Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama (born Aug. 4, 1961) is the first African American to be elected president of the United States. He was formerly the junior U.S. Senator from Illinois. He is married to Michelle Obama and has two daughters: Malia and... [more]
Barack Hussein Obama (born Aug. 4, 1961) is the first African American to be elected president of the United States. He was formerly the junior U.S. Senator from Illinois. He is married to Michelle Obama and has two daughters: Malia and Sasha.
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Ok enough wetting your pants over Baracko the chosen one
on to the next bit of Obama trivia 
The Obama File
Race
"Thats Just How White Folks Will Do You."
Barack Hussein Obama
SHOCKING Obama words: what he really thinks of white folks (09:53)
1961 Anna Dunham's parents weren't happy with her marriage to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., but Hussein Onyango Obama, Barack Sr.'s father was furious.
He wrote the Dunhams "this long, nasty letter saying that he didn't approve of the marriage," Obama recounted his mother telling him in "Dreams." "He didn't want the Obama blood sullied by a white woman."
1972 Anna Dunham separates from Lolo and she takes 10-year-old Barack to live with her parents in Honolulu. Anna and Obama's half-sister Maya return to Indonesia. Anna will stay in Indonesia until shortly before her death.
Later, Obama would write in "Dreams...," -- "I ceased to advertise my mothers race at the age of twelve or thirteen, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites."
Barry Soetoro is enrolled in the Punahou School and becomes Barack Hussein Obama.
Obama's classmate and friend, Keith "Ray" Kakugawa, said. "Barry's biggest struggles then were missing his parents. His biggest struggles were his feelings of abandonment.
Abandoned by his father and shipped off by his mother to his white grandparents, Barry Sotero as Barack Hussein Obama begins the search for his "blackness."
1973 Obama wanted a race to belong to, a team whose accomplishments would reflect well upon him. Of course, it was unthinkable in his liberal white family to take pride in the achievements of his mothers race, so Obama gloried in being part of his absent fathers race.
From his early teens onward, though, Obama desperately wants to be black. In "Dreams," he writes, "I was trying to raise myself to be a black man in America, and beyond the given of my appearance, no one around me seemed to know exactly what that meant." Honolulus paucity of African-Americans means he has to learn to be black from the media: "TV, movies, the radio; those were places to start. Pop culture was color-coded, after all, an arcade of images from which you could cop a walk, a talk, a step, a style."
"...never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didnt speak to my own. It was into my fathers image, the black man, son of Africa, that Id packed all the attributes I sought in myself..."
Obama even describes his grandparents, the people who would raise and nourish him, as "white folk."
1975
He cherishes every cause for complaint he can discern against white folks. He is constantly distressed at being half-white. Obama says "I ceased to advertise my mothers race at the age of twelve or thirteen, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites."
When his grandmother wants a ride to work because the day before, while awaiting the bus, she was threatened by a black panhandler, he is outraged -- at his grandmother.
Obama consulted his communist mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, about this incident for advice. Davis responded to Obama, "What I'm trying to tell you is, your grandmother has every right to be scared. ... She understands that black people have a reason to hate. That's just how it is. For your sake, I wish it were otherwise. But it's not. So you might as well get used to it."
Later, when he moves to the South Side of Chicago in 1984, he eventually discovers that, like his grandmother, hes sometimes scared of black males on the street, too.
1976 As a teenager, Obama sought out gatherings on military bases or at the University of Hawaii that were mostly attended by blacks.
1978 Even through high school, he continued to vacillate between the twin strands of his racial identity.
"I learned to slip back and forth between my black and white worlds," he wrote in "Dreams." "One of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied; they were relieved -- such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn't seem angry all the time."
Obama wrote that in high school, he and a black friend would sometimes speak disparagingly "about white folks this or white folks that, and I would suddenly remember my mother's smile, and the words that I spoke would seem awkward and false."
As a result, he concluded that "certain whites could be excluded from the general category of our distrust."
1979
Obama enters Occidental College in California.
In his college days, it was the autobiography of militant Malcolm X that grabbed his attention more than any other black writer. "His repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me," Obama has said. This also was the period when Obama stopped using the nickname "Barry" in favor of his full name.
1980 In his first memoir, "Dreams," Obama included a description of black student life at Occidental College in Los Angeles.
"There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs," he wrote. "It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names."
He added: "To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists."
Obama said he and other blacks were careful not to second-guess their own racial identity in front of whites.
"To admit our doubt and confusion to whites, to open up our psyches to general examination by those who had caused so much of the damage in the first place, seemed ludicrous, itself an expression of self-hatred," he wrote.
1981 Occidental College in Los Angeles, which then had a black mayor, Tom Bradley, wasnt black enough, so in search of a community to belong to, he transfers to Harlem well, to be precise, to that prestigious university on the edge of Harlem, Columbia. (A recurrent theme in Obamas career is Power to the People gestures and Ivy League results).
He majors in political science with a specialization in international relations.
1982
During college, Obama disapproved of what he called other "half-breeds" who gravitated toward whites instead of blacks. And yet after college, he once fell in love with a white woman, only to push her away when he concluded he would have to assimilate into her world, not the other way around. He later married a black woman.
1983 When hes working on Wall Street, hes creeped out by his visiting mothers insistence on seeing her favorite film, the 1959 Brazilian art-house classic "Black Orpheus." He belatedly realizes that his very fair-skinned mother is sexually attracted to dark men. He pompously intones, "The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart."
1984
Obama graduates from Columbia College, and after spending a year working in New York, moves to Chicago where he finally finding a home where at least some whites reciprocated his antagonism.
1983 In the period from high school in Hawaii, to Columbia University and then to the streets of Chicago as a community organizer, Obama is the classic angry young black man, describing his world thusly:
"We were always playing on the white man's court -- by the white man's rules. If the principal, or the coach, or a teacher wanted to spit in your face, he could, because he had the power and you didn't. The only thing you could choose was withdrawal into a smaller and smaller coil of rage."
Obama once described the white race as "that ghostly figure that haunted black dreams."
"That hate hadn't gone away," he wrote, blaming "white people -- some cruel, some ignorant, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives."
After graduating from college, Obama eventually went to Chicago to interview for a job as a community organizer. His racial attitudes came into play as he sized up the man who would become his boss.
"There was something about him that made me wary," Obama wrote. "A little too sure of himself, maybe. And white."
1983
During college, Obama disapproved of what he called other "half-breeds" who gravitated toward whites instead of blacks. And yet after college, he once fell in love with a white woman, only to push her away when he concluded he would have to assimilate into her world, not the other way around. He later married a black woman.
1983 "I would occasionally pick up the paper [Louis Farrakhans 'The Final Call'] from these unfailingly polite men, in part out of sympathy to their heavy suits in the summer, their thin coats in winter; or sometimes because my attention was caught by the sensational, tabloid-style headlines (CAUCASIAN WOMAN ADMITS: WHITES ARE THE DEVIL). Inside the front cover, one found reprints of the ministers [Farrakhans] speeches, as well as stories that could have been picked straight off the AP news wire were it not for certain editorial embelleshments (Jewish Senator Metzenbaum announced today).
Dreams From My Father, p. 201
1984 When he was a community organizer (age 22 prior to going to law school) he happily cooperated with Rafiq, a former gangster turned Nation of Islam. He even believed that Black Nationalism was a "good therapy" for Blacks. That was also the reason he supported Wright ("Dreams...," p. 190-200). For he shares Michelle's sentiments of alienation, came to believe that race should trump everything and it should be anti-white:
"all the black people who, it turned out, shared with me a voice that whispered inside them -- You don't really belong here."
"In a sense, then, Rafiq was right when he insisted that, deep down, all blacks were potential Nationalists. The anger was there, bottled up and often turned inward. And . . . I wondered whether, for now at least, Rafiq wasn't also right in preferring that that anger be redirected; whether a black politics that suppressed rage towards white generally, or one that failed to elevate race loyally above all else, was a politics inadequate to the task."
"It was a painful thought to consider, as painful now as it has been years ago. It contradicted the morality my mother had taught me, a morality of subtle distinctions -- between individuals of goodwill and those who wished me ill, between active malice and ignorance of indifference. I have a personal stake in that moral framework; I'd discovered that I couldn't escape it if I tried. And yet perhaps it was a framework that blacks in this country could no longer afford; perhaps it weakened black resolve, encouraged confusion within the ranks. Desperate times called for desperate measures, and for many blacks, times were chronically desperate. If (black) nationalism could create a strong and effective insularity, deliver on its promise of self respect, then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, of the inner turmoil it caused people like me, would be of little consequence."
"If nationalism could deliver. As it turned out, questions of effectiveness, and not sentiment, cause most of my quarrels with Rafiq."
In other words, Barack was willing to sacrifice his mother and his typical white grandparents on the alter of black nationalism. His sentiments were in line with those of Rafiq, the Nation of Islam activist. That is the reason he chose a black nationalist church run by Reverend Wright, who explained to him during their very first meeting ("Dreams...," p.284):
"Life's not safe for a black man in this country, Barack. Never has been. Probably never will be."
1995 At age 33, Obama publishes a 442 page book about his pursuit of a racial identity.
There's not a word about him pursuing a non-racial, specifically American identity in "Dreams from My Father, A Story of Race and Inheritance."
Obamas book is primarily about his rejection of his supportive white maternal extended family in favor of his unknown black paternal extended family.
Isn't it kinda racist of Obama to be pissed at mom and take it out on the whole white race?
1995 In Dreams From My Father, Obama meditates on Farrakhan, finding: "If [black] nationalism could create a strong and effective insularity, deliver on its promise of self-respect, then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, or the inner turmoil it caused people like me, would be of little consequence."
1995 Also in his memoir, Obama writes of one of the watershed moments of his racial awareness -- time and again in remarkable detail. It is a story about a Life magazine article that influenced him. The report was about a black man who tried to bleach his skin white. When Obama was told no such article could be found in Life, he says "it might have been Ebony.
He is 9 years old, living in Indonesia, where he and his mother moved with her new husband, Lolo Soetoro, a few years earlier. One day while visiting his mother, who was working at the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Obama passed time by looking through several issues of Life magazine. He came across an article that he later would describe as feeling like an "ambush attack."
The article included photos of a black man who had destroyed his skin with powerful chemical lighteners that promised to make him white. Instead, the chemicals had peeled off much of his skin, leaving him sad and scarred, Obama recalled.
"I imagine other black children, then and now, undergoing similar moments of revelation," Obama wrote of the magazine photos in "Dreams."
Yet no such photo exists, according to historians at the magazine. No such photos, no such article. When asked about the discrepancy, Obama said in a recent interview, "It might have been an Ebony or it might have been ... who knows what it was?" (At the request of the Tribune, archivists at Ebony searched their catalogue of past articles, none of which matched what Obama recalled.)
In fact, it is surprising, based on interviews with more than two dozen people who knew Obama during his nearly four years in Indonesia, that it would take a photograph in a magazine to make him conscious of the fact that some people might treat him differently in part because of the color of his skin.
2006 In October, Obama publishes "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream," which details his views of politics and his vision for the future of the U.S. government and its people.
Malcolm Xs autobiography seemed to offer something different, Obama wrote. "His repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me; the blunt poetry of his words, his unadorned insistence on respect, promised a new and uncompromising order, martial in its discipline, forged through sheer force of will."
He added: "Malcolms discovery toward the end of his life, that some whites might live beside him as brothers in Islam, seemed to offer some hope of eventual reconciliation."
This is the thinking of a Muslim.
2007 As another example, consider Obama's stirring tale for the Selma audience about how he had been conceived by his parents, Barack Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham, because they had been inspired by the fervor following the "Bloody Sunday" voting rights demonstration that was commemorated March 4. "There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama," he said, "because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don't tell me I'm not coming home to Selma, Alabama"
Obama was born in 1961, and the Selma march occurred four years later, in 1965. The New York Times reported that when the senator was asked about the discrepancy later that day, he clarified: "I meant the whole civil rights movement."
2008 Obama also has the endorsement of the New Black Panther Party.
"Barack Obama represents 'Positive Change' for all of America. Obama will stir the 'Melting Pot' into a better "Molten America.'"
Read The New Black Panther Party 10 Point Platform
2007 Cornel West was on fire. Bobbing in his chair, his hands sweeping across the stage, the brilliant and bombastic scholar was lambasting Barack Obama's campaign. Before a black audience, at an event outside Atlanta called the State of the Black Union, West was questioning why Obama was 600 miles away, announcing his bid for the White House in Springfield, Ill. Did he really care about black voters? What did that say about his willingness to stand up for what he believes?
"He's got large numbers of white brothers and sisters who have fears and anxieties and concerns, and he's got to speak to them in such a way that he holds us at arm's length," West said, pushing his hand out for emphasis. "So he's walking this tightrope." West challenged the candidate to answer a stark set of questions: "I want to know how deep is your love for the people, what kind of courage have you manifested in the stances that you have and what are you willing to sacrifice for. That's the fundamental question. I don't care what color you are. You see, you can't take black people for granted just 'cause you're black."
A few days later, West was sitting in his Princeton office after class when the phone rang. It was Barack Obama. "I want to clarify some things," the candidate calmly told the professor of religion and African-American studies. Over the next two hours, Obama explained his Illinois state Senate record on criminal justice and affordable health care. West asked Obama how he understood the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and interrogated him about a single phrase in Obama's 2004 Democratic-convention speech: that America was "a magical place" for his Kenyan father. "That's a Christopher Columbus experience," West said. "It's hard for someone who came out of slavery and Jim Crow to call it a magical place. You have to be true to yourself, but I have to be true to myself as well." A few weeks later, the two men met in a downtown Washington, D.C., hotel to chat about Obama's campaign staff.
Just a month after ripping into him onstage, West endorsed Obama and signed up as an unpaid adviser.
If you don't know who and what Cornell West is, please see this video.
What did Obama promise the radical Cornell West to gain his support?
2007 Sunday, 07/22, Obama was in South Florida to address the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the nation's largest Hispanic so-called civil rights group.
La Raza is Spanish for "the race," although NCLR claims it means "community" on their website. La Raza supports legislation such as the Civil Liberties Restoration Act, which would roll back policies adopted after Sept. 11 designed to protect national security. It supports the "DREAM Act," which would mandate states to offer in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens -- thus providing them with benefits not available to U.S. citizens from other states.
The group opposes the "Clear Law Enforcement for Criminal Alien Removal Act of 2003" and the "Homeland Security Enhancement Act" would give state and local police officers the authority to enforce federal immigration laws.
"While the safety and security of our communities and our country are of the utmost importance, new policies that would allow local police departments to enforce federal civil immigration law will hinder terrorist and other criminal investigations, and have a serious negative impact on Latino communities," La Raza explains.
The group also supports legislation to ensure illegal immigrants' ability to obtain driver's licenses.
La Raza continues to lobby the Senate for virtual open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens.
La Raza's motto is, "Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada," which translates to ""For The Race everything. Outside The Race, nothing."
The La Raza movement teaches that Colorado, California, Arizona, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Oregon and parts of Washington State make up an area known as "Aztlan" -- a fictional ancestral homeland of the Aztecs before Europeans arrived in North America. As such, it belongs to the followers of MEChA. These are all areas America should surrender to "La Raza" once enough immigrants, legal or illegal, enter to claim a majority, as in Los Angeles. The current borders of the United States will simply be extinguished.
This plan is what is referred to as the "Reconquista" or the re-conquest, of the western United States.
But it won't end with territorial occupation and secession. The final plan for the La Raza movement includes the ethnic cleansing of Americans of European, African, and Asian descent from "Aztlan."
No surprise here -- a Marxist addressing Marxists.
2007 Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) sits with race-baiter, Rev. Al Sharpton, during a campaign stop at Sylvia's restaurant in New York, November 29, 2007.
Earlier, Obama raised $750,000 at the Apollo Theater, where he made the comment, "I'm not running because I'm trying to fulfill some long-held plan."
2007 At the Apollo Theater fundraiser, Obama was introduced by the radical Marxist professor and self-styled rapper, Cornell West, as "my comrade."
What does this tell you about Obama, when he chooses to be introduced by one of the most radical Marxists in America as, "my comrade?"
Watch this video -- Cornell doesn't trust Obama -- Why the change in attitude?
What promises did Obama make to cause this 180◦?
2008 Why isn't Barack Obama's speech, which he touts on his presidential website, being used as exhibit A, not only for using words that reach out to his community, but also as an example of how he's using race whenever he can and when it suits his needs and benefits his candidacy?
As the South Carolina primary campaign built to a climax, Obama addressed a largely African-American audience in Sumter.
In this video, Obama drops his eloquent Harvard accent, and says, "They're trying to bamboozle you. It's the same old okie-dokie. -- Y'all know about okie dokie, right? -- They try to bamboozle you. -- Hoodwink ya. Try to hoodwink ya. Alright. -- I'm having too much fun here. ... "
This speech had been borrowed from one of Obama's heroes, Malcolm X, who said, "You've been hoodwinked. You've been had. You've been took. You've been led astray, led amok. Youve been bamboozled."
It is strange that a candidate, who belongs to an "Afrocentric" church, that bestows awards on Louis Farrakhan, would borrow from Malcolm X, who was a spokesman for the Nation of Islam, right before complaining about e-mails claiming he is Muslim.
2008 On March 6th, Bill OReilly asked Al Sharpton the $64,000 question -- what happens if Hillary Clinton gets the nomination even if Barack Obama comes into Denver leading in pledged delegates? After the losses in Texas and Ohio, the new meme has the super-delegates wondering whether Obama can win a general election. If Hillary can make it closer by the time the convention rolls around, say to within 70 or so pledged delegates, the super-delegates will throw their support to the most competitive candidate.
After hesitating a bit, Sharpton makes it clear that he and his supporters wont accept a brokered outcome, saying:
"Superdelegates are not Supermen. The party cant say it represents the concept of one-man, one-vote democracy and then make backroom deals that ignore the popular vote and the will of the electorate. They will march in the street to protest a Hillary nomination if she comes into Denver trailing Obama."
Sharptons threat gives Obama potent leverage to keep from accepting a convention demotion. If his supporters start talking about third-party movements, the Democrats are finished up and down the ticket -- and they know it.
2008 On March 12th, former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, who is stepping down from Hillary Clintons finance team after telling a California newspaper that Barack Obama has been aided politically by his race, said Wednesday evening that the remarks were nothing more than a "statement of fact."
"Somebody must have seen this (article) and said, 'Wow, this is really something -- we go after Ferraro, we go after Clinton,'" Ferraro said in an interview Wednesday night on FOX News' "Hannity & Colmes." "They made this a divisive issue, not me."
Former Maryland Lieutenant Gov. Michael Steele, who is black, said that Ferraros comments are true, and the fact she cant speak them "goes to the heart and ugliness of racism." He said Obama's candidacy is not diminished by her words, but an oversensitivity is harming debate in America.
That Obama won 92% of the black vote in Mississippi adds credence to Ferraro's and Steele's allegations.
2008 Fox just posted a big story about Obama's mentor, Jeremiah Wright, and the video is pretty gripping, and deeply racially confrontational. He begins by describing the Romans, who crucified Jesus, as Italians, and thus white, and more or less goes from there.
"Barack knows what it means living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people," Wright says.
"Hillary ain't never been called a nigger," he says at the climax.
Obama and his wife Michelle have been sitting at this guy's feet and listening to this crap for 20 years -- is it any wonder they have the views that they do?
3/14/08 March 14th -- Presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday repudiated what he called "inflammatory and appalling remarks" made by his Chicago pastor.
Obama said he had not been present during the sermons in question.
Obama told MSNBC, "Had I heard them in church I would have expressed that concern directly to Rev. Wright."
Please note, he says that he would have expressed concern, not repudiate, the words
Yet, in this video, "the Rev" places Obama in the congregation, by saying, "There is a man here, who can take this country in a new direction" and he points at him.
In the next clip, during Wright's 2007 Christmas services, Wright rails, "Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a process that is controlled by rich white men, Hillary can never know that, Hillary ain't ever been called a nigger!"
While Wright rails, "Bill did us like he did Monica Lewinsky," Wright's successor, Otis Moss III, jumps into the picture frame, attempting to high-five "the Rev."
Barack was in Chicago for Christmas 2007 and Wright is addressing him from the pulpit. Will Barack say me didn't attend Christmas services?
When Obama said, "Had I heard them in church ..." Obama lied. He listened to Wright's sermons for 20 years.
These two men, Obama and Wright, are two peas in the same pod.
And, please notice the congregation in that video. They are going nuts during Wright's preaching. All of them believe this "evil white man" crap and eat it up.
The whole bunch of them are the worst kinds of hateful racists -- and remember, Wright's congregation is composed of successful, educated African-Americans.
3/14/08 Obama's own first book suggests that some elements of Wright's style that are now controversial -- particularly on race -- aren't really new.
On Page 293 of my edition of "Dreams for My Father," Obama recounts Wright's "The Audacity of Hope" sermon. (I linked a version of this earlier today.)
Obama quotes this passage:
"It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphereThats the world! On which hope sits!"
3/24/08 Obama doesn't talk much about his views on crime and punishment -- at least not in front of general audiences -- and for good reason.
While his Web site says he's "a strong proponent of tougher measures to fight crime," his record tells a different story.
As an Illinois state senator, for example, he acted more as a friend to criminals than to cops, legislating among other things:
Curbs on what he called a "broken" death penalty system.
A measure to expunge some criminal records and give job grants to ex-cons.
Tougher handgun controls.
A vote against making gang members eligible for the death penalty if they kill someone to help their gang.
Opposition to a bill requiring juveniles to be prosecuted as adults for firing a gun at or near a school.
At the federal level, Obama would:
Repeal "unfair" mandatory sentences for crack convictions.
Provide drug counseling instead of jail time for some abusers.
Rethink criminal penalties for pot.
Ban profiling by federal law enforcement, even if it helps catch violent criminals including terrorists.
Strengthen hate-crime laws and beef up civil rights enforcement against police chiefs who profile.
Provide job training, drug rehab and counseling for ex-cons.
"Re-enfranchise" felons denied the right to vote.
In addition, Obama, who once vowed to repeal the Patriot Act, still talks about reforming it. He also once proposed banning executions of inmates, arguing he was against capital punishment.
It's not clear where Obama stands on the issue now, but he does think death row and the entire U.S. penal system are stacked against blacks. While so far only alluding to racism as the culprit, his mentor Rev. Jeremiah Wright minces no words in blaming "racist white America."
"The brothers are in prison" largely because of their skin color, he claims.
And a racist white majority put them there, he believes, by "structuring an economic environment that induces captive youth to fill the jails and prisons."
In Wright's conspiracy, personal responsibility plays no role. This is the same adviser who told Obama that there are "more black men in prison than in college" -- a statement that Obama parroted until he was told that it was false.
Unfortunately, Obama listens to his preacher and buys into his conspiracy theories. "In our criminal justice system, African-Americans and whites are arrested at very different rates," Obama recently complained. "It has to do with how we pursue racial justice."
He vows to pursue it with gusto, unleashing civil rights cops on police chiefs and district attorneys who dare to arrest and prosecute criminals who happen to be of color.
In last Tuesday's speech explaining his ties to Wright, he reiterated his desire to do more to enforce civil rights laws.
He cites the Jena Six case as an example of racial injustice. But one of the thugs he defends as a victim of Louisiana racism recently was arrested again for assault. The 6-6 Bryant Purvis allegedly choked and slammed a classmate's head on a table after helping five other blacks beat a white student within an inch of his life.
Would Obama go soft on such brutal crime in the name of racial equality? No justice, no peace? Obama for now speaks only in code, saying he'll fix "a criminal justice system that's broken." But how exactly is it broken? And who would he appoint to help fix it?
Who will he pick as his attorney general? His top civil rights cop? Is his pal Rep. John Conyers on the short list? Rep. Keith Ellison?
What about federal judges? Will they be frustrated social workers who go easy on criminals to "reintegrate" them into society?
More important, what kind of justices does Obama have in mind to replace aging veterans on the high court, who decide the constitutionality of capital punishment cases?
We shudder to think.
3/31/08 An anti-white and virulently anti-Semitic black supremacist party has once again endorsed Sen. Barack Obama on the presidential candidate's own website.
Following criticism earlier this month of an online endorsement from the New Black Panther Party (NBPP), Obama's campaign removed the controversial organization from the presidential candidate's official website. The NBPP had been a registered team member and blogger on Obama's "MyObama" campaign site.
But the NBPP endorsement was reposted on Obama's official website today.
"Obama is capable of stirring the 'melting pot' into a better 'molten America,'" states the NBPP endorsement posted on Obama's site.
The NBPP is a controversial black extremist party whose leaders are notorious for their racist statements and for leading anti-white activism.
Malik Zulu Shabazz, NBPP national chairman, who has given scores of speeches condemning "white men" and Jews, confirmed his organization's endorsement of Obama in a recent interview with WND.
"I think the way Obama responded to the attack on him and the attempt to sabotage his campaign shows true leadership and character. He had a chance to denounce his pastor and he didn't fall for the bait. He stood up and addressed real issues of racial discord," stated Shabazz.
Shabazz boasted he met Obama last March when the politician attended the 42nd anniversary of the voting rights marches in Selma, Ala.
"I have nothing but respect for Obama and for his pastor," said Shabazz, referring to Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor of nearly 20 years.
It is Wright's racially charged and anti-Israel remarks that were widely circulated this month, landing the presidential candidate in hot water and prompting Obama to deliver a major race speech in which he condemned Wright's comments but not the pastor himself.
Speaking to WND, Shabazz referred to Obama as a man with a "Muslim background, a man of color."
Shabazz's NBPP's official platform states "white man has kept us deaf, dumb and blind," refers to the "white racist government of America," demands black people be exempt from military service and uses the word "Jew" repeatedly in quotation marks.
Shabazz has led racially divisive protests and conferences, such as the 1998 Million Youth March in which a few thousand Harlem youths reportedly were called upon to scuffle with police officers and speakers demanded the extermination of whites in South Africa.
The NBPP chairman was quoted at a May 2007 protest against the 400-year celebration of the settlement of Jamestown, Va., stating, "When the white man came here, you should have left him to die."
He claimed Jews engaged in an "African holocaust," and he has promoted the anti-Semitic urban legend that 4,000 Israelis fled the World Trade Center just prior to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
When Shabazz was denied entry to Canada last May while trying to speak at a black action event, he blamed Jewish groups and claimed Canada "is run from Israel."
Canadian officials justified the action stating he has an "anti-Semitic" and "anti-police" record, but some reports blamed what was termed a minor criminal history for the decision to deny him entry.
He similarly blamed Jews for then-New York Mayor Rudi Giuliani's initial decision, later rescinded, against granting a permit for the Million Youth March.
The NBPP's deceased chairman, Khallid Abdul Muhammad, a former Nation of Islam leader who was once considered Louis Farrakhan's most trusted adviser, gave speeches referring to the "white man" as the "devil" and claiming that "there is a little bit of Hitler in all white people."
In a 1993 speech condemned by the U.S. Congress and Senate, Muhammad, lionized on the NBPP site, referred to Jews as "bloodsuckers," labeled the pope a "no-good cracker" and advocated the murder of white South Africans who would not leave the nation subsequent to a 24-hour warning.
All NBPP members must memorize the group's rules, such as that no party member "can have a weapon in his possession while drunk or loaded off narcotics or weed," and no member "will commit any crimes against other party members or black people at all."
The NBPP endorses Obama on its own page of the presidential candidate's official site that allows registered users to post their own blogs.
The group labels itself on Obama's site as representing "Freedom, Justice, and Peace for all of Mankind." It links to the official NBPP website, which contains what can be arguably regarded as hate material.
The NBPP previously endorsed Obama on the presidential candidate's site, but following publicity of that endorsement, the Obama campaign removed the NBPP posting.
"It's our policy [to remove] any content generated by a group that advocates violence," explained Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor to FoxNews.com.
Before the campaign removed the party's page, Obama spokeswoman Tiffany Edwards told FoxNews.com the NBPP endorsement on Obama's website "has nothing to do with us."
"People can form their own groups," she said. "It's not something that the campaign -- it's not something that we've done."
While it appears anyone can initially sign up as a registered supporter on Obama's site, it isn't clear whether the campaign monitors the site or approves users. There is a link on each blog page for users to report any abusers, such as those who post controversial entries, to the administrator.
Shabbazz chalked up the Obama campaign's initial removal of his NBPP endorsement from the website to "the game of politics."
"The Obama camp's move to remove our blog doesn't mean much because I understand politics. We still completely support Obama as the best candidate."
Obama 'less biased' on Israel
Shabazz said that aside from promoting black rights, he also supports Obama because he may take what he called a "less biased" policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"I have hopes he will change the U.S. government's position toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict because our position has been unwarranted bias. Time and time again the U.S. vetoed resolutions in the U.N. Security Council condemning [Israeli] human rights violations. ... I hope he shifts policy," Shabazz said.
But he added he doesn't believe Obama could change America's policy regarding Israel very much since, he said, "other, powerful lobbies" control U.S. foreign policy.
4/7/08 April 7th -- Only a week after her husband drew throngs to Soldiers and Sailors, Michelle Obama wooed a small crowd at Skibo Gymnasium on Wednesday.
Skibos risers were packed with community members and students from many of Pittsburghs universities. The rally was staffed by volunteers from a number of Carnegie Mellon student organizations, including Carnegie Mellon Students for Barack Obama, Student Senate, AB Political Speakers, and College Democrats.
While the crowd was indeed diverse, some students at the event questioned the practices of Mrs. Obamas event coordinators, who handpicked the crowd sitting behind Mrs. Obama. The Tartans correspondents observed one event coordinator say to another, "Get me more white people, we need more white people." To an Asian girl sitting in the back row, one coordinator said, "Were moving you, sorry. Its going to look so pretty, though."
"I didnt know they would say, 'We need a white person here,'" said attendee and senior psychology major Shayna Watson, who sat in the crowd behind Mrs. Obama. "I understood they would want a show of diversity, but to pick up people and to reseat them, I didnt know it would be so outright."
Mrs. Obama was introduced by Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of former Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry (DMass.).
4/10/08 The Elector of Saxony said it best in an earlier post:
The more I learn about Obama, the more there is to dislike. When you read the description of Barack's home life, it is hard to square his background with someone who views America as a racist, oppressive society.
Here is a half-black man, abandoned by his black father and placed in the care of his white salesman grandfather and bank VP grandmother. From these obviously humble, ordinary beginnings, America has provided him the opportunity to attend the finest universities in the land, become a multimillionaire, and made him one of the 102 most powerful people in the entire nation.
You would think that such a man would view America as Ronald Reagan did, or at least as JFK did. After all of the riches, power, and accolades bestowed upon him, he and his family still see America through the eyes of Kruschev, Castro, and Ahmedinijad.
Isn't that the most alarming thing about the man? He a walking, breathing exemplar of what is great about America, and yet he believes ( or pretends to) that it is a cruel, unfair, and racist nation and fosters this notion in the minds of others. I might understand his attitude and that of those around him if because of his skin, his interracial family, the origin of his father, or his lack of privilege in childhood he had ended up bussing tables or working as a night janitor. The truly awful thing is that here is a man who KNOWS for a fact the truth about America, knows it is THE land of opportunity, knows that it is the fairest society on earth, the most generous society to the outsider, the abandoned child, the mixed-race boy of meager means, and yet he misleads those who have not come as far as he has. Surely he is smart enough to know the reason that some make it in America and some do not and that even those who do not are allowed to grow fat on the backs of the American People.
The putrid venom that he and his campaign are vending demoralizes those who would seek to follow in his own footsteps, widens the divisions between us, and pays back the kindness, equity, and generosity shown to him, with a billy-club to the head.
I ask you all what will happen if such a man becomes the most powerful man on Earth? I cannot imagine any good will come of it.
4/10/08 April 10th -- Shocking New Obama Audio/Video has surfaced.
You think the media will question Obama about this? He says we need to discuss race. Id love to hear him discuss this. Perhaps Im just a "typical white person," but I think the takeaway quote here is:
"Thats Just How White Folks Will Do You." -- B. H. Obama
"Any distinction between good and bad whites held negligible meaning. We were always playing on the white mans courtby the white mans rules." -- B. H. Obama
4/18/08 "Barack Obama hangs around people who are bitter to the core. His entire inner circle -- his wife -- his pastor -- is filled with almost insane rage. Barack Obama has been attracted to extreme radical elements his entire life."
4/18/08 Senator Obama is one of key leaders in a campaign to make Juneteeth Day a National Holiday in the United States. Juneteeth Day occurs on every June 19th, the anniversary of General Granger announcing the emancipation of slaves in the South West. The Holiday would be celebrated on the third Friday in June. Here's what the NYT wrote about it on 2004:
"Most gatherings are decidedly upbeat, but the sobering reason for the holiday has also been part of Juneteenth's growth. Dr. Ronald Myers, the leader of a movement to make Juneteenth a national holiday, says June 19 should be an annual remembrance of the horrors of slavery"
We never got our apology, so we need this holiday to remind us that we must not forget," said Dr. Myers, who spoke yesterday at a Juneteenth event at the Capitol led by Representative Danny K. Davis, Democrat of Illinois." New York Times, 6/19/04
According to the latest press release below from the organization leading the campaign, a victory for Obama will likely lead to the introduction of this holiday. Another example of the kind of "uniting" we can expect from the Senator who appears to be becoming a lightning rod for creating racial disharmony in the USA.
Senator Barack Obama has been a key sponsor of Juneteenth legislation in the Senate and keynote speaker at the annual Juneteenth congressional reception.
Advocates say, Juneteenth is as deserving of recognition as Independence Day. "We may have gotten there in different ways and at different times," says Meyers of blacks and whites, "but you can't really celebrate freedom in America by just going with the Fourth of July."
5/15/08 At CNN, an article from Ruben Navarrette Jr. that explicitly spells it out: Not voting for Barack Obama is racism.
5/16/08 A special U.N. human rights investigator will visit the United States this month to probe racism, an issue that has forced its way into the race to secure the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
The United Nations said Doudou Diene would meet federal and local officials, as well as lawmakers and judicial authorities during the May 19-June 6 visit.
"The special rapporteur will...gather first-hand information on issues related to racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance," a U.N. statement said on Friday.
Doudou is a citizen of Senegal, an African republic spawned by France. Muslims comprise 94% of the population.
Update -- 5/23/08: "Islamophobia" will be "high on the agenda" of the UNs visiting human rights investigator, said Kareem Shora, national executive director of the American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee (ADC).
Doudou Diene, a UN special envoy, began his three-week investigation on Monday. He will assess "racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance" in the United States during meetings with officials, lawmakers and campaigners. The Senegalese lawyer, who has served in the independent position since 2002, routinely visits countries to assess racism and will report his findings to the UN Human Rights Council next year.
Dine, a Muslim, is from Senegal, a predominantly (94%) Muslim country, which is a source, transit, and destination country for children and women trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation.
Trafficking within the country is more prevalent than trans-border trafficking. Boys who are students (talibe) at Koranic schools are trafficked within the country for forced begging by their religious teachers (marabouts), and women and girls are trafficked for domestic servitude. Girls, and possibly adult women, are also trafficked internally for sexual exploitation. Trans-nationally, boys are trafficked to Senegal from Gambia, Mali, Guinea-Bissau, and Guinea for forced begging by religious teachers. Senegalese women and girls are trafficked to neighboring countries, the Middle East, and Europe for domestic servitude and possibly for sexual exploitation. Reports over the last year of large numbers of Senegalese and neighboring country nationals being transported from Senegal to Spain appear to be cases of smuggling and illegal migration rather than trafficking. -- U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2007
Looks like an expert on racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance to me.
What is the probability this guy finds examples of racism -- 101% -- 102% -- more?
And the odds that he will find "Islamophobia" are off the charts.
5/19/08
5/30/08 More hate at Obama's Trinity United Christian(?) Church.
Father Michael Pfleger, a fiery liberal social activist and a white reverend at the African-American, St. Sabinas Catholic Church on the South Side of Chicago, is a longtime friend and associate of Obama. Pfleger has known him since the presidential hopeful was a community activist.
This video shows the guest-bigot delivering an amazingly hateful anti-Hillary, anti-white tirade -- the sort of rhetoric for which hes famous.
When the video became public, Pfleger feigned contrition -- "I regret the words I chose on Sunday. These words are inconsistent with Senator Obama's life and message, and I am deeply sorry if they offended Senator Clinton or anyone else who saw them."
The real shocker here, as in all of these Trinity videos, is that the congregation goes wild -- they love this hateful rhetoric and eat it up.
Of course, the Obamessiah is shocked and surprised!
Doing his best Sgt. Schultz imitation, Obama feigned ignorance of Pfleger's views and said, "I am deeply disappointed in Father Pfleger's divisive, backward-looking rhetoric."
Pfleger is a close friend of Louis Farrakhan, has donated to Obama's state senate and presidential campaigns, and sat on a "Catholics for Obama" committee until a few weeks ago.
Pfleger's history of hate never stopped Obama from landing $225,000 in grants for outreach programs run by Pfleger's church when he was in the state legislature.
David Axelrod, Obama's chief strategist and MoveOn.org founder, said that Father Pfleger was "remaking the face" of Chicago's South Side and that all of Mr. Obamas earmarks went to worthy programs like his.
5/31/08 I know some conservative Republicans who almost wouldnt mind if Barack Obama does win the White House in November. Their theory is that once we, as a nation, elect a black man to the White House, that election will forever eliminate the claim that Americans are racist because we wont elect a black man to that office. On its face, it seems a logical theory. In practice, however, it will not work. Not with Barack Obama.
If Obama becomes president of the United States, his disastrous time in office will set race relations back 50 years.
First of all -- and there is just no other way to way this -- the man is a liar. He claims to want to solve our partisan strife, doesnt he? He claims he wants to work with Congress instead of against the other party. He is supposedly the man of "change" and "hope." If you do a web search for "Obama reach across the aisle" youll get thousands upon thousands of hits. The general perception that Obama has succeeded in fostering is that he does, indeed, want to "reach across the aisle."
Unfortunately for all of us, it is all a giant lie.
As a legislator, Barack Obama has absolutely no history of working with anyone "across the aisle." There are instances when he has occasionally made statements that have seemed to auger support for an idea that is supported by the Republicans, but when ever it has come down to actual votes, his is always a straight up, far left, liberal vote. He has never worked with anyone on the other side of the aisle on anything. And there is no reason to suspect hell suddenly start such a practice upon stepping into the White House, either.
Worse, we have seen the sort of people hes surrounded himself with and none of them are folks on the other side of the aisle. He is close friends with racists (Rev. Wright, Louis Farrakhan), he has the support of aging hippies who were domestic terrorists in their youth (William Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn), he has even invited a young fellow who was mentioned as a communist while at Harvard to be his official campaign blogger (Sam Graham-Felsen). Then we get to his wife who is famous for having said that she was never "proud of America" until her hubby ran for president. She has also said things to disparage capitalism and called the country "mean." But does Obama have any close associates and supporters who are Republicans, even moderate ones? No. Not a single one. And further more, he never has.
So, what sort of president will he make? And why do I say he will set race relations back 50 years?
A Barack Obama presidency will be one filled with one extreme left idea after another. He will strengthen our enemies, most likely try to gut our military, undermine the economy, raise taxes, and inflate government spending on pointless giveaways and welfare programs. He will find mounting resistance from Republicans and moderates because of it. He will repeatedly stumble with foreign policy making himself look the fool. God help us if a terror attack happens during his presidency, because his response will be a fiasco.
Youll find that this will happen with Barack Obama. Every time he makes a fool of himself in front of a foreign leader, whites will be called racists for pointing it out. Every time his wife is heard to confirm how much she hates this country, it will be the fault of whites for asking her why she is so filled with hate. With every legislative failure and internal scandal, whites will be attacked as being mean to Barack.
It will get very tiresome. It will get so tiresome that whites who would never have a racist thought in their minds will begin to have unkind thoughts of his race-mongering supporters. And this will be reflected upon every black person in the country. Blacks will have their hate-whitey feelings further entrenched (just as they did during the O.J. trial) and whites will find frustration with the foolish, blind support of a president that is obviously a failure. And for those who truly are racists, the debacle of an Obama presidency will give them the excuse to say that they have proof that blacks are not up to the pressures of being president.
After the last days of a Barack Obama presidency, we will see race relations taking a giant step backward. So, I say to my Republican readers who think that an Obama presidency might be helpful for race relations in America; it isnt going to happen. Sadly, just the opposite will occur.
A President Barack Obama will nearly ruin race relations in America.
6/5/08 "Affirmative action is an appropriate response to the history of discrimination in this country." -- Barack Hussein Obama
Of course he does -- after all, he's the affirmative action candidate -- I wonder where he stands on reparations?
6/10/08 Can you smell it? There's a faint whiff of anarchy in the air. Nothing to get alarmed about. Not yet, anyway. Just a barely discernible unarticulated threat, a mere suggestion of a threat. But nonetheless it is there.
The voices are just whispers now, soft and faraway, but they are angry and determined: It is our time now, they are saying. You have had your time and you have used it to oppress us, to keep us down. But it is our time now. And you had better not interfere. For generations we have waited for this moment and we will not be deprived. It is our time now, and if you know what's good for you, you'd better step aside.
Of course, no one has actually come right out and said it quite this way, but there have been hints, there is something in the air. If Obama is not elected in November . . .
On his Fox News radio show, Tom Sullivan predicted that African-Americans would be rioting in the streets similar to what happened after the O.J. trial in the 1990s.
"Let me put it to you a different way. What if Barack Obama is not -- does not win the Democratic nomination, or he does win it, and loses in the presidential race against John McCain? Is black America going to throw their hands up and say, 'Man, you know, I thought we were getting somewhere in this country, but this is just a bunch of racial bigots in this country and they still hate blacks and, I mean, if Barack Obama can't get elected, then we're never gonna have anybody that's a black that's gonna be elected president.' And will there be riots in the streets? I think the answer to that is yes and yes."
And these comments, all the way from India:
"If Obama is not elected, it would destroy America because this time the blacks think that America has the best possible candidate that it has got the opportunity to elect as its president."
"If Obama is not elected, the blacks would feel being cheated and would rightfully think that a great candidate has not been chosen just because of his skin colour and would be antagonised permanently."
Evidently "white guilt" isn't sufficient -- the campaign that promises to "heal America" isn't above using subliminal threats and intimidation to do it.
6/11/08 Chicago Sun-Times: Now Greeley Says It's Racist Not to Vote Obama.
Apparently, the Chicago media have decided that the meme for the 2008 general election is going to be that anyone who doesn't vote for Barack Obama is a racist because this is the second editorial (that I've seen, anyway) in Chicago stating such a theory. Last week the Daily Herald voiced the assumption and this week it's the Sun-Times with the volatile Andrew Greeley taking up the cause of ridding the world of racism one Obama vote at a time.
6/12/08 Ward Connerly, writing in the Wall Street Journal, observes, "Obama Is No 'Post-Racial' Candidate."
With all my heart -- and for the betterment of my country -- I desperately wanted to believe that Sen. Barack Obama was not one of the same tired voices who peddle arguments about "institutional racism."
I have heard him say that America is not about "black and white." I was inspired when his supporters chanted at his rally on the night of his victory in South Carolina that "race doesn't matter." I thought his March 18th speech about race had the potential to become a defining moment in our endless struggle to confront and conquer this issue. I was encouraged by his perceptive acknowledgment that affirmative action breeds resentment and hostility. As millions of whites cast their votes for him in predominantly white states, I held out hope that, perhaps, he truly was a transformative leader.
But a June 10th article in USA Today by DeWayne Wickham dashed my hopes for Mr. Obama.
Mr. Wickham, who had interviewed the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, wrote that "Obama believes America can keep its promise to women and blacks without dashing the hopes of working-class whites. He doesn't think opportunity guarantees made to one group must come at the expense of another." Then he went on to quote Obama campaign spokeswoman Candice Toliver, who said that "Senator Obama believes in a country in which opportunity is available to all Americans, regardless of race, gender or economic status. That's why he opposes these ballot initiatives, which would roll back opportunity for millions of Americans and cripple efforts to break down historic barriers to the progress of qualified women and minorities."
Translation: Mr. Obama supports race preferences.
I still want to know where Obama stands on reparations?
6/21/08 All in! -- Obama flops the race card.
Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama said on Friday he expects Republicans to highlight the fact that he is black as part of an effort to make voters afraid of him.
"They're going to try to make you afraid of me. He's young and inexperienced and he's got a funny name. And did I mention he's black?"
All true, of course -- but he's the one talking about it, not the Republicans.
He said he was also set for Republicans to say "he's got a feisty wife," in trying to attack his wife Michelle.
Feisty isn't the word I'd use.
Considering the fact that Obama wrote, in his first book, "I ceased to advertise my mothers race at the age of twelve or thirteen, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites," -- The Republicans ought to scare the Obamalytes by telling them that Obama is secretly white.
6/22/08 Obama says Republicans will use race to stoke fear.
"It is going to be very difficult for Republicans to run on their stewardship of the economy or their outstanding foreign policy," Obama told a fundraiser in Jacksonville, Florida. "We know what kind of campaign they're going to run. They're going to try to make you afraid.
"They're going to try to make you afraid of me. He's young and inexperienced and he's got a funny name. And did I mention he's black?"
He said he was also set for Republicans to say "he's got a feisty wife," in trying to attack his wife Michelle.
"We know the strategy because they've already shown their cards. Ultimately I think the American people recognize that old stuff hasn't moved us forward. That old stuff just divides us," he said.
Who keeps bringing up race? Why Obama and all his friendly reverends. I thought he was supposed to be the racial healer. He's just another Al Sharpton and Jess Jackson -- just a little more eloquent -- but the content is the same.
7/2/08 File under -- "There's no standard like a double standard."
A Japanese cell phone company has pulled one of its television ads that used a monkey that appears to portray Sen. Barack Obama. (video at link)
The commercial opens with a crowd rallying behind a well-dressed monkey speaking from a podium. The supporters are cheering and waving signs that say "Change." In the ad, the monkey was encouraging users to change providers.
The company behind the ad, eMobile Ltd., insists it had no idea of any racial undertones and says the ad was just a nod at Obamas worldwide popularity.
Eric Gan, president of eMobile, points out that their companys mascot is a monkey -- an animal revered in Japan -- and has been used in previous ads.
"When we saw the idea for the first time, it was 'Hey, you're copying the idea from the presidential election in the U.S." Yes, but, you know, that's how you make a presentation. How you make an impact. We thought it quite was interesting," he said.
Leftwing bloggers and Obamalytes immediately voiced their disapproval of the ad and accused the company of being racist.
But, the same people that are shocked by this racist image, believe this is a hoot:
Google returns 491,000 Results for a search on "George W. Bush" chimp -- not a single, mistaken instance, but 491,000 purposeful instances -- the left has no problem with that, however -- that's OK!
Just like the attacks on John McCain, The Washington Posts attack on conservative bloggers, the "leave my wife alone" stuff, and the ever-ready race card, Obama, and his campaign, are all about intimidation.
7/7/08
White Folk's Greed Runs a World In Need (00:33)
7/7/8 The Orwellian doublespeak that Obama spews in portraying himself as "a uniter" and someone who "will bring this country together" is the polar opposite of everything this man has said and done and would be laughable if it were not so deadly serious.
Read more here . . .
7/31/08 Speaking to a gathering of minority journalists in Chicago, Obama said, "I personally would want to see our tragic history, or the tragic elements of our history, acknowledged."
"I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it's Native Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds."
Exactly what Obama is advocating here cannot be determined, but it seems to be something of an endorsement of the idea of "reparations for slavery," which is usually taken to mean cash payments. In this view, the following deeds are insufficient to balance the ledger between America and the descendants of slaves: the Civil War, the ratification of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments, Brown v. Board of Education, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the continuing practice of racial preferences.
When Obama walked on stage at the McCormick Center, many journalists in the audience leapt to their feet and applauded enthusiastically after being told not to do so. During a two-minute break halfway through the event, which was broadcast live on CNN, journalists ran to the stage to snap photos of Obama.
Obama, who acknowledged that he needed a nap, stood up to say farewell to the audience of journalists, many of whom gave him another standing ovation.
This is the first direct quote I've seen where Obama clearly endorses reparations -- "When it comes to...reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds." -- he is saying the most important thing for the government to do is offer reparations.
And, there he goes complaining about being tired again. On July 31st, 2008, a Google, using -- Obama tired fatigue -- returned 238,000 items. Many others have noticed that Obama, despite his comparative youth, often complains of being tired or fatigued.
7/31/08 Obama says John McCain and his Republican allies will try to scare them by saying Obama "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."
McCain and his campaign have studiously avoided race and certainly didn't make the "dollar bill" crack.
But, Obama brings race into the conversation every time he opens his mouth. Whether directly or indirectly, he's always talking about race -- and he gets to attack McCain for free while doing it.
Obama's "little joke" was a variation on the line he used in Berlin: "I know that I dont look like the other Americans whove previously spoken in this great city."
And, it's not the first time. Remember, last month when Obama tarred the McCain Campaign with this smear: "We know what kind of campaign theyre going to run. Theyre going
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Ok enough wetting your pants over Baracko the chosen one
on to the next bit of Obama trivia
The Obama File
Race
"Thats Just How White Folks Will Do You."
Barack Hussein Obama
SHOCKING Obama words: what he really thinks of white folks (09:53)
1961 Anna Dunham's parents weren't happy with her marriage to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., but Hussein Onyango Obama, Barack Sr.'s father was furious.
He wrote the Dunhams "this long, nasty letter saying that he didn't approve of the marriage," Obama recounted his mother telling him in "Dreams." "He didn't want the Obama blood sullied by a white woman."
1972 Anna Dunham separates from Lolo and she takes 10-year-old Barack to live with her parents in Honolulu. Anna and Obama's half-sister Maya return to Indonesia. Anna will stay in Indonesia until shortly before her death.
Later, Obama would write in "Dreams...," -- "I ceased to advertise my mothers race at the age of twelve or thirteen, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites."
Barry Soetoro is enrolled in the Punahou School and becomes Barack Hussein Obama.
Obama's classmate and friend, Keith "Ray" Kakugawa, said. "Barry's biggest struggles then were missing his parents. His biggest struggles were his feelings of abandonment.
Abandoned by his father and shipped off by his mother to his white grandparents, Barry Sotero as Barack Hussein Obama begins the search for his "blackness."
1973 Obama wanted a race to belong to, a team whose accomplishments would reflect well upon him. Of course, it was unthinkable in his liberal white family to take pride in the achievements of his mothers race, so Obama gloried in being part of his absent fathers race.
From his early teens onward, though, Obama desperately wants to be black. In "Dreams," he writes, "I was trying to raise myself to be a black man in America, and beyond the given of my appearance, no one around me seemed to know exactly what that meant." Honolulus paucity of African-Americans means he has to learn to be black from the media: "TV, movies, the radio; those were places to start. Pop culture was color-coded, after all, an arcade of images from which you could cop a walk, a talk, a step, a style."
"...never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didnt speak to my own. It was into my fathers image, the black man, son of Africa, that Id packed all the attributes I sought in myself..."
Obama even describes his grandparents, the people who would raise and nourish him, as "white folk."
1975
He cherishes every cause for complaint he can discern against white folks. He is constantly distressed at being half-white. Obama says "I ceased to advertise my mothers race at the age of twelve or thirteen, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites."
When his grandmother wants a ride to work because the day before, while awaiting the bus, she was threatened by a black panhandler, he is outraged -- at his grandmother.
Obama consulted his communist mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, about this incident for advice. Davis responded to Obama, "What I'm trying to tell you is, your grandmother has every right to be scared. ... She understands that black people have a reason to hate. That's just how it is. For your sake, I wish it were otherwise. But it's not. So you might as well get used to it."
Later, when he moves to the South Side of Chicago in 1984, he eventually discovers that, like his grandmother, hes sometimes scared of black males on the street, too.
1976 As a teenager, Obama sought out gatherings on military bases or at the University of Hawaii that were mostly attended by blacks.
1978 Even through high school, he continued to vacillate between the twin strands of his racial identity.
"I learned to slip back and forth between my black and white worlds," he wrote in "Dreams." "One of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied; they were relieved -- such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn't seem angry all the time."
Obama wrote that in high school, he and a black friend would sometimes speak disparagingly "about white folks this or white folks that, and I would suddenly remember my mother's smile, and the words that I spoke would seem awkward and false."
As a result, he concluded that "certain whites could be excluded from the general category of our distrust."
1979
Obama enters Occidental College in California.
In his college days, it was the autobiography of militant Malcolm X that grabbed his attention more than any other black writer. "His repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me," Obama has said. This also was the period when Obama stopped using the nickname "Barry" in favor of his full name.
1980 In his first memoir, "Dreams," Obama included a description of black student life at Occidental College in Los Angeles.
"There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs," he wrote. "It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names."
He added: "To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists."
Obama said he and other blacks were careful not to second-guess their own racial identity in front of whites.
"To admit our doubt and confusion to whites, to open up our psyches to general examination by those who had caused so much of the damage in the first place, seemed ludicrous, itself an expression of self-hatred," he wrote.
1981 Occidental College in Los Angeles, which then had a black mayor, Tom Bradley, wasnt black enough, so in search of a community to belong to, he transfers to Harlem well, to be precise, to that prestigious university on the edge of Harlem, Columbia. (A recurrent theme in Obamas career is Power to the People gestures and Ivy League results).
He majors in political science with a specialization in international relations.
1982
During college, Obama disapproved of what he called other "half-breeds" who gravitated toward whites instead of blacks. And yet after college, he once fell in love with a white woman, only to push her away when he concluded he would have to assimilate into her world, not the other way around. He later married a black woman.
1983 When hes working on Wall Street, hes creeped out by his visiting mothers insistence on seeing her favorite film, the 1959 Brazilian art-house classic "Black Orpheus." He belatedly realizes that his very fair-skinned mother is sexually attracted to dark men. He pompously intones, "The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart."
1984
Obama graduates from Columbia College, and after spending a year working in New York, moves to Chicago where he finally finding a home where at least some whites reciprocated his antagonism.
1983 In the period from high school in Hawaii, to Columbia University and then to the streets of Chicago as a community organizer, Obama is the classic angry young black man, describing his world thusly:
"We were always playing on the white man's court -- by the white man's rules. If the principal, or the coach, or a teacher wanted to spit in your face, he could, because he had the power and you didn't. The only thing you could choose was withdrawal into a smaller and smaller coil of rage."
Obama once described the white race as "that ghostly figure that haunted black dreams."
"That hate hadn't gone away," he wrote, blaming "white people -- some cruel, some ignorant, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives."
After graduating from college, Obama eventually went to Chicago to interview for a job as a community organizer. His racial attitudes came into play as he sized up the man who would become his boss.
"There was something about him that made me wary," Obama wrote. "A little too sure of himself, maybe. And white."
1983
During college, Obama disapproved of what he called other "half-breeds" who gravitated toward whites instead of blacks. And yet after college, he once fell in love with a white woman, only to push her away when he concluded he would have to assimilate into her world, not the other way around. He later married a black woman.
1983 "I would occasionally pick up the paper [Louis Farrakhans 'The Final Call'] from these unfailingly polite men, in part out of sympathy to their heavy suits in the summer, their thin coats in winter; or sometimes because my attention was caught by the sensational, tabloid-style headlines (CAUCASIAN WOMAN ADMITS: WHITES ARE THE DEVIL). Inside the front cover, one found reprints of the ministers [Farrakhans] speeches, as well as stories that could have been picked straight off the AP news wire were it not for certain editorial embelleshments (Jewish Senator Metzenbaum announced today).
Dreams From My Father, p. 201
1984 When he was a community organizer (age 22 prior to going to law school) he happily cooperated with Rafiq, a former gangster turned Nation of Islam. He even believed that Black Nationalism was a "good therapy" for Blacks. That was also the reason he supported Wright ("Dreams...," p. 190-200). For he shares Michelle's sentiments of alienation, came to believe that race should trump everything and it should be anti-white:
"all the black people who, it turned out, shared with me a voice that whispered inside them -- You don't really belong here."
"In a sense, then, Rafiq was right when he insisted that, deep down, all blacks were potential Nationalists. The anger was there, bottled up and often turned inward. And . . . I wondered whether, for now at least, Rafiq wasn't also right in preferring that that anger be redirected; whether a black politics that suppressed rage towards white generally, or one that failed to elevate race loyally above all else, was a politics inadequate to the task."
"It was a painful thought to consider, as painful now as it has been years ago. It contradicted the morality my mother had taught me, a morality of subtle distinctions -- between individuals of goodwill and those who wished me ill, between active malice and ignorance of indifference. I have a personal stake in that moral framework; I'd discovered that I couldn't escape it if I tried. And yet perhaps it was a framework that blacks in this country could no longer afford; perhaps it weakened black resolve, encouraged confusion within the ranks. Desperate times called for desperate measures, and for many blacks, times were chronically desperate. If (black) nationalism could create a strong and effective insularity, deliver on its promise of self respect, then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, of the inner turmoil it caused people like me, would be of little consequence."
"If nationalism could deliver. As it turned out, questions of effectiveness, and not sentiment, cause most of my quarrels with Rafiq."
In other words, Barack was willing to sacrifice his mother and his typical white grandparents on the alter of black nationalism. His sentiments were in line with those of Rafiq, the Nation of Islam activist. That is the reason he chose a black nationalist church run by Reverend Wright, who explained to him during their very first meeting ("Dreams...," p.284):
"Life's not safe for a black man in this country, Barack. Never has been. Probably never will be."
1995 At age 33, Obama publishes a 442 page book about his pursuit of a racial identity.
There's not a word about him pursuing a non-racial, specifically American identity in "Dreams from My Father, A Story of Race and Inheritance."
Obamas book is primarily about his rejection of his supportive white maternal extended family in favor of his unknown black paternal extended family.
Isn't it kinda racist of Obama to be pissed at mom and take it out on the whole white race?
1995 In Dreams From My Father, Obama meditates on Farrakhan, finding: "If [black] nationalism could create a strong and effective insularity, deliver on its promise of self-respect, then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, or the inner turmoil it caused people like me, would be of little consequence."
1995 Also in his memoir, Obama writes of one of the watershed moments of his racial awareness -- time and again in remarkable detail. It is a story about a Life magazine article that influenced him. The report was about a black man who tried to bleach his skin white. When Obama was told no such article could be found in Life, he says "it might have been Ebony.
He is 9 years old, living in Indonesia, where he and his mother moved with her new husband, Lolo Soetoro, a few years earlier. One day while visiting his mother, who was working at the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Obama passed time by looking through several issues of Life magazine. He came across an article that he later would describe as feeling like an "ambush attack."
The article included photos of a black man who had destroyed his skin with powerful chemical lighteners that promised to make him white. Instead, the chemicals had peeled off much of his skin, leaving him sad and scarred, Obama recalled.
"I imagine other black children, then and now, undergoing similar moments of revelation," Obama wrote of the magazine photos in "Dreams."
Yet no such photo exists, according to historians at the magazine. No such photos, no such article. When asked about the discrepancy, Obama said in a recent interview, "It might have been an Ebony or it might have been ... who knows what it was?" (At the request of the Tribune, archivists at Ebony searched their catalogue of past articles, none of which matched what Obama recalled.)
In fact, it is surprising, based on interviews with more than two dozen people who knew Obama during his nearly four years in Indonesia, that it would take a photograph in a magazine to make him conscious of the fact that some people might treat him differently in part because of the color of his skin.
2006 In October, Obama publishes "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream," which details his views of politics and his vision for the future of the U.S. government and its people.
Malcolm Xs autobiography seemed to offer something different, Obama wrote. "His repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me; the blunt poetry of his words, his unadorned insistence on respect, promised a new and uncompromising order, martial in its discipline, forged through sheer force of will."
He added: "Malcolms discovery toward the end of his life, that some whites might live beside him as brothers in Islam, seemed to offer some hope of eventual reconciliation."
This is the thinking of a Muslim.
2007 As another example, consider Obama's stirring tale for the Selma audience about how he had been conceived by his parents, Barack Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham, because they had been inspired by the fervor following the "Bloody Sunday" voting rights demonstration that was commemorated March 4. "There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama," he said, "because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don't tell me I'm not coming home to Selma, Alabama"
Obama was born in 1961, and the Selma march occurred four years later, in 1965. The New York Times reported that when the senator was asked about the discrepancy later that day, he clarified: "I meant the whole civil rights movement."
2008 Obama also has the endorsement of the New Black Panther Party.
"Barack Obama represents 'Positive Change' for all of America. Obama will stir the 'Melting Pot' into a better "Molten America.'"
Read The New Black Panther Party 10 Point Platform
2007 Cornel West was on fire. Bobbing in his chair, his hands sweeping across the stage, the brilliant and bombastic scholar was lambasting Barack Obama's campaign. Before a black audience, at an event outside Atlanta called the State of the Black Union, West was questioning why Obama was 600 miles away, announcing his bid for the White House in Springfield, Ill. Did he really care about black voters? What did that say about his willingness to stand up for what he believes?
"He's got large numbers of white brothers and sisters who have fears and anxieties and concerns, and he's got to speak to them in such a way that he holds us at arm's length," West said, pushing his hand out for emphasis. "So he's walking this tightrope." West challenged the candidate to answer a stark set of questions: "I want to know how deep is your love for the people, what kind of courage have you manifested in the stances that you have and what are you willing to sacrifice for. That's the fundamental question. I don't care what color you are. You see, you can't take black people for granted just 'cause you're black."
A few days later, West was sitting in his Princeton office after class when the phone rang. It was Barack Obama. "I want to clarify some things," the candidate calmly told the professor of religion and African-American studies. Over the next two hours, Obama explained his Illinois state Senate record on criminal justice and affordable health care. West asked Obama how he understood the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and interrogated him about a single phrase in Obama's 2004 Democratic-convention speech: that America was "a magical place" for his Kenyan father. "That's a Christopher Columbus experience," West said. "It's hard for someone who came out of slavery and Jim Crow to call it a magical place. You have to be true to yourself, but I have to be true to myself as well." A few weeks later, the two men met in a downtown Washington, D.C., hotel to chat about Obama's campaign staff.
Just a month after ripping into him onstage, West endorsed Obama and signed up as an unpaid adviser.
If you don't know who and what Cornell West is, please see this video.
What did Obama promise the radical Cornell West to gain his support?
2007 Sunday, 07/22, Obama was in South Florida to address the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the nation's largest Hispanic so-called civil rights group.
La Raza is Spanish for "the race," although NCLR claims it means "community" on their website. La Raza supports legislation such as the Civil Liberties Restoration Act, which would roll back policies adopted after Sept. 11 designed to protect national security. It supports the "DREAM Act," which would mandate states to offer in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens -- thus providing them with benefits not available to U.S. citizens from other states.
The group opposes the "Clear Law Enforcement for Criminal Alien Removal Act of 2003" and the "Homeland Security Enhancement Act" would give state and local police officers the authority to enforce federal immigration laws.
"While the safety and security of our communities and our country are of the utmost importance, new policies that would allow local police departments to enforce federal civil immigration law will hinder terrorist and other criminal investigations, and have a serious negative impact on Latino communities," La Raza explains.
The group also supports legislation to ensure illegal immigrants' ability to obtain driver's licenses.
La Raza continues to lobby the Senate for virtual open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens.
La Raza's motto is, "Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada," which translates to ""For The Race everything. Outside The Race, nothing."
The La Raza movement teaches that Colorado, California, Arizona, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Oregon and parts of Washington State make up an area known as "Aztlan" -- a fictional ancestral homeland of the Aztecs before Europeans arrived in North America. As such, it belongs to the followers of MEChA. These are all areas America should surrender to "La Raza" once enough immigrants, legal or illegal, enter to claim a majority, as in Los Angeles. The current borders of the United States will simply be extinguished.
This plan is what is referred to as the "Reconquista" or the re-conquest, of the western United States.
But it won't end with territorial occupation and secession. The final plan for the La Raza movement includes the ethnic cleansing of Americans of European, African, and Asian descent from "Aztlan."
No surprise here -- a Marxist addressing Marxists.
2007 Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) sits with race-baiter, Rev. Al Sharpton, during a campaign stop at Sylvia's restaurant in New York, November 29, 2007.
Earlier, Obama raised $750,000 at the Apollo Theater, where he made the comment, "I'm not running because I'm trying to fulfill some long-held plan."
2007 At the Apollo Theater fundraiser, Obama was introduced by the radical Marxist professor and self-styled rapper, Cornell West, as "my comrade."
What does this tell you about Obama, when he chooses to be introduced by one of the most radical Marxists in America as, "my comrade?"
Watch this video -- Cornell doesn't trust Obama -- Why the change in attitude?
What promises did Obama make to cause this 180◦?
2008 Why isn't Barack Obama's speech, which he touts on his presidential website, being used as exhibit A, not only for using words that reach out to his community, but also as an example of how he's using race whenever he can and when it suits his needs and benefits his candidacy?
As the South Carolina primary campaign built to a climax, Obama addressed a largely African-American audience in Sumter.
In this video, Obama drops his eloquent Harvard accent, and says, "They're trying to bamboozle you. It's the same old okie-dokie. -- Y'all know about okie dokie, right? -- They try to bamboozle you. -- Hoodwink ya. Try to hoodwink ya. Alright. -- I'm having too much fun here. ... "
This speech had been borrowed from one of Obama's heroes, Malcolm X, who said, "You've been hoodwinked. You've been had. You've been took. You've been led astray, led amok. Youve been bamboozled."
It is strange that a candidate, who belongs to an "Afrocentric" church, that bestows awards on Louis Farrakhan, would borrow from Malcolm X, who was a spokesman for the Nation of Islam, right before complaining about e-mails claiming he is Muslim.
2008 On March 6th, Bill OReilly asked Al Sharpton the $64,000 question -- what happens if Hillary Clinton gets the nomination even if Barack Obama comes into Denver leading in pledged delegates? After the losses in Texas and Ohio, the new meme has the super-delegates wondering whether Obama can win a general election. If Hillary can make it closer by the time the convention rolls around, say to within 70 or so pledged delegates, the super-delegates will throw their support to the most competitive candidate.
After hesitating a bit, Sharpton makes it clear that he and his supporters wont accept a brokered outcome, saying:
"Superdelegates are not Supermen. The party cant say it represents the concept of one-man, one-vote democracy and then make backroom deals that ignore the popular vote and the will of the electorate. They will march in the street to protest a Hillary nomination if she comes into Denver trailing Obama."
Sharptons threat gives Obama potent leverage to keep from accepting a convention demotion. If his supporters start talking about third-party movements, the Democrats are finished up and down the ticket -- and they know it.
2008 On March 12th, former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, who is stepping down from Hillary Clintons finance team after telling a California newspaper that Barack Obama has been aided politically by his race, said Wednesday evening that the remarks were nothing more than a "statement of fact."
"Somebody must have seen this (article) and said, 'Wow, this is really something -- we go after Ferraro, we go after Clinton,'" Ferraro said in an interview Wednesday night on FOX News' "Hannity & Colmes." "They made this a divisive issue, not me."
Former Maryland Lieutenant Gov. Michael Steele, who is black, said that Ferraros comments are true, and the fact she cant speak them "goes to the heart and ugliness of racism." He said Obama's candidacy is not diminished by her words, but an oversensitivity is harming debate in America.
That Obama won 92% of the black vote in Mississippi adds credence to Ferraro's and Steele's allegations.
2008 Fox just posted a big story about Obama's mentor, Jeremiah Wright, and the video is pretty gripping, and deeply racially confrontational. He begins by describing the Romans, who crucified Jesus, as Italians, and thus white, and more or less goes from there.
"Barack knows what it means living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people," Wright says.
"Hillary ain't never been called a nigger," he says at the climax.
Obama and his wife Michelle have been sitting at this guy's feet and listening to this crap for 20 years -- is it any wonder they have the views that they do?
3/14/08 March 14th -- Presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday repudiated what he called "inflammatory and appalling remarks" made by his Chicago pastor.
Obama said he had not been present during the sermons in question.
Obama told MSNBC, "Had I heard them in church I would have expressed that concern directly to Rev. Wright."
Please note, he says that he would have expressed concern, not repudiate, the words
Yet, in this video, "the Rev" places Obama in the congregation, by saying, "There is a man here, who can take this country in a new direction" and he points at him.
In the next clip, during Wright's 2007 Christmas services, Wright rails, "Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a process that is controlled by rich white men, Hillary can never know that, Hillary ain't ever been called a nigger!"
While Wright rails, "Bill did us like he did Monica Lewinsky," Wright's successor, Otis Moss III, jumps into the picture frame, attempting to high-five "the Rev."
Barack was in Chicago for Christmas 2007 and Wright is addressing him from the pulpit. Will Barack say me didn't attend Christmas services?
When Obama said, "Had I heard them in church ..." Obama lied. He listened to Wright's sermons for 20 years.
These two men, Obama and Wright, are two peas in the same pod.
And, please notice the congregation in that video. They are going nuts during Wright's preaching. All of them believe this "evil white man" crap and eat it up.
The whole bunch of them are the worst kinds of hateful racists -- and remember, Wright's congregation is composed of successful, educated African-Americans.
3/14/08 Obama's own first book suggests that some elements of Wright's style that are now controversial -- particularly on race -- aren't really new.
On Page 293 of my edition of "Dreams for My Father," Obama recounts Wright's "The Audacity of Hope" sermon. (I linked a version of this earlier today.)
Obama quotes this passage:
"It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphereThats the world! On which hope sits!"
3/24/08 Obama doesn't talk much about his views on crime and punishment -- at least not in front of general audiences -- and for good reason.
While his Web site says he's "a strong proponent of tougher measures to fight crime," his record tells a different story.
As an Illinois state senator, for example, he acted more as a friend to criminals than to cops, legislating among other things:
Curbs on what he called a "broken" death penalty system.
A measure to expunge some criminal records and give job grants to ex-cons.
Tougher handgun controls.
A vote against making gang members eligible for the death penalty if they kill someone to help their gang.
Opposition to a bill requiring juveniles to be prosecuted as adults for firing a gun at or near a school.
At the federal level, Obama would:
Repeal "unfair" mandatory sentences for crack convictions.
Provide drug counseling instead of jail time for some abusers.
Rethink criminal penalties for pot.
Ban profiling by federal law enforcement, even if it helps catch violent criminals including terrorists.
Strengthen hate-crime laws and beef up civil rights enforcement against police chiefs who profile.
Provide job training, drug rehab and counseling for ex-cons.
"Re-enfranchise" felons denied the right to vote.
In addition, Obama, who once vowed to repeal the Patriot Act, still talks about reforming it. He also once proposed banning executions of inmates, arguing he was against capital punishment.
It's not clear where Obama stands on the issue now, but he does think death row and the entire U.S. penal system are stacked against blacks. While so far only alluding to racism as the culprit, his mentor Rev. Jeremiah Wright minces no words in blaming "racist white America."
"The brothers are in prison" largely because of their skin color, he claims.
And a racist white majority put them there, he believes, by "structuring an economic environment that induces captive youth to fill the jails and prisons."
In Wright's conspiracy, personal responsibility plays no role. This is the same adviser who told Obama that there are "more black men in prison than in college" -- a statement that Obama parroted until he was told that it was false.
Unfortunately, Obama listens to his preacher and buys into his conspiracy theories. "In our criminal justice system, African-Americans and whites are arrested at very different rates," Obama recently complained. "It has to do with how we pursue racial justice."
He vows to pursue it with gusto, unleashing civil rights cops on police chiefs and district attorneys who dare to arrest and prosecute criminals who happen to be of color.
In last Tuesday's speech explaining his ties to Wright, he reiterated his desire to do more to enforce civil rights laws.
He cites the Jena Six case as an example of racial injustice. But one of the thugs he defends as a victim of Louisiana racism recently was arrested again for assault. The 6-6 Bryant Purvis allegedly choked and slammed a classmate's head on a table after helping five other blacks beat a white student within an inch of his life.
Would Obama go soft on such brutal crime in the name of racial equality? No justice, no peace? Obama for now speaks only in code, saying he'll fix "a criminal justice system that's broken." But how exactly is it broken? And who would he appoint to help fix it?
Who will he pick as his attorney general? His top civil rights cop? Is his pal Rep. John Conyers on the short list? Rep. Keith Ellison?
What about federal judges? Will they be frustrated social workers who go easy on criminals to "reintegrate" them into society?
More important, what kind of justices does Obama have in mind to replace aging veterans on the high court, who decide the constitutionality of capital punishment cases?
We shudder to think.
3/31/08 An anti-white and virulently anti-Semitic black supremacist party has once again endorsed Sen. Barack Obama on the presidential candidate's own website.
Following criticism earlier this month of an online endorsement from the New Black Panther Party (NBPP), Obama's campaign removed the controversial organization from the presidential candidate's official website. The NBPP had been a registered team member and blogger on Obama's "MyObama" campaign site.
But the NBPP endorsement was reposted on Obama's official website today.
"Obama is capable of stirring the 'melting pot' into a better 'molten America,'" states the NBPP endorsement posted on Obama's site.
The NBPP is a controversial black extremist party whose leaders are notorious for their racist statements and for leading anti-white activism.
Malik Zulu Shabazz, NBPP national chairman, who has given scores of speeches condemning "white men" and Jews, confirmed his organization's endorsement of Obama in a recent interview with WND.
"I think the way Obama responded to the attack on him and the attempt to sabotage his campaign shows true leadership and character. He had a chance to denounce his pastor and he didn't fall for the bait. He stood up and addressed real issues of racial discord," stated Shabazz.
Shabazz boasted he met Obama last March when the politician attended the 42nd anniversary of the voting rights marches in Selma, Ala.
"I have nothing but respect for Obama and for his pastor," said Shabazz, referring to Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor of nearly 20 years.
It is Wright's racially charged and anti-Israel remarks that were widely circulated this month, landing the presidential candidate in hot water and prompting Obama to deliver a major race speech in which he condemned Wright's comments but not the pastor himself.
Speaking to WND, Shabazz referred to Obama as a man with a "Muslim background, a man of color."
Shabazz's NBPP's official platform states "white man has kept us deaf, dumb and blind," refers to the "white racist government of America," demands black people be exempt from military service and uses the word "Jew" repeatedly in quotation marks.
Shabazz has led racially divisive protests and conferences, such as the 1998 Million Youth March in which a few thousand Harlem youths reportedly were called upon to scuffle with police officers and speakers demanded the extermination of whites in South Africa.
The NBPP chairman was quoted at a May 2007 protest against the 400-year celebration of the settlement of Jamestown, Va., stating, "When the white man came here, you should have left him to die."
He claimed Jews engaged in an "African holocaust," and he has promoted the anti-Semitic urban legend that 4,000 Israelis fled the World Trade Center just prior to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
When Shabazz was denied entry to Canada last May while trying to speak at a black action event, he blamed Jewish groups and claimed Canada "is run from Israel."
Canadian officials justified the action stating he has an "anti-Semitic" and "anti-police" record, but some reports blamed what was termed a minor criminal history for the decision to deny him entry.
He similarly blamed Jews for then-New York Mayor Rudi Giuliani's initial decision, later rescinded, against granting a permit for the Million Youth March.
The NBPP's deceased chairman, Khallid Abdul Muhammad, a former Nation of Islam leader who was once considered Louis Farrakhan's most trusted adviser, gave speeches referring to the "white man" as the "devil" and claiming that "there is a little bit of Hitler in all white people."
In a 1993 speech condemned by the U.S. Congress and Senate, Muhammad, lionized on the NBPP site, referred to Jews as "bloodsuckers," labeled the pope a "no-good cracker" and advocated the murder of white South Africans who would not leave the nation subsequent to a 24-hour warning.
All NBPP members must memorize the group's rules, such as that no party member "can have a weapon in his possession while drunk or loaded off narcotics or weed," and no member "will commit any crimes against other party members or black people at all."
The NBPP endorses Obama on its own page of the presidential candidate's official site that allows registered users to post their own blogs.
The group labels itself on Obama's site as representing "Freedom, Justice, and Peace for all of Mankind." It links to the official NBPP website, which contains what can be arguably regarded as hate material.
The NBPP previously endorsed Obama on the presidential candidate's site, but following publicity of that endorsement, the Obama campaign removed the NBPP posting.
"It's our policy [to remove] any content generated by a group that advocates violence," explained Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor to FoxNews.com.
Before the campaign removed the party's page, Obama spokeswoman Tiffany Edwards told FoxNews.com the NBPP endorsement on Obama's website "has nothing to do with us."
"People can form their own groups," she said. "It's not something that the campaign -- it's not something that we've done."
While it appears anyone can initially sign up as a registered supporter on Obama's site, it isn't clear whether the campaign monitors the site or approves users. There is a link on each blog page for users to report any abusers, such as those who post controversial entries, to the administrator.
Shabbazz chalked up the Obama campaign's initial removal of his NBPP endorsement from the website to "the game of politics."
"The Obama camp's move to remove our blog doesn't mean much because I understand politics. We still completely support Obama as the best candidate."
Obama 'less biased' on Israel
Shabazz said that aside from promoting black rights, he also supports Obama because he may take what he called a "less biased" policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"I have hopes he will change the U.S. government's position toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict because our position has been unwarranted bias. Time and time again the U.S. vetoed resolutions in the U.N. Security Council condemning [Israeli] human rights violations. ... I hope he shifts policy," Shabazz said.
But he added he doesn't believe Obama could change America's policy regarding Israel very much since, he said, "other, powerful lobbies" control U.S. foreign policy.
4/7/08 April 7th -- Only a week after her husband drew throngs to Soldiers and Sailors, Michelle Obama wooed a small crowd at Skibo Gymnasium on Wednesday.
Skibos risers were packed with community members and students from many of Pittsburghs universities. The rally was staffed by volunteers from a number of Carnegie Mellon student organizations, including Carnegie Mellon Students for Barack Obama, Student Senate, AB Political Speakers, and College Democrats.
While the crowd was indeed diverse, some students at the event questioned the practices of Mrs. Obamas event coordinators, who handpicked the crowd sitting behind Mrs. Obama. The Tartans correspondents observed one event coordinator say to another, "Get me more white people, we need more white people." To an Asian girl sitting in the back row, one coordinator said, "Were moving you, sorry. Its going to look so pretty, though."
"I didnt know they would say, 'We need a white person here,'" said attendee and senior psychology major Shayna Watson, who sat in the crowd behind Mrs. Obama. "I understood they would want a show of diversity, but to pick up people and to reseat them, I didnt know it would be so outright."
Mrs. Obama was introduced by Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of former Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry (DMass.).
4/10/08 The Elector of Saxony said it best in an earlier post:
The more I learn about Obama, the more there is to dislike. When you read the description of Barack's home life, it is hard to square his background with someone who views America as a racist, oppressive society.
Here is a half-black man, abandoned by his black father and placed in the care of his white salesman grandfather and bank VP grandmother. From these obviously humble, ordinary beginnings, America has provided him the opportunity to attend the finest universities in the land, become a multimillionaire, and made him one of the 102 most powerful people in the entire nation.
You would think that such a man would view America as Ronald Reagan did, or at least as JFK did. After all of the riches, power, and accolades bestowed upon him, he and his family still see America through the eyes of Kruschev, Castro, and Ahmedinijad.
Isn't that the most alarming thing about the man? He a walking, breathing exemplar of what is great about America, and yet he believes ( or pretends to) that it is a cruel, unfair, and racist nation and fosters this notion in the minds of others. I might understand his attitude and that of those around him if because of his skin, his interracial family, the origin of his father, or his lack of privilege in childhood he had ended up bussing tables or working as a night janitor. The truly awful thing is that here is a man who KNOWS for a fact the truth about America, knows it is THE land of opportunity, knows that it is the fairest society on earth, the most generous society to the outsider, the abandoned child, the mixed-race boy of meager means, and yet he misleads those who have not come as far as he has. Surely he is smart enough to know the reason that some make it in America and some do not and that even those who do not are allowed to grow fat on the backs of the American People.
The putrid venom that he and his campaign are vending demoralizes those who would seek to follow in his own footsteps, widens the divisions between us, and pays back the kindness, equity, and generosity shown to him, with a billy-club to the head.
I ask you all what will happen if such a man becomes the most powerful man on Earth? I cannot imagine any good will come of it.
4/10/08 April 10th -- Shocking New Obama Audio/Video has surfaced.
You think the media will question Obama about this? He says we need to discuss race. Id love to hear him discuss this. Perhaps Im just a "typical white person," but I think the takeaway quote here is:
"Thats Just How White Folks Will Do You." -- B. H. Obama
"Any distinction between good and bad whites held negligible meaning. We were always playing on the white mans courtby the white mans rules." -- B. H. Obama
4/18/08 "Barack Obama hangs around people who are bitter to the core. His entire inner circle -- his wife -- his pastor -- is filled with almost insane rage. Barack Obama has been attracted to extreme radical elements his entire life."
4/18/08 Senator Obama is one of key leaders in a campaign to make Juneteeth Day a National Holiday in the United States. Juneteeth Day occurs on every June 19th, the anniversary of General Granger announcing the emancipation of slaves in the South West. The Holiday would be celebrated on the third Friday in June. Here's what the NYT wrote about it on 2004:
"Most gatherings are decidedly upbeat, but the sobering reason for the holiday has also been part of Juneteenth's growth. Dr. Ronald Myers, the leader of a movement to make Juneteenth a national holiday, says June 19 should be an annual remembrance of the horrors of slavery"
We never got our apology, so we need this holiday to remind us that we must not forget," said Dr. Myers, who spoke yesterday at a Juneteenth event at the Capitol led by Representative Danny K. Davis, Democrat of Illinois." New York Times, 6/19/04
According to the latest press release below from the organization leading the campaign, a victory for Obama will likely lead to the introduction of this holiday. Another example of the kind of "uniting" we can expect from the Senator who appears to be becoming a lightning rod for creating racial disharmony in the USA.
Senator Barack Obama has been a key sponsor of Juneteenth legislation in the Senate and keynote speaker at the annual Juneteenth congressional reception.
Advocates say, Juneteenth is as deserving of recognition as Independence Day. "We may have gotten there in different ways and at different times," says Meyers of blacks and whites, "but you can't really celebrate freedom in America by just going with the Fourth of July."
5/15/08 At CNN, an article from Ruben Navarrette Jr. that explicitly spells it out: Not voting for Barack Obama is racism.
5/16/08 A special U.N. human rights investigator will visit the United States this month to probe racism, an issue that has forced its way into the race to secure the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
The United Nations said Doudou Diene would meet federal and local officials, as well as lawmakers and judicial authorities during the May 19-June 6 visit.
"The special rapporteur will...gather first-hand information on issues related to racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance," a U.N. statement said on Friday.
Doudou is a citizen of Senegal, an African republic spawned by France. Muslims comprise 94% of the population.
Update -- 5/23/08: "Islamophobia" will be "high on the agenda" of the UNs visiting human rights investigator, said Kareem Shora, national executive director of the American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee (ADC).
Doudou Diene, a UN special envoy, began his three-week investigation on Monday. He will assess "racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance" in the United States during meetings with officials, lawmakers and campaigners. The Senegalese lawyer, who has served in the independent position since 2002, routinely visits countries to assess racism and will report his findings to the UN Human Rights Council next year.
Dine, a Muslim, is from Senegal, a predominantly (94%) Muslim country, which is a source, transit, and destination country for children and women trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation.
Trafficking within the country is more prevalent than trans-border trafficking. Boys who are students (talibe) at Koranic schools are trafficked within the country for forced begging by their religious teachers (marabouts), and women and girls are trafficked for domestic servitude. Girls, and possibly adult women, are also trafficked internally for sexual exploitation. Trans-nationally, boys are trafficked to Senegal from Gambia, Mali, Guinea-Bissau, and Guinea for forced begging by religious teachers. Senegalese women and girls are trafficked to neighboring countries, the Middle East, and Europe for domestic servitude and possibly for sexual exploitation. Reports over the last year of large numbers of Senegalese and neighboring country nationals being transported from Senegal to Spain appear to be cases of smuggling and illegal migration rather than trafficking. -- U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2007
Looks like an expert on racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance to me.
What is the probability this guy finds examples of racism -- 101% -- 102% -- more?
And the odds that he will find "Islamophobia" are off the charts.
5/19/08
5/30/08 More hate at Obama's Trinity United Christian(?) Church.
Father Michael Pfleger, a fiery liberal social activist and a white reverend at the African-American, St. Sabinas Catholic Church on the South Side of Chicago, is a longtime friend and associate of Obama. Pfleger has known him since the presidential hopeful was a community activist.
This video shows the guest-bigot delivering an amazingly hateful anti-Hillary, anti-white tirade -- the sort of rhetoric for which hes famous.
When the video became public, Pfleger feigned contrition -- "I regret the words I chose on Sunday. These words are inconsistent with Senator Obama's life and message, and I am deeply sorry if they offended Senator Clinton or anyone else who saw them."
The real shocker here, as in all of these Trinity videos, is that the congregation goes wild -- they love this hateful rhetoric and eat it up.
Of course, the Obamessiah is shocked and surprised!
Doing his best Sgt. Schultz imitation, Obama feigned ignorance of Pfleger's views and said, "I am deeply disappointed in Father Pfleger's divisive, backward-looking rhetoric."
Pfleger is a close friend of Louis Farrakhan, has donated to Obama's state senate and presidential campaigns, and sat on a "Catholics for Obama" committee until a few weeks ago.
Pfleger's history of hate never stopped Obama from landing $225,000 in grants for outreach programs run by Pfleger's church when he was in the state legislature.
David Axelrod, Obama's chief strategist and MoveOn.org founder, said that Father Pfleger was "remaking the face" of Chicago's South Side and that all of Mr. Obamas earmarks went to worthy programs like his.
5/31/08 I know some conservative Republicans who almost wouldnt mind if Barack Obama does win the White House in November. Their theory is that once we, as a nation, elect a black man to the White House, that election will forever eliminate the claim that Americans are racist because we wont elect a black man to that office. On its face, it seems a logical theory. In practice, however, it will not work. Not with Barack Obama.
If Obama becomes president of the United States, his disastrous time in office will set race relations back 50 years.
First of all -- and there is just no other way to way this -- the man is a liar. He claims to want to solve our partisan strife, doesnt he? He claims he wants to work with Congress instead of against the other party. He is supposedly the man of "change" and "hope." If you do a web search for "Obama reach across the aisle" youll get thousands upon thousands of hits. The general perception that Obama has succeeded in fostering is that he does, indeed, want to "reach across the aisle."
Unfortunately for all of us, it is all a giant lie.
As a legislator, Barack Obama has absolutely no history of working with anyone "across the aisle." There are instances when he has occasionally made statements that have seemed to auger support for an idea that is supported by the Republicans, but when ever it has come down to actual votes, his is always a straight up, far left, liberal vote. He has never worked with anyone on the other side of the aisle on anything. And there is no reason to suspect hell suddenly start such a practice upon stepping into the White House, either.
Worse, we have seen the sort of people hes surrounded himself with and none of them are folks on the other side of the aisle. He is close friends with racists (Rev. Wright, Louis Farrakhan), he has the support of aging hippies who were domestic terrorists in their youth (William Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn), he has even invited a young fellow who was mentioned as a communist while at Harvard to be his official campaign blogger (Sam Graham-Felsen). Then we get to his wife who is famous for having said that she was never "proud of America" until her hubby ran for president. She has also said things to disparage capitalism and called the country "mean." But does Obama have any close associates and supporters who are Republicans, even moderate ones? No. Not a single one. And further more, he never has.
So, what sort of president will he make? And why do I say he will set race relations back 50 years?
A Barack Obama presidency will be one filled with one extreme left idea after another. He will strengthen our enemies, most likely try to gut our military, undermine the economy, raise taxes, and inflate government spending on pointless giveaways and welfare programs. He will find mounting resistance from Republicans and moderates because of it. He will repeatedly stumble with foreign policy making himself look the fool. God help us if a terror attack happens during his presidency, because his response will be a fiasco.
Youll find that this will happen with Barack Obama. Every time he makes a fool of himself in front of a foreign leader, whites will be called racists for pointing it out. Every time his wife is heard to confirm how much she hates this country, it will be the fault of whites for asking her why she is so filled with hate. With every legislative failure and internal scandal, whites will be attacked as being mean to Barack.
It will get very tiresome. It will get so tiresome that whites who would never have a racist thought in their minds will begin to have unkind thoughts of his race-mongering supporters. And this will be reflected upon every black person in the country. Blacks will have their hate-whitey feelings further entrenched (just as they did during the O.J. trial) and whites will find frustration with the foolish, blind support of a president that is obviously a failure. And for those who truly are racists, the debacle of an Obama presidency will give them the excuse to say that they have proof that blacks are not up to the pressures of being president.
After the last days of a Barack Obama presidency, we will see race relations taking a giant step backward. So, I say to my Republican readers who think that an Obama presidency might be helpful for race relations in America; it isnt going to happen. Sadly, just the opposite will occur.
A President Barack Obama will nearly ruin race relations in America.
6/5/08 "Affirmative action is an appropriate response to the history of discrimination in this country." -- Barack Hussein Obama
Of course he does -- after all, he's the affirmative action candidate -- I wonder where he stands on reparations?
6/10/08 Can you smell it? There's a faint whiff of anarchy in the air. Nothing to get alarmed about. Not yet, anyway. Just a barely discernible unarticulated threat, a mere suggestion of a threat. But nonetheless it is there.
The voices are just whispers now, soft and faraway, but they are angry and determined: It is our time now, they are saying. You have had your time and you have used it to oppress us, to keep us down. But it is our time now. And you had better not interfere. For generations we have waited for this moment and we will not be deprived. It is our time now, and if you know what's good for you, you'd better step aside.
Of course, no one has actually come right out and said it quite this way, but there have been hints, there is something in the air. If Obama is not elected in November . . .
On his Fox News radio show, Tom Sullivan predicted that African-Americans would be rioting in the streets similar to what happened after the O.J. trial in the 1990s.
"Let me put it to you a different way. What if Barack Obama is not -- does not win the Democratic nomination, or he does win it, and loses in the presidential race against John McCain? Is black America going to throw their hands up and say, 'Man, you know, I thought we were getting somewhere in this country, but this is just a bunch of racial bigots in this country and they still hate blacks and, I mean, if Barack Obama can't get elected, then we're never gonna have anybody that's a black that's gonna be elected president.' And will there be riots in the streets? I think the answer to that is yes and yes."
And these comments, all the way from India:
"If Obama is not elected, it would destroy America because this time the blacks think that America has the best possible candidate that it has got the opportunity to elect as its president."
"If Obama is not elected, the blacks would feel being cheated and would rightfully think that a great candidate has not been chosen just because of his skin colour and would be antagonised permanently."
Evidently "white guilt" isn't sufficient -- the campaign that promises to "heal America" isn't above using subliminal threats and intimidation to do it.
6/11/08 Chicago Sun-Times: Now Greeley Says It's Racist Not to Vote Obama.
Apparently, the Chicago media have decided that the meme for the 2008 general election is going to be that anyone who doesn't vote for Barack Obama is a racist because this is the second editorial (that I've seen, anyway) in Chicago stating such a theory. Last week the Daily Herald voiced the assumption and this week it's the Sun-Times with the volatile Andrew Greeley taking up the cause of ridding the world of racism one Obama vote at a time.
6/12/08 Ward Connerly, writing in the Wall Street Journal, observes, "Obama Is No 'Post-Racial' Candidate."
With all my heart -- and for the betterment of my country -- I desperately wanted to believe that Sen. Barack Obama was not one of the same tired voices who peddle arguments about "institutional racism."
I have heard him say that America is not about "black and white." I was inspired when his supporters chanted at his rally on the night of his victory in South Carolina that "race doesn't matter." I thought his March 18th speech about race had the potential to become a defining moment in our endless struggle to confront and conquer this issue. I was encouraged by his perceptive acknowledgment that affirmative action breeds resentment and hostility. As millions of whites cast their votes for him in predominantly white states, I held out hope that, perhaps, he truly was a transformative leader.
But a June 10th article in USA Today by DeWayne Wickham dashed my hopes for Mr. Obama.
Mr. Wickham, who had interviewed the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, wrote that "Obama believes America can keep its promise to women and blacks without dashing the hopes of working-class whites. He doesn't think opportunity guarantees made to one group must come at the expense of another." Then he went on to quote Obama campaign spokeswoman Candice Toliver, who said that "Senator Obama believes in a country in which opportunity is available to all Americans, regardless of race, gender or economic status. That's why he opposes these ballot initiatives, which would roll back opportunity for millions of Americans and cripple efforts to break down historic barriers to the progress of qualified women and minorities."
Translation: Mr. Obama supports race preferences.
I still want to know where Obama stands on reparations?
6/21/08 All in! -- Obama flops the race card.
Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama said on Friday he expects Republicans to highlight the fact that he is black as part of an effort to make voters afraid of him.
"They're going to try to make you afraid of me. He's young and inexperienced and he's got a funny name. And did I mention he's black?"
All true, of course -- but he's the one talking about it, not the Republicans.
He said he was also set for Republicans to say "he's got a feisty wife," in trying to attack his wife Michelle.
Feisty isn't the word I'd use.
Considering the fact that Obama wrote, in his first book, "I ceased to advertise my mothers race at the age of twelve or thirteen, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites," -- The Republicans ought to scare the Obamalytes by telling them that Obama is secretly white.
6/22/08 Obama says Republicans will use race to stoke fear.
"It is going to be very difficult for Republicans to run on their stewardship of the economy or their outstanding foreign policy," Obama told a fundraiser in Jacksonville, Florida. "We know what kind of campaign they're going to run. They're going to try to make you afraid.
"They're going to try to make you afraid of me. He's young and inexperienced and he's got a funny name. And did I mention he's black?"
He said he was also set for Republicans to say "he's got a feisty wife," in trying to attack his wife Michelle.
"We know the strategy because they've already shown their cards. Ultimately I think the American people recognize that old stuff hasn't moved us forward. That old stuff just divides us," he said.
Who keeps bringing up race? Why Obama and all his friendly reverends. I thought he was supposed to be the racial healer. He's just another Al Sharpton and Jess Jackson -- just a little more eloquent -- but the content is the same.
7/2/08 File under -- "There's no standard like a double standard."
A Japanese cell phone company has pulled one of its television ads that used a monkey that appears to portray Sen. Barack Obama. (video at link)
The commercial opens with a crowd rallying behind a well-dressed monkey speaking from a podium. The supporters are cheering and waving signs that say "Change." In the ad, the monkey was encouraging users to change providers.
The company behind the ad, eMobile Ltd., insists it had no idea of any racial undertones and says the ad was just a nod at Obamas worldwide popularity.
Eric Gan, president of eMobile, points out that their companys mascot is a monkey -- an animal revered in Japan -- and has been used in previous ads.
"When we saw the idea for the first time, it was 'Hey, you're copying the idea from the presidential election in the U.S." Yes, but, you know, that's how you make a presentation. How you make an impact. We thought it quite was interesting," he said.
Leftwing bloggers and Obamalytes immediately voiced their disapproval of the ad and accused the company of being racist.
But, the same people that are shocked by this racist image, believe this is a hoot:
Google returns 491,000 Results for a search on "George W. Bush" chimp -- not a single, mistaken instance, but 491,000 purposeful instances -- the left has no problem with that, however -- that's OK!
Just like the attacks on John McCain, The Washington Posts attack on conservative bloggers, the "leave my wife alone" stuff, and the ever-ready race card, Obama, and his campaign, are all about intimidation.
7/7/08
White Folk's Greed Runs a World In Need (00:33)
7/7/8 The Orwellian doublespeak that Obama spews in portraying himself as "a uniter" and someone who "will bring this country together" is the polar opposite of everything this man has said and done and would be laughable if it were not so deadly serious.
Read more here . . .
7/31/08 Speaking to a gathering of minority journalists in Chicago, Obama said, "I personally would want to see our tragic history, or the tragic elements of our history, acknowledged."
"I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it's Native Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds."
Exactly what Obama is advocating here cannot be determined, but it seems to be something of an endorsement of the idea of "reparations for slavery," which is usually taken to mean cash payments. In this view, the following deeds are insufficient to balance the ledger between America and the descendants of slaves: the Civil War, the ratification of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments, Brown v. Board of Education, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the continuing practice of racial preferences.
When Obama walked on stage at the McCormick Center, many journalists in the audience leapt to their feet and applauded enthusiastically after being told not to do so. During a two-minute break halfway through the event, which was broadcast live on CNN, journalists ran to the stage to snap photos of Obama.
Obama, who acknowledged that he needed a nap, stood up to say farewell to the audience of journalists, many of whom gave him another standing ovation.
This is the first direct quote I've seen where Obama clearly endorses reparations -- "When it comes to...reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds." -- he is saying the most important thing for the government to do is offer reparations.
And, there he goes complaining about being tired again. On July 31st, 2008, a Google, using -- Obama tired fatigue -- returned 238,000 items. Many others have noticed that Obama, despite his comparative youth, often complains of being tired or fatigued.
7/31/08 Obama says John McCain and his Republican allies will try to scare them by saying Obama "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."
McCain and his campaign have studiously avoided race and certainly didn't make the "dollar bill" crack.
But, Obama brings race into the conversation every time he opens his mouth. Whether directly or indirectly, he's always talking about race -- and he gets to attack McCain for free while doing it.
Obama's "little joke" was a variation on the line he used in Berlin: "I know that I dont look like the other Americans whove previously spoken in this great city."
And, it's not the first time. Remember, last month when Obama tarred the McCain Campaign with this smear: "We know what kind of campaign theyre going to run. Theyre going
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