Posted on 12/03/2006 7:43:28 AM PST by freespirited
And you thought you had a nightmare with the possibility that Herself, the Cold and Joyless, would be running for the job.
Because Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., is of sufficiently dark pigmentation (regardless of the fact his mother is definitely Caucasian), he will be considered as "one of the brothers". When in fact, Obama has less in common with the vast majority of Americans of African descent than the Shah of Iran. His ancestors on the white side were from Northern Europe, and on the Kenyan side tribesmen who had been converted to Islam.
It is true, that many of these Americans of African descent have converted their faith from some form of Christianity to a form of Islam known as the Black Nation of Islam, incorrectly believing this was the religion of their African ancestors. In fact, the presence of Islam among African tribesmen is a relatively recent phenomenon. The imams of the Muslim faith were for centuries pretty much limited in their penetration of Africa, making excursions there only to points along the coastline. The most important reason for Arabs to settle there was to expedite the slave trade from the interior, members of one tribe captured by members of another tribe, and sold in slave trade markets to the Arabs. Apparently the Arabs paid well, as they were the predominant dealers in African slavery from the first (at the time when Athens ruled most of the eastern Mediterranean) until well into the 20th Century.
Thus, well over half of the slaves that eventually found their way to North and South America, were handled at one time or another by Arab slave traders. The slaves were captured in the first place by other African tribesmen. The ancestors of Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., were very likely the tribesmen that captured the neighboring tribesmen and sent them on their way into slavery in Cuba and Louisiana.
And why would a person believe this? Because the Obama ancestors have descendants still in Africa. The captives became the slaves, and the ancestors of the vast majority of Americans of African descent.
I suppose electing Obama President would be one way to express expiation for the terrible burden of being descended from slaveowners.
But what about the slave traders, and the tribesmen who captured the slaves in the first place? When are THEY going to get their just retribution?
"If the 2008 Republican candidate is someone the Social Conservatives adore (name someone)- Obama may very likely win."
Yeah, those horrible social conservatives like Ronald Reagan
just never get elected/sarc
I don't believe Reagan is running in 2008.
And I don't believe that any of the doctrinaire Social Conservatives who are mentioned for 2008 come close to Reagan in appeal or have any possibility of winning in 2008.
On the other hand, that is why I asked for a name. I'm sure I will soon get a list of the Social Conservative Senators, Governors and school board members who have a shot of being elected President in 2008.
I hope you are right, because a lot of what I've been reading really scares me for 2008. I guess I have read too many stories about Hillary and remember 1991 too vividly not to be more than a little bothered by all the calls for forming another party for 2008 or to stay home and not vote.
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