MainStream Media Won’t Ask Obama Those Nasty Paul-Type Questions. But Shelby Steele Could!
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This month, we’ve seen the mainstream and opinion media avert their maidenly eyes in horror from a few paleolibertarian un-PC wisecracks disrespecting race rioters etc. that once appeared in GOP candidate Ron Paul’s decade-and-a-half old newsletters.
But, in contrast to the diligence with which archives containing Paul’s dusty newsletters have been scoured for shocking witticisms, a man with a far greater chance of being President, has been given almost a free pass:
Senator Barack Obama (D-IL).
Practically no one in the press even bothered to read closely Obama’s illuminating 1995 autobiography Dreams from My Father. For example, although Obama devotes most of pages 274-295 of Dreams to his first meetings with the man who would become his “spiritual advisor,” Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., the candidate’s intense 20-year relationship with this memorable gentleman only began to draw even modest attention last week.
In 1999-2000, the MSM failed to explain adequately who George W. Bush really was. In 2008, it’s failing again with most of the candidates.
I’ve focused on Obama, not out of any particular bias for or against him, but because he is both more interesting and more misunderstood than the typical White House aspirant.
Too many whites treat Obama as a blank slate upon which to project their hopes. George Will, for instance, is infatuated with Obama because he fantasizes that the half-black half-white Obama is “transcending” race, that the candidate shares Will’s emotions:
Obama seems to understand America’s race fatigue, the unbearable boredom occasioned by today’s stale politics generally and by the perfunctory theatrics of race especially. [Misreading Obama’s Identity, December 30, 2007]
But Will, like so many white commentators, just hasn’t noticed that the apt subtitle of Dreams from My Father is—A Story of Race and Inheritance. Race and inheritance—geddit?
Ironically, Will’s hope for a man bored by race is more embodied in Obama’s estranged half-white half-brother Mark, a Stanford graduate in physics, whose preference for Shakespeare and Beethoven over the culture of the Kenya where he was born, on Obama’s account, perturbed the future presidential candidate, who had nothing further to do with him.
Only A Bound Man, the perceptive but mostly ignored book about Obama by conservative literary critic Shelby Steele—who likewise has a black father and white mother—explains who Obama really is. (See my Washington Times review of Steele’s book here.)
Remarkably, much of Obama’s campaign image—the “postracial” man, the God-fearing Christian, etc.—is debunked in Obama’s own books. Indeed, Obama’s potential Achilles heel is that he has such a gift for self-expression combined with so much introspective self-absorption that he can’t help revealing himself to the few who invest the effort to read carefully his polished and subtle, but also fussy and enervating, prose.
The bottom line: Obama’s 1995 memoir reveals a preppie from Hawaii obsessed with the same question that 62,000 mostly turgid articles have asked about him: Is Obama black enough?
(Why Obama being “black enough” would be in the interest of the 7/8ths of the electorate that isn’t black has never been explained—but that’s hardly surprising because the MSM hasn’t even entertained it as a question).
This question has tormented Obama since he was a child. The psychological trauma helps make him a more interesting personality to contemplate than, say, his now-vanquished rival Bill Richardson, the New Mexico governor. Richardson’s unusual life story (raised in Mexico City, with three grandparents being Mexican and the other a wealthy WASP) would seem to be at least as relevant as Obama’s famously exotic background. Yet, nobody paid Richardson who is now out of the race, any attention. That’s partly because Americans find Hispanics less interesting than blacks—and partly because Richardson is a hack, while Obama is something more refined and unusual.
Unfortunately, Obama’s actual politics aren’t terribly unusual. As Steele points out, “For Obama, liberalism is blackness.” To be black enough is tied up in Obama’s mind with being liberal enough. As someone raised by whites far from the black mainstream, Obama lacks the freedom to be politically unorthodox enjoyed by men of such iconic blackness as James Brown and Wilt Chamberlain, both of whom endorsed Richard Nixon in 1972.
Also, it’s not clear that having a fascinatingly convoluted psyche, such as Nixon had, makes you a better President than having a straightforward one, such as Dwight Eisenhower had.
Still, what does it profit a pundit to explain to the world who the would-be President really is? In recent weeks, Obama’s supporters have, with much effectiveness, denounced virtually any criticism of their candidate as “racially insensitive.”
Thus CBS News claimed on January 11, 2008:
Racial Tensions Roil Democratic Race
Comments from Clintons on Obama, MLK Jr., Have Infuriated Some African AmericansA series of comments from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, her husband, and her supporters are spurring a racial backlash and adding a divisive edge to the presidential primary as the candidates head south to heavily African-American South Carolina. The comments, which ranged from the New York senator appearing to diminish the role of Martin Luther King Jr. in the civil rights movement—an aide later said she misspoke —to Bill Clinton dismissing Sen. Barack Obama’s image in the media as a “fairy tale“—generated outrage on black radio, black blogs and cable television.
Hillary hilariously found herself hoist upon her own petard of political correctness for saying Obama “hasn’t done the necessary spadework.”
And we all know what that means!
When veteran Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen pointed out last week that Obama’s long-time “spiritual mentor” Rev. Wright had last November 2 awarded his “Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. Trumpeter Award for Lifetime Achievement” to Nation of Islam supremo “The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan,” he was widely denounced as a racist . . . “he” being not Obama or Wright or Farrakhan, but Cohen—for being the first journalist to mention this gala bash at the Chicago Hyatt Regency, a mere ten weeks after it happened!
If anyone criticizing Obama the Political Candidate is reflexively demonized as a racist, how then will anyone be allowed to criticize Obama the Head of State?
After Obama is elected, his supporters will inevitably claim that the ever-fragile self-esteem of 40 million oppressed African-Americans is utterly dependent upon the perpetuation of the good name of the First Black President. So, any verbal denigration of President Obama will bring down cries of “Racist!”
And that’s the most intimidating epithet imaginable today.
Now that I think of it, anybody accused of “denigrating” President Obama will be presumed guilty until proven guiltier.
Just stare hard at the word “denigrate” until you can see that it is a secret white racist codeword.
(I thought I was making up a joke here, but a Google search reveals that in the recent Hollywood movie The Great Debaters, the hero, played by superstar Denzel Washington, explains “the racist etymology of the word ‘denigrate’”, So, don’t use “den—” . . . . I mean, don’t use that word, or you might someday find yourself blacklisted. Oops, I meant whitelisted.)
Recently, however, a highly sympathetic investigation by prominent leftist literary essayist Jonathan Raban into Obama’s much touted “Christian faith”—a piece of the candidate’s image crucial to his electoral viability—revealed much about the Wright-Obama connection.
Raban’s article, The Church of Obama: How He Recast the Language of Black Liberation Theology into a Winning Creed for Middle-of-the-Road White Voters, appeared in the U.K. in The Guardian on 1/5/08 and in the Seattle Stranger alternative paper on 1/9/08.
In 2004, senatorial candidate Obama told Cathleen Falsani of the Chicago Sun-Times [Obama: “I Have a Deep Faith”, 4/5/04]:
“I am a Christian. . . . So, I have a deep faith,” Obama continues. “I’m rooted in the Christian tradition. . . .”
To support those claims, he cited his close relationship with his pastor, Rev. Wright:
Still, Obama is unapologetic in saying he has a “personal relationship with Jesus Christ.” As a sign of that relationship, he says, he walked down the aisle of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ in response to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s altar call one Sunday morning about 16 years ago. . . .These days, he says, he attends the 11 a.m. Sunday service at Trinity in the Brainerd neighborhood every week—or at least as many weeks as he is able. His pastor, Wright, has become a close confidant.
So, exactly what is Obama, religiously?
• No, Obama is not a Black Muslim
. . . despite his pastor’s long association with Farrakhan going back to their 1984 trip to Libya together to visit Col. Qadaffi at the peak of the dictator’s terrorism campaign.
Obama was intrigued enough by the Black Muslims to recount respectfully in Dreams (pp. 179-181, 195-200) long conversations with an ex-jailbird renamed Rafiq al Shabazz who became Obama’s ally in Chicago during the 1980s in their mutual business of extracting money for blacks from the taxpayers.
And Obama occasionally bought Farrakhan’s newspaper The Final Call. He understood the logic of the Black Muslims cultivating hatred of whites to unite blacks.
But he dispassionately rejected Black Nationalism as economically and politically impractical. In the final analysis, the Black Muslims are losers, and Obama, with his two Ivy League degrees and boundless ambition, is a winner.
What’s striking about the pages devoted to Farrakhan (pp. 201-204) is the lack of moral outrage at the chief beneficiary of the assassination of Obama’s hero, Malcolm X. Ben Wallace-Wells wrote in Rolling Stone that Obama has “as openly radical a background as any significant American political figure has ever emerged from, as much Malcolm X as Martin Luther King Jr.”
Malcolm X broke with the Black Muslims and their belief that whites are intrinsically evil following his pilgrimage to Mecca, where he saw orthodox Muslims of all colors worshipping together. In response, Farrakhan wrote: “The die is set, and Malcolm shall not escape, especially after such evil foolish talk about his benefactor, Elijah Muhammad. Such a man as Malcolm is worthy of death. . . .”
Not surprisingly, Malcolm was soon murdered by Nation of Islam hitmen. Elijah’s moderate son Wallace Muhammad left the Nation of Islam for orthodox Islam, leaving Farrakhan as Elijah’s heir. (In an ironic postscript, in 1998 Farrakhan appointed one of Malcolm’s three convicted assassins, Norman 3X Butler, now out of prison, to head the mosque that Malcolm had once led.)
• And, no, Obama’s definitely not an orthodox Muslim
. . . although he spent two years as a small boy at a Muslim public school in Indonesia. This highly intelligent man’s personality is complex, but anyone familiar with his memoirs would realize there is little in him that would incline him toward mainstream Islam. That faith is too racially universalist to fill the hole in Obama’s soul, his hunger for “race and inheritance” left by his father abandoning him when he was two.
Obama says in Dreams that he was proud that his late Kenyan grandfather had converted to Islam because he saw it as evidence that he was anti-white. Sadly, during his visit to Kenya in 1988, he was distressed to discover that Onyango had worked for many years as a domestic servant to British colonialists, and that he had gotten rich by introducing white ways on his farms. As Obama listens to the third wife of his polygamous grandfather tell the old man’s story, he writes (p. 406 of Dreams):
. . . I, too, had felt betrayed. . . . I had also imagined him an independent man, a man of his people, opposed to white rule. There was no real basis for this image, I now realized—only the letter he had written to Gramps saying that he didn’t want his one son marrying white. That, and his Muslim faith, which in my mind had become linked with the Nation of Islam back in the States. What Granny had told us scrambled that image completely, causing ugly words to flash across my mind. Uncle Tom. Collaborator. House n*****.
• So is Obama a believing Christian, as he claims on the campaign trail?
Eh, not so much . . . Raban writes in The Church of Obama:
Obama is cagey, in a lawyerly way, about the supernatural claims of religion. Recounting a conversation about death that he had with one of his two young daughters, he wrote, “I wondered whether I should have told her the truth, that I wasn’t sure what happens when we die, any more than I was sure of where the soul resides or what existed before the Big Bang.” So I think we can take it that he doesn’t believe—or at least doesn’t exactly believe—in the afterlife or the creation.
The underlying reality, Raban surmises, isn’t very exciting. Obama believes, more or less, in nothing. He is, argues Raban, a “scrupulous agnostic.”
Indeed, while Obama’s 1988 “conversion” is dramatically described on p. 295 of Dreams, I can’t find it coming up again in the last 147 pages of his autobiography, most of which takes place later that year in Kenya. Apparently, his conversion didn’t make much of an impression on him.
Fine, but then what has Obama been doing at 11am Sunday morning for the last two decades at Rev. Wright’s church? And why, out of all the churches on the South Side of Chicago (and Obama met dozens of ministers during his race organizing years), did Obama choose Rev. Wright?
And who is Rev. Wright?
Obama actually spells out his motivations for joining a church in his book: His political work was suffering because the more respectable sort of South Side blacks didn’t trust anyone who was unchurched. And a black church offered him a feeling of racial community that he had long dreamt of.
But why Rev. Wright’s? After all, there is no shortage of black churches on the South Side.
The answer is that Wright goes easy on the religion stuff and heavy on the anti-white paranoia and far-left politics. Raban says:
Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., apostle of black liberation theology, delivers magnificently cranky sermons on how the “African diaspora” struggles under the yoke of the “white supremacists” who run the ‘American empire’. . . . Under a universal tyranny of “corporate greed and rampant racism”, AIDS flourishes (“it runs through our community like castor oil”), so do gang-bangs, murders, injustices of every kind. Slavery is here and now, and Fifth Columnists, traitors to their own kind, are all about us—like the black Republican Alan Keyes and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. On the issue of affirmative action, recently visited by the court, “Uncle Remus —I mean Justice Thomas—nodded his Babylonian head in agreement before pulling off his Babylonian robe and going back home to climb into bed beside his Babylonian wife.” (Thomas’s wife is white.)
Wright’s church offers what is essentially a racial religion. Obama’s celebrated acceptance of Christianity in his mid-20s turns out to have been an affirmation of African-American psychic separatism.
As I was reading Dreams, I assumed that his ending would be adapted from the favorite book of Obama’s youth, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, which climaxes with Malcolm’s visit to Mecca and heartwarming conversion from the racism of the Black Muslims to the universalism of orthodox Islam. I expected that Obama would analogously forgive whites and ask forgiveness for his own racial antagonism as he accepts Jesus.
But that doesn’t happen. In fact, Rev. Wright’s church is about the last place that it would happen.
Raban goes on:
To become a virtual congregant at Trinity United (via www.tucc.org) is to enter a sleight-of-hand world of metaphor, in which the manifold trials of the Children of Israel at the hands of emperors and kings are transformed by Jeremiah Wright into the self-same sufferings of African Americans today.
With its Old Testament emphasis and hostility toward the majority, Rev. Wright’s church is a photographic negative of the Dutch Reformed Church that was a cornerstone of apartheid South Africa. Bethel University’s website on South African Christianity explains:
The Afrikaners saw strong parallels between themselves as the people of God, and the Biblical nation of Israel as the people of God. As a result, their theology tended to focus heavily on the Old Testament as a model, rather than the New Testament. For historical reasons the Afrikaner community has felt itself to be an embattled minority struggling to be obedient to God while faced with hostile forces all around. . . . This sense of threat . . . has led the Afrikaner churches to develop racist and exclusivistic responses, and to defend those responses theologically.
Thus, Wright ostentatiously endorsed Farrakhan two months ago, saying:
“His love for Africa and African American people has made him an unforgettable force, a catalyst for change and a religious leader who is sincere about his faith and his purpose.”
But Farrakhan’s love doesn’t extend to all African-American people.
In 1995, Qubilah Shabazz, a mentally troubled woman was arrested for hiring a hit man to rub out Farrakhan. Her troubles may have originated on Feb. 21, 1965, when as four-year-old girl, she watched three Nation of Islam membersfire 16 bullets into the body of her father, Malcolm X.
What exactly does Obama make of all this? We have his autobiography and it paints a picture far different that his campaign consultants are spinning. Perhaps Obama has changed, possibly after his demoralizing rejection by black voters in the 2000 Democratic primary for a South Side House seat.
But, we don’t know—because nobody has dared press Obama on it.
As everybody knows, wanting to understand the man who would be President would be racist. We must just take his faith on faith.
This taboo about speaking—or even thinking—clearly and honestly about race has become a major obstacle in our attempts to remain a constitutional republic.
When no white media personality has the courage frankly to question a leading candidate for President for fear of being fitted with the Scarlet R, the country has a serious problem.
Fortunately, there is one thinker protected by having an identical racial background as Obama.
My suggestion: the candidate should be challenged to sit down for a televised 90-minute interview with Shelby Steele.
(Posted on January 22, 2008)
Comments
Obama is never going to have to answer any hard questions because the MSM will fear charges of racism. He’ll skate along only being asked the easy questions.
Posted by Gayle at 5:38 PM on January 22
The media won’t ask important questions of the democrat candidates. They reserve those questions for Republicans.
Posted by "Sharia-compliant" at 6:10 PM on January 22
The MSM in this country would truly love to have Obama elected. Most of the top editors have a deep desire to unfabricate what this country has been for the last 200 years. And Obama just so happens to be their fair haired boy to expedite this job. So therefore they are trying to make up Americans minds for them by saturating the print and televised media with the likeness of him. If him or Hillary are elected you will probably see this counry begin to unravel from the inside out primarily for their contempt of small businesses. They will burden all small businesses with their social program taxes which will do more harm than this country ever thought of!!! BEWARE IN 08’
Posted by Casey at 6:23 PM on January 22
It is an undeniable fact that Barack Hussein Obama was born into the Islamic faith and was considered by one and all a Muslim right into his middle teens. So, if he is now a practicing Christian, he is one by conversion and if so, there should be a verifiable baptismal certificate around
Posted by edl at 6:41 PM on January 22
I sincerely hopes he gets the Democratic nomination. And I’ll tell you another thing: if I walk into that voting booth come November and see his name opposite McCain, Hucksterbee, or Romney, I’ll vote for Obama. Why struggle and fall over a cliff when you can take it in a running leap!!!!????!!!!!
Posted by Xenophon at 7:14 PM on January 22
Another masterpiece from Sailer. Another damning portrait of our stab-you-in-the-back media which hides the truth because it has a left-wing agenda.
Posted by Reader-1 at 7:15 PM on January 22
Really now, did you expect anything else from the media ? The only place where you’ll find any semblance of the truth is on the internet. Why do you think there’s a movement afoot for a federal government or United Nations take-over of the net ? Anyone who listens to or reads the main stream media is a dupe. I believe it was Mark Twain who said something to the effect that, ” People who don’t read newspapers are uninformed. Those who do read the newspapers are misinformed.” ‘Nuff said ?
Posted by gee vee at 7:55 PM on January 22
Obama is nothing but a slick black apologist who clearly hates whites, yes the very whites that so sheepishly go out to vote for him. Were he elected president, it would be the beginning of the reign of color above all else; he would have a national stage on which to assert his troubled black identity. That would truly be a disaster for all of us.
Posted by at 8:21 PM on January 22
Speaking of “nasty Paul-type questions,” Brit Hume will pester RP himself about the few “9/11 truthers” (as they are pejoratively labeled) that support his candidacy, and asking RP to demand that they not support him (as if there are throngs of liberals and moderates on the verge of supporting RP if not for the fact that a few “9/11 truthers” do too). What Hume tried to do could be categorized with a two word phrase. The first word starts with s, and the 2nd word starts with disturbing. Good for RP for not biting.
Using the same logic, they could pester Mitt Romney about the 0.000001% of his supporters that are for polygamy.
Posted by St. Louis CofCC Blogmeister at 9:09 PM on January 22
“Obama seems to understand America’s race fatigue, the unbearable boredom occasioned by today’s stale politics generally and by the perfunctory theatrics of race especially.” [Misreading Obama’s Identity, December 30, 2007]
This man is completely immersed in NOTHING BUT race, whether it’s in his book, his church or his speeches. It’s his whole life just like every other black in this country, and all of them, to a man, care absolutely nothing about anything but race.
And what they have to say about race amounts to nothing more than crybaby whining because blacks aren’t successful, failing to admit that it is because blacks don’t try hard enough nor do they possess the necessary abilities or intelligence to compete in a first world country.
And every last one of them lays the blame on oppression, racism, lack of opportunities, on and on and on, until it’s got many people on the verge of vomiting it has been regurgitated so much within the black community.
In fact, it is just the kind of rhetoric this Obama engages in that is responsible for black morons attacking whites so much.
And this non-thinking dork wants to be president of the US?
But even worse than him are the George Will types who are so out of touch with the real world they foolishly believe this man is a fair-minded black/white mix.
Wake up, George. The man admits to his black side. He looks like it; he thinks like it, and he talks like it.
The only thing that will save this country is a complete economic meltdown, so we can start over after cleaning up a few matters here and there.
Posted by Robert Kelly at 9:19 PM on January 22
A whole lot of white people are in awe of Obama just because he is black. They have absorbed the lie that blacks are at least equal to whites (except in sports where they excel), which really means that they think blacks are superior to whites.
A thinking man wonders how a people who are so frequently and easily oppressed can ever be considered equal to whites, much less worshipped by the liberal media. Perhaps the lack of serious competition posed by blacks in general is the reason for their over-promotion in multiracial America. Nothing makes one feel superior like being surronded by a bunch of impulsive under achievers. (You wouldn’t get mad at the statement if it was not true.)
Obama seems like a savior to the deceived masses who think he will absolve them of their whiteness, and defeat racism. He will not, but for them it is fun to dream.
Posted by True Resistance at 9:44 PM on January 22
Watched the Democratic Debate in South Carolina last night…
Obama seems to do a whole lot of talking, but where’s the beef? The only specific plan I heard from Obama last night was his plan to create a new governmental “Civil Rights Division”…
This guy truly scares me…
Posted by Jackers at 10:11 PM on January 22
It seems Obama has far worse problems than his distant past. A scandal has erupted involving recent crack use while engaging the services of a drug prostitute, who has now decided to go public. If the allegations are true (easily proven by giving this guy the lie detector test he has agreed to do), it means the end of Obama’s career. At least it does on the national and state level. He could still run for Mayor of Washington DC and probably win.
Posted by at 10:13 PM on January 22
“…cultivating hatred of whites to unite blacks…”
EXACTLY analogous to Nazi Germans who united Germans by cultivating hatred of Jews. This is why Obama’s church is a BLACK NAZI church headed by a BLACK NAZI “preacher”.
I recently saw Obama’s black Nazi “preacher” ranting on TV emphasizing how HIS church was a BLACK “Christian” church, contrasted with WHITE Christians, whom he only associates with slave-owners. Typical loud racist black Nazi ignorance: The fact is that it was WHITE CHRISTIANS who were the world’s FIRST ABOLITIONISTS and who were the force behind ENDING slavery, not just where it still existed among Europeans, but also, with the power of the British fleet, among Arab Muslims and Asians. (And it was that BLACK AFRICA, which Obama’s black Nazi church is supposedly so devoted to, that had a culture where BLACK AFRICANS captured, forced marched to the coast, and sold into slavery other black Africans. Slavery was a part of BLACK AFRICAN CULTURE that was imported by a handful of greedy whites to this country, with horrific consequences for all us non-blacks to this day: The ONLY beneficiaries are TODAY’S black Americans.) But like with all black Nazi’s, whites are treated not as individuals, but as a monolith, are only equated with evil, never good.
Obama’s long term close relationship with his black Nazi minister and church PROVES that the public face of campaigning Obama is all show, purely phony: Underneath is a rotting hateful half-black bigot, a pure ingrate considering it was his WHITE MOTHER and his WHITE GRANDPARENTS who sacrificed and gave him unconditional love, and raised him up. Obama is a thoroughly disgusting evil creature. And any non-black who votes for him is a pandering ding-bat. Any black who votes for him is a bigot.
Posted by at 10:41 PM on January 22
If Obama is elected it will give the media something to talk about for the next four years and keep them busy. It’s a no lose situation for them. Just like Dick Morris has said, the media will build someone up and then tear them down. The tearing down part will be after he is elected.
Posted by at 11:27 PM on January 22
If White people are stupid enough to elect Obama X, they deserve to go to Hell. Our fate is, and always has been, in our hands.
Posted by Flamethrower at 12:35 AM on January 23
If Obama is truly a convert to Christianity from Islam then under Islamic Law he is an aposate, and the ONLY method Islam has for dealing with apostasy is execution. Obama had better not be making any plans to tour the Middle East.
Arc.
Posted by Arcadian at 12:29 PM on January 23
I previously posted that all a journalist has to do is ask Obama whether he favors reparations to blacks in order to grind his campaign to a halt.
Now I don’t think it will make any difference. He could say he’s in favor of a 10 trillion dollar reparation program and a huge segment of whites would still vote for him.
Posted by at 1:37 PM on January 23
Well, all it takes is non-stop media hype and an articulate youthful charisma to make it to the Presidency. No experience, eduation or skills necessary.
Posted by Reality Check at 2:08 PM on January 23
Like a symptom that emerges as a result of a deadly disease, Obama is the sickly manifestation of all that is ill about the USA, and by extension the entire First World.
Posted by from new orleans at 8:42 PM on January 23
To Robert Kelly…
What does a Black have to do for you to support them? Denounce their own race on a daily basis like Jesse Lee Peterson does? If that’s the case the case I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for you to endorse any Black politician any time soon.
Posted by at 8:53 PM on January 23
There was a black potential candidate that I liked, but he didn’t want to run for president. I liked Powell. I don’t like Obama.
I live in the Bay Area and work in San Francisco. The battle here is really just between two candidates. I have noticed that the support for Obama includes whites but is really a black thing. The strongest support for Clinton is largely female but mostly young Asian women.
Posted by Ginny at 10:18 PM on January 23
“What does a Black have to do for you to support them? Denounce their own race on a daily basis like Jesse Lee Peterson does? If that’s the case I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for you to endorse any Black politician any time soon.”
Posted by at 8:53 PM on January 23
Support a black? In other words you want me to support someone who hates me and is just dying to get his hands on some power so he can oppress the white population, while he works overtime to appoint blacks to positions they aren’t qualified for, while he excels at doing sub-standard work.
My mama never raised no fools!
Yes, don’t hold your breath waiting for me. It could well be fatal.
Posted by Robert Kelly at 11:35 PM on January 23
“If that’s the case the case I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for you to endorse any Black politician any time soon.”
Posted by at 8:53 PM on January 23
Yes, how unfair. Especialy since whites are elected all over the country in districts that are all black.
Posted by at 11:38 PM on January 23
If I were a reporter, here’s what I’d ask Obama
1. How can you accuse whites of being racist when you go to churches and organizations speficially for black people? Don’t you think that’s hypocritical?
2. Being that most black cities and countries where there’s a black majority or black people in power are corrupt and crime-ridden places to live, why do you think you’ll be good to be the president of our country?
3. If elected president, will you vote for people based on what they can do or will you just vote for blacks only to work in your cabinet, meanwhile hypocritically accusing whites of being racist?
4. Being that you associated with black hate groups like the Nation of Islam, why should whites in the country feel safe having a black muslim racist for a president?
5. If elected, will you set up white-guilt programs and ‘slave reparations’ programs/museums to be funded with white taxpayers’ money?
Posted by at 10:41 AM on January 25
I respect Sailor’s effort to bring Obama’s character into the light but neighter he or the Bethel university should comment on something they don’t know anything about(or just enough to make a liberal theological comment) - The faith of the Reformed Afrikaners in South Africa.If you want to fight liberalism , don’t fight it just in the politics and specifically during a campaign for presidency,fight it all the time everywhere.In the schools,college,universities around the world,even in the so called christian universities who promote multiculturalism.
Posted by Michael Hamman at 11:56 AM on January 26
When my brother-in-law told me he was thinking about voting for Obama, I told him he was a selfish union robot and forget about being my friend. 8 weeks later he says he was only joking, and can’t we be friends again. Sure I said, but I will monitor his political views very closely from now on.
Posted by Lars at 10:25 PM on January 27