No justice, no peace. MoFo!
Posted on 08/29/2008 4:57:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
DENVER -- After the phony roll call vote was taken here to formally nominate Barack Obama -- a roll call that did not remotely reflect the true delegate strength of Hillary -- the media exploded in an orgy of celebration about the historic character of the moment to which they had just been privileged to be witness.
"The first black presidential nominee ever of a major party in history!" was proclaimed. Coming on the 45th anniversary of Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech, Barack's nomination is being hailed as the last great step forward in the long march to equality and justice in America.
The moral pressure to join the march of history is enormous.
Nor is it unfair to say that some journalists here are obsessed with the issue of race in this campaign. There may be wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, rising tensions with Russia, a falling regime in Pakistan, and reports of U.S. and NATO warships headed for the Persian Gulf, but here it is all about the first black ever nominated for president.
During the primaries, Bill Clinton was charged with racism by liberal Democrats for saying that Barack's claim to being consistent on Iraq was a "fairy tale" and for implying that Barack's victory in South Carolina was no big deal because Jesse Jackson had carried the state twice.
Here at the convention, the media watched Hillary and Bill's speeches with a commissar's care -- to ensure they not only embraced Barack but "validated" his credentials to be president. Should they not go all out for Obama, we are told, the Clintons are dead in the party.
The psychic investment in Barack's candidacy is immense.
So great is the moral pressure to conform that John Lewis, the young hero of Selma Bridge, buckled and recanted his endorsement of Hillary. And that act of disloyalty and betrayal, a capitulation to race solidarity, is regarded as praiseworthy.
Black radio has become a cheering section for Obama. Every GOP ad mocking Obama is inspected for racial motives. Campaign books that portray Obama as a radical or phony are denounced by people who have not even seen them. The thought police are out in force.
Michelle Obama's speech about her upbringing and beliefs -- crafted by Barack's hires -- is said to be the last word on what a mainstream patriotic woman she is. But why, then, would she have taken her two lovely daughters to be baptized by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and to listen on Sundays to his racist rants against America?
Abroad, we are told, Europe and the Third World are awaiting the moment when America turns her back on her racist past and elevates this black man to the presidency. The subtext is that this is not just a political contest, but a moral test for America.
cial riots of the 1960s that followed.
Barack has just shot 6 points ahead of McCain. But he has not yet closed the sale. And to prevent his closing of the sale, the GOP must raise doubts in the public mind as to whether he is really a man of Middle America or the closet radical of the Rev. Wright's congregation who said of Pennsylvanians that they are bitter folks, who cling to their Bibles, bigotries and guns because the world has left them behind.
No candidate has ever been nominated by a major party with fewer credentials or a weaker claim to the presidency, or more doubts as to his core beliefs. If Obama wins, the country could be in real trouble. And if he loses, the country could be in real trouble.
What the media celebrate today, they may rue tomorrow.
RIOTS.
” And if he loses, the country could be in real trouble. “
Why? The only way this country is going to emerge from the “trouble” is with 2 words.
Term Limits
Rush was exactly right. It’s all “symbolism over substance” these days - in every area of politics and public policy. BHO is the epitome of this.
Wasn’t MLK a Republican?
If he loses, it will because America remains a racist nation.
Lawsuits and demands for recounts in every state Obama (peace be upon him) loses in.
We’ll be lucky if the inauguration happens on schedule.
Indeed...most I know are terribly sick of the media’s pumping of Obama...there will be a backlash in November.
When Obama The Brilliant loses, his minions will wail & gnash their teeth.
The others of us (you know ... the sane) will breathe a sigh of relief, and get busy finding a real U.S. Constitution believing American to run in 2012.
Do not be surprised if Obama supporters attempt to suppress voting in Republican areas, or attempt to intimidate registered Republicans in Democrat areas
No justice, no peace. MoFo!
What else is an election, but a term limit. Why is it we need artificial term limits that will only limit the real statesmen from serving or kick out the best and brightest before their time. I know what the desire is, but I just don’t see how a wholesale change, (there’s that word again) every whatever bunch of years one chooses to be the limit, is going to prove any better than the present system.
It is absurd. Yesterday on Fox one story was that a woman THOUGHT someone called her an ‘Uncle Tom’. Oh, the horror! Sticks and stones. Name calling is news?
“Michelle Obama’s speech about her upbringing and beliefs (crafted by Barack’s hires) is said to be the last word on what a mainstream patriotic woman she is. But why, then, would she have taken her two lovely daughters to be baptized by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and to listen on Sundays to his racist rants against America?”
These people wrote the book on ‘bogus’!!
Not an iota of the “Wright” episode should be forgotten or whitewashed. It IS the telling piece in the whole Barak Obama jigsaw... it IS the pivot point without acknowledgement of which any understanding of this candidate is imperfect and incomplete. If you think THAT element of black-America is out of control now… just wait until (I cringe to think of it) Obama is elected.
Their hate, hostility and racism will play itself out in every way and at all times -not before the cameras and not in the marble halls of DC, not in the elite social swirl of ‘beautiful people’ and not in wealthy suburbs of the US, but immediately and aggressively in small town America, where working people have to interact with this element every day of their lives... Obama’s election will initiate a third world America that NOTHING can remedy or reverse...
Win or lose, Obama WILL NOT and, after this campaign, CANNOT unite Americans. The genie is out of the bottle.
Mark that.
RIOTS!
Causing HUNDREDS of dollars in damages in urban cores across America.
The media are mostly socialist American hating fools. They would be gleeful at the specter of black riots, as they would be convinced we “deserve” it for not ackowledging The Messiah.
So if he wins we all win (meaning him) and if he looses we really all win because they just said the march to equality and justice is over anyway.
I prefer reality.
So if he wins we all win (meaning him) and if he looses we really all win because they just said the march to equality and justice is over anyway.
I prefer reality.
I hate it when it does that.
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