Posted on 03/18/2008 3:59:48 AM PDT by Kaslin
Who is Barack Obama? The truth is that neither Sen. Obama's supporters nor opponents can answer that question. We know he is bright, eloquent and charismatic. But if he were elected president of the United States, he would be the least known man to be elected in modern American history, perhaps in all of American history.
That is why the remarks and views of those closest to Sen. Obama take on much more significance than the remarks and views of the people closest to Sens. Hillary Clinton and John McCain. Whether we like or dislike either of those two candidates, we have every reason to believe we know them.
The people closest to Sen. Obama -- and by his own account the two greatest living influences on his thinking -- are his wife Michelle and his pastor, Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ. And each of them has made comments about America that could dissuade Americans from voting for Sen. Obama at least until they can get to know him better.
On Feb. 18, in Milwaukee, Wis., Michelle Obama announced, "For the first time in my adult life I am proud to be an American." Anyone in public life must be given slack regarding comments they later regret. But on the same day in another speech in Madison, Wis., Mrs. Obama said virtually the same thing: "For the first time in my adult lifetime I am really proud to be an American."
Sen. Obama later explained his wife's remarks this way: "What she meant was, this is the first time that she's been proud of the politics of America."
I do not believe that Sen. Obama's explanation is valid. I think Mrs. Obama said what she meant and meant what she said. But even if Sen. Obama's reformulation of his wife's remarks is valid, the fact remains that the closest person in the world to Barack Obama has never been proud of the politics of America, that it took her husband's primary wins to change a lifelong lack of pride in anything about America's political life. That's troubling on its own -- for his and her contempt for American politics. And it is even more troubling for its narcissism -- do Sen. Obama and his wife believe that only his success has made American politics worthy of pride?
We are therefore confronted with either a contempt for America -- if the original statement reflects Michelle Obama's thinking -- or some real narcissism on the part of both Sen. and Mrs. Obama. That narcissism is easily demonstrated. Just imagine if Hillary Clinton or John McCain had said they supported their spouse's view that until their primary victories, they had never been proud of their country's politics. Either of them would have looked foolish before the American people. That is why many believe Sen. Obama has been getting a relatively free ride in the American media, which largely adore him.
But it gets worse. The other closest person in Sen. Obama's life, the man whom the senator calls his mentor, the man who married Barack and Michelle Obama, who baptized his daughters, who inspired the title of his book "The Audacity of Hope," and whose church Sen. Obama has been attending for 20 years, has been a voice of anti-white racism and anti-American venom. In a widely viewed sermon from 2003, the Rev. Wright shouted from his pulpit, among other things:
"The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme."
He then went on to blame America for 9/11 since America has been engaged in state terrorism that has murdered far more innocents than were killed in America on 9/11. We should recall that when some conservative Christian leaders suggested that America had in some ways brought on 9/11 by its sins, these people were read the riot act by the mainstream media.
According to the Associated Press, Wright "also gave a sermon in December comparing Obama to Jesus, promoting his candidacy and criticizing his rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton. 'Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people,' Wright told a cheering congregation. 'Hillary can never know that. Hillary ain't never been called a nigger.'"
Sen. Obama says he was not present when the Rev. Wright said these things.
Maybe so. But it is hard to believe that Sen. Obama has never heard such things from his Afro-centric minister. Additionally, one must ask why a man raised entirely by a white mother and white grandparents after being abandoned as a small child by his black father would choose to identify so fully with such a pastor. Coupled with his wife's remarks, fair-minded people -- whether Democrat or Republican -- may well conclude that until we know more about who Sen. Barack Obama is, he ought not be the Democrats' candidate for president of the United States. His two greatest living influences have raised red flags.
In fact, if Shelby Steele (who also has a white mother and black father) is right, we should not only be waiting until we better know who Barack Obama is. We probably need to wait until Barack Obama better knows who he is.
He's just putting on a different face for public consumption so he can attain the power he seeks.
So, it should not surprise him in the least that others are defining him, including The Rev Jeremiah Wright. A twenty year relationship with Trinity United Church of Christ speaks volumes about WHO Obama is. And, to put his innocent daughters in place to listen to the hate-filled, bigot Jeremiah Wright is abuse.
Obama is whoever the audience needs and wants.
Who the real man is we will never know - somehow I feel he doesn’t either.
His insecurity dictates he adopt whatever personality will gain affection and favor.
He may be all the positives people write about him, but he is not now and may never be presidential material.
At this time in our history - we do not need a pleaser. We cannot afford to have a pleaser. There is much unfinished work for us to seek closure internationally so we can get back to our own domestic issues and taking care of our own people who cannot forever continue supporting the rest of the world.
In that uncertain world of trying to maintain the fiction of being all things to all people, Barack Mohammed (since we are no longer to refer to his given middle name) Obama, Jr., the charismatic, messianic Magic Negro, seems first to project one thing, then another. He tests one perception one day, then switches on the following day. Perhaps more artfully than John F. Kerry, but with no less intent to muddy the waters.
Is the Magic Negro trying to present a “new vision” reminiscent of the application of the New Deal? Is he trying to recreate Camelot (with Michelle as the new Jackie Kennedy)? Does he want to emulate Lyndon Baines Johnson? Is he trying to bring back the malaise of Jimmy Carter? Is he trying to restore the regime of the “Former Occupant of the Oval Office, 1993-2001” without the endless sexual peccadillos?
Do Americans really want any of this?
Sadly about 50% of the voters would be my bet.
He’s the guy who often votes “Present” for senatorial votes. Just ridin’ that fence so he doesn’t fall off...
His public persona may well be a blank slate, but the man knows who he is and what he believes. Those beliefs have to be held quietly by necessity in order to acquire the power he seeks. But we now know otherwise.
That is, when he actually shows up to vote.
Good point - sadly he has a following - so what does that say for our nation?
Is this where we are headed?
and the bastard scum deserve what they get!
Obuma is nothing more than a racist scumbag who thinks he can fool the sheeple.
If the (POS) gets elected we Whites in Aemerica will have a “Mugabe” in our midst. It will be pay back time for things that happened 200 plus years ago.
Michelle be thinkin bout that “Change” she gonna unleash on Whitey.
There will be no more (white corvettes) given to white kids who graduate from High School by their paernts.
Obuma logic, I is a closet racist, I be a closet racist and I am a closet racist, but don’t tell the Honkies. “Don’t Snitch”
Oama “Mugabe” wants to be our POTUS. Oh Hell No!!!!
Respectfully,
NSNR
“Additionally, one must ask why a man raised entirely by a white mother and white grandparents after being abandoned as a small child by his black father would choose to identify so fully with such a pastor.”
He never mentions anything about his white family. Yesterday, a black man called into Hannity and said that maybe Obama was drawn to this church because the white side of his family abandoned him because he was half black. It appears to be the opposite. His father abandoned him. Going to this church seems like a slap in the face to his mother and grandparents.
I agree. I don't think that either Michelle or Wright can hold themselves back from saying what they think. The more opportunities these two are given, the more they will declare what is in their hearts and souls: hatred and bitterness towards America and whitey.
Talk about art imitating life, wasn't this the premiss for the Steve Martin Movie "The Jerk"?
Come to think of it, how prophetic the title is...
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