With Extreme Prejudice ( John Kerry on Barack Obama )

WSJ ^ | March 21, 2008 | JAMES TARANTO

[george76]

Remember John Kerry? He was the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, lauded by his supporters for his intellect and his nuance, as compared with the simpleminded George W. Bush.

Having lost the election, he decided to sit out the 2008 contest. He recently endorsed Barack Obama, and earlier this week he sat down with the editorial board of the Standard-Times (New Bedford, Mass.) to make the case for his candidate.

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."

Kerry isn't just stereotyping blacks. He is stereotyping Muslims too. And he is drawing an equivalence between American blacks, a racial minority in one country, and Middle Eastern Muslims, a religious majority in a whole region.

To John Kerry, it seems, all "disenfranchised" people look alike.

Never mind that, as Greenwald points out, "Arab Muslims [are] none too happy with their black countrymen in northern Africa."

Never mind that in some African countries, notably Sudan and Mauritania, Arab Muslims still enslave blacks.

To Kerry, it seems, all "oppressed peoples" look alike.

The man has all the intellectual subtlety of a third-rate ethnic studies professor.

[george76]

The man has all the intellectual subtlety of a third-rate ethnic studies professor.

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[Paleo Conservative]

Kerry is just a typical liberal white man with white man’s guilt.

[george76]

Where is this "place of oppression and repression" in which Obama has suffered "through the years"? Hawaii? Harvard? The Senate?

We should find out immediately and do something about this horrific crisis.

/s

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[Miss Didi]

RUSH: …Man, this is what I mean. When you got guys like this speaking for you, you have no control over. Do you realize what you just heard? This is the former Democrat presidential nominee, and he has just encapsulated here the liberal Democrat view of this country where it comes to race: "We are guilty!" Whatever anybody, particularly our enemies -- whatever radical Islam thinks of us -- they're right. We are guilty, because we are racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes and all that. And we need to elect an African-American president, a young leader, obviously visionary, to show the rest of the world that we are who we say we are as a people. To bridge the divide of religious extremism? (laughing) Kerry said this on Monday. I don't think Jeremiah Wright was a common household name at that time. (laughing) Bridge the divide.? He has created the divide! He's widening the divide! He's dredging the divide! He's dumping the sand of the divide on both sides of the shore. But Kerry wasn't through. (cont.)



Kerry on America: We’re Guilty

[the invisib1e hand]

Who has come from a place of oppression and repression through the years in our own country."

Apparently Kerry and Obama and Co. think anyone not completely pampered from birth, anyone who's had to take a risk in life, anyone for whom some measure of comfort and success is not a foregone conclusion, is "oppressed."

Taking a cue from Rush, I could write a book on all the opportunities denied to me by "white folks." But no one would read it, because, I, too, am white.

As Tom Petty said, "It don't really matter to me, baby; everybody's had to fight to be free."

But some people want to live like refugees.

[paudio]

If people look at the end of the 1st and the beginning of the 2nd millennium, it was Muslims that conquered many Christian places. They were surely the oppressors. The peak, of course, was the fall of the 2nd Rome, Constantinople. The fear of the Muslim aggressors stayed all the way to the 18-19th century in some places in Europe.

[Iron Munro]

boxstep, two, three, four - boxstep, two, three, four - .....

Unbelievable - these people don't have any rhythm at all.

[expatpat]

Arabs, Hispanics, and Asians do not care for Blacks at all, I’m afraid. They don’t suffer from white guilt feelings, and they, along with the Blacks themselves, will keep racism going strong in the US long after the whites have left it behind.

[WOSG]

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."

Why do the words "elitist dolt" crop up when I read about John Kerry? Was Obama oppressed when he went to an elite private school, then Columbia, then Harvard?

Or maybe he is talking about the U.S.Senate. Maybe Senator Kerry makes Obama shine his shoes or sing Bojangles. (sarc alert for sarc-impaired)...

[NonValueAdded]

Third-rate ethnic studies professors would take exception to that statement. They know John is what pond scum scrapes off its shoes.

[DGHoodini]

Hey! Typical White People are some of Baracks best friends! >Bo)

[Poison Pill]

third-rate ethnic studies professor.

but you repeat yourself

[Vigilanteman]

And if England had appointed Lord Haw-Haw as Prime Minister rather than Churchill, they probably would have gotten along better with Nazi Germany.

[Fred Nerks]

We should find out immediately and do something about this horrific crisis...

Yep. Obama's father should have taken him back to Kenya to live with any one of his Luo 'grandmothers' in a hut.

[Fred Nerks]

'granny' Sarah at home. Bet she has a whole lot more pride than he has...

[Partisan Gunslinger]

Looks like her chickens have come home to roost.

[forkinsocket]

For this type of “guilty liberal,” nonwhites are really just pawns in their status game against other whites. That’s why they praise nonwhites & put down their own kind. When they say, “we are guilty,” they really mean “YOU [other white people] are guilty & I am better than you.”

[Katarina]

Thanks for the Rush quote.
Excellent.

[Miss Didi]

You’re welcome...good old lovable Lurch.

[george76]

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[SunkenCiv]

Heh... thanks george76. When Kerry’s Winter Soldier b-s- was going on, and for years thereafter, the United States was exactly that for our veterans.

[txrangerette]

All it would have taken is instead of somewhat narrowly losing Ohio that Kerry had somewhat narrowly won Ohio, and he would be the President of the United States, having ousted George W Bush from a second term.

All it would have taken is instead of George W Bush barely eaking by in Florida that Gore had barely eaked by in Florida, and Gore would have been President of the United States.

There is a God.

(Well, I already knew that, but this makes me want to say so in the present context, and I don’t give a rip what any Bush haters think.)

[Piquaboy]

It must have been the Senate. The Republicans treated him like a Rat.