Schlafly: The Audacity of Obama

When Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination, many had high hopes that his breakthrough would move American social consciousness forward into a post-racial era. Many thought the time had come when candidates would be judged by their qualifications and dedication to our country, not by their race.

To see why it is impossible for Obama to play this transcending role, read his autobiography, "Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance." His Dreams are obsessed with race and race conflict.

This book is an extraordinary 442 pages that appear to be written by an experienced novelist who knows how to tell a compelling story laced with minute detail about everything from clothes to odors, fictional characters and invented conversations. It is complete with the colloquialisms, ungrammatical English and four-letter words that the author thinks are appropriate to the people he quotes.

Obama describes how he deliberately separated himself from his multiracial heritage in order to give himself a 100 percent black persona, different and alienated from the white world around him. Obama writes that the book is "a record of a personal, interior journey" to establish himself as "a black American."

With his new all-black identity, Obama stews about injustices that he never personally experienced and feeds his warped worldview by withdrawing into a "smaller and smaller coil of rage." He lives with a "nightmare vision" of black powerlessness.

Obama says that the hate doesn't go away. "It formed a counter-narrative buried deep within each person and at the center of which stood white people -- some cruel, some ignorant, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives."

Obama's worldview sees U.S. history as a consistent tale of oppressors and oppressed. He objects to the public schools because black kids are learning "someone else's history. Someone else's culture."

He even criticizes his white grandparents, who worked hard to give him a privileged life. Their motives are a mystery to Obama because they came from the "landlocked center" of the United States, which, he asserts, is full of "suspicion and the potential for unblinking cruelty."

Obama grew up in Hawaii, the exemplar of a melting pot of races, yet he sees it as a place of "aborted treaties and crippling diseases brought by the missionaries." Although his mixed race was not a handicap in Hawaii, he whined that "we were always playing on the white man's court ... by the white man's rules."

One day his grandmother, while waiting for a bus to take her to work, was accosted by a panhandler. She gave him a dollar, but he aggressively demanded more -- and she was scared because he looked like he might hit her.

When Obama learned that the panhandler was black, he said the news hit him "like a fist in my stomach." Obama objected to the fact that his grandmother was "scared of a black man," and his resentment at her (not at the panhandler) was such a big deal that he referred to this incident repeatedly.

Obama immersed himself in the writings of radical blacks: Richard Wright, W.E.B. DuBois, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin and Langston Hughes. Obama's favorite became Malcolm X.

Obama scarcely knew his father, yet he wrote: "It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela."

Obama described his happiness in going to Kenya: "For the first time in my life, I felt the comfort, the firmness of identity that a name might provide." He felt he "belonged" and had come home. Apparently, the only other place he felt at home was in Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church in Chicago.

Obama rejects racial integration because it is "a one-way street" with blacks being "assimilated into the dominant culture, not the other way around." Does he think America would be a better country if whites were assimilated into African culture?

There is absolutely nothing in this book that expresses pride in or love of or appreciation of America. In 442 pages of introspection extending over his life as a teen, undergraduate and law student at prestigious institutions, community organizer and working adult, he doesn't say anything positive about American government, culture, society, freedom or opportunity.

Obama's refusal to wear an American flag pin on his lapel sounded too trivial for a campaign issue. But since there is nothing in his book about respect for the flag, or the republic for which it stands, maybe the flag-pin flap does indicate his disdain for patriotism.

In his autobiography, Obama accepts the view that "black people have reason to hate." His later book is called "The Audacity of Hope," but his autobiography, which he has never disavowed, should be titled "The Audacity of Hate."

I find that I usually love what Phyllis Schlafly writes. I have a lot of respect for this woman.

Here she pretty well nails Obama. Somewhere along the way, Blacks came to the conclusion that if they were racists, it was okay.
Obama is a racist. He hates what this nation stands for. His wife does too.

I don't like to be placed in the position of feeling like this is an appropriate statement, but if Blacks can't find anything at all to apprecaite
about our nation, then I'd have to say they are in the wrong country. Look this isn't intended to silence any criticism of our system. We
all criticize our system. Most of us try to do it in a healthy productive manner. If a person can't do it in that manner, and can't find
anything to aprpeciate, they are going to cause themselves and others a lot of unhappiness.

It simply isn't realistic to think that 65% of the populace should surrender their interests to the 10% that disagrees with them.

Everyone should live in a nation whose system they support. If this isn't the right place for some people, they should find a place that is.

Okay. Well the good news is that in the last twenty-four hours we provided Jim with 3% more funds toward the fourth quarter goal. The not so good news is that
at this rate, we will meet the target goal for this quarter around October 30th, 2008. We sure talk a good game when it comes to supporting conservative causes
don't we... Click the pencil. Do the deed.

Isn’t there some syndrome wherein a child idolizes the parent who abandoned him and rejects the one he ends up with - thinking it’s the fault of the parent that the absent parent has gone?

He was pretty much abandoned by his mother at times too. No wonder he's a mental mess.

I’ve never doubted it, and I didn’t need to read the book to know it. It’s in his deliberate choice of church and that church’s theology, it’s in his evident lack of pride in and love for America (and that of his wife), it’s in his forced demeanor when he tries to appear “patriotic” for campaign purposes. It’s plain to see that it’s a role for him, one that he’s uncomfortable with, one that’s alien to him, and one he will discard as soon as it no longer serves his purpose .

That’s exactly what I’ve always wondered, especially when it comes to the so-called “equal representation” some squawk about, ie the Oscars, television, etc-what exactly would be fair, when they’re app 12-13% of the population? 50/50%? Even that apparently isn’t “fair”.

I’m not sure of an official name for it but I call it the “Rosanne Barr Syndrome.” “My parents made me this way!” What a load! It is called “SIN”

“If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.” 1 John 1:8

Well, the powers that be are going to fix that. Within a year the population of the United State is going to change dramatically. Withing ten to fifteen years, Whites in the United States will be very close to losing their majority status. And if you think things are bad now... just think what it will be like when Obamas will be the only persons electable.

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