Ya,the other 10 per-cent are stupid,ha ha ya
crazy like a fox stupid!

The 10% new better to stand in the Hope and Change line!

And,I’m wondering if this Rev.Wright soap opera was planned
all along,um not the twenty year sitting in the church,but
to charge up the Al,and Jesse brigades!

canopfor on May 15, 2008 at 11:19 PM

fueled by precisely the same brand of personal ambition as Bill Clinton

I don’t know that his appeal is based on racial posturing. Then again, I’m not one of his avid supporters and can’t define Obama’s appeal.

But to continue this thread of baseless personal attack is pointless. “Brand of personal ambition”- what the hell does that mean? Did George W. run for office because he realized his intelligence, knowledge, and qualifications were unmatched in the Republican party? These men and women are all politicians and driven by similar ambitions. Focusing on the issues is more productive than trying to divine who’s intentions are the most noble.

By this logic, we can’t trust Mother Teresa because it’s obvious that she only helps the poor to boost her ego and sense of self worth…

bayam on May 15, 2008 at 11:22 PM

What issues? We aren’t allowed to ask Obama ANYTHING because it “distracts from the issues” and it seems EVERYTHING is non-issue related for this guy.

Whatever, empty suit with the right color skin for 2008. If the guy were white and his name was John Smith he wouldn’t be able to get the time of day from the libs.

Bishop on May 15, 2008 at 11:27 PM

I read this article last night, on the HA headline and found it to be a jewel among 1000 others. I had exerpted some good morsels from it, but only recall the last one now

That so many people have a stake in ignoring these real concerns is troubling. At least the Hillary supporters I know seem to be aware of her more unsavory traits: that she carries a knife with her that she could pull out at any minute. Not so with Obama’s fans. It’s nearly impossible to get them to admit any wrong in him. Given the choice, I prefer to side with the group that knows their candidate can be a jerk, rather than the group that believes their candidate is Jesus.

Entelechy on May 15, 2008 at 11:29 PM

I know that Obama will never have to answer such criticism, but if he were cornered and called out on this, he’d shrug his shoulders and say, “Oh well. I can’t please everybody.”

Doug on May 15, 2008 at 11:37 PM

I read this earlier today.

I only wish that the obama freaks could read this. They can, but the won’t.

winemkr on May 15, 2008 at 11:47 PM

The country wants a Preacher/Messiah in Chief, the country deserves one.

“Brand of pesonal ambition” based on absolutely nothing. If he succeeds, I’m opening a church. Mesmerizing thousands, with way more substance than that, should be fairly easy. If it also pays, business should be good, and tax free.

Entelechy on May 16, 2008 at 12:07 AM

The country wants a Preacher/Messiah in Chief,the country
deserves one.

Entelechy on May 16,2008 at 12:07PM.

Entelechy:Liberals are giving Seperation of Church and
State a bad name!

canopfor on May 16, 2008 at 12:13 AM

Dang, my comment isn’t showing up. It had a link but it’s not to CNN so I don’t know what happened. I’ll cite the pertinent paragraph, without the link which can be Googled and is well worth reading.

Long story short, what I had said is that this piece is a masterpiece, and here’s some bio info on brilliant author:

Cinque Henderson, a young Harvard graduate from North Carolina, is a DreamWorks executive who worked closely with Allen on the project. Henderson’s parents named him after the heroic leader of the Amistad revolt. Allen, however, believes that their collaboration was no chance meeting: “There is a word that I believe in very strongly, and that’s ‘destiny’.”

From A-M-I-S-T-A-D/SAILING INTO HISTORY/By Bennie M. Currie

Buy Danish on May 16, 2008 at 12:16 AM

I may be having brain fade here, but what about getting the best person for the job? Just a thought.

OldEnglish on May 16, 2008 at 12:24 AM

from what I’ve seen from a lot of BHO’s followers is that Barry is a blank slate so that they can project what they want in a candidate onto him.. almost a Rorschach test of sorts..

DaveC on May 16, 2008 at 12:28 AM

The proverbial shit is going to hit the fan after 8 years of the democrats working to undermine anything and everything in the USA just to get back in power.

I’m not sure whether I will vote for a democrat running as a republican or a communist running as a democrat. However, I am thinking toward 2010 and 2012 with my vote for president in 2008.

I suggest all conservatives review this article on the deceptiveness of the ACU ratings of McCain of yesterday.
http://www.nicedoggie.net/2008/?p=779:

jukin on May 16, 2008 at 12:33 AM

Not only is it a great read, it defines Barack Hussein Obama as who he is.
His wife is less transparent with her comments, but she is his reflection in the mirror.

The author may know their candidate is a jerk, but doesn’t see past obvious similarities just packaged differently.

And I don’t mean by pant suit versus empty suit.

If you pick out a different suit from the same laundry hamper, it’s still dirty suit. No matter how you wear it.

Kini on May 16, 2008 at 12:40 AM

They both have…

Sigy on May 16,2008 at 12:34PM.

Sigy: Are you the same Sigy from Sanity Squad?

canopfor on May 16, 2008 at 12:42 AM

Sigy, Mr. Freud, go psychoanalyze the dead.

Entelechy on May 16, 2008 at 12:40 AM

I have psychoanalyzed many dead political figures my dear and I can say in all candor that never before have I seen anything like this batch.

Sigy on May 16, 2008 at 12:46 AM

Forgot to lift this jewel, see E @ 12:44

Kennedy at least had charisma and intelligence. But to prove that these were by no means necessary preconditions for the honour, it was conferred a few years later on Jimmy Carter, the plodding nonentity elevated by a willingly compliant press into Everyman, brandishing his steely sword of Truth against the Manichean mendacity of Richard Nixon’s Republican legacy.

Entelechy on May 16, 2008 at 12:47 AM

Sigy: Are you the same Sigy from Sanity Squad?

canopfor on May 16, 2008 at 12:42 AM

Probably not, unless I have been sleep walking again.

Sigy on May 16, 2008 at 12:49 AM

But it’s fairly clear now that, with the near-certain nomination by the Democrats of Barack Obama everything is in place for the media to indulge in one of the greatest, orgiastic media fiestas of hero-worship since Elvis Presley.

Entelechy on May 16, 2008 at 12:53 AM

I was beginning to think that the black people who felt this way were one of only five people: myself, my immediate family and my boyfriend.

baldilocks on May 16, 2008 at 1:00 AM

Henderson wrote:

It is Obama’s biography, we are told, that will govern his behavior. He was raised by a mother who supposedly didn’t see color, so he doesn’t see color. He was born into tolerance and multi-racial understanding, so he will practice tolerance and multi-racial understanding. Except, that is, when it’s not useful to him.

Bingo. Rev. Wright. And the Obamessiah’s (PBUH) convenient biography — he’s black, he’s white, he’s neither, he’s all things to all people. I don’t buy into his biography either. Not at all.

Paul-Cincy on May 16, 2008 at 1:05 AM

. “Brand of personal ambition”- what the hell does that mean?
bayam on May 15, 2008 at 11:22 PM

It means that the author is a dyed in the wool Democrat and so cannot allow herself to assign such motivation to any nonRepublican. Democrats always do it for the kids.

I saw some of the back and forth on the View during the height of the Jeremiah Wright press onslaught. The two black chicks were absolutely uninterested in any kind of negative information about Obama. Their attitude was, “He’s ours. We’ve never had one of ours as POTUS. You don’t understand how much this means to us. We know the Man is going to try to sink him. But you owe us.” The main thing was that whitey doesn’t know how it feels and couldn’t know, so there is no point in discussing it.

snaggletoothie on May 16, 2008 at 1:06 AM

As for Mr. Obama, anyone who can say, “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for” with a straight face is a force to be reckoned with, giggle-wise. Hillary, by contrast, is just too dry, too focused, too intense, too serious.

Entelechy on May 16, 2008 at 1:20 AM

Would whites be so into him if he didn’t have a white mother?…not a chance.

She’s a pseudo-intellectual race-baiter. Everyone is racist but her.

jgapinoy on May 15, 2008 at 11:39 PM

You’re not making sense. What ’she’ are you talking about? Do you mean Cinque Henderson? A dude. Cinque is a guy’s name.

And, no, the whites that Henderson is talking about–the Andrew Sullivans of this country–would not vote for an Obama which they couldn’t use to absolve themselves of white guilt–one which was not a seemingly post-racial sort of black person.

baldilocks on May 16, 2008 at 1:21 AM

Mr. Obama will set race-relations and all kinds of other progress back, and the media, and the D ‘leaders’ are unwittingly helping him. It’s a tragic thing to watch.

Entelechy on May 16, 2008 at 1:22 AM

Yes, ma’am.

baldilocks on May 16, 2008 at 1:26 AM

It’s worth remembering that the majority of blacks still think O.J. Simpson is innocent.

Connie on May 16, 2008 at 1:31 AM

t’s worth remembering that the majority of blacks still think O.J. Simpson is innocent.

Connie on May 16, 2008 at 1:31 AM

Connie on May 16, 2008 at 1:32 AM

Connie on May 16, 2008 at 1:33 AM

Connie on May 16, 2008 at 1:33 AM

So to a lot of liberals

Kini on May 16, 2008 at 1:34 AM

Indy, how many camels do you possess, aside from the one goat, and some cows, I recall?

Entelechy on May 16, 2008 at 1:42 AM

It is worth remembering that the majority of blacks think O.J. Simpson is innocent.

Nonsense.

The majority of blacks know that O.J. was completely guilty of a double homicide.

But one victim was a white b*tch, stealing a black brother from a good black woman, so she deserved to die.

And the dead white guy was just a poor sucker who stumbled along and ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time. But, so had plenty of brothers who got lynched in the past, so tough sh*t for him.

It is considered a piece of righteous and historical Pay Back Time For Whitey.

They’re happy O.J. got away with it.

And the same unending resent-mentality feeds Obama’s support, coupled with White Guiltists who think he can absolve them of their imaginary sins of Racism.

It’s a folie circulaire, and Barry plays it like a master political pimp, making Bill Clinton look like a piker.

profitsbeard on May 16, 2008 at 2:11 AM

From „Bambi vs. Godzilla“ by David Mamet, c. 2007, pp 132-135

“The talentless, misguided, or exploitative have long employed supradramatic devices in the construction of the drama, … as these very human virtues, practiced in the wider world, are understood (subconsciously) by the viewer to trump an interest in mere entertainment.”

“ ’Do you appreciate the film, or do you hate the deaf/gays/blacks?’ This is the (again, conscious or unconscious) mechanism of the issue drama.”

“Imagine, similarly, a candidate for office who asks for your vote because she is blind. ‘Yes,’ one might think, ‘that is certainly a shame, but I, the voter, pay taxes and so am entitled to representation. I will cast or withhold my vote according to my understanding of how this candidate’s views reflect or inform my own; I fail to see how her affliction enters into this equation.’ “

“But we are biddable. The suspension of disbelief necessary to the dramatic transaction opens the door to its misuse by both the criminal and the well meaning.”

“The ancient joke has a member of the majority culture taking a shortcut home through a dark alley in which he encounters a member of a despised minority. The minority fellow threatens the other with a knife, the proposed victim produces a revolver and says, ‘Isn’t that just like a (insert favorite racially derogatory term) to bring a knife to a gunfight?’ “

“Well, hijacking of the dramatic transaction is bringing a gun to a knife fight.”

Lockstein13 on May 16, 2008 at 7:32 AM

Rick on May 16, 2008 at 1:06 AM

Those paragraphs are very important. Very creepy and oh so subtle demagoguery on Obama’s part. Keep in mind that when Rev. Wright talks about “chickens coming home to roost” he too is repeating words that came from Malcolm X’s lips.

Some post-racial candidate, huh!

Buy Danish on May 16, 2008 at 8:22 AM

Obama’s Secret Code ™

It’s just dawned on me that Obama is not an empty vessel at all.

He is a master manipulator. He speaks in secret code to each group.

Blacks
Cinque Henderson at TNR cracked the black code
When Obama’s candicacy was in jeopardy in SC, he gave speeches across the state that warned against being “hoodwinked” and “bamboozled” by the Clintons. His use of the phrase is resonant. It comes from a scene in Malcolm X, where Denzel Washington warns black people about the hidden evils of “the White Man” masquerading as a smiling politician: “Every election year, these politicians are sent up here to pacify us,” he says. “You’ve been hoodwinked. Bamboozled.”

Muslims
In an interview with the New York Times in 2007, Barak Hussein Obama said the Muslim call to prayer is “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth.”
He recited, “with a first-rate [Arabic] accent,” the opening lines of this prayer: “Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme! I witness that there is no god but Allah. I witness that there is no god but Allah. I witness that Muhammad is his prophet… ”
According to Islamic scholars, reciting the Shahada (the first 5 lines of the Adhan), the Muslim declaration of faith, makes one a Muslim.

Christians
Obama says he is a Christian, that he has a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, that he reads the Bible regularly and prays constantly. (Of course, he has not been Baptised and his KY pamphlets state that he walked the aisle on his first visit to a Christian church)

Atheists
When asked “Are you an evangelical?” , he states “Gosh, I’m not sure if labels are helpful here because the definition of an evangelical is so loose and subject to so many different interpretations. I came to Christianity through the black church tradition where the line between evangelical and non-evangelical is completely blurred. Nobody knows exactly what it means.

White Liberals
Hope. Change. Post-racial.

faraway on May 16, 2008 at 9:16 AM

Why is this such a great article? She makes the same tired accusations of nationalized racism as everyone else, but from the other side: “White people wouldn’t support Obama if he weren’t half-white.”

joewm315 on May 16, 2008 at 9:51 AM

The author is a man. And he’s talking about white liberals; he even says so.

baldilocks on May 16, 2008 at 11:45 AM

Muslims
In an interview with the New York Times in 2007, Barak Hussein Obama said the Muslim call to prayer is “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth.”
He recited, “with a first-rate [Arabic] accent,” the opening lines of this prayer: “Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme! I witness that there is no god but Allah. I witness that there is no god but Allah. I witness that Muhammad is his prophet… ”
According to Islamic scholars, reciting the Shahada (the first 5 lines of the Adhan), the Muslim declaration of faith, makes one a Muslim. faraway

I had not picked up on that observation. Nice job faraway

Ragnell on May 16, 2008 at 8:13 PM

The Clinton’s and their pals played the far left fringe of the Democratic party so long and so well that the monster they helped raise devoured them in the end…A fitting end at that to the devious duo. I’m pretty sure that the country that elected Ronald Reagan twice is not going to stray so far as to elect an anti-American marxist muslim by the name of Barack Hussein Obama only two generations later. Maybe but I doubt it…The West Virginia primary results have shown the vulnerability of Hussein to working class Americans…He may appeal to college students and middle-upper class whites confused about their sexuality and political ideology but the folks in this country who still work for a living are not confused at all…As well, hispanics have none of the so-called white guilt that pervades the democratic party. So, they are not buying th line at all either. The combination of working class Americans of all races will bury this messiah brought to us by the extreme left fringe of the democratic party and their accomplices in the MSM…

Nozzle on May 17, 2008 at 12:24 AM