This slip may hold the key to Obama's psyche.
What a racist thing to say... tsk tsk tsk. Imagine if any non-Democrap had used “mutt” to describe Obama.
I’m proud to be a mutt!
He’s trying to get us to like him, just more of his smiling at the white man so we’re not scared of him
Like a lot of people who think highly of themselves, deep down they are very fragile and aware of their shortcomings.
He’s deeply conflicted about being half white and half black. He seems to hate it. He’s a narcissist, so he’s in love with himself, but he hates his racial makeup. That’s the impression I get from his writings and general attitude.
It shows his childishness. What a retarded comment.
Well now I can just imagine what Harlem thinks of this.
Since this comes from the Big O it now officially means its cool to call all blacks “mutts”.
Okat, and also Watts in Ca.
The Talmud says that, the generation right before Moshiach comes will have the "face of a dog" (Sanhedrin 97a). A dog can have a positive connotation in Judaism, but, in most cases, and certainly within the context of this Talmudic discussion, it is a negative one.Face of a dog...
At the end of Parashas Beshallach, Rashi indicates that the dog even symbolizes Amalek. If so, then maybe the Talmud means:
Before Moshiach, the generation will have the face of Amalek!
The "face of Amalek"? What kind of face is that?!
As we have discussed on so many occasions before, Amalek epitomizes doubt more than anything else in creation, specifically doubt in G-d and Torah ... a doubt that results in losing appreciation of Torah, and its depth. Whether Rashi was hinting at this point or not is hard to know. However, it remains to be true nonetheless, and an important idea to integrate at a time in history when so many, Rachmanah L'itzlan (Heaven help us), are prepared to "throw" Torah to the dogs.
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Of course that's TV. I don't really know any mobsters.
I’m a white mutt, far eastern soviet bloc old areas and far western euros areas.
Can I be president now?
Obama’s been hanging with Joe, “Gaff a Day” Biden too much...
Obama is an empty suit. He is obsessed with race. the people who cast their votes for this empty head did so because of his race.
He is demonstating that he is not a unifier but a divider.
Not gaffes, actually, as much as a glimpse of the real Obama -- the cynical manipulator.
This is a good example of why he didn't hold any press conferences in the last months of the campaign and why he needed a teleprompter -- to prevent lapses into the normal patois of his everyday associates. No unscripted moments.
We saw the mask slip in the "guns and religion" comments in San Fran, and we saw it in his response to Joe the Plumber. The hapless McCain, the collegial DC hack, backed by the hapless party of beltway hacks, couldn't capitalize because he has swum in the same sea of clever political cynicism for too many years, and has lost the ability (if he ever had it) to interpret the potential impact/significance of those gaffes.
I do hope Obama holds many pressers, followed by many unscripted comments. It will be most instructive for those able to interpret.
How sweet...
Even if it’s not a derogatory term, even if Obama didn’t mean it to be self-deprecating, to me it indicates that Obama felt ill at ease in the situation. Will he, like Clinton, forever be afraid of being found out for the empty suit he is?
He may be a “mutt” in reality, but it’s obvious that he has chosen to accentuate his blackness, not his whiteness, and he makes it perfectly clear that he believes those two sides are different from each other.
I agree that this remark is very telling psychologically. NObama once said that he, like Malcolm X, would like to be able to kill off his white half!
The comment also sounds elitist. Only purebreds are good enough for his family! No mutts allowed.
The media will spin everything he says to sound wonderful, or profound, or whatever superlative you want to insert.
Coupled with his Nancy Reagan remark, I’d say Barry is off to a poor start.
If the press were fair, they’d rake him over the coals like they did Sarah Palin...
I don’t agree that this was appropriate way to “discuss” one’s racial background.
Obama is the master of not having a clue about the connotations of basic phrases.
Moreover, in today’s world, race is not biology, it is simply a social construct. As Obama puts it, he “chose” to be a black man. Meaning he took on whatever it was he thought the society considered characterized a “black man.”
IOW, his own life and worldview belies that “race” in day’s America, to the extent it is meaningful at all, is a catchword for a bunch of voluntary cultural behaviors and views.
Many people today are of various mixed races in biological terms. It is getting quite ridiculous to try to describe the “race” of a person, say, whose mother was Japanese and Caucasian and whose father was Black and Hispanic.
When an individual can, as Obama did and all people (whether known to be of mixed race or not) can, choose a “racial identity”, we are not talking about “race” as biology, but in terms of a social construct.
As the basis for identifying groups in American society, it would be much more accurate to use socioeconomic stratifications than the superficial and increasing artificial concept of “race.”