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August 11, 2008
Obama an Arab-American Affirmative-Action Candidate for President
To call a spade a sp... no, poor choice of words, and one must not mention how some Democrats may be spooked ...
“Some of my closest friends are ...” nope, but I have respect. I grew up finding inspiration in rap, and having black classmates, black sports competitors and team-members and heroes, and a few black friends. I am aware that Black is cool. I'm literate so I know blacks have suffered greatly and continue to suffer greatly. Now for the bitter medicine:
Does America want an Affirmative Action president ?
Obama is not a wolf, but an Arab. He's not in sheep's clothing, but in Black clothing.
“I read somewhere that he hid his race in his college application... ...
... but I don't know how he could have hid it during the interview...”
is what a Dem friend acknowledged between anti-Bush rants.
We may notice that his name is more like Barchu Husni Obaham
than Barry Harrison O'Malley. These are not “Just words”
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ffwY74XbS4) but rather "just names"?
Why unmask him? Arabs and Muslims are of course not inherently bad. That his heritage may be reasonably described by an objective observer as Arab should perhaps in itself be of no great concern.
(And parodies that exaggerate his Arabism do not refute the essential facts.) The problem is that he's in the tank for Arabs, and for Islam as it is actually manifested among global Muslims. Islam is an identity to which he can be expected to side with more closely than other pandered-to interest groups. (This leaves ambiguity as to how he may regard the principles of Islam and the degree to which Islamic societies reflect them, such principles which to a post-modern thinker like him are but narrative tools...)
Why is he wearing the mask? It keeps the blacks confident in him and without that base he would never have had anything. It affords him the benefits of black affirmative action rather than the question marks of Arab affirmative action. It gives him a stack of “Racism!” zaps that he occasionally resorts to. Most important, it gives him symbolic power that is so awesome it's almost overwhelming in itself!
"I have become a symbol..." indeed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a25kH75MB7I&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=islXuW7qmqc
The more salient question is why we have so far failed to unmask him. If our policy is to never draw the line with respect to an Enemy who openly seeks our destruction, eventually we lose even the free speech of drawing Cartoons (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rUVDTmMD7s). This is a reference to the Danish controversy rather than the New Yorker cover.
If Our behavior is 80% just and 20% faulty, there are those who will still inveigh against our impurity, even as the Enemy is their active 1% among their highly sympathetic 20% among their somewhat sympathetic 80%...
Reverend Wright 's "Audacity of Hope" (yes the title of Obama's book is from a sermon from his Spiritual Mentor, the man who married him with his wife and baptized his children) is for WHICH Change? (Recognizing that such change is surely of the "yes we can" and "we believe in" sort.)?!
The Rev. Pflegrant ... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UByFZ07mIC8)
His erstwhile Church's love of Farrakhan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epok-l2AUMY)
His Church's blame of Israel. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3hrcCszAac)
Not "just words" but "just friends" and "just community" and "just Spiritual Mentor"? His numerous substantial affiliations in the Pally world and the Terror-symp world? Brzezinsky? And it's a GOOD thing that this would-be master diplomat ditched his mentor and his church for his political advantage, and that he made exaggerated promises to Israel that he quickly backed away from in front of another audience?
“Hey, just empower the hero Obama and he will discover the great responsibilities that such power entails, and learn to enact our dreams” ?
Will America's Original Sin of slavery (along its long line of original sins) be finally Cleansed by this Obama coronation? Is such a course in the interest of even the ignorant masses who drink in the fantasy? Condy Rice is ignored and derided for leaving the plantation, but surely Republican was not the party of Lincoln.
He who seemed not just black, but black and white, not just b&w, but "B&W and Red" all over (i.e., dumb commie revolutionist, and so charismatic he gives the media tingly legs and is thereby widely Read of), is truly golden (43% arab, 6% black, but only a jackass would be unsporting enough to acquire such intel, and surely it's a coincidence that Muslims tend to think
he's a Muslim) all over.
An appealing symbol or an imprudent risk? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6T0b03UGrU)
Both?
There are many things McCain says (and neglects) that concern me (on Saudi, tech/competition in general, MMA, global warming, immigration, and more), but it's nice that he personally is an authentic hero. I'm sympathetic to the NOTA idea or the Bush-hating friend above's suggestion of a Bloomberg candidacy (though I'd prefer Lieberman). A new Center seems healthy. I'd like it to include ideas such as those of "Winner Take All" author Elkus's warnings on tech policy, national information processing capacity, and their relation to competitiveness (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfqKZlMfnX4&feature=user). Elkus for Sec'y of Tech (Competitiveness, Security, and Digital Government).
Posted by matt at August 11, 2008 06:51 AM
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