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After nearly 4 years of Obama, is white America still uneasy w/a black man in the White House?
The Star-Ledger ^ | July 22, 2012 | John Farmer

Posted on 07/24/2012 10:22:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

This is the story of a dinner party.

It occurred in a suburban middle-class community — maybe slightly upscale middle class, but not much — just outside one of our big cities. Pretty typical place.

The guests all knew each other. They were neighbors or friends or acquaintances who’d been to these parties many times. They were white, every one, mostly businessmen and their wives, and some engineers who work or once worked in the nearby defense industries.

The postdinner conversation was the usual stuff — who’s moving in, who’s moving out. Anybody heard from Ralph since he moved to Wisconsin? Nobody had. No surprise. Ralph wouldn’t tell you if your coat was on fire.

It was about at that point, as the conversation edged warily toward the touchy subject of politics, that one fellow — a bit of a curmudgeon — asked if anybody thought President Obama had not been born in America.

You could have heard a cocktail napkin drop.

For a moment, no one said a thing. People looked at one another. Then a lady who had moved to the area from Virginia raised her hand. “I do,” she said. One by one other hands were raised until it was clear most of guests thought Obama had not been born here.

Nobody said anything. Nobody had to. The verdict was clear. But apparently not entirely clear to the questioner. He pressed on. “Does anyone think Obama’s a Muslim?” he asked.

By now it was evident the questions made some guests uncomfortable. This guy was casting a pall over our good time. But he wouldn’t quit. “Anybody think Obama’s a Muslim?” he asked. And again most of those present raised their hands.

The president, they were convinced, or said they were, is indeed a Muslim...

(Excerpt) Read more at blog.nj.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial
KEYWORDS: 2012electionbias; blackpresident; dnctalkingpoints; fearcampaign; goebbelswouldbeproud; johnfarmer; nakedmarxist; obama; playtheracecard; racism; romney; smearcampaign; stalinisttactics; thebiglie; whites; yellowjournalism; zogbyism
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

I throw that term back at those blacks that call whites crackers as an insult.... I can make a joke out of it at their expense.... I don’t research something that doesn’t interest me to begin with. And that doesn’t interest me. I come from *pig in the parlour Irish* and don’t find that offensive. Hard working Irish that had to endure a potato famine that killed thousands..


41 posted on 07/25/2012 1:19:27 AM PDT by goat granny
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Zer0’s blackness is just a cover-up for his whiteness as the son of a white mother. Combined, he is a cover-up for the Marxist efforts to destroy America.


42 posted on 07/25/2012 1:31:28 AM PDT by jonrick46 (Countdown to 11-06-2012)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think Mr Farmer went to the Stephen Glas/Jayson Blair Journolism School. I dont believe this story. It is too pat, too appropriate to his thesis. Sounds like a liberal version of a “teaching moment.”

PROVE this actually happened, Mr Farmer.


43 posted on 07/25/2012 2:06:32 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A rather idiotic premise. It`s not a white vs. black issue, and it never was, though the libs would love to frame it that way. The real question is, “Is America comfortable with having a marxist, pro-muslim, anti-capitalist, anti-American homo lover in the White House?”


44 posted on 07/25/2012 2:11:31 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... yet voting doesn't???)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“This is the story of a dinner party.”

And why do I suspect it’s just that? A fantastical story.


45 posted on 07/25/2012 2:35:16 AM PDT by Nickname
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The story is an utter invention. John Farmer is a liar. The only conclusion is that the story is a fake or John Farmer’s friends are.


46 posted on 07/25/2012 3:07:44 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: laweeks

I wish we had 8 more on SCOTUS just like Thomas. As for his skin color or hair type, it isn’t relevant.

Those that obsess on race have an intellectual maturity problem.


47 posted on 07/25/2012 3:13:30 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: a fool in paradise

“It is a fear tactic and a smear tactic. Play the race card. It’s all the stooge has.”

You’re right; it is all he has, and it worked once. We no longer have the luxury of voting for an affirmative-action novelty; can you see how black America has responded to the election of the first “black” president?


48 posted on 07/25/2012 3:23:26 AM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Did you forget the “barf alert” tag?


49 posted on 07/25/2012 3:23:26 AM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good-Pope Leo XIII)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama’s politics, policies and incompetence can’t hide behind his black anymore. Maybe he should try a different color.


50 posted on 07/25/2012 3:27:38 AM PDT by pallis
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Hey Mr. Farmer,

IMO, calling Obummer a black man is racist. To do so is to ignore his mother was lily white. He is, in fact, BI-RACIAL, regardless of what the media tells us.


51 posted on 07/25/2012 3:30:50 AM PDT by Kimberly GG ("Path to Citizenship" Amnesty candidates will NOT get my vote!)
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Hey Mr. Farmer,

IMO, calling Obummer a black man is racist. To do so is to ignore his mother was lily white. He is, in fact, BI-RACIAL, regardless of what the media tells us.


52 posted on 07/25/2012 3:31:14 AM PDT by Kimberly GG ("Path to Citizenship" Amnesty candidates will NOT get my vote!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

John Farmer is a big Socialist who writes for NJs largest state-wide fish wrapper. The biggest contribution of the Ledger is as material for a recycling center!


53 posted on 07/25/2012 3:38:21 AM PDT by leprechaun9
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
So why is such a stretch to liberals to assume that Obama is a Muslim?

Some facts:

1. His father was a Muslim.

2. His first name: Barack. It means: Mubarak (Arabic: مبارك‎, Mubārak) is an Arabic given name, which has the meaning "blessed one". A variant form is Baraka or Barack (Arabic: بارك‎, Bārak), not to be confused with the unrelated Hebrew name Barak). Mubarak and Barack are thus the Arabic equivalent in meaning of the Latinate "Benedict" (from Latin Benedictus "blessed").

3. His middle name: Hussein. It means: Hussein (also spelled Husein, Husain, Hussain, Husayin, Hussayin, Huseyin, Husseyin, Huseyn, Hossain, Hossein, or Husseyn) (Arabic: حسین‎, Ḥusayn), is an Arabic name which is the diminutive of Hassan, meaning "good", "handsome" or "beautiful". It is commonly given as a male given name, particularly among Shias[1], in honor of Hussein ibn Ali. In some Persian sources the forms Ḥosayn, Hosayn, or Hossein is used.[2] On the Subcontinent or South Asia, the form used is "Hussain" or "Hossain" in the Bengal region.

4. He grew up in Indonesia, a predominately Muslim country.

5. His stepfather was a Muslim.

So we're not a bunch of dumb racist rednecks just making things up. The facts all point to him being Muslim. Now Obama says he's a Christian, and I'll accept that because now it's up to God to determine; not me.

However, the bottom line is, assuming he is a Muslim is in no way far-fetched.

54 posted on 07/25/2012 3:39:35 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (A is for Altura...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
After nearly 4 years of Obama, is white America still uneasy w/a black man in the White House?

Wrong question. Let's fix it:

After nearly 4 years of Obama, is America uneasy with a homosexual marxist buffoon in the White House?

55 posted on 07/25/2012 3:41:34 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("Jiggle the Handle for Barry!")
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To: Cowboy Bob

Yup, the first thought was “who writes this crap”?


56 posted on 07/25/2012 3:44:32 AM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
After nearly 4 years of Obama, is white America still uneasy w/a black man in the White House?

You mean Rev 'G Damn America' Wright's friend? Or how about Eric 'my people' Holder's boss?

57 posted on 07/25/2012 4:02:20 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: goat granny; All

http://youtu.be/0-rUtTCf7Xk


58 posted on 07/25/2012 4:16:35 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
There are so many reasons to get rid of Obama as expressed in these posts, that to blame racism is like drawing one card from a deck and claiming the deck is all about that one card.
59 posted on 07/25/2012 4:20:38 AM PDT by dog breath
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

this author is a lying snake. No one is upset about skin color. However, people are upset that the guy is illegally occupying the office of President because it shows he puts ambition over honor, himself over everyone else, is a liar and will do anything to grasp power.

The author is trying to boil it down to racism, which is typical of Obama’s supporters. Believe me, no one gives a flying flip about skin color. It is about character, honor, truth. Obama doesn’t exhibit those qualities.


60 posted on 07/25/2012 4:53:23 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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