Posted on 03/20/2008 11:54:55 AM PDT by pissant
March 20, 2008 2:45 PM
In an interview with Massachusetts' SouthCoastToday (watch it HERE), Obama-backing Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., says among other reasons he's supporting Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, is his belief that "it would be such an affirmation of who we say we are as a people. if we could elect an African-American president, young leader, who is obviously visionary about the ability to inspire people."
Kerry said that a President Obama would help the US, in relations with Muslim countries, "in some cases go around their dictator leaders to the people and inspire the people in ways that we can't otherwise."
"He has the ability to help us bridge the divide of religious extremism," Kerry said. "To maybe even give power to moderate Islam to be able to stand up against this radical misinterpretation of a legitimate religion."
Kerry was asked what gives Obama that credibility.
"Because he's African-American. Because he's a black man. Who has come from a place of oppression and repression through the years in our own country."
An African-American president would be "a symbol of empowerment" for those who have been disenfranchised around the world, Kerry said, "an important lesson for America to show Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, other places in the world where disenfranchised people don't get anything."
Are we supposed to bow down before him and the Muslims for this reason?
They should worry more about how we feel about them than vice versa.
Yup...being black in the Sudan sure saved a lot of people from the wrath of the Islamists!
Oh wait...
John Kerry: The Gift That Keeps On Giving.
Jon F’n Cary; f’n moron.
What a shame that Kerry wasn’t elected President in 2004, he could have improved relations with every single asshole on Earth!
So in other words, John Kerry is not colorblind. He just said we should elect someone because of their color. F******* amazing.
Is he implying that muslim nations are racist?
Aren’t Arabs considered Caucasians? For sure Iranians are.
Kerry is dumber than owl $h!t. Why not vote for McCain? He’ll help us in relations with Russia because he’s white, right, John?
If it’s wrong to vote against someone because they are black, it’s just as wrong to vote for them solely for the same reason.
Se. Ketchup steps in it again.
Kerry glossed over that middle east muslims aren’t black....? Arab, Persian - not black, John.
Kerry said, “Well they’re all not WASPs to me.” He then donned an airtight plastic suit and reported for duty. /sarc
“go around their dictator leaders to the people and inspire the people in ways that we can’t”
I did not realize that Obama could speak Arabic.
Not just Russia, but all of Europe too.
Oh, yeah, that'll work. Their murderous dictator thug terrorist "leaders" will just love us for that, and will lay down their nuclear weapons and just beg us to hug them, too. And, BTW, is Kerry saying Obama is a Muslim? I didn't know that.
This is what I expected him to say being the man who said he was glad “Obama’s father and grandmother were muslim”...hmmm shouldn’t Kerry just go away.
Here we go. We must vote for Obama or we’ll racist. / S
What Lurch is really thinking is that Obama will be able to work WITH the dictator leaders since he’s “one of them.”
LOL
When has this child of privilege, Obama, who went to private school and Ivy League universities, who has zero ancestors who were ever enslaved, who's never gone hungry a day in his life, ever been in "a place of oppression and repression"? The fatuousness of the Obama worshippers is truly mind-boggling.
Cool, Kerry’s working for our side now! Keep on talking John, you’re helping.
The Savior
ROFL I heard yesterday that Iran had demonstrations in street saying “Death to Ahminajab.”
P.S. did you know John F. Kerry served in vietnam?
The magic negro again.
I can’t stop laughing...that is hilarious.
So it’s OK for Kerry to tell us to vote for him because he’s black, but it’s not OK for Ferraro to say that people are voting for him because he’s black.
Is this what passes for thought in the empty hallway that is John Kerry’s skull?
Then Lurch could have negotiated with those Mooselimb monsters because he was a big ugly Frankenstein looking fella. But hell....he was in Viet Nam.
Omama is mulato. Unfortunately he is American.
Exactly when and in what way was BO ever oppressed or repressed? Was it last year when he made almost $1 million. Was it when he was elected State Senator, U.S. Senator? Was it back during high school when he attended one of the top prep schools in the US? When was it Mr. Kerry?
No he said Obama could help with all the people in the world who were “disenfranchised”. Now who might that be? Maybe they have “hanging chads”. There may be an alternative reason he has stayed with Wright, who is friends with Ferrekan. Things are not always as they seem.
“Because he’s African-American. Because he’s a black man. Who has come from a place of oppression and repression through the years in our own country.”
BS. There hasnt been significant oppression or repression of blacks in the US for over 40 years.
Those crazy progressives.
They’d sacrifice this nation just to show the world how good they are.
Feeding the crocidile again!
Cowards all!
Too bad your communist (Black Liberation Theology) BHO, was outed!
Looks like Ted has been to a headshrinker.
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Wow.
Good choice John. Let's choose a black liberation theology bridge builder. Maybe we could even get Jeremiah Wright himself over there with some ideas.
NEWSFLASH: Arab Muslims don’t really like Black Muslims, White Muslims or Asian Muslims. In fact, most Islamic extremists don’t even consider them Muslims.
Don’t tell that too the blacks, though. They’re still victims.
The Dumbsh*t Store called.....they're running out of you.
Genghis Jean is a veritable black hole of stupid vacuousness. If he was thirty years younger, his perfect heiress wife would be Paris Hilton.
They also don't think much of women - especially those in positions of power. I guess by Kerry's rationale, this makes Hillary an unacceptable choice.
How is this statement OK, if Ferraro’s statement was racist?
She said Obama had an easier time getting support for his presidential run because he is black.
Kerry just said Obama would have an easier time getting the respect of Muslims beause he is black.
Sounds the same to me.
Of course, Kerry might as well be arguing that Clinton won’t get respect, since she’s a woman and muslim countries don’t respect women.
Hey, I thought it was the Muslims who were and still are behind the brisk trade in African slaves over the last, oh, 13 centuries or so.
Of course, they'll sell him to a very good family in the Sudan once they conquer the US.
So it's OK to say his "blackness" will help America rise to greatness (AHEM!), but not OK to say his "blackness" is all that allowed him to become such a vital player in American politics.
Very true. Muslims were, and continue to be, the primary traders in black slaves.
But that isn’t really a problem, since Barrack isn’t actually black. On his father’s side, he is 1/16 black and 7/16 Arab. His paternal great-great grandmother was black, possibly a slave or a concubine.
His actual ancestors were, ironically, Arab slave traders who made a living selling Kenyan blacks to the Arabs up north.
So, no doubt Muslims will love him, since he appears to be an Arab-American who is very likely still a Muslim himself.
"Exactly when and in what way was BO ever oppressed or repressed?"
That would be my question as well. The Obama people better not start that line of foolishness because it will be too quickly and easily disproven. An as a side point, is it my imagination or has Kerry actually gotten more stupid over the past seven years?
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