Angry Obama the pothead is not how they remember him on Hawaii

Daily Telegraph ^ | March 25, 2007 | Hans Nichols in Honolulu, Sunday Telegraph

[Cincinatus' Wife]

.....Sen Obama's self-portrait of an angry young black man who became a "pothead" is scarcely recognisable to those who knew him during his formative years in Hawaii.

Now some are asking whether the first serious black contender for the White House may also be the first major candidate to exaggerate his drug use for political effect.

....The Illinois senator's depiction of his Hawaiian upbringing as a time of intense inner struggle, full of racial angst, is also a surprise to those who shared his time in the archipelago where the "Aloha Spirit" of racial harmony defines America's 50th state.

The verdant islands, with their golden beaches 5,000 miles from the American capital, are the home to a Pacific melting pot, where Polynesians, Japanese and Chinese have harvested sugar cane for generations and whites from the mainland, known as haoles, have long been a minority.

A keen basketball player, Sen Obama highlights in his book the feelings of alienation caused by "always playing on the white man's court - by the white man's rules. If the principal, or the coach, or a teacher wanted to spit in your face, he could, because he had the power and you didn't."

But that's not the Barack Obama, nor the Hawaii of the 1970s, recalled by his friends, teachers and team-mates. They remember instead the summer of 1978 when "easy-going Barry" was in constant search of a basketball game, strutting around the island as if he owned it, dribbling a ball from school to the golden sands of Waikiki beach as he belted out Earth, Wind and Fire songs in a distinctive, gravelly voice..............

[TN4Liberty]

A pasty white man was the "first black president" and now the first black man with a chance to become president has to try to prove he's black. That's what they call irony.

Yeah, like despite all of Hillary's hard work and planning, John Edwards could become our first woman president.

[johnny7]

...dribbling a ball from school to the golden sands of Waikiki beach

Must be a “Magic Negro”,,, even Michael Jordan can't dribble a basketball on sand.

[metesky]

the first serious black contender for the White House

Gee, didn't they say that about Jesse twenty years ago?

[Godebert]

Oh please. As a soldier once stationed there(I know, tough job). I got in many a fight because of such 'harmony'.

I hear that. I still carry scars on my face from some angry natives. You f'@$#n GI. You f'@$#n Haole, you got beef, Brah?

[bluecollarman]

Yep...stationed there also. They do not like white guys at all.

[No Surrender No Retreat]

The minorities burden! AKA, rabbit, tee-shirt, chuck, honky, soda cracker and most of all "The White Man."

However White Man, do not stop sending those welfare checks, free health care, food stamps, quotas, illegal affirmative action hirings. Give us more $2,500.00 NOLA Katrina debit cards,and last of all keep letting all our enemies of the white man, illegals aliens/islamfacists into our open borders.

We need them for the upcoming revolution in America against all those opressive conservative (blue eyed) devils.

As they say a conservative (White man) will "F'Up a wet dream". I know all those grateful minorities such as Obuma want to shake my white hand, but he would be accused selling out to (The Man)

My comments are directed at those whose ankles the (ball and chain) fits.

Obuma will never get my vote or carry my state, but Michael Steele or Lynn Swann would, if they were to run.

Fools like Obuma and the other usual race card hustlers will never be weaned from their (Racially Oppressed Programming) and the government I.V. Panacea.

Well that's all folks. Bluecollarman, thank you for your service to our country.

P.S. my comments are (saying what needs to be) said.

Respectfully,
NSNR

[Popman]

I can only hope the rest of America asks the question I ask of libs who solicit my opinion on Obama-

I would not worry, after the ex-grifter in chief and the current junior grifter from NY are done with shaping Obama in the public eye though planted stories and political subterfuge, Americans will be asking the same or even harder question.

Poor Obama, he probably never thought he would have to run a political campaign against the spawns from the bowels of hell

[Right Wing Assault]

'You know, coach, I was never as good as I thought I was'," said Mr McLachin. "And I said: 'No, Barry, you weren't'."

That says it all.

[Lizavetta]

to exaggerate his drug use for political effect.

*sigh*

How low we've gone here in America. Having a doper past is now seen as a positive.

[toddlintown]

"A keen basketball player..."

Don't tell me; he can dance real good too!

[toddlintown]

"John Edwards could become our first woman president."

First good chuckle of the morning.

[FR_addict]

"The only racism I've ever seen in Hawaii is AGAINST white people. And I don't know how hard Obama had to scour to find a white-dominated high school, but as an FYI, there aren't many places where they are the majority."

I was in Hawaii about this same time as Obama attending U. of Hawaii. I remember the same thing. There was a slang word for whites and one for the Hawaiians and other islanders. Never heard one for Blacks. Many of the islanders preferred Blacks to Whites. I didn't see that much racism, but what was there sure didn't seem directed at the Blacks, but at Whites. Tourism is a big part of their economy so it wasn't made obvious to the tourists.

[stockpirate]

later

[hinckley buzzard]

Ya' know, he seems to have his own issues with his skin color, and his race.

I think he is struggling with the problem highlighted by Rush's parody "Barak the Magic Negro." This passage is a transparent attempt to show that he is really Black because he was subject to racist treatment, and he can relate to other Blacks. Otherwise, they will discern that he is a pampered, assimilated elitist who has not the slightest idea what the 'hood is about.

[ken21]

his "alienation" reads farcical!

[mad_as_he$$]

OK so in the last WEEK I have learned the following about Joe Bidden's "good looking guy":

He is of Irish descent.

He is of Muslim descent.

He was/is a pothead.

He resents the white man having rules.

He likes basketball.

Yup I want him for Prez.

[hinckley buzzard]

'You know, coach, I was never as good as I thought I was'," said Mr McLachin. "And I said: 'No, Barry, you weren't'."

That says it all.

Yep. Still true today.

[nuf said]

"A pasty white man was the 'first black president' and now the first black man with a chance to become president has to try to prove he's black. That's what they call irony."

'nuf said

[freekitty]

What a boob this guy is.

[Popocatapetl]

This is actually hilarious. It reminds me of some rapper who brags about his "street cred", though he was raised in the middle class suburbs of Golden, Colorado, his father a nerd CPA and his mother an junior high school band teacher.

Remember that people called Obama "Barry", which most people would assume is short for Barnard, not Barack.

At least they didn't call him "Bernie".

"I'm Bernie Hussein, and I be bad.

Livin' in the 'hood it make you mad.

Th' cops and th' 'ho's they teach you to Hate.

Vote Obama, not Hillary, in 2008."