She's young, female, black, and beautiful!
Posted on 05/01/2008 4:10:41 PM PDT by SJackson
Killing the golden calf
The sheen is coming off perhaps America's only hope for salvation, worries Gamal Nkrumah
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It is time for America to step up, at least when it comes to foreign policy. It is up to the American people to decide whether the black man, the white woman or the oldest presidential candidate in the nation's history will be elected president. Whatever the case, the world watches closely the outcome of this year's United States presidential race.
Each of the candidates is a problem for some of the electorate. While being old and white has never been a serious impediment to office, being a woman or a black has. The question is whether Americans will prefer to airbrush all this out at the November election or whether ageism, sexism or racism will remain decisive factors.
Predictably, McCain is the most secure of the three, perhaps because of the shoot- from-the-hip culture for which America is sadly so well known. He is already blasting his opponents with both guns, having done away with his GOP rivals in earlier showdowns. But he is not alone in his deadly approach. Character assassination appears to be the Clintons' preferred method of fighting their hapless opponent as well.
Even though Hillary Clinton clinched Pennsylvania, Obama is still the sweetheart of the nation, with more delegates than she has. She, or rather her better half, Bill, is not above playing the Caucasian card, as he did during the Pennsylvania primary.
Clinton is far from charismatic. Obama exudes charisma. His campaign has been nothing short of breath-taking. But what has Hillary been doing for the past three months? Instead of gracefully acknowledging the obvious, she has willfully gnawed away at the Democrats' latter- day JFK.
With President George W Bush, the most unpopular president in US history, at least since polling began 70 years ago, it should be a walk-over for the Democrats. Instead, the world is facing the possibility of yet another Republican warmonger in the White House.
The 2008 presidential elections have once again reinforced the notion that the entire US political system is a theatre play with predictable script. Yes, a black presidential candidate would be permitted to advance to final rounds, but would he be allowed to win?
Reverend Jeremiah Wright has been playing right into the devil's hands acting like a baffoon with his incessant chatter to the paparazzi about how he will hound a President Obama once in office. Obama, while distancing himself from this unpredictable firebrand, said, "Wright's church contains in full the kindness and cruelty, the fierce intelligence and shocking ignorance, the struggles and successes, the love and yes, the bitterness and bias that makes up the black experience in America."
Obama's campaign is not over, but there are growing signs that the American political establishment is intent on depriving Obama of victory at the Democratic nomination contest. Obama is determined to close Guantanamo for good. He is also committed to a pull out from Iraq. The difference in opinion between Obama on the one hand and Clinton and McCain on the other is nothing short of stark.
The American economic outlook remains doubtful. America's failing housing sector is in a deplorable state. The unprecedented multi-trillion dollar mortgage debacle has shaken people's faith in the American economy. Inflation on the rise, and foreclosures are on the cards. The repercussions are disastrous.
It is somewhat surprising that none of the candidates are focussing on the state of the economy. This is supposedly Clinton's strong card. Monetary and fiscal policies are expected to remedy this economic quagmire.
Still, what can public policy do? Since the days of the late president Ronald Reagan the military- industrial complex has defined the US economy. The US defence expenditure equals the combined military spending of all other countries. No president in the foreseeable future -- black, woman or elderly -- would tamper with these certitudes.
What is certain is that the next president of the US would have to give priority to the state of the economy. Nevertheless, the country's foreign policy will continue to be the most important focus preoccupying the next US president. Foreign policy concerns will also be uppermost in the mind of the 44th US president. And, the two are inextricably intertwined in the minds of many Americans.
The 44th US president is highly unlikely to stop pouring billions of dollars into Israeli coffers or pumping billions of dollars to bolster the American military. He or she will not dare curtail the huge and growing profits of giant US corporations.
Obama, as much as McCain, will pander to the Zionist lobby. After all, is not the Alexandria-born dual-citizen (Israeli and US) Haim Saban, the biggest single contributor to the Democratic Party? He fled Egypt as a teenager with his family in the aftermath of the Suez War in 1956. Obama has as much reason to curry favour with him as Clinton. "I am a one issue guy, and my issue is Israel," Saban told The New York Times in 2004.
Then there is the question of Afghanistan and Iraq. The situation in Afghanistan hangs by a thread, and the Taliban will easily come back to power, a monstrous failure of the Bush policy of reckless interventionism. As for Iraq, with its shiny new US Embassy, "it's a city inside the green zone, the protected region of Iraq, that the US runs. It's got everything from missiles to McDonalds, anything you want. They didn't build that huge facility because they intend to leave," as Noam Chomsky so aptly put it.
The Middle East is the Achilles heel for all the candidates, including Obama, though his outsider and black status hints at a more sympathetic understanding of the tragedy unfolding in the region. If he loses because of Hillary's sour grapes, the whole world loses.
The primary issue is oil. Egypt has none.
She's young, female, black, and beautiful!
Excuse me?!?
Hello ???
Does the writer have any clue that the Golden Calf wouldn't have any supporters here?
ML/NJ
Their people live in sqauller, pee in a ditch and have one of the worst legal systems in the world.
They should preach to us?
A Muslim coming out for Obama, in an Egyptian paper, as “perhaps America’s only hope for salvation” tells me all I need to know about Obama
I wish I were capable of posting Steve Martin’s Saturday Night Live rendition of “King Tut.”
Rawr!
You forgot the barf alert and therefore wasted 2 minutes of my time.
grrrr
..."since how when why does a Muslim support and Muslim who converted to Christianity?"
LOL!
Learn one's history before toting a wanton desire to be viable with rhetoric.
Obama is number one in the heart and minds of Muslims worldwide and the great hope of Hamas and Al Qaeda!
But is she qualified...? For the office, I mean. To be POTUS, I mean... *\;-)
Tells you everything you need to know about this person's worldview.
Having just returned from a cruise that stopped in Egypt for 2 days all I can think of is why is this person telling us who should be running our country? I would vote Alexandria as the port I would least want to miss the boat. Cairo has open sewers with dead animals and garbage everywhere. We saw a poor cat breath its last breaths on the hood of a car.
So Obama is “the golden calf”? I wonder if this nimrod realizes that the golden calf was a false idol.
By the way, the author, Gamal Nkrumah, is the son of Kwame Nkrumah, the former leader of Ghana.
The defining characteristic isn't Muslims, rather radical leftists, who hate this nation and wish it harm, irrespective of religion, or lack thereof. Yes, it's fair to say that lots of Muslims reside in that camp internationally, but particularly in the US, they're not the political threat.
Wouldn’t killing a golden calf be a GOOD thing? I’m no biblical scholar but I seem to remember golden calfs were not exactly pleasing to the eyes of G_d.
If we can shoot from the hip, then all the better!
Killing the golden calf
The sheen is coming off perhaps America's only hope for salvation, worries Gamal Nkrumah
I presume written by the editors, not Gamal. I was aware of his father, assassinated wasn't he?
Yes, destroying it would, maybe he meant the golden egg laying goose. He’s apparently not that familiar with English language idioms, but his message is clear. Obama=golden calf. Were he a more prominent pundit, a lot could be made of that comparison.
According to Wikipedia, the government of Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown in a coup in 1966. and he died of skin cancer in exile in 1972.
Yeah, but Hillary got butt!
You can prop a 40 ouncer on that thang!
This came from a country that needs to sweep it’s own back steps first.....
By the way, the author, Gamal Nkrumah, is the son of Kwame Nkrumah, the former leader of Ghana.”
Ghana- another well-fed, well-watered, well-housed country that is a gem of modern living.
Since when do people literally living one step away from the cave existance and finding fire tell this country a single thing??
Talk about hutzpah!!!!
“Since when do people literally living one step away from the cave existance and finding fire tell this country a single thing??”
Because all cultures are equal, we must celebrate the diversity of hupersonkind, and it would be racist, imperialist, bigoted, Eurocentric (and probably sexist and homophobic) to challenge them?
/s;)
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