Buchanan on Obama and Race

Discussion in 'Politics' started by hapaboy, Mar 25, 2008.

  1. jem

    jem

    The minute Obama's wife made her comment about america - I lost any respect for his candidacy.

    If your educated wife can say that crap with a straight face while you are running for office, you know your family has not just been drinking the cool aid you have been serving it.

    Obama went from a potential agent of change to a scary choice.

    I despised the clintons - but hey free health care an hillary are a much less risky choice than obama. What the heck does that guy actually believe and stand for.

    I was not going to vote for mccain but I will have to case an anti obama vote because his wife is scary and that means he might be too.
     
    #11     Mar 25, 2008
  2. hughb

    hughb

    Has Obama slipped in the polls since this Rev Wright scandal and his speech? He still leads in delegates, if I'm not mistaken. It doesn't appear that this has had any effect on his candidacy. he's still alive as ever.
     
    #12     Mar 25, 2008
  3. Brandonf

    Brandonf Sponsor

    I'm starting to come to the conclussion that a President Obama might be the very best thing that could happen to us. Certainly he will through us down the shitter with his marxits theology and making up for wrongs no one alive suffered from and non one alive commited. The country will get tired of it quickly, and although it will take a long time to dig out of the rat hole, liberalism will be shown for what it is, just like when Carter ran things, and it will be discredited for the next generation or two.
     
    #13     Mar 25, 2008
  4. Looks like the Rev Wright bean spilling came late in the game, my guess is if it comes down to Obama vs McCain, then some Hillary supporters will not stay loyal to their party, instead go with McCain...or not vote at all?
     
    #14     Mar 25, 2008
  5. Brandonf

    Brandonf Sponsor

    Probably. I wish Hannity would have sat on it until about a week before the general elections.
     
    #15     Mar 25, 2008
  6. Throw Grandma Under The Bus

    By Ann Coulter

    Wednesday, March 19, 2008

    Obama gave a nice speech, except for everything he said about race. He apparently believes we're not talking enough about race. This is like hearing Britney Spears say we're not talking enough about pop-tarts with substance-abuse problems.

    By now, the country has spent more time talking about race than John Kerry has talked about Vietnam, John McCain has talked about being a POW, John Edwards has talked about his dead son, and Al Franken has talked about his USO tours.

    But the "post-racial candidate" thinks we need to talk yet more about race. How much more? I had had my fill by around 1974. How long must we all marinate in the angry resentment of black people?

    As an authentic post-racial American, I will not patronize blacks by pretending Obama's pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, is anything other than a raving racist loon. If a white pastor had said what Rev. Wright said -- not about black people, but literally, the exact same things -- I think we'd notice that he's crazier than Ward Churchill and David Duke's love child. (Indeed, both Churchill and the Rev. Wright referred to the attacks of 9/11 as the chickens coming "home to roost.")

    Imagine a white pastor saying: "Racism is the American way. Racism is how this country was founded, and how this country is still run. ... We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority. And believe it more than we believe in God."

    Imagine a white pastor calling Condoleezza Rice, "Condoskeezza Rice."

    Imagine a white pastor saying: "No, no, no, God damn America -- that's in the Bible for killing innocent people! God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human! God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme!"

    We treat blacks like children, constantly talking about their temper tantrums right in front of them with airy phrases about black anger. I will not pat blacks on the head and say, "Isn't that cute?" As a post-racial American, I do not believe "the legacy of slavery" gives black people the right to be permanently ill-mannered.

    Obama tried to justify Wright's deranged rants by explaining that "legalized discrimination" is the "reality in which Rev. Wright and other African-Americans of his generation grew up." He said that a "lack of economic opportunity among black men, and the shame and frustration that came from not being able to provide for one's family, contributed to the erosion of black families."

    That may accurately describe the libretto of "Porgy and Bess," but it has no connection to reality. By Rev. Wright's own account, he was 12 years old and was attending an integrated school in Philadelphia when Brown v. Board of Education was announced, ending "separate but equal" schooling.

    Meanwhile, at least since the Supreme Court's decision in University of California v. Bakke in 1978 -- and obviously long before that, or there wouldn't have been a case or controversy for the court to consider -- it has been legal for the government to discriminate against whites on the basis of their race.

    Consequently, any white person 30 years old or younger has lived, since the day he was born, in an America where it is legal to discriminate against white people. In many cases it's not just legal, but mandatory, for example, in education, in hiring and in Academy Award nominations.

    So for half of Rev. Wright's 66 years, discrimination against blacks was legal -- though he never experienced it personally because it existed in a part of the country where he did not live. For the second half of Wright's life, discrimination against whites was legal throughout the land.

    Discrimination has become so openly accepted that -- in a speech meant to tamp down his association with a black racist -- Obama felt perfectly comfortable throwing his white grandmother under the bus. He used her as the white racist counterpart to his black racist "old uncle," Rev. Wright.

    First of all, Wright is not Obama's uncle. The only reason we indulge crazy uncles is that everyone understands that people don't choose their relatives the way they choose, for example, their pastors and mentors. No one quarrels with idea that you can't be expected to publicly denounce your blood relatives.

    But Wright is not a relative of Obama's at all. Yet Obama cravenly compared Wright's racist invective to his actual grandmother, 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."

    Rev. Wright accuses white people of inventing AIDS to kill black men, but Obama's grandmother -- who raised him, cooked his food, tucked him in at night, and paid for his clothes and books and private school -- has expressed the same feelings about passing black men on the street that Jesse Jackson has.

    Unlike his "old uncle" -- who is not his uncle -- Obama had no excuses for his grandmother. Obama's grandmother never felt the lash of discrimination! Crazy grandma doesn't get the same pass as the crazy uncle; she's white. Denounce the racist!

    Fine. Can we move on now?

    No, of course, not. It never ends. To be fair, Obama hinted that we might have one way out: If we elect him president, then maybe, just maybe, we can stop talking about race.
     
    #16     Mar 25, 2008
  7. She makes good points too, but this lady is heartless when it comes to grief by her remarks about people who have lost a loved one. Those remarks in the same article with good points on Obama racism kills her argument in some peoples minds maybe?
     
    #17     Mar 25, 2008
  8. hughb

    hughb

    Gotta love the internet. The mainstream media is losing control of the information flow and now Buchanan's and Coutler's words have time to be read by almost everybody. Fifteen years ago nobody would have seen them except for a few people who read the op-ed pages of only a few newspapers, then down the memory hole they go.

    "How long must we all marinate in the angry resentment of black people?" BWAHAHAHAHA! Gotta love it.
     
    #18     Mar 26, 2008
  9. +1
     
    #19     Mar 26, 2008
  10. ==================
    More trouble for Barak Husein;
    investors.com
    had another [2nd one this year] editorial today named ''Obama's Pro-Hamas Church..a mouthpiece for anti-Israeli terrorrists''


    Probably Barak Husein will not really like a ''discussion of race''.Some took him at his word & noted the huge difference in blacks & Vietnamese fisherman in Louisana.Wow those Asians came recently with not much or no money & a lack of English.

    But instead of blame gaming white America/cursing America, those Asians actually worked hard & much now better off trhan most blacks there -WOW !!:cool:
     
    #20     Mar 26, 2008