Sowell: Double life of Obama

[DesertFox]

There is something both poignant and galling about the candidacy of Barack Obama.

Any American, regardless of party or race, has to find it heartening that the country has reached the point where a black candidate for president of the United States sweeps so many primaries in states where the overwhelming majority of the population is white.

We have all seen the crowds enthralled by Barack Obama’s rhetoric and theatrical style.

Many of his supporters put their money where their mouths were, so that this recently arrived senator received more millions of dollars in donations than candidates who have been far more visible on the national stage for far more years.

That’s the good news. The bad news is that Barack Obama has been leading as much of a double life as Eliot Spitzer.

More (http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YTQ0MDI5ZDE5MTcyYjBmMjI0MmVhZjhiOTM2MDI5NzM=)

[DesertFox]

Barack Obama just gave an eloquent speech, but one that does not address the underlying nature of Senator Obama's beliefs. Rev. Jeremiah Wright, like Mr. Obama, believes in a state-centered 21st century form of big-government socialism. This 21st century form of socialism is at the heart of the Liberation Theology Rev. Wright preaches from the pulpit. Today, Mr. Obama again made it clear, with all his eloquence, that he still embraces these beliefs that would require dismantling the free-market system that has made our country's economy the most prosperous in all of human history.

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[DesertFox]

Playing the moral equivalence card in his speech this morning, Barack Obama said this:

I can no more disown [Rev. Wright] than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.

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[buckeyepete]

"- a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic sterotypes that made me cringe."--from the link---

He couldn't leave it alone, and denounce 'Jerry Wrong's' anti American traitorous speech, and Jerry's racist overtones, he had to bring his own racist rhetoric into it also.

Why doesn't he just come out and proclaim that he's ashamed of his white heritage?

Mark my words, folks, if this prick gets the nod, we're in for some rough times. If, he were to become the next POTUS, jessie, al, and louie will be all over the headlines, stirring up race riots like this country has never seen before.


And, we will deserve it..............................my powder's dry.:flame:

[DesertFox]

Barack Obama’s Tuesday sermon was a well-crafted, well-delivered, postmodern review of race that had little to do with the poor judgment revealed in Obama’s relationship with the hateful Rev. Wright, much less the damage that he does both to African Americans and to the country in general.

Obama chose not to review what Wright, now deemed the “occasionally fierce critic.” said in detail, condemn it unequivocally, apologize, and then resign from such a Sunday venue of intolerance — the now accustomed American remedy to racism in the public realm that we saw in the Imus and other recent controversies.

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[The_Sonarman]

Senator Barack Obama’s political success thus far has been a blow for equality. But equality has its down side.

Equality means that a black demagogue who has been exposed as a phony deserves exactly the same treatment as a white demagogue who has been exposed as a phony.

I was wondering what Dr. Sowell had to say about this mess. I knew he'd rip Obama up.

I've always enjoyed reading and hearing what he had to say. One brilliant man.... just happens to also be an American Black man.

[Elgalad]

I found one portion of Dr. Sowell's article of particular interest..

We don’t need a president of the United States who got to the White House by talking one way, voting a very different way in the Senate, and who for 20 years followed a man whose words and deeds contradict Obama’s carefully crafted election-year image.It isn't much of a stretch to apply that particular paragraph to two candidates in this election. To do so, one need only change a few words in the last portion to read, "and who for 20 years claimed to follow a man (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Reagans_with_John_McCain_1987.jpg) whose words and deeds contradicted McCain's carefully crafted moderate image and core values at nearly every turn."


-Elgalad

[Riverboat]

a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, In other words, she said virtually the same thing Revrunt Jesse once said:

"There is nothing more painful to me ... than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved" - US News (3/10/96).

I thought this quote would be hard to find. I typed in Jesse Jackson quote, fear of black men, hit enter, and quick as Teddy pouring himself another shot, up comes a pageful of entries, courtesy of Google. In fact, the top references carried the VERY SAME observation I made at the top of this post. So I wasn't original. So what? That means more learned folks had already made the same observation.