The Left created all these idnetities, and now frets about having to deal with them.

Yer chickens are all coming home to the Clustercluck™. Deal.With.It!!!

Entelechy on May 14, 2008 at 11:06 PM

Simply priceless.

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.

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]

Harold Meyerson (born 1950) is a liberal American journalist, Editor-at-Large of The American Prospect…

The son of long time leaders in California of the Socialist Party of America, he was active in the 1970s in the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee. He currently shares his time between Washington, D.C. and California.

What a shocka! How great for Obama that he has the endorsement of Hamas and Socialists.

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.

They would no longer have any reason to exist as the great dividers that they are.

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.

The racism of this country is trying to take a strong black man down. Obviously.

Nice to know he’s teaching at Syracuse University.

“Juan Williams is Bill O’Reilly’s happy little negro.”
“appearing as O’Reilly’s lawn jockey.”

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

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.

The person to whom I was submitting the document said she would have to make an assessment of my ethicity by looking at me.

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.

sad but true.

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.

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

Indeed. Those molded by post-modernism and baptized into “social justice” by our educational system cannot fathom the mindset of those calling themselves simply “Americans.”

Those who have escaped the asylum, refuse to indulge in collective guilt, view history in the context of the past rather than the prevailing narrative of the present and struggle to maintain their individuality and determine their own destinies must be absorbed!