Posted on 03/24/2008 5:46:28 PM PDT by Nony
It is painful to watch defenders of Barack Obama tying themselves into knots trying to evade the obvious.
Some are saying that Senator Obama cannot be held responsible for what his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, said. In their version of events, Barack Obama just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time—and a bunch of mean-spirited people are trying to make something out of it.
It makes a good story, but it won’t stand up under scrutiny.
(Excerpt) Read more at primetimepolitics.com ...
often, complaints are made about sound-bites. This is one time when the sound-bite(typical white person) clearly revealed more about the speaker than the “thinking in paragraphs” speech
He hopes for audacity.
When b. hussein o. spoke the words “typical white person” to describe someone, he revealed to the world that he is merely a typical racist person.
Maybe. Maybe not. Obama, and the significant people in his life, have opened Pandora's box. A lot of ugliness is inside.
I’m sick of this fraud. I still think we’re better off running against him than Hillary. What a curse it sounds like to stomach either of them until November, let alone for years afterward.
Sowell on that Irish guy, O’bama.
“In Shelby Steele’s brilliantly insightful book about Barack Obama—“A Bound Man”—it is painfully clear that Obama was one of those people seeking a racial identity that he had never really experienced in growing up in a white world. He was trying to become a convert to blackness, as it were—and, like many converts, he went overboard. “
Interesting analysis. Does that happen with many other “mixed race” people? Tiger Woods?
Thanks for the post. Another great article of truth from Thomas Sewell.
Thomas Sowell, as usual, is right on the mark,
“Hope” was actually the evil at the bottom of Pandora’s box, and the only one that was not unleashed.
I wish Tiger was running for President rather than Obama. He suffered more discrimination in a white man’s sport while growing up than B Hussein ever did at Harvard. Tiger overcame by being the best, not being the victim. Today he is on top of the world, and carries himself with class and dignity. He is the ‘post racial’ person that Obama is pretending to be.
but you have to admit he was brilliant to answer once and for all, why did the chicken cross the road?
Fine, more accurately label him a "Long-standing, far-left, Ultra-Liberal," which, more accurately and therefore more fairly, characterizes his political views, as clearly evidenced by his adult life including his more recent voting record in the Senate.
p.s., We need to identify and visibly highlight some of his specific positions in the Senate which tell the liberal "story." Citing a liberal voting "score" alone lacks persuasive soundbite communicative power...
This whole Obama thing has really brought out some great writing from some great conservative writers like Sowell, VDH, Kristol. Even Christopher Hitchens got in on it (http://www.slate.com/id/2187277/)
I think it has to do with the dangerous mixture of populism, socialism, emotionalism and politics that Obama is using to play to these fawning liberals. How easily they can all be fooled, it’s frightening.
The Chamelion Candidate!
I was wrong. She opened a jar, not a box.
What can we say?
Thomas Sowell throws Obama in and nails the casket down tight!
I wish the ‘starry eyed’ Obama-the-mesaiah worshipers would all read this article.
Great column. Thanks for posting it.
“but you have to admit he was brilliant to answer once and for all, why did the chicken cross the road?”
LOL!
Did anyone hear the caller on Hannity who said that the speech forced her to be honest with herself and realize that she was guilty of being a typical white woman, and that we all should be honest with ourselves (or something along those lines)?
Someone point me the way to November - stat!
I'm not so sure. If The HildaBeast gets it, we can vilify her all we want in the campaign, we've been doing it for years anyway. The most the MSM can say is that we are mean to nice little girls. Big deal.
No matter how nice Republicans are to Barry, if he loses it will be a monumental, catastrophic event for the future of race relations according to the MSM. It will be touted ad nauseam 24/7 for years as proof that Republicans hate blacks, that he lost the election *because* he was black. It will be used by the left to foster the maximum amount of racial discord possible. IMO, the Democrats would welcome race riots in the event of an Obama loss in the general election.
And I don't believe that McCain or his handlers have the onions to confront Obama on his leftist beliefs in a campaign for fear of the race card.
On the other hand, if She Who Must Not Be Named takes it away from him, the racial hate the Dems have so carefully fed and stoked will be directed at her. Sad to say that, but the hate is going to be focused somewhere. At least let it be on the guilty ones that nourished it, because they deserve it.
You took the words out of my mouth. Tiger is the post-racial guy that Obama is hyped to be.
:::putting on my armchair psychologist hat:::
I think this might be more of a problem because Obama's father left. Barak was obviously part black but was raised, probably, mostly or entirely with white people. Kids don't look at an abandoning parent and think, "That POS!" They blame themselves.
All of this may have been an effort to identify with dad and build some sort of "relationship" or understanding of him.
Wright's cast poisoned bread upon the water.
“Some are saying that Senator Obama cannot be held responsible for what his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, said. In their version of events, Barack Obama just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time—and a bunch of mean-spirited people are trying to make something out of it.”
OOObaama said that JW was his pastor, his friend and his MENTOR. Being his MENTOR is what needs to be crammed down the throat of anyone saying the Senator “cannot be held responsible.” CRAM THE MENTOR THING DOWN THEIR THROAT UNTIL IT COMES OUT THEIR ASS....
That's MENTOR, you maggots!
Bravo on your comments.
Barrack aligned himself with, became good friends with and chose as his spiritual advisor a Black Pantheresque radical racist. Then Obama spun it into a condescending lecture to all the Aunt Whiteys out there to feel guilty and vote for (or at least not attack) him. If McCain had David Duke or Jerry Falwell as his spiritual advisor, he’d be attacked so savagely there wouldn‘t be anything left of his carcass. But when Obama spins his involvement in a racist, radical church into a reason why he is post-racial candidate, it’s indeed a daring political dodge, spin, turn, parry and thrust. But he’s accidentally attacked himself by showing that he is indeed NOT the leader to help heal America‘s racial wounds.
If Obama were the next Martin Luther, the next unity leader, the next great racial healer, wouldn’t he be able to make some impact on a very racist, radical church over the course of twenty years?
Or is Obama really just a political opportunist who will pander to the worst parts of the American soul to get elected, institute socialism and weaken our hand with Islamofascists?
Signed,
Your Typical White Person
Bravo on your comments.
Barrack aligned himself with, became good friends with and chose as his spiritual advisor a Black Pantheresque radical racist. Then Obama spun it into a condescending lecture to all the Aunt Whiteys out there to feel guilty and vote for (or at least not attack) him. If McCain had David Duke or Jerry Falwell as his spiritual advisor, he’d be attacked so savagely there wouldn‘t be anything left of his carcass. But when Obama spins his involvement in a racist, radical church into a reason why he is post-racial candidate, it’s indeed a daring political dodge, spin, turn, parry and thrust. But he’s accidentally attacked himself by showing that he is indeed NOT the leader to help heal America‘s racial wounds.
If Obama were the next Martin Luther, the next unity leader, the next great racial healer, wouldn’t he be able to make some impact on a very racist, radical church over the course of twenty years?
Or is Obama really just a political opportunist who will pander to the worst parts of the American soul to get elected, institute socialism and weaken our hand with Islamofascists?
Signed,
Your Typical White Person
“Is “divisiveness” defined as disagreeing with the agenda of the left?
Who on the left was ever called divisive by Obama before that became politically necessary in order to respond to revelations about Jeremiah Wright?”
“Does that happen with many other “mixed race” people? Tiger Woods?”
Have you seen Tiger’s wife? Have you seen Obama’s wife? Uh...no.
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