Kerry: Obama’s race will help bridge the divide with the Middle East
posted at 11:49 am on March 20, 2008 by Allahpundit
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The latest in a continuing series in which Obama’s supporters pretend to be outraged at Geraldine Ferraro for suggesting that his race is in some ways a political asset while happily acknowledging that fact when talking amongst themselves. NBC goes so far as to characterize Waffles’s soliloquy here as an argument that “Obama’s skin makes him uniquely qualified for president.” There’s nothing left to say after Kaus’s and, especially, Tom Maguire’s posts on this subject, but do note how closely Kerry’s “logic” here tracks Excitable Andy’s in the passage quoted by both. Exit question: Given the fact that the worst jihadist invective is reserved for Musharraf, Karzai, Abbas and other dark-skinned, ethnically Middle Eastern “traitors,” why is Kerry so sure that Obama won’t be viewed similarly as having somehow “betrayed” Somalia and Sudan by aligning himself with the Great Satan? We’ve had a black man and then a black woman as our chief diplomatic officer for the past seven years. Has that fact in itself brought us any major gains vis-a-vis Islamic relations?
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It sounds like some people think he is at least sympathetic to Islam.
Mormon Doc on March 20, 2008 at 11:52 AM
Is another Democrat saying that Obama is a Muslim? Can’t these clowns get their talking points straight?
Hummer53 on March 20, 2008 at 11:53 AM
Talk to those countries? No kidding, that is all we have to do? Man, what were we thinking. Maybe Osama and Bush should just go on Oprah.
ClassicCon on March 20, 2008 at 11:54 AM
Um, isn’t Obama considered an apostate?
carbon_footprint on March 20, 2008 at 11:54 AM
This guy likes to think that he comes across as an intellectual. Not.
cjs1943 on March 20, 2008 at 11:54 AM
Who dug up John Kerry?
I thought his worthless slug dropped dead years ago.
Oh wait, from the looks of his photo, I was right.
NoDonkey on March 20, 2008 at 11:57 AM
Aw, come on guys, John ‘Why So Long In The Face’ Kerry is the gift that keeps on giving. He’s a Kerryman for Heaven’s sake! That’s slang in Ireland for an idiot….
Branch Rickey on March 20, 2008 at 11:58 AM
Kerry is a traitor and a “mad” man.
Kerry is living proof that winter soldier syndrome lasts a lifetime.
winemkr on March 20, 2008 at 11:59 AM
He is really just too funny for words.
TroubledMonkey on March 20, 2008 at 11:59 AM
Did he put some weight on?
freevillage on March 20, 2008 at 12:00 PM
B-bu-but, that’s raaaaaaacisssst!!!!!11!!!eleven!!!!!
db on March 20, 2008 at 12:00 PM
It was staring us in the face this whole time, and we could not see it: Racism, The Solution. Who knew?
shaken on March 20, 2008 at 12:03 PM
db, Don’t ya know that Andrew Sullivan has already decreed that “Your Either With Obama or YOU are a RACIST!” ahahahahaha
classic post, db!
Branch Rickey on March 20, 2008 at 12:06 PM
Chauncey? Chauncey Gardner, is that you?
petefrt on March 20, 2008 at 12:06 PM
Thank God for people like Kerry. Without them we might start to think that politicians actually had a brain!
Dread Pirate Roberts VI on March 20, 2008 at 12:07 PM
Oh the power of melanin.
Mojave Mark on March 20, 2008 at 12:08 PM
Scratching my head……….HUH?
MNDavenotPC on March 20, 2008 at 12:09 PM
Hmmm…. accordinig to Islamic law, to become a Muslim all you have to do is ONCE state saying which is taught daily at Madrassas throughout the world… That whole Mohamed is his prophet thing… which I won’t write, cause I don’t want to become Muslim (LOL)…
Obama went to a Madrasa.
Once you are Muslim, if you change your religion, you are an apostate.
Apostates are killed under Islamic law…
So, tell me again how the Mid East is going to look at this?
Romeo13 on March 20, 2008 at 12:11 PM
right on, ALLAH.
kerry’s convoluted, lack of logic statement underscore why libs just aren’t worthy to lead our country.
jimmer on March 20, 2008 at 12:11 PM
Shhh. After years of hearing about how important it is to care about what other countries FEEL about us, we aren’t supposed to bring this up or talk about what it might mean.
MamaAJ on March 20, 2008 at 12:13 PM
I swear…if I hear the word “disenfranchised” one more time…
JetBoy on March 20, 2008 at 12:13 PM
Kansas and private schools in Hawaii are places of oppression and repression? BHO is the son of 2 PhDs. He’s oppressed?
Is Kerry linking blacks with Islam? WTF? Is he high?
Vote Sauron 08 on March 20, 2008 at 12:14 PM
John Kerry is a damn idiot! Nuf said…
kcd on March 20, 2008 at 12:15 PM
Substitute ‘disenfrenchfried’ for it in your mind…it works wonders for me.
James on March 20, 2008 at 12:16 PM
Surprise Kerry once again doesn’t know what he’s talking about. he seems to think that Muslims aren’t racists? Does he know about Darfur? Has he seen the Hezbullah posters of Condi Rice? What a pitiful tool! Windbag POS!
Vote Sauron 08 on March 20, 2008 at 12:16 PM
Obama, vote for me because I’m black.
Kerry, vote for Obama because he’s black.
Both together in harmony, ‘but we don’t want race to be an issue in this election’.
ThackerAgency on March 20, 2008 at 12:17 PM
Wait….I have been watching Rev Wright’s preaching.
That is not a Christian.
Sounds closer to an imam.
So sad.
bridgetown on March 20, 2008 at 12:17 PM
I’m tired of this guy..he’s a idiot.
j0 on March 20, 2008 at 12:18 PM
Of course, Obama is sympathetic to Muslims. He was born to a Muslim father. His brother is a Muslim. And guess what Jeremiah Wright’s area of “expertise” is?
Jeremiah Wright
“Then there’s July 8. In his “Pastor’s Pages” at Page 9, the Rev. Wright helpfully introduces an article on “Progressive Muslims” by one Omid Safi by telling us (bold is mine; pictured here):
Most of our members do not know that my Master’s Degree from the University of Chicago’s Divinity School was in the area of Islam in West Africa during the 19th Century — when the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade was at its zenith. Islam has as many manifestations as Christianity and Judaism, but most Americans are only fed a media diet on Islam as it relates to the “war on terror” and the Palestinian muslim problem in the “state” of Israel.
The quote marks are the Rev. Wright’s, not mine.”
~ from BizzyBlog
Have I ever said how much Kerry nauseates me? It is not “our side” that has damaged America. It is his side. He and his ilk have gone out of their way to denigrate this country abroad. Obama will simply continue to do the same.
Connie on March 20, 2008 at 12:18 PM
Kerry’s been sucking down too many jars of Heinz ketchup. When will he be voted out?
geminicontender on March 20, 2008 at 12:19 PM
Here is a joke from 2004: A horse goes up to John Kerry and says: “Why the long face?”
On a more serious note, Kerry is even more foolish than I thought. Kerry argues that if only America has an African-American in a high government position, the Arab world and the Muslim world will immediately reject Ben Laden and will embrace America. Apparently Kerry is unaware that the last two secretaries of state, namely Colin Powell and Condi Rice are both African-American. (Or maybe Obama and Kerry will insist that neither Powell or Rice is authentically Black). Yet despite having two African-American Secretaries of State, the Muslim world has become even more extremist. I just can see it now: Hamas leaer Haniyeh and Hezbollah leader Nasrallah are sitting there together plotting how to murder even more civilians. Suddenly, Haniyeh says to Nasrallah: “Hey Hassan, Did you know that Obama is the new president?” Then Haniyeh and Nasrallah put in a call to Osama over there in Pakistan and they all break out into a chorus of “Cumbaya” and “We shall overcome” and suddenly there is no terrorism in the world. The Messiah (a.k.a. Barack Obama) has done it again. Kerry is such a fool it defies belief.
BTW, if anyone wants to read something pathetic, check out Tim Ruttens column in the LA Times. Rutten actually said he wonders whether we are good enough for Barack Obma. Rutten wonders aloud if we deserve Obama because we are so racist and Obama is so pure of heart.
Larraby on March 20, 2008 at 12:19 PM
Just think, that damn moron almost became POTUS. Our electorate is turning to $h1t right before our very eyes.
After McCain grants Amnesty to millions of more gullable democratic dupes, the gig will be up and we will rightfully join the ranks of the rest of the turd world.
saiga on March 20, 2008 at 12:20 PM
It strikes me that those of us who are Republicans who do not support Obama, do not support him because of his ideas, and lack of experience.
And, on the Left, much of the reason he is valued it not because of his ideas or experience – it is because he is black.
Now, which of those is more demeaning?
Doesn’t it seem that to value a candidate because of his race, and what it might get us with the world, is incredibly, but seemingly ignorably, racist?
nailinmyeye on March 20, 2008 at 12:21 PM
The Left wants nothing more than a token president.
James on March 20, 2008 at 12:22 PM
If anything, isn’t Obama arguably an apostate for having been “born” Islamic then becoming Christian? If nothing else his theological past seems a bit hazy. If he should be perceived as an apostate, that would make him the scum of the earth from a Koranic perspective–far worse than any simple infidel like George Bush or John McCain.
Blacklake on March 20, 2008 at 12:27 PM
Once McCain grants amnesty, that fool Geraldo will represent the new Joe six pack. It will be interesting to see if the American sheeple will just lay back and take it in stride.
saiga on March 20, 2008 at 12:28 PM
*shudder*
JetBoy on March 20, 2008 at 12:29 PM
Which race?
Pam on March 20, 2008 at 12:29 PM
HAA!! :o)
cntrlfrk on March 20, 2008 at 12:32 PM
Dose jon kerri understand the pecking order in the Muslim world. maybe he should go to Darfur and see how black Muslims are being treated by Arab Muslims .
Mojack420 on March 20, 2008 at 12:33 PM
The Black Half
carbon_footprint on March 20, 2008 at 12:33 PM
How did he forget “comprehensive solution”?
dmann on March 20, 2008 at 12:34 PM
Kerry knows all about climbing out of poverty.
fogw on March 20, 2008 at 12:34 PM
I’m surprised he did…
The best is how Kerry starts off in this vid: “It would be an affirmation, of who we are as a people, if we elect an African American President…” So, we’d be affirming that we should vote based on race…?
JetBoy on March 20, 2008 at 12:39 PM
Which of OHB’s race is he talking about?
Wade on March 20, 2008 at 12:41 PM
A half and half Groucho story
Wade on March 20, 2008 at 12:45 PM
Kerry go away. Your a loser has-been.
RobCon on March 20, 2008 at 12:52 PM
So good to see that Botox Rex The Ketchup King can still sling the B.S. as well as anyone in D.C. can.
So he thinks B.O. is such a great speaker that he can just talk to some of the crazies and bloodthirsty loonies that are running around out there and get them to see things his way, huh?
That is like having a missionary speak to a tribe of cannibals about the healthy benefits of a vegetarian diet. Long before the missionary is done talking, the tribe will have finished filing their teeth and will be getting ready for the barbecue.
pilamaye on March 20, 2008 at 12:55 PM
Interviewer: “What gives him credibility?”
John Kerry: “Because he’s African American, he’s a black man”
Huh? Didn’t they just take offense at Ferarro for saying that?
In the first 20 seconds he says Obama will have the ability to talk to middleeastern country leader because he is black. I seem to remember the monkey pictures of Ms. Rice showing how highly these countries hold people of color.
Alden Pyle on March 20, 2008 at 12:59 PM
Good thinking Kerry. I’m sure that Osama and the boys will love Obama.
Now, Kerry . . . go spend more time with the Ketchup lady and stay out of our faces.
rplat on March 20, 2008 at 1:01 PM
Kerry’s obviously given this a lot of thought. He saw the picture of Obama in the Osama outfit and figured, “there’s a guy those people in the Middle East will listen to. He looks just like ‘em.”
Cicero43 on March 20, 2008 at 1:01 PM
JetBoy on March 20, 2008 at 12:39 PM
Exactly, and all because he is black…wow, world peace is really that simple, go figure!
dmann on March 20, 2008 at 1:11 PM
OK, I didn’t even bother reading the comments, I just rushed to the bottom to ask one question, Why does anyone still listen to this moron?
midwesternperspective on March 20, 2008 at 1:13 PM
Was this supposed to be the stupid quote of the day and whoever forgot to tag it as such?
RWLA on March 20, 2008 at 1:18 PM
Kerry is one of those insular racist liberals who thinks he’s “enlightened” because of the letter next to his name.
The short version of this is:
Kerry: Obama will be seen by Arabs as “one of them.”
Everyone else: But Obama’s not an Arab.
Kerry: They’re both brown, what’s the difference?
It’s insulting and ignorant, and it will be excused by the MSM because Kerry is a Dem and he’s supporting their Messiah.
Merovign on March 20, 2008 at 1:21 PM
Obama should talk to Iran like he talked to his pastor.
faraway on March 20, 2008 at 1:21 PM
That kinda works for most everything the Liberals support.
Let’s see if it works:
Yeap, works for me……………
Seven Percent Solution on March 20, 2008 at 1:22 PM
Kerry: Obama will be seen by Arabs as “one of them.”
Everyone else: But Obama’s not an Arab.
Kerry: They’re both brown, what’s the difference?
An interesting point is that the Dems want it both ways; they say Bee Ho will be able to talk to Arabs, but they say it’s wrong to use his middle name. Which one is it?
RWLA on March 20, 2008 at 1:22 PM
JOHN “F”ING KERRY = TRAITOR
jimbo2008 on March 20, 2008 at 1:26 PM
Bridge the divide of religious extremism?
Have you listened to his paster lately?
There is no disenfranchisement in the Muslim world. There is no class envy. There is no frustration. There is only Islam and the infidels that get in it’s way.
Kerry is intellectually and morally dishonest. This class envy argument Kerry touts is a liberal democrat talking point of view. It is not Islam.
Kini on March 20, 2008 at 1:33 PM
Allah, Allah, you know better than that. That “black man” and “black woman” don’t count because they are “sellouts”. They are part of the wrong party.
Rick on March 20, 2008 at 1:34 PM
Oh, sure, his color and his familial ties to Islam will help. Just look at how well the Sunnis and Shiites get along!
exhelodrvr on March 20, 2008 at 1:35 PM
So why did Kerry run for President, if he knew that black/brown was better?
exhelodrvr on March 20, 2008 at 1:40 PM
Talking time is over Lurch? You can’t negotiate with mystics and the irrational.
Egfrow on March 20, 2008 at 1:53 PM
As I’ve stated before, Gerry Ferraro was right. If a 46 year old, one term Senator were white, would anyone seriously consider him a Presidential contender? Of course not. And to FrankenKerry, dude, you’re not running for President anymore, quit spinning. Really, just shut up and go windsurfing, or go shopping and blow some of that Ketchup money already. Just stop the spin,man….
adamsmith on March 20, 2008 at 1:54 PM
Well, then, is this the darkest guy we can come up with?
argos on March 20, 2008 at 2:07 PM
Finally someone says it. Bravo.
baldilocks on March 20, 2008 at 2:19 PM
One small battle victory against he long uphill battle of liberal indoctrination, also known as Communist propaganda and subversion.
Egfrow on March 20, 2008 at 2:21 PM
Kerry said BHO would help us with Muslim countries because he’s black. Kerry should read the freakin’ news before he opens his stinking pie-hole.
Timesonline
Vote Sauron 08 on March 20, 2008 at 2:23 PM
LOL
baldilocks on March 20, 2008 at 2:23 PM
“Is he high?” No, sadly Jean-Francois kerre` is justr exceedingly stupid.
GeneSmith on March 20, 2008 at 2:40 PM
There is one word that demolishes Kerry’s thesis right off the bat: Darfur. Of course, none of the dummies at the Florida newspaper interviewing Kerry knew enough to challenge Kerry. Kerry says if we have a Black president, it will matter so much to Arab Muslims that the Muslim terrorists will disarm and enter a loving relationship with the West. What does he think is happening in Sudan and in particular in Darfur? There, Arab Muslims are murdering Black African Christians by the thousands. The worst prejudice in the world is that of northern African Arab Muslims toward Black African Christians. Does Kerry think this will all change when America elects an “authentically Black” president? Gosh this man is a dummy. Granted, the New York Times told us over and over again in 2004 that John Kerry has the most incredible intelligence but good gosh is this guy a dummy. Hey John, Just go back to throwing your medals (undeserved anyway) over the bridge.
Larraby on March 20, 2008 at 2:41 PM
I heard this second-hand, so…
I think it was Thomas Sowell who referred to this global debate on Islam (and among the Democrats) as “Dueling Chamberlains.”
Indeed, these bad dudes don’t do deals. The Iraqi citizens didn’t really stand up for themselves until they realized they could, also that they should help the calvary defeat the bad dudes. The Dems (as per Kerry) prefer to be cheerleading from a safe distance, like Okinawa and Washington.
Bacchus on March 20, 2008 at 2:50 PM
Obama’s just the right shade for talking to people in the Middle East. We’d need a darker guy if we were going to talk to some Africans.
Cicero43 on March 20, 2008 at 2:50 PM
Obama wants the terrorists to winThe terrorists want Obama to win.Niko on March 20, 2008 at 2:56 PM
Kerry wants Obama to want the terrorists to want Kerry to want Obama
to winto win in a landslide.RWLA on March 20, 2008 at 3:28 PM
Its easy to feel that Kerry wishes that Al Zawahiri could run so we could surrender that much sooner and more completely.
Kerry also made it plain that only Hispanics, Blacks and Asians are subject to racism, oppression and repression.
Speakup on March 20, 2008 at 3:35 PM
Go away John.
ThePrez on March 20, 2008 at 4:33 PM
Awesome, awesome, awesome point.
nukemhill on March 20, 2008 at 4:40 PM
I think the enlightened Muslim would not consider him an apostate. His conversion from Islam was at such a young age that he did not understand the significance or consequences. But then it’s not really the enlightened ones we have a problem with, is it?
tommylotto on March 20, 2008 at 5:07 PM
Yes, I’m sure the Arab muslims would listen to Obama. They have so much respect for black Africans. In fact, the Arabic word for slave is also the Arabic word for black. This shows their sympathy for the plight of their black slave like those in Dafur.
thuja on March 20, 2008 at 5:34 PM
So “you people” can talk to “those people?”
Well, I am about out of popcorn.
davidk on March 20, 2008 at 5:40 PM
What!?! Obama is Black?? Oh, my, I hadn’t noticed that.
AverageJoe on March 20, 2008 at 5:52 PM
Another “endorsement” that Barack Hussein Obama needs to distance himself from…
DANEgerus on March 20, 2008 at 6:24 PM
I’m sure that many world-leaders have told Obama in private that they want him to win.
… He also can’t give any names, sorry.
Niko on March 20, 2008 at 6:32 PM
how did he know that osama is misinterpreting islam?
who told him? what is his authority? liberals are always talking about things they don’t understand.
maynila on March 20, 2008 at 7:04 PM
Kerry should change his name to a symbol… “The politician formerly known as relevant”.
Claypigeon on March 20, 2008 at 8:21 PM
Mr. Kerry, here’s your sign…
“You lost the presidential election, anyone outside of MassOfTwoSh#ts simply doesn’t care about your opinions.”
(Fingers crossed hoping Michelle, AP, or Ed is not from Massachusetts)
Hog Wild on March 20, 2008 at 9:01 PM
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