Posted on 06/05/2008 6:46:06 PM PDT by Shermy
Im very proud of America giving me this opportunity, Mr. Obama said. Its a sign of enormous growth in this country.
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Well, the other night he said the day he won the nomination would be remembered as the day the earth began to heal, and the oceans began to recede. No kidding, he really said it.
The Dimocrat Party is grading on the curve, but Obama thinks his 50.1% grade in the primaries is an A, rather than a D-.
Correction:
PO**S!
See my tagline, and thanks for the idea.
Bizarre.
Never question the pronouncements of the Twelfth (or is it the Thirteenth) Imam. Iran is ready and waiting for his rising.
Wow. I hadnt thought of that. You might have something there. And Im as serious as I can be. I have been telling people that there is no Mutually Assured Destruction deterrent with the Islamofascists.
Are you guys trying to say Obama could be the ultimate suicide bomber terrorist?
Maybe it will take four years of a radical, racist, leftist America-hating, terrrorist-apeasing president for the country to wake the @#*% up.
He could be our next Carter...but who will be the next Reagan?
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It’s a sign of stupid.
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So now only the Republicans and Hillary supporters are racists, right?
Never mind that Obama and his wife literally HATE white America, they must teach the GOP a LESSON!
Especially the people with the glazed look in their eyes ... hypnotic ....wow ....
But as Obama once said in criticizing his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the caller acts as if America, as regards race, were “static.”
What of the last 40 or so years?
If black Americans’ gross domestic product were measured separately, it would be the 16th-richest country in the world.
Nearly 80% of blacks live above the poverty level vs. 65% 40 years ago.
The greater percentage of blacks live either middle-class or better lives.
The employment rate for married black men equals that for married white men.
The average black woman with a college degree makes more money than the average white woman with a college degree.
The highest percentage of blacks in U.S. history 46% own their homes.
The majority of blacks live in integrated neighborhoods (with at least 10% of neighbors belonging to “other races”).
Black-white marriage has soared after anti-miscegenation laws were struck down by the Supreme Court in 1967 from 65,000 in 1970 to 422,000 in 2005.
Los Angeles, devastated by the Watts riots in 1965, with a population 11% black, hired back-to-back black police chiefs.
A black man served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
A black man served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Two blacks have served as members of the United States Supreme Court.
The predominately white American Medical Association elected a black physician as leader.
The American Bar Association elected a black president.
The Ford Foundation, one of America’s largest philanthropic private foundations, with 2007 assets valued at $13.7 billion, was led for 12 years by a black man.
Blacks hold or have held CEO positions at major companies such as Merrill Lynch, American Express and Time Warner.
Black-owned businesses grow at a rate faster than white-owned businesses.
The multiracial Tiger Woods is the world’s most famous and wealthiest athlete in earnings and product endorsements.
Major League Baseball is made up of 40% black, Latino and Asian players.
The Super Bowl, the most-watched sporting event in America, recently featured two teams headed by black coaches.
Black women have won the Miss America beauty pageant.
Black economist and best-selling author Thomas Sowell, based on the number of newspapers that carry his column, is one of the country’s top 10 columnists.
“The Cosby Show,” a positive, upbeat sitcom about a black, upper-middle-class family, reigned for years as America’s most-watched television program.
Black faces on television abound in commercials, as local and national news anchors, and in shows playing a variety of characters from doctors and lawyers up to and including the president of the United States.
Will Smith, a black actor, tops the list of the nation’s movie box-office stars.
Black actor Samuel L. Jackson appeared in more movies than any other actor of any color during the 1990s.
Black television host Oprah Winfrey, arguably one of the most powerful television personalities in the history of the medium, has amassed, to date, a fortune estimated at $2.5 billion.
Blacks serve or have served as mayors in many U.S. cities, including the three largest New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.
The current speaker of the California Assembly is the first black woman to head a statewide legislative body.
Blacks make up 10% of the House of Representatives, including some from primarily white Southern districts.
A black man chairs the powerful House Ways and Means Committee .
A black man served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
Virginia, one of the states of the original Confederacy, elected a black man governor.
The Republican Party, in the last election cycle, nominated blacks as candidates for governor of Ohio, governor of Pennsylvania and senator from Maryland.
Blacks have served the current administration as back-to-back secretaries of state.
So, what does Obama’s candidacy mean? His victory shows that America grows ever closer to Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of a society that judges people based on content of character, rather than color of skin.
Obama’s victory does not prove this. It confirms it.
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=297552260318981
What a pretentious prick.
Im very proud of America giving me this opportunity, Mr. Obama said.”
So how does this square with “God Damn America”? Or is this further proof that the black man can’t make it in America.
The political class in this country makes me sick.
Maybe its that New Direction that Nancy Pelosi keeps talking about...
;-)
“its the result of Affirmative Action, Obama.”
Nah, if it was affirmative action, Hillary would get one-half of the Presidency. It’s just that Obama is a whole lot more likeable than Hillary.
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