Yep, no doubt about that... 
Posted on 08/03/2008 7:51:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The merchant stops the little boy as he is leaving the store and asks him what he’s got in his bulging pocket.
“Nothing,” the tyke says, shifting from one foot to the other and staring at the floor.
“Did you walk through the candy department?” the storekeeper asks after watching the boy looking around in the candy department.
“No.” “Did you pay for everything you picked up in the store today, son,” the shop owner asks.
“Yes.”
“Can I see what you have in your pockets?”
“No.”
That’s the image that flashed across my mind when I heard that Barack Obama’s campaign released a statement that the Democrat presidential candidate wasn’t referring to race when he compared his image as looking “different” from those of previous presidents portrayed on U.S. currency.
In three appearances on the campaign trail last Wednesday, Obama said this about what Republicans are planning to say in their campaign against him:
“He’s not patriotic enough. He’s got a funny name. You know, he doesn’t look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills.”
His reference to how he looks, despite what the little boy in the candy store insists, certainly was a reference to his skin color.
Taken that way, and there really is no other way it can be taken (after all, John McCain doesn’t look at all like “all those other presidents on those dollar bills” either, except that they’re all white), he was clearly injecting race into the race.
The McCain campaign called Obama’s remarks “divisive negative, shameful and wrong.”
An Obama spokesman later agreed that the Democrat candidate “in no way believes that the McCain campaign is using race as an issue,” but that neither was Obama. His remarks about “looking” different than previous presidents referred, the spokesman said, to mean his leadership qualities and his different approach to issues.
Oh, sure. Anyone could see that’s what Obama intended: His picture alone shows him to be a greater leader than Washington, a more serious, issue-oriented president than Lincoln.
And the little boy had no stolen candy in his pocket.
That wasn’t the only controversy last week.
The vile-mouthed rap singer Ludicris, who has appeared with Obama to raise campaign money and whom Obama has embraced as a valued supporter, released a song whose lyrics fantasize the White House being painted black after an Obama victory
But more disgraceful, the song’s lyrics demanded that McCain “doesn’t belong in any chair unless he’s paralyzed.”
Both of these incidences have been handled by Obama’s top staff - he hasn’t personally responded to the outcry that was triggered in either case, hardly demonstrating a new era of bold, new political leadership.
In a recent column, I wrote about Democrat National Convention planning officials fueling their fleet of 61 vehicles with tax-free gasoline from City of Denver pumps. The illegal practice since has been stopped, under the glare of unflattering publicity.
What wasn’t mentioned at the time, however, was the irony of it all.
It is the Democrats, all the way up to their leader in the presidential race, who want to impose higher fuel taxes on consumers. They just prefer to avoid paying taxes themselves.
What’s so new about that style of political leadership?
Every time McCain makes a gaffe, the jackals in the media jump all over it, serving it up with a heavy spoonful of relish.
But have you ever heard the mainstream media report these gaffes by Obama?
During the primaries, Obama referred to the United States as having 57 states. Even if you count the trust territories of Guam and Puerto Rico, added to the 50 actual states, it only adds up to 52.
Most recently, in a speech presented in a Midwestern state, the candidate referred to the occasion when the Japanese “dropped the bomb on Pearl Harbor.”
Huh?
Yep, no doubt about that...
Don’t call me surely ...
Injecting race, indeed.
The sleight of hand is to make the first seem equivalent to the other two.
That takes the first off the table, it becomes something you can't say. But thats ok, I'll say it anyway.
He's not patriotic enough. He isn't. It would be laughable to pretend that he was.
The whole race question has two roots. First, thats who Dems are. They are the party of the race-obsessed. They can't conceive that anyone isn't; they can't imagine that there is anyone out there who isn't as race-minded and race-obsessed as they are. And, second, its their smoke-screen to keep anyone from looking at the obvious. He isn't qualified, he isn't competent, he hasn't paid his dues, and no, he isn't patriotic enough.
Odumbo
Actually they are not race obsessed. They are dependent on racial divide and anger. Without a 85% black vote for the Democrat party they would cease to exist. The very survival of the Democrat party is totally dependent on maintaining the racial divide in this country and righting wrongs from 150 years ago. That bill due was paid in full by the blood of the Union and Confederate Soldiers during the Civil War. The democrat party is the party of hate and racial division. They depend on it for survival.
I do not fear Obama's color. I fear his socialism and Marxist friends. I have often wondered how a relatively new politician and inexperienced at that could rocket to the top of the Democrat Party. His primary campaign was run with clockwork precision with few errors. His war chest was repeatedly filled from "Internet donations." A politician as inexperienced as Obama could never put together such an operation and financing so quickly and professionally. My burning question is who are the men behind Obama and who is the money behind Obama. I do not know who they are, but I do fear them.
Thank you.
I have often wondered how a relatively new politician and inexperienced at that could rocket to the top of the Democrat Party. His primary campaign was run with clockwork precision with few errors. His war chest was repeatedly filled from "Internet donations." A politician as inexperienced as Obama could never put together such an operation and financing so quickly and professionally. My burning question is who are the men behind Obama and who is the money behind Obama. I do not know who they are, but I do fear them.
Very good question. Worth repeating.
Correct, and well stated. You are articulate and probably clean, too.
But, Obama cannot genuinely take any of this off the table.
Obama is not patriotic enough. He knows it, and so do most Americans.
Barak Hussein Obama is, without doubt, a funny name, though he is humorless and thin-skinned. He is to me anyway, and I bet he is to most Americans.
With regard to “presidents on those dollar bills”: One would think that a degree from Harvard Law School would impart some degree of verbal precision in this community organizing man of faith who wants to make nice and negotiate, unconditionally, with America’s blood enemies. But the word “currency” is not in his vocabulary. To wit: Last I checked, only one president was on the dollar bill.
Let’s tell Michelle and Barak who that president is.
George Washington is revered by most Americans. Do you think Obama ever even thinks of George Washington and his refusal to become a king of our new country? I wish it would be correct to say that most Americans occasionally ponder that selfless patriotic act.
Oh, I know what Obama meant. It’s clear. He meant “I’m black.”
He has two justifications for his candidacy: “I’m black, and Europeans love me.” That makes the msm tingle.
But, an appeal based solely upon race and upon far, far, left socialist dogma does not appeal to most Americans. Not yet anyway.
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Naah, you ain't Black! You be the Oreo Woosie with some big ugly flip flops!
Ferengi, to be specific.
That boy's got LOBES!
I thought the “dollar bill Presidents” was a stupid statement to begin with. The most recent President in history to even appear on a dollar bill is Woodrow Wilson.
What amazes me is that this came from Chuck Green, a fairly well known liberal columnist in Colorado.
This, to me, is terrifying. I hope this question gets answered before it's too late. Lord, have mercy on us.
This, to me, is terrifying. I hope this question gets answered before it's too late. Lord, have mercy on us.
Sorry for the double post!
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