HRC poses with Bill
Posted on 03/14/2008 9:54:46 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Is Afrocentric pro South African white, or pro-Arabic? Somehow I think that it is neither.
The plain things nobody can say
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We're doomed to a bitter, rancid presidential campaign, fraught with peril, and not just for John McCain. For Barack Obama, too. And let's not forget Hillary, as a lot of people are eager to do.
The Obama campaign, if not necessarily the man himself, seems determined to make tough questioning of the man and his qualifications off-limits. Mild, general criticism is OK, barely, but pressing too hard with the wrong questions is taken for racism, bigotry, fanaticism, zealotry and other forms of treachery. Once upon a time, presidential candidates labored mightily to find a log-cabin birthplace in their past, but some Democrats think they've come up with a candidate born in a manger.
As the sheen on the Obama image dissipates, as sheen surely will under the full weight of a presidential campaign, American voters will expect to indulge their right to say what they think about the candidates. If they must be ever-so-careful to criticize Barack Obama in the robust and rowdy way they feel free to criticize everybody else, reticence will quickly become resentment, and ultimately, just in time for November, revulsion. Sen. Obama deserves better.
Racism, the unpardonable sin in modern America, has made race the unmentionable subject, no matter how delicately broached or innocently discussed. Such good faith as the speaker may bring to the conversation no longer counts for very much. With her airy comment to a California newspaper, the Torrance Daily Breeze, suggesting that Barack Obama wouldn't be the marketing man's dream if he were not a black man, Geraldine Ferraro made herself a candidate for boiling in oil. (Extra-virgin olive oil, you might be tempted to say, if she were anyone but an Italian-American.) She concedes she was chosen by Walter Mondale for his running mate because she was a woman and what she actually said about the senator from Illinois was inartfully phrased: "If Obama were a white man, he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept."
This is what you can hear, privately expressed by any number of prominent Democrats, some of them white and some of them black. The Clintons have done themselves and, more important, the nation ill by their desperate and not-so-subtle invocation of race. Barack Obama is not wholly innocent, either. Bubba has taken heat, for example, for describing Sen. Obama's description of his public record as "a fairy tale." This sounds at first hearing a cruel dig at gays, but no, it was taken as a racist taunt. We weren't told why.
I thought of the same comparison last night. I guess it's clear even to an eight year old.
I think at this point that's not even an issue for most people. I want to hear more about how FDR knew the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor. Very entertaining. LOL
You actually listen to H&C?
Alan’s arguments are supercilious bordering on absurdity.
He’s defending the most hateful anti-American propaganda
that has ever been preached.
Oh, that's too rich. The good pastor, O's good friend, pastor for 20 years, mentor and spiritual advisor, has a best of DVD collection and Obama has never seen or heard of it?
Yeah, and I know an Italian who's never heard of pasta. /s
Of course he knew. He hoped that he would get away with it, as all dems do. The mainstream media let him get away with it. It was Limbaugh, Savage and others who let us find out that Obama’s pastor is a hate-filled racist and separatist.
Incredible liar! Check out what this other pastor had to say about Barack Hussein O’s comments:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/03/obamas_incredible_denial_conce.html
oh man. Leave it to the NYT to redefine "racist" as "overly Afrocentric to the point of excluding whites." Unbelievable. They wield the English language like a murder weapon.
I heard both Colmes and Anderson Cooper trying to drag McCain into this story as an equal offender. I didn’t hear all of it, but they both said something like: “McCain says he’s his spiritual advisor”.
Were they referring to Phelps? Or is there some controversy I haven’t heard about regarding McCain’s personal minister/congregation? (I must admit I have no idea what McCain’s religious practices are.)
As far as I know, Phelps simply endorsed McCain. Has McCain had more involvement with him than that?
“Rough”...i wonder exactly what that really means to BHO.
a) the way michelle plays him
b) calling him by his middle name
c) unmitigated racism
d) all of the above
Hannity has been talking about it for months, but it was ignored until some investigative reporter did a story on it which prompted the MSM to pick it up.
I can’t remember the guy’s name. John Gibson called him the best investigative journalist around.
AFrocentric? Try hateful.
No, it’s not Phelps it’s Pastor Rod Parsley. Funny thing is, last night Alan Colmes played a clip of Parsley that (I suppose) he felt was comparable to Wright in extremism- and it was Parsley talking about homosexual activism and how it was not about equal rights but subverting God’s word. It was kinda funny because at that point I think the guy from the Washington Times just told Alan that was a non sequitur. It was not at all comparable to the venom coming out of Wright’s mouth.
As someone on Fox pointed out, if it was the Clintons, this would have been sprung before Super Tuesday I or II.
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