Posted on 02/23/2016 1:10:34 PM PST by xzins
GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson told Politico on Tuesday that it is “a bit of a stretch” for President Barack Obama to claim he identifies with the experience of black Americans, because “he was raised white.”
“He was raised white,” Carson said of Obama. “Many of his formative years were spent in Indonesia. So for him to claim that he identifies with the experience of black Americans I think is a bit of a stretch.”
During an interview with Politico’s “Off Message” podcast, Carson said he was “proud that we broke the color barrier” when Obama was elected, but Obama’s experience and Carson’s experience were “night and day different.”
Politico’s Glenn Thrush asked Carson, “Are you curious at all about what his experience was like? I mean, when he was elected—“
“What experience?” Carson asked.
“Experience of being elected. Let’s just stop it at Jan. 20, 2009, right? Was that significant for you? As somebody who sat and watched that – I was there. I was in the crowd. It was a pretty interesting moment in American history. Did you derive any joy out of that, any sense of pride? How did you process that?” Thrush asked.
“I did not—I mean like most Americans, I was proud that we broke the color barrier when he was elected, but I also recognize that his experience and my experience are night and day different. He didn’t grow up like I grew up by any stretch of the imagination – not even close,” Carson said.
“He was an ‘African’ American as opposed to an African-American,” Thrush said.
Ben Carson on Truth Patrol!
“It was never easy for me...I was born a poor, White Child.”
Obama Was Raised RED
Obama was raised muslim.
Ben Carson — stop race hustlin’. We all know your campaign is all but dead.
I’ve been saying that since 2008 but I’m white so what do I know? I can’t believe black Americans bought this guy as one of their own. He’s no more American than he is black American either.
Barack Obama is a clever fellow who imbibed hatred of America with his mother's milk, but worked his way up the elite ladder of education and career. He shares the resentment of Muslims against the encroachment of American culture, although not their religion. He has the empathetic skill set of an anthropologist who lives with his subjects, learns their language, and elicits their hopes and fears while remaining at emotional distance. That is, he is the political equivalent of a sociopath. The difference is that he is practicing not on a primitive tribe but on the population of the United States.
There is nothing mysterious about Obama's methods. "A demagogue tries to sound as stupid as his audience so that they will think they are as clever as he is," wrote Karl Krauss. Americans are the world's biggest suckers, and laugh at this weakness in their popular culture."
Article: Obama's women reveal his secret
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JB26Aa01.html
Tweet it to Cruz real quick.
Marxlim Kenyanesian who went to private schools after he came back to this country.
The founders tried to prevent him from being President by requiring someone who could only be a US citizen and nothing else. But both parties want the Constitution changed without the hassle of amending it.
Confuse people about the meaning of a three word phrase that was well understood until more recent years.
Natural born citizen
Born here of citizen parents
Naturally a US citizen because there is no other possibility.
Yep. Carson dead on right about this..
Obama did not have the inner city experience as a child, nor was it in his heritage.
Obama's father was (ostensibly) African. There was no slavery in the Americas in that heritage.
Assuming his father was who is claimed, his was no mud-hut Kraal existence, but the life of the son of a cabinet minister.
Obama's mother was white, from a family of means.
Obama was raised in Indonesia as a youth, the adopted (?) child of Lolo Soetoro. That is another family of means, no street kid, he was educated in madrasas, had a governess.
In Hawaii, he was educated in an expensive private school, where the poor people drove their own kids to school, maybe in mere Cadillacs.
From there he attended prestigious schools, and 'embraced' his 'blackness', which is an affectation at best.
Carson has nailed it.
Well that explains why he has a job.
If Cruz listened to my advice, I was begging him back in September and November NOT to appease Trump. The egomaniac has nothing but contempt for those appeasing him.
Look how Trump has utmost respect for people like Anderson Cooper that simply go against him without giving an illusion of kissing ass.
Yep. Carson dead on right about this..ditto
However, Obama is 1/2 black, born to a Muslim father and therefore given a Muslim name at birth, raised Muslim and attended Muslim school, later mentored by Communist Frank Marshall Davis, adopted the anti-colonialist “dream from his father”, taught Black Liberation Theology for ~20 years at Reverend Jeremiah Wright's church.
US citizens and the Constitution still lost.
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