Posted on 02/14/2007 3:05:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I've caught Obama fever! Obamamania, Obamarama, Obama, Obama, Obama. (I just pray to God this is clean, renewable electricity I'm feeling.)
Only white guilt could explain the insanely hyperbolic descriptions of Obama's "eloquence." His speeches are a run-on string of embarrassing, sophomoric Hallmark bromides.
In announcing his candidacy last week, Obama confirmed that he believes in "the basic decency of the American people." And let the chips fall where they may!
Obama forthrightly decried "a smallness of our politics" deftly slipping a sword into the sides of the smallness-in-politics advocates. (To his credit, he somehow avoided saying, "My fellow Americans, size does matter.")
He took a strong stand against the anti-hope crowd, saying: "There are those who don't believe in talking about hope." Take that, Hillary!
Most weirdly, he said: "I recognize there is a certain presumptuousness in this a certain audacity to this announcement."
What is so audacious about announcing that you're running for president? Any idiot can run for president. Dennis Kucinich is running for president. Until he was imprisoned, Lyndon LaRouche used to run for president constantly. John Kerry ran for president. Today, all you have to do is suggest a date by which U.S. forces in Iraq should surrender, and you're officially a Democratic candidate for president.
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Actually, the "proof" that Jefferson had children by one of his slaves is oral tradition among some of the descendants of Sally Hemings. (Her son Madison Hemings was claiming to be a son of TJ in 1870--on the US census that year the census taker wrote "This man is the son of Thomas Jefferson" on the line with his name.)
There was a lot of hype in 1998 about a DNA study that showed that descendants of one of Sally's sons had a distinctive Jefferson Y-chromosome marker, but that could have been inherited from Jefferson's brother or a number of other relatives who lived reasonably close to Monticello. The reason for saying that Thomas Jefferson rather than another Jefferson was the father is the oral tradition.
B. Hussein Obama
Between that and "Wingnut" I have all the ammo I need. This is better than Teddy the Swimmer calling him Osama Obama.
He doesn't want picures of his dad and stepdad in muslim skull cap and thobe, or full-blown keffiyeh complete with fanbelt, circulating. People might get the wrong idea!
You abosolutely have the right to be that way. It does prove this country has a long way to go to meet its ideals. Someday, maybe people will be judged for themselves and not their ancestry.
His ancestry is questionable. Up until 9/11 I could have cared less about the fact that his family is moslem but not after everything I've learned about islam. Plus, he's a democrat.
Let me ping on.
Maybe liberals aren't secret racists expunging vast stores of white guilt by hyperventilating over B. Hussein Obama. Maybe they're just running out of greeting card inscriptions.
Let me know if you'd like to be added to the Ann Coulter ping list.
Please add me.
I've already got your name on the list. Did you not get the ping???
Then the last line of your post asked if you wanted on or off...
I AM SO CONFUSED!!!!! LOL!
As evidenced by the variations in color of african-americans, then and now, there was some mixing between owners and slaves.
Are we individually judged by the actions of our fore-bearers?
Not genetics, islam is the problem.
From one of Pookie18's FR "Today's Toons" threads:
One more from Pookie18's FR "Today's Toons" threads:
bump!
There was definitely a lot of mixing--the census in the 19th century listed individuals as "mulatto" if they seemed to be or were known to be of mixed race. Some important "black" Americans like Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington had white fathers. Douglass recalls being referred to as "yellow" because of his lighter complexion.
It may be true that Jefferson slept with slaves, or at least with one slave (Sally Hemings, his deceased wife's half-sister), but it still really depends on the family tradition of Sally's descendants that that happened.
Not to worry...it's easy to forget which ping lists you've asked to be on.
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PWN3D!
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