Don't know why. He's bi-racial with no American black roots at all. His being bi-racial is no problem, but how he can pass himself off as truly an American black is beyond me. He shares virutally nothing in common with us.
Posted on 11/16/2004 4:17:06 AM PST by johnny7
He is eloquent, well spoken, with a membrane-thin veiled socialist agenda cloaked in flowery speech. But unlike Rep. Harold Ford, D-Tenn. – who had to be reminded by Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., that while congressional blacks were no longer relegated to ticket taker in a cloakroom, they had better not forget their place – Barack Obama, D-Ill., is just the kind of black man elite liberals can use.
But also unlike Ford, Barack Obama is much more appealing to blacks nationwide and thus much more formidable when you combine that with his ability to raise large contributions, his Muslim roots and education, his ability to rivet national audiences with his snake-charmer oratory skills and an appealing mien that connects well with liberal voters. Accordingly, Lord Obama could very easily morph into "Darth Democrat." It should be no surprise that he is from Illinois. Illinois has a long history (from Capone to Daley) of empowering the unsavory. This unsavory comes with a smooth veneer that reverberates a thirst for power.
He has presidential ambitions stitched into the very fabric of his being, and as a student of history he understands the danger of remaining a senator if he is to be successful with his ambitions. Granted there are worse things than a black uber-liberal socialist Muslim, supposedly now Christian Democrat in the White House (unless your name happens to be Clinton). The question is: Who would want them visited upon this generation. America is more ready than ever before to elect a black president, but this is not the one we want to break that unprecedented historical ground.
In a speech at his party's national convention, he spoke of "work" that could be successfully completed through socialistic intervention and programming. He also bares the stripes of most uber liberals, i.e., the willingness to make it up as he goes along. Speaking in a U.S. Senate debate (Oct. 26, 2004), Obama emphatically claimed responsibility for Illinois' successful welfare reform. The truth – as written by Steve Stanek a year earlier – finds no relationship with his on the record accounts. With minimal investigation one finds he not only played no role in the Illinois reforms, but he was not even in office at the time. (Illinois leads the nation in welfare reform; Illinois Leader, Sept. 10 2003). He is gifted at twisting his verbiage in such a way as to deform the truth. In his speech at the Democratic National Convention, he spoke of "... measuring up to the legacy of our forbearers." While that may sound good, there is a discernable difference between "forbearers" and the Founding Fathers of our country.
Obama's forbearers are Kenyan, and it is alleged his grandfather was a slave owner. His reference to "forbearers" had nothing to do with those who sacrificed their lives life to establish a free society based on equality. His statements were code omitting same, referencing instead an Afro-centrism and Pan Africanism. It was a deliberate attack against the foundation of our country and what we represent. Another trademark of uber-liberal socialists like Lord Obama is complete disregard for human life – especially the lives of the elderly, physically challenged and the unborn. Or in Obama's case, even the "Live-born abortion victims." He claimed his reason for not supporting SB1093, the "Born Alive Infant Protection Act," was the measure didn't include the "life and health of the mother" provision. A question that begs an answer is where, exactly, does the threat to the mother lie in said infant protection? Interestingly enough, Obama refused to support two bans which did include exceptions for safety of the mother. So his refusal to support anti-partial-birth abortion bills HB382 and SB230 comes as no surprise. He also refused to support SB1095, which creates a cause of action for harm or neglect that comes to a child "born-alive" after a labor-induced abortion. Add to that his "no" vote on SB1661, also part of the "Abortion Alive Protection Act," which created the "Induced Birth Infant Liability Act."
His positions on crime, sex education for grades K-5, homosexual marriage and taxes are out of the mainstream of the so-called liberal mainstream. Obama embraces the darkest interests of the uber-liberal socialist. It can be argued there are worse things than a Clinton ticket in 2008 – and any ticket with Barack Obama on it is one of them.
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The press will absolutely gush over this guy... to them, he's socialism-with-style.
Barack - it reminds me of the sound a cat with a hairball makes. Baraak, baraaak, baraaaaaak.
Disagree...the GOP let the Dems have their Obama moment..in fact, their fascination with him at the convention was a sign that they'd already written off Kerry.
Don't know why. He's bi-racial with no American black roots at all. His being bi-racial is no problem, but how he can pass himself off as truly an American black is beyond me. He shares virutally nothing in common with us.
You watch..I have predicted for some time that this Illinois goober will run for prez in 08. He won't win, but He will end up as Hitlery's vp candidate if she gets the nomination.
I know liberals who are already gushing over him -- they were soooooo impressed with his performance at the convention.
Granted there are worse things than a black uber-liberal socialist Muslim,
I can't imagine what it would be.....the black is the only part of this I don't mind, the rest scares me to death.
Isn't it amazing how the fact that he is bi-racial is completely ignored by the press. They also never mention the fact that his Dad ran off and he was raised by his white mother.
Other than skin color, I would think he had more in common with whites than black people. Not that any of that matters to me but it seems to matter to the press and the Democrats.
Obama is the latest 'fair haired boy' of the Democratic Party (no pun intended!). The MSM went gaga over him at the convention and it hasn't stopped. Already talk of a 2008 run has emerged - for a man who up until his swearing in in Janury '05 is a state senator! It shows me the Dems have no future candidates and it shows the desperation of the MSM to create new leaders for them. Prediction though is that no one named Barack Obama can be elected president. Not with a Muslim father - no matter how absent.
I'm not about to get frightened of a biracial John Edwards.
Only half of them. The rest are white America, of what ethnicity I have no idea.
Of course, in America, for some peculiar reason, people of white and black ancestry are automatically classified by everyone as "black."
Just a simple question to Obama. What led to your conversion from Islam to Christianity? See him squirm and see large sections of religious people recoil in disgust at his machinations.
Is his mother dead?
I've never heard word one about her. The media seems to be treating her like a crazy aunt in the attic.
Still alive, I believe. A deadbeat, deserting dad gets all the public attention over the parents and grandparents who actually raised him. Something very odd about that.
I'm curious. What is your backup for the contention that he was ever Muslim? As I understand his history, Dad deserted the family when he was two. Even assuming Dad was Muslim, which I also haven't seen documented, Barack was raised by his white, Christian parents and grandparents, not by his Dad.
Ummm, I read that in the article.
The article stated that, true. I just haven't seen it anywhere else than in this hit piece, not necessarily the most credible source.
Obama is the Dems' carefully groomed answer to the GOP appointments of Blacks in the Bush cabinet. Black leaders
(Sharpton, Kweisi Mfume, NAACP) have been hounding the Dems
for a VIEWABLE BLACK in the party. The House is doing fairly well with Harold Ford, Jr. (D-Tn) who has some charismatic appeal; but on occasion he tends to stretch a bit too far crossing the aisle to suit the self-appointed hen-pack Nancy Pelosi, Sheila Jackson Lee, and Maxine Waters. With Obama in the Senate, the Dems expect the new
man to sell himself in D.C. as he did in Illinois.
Now you know why I voted for Keyes!
He is going to crash and burn. What makes the Dems think that the country is looking for an "eloquent African American" to tout Socialism. I just do not see this. Sure, he will get the core Dem vote, but he will just chase more to the other side. That are still living in the past. America has moved on from the days of Selma.
I think he very well may be a deep-cover al qaeda operative. He's a muslim, he's been here unknown for a long, long time, and he's now managed to infiltrate the US system. Watch him carefully, especially who and what "causes" he supports. I would not trust him.
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