On Obama's Failure To RENOUNCE Farrakhan. LOL!

[KittyWampus]

This is really funny, if you get the allusion. And go to the link at the end and read comments. Funny, cause it's true.

Mister Answer Man: Special Debate Edition!
By Michael Bérubé - February 26, 2008, 11:47PM

Apparently an interesting point of political doctrine and liturgical procedure emerged late in tonight’s debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and my readers are all abuzz about it! Let’s go to the mailbag:

Dear Mister Answer Man: Tonight on TPM Election Central, I read a discussion of whether Barack Obama did enough to distance himself from Louis Farrakhan. ..... snip .... Greg Sargeant seems to think that Obama is now completely off the hook, and that the question itself was “inane.” I’m not so sure. Aren’t the American people entitled to know whether Barack Obama, as a Muslim, approves of another Muslim who thinks Judaism is a “gutter religion,” and shouldn’t Obama reject him even more strongly by rejecting and denouncing him and then repudiating and disdaining him as well? – D. Schlussel, Michigan

Mister Answer Man replies: Thanks for your question, Ms. Schlussel. In one respect, I think you are misinformed: Barack Obama is a practicing Christian. However, you raise a good point when you ask if there’s something more that Obama should have done. There is, in fact, a proper form for denouncing and rejecting Farrakhan; it is called renouncing Farrakhan. Impartial moderator Tim Russert was quite right to press Obama on this, and Hillary Clinton was quite right to suggest that Obama didn't execute his part properly tonight. For the record, this is how it's done:

Famously tough but fair questioner: Abrenuntiatis farrakhanae? (Do you renounce Farrakhan?)
Liberal black officeseeker: Abrenuntio.

Famously tough but fair questioner: Et omnibus operibus eius? (And all his works?)

Liberal black officeseeker: Abrenuntio.

Famously tough but fair questioner: Et omnibus pompis eius? (And all his pomps?)

Liberal black officeseeker: Abrenuntio.

Very well then. Next time, let’s hope the Obama camp performs the ritual correctly. And here's another reader with a timely followup!

Dear Mister Answer Man: Gee, that question-and-answer thing you've cited above seems awfully ornate. And it would seem to pose quite a dilemma for America’s black politicians! Tell me, is there a similar ritual for when conservative white officeseekers are endorsed by dangerous religious zealots who urge their followers to “Pray that additional vacancies occur within the Supreme Court” and to “Take authority over the schemes of Satan concerning the Supreme Court”? –G. Myrdal, Sweden

Mister Answer Man replies: Hell, no! What are you trying to do with this cheap, transparent kind of guilt-by-association? That's not the way America conducts a debate. You obviously don’t know very much about this country, Mr. Myrdal (if that is your real name), and as far as I'm concerned you can just take your little “gotcha” race-baiting question right back to Swedenistan where it belongs.






http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/02/26/mister_answer_man_special_deba/

[katandmoon]

1. The analogy between Obama/Farrahkan and Clinton/Coulter is extremely lame

But I suspect you knew that.

Obama has a deep relationship with his pastor, whose head is very far up Farrahkan's ass. That makes Obama one VERY slight degree away from Farrahkan.

As far as I know, Hillary has NO personal relationship with anyone whose head is far up Coulter's ass. Coulter's "endorsement" of Hillary was infinitely less an endorsement of Hillary than an attempt to attack McCain. Coulter has made it obvious by less recent statements in which she trashed both Hillary (and Bill) Clinton what she REALLY thinks of Hillary Clinton. Using Hillary to attack McCain is merely an attempt to kill two birds Coulter despises with one stone.

[KittyWampus]

2. so you can't tell parody when it stares you in the face? And that was another thread

[katandmoon]

4. It's not possible to discern parody on DU anymore -- Obamaniacs have dragged it down too far

[fishwax]

3. that is pretty funny

:)

[KittyWampus]

5. kick for funny (I think)

[A-Schwarzenegger]

6. Kick for awfully ornate.