Kaus has an excellent post up on the Throw Grandma Under the Bus Speech.
Neologism: “equibblelence”
Excerpt:
Later, he says:
So when [whites] are told … that their fears about crime in urban neighborhoods are somehow prejudiced, resentment builds over time.
Who would tell them such a thing? Obama, a dozen paragraphs earlier, dissing his own grandmother.
In general. Obama’s explanations of black anger seem intimate and respectful. His explanations of white anger seem distant and condescending. (“They are anxious about their futures, and feel their dreams slipping away ….”) Unfortunately for him, it’s white votes he needs.
Who said it?
Some racist, obviously.
Obama’s explanations of black anger seem intimate and respectful. His explanations of white anger seem distant and condescending.
Ummmm, is it time to say, “I am sick and tired of Negroes who just don’t GET IT!” Reverend Jeremiah Wright
Me, I’m tired of all the niggers, black and white.
Okay, I don’t get it. Politicians make a living telling people what they want to hear. A politician is immeshed in a political scandal: Nixon (apparently) takes bribes; Kennedy (apparently) murders his girlfriend; Obama (apparently) endorses a racist, anti-American theology. The politician’s follower’s and the media ask the politician “to do something” about the scandal. Nixon makes a speech. Teddy makes a speech. Obama makes a speech. Nothing is done. It’s more talk, more words which tell people what they want to hear from someone who makes a living doing exactly that.
Baracky’s grandmother expressed the exact same sentiment that Jesse Jackson once expressed.
Wonderful.
Obama has said that now one can justify assocation with people who are racist haters as long as those people do good things (help the poor & sick, have some past injustice, etc.) & one personally likes the individual.
Gah, I would not trust a political person who attends a christian identity white power church (that claims, “God must be a white god!”) for years because that person says the pastor is a nice guy with some wacky beliefs & that their anger towards blacks is justified due to ‘fears about crime’ thus s/he can not reject that church/person. But because the hater is non-white everyone is supposed to accept it.
“Oh that Hitler, his mentor Dietrich Eckartsays such nutty things about the Jews, but it is not like Dietrich himself feels that way. He just thinks Dietrich anger is justified because of the trauma of WWI and those shifty jews. Nothing to worry about. Did you hear about how the National Socialists’ food drive help Herr Weiss afford that surgury for his son? Now THAT is a real measure of Hitler’s character!”
We are going to have a weak man, Obama, for president. One who can not stand up to haters. This man will not be good for the office nor the country….and with no other branch of gov’t in opposition to him, who will curb his excesses or bad ideas? His pastor? His wife? His fawning supporters?
And all his faults and failings will be blamed on someone else. Whitey conservatives most likely, with a strong dose of implied hate for those Hispanics down in Mexico for stealing ‘American’ jobs.
Oh, and the evil corporations too. For making money. Better tax everyone (except the blacks) more.
And if Hillary fails all we have left is Old Man McCain.
Hillary looks better and better everyday.
At least you know who she’s looking out for (herself). Mr. Changeyness? I have no idea,but I’m quite sure it’s not us poor schmucks.
Oh that Hitler…
I been thinking we need to extend Godwin’s Law to the “race card.” Rules of Engagement — Anyone mentioning Nazis or throwing the race card in a serious debate automatically loses the argument.
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I love my live racist grandmother.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk6vqt782H8
The first part of that, hell no, unless that “seem” is doing a lot of secret work.
He doesn’t identify with “black anger,” or even speak of its carriers as if they’re truly human; he serves them up as specimens, and his “intimate and respecful” “explanations” read like museum cards under a caveman display.
Pretend he’s describing you that way, an empty puppet whose every trajectory, social and even emotional, is an inevitability determined by history — a history that’s someone else’s. If you don’t think he’s an asshole then, you might be a RACIST! (He’s not Whitey’s favorite candidate for no reason.)
He’s slightly kinder to (“the wrong kind of”) white people. Anxiety has its source in the self of the anxious person, in his inability to properly assess his surroundings. So at least he’s diagnosing while he’s condescending; that acknowledges that there’s a patient. He’s not so kind to black people.
But he’s “distant and condescending” to everyone. He’s an arrogant cunt.
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Looks like Barry no longer likes gramcrackers
Mark Finklestein beat me to it:
I actually wouldn’t want Obama to have to abandon someone whom he clearly has an affinity for, as loyalty is a good trait, even more so because this was a man who helped Barry resolve his faith. I would have preferred some record, or even the claim of the attempt that Obama tried to help Wright to overcome his clearly racist tendencies, to more fully understand that loving your neighbor is not supposed to be limited to those who look or act most like us.
But then I’m a filthy white Godbotherer. I renounce myself.
That quote, and the idea behind it really bugs me. If I see some kids walking down the street- and they’re wearing bagging, oversized clothes and a cap pulled low over their forehead – REGARDLESS of color, I’m concerned. If I see a well-dressed black man, I’m ok with it. I think this holds for most people.
It isn’t the color … it’s the appearance of the person that makes one nervous. It doesn’t help (blacks) that many have adopted the fashion of thugs. It boggles the mind that a kid would dress like a hoodlum, and then be shocked and outraged when someone crosses the street when they see them coming.
FTR, the one time I was assaulted, it was in Detroit by a white man.
As a woman, there is nothing more satisfying to me than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around to see a woman and feel relieved.
I love being a woman, because we can only ever be victims.