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Audacity of Truth
Brutal Honesty:
"We [the US] tax everything that moves and doesn’t move, and that’s not what we see in Pakistan."
- Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, 10/29/09
Must-read of the day
TV writer Cinque Henderson writes an insightful piece in The New Republic titled “Maybe We Can’t – The black case for Obama-skepticism.” In it, he talks about the fact that he is a minority within the minority – a black man who supports Hillary Clinton, and points out, as other writers (including yours truly) have, about how the Obama campaign played the race card in SC. He also slams Obama himself for his race speech in Philadelphia. Snippets:
[...] As the son of a Baptist minister, I can attest that Wright is and was an extreme aberration from how the overwhelming majority of black Christians worship. In church, black people hear about Peter, Paul, Mary, and how to get into heaven. How to forgive. How to love. Not how to vote.
But here was Barack suggesting that Wright’s behavior was commonplace in black churches: “I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community.” He generalized Wright’s ridiculousness to distract from his individual choice to worship under a buffoon for two decades. I have a cousin who attended Wright’s church for three weeks and then left, never to return. She had no interest in hearing his nonsense from the pulpit.
Barack obscured the true nature of black religious life because, to do otherwise, he would have had to answer the question, “Why are you a member of a church that is this racially divisive and such a sharp aberration to how the rest of black people worship?” When Barack beautifully suggested that the beliefs pronounced from the pulpit of Trinity in Chicago are not uncommon, he was feeding us garbage. But Barack needed to protect his reputation as a race-healer and unifier, so he told a lie about black religious life to help keep the glow of his own reputation alive. And now the evidence suggests that Barack didn’t, in the end, break with Wright over his outrageous racial claims, but over his suggestion that Barack is just a politician.
That so many people have a stake in ignoring these real concerns is troubling. At least the Hillary supporters I know seem to be aware of her more unsavory traits: that she carries a knife with her that she could pull out at any minute. Not so with Obama’s fans. It’s nearly impossible to get them to admit any wrong in him. Given the choice, I prefer to side with the group that knows their candidate can be a jerk, rather than the group that believes their candidate is Jesus.
Read the whole thing.
In related news, Barry O. has, unsurprisingly, taken issue with President Bush’s implication while in Israel that the O-man and other Democrats favor the appeasement route over all others when it comes to fighting terror. For the record, Bush never actually said Obama’s name, but according to CNN, WH aides “privately acknowledged” it was a dig at Obama and other Democrats.
Well, when you admit you’d meet unconditionally with some of the world’s most notorious despots, you kinda sorta set yourself up for those kinds of accusations …
Update: Isn’t it mildly amusing to see the Obama campaign so defensive about this? Considering Bush didn’t name anyone specifically in his speech, it’s interesting that Obama apparently just assumed it was about him. Methinks the gent doth protest too much, eh?
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How typical. They want to appease, but don’t you dare call them appeasers.
no, you must worship bama.
any critisism is a smear and is off limits.
hard to believe so many people fall for this schtick.
the guy, besides being the most liberal in the senate, is not even likealbe anymore.
if the republican party takes seriously every charge of racism that will be thrown at them this fall, i hope they lose.
Seems to me that of all people, Barry-Oh! ought to shut the hell up and not draw attention towards himself whenever somebody suggests hanging out with terrorists is a bad thing.
All Bush did was build a shoe. If somebody’s stupid enough to put it on and loudly announce that it fits, not my problem. Okay, not my problem, until November.
Everything that President Bush said is historically accurate, and for Obama to think he was refering to HIM just points out HIS egotism. We, the American people, don’t want to hire a lamb to negotiate with wolves in our name. We have all Summer to see Mr. Feelgood’s roadshow unravel.
I have absolutely no problem with Republicans using this line of attack against Democrats. My issue is this: should an American president on foreign soil criticize an American senator’s perceived or real foreign policy view? It makes me feel uncomfortable to see Predident Bush do this in the Israeli Kenesit. If he said the same in the states, no problem.
If this is something that other American presidents have done, please point it out to me.
Well, Bush was speaking in general, he did not directly link that with any specific congressman or senator, he was talking about a policy. Unlike, dare I mention it, the actions of certain Senate and House politicians (cough cough Pelosi, McDermott, etc.) and certain former Democrat presidents who travel to foreign countries, including ones not friendly to us or allied with us, and specifically have attacked President Bush by name and very specifically.
Once again, we see liberal Dems shrieking when a Republican does something a tenth as off the wall as what they do every day.
Hmmm… Pelosi and McDermott skipped my mind. Now that I remember them, that was a load of crap also.
More and more of the Dems are getting their panties in a bunch and waxing hysterical over this. It reminds me of the scene in Hamlet, where Hamlet stages a play where a king is murdered in the way his father was, and the current King, Hamlet’s uncle, goes nutso berserk with guilt and starts bouncing off the walls.
So, as another play by the Bard says, methinks the Dems protest too much. Guilty conscience anyone?
the louder they scream, the more guilty they are
watch hussein’s nose grow when he says his policy isn’t appeasement
Is the constant negative “Hussien” reference necessary? Are we saying that all “Hussiens” are guilty of nefarious thoughts towards America because of an Arabic middle name.
Now don’t tell me that your saying “Hussein” just to show your admiration of Barack Hussien Obama. We usually don’t address standing Senators and presidential candidates by middle name only.
And no I’m not some sort of BHO messiah worshiper. I worship the Detroit Red Wings and Detroit Pistons.
No, your fellow Democrats usually use such endearing terms as “ChimpyMcHitler” or “shrub.”
I will grant you that you, T-Steel, are not cast in that mold. In point of fact, you are the most rational, adult, and intelligent liberal poster we’ve seen around here, perhaps to date. If the rest of your party were as grounded in reality and mature, we would be a lot better off. It’d be like the 50’s, when liberals actually were more like today’s Republicans.
Why? What’s wrong with it? I am old enough to remember the sneering references to “Milhous” during and after Richard Nixon’s presidency. There is a character named Milhouse Van Houten on The Simpsons (one of my favorite shows, BTW):
Using Nixon’s middle name in a cartoon does not seem to have harmed Groening in any way. Or the nation for that matter.
One can argue whether mocking the middle name of He Whose Middle Name Must Not Be Mentioned is effective political strategy (or comedy), but the Messiah and His disciples are some of the most thin-skinned hyper-sensitive dorks that I have ever run across, and it would be a shame not to knock them down a couple of pegs. Frankly, I consider it a thankless civic duty that must be done.
All fun aside, historians like to portray R. Milhous Nixon as an example a paranoid President. But if the Messiah wins in November America will get a real taste of uncontrolled paranoia in power. Today’s latest “Messiah meltdown” is only a sample of what we can expect after November.
TSteele,
Ronald Wilson Reagan
George Walker Bush
William Jefferson Clinton
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
George Herbert Walker Bush
Richard Milhous Nixon
Have I rebutted ya? In my mind… every president’s middle name is known.
Dubya!!!
kidding.
Is Jimmie Carter’s middle name “dumba**”?? – Lorica