The discrimination against blacks by "locals" is pretty extreme. Even more so than against haoles. I believe this is because there are few blacks there. There is no kill haole day at Punahou. Its a public school thing. The public schools there are terrible. No haole family with any money at all would send their kids to public school. Outside of school, however, I am sure Obama experienced serious discrimination, and it definitely could have affected his views of the world. BTW, he is hapa by definition. Hapa popolo. Most locals wouldn't call him simply hapa as they probably wouldn't know he was half hoale.
I think Obama has had more opportunity to live inside many different cultures than most black people. He can not identify with the discrimination of black people who have never had the opportunity of education and travel that he has had. But he wants to claim he can identify. And he belonged for 20 years to a church that cried about the opression of black people, but Obama has and does have more money and more education than most black people. So I feel instead of putting down the country he lives in, and supporting very racist Rev Wright for many years, he should be more aware of opportunitys and freedom this country has given him to go as far as he has. Why does this man who has been successful and prosperous in his life in this country make himself tied to people and organizations who hate America?
Yup. You can book it. Landslide. Don't ever try to block a tsunami with your emotions and opinions, whether you happen to be right or wrong, because as an individual, you're just plain irrelevant. And this will be a tsunami year, just like 1994.
Exactly. Back in '04, I saw several grass roots campaigns spring up dedicated to getting out the "truth" about Kerry. Like it or not, the religious and pro-imperial contingent in this country is an incredible force to be reckoned with. Guys like Karl Rove manufacture issues like gay marriage, which (believe it or not) was actually a major reason why Bush was reelected... even though Kerry supported a ban on gay marriage (though not a ban on civil unions), even though *no one* was proposing to legalize/condone/protect it on the federal level... We're still in Iraq. McCain is still a "war hero". And Obama is (from a shallow, attack-ad, political war machine standpoint) probably the closest thing we've got to a Muslim candidate. Landslide McCain, I'm almost certain. And if Obama somehow manages to steal it, I pray that his first act as president is to beef up the Secret Service... he will need it...
That took balls, Past. I love the rednecks who are proud to waive that rebel flag. Makes it easier for the rest of the sane population to marginalize them. It's those 3 piece Klansmen that you have to worry about. Good work.
So, we've got, McCain Landslide, Obama Landside, too close to call. I still think Hillary knows Fibber McGees' closet has a lot of stuff to come tumblin' out. Those two are belly crawlin' scum, and they do nothing that doesn't directly benefit them. She didn't cough up a hard stolen 11mm for shits and giggles. I like the intrade McCain long. They'll be a ten spot in there at least before it's over. Of course, the Bama short is appealing if my Hillary thesis is correct. 300 million folks in this great land, and this is all we can come up with?
It was Obama who said the other night in Philly, "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,â Poor choice of words given that a few hundred American's will be murdered this year within a several mile radius of Obama's Chicago mansion. In fact doesn't Chicago prohibit guns? I have my own movie moment for Barrack. "It's not personal it's just business."
Meet Obama's new albatross: Supporter backs Iraqi terror Former Baghdad minister holds U.S. citizenship, boosts Dem with money, insurgency with words From http://wnd.com/ "WASHINGTON â An American citizen who returned to Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein to become minister of electricity has called for support of the terrorist insurgency and claims to have contributed the maximum amount under the law to the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama. Ayham al-Samurai, a Sunni Muslim and former Iraqi exile who lived in the U.S. for 20 years, held a press conference in Amman, Jordan, yesterday saying he hoped the terrorist insurgents in Iraq "would continue against occupation and avenge the Iraqi people." The former Chicagoan added, in remarks carried by Radio Sawa, that he had contributed $2,300 to Obama's campaign. Obama's opponent, Sen. John McCain, has been making much of the support offered the Illinois senator's campaign by Hamas's top political adviser, Ahmed Yousuf, in an exclusive interview with WND's Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein. News that a fellow Chicagoan is both supporting him politically as well as the insurgency in Iraq is not expected to be welcome news in the Obama camp. However, al-Samurai's ties to Illinois and Obama don't stop with the financial contribution. While serving as minister of electricity, al-Samurai brokered deals with Antoin Rezko, the Syrian-American millionaire who backed Obama politically and personally. Rezko was convicted of fraud in Illinois the day Obama unofficially declared himself the winner of the Democratic nomination. Al-Samurai was appointed minister during the term of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. After Allawi was booted from office, al-Samurai became a mediator between insurgent groups and Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq. He was later arrested by Iraqi police in Baghdad on corruption charges but escaped from prison with the help of U.S. private security personnel â leaving Iraq with the help of a forged Chinese passport. He later returned to Chicago where he apparently made his contribution to Obama. Now he hopes for a return to Iraqi politics as a result of a recently passed amnesty law in the parliament. He said in Jordan yesterday "the [insurgency] in Iraq is a legitimate resistance, and it is against occupation, and any resistance in the world against occupation is considered legitimate. I hope that [it] continues and avenges the Iraqi people, and I look forward to expanding its political agenda." He also said he is still a part of Allawi's political bloc. Radio Sawa is a 24-hour Arabic-language radio network that originates in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates and Washington and receives support from the U.S. government."