BET Stars; Vote Obama Cause He’s Black
Jun 25, 2008 Political
It is interesting watching things unfold with regard to the presidential aspirations of Barack Obama. He is the first person to cry racism (oh yeah, he is black) and his supporters love to claim that white people who do not vote for him are racist while ignoring the fact that many blacks are voting for him simply because he is black. This will be one of the themes, vote Obama so we can have a black president. The people who espouse this are voting for a person based on color rather than qualification.
At the Black Entertainment Television (is there a WET) music awards Sean Combs told the crowd that if they all registered they had the chance to vote in the first black president. It seems to me that this narrow minded thinking is racist from the start but also dangerous in that Combs wants people to put color ahead of any other real qualifier. If people actually support Obama because they think he is qualified and can do the job then fine but it seems to me that is not the message. Vote for Obama because he is black. Did you notice that we never hear them saying vote for Obama because he is qualified?
Rapper David Banner told reporters that for the first time they could vote for someone who is not part of the good ole boy (who you calling boy) system. First of all, this is a lie. Obama is part of the Chicago political system and he is definitely a DC insider who pretends not to be. He is a good ole boy and has the establishment’s backing.
The obvious racial pandering and overt racism is ignored by those in the MSM who portray Obama’s support among blacks as some sign that they all agree with him. In reality, half of them have no clue and the only thing they see is a black man. Since blacks get a pass on racial remarks it is OK for someone like Combs to say to vote for Obama because he is black.
Imagine if someone got on stage and said to vote for McCain because he is white…
I predict that if Obama loses in November we will see race riots and we will hear the cries of racism in America. There will be particular hell to pay if he wins the popular vote and loses the electoral vote (what I think will happen). There will be rioting.
If Obama loses it will not be because he is black. It will be because he is inexperienced (technically, he is qualified).
Tags: bet, music awards, Obama, racism, racuist black people, sean combs
Democrats See Republican Racists Everywhere
Jun 20, 2008 Political
Recently, the Texas Republican Party held an event which included vendors. One of those vendors was selling a button that read “If Obama is President, will we still call it the White House?” The reaction from the left was immediate and of course, reactionary. As soon as they saw it they cried racism and painted all Republicans with the broad brush of racism. Now, I think the button was inappropriate and should not have been sold there but I don’t hold the Texas GOP responsible. They do not vet merchandise and after they were made aware of it they cut off that vendor and will not allow him to sell at their events in the future.
This little fact escapes the morons who jumped all over it and labeled all Republicans as racists. I have gone to some of the sites and the comments are simply outrageous and they demonstrate that many people on the left are not very well educated about the history of this country and the Republican Party which, by the way, ended slavery and supported and passed the Civil Rights legislation of the 1960s over harsh Democratic opposition. Yes, read that again. A larger majority of Republicans supported the legislation and quite a few more Democrats opposed it. Tell me again which party is racist. The Republican Party is the one that ended slavery and yet Republicans are branded as racists.
This is a huge mystery to me because it is not the Republican Party that currently has, and has had in the past, members of the KKK in it. Robert Byrd of West Virginia is a Democrat who is revered in Democratic circles. He was a member of the KKK. I wonder how many black people he terrorized. I wonder how many he helped lynch and I wonder why he is loved by Democrats. David Duke of Louisiana was in the KKK. He is a Democrat (though he also ran as a Republican) and he served in state government. From the comments I read one would never know that it was the Republican Party that made black people free and that we passed civil rights. No, according to those who have nothing bad to say about Byrd, every person who is a Republican is a racist.
I made a big stink about the anti Semitic items on Obama’s website. My complaint was that the items had been up there for several months and that the campaign was removing them and trying to delete any cached items so that it would appear they never existed. If Obama is all about open and honest, as he claims, he should have come clean and stated that they were found and removed. My post led to comments about the fact that anyone could write on Obama’s site if they had an account and that it was wrong to blame Obama for what others wrote (I knew the first and never claimed the second). I did allude to the fact that Obama does not seem to care for Jews which is my perception and evidently the perception of a lot of the Jewish community. Might explain why Bloomberg spoke favorably about Obambi to a Jewish group.
I read similar responses to Obama’s website content across the Internet. People claimed that he should not be held accountable for what others stated on his website. If we are to hold that as true, and the left evidently does, how do they find it acceptable to call all Republicans racist and to blame the Texas GOP for the action of ONE vendor? It seems like a double standard, say it isn’t so! No, it does not seem like it, it is. Meatbrain painted all Republicans (what he meant by “these people”) with that broad brush and Wonkette said that the button was worn by everyone at the convention. I don’t want to call Wonkette uninformed but the vendor said he made 12 of them and only sold 4 and 2 of those were to reporters. This is what happens when hysteria takes over for logical thought.
Isn’t it amazing that the people on the left cry foul and say it is unfair to make Obama guilty by association for all his past contacts (Wright, Pfleger, Rezko, Ayers, et al) and yet they will paint all Republicans as guilty because a vendor was at their convention? Four buttons were sold and two were to news reporters so obviously not a lot of Republicans were wearing them.
I want to ask a question. If a vendor who had not been vetted sold buttons at the Texas Republican Convention which displayed a message with racial overtones makes all Republicans racist, what would we say about all Obama supporters if the vendor turned out to be someone who says he might vote for Obama?
“We’re into humor, not racism,” said Alcox, who described himself as an independent who may vote for Obama in November. “Why would I do that purposely? I thought it was funny.” [from the above linked Yahoo story]
I mean, if he is an Obama supporter then that must mean all Obama supporters are racists.
As Obama would say, That is not the button vendor I knew.
Big Dog Salute to Jenn at Fort Hard Knox [Make that Tex at FHK]
Tags: button, Democrats, illogical, Obama, racism, Republicans, wonkette
Push for White Guilt Starts Early
Jun 8, 2008 Political
In the past week Barack Hussein Obama became the presumptive Democratic nominee to run against John McCain (the presumptive Republican nominee) for the presidency. While it was a long fight and a bit rocky it has finally ended with Hillary Rodham Clinton’s suspension of her candidacy and her support of Obama. Make no mistake, this is a historic moment in the American story and that should never be taken lightly. A man who identifies as black has secured a nomination and that has never before happened. While we could argue over his ability or merits for the job or even if it was foolish to select him those arguments would be based on any number of things none of which is his color.
Throughout this campaign season though, there have been rumblings about race. Certainly some statements were racist or referred to race but often the statements were made racist in an effort to gain sympathy for Obama and add to the ever increasing list of things we cannot discuss. Obama and his campaign have been very effective at framing those items that may be discussed and have forced opponents to tread lightly less they be labeled racist. The population of West Virginia was labeled as racist because it did not vote for Obama and instead went for Clinton by a large margin. No one even considered that maybe the people liked her message better. They were automatically racists because they did not vote for the anointed one. It is important to note that these were Democratic primaries so the people who were being labeled as racists were Democrats and it is important to note that the people labeling West Virginians as racist excused and ignored the real racists, Reverend Wright and Father Pfleger.
The idea that if someone does not vote for Obama is because of racism is gaining speed and many will quietly push that message. A piece by Errin Haines of the AP’s Atlanta bureau points this out very specifically. Haines, a black woman who covers race and civil rights, describes the elation among the members of the black community at Obama’s selection and the possibility of him being elected president. Their elation is somewhat subdued because blacks are worried about coded references to Obama that set him apart from the rest:
Still, pesky rumors that Obama is actually a Muslim persist. Every now and then, someone publicly calls him by his full name — Barack Hussein Obama — as if to put out a coded reminder of what sets this candidate apart from the rest.
Obama’s candidacy is about race and it isn’t. It has illuminated the fact that black and white America don’t really know each other all that well, and has forced both sides to rethink what they thought they knew about each other and themselves.
Even after Obama accepts the Democratic nomination on Aug. 28 — 45 years to the day after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech — black Americans can’t — or won’t — exhale until the votes are counted, and we have 21 more Tuesdays to go.
Our pained history has taught us that the best intentions don’t always translate into action. As we stand next to white Americans at the polls on Nov. 4, we will wonder:
“What did you do when you were alone in that booth? Did you go with that sticker, that T-shirt, that screensaver and vote for Obama, or was that just for show?” Yahoo News
The use of Obama’s full name, while a reminder to some, is nothing unusual. We call her Hillary RODHAM Clinton. For the longest time Obama’s campaign and the liberal blogs referred to him as BHO and unless I missed something, that H stands for Hussein. It is the man’s name and while it congers negativity in some Obama does not help the issue with his treatment of Israel and his insistence on meeting terrorist leaders in the Muslim world without precondition.
I am at a loss as to what Haines means by best intentions. Let me make this clear, the intention of all Americans should be to elect the person who they believe is the best for this country regardless of what sex or what color the candidates are. No election, but particularly this one, is some exercise in affirmative action that is designed to elevate a black man to the highest office in this nation just because of some good intent or because of white guilt and it is not to break a glass ceiling to make women feel good about themselves. If people vote for Obama because they believe he is the best for the job then that is their right but to suggest that there is some intention to right all the past wrongs by anointing Obama and anyone who fails to vote for him is racist is wrong and anyone who espouses that point of view should not be allowed out in public without supervision.
Haines indicates that when blacks are at the polls and see whites they will wonder what they did [while in the booth]. In other words, did you vote for Obama like you are supposed to or did you commit a racist act and vote for someone other than Obama? You do not have to wonder about this white guy Errin because I will NOT be voting for Obama. It has nothing to do with his color and everything to do with him being the most liberal Senator in the Senate. It has everything to do with his socialist policies and lack of leadership experience. It has to do with his pro abortion stance, his refusal to vote against late term and partial birth abortions and his vote to allow babies to die after they are born because their mothers do not want them. It has to do with his disregard for the Second Amendment and his desire to disarm all law abiding citizens. It has to do with his disregard for the men and women in the armed forces and his desire to hand them a defeat from DC that the enemy cannot exact on the battlefield. It has to do with any number of tried and failed liberal policies that have created a class of people, mostly black, dependent upon government for everything and unable to think or work for themselves, a mentality that led to chaos in New Orleans after Katrina hit. However, if you must believe that anyone who does not vote for Barry is racist because they refused to vote for a black man, let me ease your mind.
Barack Hussein Obama is half black and half white. Consider it this way, I will be voting against the part of him that is white and unfortunately I cannot do so without also voting against the black part. While my vote will have nothing to do with color, there are those, like you Ms. Haines, who will make it all about color so this should help ease your narrow minds.
Americans are no more racist for not voting for Obama than they are ageists if they do not vote for McCain or sexists if they did not vote for Hillary. It comes down to qualifications and how the voting public assesses them. If it involves something else then people are misguided.
Amazingly, the black vote went greater than 90% for Obama in the primary and it will do so in the general election (they are almost always greater than 90% for the Democrat). How is it OK that a portion of the black population voted for Obama simply because of his color but if white people vote overwhelmingly for a candidate who happens to be white, they are racists?
Errin Haines should rethink the reason we vote. If she is hung up on the good intentions rather than the good of the nation (according to the voter’s perception) then perhaps she needs to go back to school.
Tags: affirmative action, Clinton, errin haines, liberal prattle, McCain, Obama, racism
Obama Ditches Church 20 Years too Late
May 31, 2008 Political
On March 18th of this year, after endless coverage of the incendiary remarks by pastor Wright, Barack Obama decided he needed to discuss the issue. Barack Obamessiah gave his More Perfect Union speech where he tried to explain the state of race relations in this country. During this speech he stated:
Going to great lengths and several times repeating his reason for his continued association to Wright and his membership at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Obama said the pastor introduced him to his Christian faith and continues to perform God’s work on Earth.
“As imperfect as he may be, he has been like family to me. … I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother,” Obama told an audience at the Constitution Center in Philadelphia. [emphasis mine] Fox
Message for Obama’s grandmother, watch out. Today Barack Obama resigned from the Trinity United Church of Christ so it looks as if disowning grandma is not off the table.
Obama wrote a letter of resignation after a guest speaker (and Obama spiritual supporter) at the church gave a speech that hammered Hillary Clinton and made racist remarks about white entitlement. This came as Obama was repairing his damaged reputation that came at the hands of Pastor Wright, his other spiritual supporter (and adviser). Despite the many claims of his supporters and the MSM that Obama has not been harmed by the Wright episode, he has. This newest episode just confirms that Obama spent 20 years at a church that preaches hatred and despite his race relations speech, Obama is part of the racist mindset that exists there. His wife is certainly a black woman with a chip on her shoulder and her statements expose a woman who has a dislike for white people and a hatred for her country.
Interestingly, Obama said he was leaving the church with sadness and that he was doing so because he did not want his church experiences to become a circus (too late for that) and that he was leaving because of a cultural and stylistic gap. He also said that he was sorry for the attention his campaign has brought to the church. Obama said that reporters had taken church bulletins and were calling shut ins and the sick. I suppose what Obama is saying is that he has to quit because of the attention the church is getting not because of what it says or stands for.
I can understand why Obama is upset that his church got so much attention. I imagine he would have rather had the church and its racist philosophies kept under wraps until after the general election. He certainly would rather have won the presidency before anyone found out that he belonged to a racist church for 20 years and that he either agrees with them or is so inept he should not be the leader of our country. As it stands now, he has been harmed by Wright and now Pfleger. Democrats think this is a non issue but recent exit polls show that it made a difference among Democrats. Just think how this will play with Republicans and Independents.
Obama quit his church about 20 years too late and this will certainly play against him for at least the near future. His resignation, despite his faux reasons, only shows America that he finally realized that his church was the wrong one to belong to. It will also show that he was playing politics when he gave his race relations speech and that he actually can disown things.
Unfortunately, it appears he can only do so when it is to avoid political harm rather than when it is the right thing to do. For a new kind of politician he sure looks and acts like the the same old stuff.
Sources:
Politico
My Way News
Tags: church, Obama, racism, resignation
The Holy Trinity; In the Name of the Father…
May 30, 2008 Political
Something is absolutely wrong at Trinity United Church, the church where Obama spent 20 years oblivious to the racial hatred spewed from the mouth of Pastor Wright. It might be something in the Holy Water or maybe they put crack in the wine but whatever it is it seems to affect those in the pulpit. The newest inflammatory (and non religious) remarks came from Father Michael Pfleger who used his time in front of the congregation to make a political statement about Hillary Clinton and her feeling of entitlement. Not entitled because she is Hillary but entitled because she is white. Hillary was the white person who looked up and saw that a black man was stealing her rightful position as the next Democratic presidential nominee. As Michelle Malkin said:
It’s one thing to ridicule Hillary’s sense of political and ideological entitlement as part of the Clinton dynasty. But the demagogic emphasis on her race from this hate preacher on the pulpit is quite another thing.
The You Tube video at Malkin’s site states it is no longer available but you can still see it (at least for now) at Political Kudzu.
Father Pfleger is introduced as a friend of the church who needs no introduction. Immediately he goes into a rant about the past and how if we white folks reap the benefits of what our ancestors did for us then we must also accept responsibility for what they did (presumably to black people). This is an illogical argument and compares to unlike things. People are able to enjoy the fruits of labor of their ancestors (as in inherited wealth) without being responsible for what people did to others a century and a half ago. If Pfleger wants to take this route it might have been nice if he would have stated that we whites also get the benefit of all those in our families who died in the Civil War.
The issue I have is his political statements from the pulpit. He is a supporter of Obama and has endorsed him. Until recently, he was listed as a spiritual endorser of Obama. It is amazing how many of these kinds of people keep popping out of the woodwork and it is amazing that Obama is just now realizing how racist and inflammatory they are. The more these kinds of people appear the more disingenuous Obama appears when he says he had no idea what they were about and says their views are not his own. Birds of a feather and all that.
Does the Trinity United Church enjoy tax exempt status? If so then the IRS needs to look at the tape of this sermon and determine if Father Pfleger violated the law. It certainly seems to me that he did especially when one considers he endorsed Obama, is in a church in Obama’s home town, is preaching to a congregation that supports Obama, and he made it appear that Obama was the best choice over white entitlement.
The IRS really needs to look into this church and see about taking away any exemptions it enjoys. How many more lunatic preachers have to appear before someone takes notice?
While the government is at it, the DEA might want to check to see if the preachers are using drugs before the sermons. The Pope might want to look at this guy as well. He has child molester written all over him.
Ann Coulter was on Hannity and Colmes last night and they asked her about Pfleger. She said he was the white pastor Wright, that he was Eminem. I thought that was hysterical.
Tags: ann coulter, electioneering, pfleger, pulpit, racism