I gots a headache… >:{

Chakra Hammer on May 14, 2008 at 10:58 PM

Kinda dunks Obama`s unity speech at the `04 convention in the crapper, huh?

ThePrez on May 14, 2008 at 11:01 PM

…..as Mark Schmitt notes in the forthcoming issue of the American Prospect (which I edit), a disproportionate number of people write ‘American’ when answering the census question on ethnic origin. For some, ‘American’ is a race — white — no less than a nationality, and it’s on this equation that Republican prospects depend.”

Blinding stupidity.

easy on May 14, 2008 at 11:02 PM

Maybe “whites” that are so mixed nationally like me have no real alternative other than to say American. :\

German, English, Irish, Swedish, American Indian(COME ON!)

Chakra Hammer on May 14, 2008 at 11:07 PM

…or maybe ‘American’ is just an in-your-face reaction to all this PC racial identity crap people get thrown in their faces every day.

James on May 14, 2008 at 11:08 PM

The first article is illustration that in order to fill up newspaper space people just create arguments for their own sake.

And the second, well lets just cut to the inevitable conclusion and say all criticism = racism.

Spirit of 1776 on May 14, 2008 at 11:09 PM

I’m beginning to think that lawsuits may be the only way to respond to accusations of racism - assuming it’s not already too late.

sondiehl on May 14, 2008 at 11:14 PM

para-racist language

ninjapirate on May 14, 2008 at 11:19 PM

Romeo13 on May 14, 2008 at 10:58 PM

Do you have any idea just how “ON POINT” you really are?
damn…..

jerrytbg on May 14, 2008 at 11:21 PM

Racists > Para-Racists > Proto-Para-Racists >
Potential-Proto-Para-Racists.

There. I think that covers the entire population of earth.

Well, see you all at the Re-education Forced Labor Sensitivity Training Retreat.

ronsfi on May 14, 2008 at 11:22 PM

I clicked on the link, and tried to read his steaming pile of liberal kant, but could get through more than 2 or 3 paragraphs. They take themselves so seriously, too.

Buford Gooch on May 14, 2008 at 11:26 PM

Romeo13 on May 14, 2008 at 10:58 PM

Do you have any idea just how “ON POINT” you really are?
damn…..

jerrytbg on May 14, 2008 at 11:21 PM

Romeo13 has it right. :)

Condi Rice (American)
Bobby Jindal (American)
Rudy Giuliani (American)
John McCain (American)

Chakra Hammer on May 14, 2008 at 11:29 PM

So much for unity.

Topsecretk9 on May 14, 2008 at 11:34 PM

America is a great nation,no matter how much the left
tries to turn America into Utopian Multiculturalism
Paradise!

Read This…someone in OZ has our back

…When the US keeps doing so much of the heavy lifting to alleviate suffering, you’d figure that the anti-Americans might eventually revise their view of the US. But they never do. And coming under constant attack even when helping others, you’d figure that Americans would eventually draw the curtains on world crises. But they haven’t. At least not yet…

Topsecretk9 on May 14, 2008 at 11:37 PM

Well, that education thingy isn’t working out so well. Seems the very far left took over all of our schools. A major source of the problem is education, as it now stands.

Buford Gooch on May 14, 2008 at 11:39 PM

I always check the box for Native American. After all, I was born here.

fossten on May 14, 2008 at 11:41 PM

I think that Martin Luther King is very sad now.

Entelechy on May 14, 2008 at 11:39 PM

yes

jerrytbg on May 14, 2008 at 11:44 PM

These writers just see the numbers for the general, and they don’t add up. Frenzy is setting in early. It’s almost as if they believe that by preemptying the topic, the Americans who’re ideologically inclined to vote for someone else will be ’shamed’ into voting Obama, just because they play the ‘race’ game. I think it will backfire.

Entelechy on May 14, 2008 at 11:49 PM

This…Is…America!!! [kicks the messenger into the bottomless pit].

Look, if you are here to f*ck us up to make a point about your own lacking background, please spare us the drama. If you are here to make a better life for yourself, stand up MoFo, and grab life by the horn and hold on! You will get everything you work hard for, and deserve, in spades, brudda!

AZCON on May 14, 2008 at 11:57 PM

I refer you to the Book of the Obamassiah. For it hath fortold this.

rihar on May 15, 2008 at 12:01 AM

What remains for the GOP…

But it was a Democrat primary that went overwhelmingly for the already defeated white lady instead of the all-but-nominated black guy.

jgapinoy on May 15, 2008 at 12:16 AM

God I can’t stand Obama. His elitism and arrogance oozes out of him uncontrollably while the media drools in his presence. McCain better be prepared and steadfast against this “messiah.” Anything he says against Obama that is legitimate can and will be used against him by the media.

jencab on May 15, 2008 at 12:20 AM

I think that pink is as noble a color as brown, dark pink, and dark brown, light brown, yellownish, and purple.

I am pink with little brown dots, and I am sick of people getting down on the those white people. I have seen very few actually “white” people, and I am starting to think that the “white” people are imaginary, and if real, discriminated against for the lack of skin color (or, more properly, all of the colors mixed together will result in “white”), talk about multi-cultural!

I am sick of race discussions. We are all Earthicans. Duh!

AZCON on May 15, 2008 at 12:36 AM

The truth is that there aren’t enough Democrats to put Obama over the top, and not all of their own will vote for him.

They’re preparing, hawever, to run on, and to blame the conservatives and the independents for “racism”.

Entelechy on May 15, 2008 at 12:45 AM

I forget who said it, but someone made the great point that if Obama, instead of giving a speech on race, gave a speech on patriotism, about how important patriotism is, and that it’s wrong for Rev. Jeremiah Wright, or any American, to be so blatantly ungrateful for today’s America, etc. Obama would’ve hit it out of the park with a pro-patriotism speech, and Sen. Clinton would be just a distant memory now.

RBMN on May 15, 2008 at 1:18 AM

I can tan just before I peel. My yellownish partner and I can laugh about it.

AZCON on May 15, 2008 at 1:39 AM

Just when I think Obamamessiah couldn’t be more of a douche, he comes through with a clutch play like this.

Tacitus on May 15, 2008 at 2:28 AM

For some, ‘American’ is a race — white — no less than a nationality,

Does this person know that white people can’t have little subcultures when filling out government forms that help our incredibly fragile self-esteem, it’s only black and other races? Those races need the extra modifier and hyphen to help them deal with the evil racist white man.

I mean, that’s the way it is, how can he not know that?

Para-racist…um, ok egghead.

benrand on May 15, 2008 at 5:52 AM

If African Americans vote for one candidate 95% to 5%

And White Americans vote for the other candidate 55%-45%

Which group is basing their vote on race?

To look at those numbers and figure that it is the White vote that is racist, you have to assume that 95% is the normal level of support any group would have for Barack Obama (because he’s just that wonderful, don’tcha know…). So if a 95% support rate is the norm, the only reason an additional 50% of Whites are voting against him is because they are seething racists.

Pretty tortured logic, if you ask me. It is a far more likely scenario that the country is divided 50-50 on Barack Obama just like they are divided 50-50 on everything else, and that the African American community is the last group in this country that sees skin color first and ignores the rest.

We should have a national dialogue of race so we could discuss such things…

gridlock2 on May 15, 2008 at 6:03 AM

For those of you crediting Obambi with this article, pay attention. It is written by a white liberal douche, Harold Meyerson.

Jaibones on May 15, 2008 at 6:47 AM

OK, let me see if I follow here:

Massive numbers of Democrats are voting against Barack Obama because he is black and hurling racial slurs at Obama campaign workers…therefore, Republicans are going to run a racist campaign!

Brilliant analysis there.

rockmom on May 15, 2008 at 7:15 AM

Columbia? Isn’t that where they hang nooses on doors?

peacenprosperity on May 15, 2008 at 7:31 AM

I would think that false or spurious declarations of ‘racism’ or a person being a ‘racist’ would count as slander/libel.

Yeah but this guy isn’t libelling a specific person, he’s generalising.

aengus on May 15, 2008 at 7:47 AM

The first of my family fought in the Revolution, and therefore were here when the country was founded. Can I put native American?

ConservativeLawStudent on May 15, 2008 at 8:17 AM

They (journalists and liberals, redundant) must lay awake a night imagining what conservatives think. They have no idea so they create these strange imaginary scenarios.
Hey libs, here is news, an American is an American. And stupid people that do stupid things are stupid. Uneducated people are uneducated. Brilliant people are brilliant. Great businessmen/women are great businessmen/women…regardless of their epidermis.
If someone talks like they have marbles in their mouth, we say “Huh?”, and if they speak with honesty and candor we listen….regardless of their epidermis.
Here is some more bad news, you judge people immediately on their appearance. That is just the way it is. When the baby sitter comes to the door smoking, tattooed, spike hair, and nose rings; she is out of there…regardless of her epidermis. Then if she can’t put a sentence together that is not understandable, she is out of there…regardless of her epidermis. And if she has friends that raise suspicion, she is out of there…regardless of her epidermis.
And when a man hangs around known American haters, accepts relationships with bigots and anarchists, eager to meet with sworn enemys of the U.S. and their allys, we judge them…regardless of there epidermis.
So you see, the standards of a babysitter is not that much different from the president. They have to have a clean record, unblemished background, honest, trustworthy, friends that are trustworthy, able to communicate, dependable in a crisis, listen to authority, is responsible for their actions and the actions of the ones they are entrusted with…regardless of their epidermis.
It has nothing to do with the epidermis, just ask Carter…

right2bright on May 15, 2008 at 8:33 AM

It was the lure of America, the shining city on a hill, that brought his black Kenyan father here, where he met Obama’s white Kansan mother.

It is frankly offensive to me for Meyerson to suggest that Barack Obama, Sr. thought for one moment that the Puritan John Winthrop’s Shining City on a Hill was a beacon for him - a selfish, arrogant, agnostic-Islamic, polygamist, degenerate who took what he could from America, impregnated the Useful Idiot who was Barry’s mother, and then fled back to Africa, leaving his wife and son behind in Hawaii.

Nope, it was not the lure of John Winthrop’s ideal, but the lure of a free plane ticket, and a free education, which he milked and then used to promote Communism in Africa.

Buy Danish on May 15, 2008 at 8:44 AM

New Obama Rule: Any (and all) questions of/from/to Obama are racist.

Example:

“Senator Obama, what would you like on your cheeseburger? Arugula or shallots?”

Answer: “The question is racist. Are you trying to imply that a black man cannot make up his mind on what to put on his cheeseburger?”

/sarc

Dr.Cwac.Cwac on May 15, 2008 at 9:04 AM

I see this is nothing new from Harold Meyerson. From Hardliners for Jesus:

We’ve seen this kind of Christianity before in America. It’s more tribal than religious, and it surges at those times when our country is growing more diverse and economic opportunity is not abounding. At its height in the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan was chiefly the political expression of nativist Protestants upset by the growing ranks of Catholics in their midst.

It’s difficult today to imagine KKKers thinking of their mission as Christian, but millions of them did.

Today’s Republican values voters don’t really conflate their rage with their faith. Lou Dobbs is a purely secular figure. But nativist bigotry is strongest in the Old Time Religion precincts of the Republican Party, and woe betide the Republican candidate who doesn’t embrace it, as John McCain, to his credit and his political misfortune, can attest.

The most depressing thing about the Republican presidential race is that the party’s rank and file require their candidates to grow meaner with each passing week. And now, inconveniently, inconsiderately, comes Christmas, a holiday that couldn’t be better calibrated to expose the Republicans’ rank, fetid hypocrisy.

Buy Danish on May 15, 2008 at 9:11 AM

I apologize in advance for the lengthy post but I find Spengler’s comments spot on in quite a few areas and meshes thematically with many of the comments in this thread. The entire article can be found over on the Asia Times where the nom de plume “Spengler” writes.

Obama’s women reveal his secret>
By Spengler

“Cherchez la femme,” advised Alexander Dumas in: “When you want to uncover an unspecified secret, look for the woman.” In the case of Barack Obama, we have two: his late mother, the went-native anthropologist Ann Dunham, and his rancorous wife Michelle. Obama’s women reveal his secret: he hates America.

We know less about Senator Obama than about any prospective president in American history. His uplifting rhetoric is empty, as Hillary Clinton helplessly protests. His career bears no trace of his own character, not an article for the Harvard Law Review he edited, or a single piece of legislation. He appears to be an empty vessel filled with the wishful thinking of those around him. But there is a real Barack Obama. No man - least of all one abandoned in infancy by his father - can conceal the imprint of an impassioned mother, or the influence of a brilliant wife.

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Ann Dunham died in 1995, and her character emerges piecemeal from the historical record, to which I will return below. But Michelle Obama is a living witness. Her February 18 comment that she felt proud of her country for the first time caused a minor scandal, and was hastily qualified. But she meant it, and more.

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Never underestimate the influence of a wife who bitch-slaps her husband in public. Early in Obama’s campaign, Michelle Obama could not restrain herself from belittling the senator. “I have some difficulty reconciling the two images I have of Barack Obama. There’s Barack Obama the phenomenon. He’s an amazing orator, Harvard Law Review, or whatever it was, law professor, best-selling author, Grammy winner. Pretty amazing, right? And then there’s the Barack Obama that lives with me in my house, and that guy’s a little less impressive,” she told a fundraiser in February 2007.

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Blackness is not the issue; General Colin Powell, whose parents chose to immigrate to America from the West Indies, saw America just as other immigrants do, as a land of opportunity. Obama’s choice of wife is a failsafe indicator of his own sentiments. Spouses do not necessarily share their likes, but they must have their hatreds in common. Obama imbibed this hatred with his mother’s milk.

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“Naivete” is a euphemism for Ann Dunham’s motivation. Friends describe her as a “fellow traveler”, that is, a communist sympathizer, from her youth, according to a March 27, 2007, Chicago Tribune report. Many Americans harbor leftist views, but not many marry into them, twice. Ann Dunham met and married the Kenyan economics student Barack Obama, Sr, at the University of Hawaii in 1960, and in 1967 married the Indonesian student Lolo Soetero. It is unclear why Soetero’s student visa was revoked in 1967 - the fact but not the cause are noted in press accounts. But it is probable that the change in government in Indonesia in 1967, in which the leftist leader Sukarno was deposed, was the motivation.

Soetero had been sponsored as a graduate student by one of the most radical of all Third World governments. Sukarno had founded the so-called Non-Aligned Movement as an anti-colonialist turn at the 1955 Bandung Conference in Indonesia. Before deposing him in 1967, Indonesia’s military slaughtered 500,000 communists (or unfortunates who were mistaken for communists). When Ann Dunham chose to follow Lolo Soetero to Indonesia in 1967, she brought the six-year-old Barack into the kitchen of anti-colonialist outrage, immediate following one of the worst episodes of civil violence in post-war history.

Dunham’s experience in Indonesia provided the material for a doctoral dissertation celebrating the hardiness of local cultures against the encroaching metropolis. It was entitled, “Peasant blacksmithing in Indonesia: surviving against all odds”.

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Dunham’s radicalism was more vicarious; she ended her career as an employee of international organizations.

Barack Obama received at least some instruction in the Islamic faith of his father and went with him to the mosque, but the importance of this experience is vastly overstated by conservative commentators who seek to portray Obama as a Muslim of sorts. Radical anti-Americanism, rather than Islam, was the reigning faith in the Dunham household. In the Muslim world of the 1960s, nationalism rather than radical Islam was the ideology of choice among the enraged. Radical Islam did not emerge as a major
political force until the nationalism of a Gamal Abdel Nasser or a Sukarno failed.

Barack Obama is a clever fellow who imbibed hatred of America with his mother’s milk, but worked his way up the elite ladder of education and career. He shares the resentment of Muslims against the encroachment of American culture, although not their religion. He has the empathetic skill set of an anthropologist who lives with his subjects, learns their language, and elicits their hopes and fears while remaining at emotional distance. That is, he is the political equivalent of a sociopath. The difference is that he is practicing not on a primitive tribe but on the population of the United States.

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America has the great misfortune to have encountered Obama at the peak of his powers at its worst moment of vulnerability in a generation. With malice aforethought, he has sought out their sore point

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Americans regard upward mobility as a God-given right. America had a double founding, as David Hackett Fischer showed in his 1989 study, Albion’s Seed . Two kinds of immigrants founded America: religious dissidents seeking a new Promised Land, and economic opportunists looking to get rich quick. Both elements still are present, but the course of the past quarter-century has made wealth-creation the sine qua non of American life. Now for the first time in a generation Americans have become poorer, and many of them have become much poorer due to the collapse of home prices. Unlike the Reagan years, when cutting the top tax rate from a punitive 70% to a more tolerable 40% was sufficient to start an economic boom, no lever of economic policy is available to fix the problem. Americans have no choice but to work harder, retire later, save more and retrench.

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Be afraid - be very afraid. America is at a low point in its fortunes, and feeling sorry for itself. When Barack utters the word “hope”, they instead hear, “handout”. A cynic might translate the national motto, E pluribus unum, as “something for nothing”. Now that the stock market and the housing market have failed to give Americans something for nothing, they want something for nothing from the government. The trouble is that he who gets something for nothing will earn every penny of it, twice over.

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The senior Obama died in a 1982 car crash. Kenyan government officials in those days normally spent their nights drinking themselves stupid at the Pan-Afrique Hotel. Two or three of them would be found with their Mercedes wrapped around a palm tree every morning. During the 1970s I came to know a number of them, mostly British-educated hollow men dying inside of their own hypocrisy and corruption.

Both Obama and the American public should be very careful of what they wish for. As the horrible example of Obama’s father shows, there is nothing worse for an embittered outsider manipulating the system from within than to achieve his goals - and nothing can be more terrible for the system. Even those who despise America for its blunders of the past few years should ask themselves whether the world will be a safer place if America retreats into a self-pitying shell.

moxie_neanderthal on May 15, 2008 at 9:27 AM

Y’mean to tell me, they’re finally discovering, “Multiculturism” and “Diversity” is racist?

Funny, how they didn’t figure it out, until they see it working against them, isn’t it.

Mebbe’ there’s hope for ‘em, yet.

Naw…They never accept responsiblity for their own actions.

[sigh]

franksalterego on May 15, 2008 at 9:52 AM

Here we have a mixed half-white, half-black candidate who sat in the pews for 20 years listening to a preacher saying that God only loves black people, and the candidate can’t disown him any more than his “typical white person” grandmother, and the candidate tells us that we’re all bitter and clinging to our religion and our guns.

Then we’re supposed to believe that somehow “American” is a code word for white people when the eeeeevil Republicans use it. According to this theory, what does Hillary Clinton mean by “American”? Didn’t she actually come out and say that Obama couldn’t get the votes of working WHITE people? Neither McCain nor any other Republicans ever mentioned white people!!!

Martin Luther King had a dream of equality between races. While listening to Barack Obama from heaven, he must be having a nightmare.

Steve Z on May 15, 2008 at 12:08 PM

I marvel at the stupidity of the man and the ignorance of his supporters. B. Hussien and his loud-mouthed wife are listed in the who’s who of racists. Duh!

Winebabe on May 15, 2008 at 3:02 PM