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'Mutts like me' — Obama shows ease discussing race
International Herald Tribune/AP ^ | November 8, 2008

Posted on 11/08/2008 12:53:35 AM PST by giotto

WASHINGTON: It popped out casually, a throwaway line as Barack Obama talked to reporters about finding the right puppy for his young daughters.

But with just three offhand words in his first news conference as president-elect, Obama reminded everyone how thoroughly different his administration — and inevitably, the United States — will be.

"Mutts like me."

In American English, a mutt is a mixed breed dog.

By now, almost every American knows that Obama's mother was white and his father black, which will make him the U.S.'s first African-American president. Still, there was something startling, and telling, about hearing his self-description — particularly in how offhandedly he did it.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho2008; dog; dogs; forthedogs; mixedbreeddog; mutt; mutts; muttslikeme; obama; obamatruthfile; puppy; racecard; victimstatus
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To: perfect_rovian_storm

Hey.

What’s wrong with being a Mutt?

I’m a proud mutt. More inputs, than I can count on a geneology chart.

In fact, this is the first thing Obama has ever said, which made me think he just might have one small clue...


21 posted on 11/08/2008 1:08:02 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (PALIN 2012: No more RINOS... Ever!!)
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To: SolidWood
This is a splendid illustration of how the left has stolen my language and, not incidentally, your language too.

Language and its elements, including words, should be the common property of all. When some words are taken away from one class only, that is done to censor and deprive people of effective speech. Evidently African-Americans can use the word nigger but I, as a white man, cannot. Evidently, a Washington, DC official cannot even use the word "niggardly", meaning parsimonious, because African-American officials, utterly ignorant of the definition of the word, object. That man lost his position.

If Barak Obama is a self-confessed mutt, what does that make his mother? What does that make the son of his mother?

Do I now have space in the world of political correctness to refer to the President-elect as a son of a bitch?

How much more of my language will be stolen from me?


22 posted on 11/08/2008 1:08:43 AM PST by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

There’s some singer or movie star married to a Mutt, can’t remember who


23 posted on 11/08/2008 1:09:06 AM PST by 1000 silverlings (Everything that deceives also enchants: Plato)
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To: giotto
Obama shows ease discussing race

It shows his childishness. What a retarded comment.

24 posted on 11/08/2008 1:10:21 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (1-22-13)
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To: LukeL
Like a lot of people who think highly of themselves, deep down they are very fragile and aware of their shortcomings.

You hit the nail on the head.

I've seen his type in my work with emotionally-troubled kids--he has a HUGE ego and LOW self-esteem.

25 posted on 11/08/2008 1:11:24 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (1-22-13)
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To: giotto

Well now I can just imagine what Harlem thinks of this.

Since this comes from the Big O it now officially means its cool to call all blacks “mutts”.

Okat, and also Watts in Ca.


26 posted on 11/08/2008 1:14:35 AM PST by Eye of Unk (Aleutica, the new name of Free Alaska)
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To: Jeremiah Jr; Yehuda; dennisw; Lijahsbubbe; null and void; freema
"Mutts like me."

In American English, a mutt is a mixed breed dog.

The Talmud says that, the generation right before Moshiach comes will have the "face of a dog" (Sanhedrin 97a). A dog can have a positive connotation in Judaism, but, in most cases, and certainly within the context of this Talmudic discussion, it is a negative one.

At the end of Parashas Beshallach, Rashi indicates that the dog even symbolizes Amalek. If so, then maybe the Talmud means:

Before Moshiach, the generation will have the face of Amalek!

The "face of Amalek"? What kind of face is that?!

As we have discussed on so many occasions before, Amalek epitomizes doubt more than anything else in creation, specifically doubt in G-d and Torah ... a doubt that results in losing appreciation of Torah, and its depth. Whether Rashi was hinting at this point or not is hard to know. However, it remains to be true nonetheless, and an important idea to integrate at a time in history when so many, Rachmanah L'itzlan (Heaven help us), are prepared to "throw" Torah to the dogs.

LINK
Face of a dog...

Check!

27 posted on 11/08/2008 1:15:54 AM PST by Ezekiel (Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.)
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To: Darkwolf377

He has no clue how to act; he has no concept of the gravity of holding that office. He is an embarassment.


28 posted on 11/08/2008 1:18:49 AM PST by thesetruths
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To: 1000 silverlings
"There’s some singer or movie star married to a Mutt, can’t remember who"

Shania Twain...to Mutt Lange.

29 posted on 11/08/2008 1:19:03 AM PST by Beloved Levinite (OBAMA-BYE-DONE-2008)
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I guess one of the reasons I found his use of the word offensive is because I've heard the mobsters on The Sopranos sometimes call someone a mutt. In that context, it seems to be one of the worst insults you can hurl.

Of course that's TV. I don't really know any mobsters.

30 posted on 11/08/2008 1:19:13 AM PST by giotto
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To: Ezekiel

What’s wrong with being a “mutt”??

Is “cross-breeding” not acceptable?

What then to make of Irish-Americans?

Italian-Americans?

Mexican-Americans?

My own position is we’ve long ago passed worrying about the first part of those hyphens, and we’re simply Americans.

Do you not agree?


31 posted on 11/08/2008 1:20:24 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (PALIN 2012: No more RINOS... Ever!!)
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To: giotto
I guess one of the reasons I found his use of the word offensive is because I've heard the mobsters on The Sopranos sometimes call someone a mutt

What other valuable lessons have you learned from entertainment?

32 posted on 11/08/2008 1:21:16 AM PST by Glenn (Free Venezuela!)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
you and me both! i have called myself a mutt many times or heinz 57. no other way to describe what i am. it means mixed,not a pure bred. big whoop!
there are far bigger things to be concerned about when it comes to obama than whether or not he thinks he is a mutt. makes us look petty:(
33 posted on 11/08/2008 1:21:57 AM PST by CanadianMusherinMI (drill baby drill/mine baby mine!)
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To: Beloved Levinite

thanks


34 posted on 11/08/2008 1:22:23 AM PST by 1000 silverlings (Everything that deceives also enchants: Plato)
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To: 1000 silverlings

“There’s some singer or movie star married to a Mutt, can’t remember who”

Your thinking of Shania Twain. She and “Mutt” Lange are separated now, I think.


35 posted on 11/08/2008 1:22:36 AM PST by Mila
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To: thesetruths
I don't know if you'll believe this, but when he won I thought "I hate this, but for the good of the country..."

It's now a matter of DAYS later, and after his BS acceptance speech, the Rahm Emmanuel pick, the "Youth Corps" or whatever it's called, his stupid insult of Nancy Reagan, the run on Wall St. and his pointless press conference about puppies, I have to agree, he is indeed an embarassment.

I've always lost my optimism when Dems have won, but this was a record-breaker.

36 posted on 11/08/2008 1:22:52 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (1-22-13)
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To: CanadianMusherinMI

It’s not petty. It’s fascinating to see the man reveal something for a change. He will continue to do so as he really is, after all, only human


37 posted on 11/08/2008 1:24:48 AM PST by 1000 silverlings (Everything that deceives also enchants: Plato)
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To: giotto

I’m a white mutt, far eastern soviet bloc old areas and far western euros areas.

Can I be president now?


38 posted on 11/08/2008 1:25:06 AM PST by MartinStyles
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To: Glenn
What other valuable lessons have you learned from entertainment?

That it is great excuse for not working on taxes, paying bills, loading the dishwasher, loading the washing machine, answering emails, etc etc

39 posted on 11/08/2008 1:25:54 AM PST by giotto
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To: Mila

Yes, I remember now, thanks


40 posted on 11/08/2008 1:26:02 AM PST by 1000 silverlings (Everything that deceives also enchants: Plato)
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