Obama Reaps Big Bucks at S.F. Fundraisers
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Carla Marinucci, San Francisco Chronicle, August 18, 2008
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama used his own name and heritage to make a point about change at a fundraiser that raised a record $7.8 million for his campaign in San Francisco Sunday.
The Illinois senator said it is “a testament to the American spirit that I’m even standing here before you” as the Democratic Party’s presumed nominee, because some Americans are “still getting past” his name, which he said some consider funny.
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The Hawaii-born Obama’s references to his mixed heritage—he is the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas—comes just a week before the Democrats open their national nominating convention in Denver and after weeks of increasingly tough attacks from the campaign of Republican John McCain. Just weeks ago, McCain’s campaign accused Obama of playing the race card for mentioning his race at a campaign event.
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Obama told the group—which included many Indian and Pakistani immigrants—that he is not only familiar with their cultures—but also proud of his lifelong association with them.
“Not only do I think I’m a desi, but I’m a desi,” he said, using a colloquial term that describes South Asian immigrants. The remark was greeted with laughs. “I’m a homeboy.”
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But “the only way we are going to move beyond these current challenges . . . is not to try to prevent further immigration and integration of our communities,” but “to recognize that you are the future.”
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Email Carla Marinucci at cmarinucci@sfchronicle.com.
(Posted on August 19, 2008)
Comments
The last time Obama spoke in SF, he let go of his infamous “bitter clingers” quote.
With some of the words he said this time, this will only serve to countenance some of those rumors that are circulating about him.
Posted by Question Diversity at 5:39 PM on August 19
Oh, gee, what a shock. San Francisco has people who support Obama. Truly, shocking, to idiots! I mean we are talking about a city that protects murderous MS-13 gangbangers, and secretly and cowardly sends them to other parts of California. Since Obama is for no borders, I’m just plain shocked that he would receive support in San Francisco, the famous sanctuary “city by the bay.”
Posted by Bobby at 5:43 PM on August 19
A life long association with “them” is right but not us.
Posted by Unemployed WASP at 6:19 PM on August 19
Obama is Everyman, but like the stock character from morality plays, he is constantly running afoul of his Maker. This week he seems to be playing footsie with South Asian idolaters and Islamists.
Posted by at 6:20 PM on August 19
“…’Not only do I think I’m a desi, but I’m a desi,’ he said, using a colloquial term that describes South Asian immigrants. The remark was greeted with laughs. (Emphasis added.) ‘I’m a homeboy…’”
From Wikipedia as of 08-19-2008/1535 hours:
“In this sense, (desi) can include:
* Indo Aussies (Australians)
* British Asians
* Bangladeshis
* Sri Lankans
* Indo-Canadians
* Indo-Trinidadians
* Fijian Indians
* Indian South Africans
* Indo Kiwis (New Zealand)
* Indo-Mauritians (Mauritius)
* Punjabis
* South Asian Americans
* South Asians in Canada
* South Asians in Philippines
* South Asians in Zimbabwe
Within India, desi connotes ‘local’ or ‘indigenous’, as distinct from videshi or pardesi (‘foreigner’). The word is rarely used derogatorily by Indians themselves to connote something of poor or inferior quality.” (Emphasis added.)
Given what we know about Obama’s stunning intellectual powers, he might have just pulled the Punjabi equivalent of “ Ich bin ein Berliner” with that crowd. They were probably laughing AT him, not WITH him.
Posted by Wild Eyed Charlie at 6:41 PM on August 19
If anything, I wonder if Barack Obama in the Oval Office, might be the one thing that wakes up North American Whites from our self-destructive slumber, to realize how far we’ve fallen. Right now, our civilization is being undermined by stealth. Success by Obama would finally bring it right out into the open.
Posted by Miroslav at 8:32 PM on August 19
Desi?? More of a mulatto Fred Mertz, if you ask me.
Posted by Cassiodorus at 9:13 PM on August 19
Sure, he’s a desi, if the Pakis vote for him, he’ll give them a cut of the spoils from as he destroys the White world.
Posted by Flamethrower at 9:35 PM on August 19
That is funny! Indians and Pakistanis usually call blacks “kaloos”, and this is not meant to be a kind term!
Posted by visitor at 9:41 PM on August 19
What Obama is, is a trained monkey, frolicking around, making an ass of himself. No one is saying this to his face today. But months and years from now, he will become a joke.
I think it very likely Obama is in for a rude shock at the DNC convention. It’s becoming more and more clear that he simply cannot defeat McCain……and that the worst about him hasn’t even surfaced yet. Obama is a loser. And the democratic party is RAPIDLY figuring that out.
There is a STRONG possibility that they will choose Clinton instead of him, at the 11th hour. Certainly, she has positioned herself for that possibility. All it will take is for McCain to pull ahead in the polls, even briefly, this month.
And he is so close to doing so. So very, VERY close.
Posted by at 10:22 PM on August 19
but “to recognize that you are the future.”
There it is; that’s what all of this has always been about - population replacement. Look for growing white consciousness over the next decade.
Posted by An Ally in NYC at 10:33 PM on August 19
B. Hussein is, as the entire world knows, 50% African and 50% Euro-American.
That makes him precisely ZERO PERCENT “desi.”
To tell such an obvious falsehood to curry (pardon the pun) favor with an East Indian audience, is an amazing act of misrepresentation and obfuscation — even by the deceitful standards of “The Third World’s Manchurian Candidate.”
Posted by The Incredible Shrinking White Man at 10:55 PM on August 19
But “the only way we are going to move beyond these current challenges … is not to try to prevent further immigration and integration of our communities,” but “to recognize that you are the future.”
Yup, Obama wants to make whites a minority as soon as possible. Another reason not to vote for him. It amazes me that so many white people will vote for this man, who clearly wants European Americans to be the past. Leave it to the Republican party to give white people no viable option.
Posted by Heteronormatively Privileged White Male Oppressor at 11:48 PM on August 19
Most blacks really are ignorant enough to think South Asians are also black. Many also say the same of Arabs, Hispanics, and even Italians. I think deep-down, they hate their primative African roots. Also, it gives them a great excuse to try and race mix with others, by saying we are one and the same, let’s get together.
Posted by at 6:26 AM on August 20
Constitutional amendment (US federal constitution) needed ASAP: No one without both “birth” parents’ being US citizens can be a candidate for any federal office, including elected officials. Period.
Yes, I know, the first generations of US leaders wouldn’t all have qualified under this statute-to-be. We’ll grandfather them.
Why hasn’t this been long-ago implemented?
Posted by Cousin Charlie from TN at 6:47 AM on August 20
Notice that Barack OBama is appealling directly to the racial/ethnic intetests of the Hindus and Pakistanis in OUR America.
Native Born White Americans will either organize politically around their legitimate racial interests or they will face complete racial dispossession within the borders of America,the nation they founded.
Peter Brimelow had some justifiably nasty things to say about Roy Beck and numbersusa. Numbersusa is pushing the very big lie that America is an idea nation.According to numbersusa and Roy Beck the racial transformation of America isn’t even an issue. It’s ok to have an immigration that brings about the race replaement of White Americans street by street,town by town county by county as long as immigration policy doesn’t cause over population.We here at numbersusa.com are trying to protect Yellow Stone and Yosemenite so that the genelines of Pakistani and Hindus can enjoy them for centuries to come. Do not financially support numbersusa. Give your money to American Renassaince.
Posted by Jupiter at 7:57 AM on August 20
This guy never misses a touchstone. This was meant to be his “ich bin [ein] Berliner” moment. And I noticed this morning that his VP announcement is likely to be made in Springfield, Ill., home of that dead white male Lincoln.
Posted by at 12:24 PM on August 20
“Yup, Obama wants to make whites a minority as soon as possible. Another reason not to vote for him. It amazes me that so many white people will vote for this man, who clearly wants European Americans to be the past. Leave it to the Republican party to give white people no viable option.”
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This is not altogether a bad thing. It will wake up White America, rather than lull them along thinking everything is fine as they slip deeper and deeper into dispossession. The sooner they wake up, see what is happening, and put a stop to it, the better. A B.H.O. presidency might very well ring the rising bell!
Posted by at 12:35 PM on August 20
we’ve come a long way from Theodore R.’s hyphenated americans speech, haven’t we?
Posted by at 1:10 PM on August 20
“Peter Brimelow had some justifiably nasty things to say about Roy Beck and numbersusa. Numbersusa is pushing the very big lie that America is an idea nation.”
Mr. Brimelow, on his site VDARE.com, made the following remark a couple of years ago: “Anyone of any race can become American.” (Or words to that effect)
I went into orbit and sent him a scathing e-mail, infoming him that his claim was now to be circulated all over the net.
Idea nation? The Naturalization Act of 1790 contains the idea of FREE WHITE PERSONS.
Posted by free white person at 1:30 PM on August 20
Incredible Shrinking White Man at 10:55 PM:
You are quite correct, Obama has no ethnic relation to Indians. But read carefully what he said. “…he is not only familiar with their cultures—but also proud of his lifelong association with them”.
He is talking about culture, not race. And he wasn’t talking to the Indians in the audience (all right, he was, but he was stretching it a bit). He was talking about the culture of the Pakistanis, with which he does indeed have a lifelong association. It’s called Islam.
Posted by at 2:09 PM on August 20
Very interesting article and thread over on
Chronicles Magazine. Flemming for once, pulls no
punches and really hits home against this madness.
The thread talks about the growth in Hindu Power in
America. Amren is mentioned as well. Go on over and
make our presence known. I have.
Posted by Freyr at 2:29 PM on August 20
“Most blacks really are ignorant enough to think South Asians are also black. Many also say the same of Arabs, Hispanics, and even Italians. I think deep-down, they hate their primative African roots. Also, it gives them a great excuse to try and race mix with others, by saying we are one and the same, let’s get together.”
It’a also a way for them to ally themselves with any other darker culture who has some semblance of accomplishment. Let’s face it. What did blacks ever really accomplish without tremendous help and aid. And even then it’s been marginal at best. So I’m not surprised that they try to glob onto other cultures for some credibility since they have none of their own.
Posted by at 3:51 PM on August 20
I bet. I remember Obama himself saying that when he was growing up in Indonesia, he used to get beat up.
Posted by at 4:31 PM on August 20
“Desi?? More of a mulatto Fred Mertz, if you ask me.
Posted by Cassiodorus at 9:13 PM on August 19 “
Nobody did.
Posted by la rhonda at 4:50 PM on August 25