Posted on 03/24/2008 5:46:28 PM PDT by Nony
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at primetimepolitics.com ...
often, complaints are made about sound-bites. This is one time when the sound-bite(typical white person) clearly revealed more about the speaker than the “thinking in paragraphs” speech
He hopes for audacity.
When b. hussein o. spoke the words “typical white person” to describe someone, he revealed to the world that he is merely a typical racist person.
Maybe. Maybe not. Obama, and the significant people in his life, have opened Pandora's box. A lot of ugliness is inside.
I’m sick of this fraud. I still think we’re better off running against him than Hillary. What a curse it sounds like to stomach either of them until November, let alone for years afterward.
Sowell on that Irish guy, O’bama.
“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. “
Interesting analysis. Does that happen with many other “mixed race” people? Tiger Woods?
Thanks for the post. Another great article of truth from Thomas Sewell.
Thomas Sowell, as usual, is right on the mark,
“Hope” was actually the evil at the bottom of Pandora’s box, and the only one that was not unleashed.
I wish Tiger was running for President rather than Obama. He suffered more discrimination in a white man’s sport while growing up than B Hussein ever did at Harvard. Tiger overcame by being the best, not being the victim. Today he is on top of the world, and carries himself with class and dignity. He is the ‘post racial’ person that Obama is pretending to be.
but you have to admit he was brilliant to answer once and for all, why did the chicken cross the road?
Fine, more accurately label him a "Long-standing, far-left, Ultra-Liberal," which, more accurately and therefore more fairly, characterizes his political views, as clearly evidenced by his adult life including his more recent voting record in the Senate.
p.s., We need to identify and visibly highlight some of his specific positions in the Senate which tell the liberal "story." Citing a liberal voting "score" alone lacks persuasive soundbite communicative power...
This whole Obama thing has really brought out some great writing from some great conservative writers like Sowell, VDH, Kristol. Even Christopher Hitchens got in on it (http://www.slate.com/id/2187277/)
I think it has to do with the dangerous mixture of populism, socialism, emotionalism and politics that Obama is using to play to these fawning liberals. How easily they can all be fooled, it’s frightening.
The Chamelion Candidate!
I was wrong. She opened a jar, not a box.
What can we say?
Thomas Sowell throws Obama in and nails the casket down tight!
I wish the ‘starry eyed’ Obama-the-mesaiah worshipers would all read this article.
Great column. Thanks for posting it.
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