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March 22, 2008
Kerry On Why B. Hussein Obama Should Be President
With Extreme Prejudice
Kerry recently endorsed Barack Obama, and earlier this week he sat down with the editorial board of the Standard-Times (New Bedford, Mass.) to make the case for his candidate.
Kerry said that a President Obama would help the US, in relations with Muslim countries, "in some cases go around their dictator leaders to the people and inspire the people in ways that we can't otherwise."
"He has the ability to help us bridge the divide of religious extremism," Kerry said. "To maybe even give power to moderate Islam to be able to stand up against this radical misinterpretation of a legitimate religion." Kerry was asked what gives Obama that credibility.
"Because he's African-American. Because he's a black man. Who has come from a place of oppression and repression through the years in our own country."
An African-American president would be "a symbol of empowerment" for those who have been disenfranchised around the world, Kerry said, "an important lesson for America to show Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, other places in the world where disenfranchised people don't get anything."
One obvious question: What do the events of this week, involving Obama's own church, tell us about his ability to "stand up against" a "radical misinterpretation of a legitimate religion"? Nothing very encouraging in this columnist's view, but many observers view Obama much more charitably in this regard than we do.
What is really striking about Kerry's case for Obama, though, is that it rests on what may be the crudest stereotyping we have ever observed. Commentary's Abe Greenwald has a chuckle over Kerry's racial stereotyping of Obama:
Where is this "place of oppression and repression" in which Obama has suffered "through the years"? Hawaii? Harvard? The Senate? We should find out immediately and do something about this horrific crisis.
But Kerry isn't just stereotyping blacks. He is stereotyping Muslims too. And he is drawing an equivalence between American blacks, a racial minority in one country, and Middle Eastern Muslims, a religious majority in a whole region.
Never mind that, as Greenwald points out, "Arab Muslims [are] none too happy with their black countrymen in northern Africa." Never mind that in some African countries, notably Sudan and Mauritania, Arab Muslims still enslave blacks.
To Kerry, it seems, all "oppressed peoples" look alike. The man has all the intellectual subtlety of a third-rate ethnic studies professor.
Wild Thing's comment........
"Where is this "place of oppression and repression" in which Obama has suffered "through the years"? Hawaii? Harvard? The Senate? "
Well my gosh, we should find out immediately and do something about this horrific crisis. heh heh
LOL I love what Rush said about this.......
"RUSH: …Man, this is what I mean. When you got guys like this speaking for you, you have no control over. Do you realize what you just heard? This is the former Democrat presidential nominee, and he has just encapsulated here the liberal Democrat view of this country where it comes to race: "We are guilty!" Whatever anybody, particularly our enemies -- whatever radical Islam thinks of us -- they're right. We are guilty, because we are racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes and all that. And we need to elect an African-American president, a young leader, obviously visionary, to show the rest of the world that we are who we say we are as a people. To bridge the divide of religious extremism? (laughing) Kerry said this on Monday. I don't think Jeremiah Wright was a common household name at that time. (laughing) Bridge the divide.? He has created the divide! He's widening the divide! He's dredging the divide! He's dumping the sand of the divide on both sides of the shore. "
Posted by Wild Thing at March 22, 2008 02:40 AM
Comments
This WSJ reporter nailed Kerry's idiotic ranting commentary. The stereotypes and their errors could not be more stupid. Kerry is a basket case in the world of reality. His lavish and opulent lifestyle have obviously sheltered him from most of the goings on in the real world. Spending decades in the US Senate hasn't added anything to his grasp of the real world either.
Posted by: TomR at March 22, 2008 07:16 AM
Yep, Kerry's a moron. He's not that smart!
He kept talking about how stupid Bush was, but Bush had the higher GPA.
He is the "typical" sheltered child of wealthy parents. He never had to pound the pavement for a job. He always had one. He got to go to an Ivy league university without having to take out student loans. He has fancy houses. He has fancy cars.
What's funny is, I had to take an IQ test for a job the other day and scored over 150 IQ, so I'm just as intelligent, but I didn't grow up a rich, snotty, sheltered child and I don't have the college background he has, so I can see how Obamanation will be the ruin of America. I see more race riots, more "blacks in power" and us being left out in the cold. He is not an equalizer--he does not see both sides of the coin.
He only sees what he wants to see and the fact that so many are drawn to him like flies to honey really frightens me. Obamanation is NOT God!!!!!!
Posted by: Lynn at March 22, 2008 07:27 AM
"Because he's African-American. Because he's a black man. Who has come from a place of oppression and repression through the years in our own country."
He came up through oppression? My gosh, he attended some of the best schools and universities around. He grew up White Bread.
Check out what Dr. Manning has to say about him and his "Black experiences".
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RqA_v1fHsyk&feature=related
Posted by: BobF at March 22, 2008 08:29 AM
IF Hillary were to become the Democrat nominee and if somehow she won the White House, can you imagine the revenge she's going to enact against those Democrat politicians that supported Obama.
Posted by: BobF at March 22, 2008 08:31 AM
If I were Obama and running fo' President, and John Kerry wanted to endorce me....I'd give him a couple of more "hero" medals to just go away.
What a horse's patootie!!!!
Posted by: Steve, Horses @$$ Spotter at March 22, 2008 08:32 AM
"bridge the divide of religious extremism" What the...!? They think they can talk sense into the Islamic zealots. They don't need a talking-to, they need to be shot. Eli Wallach said it best, "When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk."
Posted by: Jim Warren at March 22, 2008 09:45 AM
I do believe the John Forbes Kerry is the product of Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr, How else can two family menbers, John Kerry and Ted Kennedy, from different families both have such profound genetic beliefs and backgrounds, both anti-american, both with scarlet military records, both working to tear down the fabric of society and replace it with Marxism and both scions live in Massachussetts with longstanding family ties. Richard John Kerry, a Foreign Service Officer and an attorney for the Bureau of United Nations Affairs, Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom at the start of World War II. Both fathers intertwined with either Communist Socialism or Nazi Socialism. I look at Ted, Joe's idiot son then at John Kerry, ideological twins that only a DNA test can disprove. In any other society neither of these idiot-savant's would be anywhere but in an asylum, in this country that asylum is the U.S. Senate.
Posted by: Jack at March 22, 2008 01:18 PM
Tom, yes it is a great commentary. Too bad they are hard to find in the media about the left.
Kerry ne ver should have been elected to any office, gosh I really dislike that man to the max.
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 22, 2008 04:52 PM
Lynn, you are very smart, Kerry would flunk an IQ test and probably be in the negative.
I used to think Obama would win because of the "movement" he had going, like a cult. But now I fell strongly he will never win ever no matter what. There are a lot of old time Dems that will be turned off to all this radical stuff. The kind of dems that voted for Reagan when he ran, at least I am hoping and praying this happens.
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 22, 2008 04:56 PM
Bob, yes LOL Obama wants the world to think he is a victim. LOL No way has he been a victim.
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 22, 2008 04:58 PM
Bob, oh wow I had nto thought of that. haha Yes Hillary is one of those get even people for sure.
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 22, 2008 05:00 PM
Steve, Horses @$$ Spotter, LOL love your add on to your name. heh heh
Yes, here Kerry here are some more medals now go away. hahaha
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 22, 2008 05:02 PM
Jim, I agree, just shoot.
Thanks for the Eli Wallach quote too.
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 22, 2008 05:03 PM
Jack, good point and it sure would seem so, just like you said. Good one too about the asylum is the U.S. Senate.
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 22, 2008 05:07 PM
