Mark Steyn: The Great Destabilization

the national review ^ | March 07, 2009 | Mark Steyn

[cynwoody]

Obama didn't like the gift from the anti-slaving ship Gannett, because it's a reminnder of East African slavery, in which his Luo ancestors were full participants.

Ding, ding! We have a winner!

Indeed, Obama probably has folks involved in slave holding or slave trading on both branches of his family tree. Oh! The irony!

[ViLaLuz]

This calls for reparations! All descendants of African human traffickers must pay the descendants of the victims.

[Psycho_Bunny]

I have no respect for Brown but - oh my God, how embarrassing for the US.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

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[lentulusgracchus]

Why was Obama so rude as to ship it back? Rumor has it that he doesn't see Winston Churchill as the rock of strength who stood almost alone in 1940-41 against the Nazis. He just sees him as the the white guy who put down the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya.

Hmmmm. A narcissistic Mau-Mau and double-dipped parlor Pink in the Oval Office ....

Even Harry Truman has to be spinning in his grave. Alger Hiss is laughing in his.

[lentulusgracchus]

Suggested working title: "Triumph of the Shills"

It wouldn't be the first time; 1840 was the year of Ballyhoo ("Tippecanoe and Tyler Too"). No platform whatever. Just lots of parades and torchlit speeches about not-much, and chants of "Van, Van is a used-up man."

Obama political advisor, former Sen. Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) admitted it to PBS Frontline's cameras -- he and Obama made medicine over the 2008 campaign, and what he counseled Obama to do was lie low and never offer any specifics. He was to remain invisible, except for the phony image the shills would push on the public. The campaign was a fraud, a mass deception. And for good reason -- the people rejected a candidate very much like Obama in 1972 by a crushing margin, and another in 2004.

[Freee-dame]

Fortunate for future dealings, Obama was not able to mask his true feelings, and now everyone knows which way his biases lean.

I wish this were true. I am watching TV news from New Zealand and Australia. They love Obama and insult President Bush. They must only read AP wire feeds.