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When Hillary faked a Southern accent in Selma, Alabama the major network morning news shows, *for the most part, ignored her blatant and awkward pandering but when Hillary and Bill played like Tony an…

Like all the other Democrat presidential candidates, Hillary paid homage at Al Sharpton’s demagogue-a-thon this week in NYC. Her made-for-black-audiences accent, which first surfaced in Selma in March, is back. It’s quite a drawl, y’all: Partial tra…

Mitt Romney photoshopped (or rather, “photo/illustrated”) as Fidel Castro on the front cover of the Boston Herald (hat tip – Sondra K) Hillary Clinton’s Southern accent and black vote pandering were awful. Mitt Romney’s Spanish accent and Cuban vo…

She ain’t got nothin’ on the Dixie Chicks, but she’s gonna try. She’s talkin’ like a contralto Iris DeMent; I wonder if she can sing like her? After all, I thought she was more of a soul act: “Ah don’t……

Yesterday I posted on Hillary’s new drawl. Since then I’ve seen plenty of liberals claim that Hillary’s adopting of a drawl is "a myth" or that "it doesn’t matter." Although I took those questions …

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When 2008 Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) was in Selma, Alabama holding forth, he happened to mention that his father came to America via the ‘Kennedy Airlift’ in 1959. Some bloggers scoffed at that assertion since JFK didn’t b…

You said this:

This is from the article you quoted. Nixon was president in 1969 he authorized the $100,000 to airlift the 250 students.

But the aritcle does not say that (and I answered you in the manner I did without re-reading it. My fault).

What it does say is this:

Who would have the privilege of paying for $100,000 worth of plane fares to the U.S. for 250 African students? What made the question politically explosive was that the two rival contenders for the privilege were Richard M. Nixon (through the U.S. State Department) and John F. Kennedy (through his family’s charitable foundation).

A New York Negro named Frank Montero, president of the [African American Students Foundation], wrote to Nixon, recalling his interest in Africa and asking for his help. Nixon turned Montero’s request over to [Chief of the State Department's Africa desk Joseph C.] Satterthwaite, who promptly rejected it for the third time.

then Vice President and Republican presidential candidate Nixon did not authorize the Airlift (as you stated above). Montero came to him and asked him to help and Nixon, in turn, turned the matter over to the State Dept. which kept refusing to fund the airlift until the Kennedy Foundation stepped in.

You mischaracterized the content of the article and, in good faith, I believed you.

My fault, as well.

baldilocks on March 5, 2007 at 4:43 PM

Right, it was the battle during the GOP convention, not election.
Amazing how little info on this “airlift”. Some reported several hundred over many years, others from 1958-60, and some 1960, and some as late as 1965.

“I don’t feel no ways tired/I come too far from where I started from/Nobody told me that the road would be easy/I don’t believe he brought me this far to leave me.”

“when you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I’m talking about.”

Very bad visual. LOL

Pretty much every public speaker worth their salt adapts to their audience.

Nonfactor on March 5, 2007 at 1:54 AM

Well, I’m surprised she didn’t put black shoe polish on her face, channel Mr. Intolocuter and finish up with a big tap dance. Now that would have been worth seeing.

“Ich bin ein Berliner, Ya’ll”

Hening on March 5, 2007 at 3:53 PM

Heh, Hening, “Berliner” in Berlin means a jelly-stuffed doughnut.

This, however, is indeed bovine excrement:

There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.

As we know, the Selma events occured in 1965. Obama was born in 1961.

My parents also quickly divorced. Having discussed the matter with both of them, I’d say that the problem was that they came from cultures that were too vastly different. (Marriage is tough enough even when the two participants grow up together as I and my ex-husband did.) I’m betting that Obama’s parents had the same sort of culture clash as my parents did–and my mother is a black American.

However, “racism” plays better in such venues.

Looks like the Kenyan one occured in 1959 and one for other African students occured in 1960.

baldilocks on March 5, 2007 at 5:14 PM

Yeah, I read that too and wasn’t clear on what it meant because of the lack of any details on any 1959 airlift. That said we seem to have fleshed it out, and again I was just honestly looking for the answer on that because I’m not an expert on the airlifts.

That said, I still don’t think there is any excuse for the obvious phony accents put on by these two (Obama and Clinton)… It’s much different than the “when you’re around it” excuse some have tried to use to let them slide, because it’s very obviously forced and they slip in and out of the accent. Also on must consider that everything these people (not just them, politicians period) do is rehearsed numerous times. They knew what they were doing… and they knew the MSM won’t care too.

As disgusting is the “sister in worship” Hillary’s bogus praising of “the Almighty”. All that talk out of her was just sickening.

And back to the lying, Obama did still clearly lie about what brought about his birth and there is no way around it and I don’t think any honest person could by his excuse.

He met this woman whose great great-great-great-grandfather had owned slaves; but she had a good idea there was some craziness going on because they looked at each other and they decided that we know that the world as it has been it might not be possible for us to get together and have a child. There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, 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.

RightWinged on March 5, 2007 at 4:34 PM

From the Mboya site:

…some 230 scholarships valued at over $1 million were offered for African students by Class I accredited colleges in the United States.

This 1960 program included not only Kenya as in 1959, but also Uganda, Tanganyika, Zanzibar, Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia…

Looks like the Kenyan one occured in 1959 and one for other African students occured in 1960.