Reporters for Obama (Al Reuters for Hope and Change)

Nietzsche is Dead ^ | 20 aug 08 | foutsc

[foutsc]

Reuters went to bat for its candidate, hoping to give him a boost after the shellacking Mac gave him at Saddle Back last weekend. It probably felt more like Brokeback to the Senator from Chicago.

Anyway, Reuters published a subtle little piece on patriotism and the presidential candidates. In it, they call white America racist and questions its patriotism.

Here's the first excerpt:

The U.S. presidential election presents a sharp contrast between two types of patriotism: John McCain stands as a war hero. His rival Barack Obama calls Americans back to the can-do spirit of the nation's founders.

When in the heck has Obama ever "called Americans back to the can-do spirit of the nation's founders"? On winning in Iraq? Lowering the price of gasoline? On encouraging Americans to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps? No, No and No. He does just the opposite. He's a community organizer turned senator peddling big government solutions and socialistic schemes like "economic justice." This opinion disguised as news also implies that John McCain is just standing there, like a marble war memorial statue, sword raised, not invoking the can-do spirit of our nation's founders. Do the Obama worshipers who wrote this really believe their own crap? The next excerpt is even better, serving up a big slice of racial stereotyping.

Black Americans have fought in all the country's wars but their loyalty has been questioned because many black leaders have criticized U.S. policies on race and some whites assume historic discrimination against them, which includes slavery, would have undermined their commitment to U.S. ideals.

"Conservative whites look at them (blacks) as unpatriotic and yet if you look at the constitution and the history, the black community has been trying to make that constitution work for everybody," said Ronald Walters, professor of politics and government at the University of Maryland.

Walters contrasted what he called "bumper sticker patriotism" with what he said was a struggle many African Americans had engaged in to make the country a real democracy.

Whiteys are "bumper sticker patriots" who question the patriotism of blacks (the "real patriots.")

We don't need this kind of divisive trash, especially when it is served up by the press in support of their chosen candidate. This racial pot-stirring by the hacks at Reuters dishonors the memory of the brave men and women of all races and cultures who have served, fought, and died side-by-side for this country.

[kittymyrib]

This British ingrate should be slapped. Reuters would be published in German were it not for those white and black Americans who fought in two world wars because Europe could not manage its own affairs.
Butt out of our election, Europe. We certainly don’t need any advice from you on how to run a country.

[Melinda]

“Do the Obama worshipers who wrote this really believe their own crap?” They believe it, they just don't understand it or the consequences of that belief. As for the “bumper sticker “anything” label, that explains why in the Socialist Republic of MA, you can't find a bumper sticker anymore. They are all too weak and intimidated to say how they feel lest a whacko shouts them down and tries to run them over. There's no freedom of speech left in MA. And such a shock that those words came from a professor. LOL! Funny, I'm a conservative who doesn't look at “them” as unpatriotic unless they work hard to separate this country into angry racist groups as Walters seems to be intent on doing.

[Sigurdrifta]

I’m LOL over the comments about “bumper sticker patriots”.
Apparently this is supposed to refer to the right. But at the university where I work (in the South) it seems that the distance of a faculty member to the left is directly proportional to the number of Democrat bumper stickers he or she has on their car. I would swear in fact that the car of one of the far-left faculty members is held together solely by those bumper stickers.

Curiously, there are still quite a few “Kerry/Edwards” bumper stickers on those cars, but no “Obama” stickers.

Not one.

[Aquinasfan]

Bleepin’ A. As if I needed another reason to ignore the MSM.

[Aquinasfan]

Got this on my car here in Massachusetts.

It's gotten a lot of laughs. I'm sure the Dems get PO'd though. So far, I've lost a hubcap, but at least my car hasn't been keyed yet!

[Melinda]

That's a good one, mine is NO MORE KERRY in black and white. There is a very strange dearth of stickers this cycle from the kool-aid crowd. I guess having the losing “Kerry for President” stickers on for years until being made fun of nationally finally got to them.