Posted on 07/19/2008 5:18:28 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
From the moment Barack Obama appeared on America's national political stage, he was always going to be a controversial figure.
A half-white, half-black man with the poise and rhetorical flights of a Kennedy. A Harvard graduate abandoned by his Kenyan father to be raised by a single white mother. A man with the middle name Hussein running for the White House in post-9/11 America.
Yet, what few could have imagined was the degree of animus he would stir within America's own black community - and, in particular, its African-American leaders.
This week, it was revealed that the Rev. Jesse Jackson, for decades the dominant voice in black politics, had made an off-the-cuff remark into a TV microphone he thought was turned off that Obama was 'talking down to black people - telling n*****s how to behave'.
Jackson's remarks were prompted by a speech the Democrat Presidential candidate had made to a black church in which he dared to criticise young blacks for not completing school and being poor fathers.
'Too many fathers are Missing In Action. Too many blacks are AWOL, missing from too many lives and too many homes. They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our families are weaker because of it,' Obama had said.
Jackson, a former Democrat Presidential candidate himself, has suddenly detonated the race issue which has stalked Obama's every step towards the White House. His use of the explosive N-word - commonplace among young blacks in rap music and entertainment - is extraordinary in a political context, and sent America's liberal commentators into paroxysms.
News bulletins carried warnings that viewers were about to hear a dreadful racial epithet.
Had any white public (or even private) figure used the N-word, they would have been destroyed overnight.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Correction: half-Arab, half white.
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While I didn't think much of JFK as a president, he had something that B.H.O. doesn't.
Kennedy had a keen sense of humor. Barraaack (why does that sound like a Bronx cheer?) has evidenced no sense of humor whatsoever.
As this travesty goes along, I am more and more coming to believe NObama is nothing more then a ventriloquist’s dummy. Spewing the words of his handlers.
No wonder he refuses to debate.
Bingo! Half-witted suits me.
“A half-white, half-black man...
Correction: half-Arab, half white.”
Kenyans are Arabs???
Civilian National Security Force = SADR’S SHIA MILITIA
Will Obama control the CNSF directly as his role model SADR does?
‘tis odd.
al obama has more in common with the honky wealthy college wannabee-marxists
than with his own peoples of color. (sic)
I’ll second that! He is a PARROT! programmed to spew Axelrod’s approved propaganda! When forced to spew on his own, he launches into mental masturbation; evidenced clearly day after day:-P
half white-—who knew?
long, but might answer your question:
http://kennethelamb.blogspot.com/2008/02/barak-obama-questions-about-ethnic.html
Can anyone translate the Latin at the end of the article?
Kenya is next to Somalia, so there are lots of Arabs there, just as we have lots of Mexicans.
long, but might answer your question:
http://kennethelamb.blogspot.com/2008/02/barak-obama-questions-about-ethnic.html
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