Posted on 03/19/2008 8:55:43 AM PDT by LJayne
Hoover Fellow and author Shelby Steele discusses why he believes Barack Obama has betrayed himself by not publicizing his white heritage.
Obama is part white?
Yeah, I heard something about that.
In fact, Brit Hume was onto a lying loop that Obama spoke in this speech.
He said previously that he was NOT aware of Wright’s remarks. In this speech he said he WAS aware of Wright’s remarks.
He said previously that he was NOT in the pews when Wright made these remarks. In this speech he said he WAS in a pew when Wright made these remarks.
A big “Kerry” Oh-oh..............flip-flop.
His race doesn’t mean a thing. If he displayed the most favorable characteristics of Walter Williams, Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Roy Innes and Shelby Steele, (and a touch of Ronald Reagan couldn’t hurt!) I’d vote for him in a heartbeat.
He cannot hold a candle to any of those individuals, let alone mix the best of all of them.
I think that Obama knew he had a problem and that it would be revealed when the MSM got around to investigating his lies. This speech was about changing the topic.
Like the Soviet show trials during their 1930s purges, Obama’s speech was not supposed to convince critics but to reassure supporters and fellow-travelers, in order to keep the “useful idiots” useful.
t sowell
Read the 3-week old tagline!
“Obama is part white?”
His mother is a white women from Kansas. His father was a black man from Kenya who abandoned him at a very early age. He was raised by his mother plus a second husband she married in Indonesia. I’m not sure how old he was when he left Hawaii and went to Indonesia.
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