Posted on 03/25/2008 1:18:54 AM PDT by nikos1121
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.
Barack Obama's own account of his life shows that he consciously sought out people on the far left fringe. In college, "I chose my friends carefully," he said in his first book, "Dreams From My Father."
These friends included "Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk rock performance poets" -- in Obama's own words -- as well as the "more politically active black students." He later visited a former member of the terrorist Weatherman underground, who endorsed him when he ran for state senator.
Obama didn't just happen to encounter Jeremiah Wright, who just happened to say some way out things. Jeremiah Wright is in the same mold as the kinds of people Barack Obama began seeking out in college -- members of the left, anti-American counter-culture.
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Thomas Sowell truly is a great American and intellect. It’s just too bad for him that he’s black. And, I don’t say that because of the color of his skin — for me, just as for most “typical whites,” that is absolutely immaterial. I say it because often times there is nothing more hurtful than to be rejected by those you would think would embrace you most.
As to Obama, as Dr. Sowell’s article makes clear, he (Obama) is nothing more than a self-hating mulatto. And anyone who watched Hale Berry’s despicable performance the the Oscars when she was graceless and tasteless enough to shun her white mother and praise the black father who left her penniless as a child.
“It’s just too bad for him that he’s black.”
I can assure you that he’s been an inspiration to many people black and white. Clarence Thomas for one to be sure.
He’s a reclusive person, and when on TV he usually gets fillabustered and frequently doesn’t get his point clearly across.
I think he’s one of America’s foremost philosophers.
Shelby Steele is another one who is on that list. If you ever get the chance to hear him speak, I think you’ll be impressed.
It’s unfortunate, or perhaps very fortunate, that a charismatic person like Obama is just another politician out of the Jesse Jackson mold, under the disguise of an Ivy Leaguer...
The first black president will be a republican...
The people that support this stuff are all about making sure that no one (except maybe themselves) has a good, successful life. It's the equal distribution of misery.
He’s not racist, he hates White people.
Most people said that about Hillary, too.
The first minority or female president will be a conservative, that's for sure.
The country won't stand for a radical feminist or a perpetually aggrieved minority as a POTUS.
There are many good candidates out there, but how do you present them to the public through a left wing media.
J. C. Watts probably has some skeletons in his closet. I’ve met the man. He’s articulate and street savvy. What is he doing now?
I agree. Michelle is every bit the scumbag Wright is.
The thought of her in the WH for 8 years makes me want to vomit.
Give me Her Heinous Hitlery, any day.
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