Inaugural benediction: Pray that “white will embrace what is right”
posted at 1:55 pm on January 20, 2009 by Allahpundit
Didn’t whites just do that by electing Jesus Christ president?
Welcome to the post-racial age. Exit question: Hey, that Rick Warren’s pretty controversial, huh?
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More than that, whites have built this modern world, including the advances (and being so generous) that have allowed the Earth to now support 7 billion people – most of whom are not white.
You are perfectly right, Limey, blacks (and others) owes whites a great deal. But, gratitude and honesty are not popular notions today. They like grievance, better, the azzwipes.
Ungrateful morons.
progressoverpeace on January 20, 2009 at 2:18 PM
Woohoo!!!! Put it on a bumper sticker!
Oink on January 20, 2009 at 2:18 PM
I have to laugh at all the stupid white people who got mr o elected. They got a nice slap in the face for it on the very first day. It does not matter because they are too stupid to realize what happened.
lexa on January 20, 2009 at 2:19 PM
Oooh! That’s a super idea! But would my Civil War ancestors who fought on both sides just cancel that out?!
Argghh! I really need to hit the gen trail again.
Badger40 on January 20, 2009 at 2:19 PM
can we talk about what michelle was wearing? that outfit was fug!
anna on January 20, 2009 at 2:09 PM
We could start a thread now and continue for the next four years. It’s probably better to close your eyes and ‘think of England’ as the saying goes.
Cody1991 on January 20, 2009 at 2:19 PM
Nope. The race “bidness” is a good one to be in. Too sweet to just let it go. Lots of rewards out there for the enterprising capitalist. Books to sell, speeches to give, songs to rap. One just has to know the proper context in which to use the N word.
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/19/feel/
a capella on January 20, 2009 at 2:19 PM
Stay Classy Democrats!
Heh, my kid texted me and said that people were leaving her area before POTUS’ speech was finished – said there were a lot of confused looks on a lot of faces. Guess he wasn’t saying what they expected…
Blue-eyed Infidel on January 20, 2009 at 2:19 PM
Oh! It was a historic quote. I guess that makes it alright then. My mistake. Quotes can’t be inappropriate, hurtful and wrong if they are historic.
There’s a difference between something being said by a pundit on your side and something being said by someone that you invited to play a part in your inauguration.
Both might be inappropriate and wrong things to say, but the latter gets an official stamp of approval.
Considering the valedictorian at most high schools have to get their speeches approved before graduation, I’m fairly certain this was either approved or was a shock to the inaugural team.
If it was approved, I want to know why they chose to use a national event to marginalize a good chunk of the population of this country. If it wasn’t, they should clear it up and apologize for not vetting him better and putting him in a position where he could use a national event to marginalize a good chunk of the population of this country.
JadeNYU on January 20, 2009 at 2:20 PM
Everybody sing!
This is the dawning of the Age of Race Consciousness
The Age of Race Consciousness
RACE CONSCIOUSNESS! .. RACE CONSCIOUSNESS!
… and we’re just getting started.
argos on January 20, 2009 at 2:20 PM
Just words… like these from His Majesty…
Yeah, like that will happen.
mankai on January 20, 2009 at 2:20 PM
“When brown can stick around” (until they are gunned down in certain neighborhoods in Cali)
Yowza. What a way to start an administration.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on January 20, 2009 at 2:20 PM
Heh. Do you know what I’d give if the Left’s race industry limited their rage to actual racist policies? Conservatives spent this entire election cycle being called racists, and for what? racist policy initiatives? Hardly. We were called racists for such sins as pointing out Obama’s skinniness. So before you, “sigh” at our credulity over a preacher supplicating his desire for whites to do what’s right, and scoff at the idea that anything short of actually enacting racist policies is worthy of offense, do try to keep things in perspective.
Weight of Glory on January 20, 2009 at 2:20 PM
Excellent note.
As a white man, I’ll try to wake up every morning from now on and not have spite.
Notice how Warren was his normal politically correct self. He slyly tried to appease Christians and all others by using the name Yeshua instead of Jesus. No one was offended.
shick on January 20, 2009 at 2:21 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Texas Gal on January 20, 2009 at 2:21 PM
Judging from the big smile on his face, Obama must have thought this guy was pretty cute. This country is more divided than it has ever been and things are not going to get better.
rplat on January 20, 2009 at 2:21 PM
Boy, oh boy…..Oslime-a is surrounding himself with lots of racist Negros. Obamablacks is the term I believe.
csdeven on January 20, 2009 at 2:21 PM
You don’t see the problem assuming that all whites are racists, and the racism by doing that.
Especially after this election of the most inexperience person ever.
the_nile on January 20, 2009 at 2:21 PM
Awful benediction. Why couldn’t the man have simply prayed for the new administration and for our country and left it at that.
Besides, with all of the rhymes, I kept waiting for Jay-Z or Dr. Dre to jump up and rap.
BacaDog on January 20, 2009 at 2:22 PM
Let me see if I’ve got this right.
We had a disgrace to the clerical collar (Robinson) pray to a “God of many understandings”. We had a Racist slam white folks in the benediction. And we had Rick Warren actually proclaim Christ and recite The Lord’s Prayer in Obama’s Inauguration. And Warren was controversial? Only to the Liberals and the Elitists.
kingsjester on January 20, 2009 at 2:22 PM
And now for something completely different…………..(spoken in a dry English tone)
StatenItaly08 on January 20, 2009 at 2:22 PM
And they said that we would be beyond race when Obama became President! Let’s see wasn’t that AFTER he became President?
Hmmmm…
If whitey hadn’t embraced tolerance and fought for equal rights, the “Rev.” wouldn’t be at the podium!
Christian Conservative on January 20, 2009 at 2:22 PM
I’m more of a Mediterranean Olive. I’m pretty sure I’m safe from the rest of you racists. Hehehe…
robblefarian on January 20, 2009 at 2:22 PM
LimeyGeeK:
I AM white.
My family came from eastern-europe/britain in the late part of the nineteenth-early twentieth centuries.
My grandfather came here from what was then part of lithuania in 1914. He was three.
I was making the point that I’m not going to be taken in by by the guilt mongers and race mongers.
I can’t stand permanent victims.
annoyinglittletwerp on January 20, 2009 at 2:23 PM
Lowery left out, “If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit…”
Wethal on January 20, 2009 at 2:23 PM
Sure, I’ll pay a million dollars for every slave I’ve ever owned.
After that, no more.
Think this jackass would take that deal?
NoDonkey on January 20, 2009 at 2:23 PM
Oh you have the right to be offended, you just don’t have the right to be taken seriously except by others of your ilk who’ve decided that NOW is the time to embrace the culture of Political Correctness after calling liberals “whiners” all these years.
How can people be this ignorant. We all know that systems of slavery have existed in most modern societies. But what white folks were particularly good at was inventing ideologies of racial difference. For example, in Sub-saharan African societies slaves were POWs, but slavery was not hereditary. Individuals were not born into slavery as they were in Anglo regimes. Which is why even when slavery ended in America racist ideology still determined which individuals would be recognized by the state as citizens and which individuals would be recognized as human by the majority. Lincoln fought to keep the union together, but also argued that African people could never be full citizens or integrated into American society. He was a big fan of a mass exportation. Whites since him until very recently (and really on a individual basis) have fought tooth and nail to hold onto racial ideologies which claim there is some fundamental difference between whites and non-whites. Obama’s presidency has done alot to undo that but even still he didn’t get a majority of the white vote, he just demonstrates the rapid decline of the white majority in terms of demographics. And thank goodness for it, white majorities gave us 30 years of “free market” ideology foolishness and reinstituted an economic system based on speculative booms and busts. It just might take a black dude and a little injection of marxism to get things back on track. Thanks President Obama!
DeathToMediaHacks on January 20, 2009 at 2:23 PM
He’s just been inaugurated, and we already know Obama will be a one-term President.
Steve Z on January 20, 2009 at 2:24 PM
Reagan once said that a “No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this Earth.”
Get used to paying through the nose for someone else’s “dignified” retirement.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on January 20, 2009 at 2:24 PM
Day 1, and Barack Obama is already making sure there won’t be another black president for 200 years. Stupid move. Damn stupid.
Ronnie on January 20, 2009 at 2:24 PM
Let the healing begin, crackers.
Laura in Maryland on January 20, 2009 at 2:24 PM
FIFY
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on January 20, 2009 at 2:24 PM
The worst part about the next 4 years is having to watch people pretend Michelle Obama is some supermodel.
Speedwagon82 on January 20, 2009 at 2:25 PM
with all due credit to original author…
White Guilt Is Dead
Free at last, free at last!
By Tom Adkins
Editor’s note: This originally appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Look at my fellow conservatives! There they go, glumly shuffling along, depressed by the election aftermath. Not me. I’m virtually euphoric.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not thrilled with America’s flirtation with neo-socialism.. But there’s a massive silver lining in those magical clouds that lofted Barack Obama to the Presidency. For today, without a shred of intellectually legitimate opposition, I can loudly proclaim to America: The Era of White Guilt is over.
This seemingly impossible event occurred because the vast majority of white Americans didn’t give a fluff about skin color, and enthusiastically pulled the voting lever for a black man. Not just any black man. A very liberal black man who spent his early career race-hustling banks, praying in a racist church for 20 years, and actively worked with America-hating domestic terrorists. Wow! Some resume! Yet they made Barack Obama their leader. Therefore, as of November 4th, 2008, white guilt is dead.
For over a century, the millstone of white guilt hung around our necks, retribution for slave-owning predecessors. In the 60s, American liberals began yanking that millstone while sticking a fork in the eye of black Americans, exacerbating the racial divide to extort a socialist solution. But if a black man can become President, exactly what significant barrier is left? The election of Barack Obama absolutely destroys the entire validation of liberal white guilt. The dragon is hereby slain.
So today, I’m feeling a little “uppity,” if you will. From this day forward, my tolerance level for having my skin color hustled is now exactly ZERO. And it’s time to clean house. No more Reverend Wright’s “God Damn America,” Al Sharpton’s Church of Perpetual Victimization, or Jesse Jackson’s rainbow racism. Cornell West? You’re a fraud. Go home. All those “black studies” programs that taught kids to hate whitey? You must now thank Whitey. And I want that on the final.
Congressional Black Caucus? Irrelevant. Maxine Waters? Shut up. ACORN? Outlawed. Black Panthers? Go home and pet your kitty. Black separatists? Find another nation that offers better dreams. Go ahead. I’m waiting.
Gangsta rappers? Start praising America. Begin with the Pledge of Allegiance. And please, no more ebonics. Speak English, and who knows where you might end up? Oh, yeah, pull up your pants. Your underwear is showing. You look stupid.
Black Fraternities? Seek diversity. Race card? It’s now the joker. Miss Black America? Get in line with all the other lovely ladies. Reparations? Paid.
To those Eurosnots who forged entire careers hating America? I’m still waiting for the first black French President.
And let me offer an equal opportunity whupping. I’ve always despised lazy white people. Now, I can talk smack about lazy black people. You’re poor because you quit school, did drugs, had three kids with three different fathers, and refuse to work. So when you plop your Colt 45-swilling, Oprah watchin’ butt on the couch and complain “Da Man is keepin’ me down,” allow me to inform you: Da Man is now black. You have no excuses.
No more quotas. No more handouts. No more stealing my money because someone’s great-great-great-great grandparents suffered actual pain and misery at the hands of people I have no relation to, and personally revile.
It’s time to toss that massive, obsolete race-hustle machine upon the heap of the other stupid 60s ideas. Drag it over there, by wife swapping, next to dope-smoking. Plenty of room right between free love and cop-killing. Careful, don’t trip on streaking. There ya go, don’t be gentle. Just dump it. Wash your hands. It’s filthy.
In fact, Obama’s ascension created a gargantuan irony. How can you sell class envy and American unfairness when you and your black wife went to Ivy League schools, got high-paying jobs, became millionaires, bought a mansion, and got elected President? How unfair is that??? Now, Like a delicious O’Henry tale, Obama’s spread-the-wealth campaign rendered itself moot by it’s own victory! America is officially a meritocracy. Obama’s election has validated American conservatism!
So, listen carefully…Wham!!!
That’s the sound of my foot kicking the door shut on the era of white guilt. The rites have been muttered, the carcass lowered, dirt shoveled, and tombstone erected. White guilt is dead and buried.
However, despite my glee, there’s apparently one small, rabid bastion of American racism remaining. Black Americans voted 96% for Barack Obama. Hmmm. In a color-blind world, shouldn’t that be 50-50? Tonight, every black person should ask forgiveness for their apparent racism and prejudice towards white people. Maybe it’s time to start spreading the guilt around.
Tom Adkins is the former publisher of CommonConservative.com. He can be reached at tomadkinscc@yahoo.com.
UNREPENTANT CONSERVATIVE CAPITOLIST on January 20, 2009 at 2:25 PM
What? Did he say that?
Alana on January 20, 2009 at 2:25 PM
Ann Coulter makes a lot of sense these days.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on January 20, 2009 at 2:25 PM
Do what’s right, eh? Like banishing the institutionalized racism that is Affirmative Action from the land?
(Did I use enough flowery language there? That seems to be what counts these days.)
commenter on January 20, 2009 at 2:25 PM
The one drawback for the race-baiters is that Obama’s black father came from Kenya in the latter half of the Twentieth Century. Can’t use the Obama family for the “Up from Slavery” argument for reparations.
Wethal on January 20, 2009 at 2:26 PM
Why do I have a feeling that I’ve just been classified as an evil person because of the color of my skin?
Or is he perhaps being misinterpreted, and is just talking about the political right?
I notice that Noneya, the parakeet who customarily warns everyone else in the mine about racism, seems notably absent this fine morning? Perhaps she’s lying stunned at the bottom of the cage?
unclesmrgol on January 20, 2009 at 2:26 PM
now time to start the moderates that voted for Obama to move away.
jp on January 20, 2009 at 2:27 PM
I can’t speak for everyone’s intentions, but if people don’t want to be labeled racists, they should stop acting like them. Addressing Obama as “Hussein” makes them sound like a bunch of racists. Obama is an American Christian, and harping on his middle name serves no purpose other than making reference to his ethnic background.
I’m referring to Chip Saltsman, who is an idiot, and who – alog with Katon Dawson – has given the race for RNC Chair a hefty dose of racial politics that it didn’t need.
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 2:27 PM
….and he got away with that! …. The old fool has waited a lifetime to make a cut like that. It must be hell to live a life as angry as he obviously has.
FireBlogger on January 20, 2009 at 2:27 PM
Day 1, and Barack Obama is already making sure there won’t be another black president for 200 years. Stupid move. Damn stupid.
Ronnie on January 20, 2009 at 2:24 PM
Yep. And that is what a few, lonely voices in the black community have been saying.
Forget the failure of the MSM. Didn’t anyone bother to listen to BO and MO?
Cody1991 on January 20, 2009 at 2:28 PM
It’s pointless to keep repeating myself… but how is it “post-racial”, Mr. Hussein, to keep on mentioning all the various races? Of course this guy took it to another outrageous level. I can’t decide if I feel worse after today’s events or if I felt worse on election night. Man are we SO screwed. Irreparably so.
RightWinged on January 20, 2009 at 2:28 PM
I didn’t think it possible but this the most vapid statement you’ve made here. Congrats!
Esthier on January 20, 2009 at 2:28 PM
And we can all study slavery first hand if we want to… of course, we’ll have to go to African and Arab nations to find it in 2009… on your way, try not to trip over the graves of the hundreds of thousands of Americans who died in a fight to end it on these shores.
mankai on January 20, 2009 at 2:28 PM
Amazing!
Obama was just inagurated, and I already feel an urgent need for Hope and Change!
Aristotle on January 20, 2009 at 2:28 PM
There is a case coming up in SCOTUS from the Second Circuit. Some white police officers were denied promotions because, although they got the highest scores on the promotion exams, minorities were promoted for “diversity.” Can’t wait to see Obama & Holder’s position on that one.
Wethal on January 20, 2009 at 2:29 PM
Barry’s more than a little red and yella, figuratively speaking.
Christien on January 20, 2009 at 2:29 PM
“Hillary ain’t never been called a n*****”
Reverend Jeremiah Wright
jp on January 20, 2009 at 2:29 PM
You don’t like his middle name, or people using it, then blame his parents, moron. That’s his name.
progressoverpeace on January 20, 2009 at 2:29 PM
Agreed. I saw her in an outfit from last night, apparently, in a picture with them and the Bush’s.
It was a brown and tan affair with a matching coat, and it was MUCH better.
She should have worn that at this.
You don’t wear bling during the daytime, for one thing. For another, the color made her look much larger than the nice brown and tan ensemble.
Good taste with her is very definitely a hit and miss affair.
Alana on January 20, 2009 at 2:29 PM
She’s here.
Esthier on January 20, 2009 at 2:30 PM
So…who exactly is this stupid, racist f*cker? Just curious.
Jaibones on January 20, 2009 at 2:30 PM
Compare Lowery’s racist benediction with Rick Warren’s wonderful prayer.
As different as night and day.
TheMightyQuinn on January 20, 2009 at 2:30 PM
As a troll, it is your right to make no sense at all…and go off on your little confused, marxist hobby-horse tangents…but don’t expect a lot of love.
AUINSC on January 20, 2009 at 2:30 PM
Disgraceful.
Maxx on January 20, 2009 at 2:31 PM
Anti-white racism has been the policy of our government bureaucracy for several years now. Now we have an administration that will make it part of the executive branch as well. You see, the cure for racism is more racism.
Creating justice is easy – smash the white devils! Obama 08!
Django on January 20, 2009 at 2:31 PM
So anti-racism is just a culture of PC in your mind. Figures.
And blacks haven’t? What is Kwanzaa? Who WAS Malcolm X (the great orator who was quoted here this afternoon?)
In less than 2 hours… WOW!
Skywise on January 20, 2009 at 2:31 PM
lol… very good.
silverfox on January 20, 2009 at 2:31 PM
Jaibones on January 20, 2009 at 2:30 PM
He’s the former head of the NAACP. I don’t know if he was before or after Dr. Hooks. If I remember correctly, he was also active in the Civil Rights Movement.
kingsjester on January 20, 2009 at 2:32 PM
Does black dude Marxism work different than white dude Marxism, Hispanic dude Marxism or Asian dude Marxism?
If not, count me out.
China, Russia, Cuba et al weren’t exactly the paradises that they should have been if Marxism truly is so amazing.
JadeNYU on January 20, 2009 at 2:32 PM
But people just use it to reference his ethnic background. Don’t expect to pull something like that off without people thinking you’re a racist.
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 2:32 PM
Was that a prayer, or Jay-Z’s latest hit?
BacaDog on January 20, 2009 at 2:33 PM
OMG! I didn’t even think of that! You’re right. Geez, will this set things back.
Alana on January 20, 2009 at 2:33 PM
Yeah, he was an ass for doing that.
Ryan Gandy on January 20, 2009 at 2:33 PM
If sucking up to this obamination is “right”, then I will gladly be wrong every chance I get.
BoomJunkie on January 20, 2009 at 2:33 PM
DeathToMediaHacks on January 20, 2009 at 2:23 PM
Hey Hack,
Limey has a point. There have been slaves and slaveholders of all colors throughout history. It has only been since the Anglo folks that it has been fought against and abolished. It didn’t happen overnight; the founding fathers agonized over slavery, Lincoln didn’t get it at first, even some of the Dems today with their benevolent enslavement of the welfare class don’t get it. Incrementalism is the key; all liberals know that.
Before the founding of the US, people did not have any inalienable rights. It took Christian ideals paired with the Magna Carta to blossom into what we are supposed to have today: FREEDOM!
Laura in Maryland on January 20, 2009 at 2:34 PM
Not his “ethnic background”. The moron was raised in Indonesia, a muslim country. He had a muslim father and a muslim stepfather. His middle name indicates his upraising, that he tries so hard to deny and hide.
Who cares what they call me. They’re just morons who can’t tell the difference between their azz and a hole in the ground. They call every white person a racist, as we are discussing in this thread, so stop with the stupidity that using a person’s actual name is anything bad. Get a brain, man.
progressoverpeace on January 20, 2009 at 2:35 PM
This ain’t nuance, AP, even though that seems to be your favorite word.
It was a slap in the face.
Oh, well, if I’m just some uneducated honky mofo, guess I better get used to it.
MrScribbler on January 20, 2009 at 2:36 PM
I was offended by Lowry’s injection of a 1960′s mindset into today’s benediction. Obama did himself no favor using Lowry. Lowry embarrassed himself and Obama. There are an awful lot of people out there who voted for Obama thinking we could get past exactly the kind of 1960′s racial rhetoric Lowry just spit out. Did they not review his speech beforehand?
Mr A on January 20, 2009 at 2:36 PM
I reject this reverse racism crap. I want to see Matthews and all these stupid Lilly white liberals take that on!!!!
worlok on January 20, 2009 at 2:36 PM
But people just use it to reference his ethnic background. Don’t expect to pull something like that off without people thinking you’re a racist.
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 2:32 PM
So… since “The One” used his middle name today, does that mean he is a racist, too? You liberals really make me laugh.
BoomJunkie on January 20, 2009 at 2:36 PM
I can explain that. They all think he’s talking about all those OTHER white folks, not enlightened them. Cause see, they are better.
Alana on January 20, 2009 at 2:37 PM
In this country, former enslavement of blacks by white Americans is the issue. That was what Lowery was talking about. I’m not saying that I agree with all of his views or solutions, but your comment basically reads as “don’t blame us, everybody was doing it!”
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 2:37 PM
Hey – Norman, Celt, Norse, Goth, Melungeon and Cherokee here!
Direct ancestor in America in 1646 – never owned anybody, either.
Wyatt Wingfoot on January 20, 2009 at 2:37 PM
Was that the most gentle “kill whitey” or was that the most gentle “whitey’s got to pay”?
BL@KBIRD on January 20, 2009 at 2:38 PM
Didn’t this eh, person, speak at the MLK tribute last year and stir controversy? Didn’t he say something awful about Bush, while Bush was sitting there?
beththebaker on January 20, 2009 at 2:38 PM
It stopped being a prayer about a third of the way into it.
sleepy-beans on January 20, 2009 at 2:38 PM
Yes and Yes (:
beththebaker on January 20, 2009 at 2:39 PM
I want to see Matthews and all these stupid Lilly white liberals take that on!!!!
worlok on January 20, 2009 at 2:36 PM
Well, they really can’t because Barry is the only ‘black’ guy they know.
Cody1991 on January 20, 2009 at 2:39 PM
Heh. A “new personal best” for stupidity in a leading troll.
Jaibones on January 20, 2009 at 2:40 PM
Apparently, Byrd has had a seizure at the luncheon and they’ve rushed him to the hospital.
BallisticBob on January 20, 2009 at 2:40 PM
Well, that sure excludes embracing Barry, ’cause he sure ain’t right.
Christien on January 20, 2009 at 2:40 PM
Now that obama is president, the word “change” now enters my lexicon. I want change. It is clear to me that we are suffering from obama’s failed policies.
CHANGE!
keep the change on January 20, 2009 at 2:40 PM
Die, white devils, die! That includes you schoolkids, too. You’re the spawn of an evil race! The president’s spokesman says so. America don’t need the cracker race!
Django on January 20, 2009 at 2:41 PM
I’m a boring Christian – I don’t ever recall a “prayer” that had rhymes and racist jokes that people laughed at.
Jaibones on January 20, 2009 at 2:41 PM
I’m white and NONE of my ancestors owned slaves. As a matter of fact I have a distant Irish relative who fought for the UNION ARMY.
worlok on January 20, 2009 at 2:41 PM
So, reverend wright was actually a pretty good indicator of things to come. I wonder when we’ll find out that bill ayers was a valid campaign issue as well.
Ronnie on January 20, 2009 at 2:42 PM
Hey-just overheard in our school office the history teacher gave 2 HS boys detention bcs they said “now that we have a black president, we are going to be saved”.
Unreal.
Badger40 on January 20, 2009 at 2:42 PM
Freed blacks in the US held black slaves in higher percentages than white people. Learn some history.
Today, slavery still exists, formally, only in black Africa and in the muslim world. Interestingly, these are two groups that American blacks love to praise. Learn some facts about today’s world.
progressoverpeace on January 20, 2009 at 2:43 PM
Perhaps for a little while, but someone, somewhere wil write somthing vaguely critical, generating harsh editorial reprimands, which wil in turn create a harsh rebuttal to the reprimand, and off we go. I hope Maureen Dowd kicks it off,….. an editorial face off between she and someone like Kathleen Parker, over a Michelle clothing issue, would be delightful.
a capella on January 20, 2009 at 2:43 PM
What? Did nancy pelosi just say “you are free to cheer the American flag?”
???????
Alana on January 20, 2009 at 2:43 PM
I’d say what “white” (not to mention “brown,” “yellow,” and even “black”) should pray for instead is to not have the epithet “racist” screamed every time a criticism is raised about one of President Obama’s policies for the next four years. However, I don’t expect those prayers will go answered. Expect to hear the “R” word thrown about more than you ever have in your life.
By the way, have we had a ginger president yet?
Blacklake on January 20, 2009 at 2:43 PM
Among the Kenyan Luo, a person has a surname and (sometimes) a patronymic. Our new president’s surname is Hussein and his patronymic is Obama; it is customary to call one by his/her surname.
What does being a Christian have to do with calling a person by his/her given name? I was not aware that Christians had to stop using their names indicating ethnicity.
Oh and, by the way, calling him Barack Obama calls attention to his ethnic background!
Sheesh. Please think and gain some knowledge of your topic before commenting.
baldilocks on January 20, 2009 at 2:43 PM
Now Fox is saying it might have been Kennedy.
BallisticBob on January 20, 2009 at 2:43 PM
INAUGURAL HATE SPEECH
jeff_from_mpls on January 20, 2009 at 2:43 PM
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