its continued support of the condescending slumlords of the Democratic Party.

I have never heard of anyone calling for cleaner slums as a way of solving the problem of asthma and pollution, but who am I to question the vast knowledge of the right wing:

On the contrary, the solution is to create regulations and penalties to limit economic growth, and to divert greater amounts of societal wealth into make-work projects aimed at producing cleaner slums for the perpetually impoverished dependent class that can always be bought off in its induced hopelessness and desperation by a few unsubstantiated promises, in exchange for its continued support of the condescending slumlords of the Democratic Party.