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In her never ending stream of un-snopes checked revelations, and simple (in every sense) neo-theo-cro-magno-thuggery, my sister forwarded me this lovely bit sent to her by a serious Widestance Hack. Afterward is my response...
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> This guy wants to be our President and control our government. Below are a few lines from Obama's books " his words:
> Pay close attention to the last comment!!
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> From Dreams of My Father: "I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites."
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> From Dreams of My Father : "I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mothers race."
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> From Dreams of My Father: "There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white."
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> From Dreams of My Father: ; "It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names."
> < BR>From Dreams of My Father: "I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela."
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> From Audacity of Hope: "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
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Perhaps it is the perspective of a bastard child, but I have absolutely zero problems with any of those snippets.
I have no expectation of religious morality from my president. But I do expect rigorous ethics, and a personality that analyzes the world with a certain clinical detachment, such as we see in the above out of context snippets. None of my preferred qualities are present in GWBush, but lots of religiosity, for sure. I think even the most forgiving analysis of his two administrations still in the end must conclude that his watch was a cosmic Charlie Foxtrot.
Read this as a narrative of a progression, a coming of age and self identity. It is not a half white identity because without doubt, white society in the main did not say to themselves, what a nice young, half white man there.
These are the obvious ruminations of a man trying to come to terms with his biracial identity. Most whites in this society don't have to struggle for acceptance and identity. These sentiments, coming from who they come from, are quite inspiring.
Barack might well be the first actual middle class American president since Eisenhower, and more in the image of Truman. But I, who never felt much like I belonged anywhere after the age of 6 or 7 until adulthood, understand what young Barry must have been feeling as he puzzled out his place in a world that did not start out with a place marked out for him. To think that his association with his father, and even perhaps his father's faith is somehow suspect betrays a far too simplistic understanding of Islam. John McCain calls a racist, xenophobic anti-semitic, anti catholic mouth breather his spiritual mentor. Where is the concern about that?
If George Walker Bush could have written a lucid narrative regarding being the child of indifferent, sadistic and alcoholic parents, struggling with fetal alcohol syndrome-- his own sexual confusion, cocaine addiction. alcoholism, and its causing him to be in derelection of duty from the Alabama Air National Guard, we might be in an entirely different world right now.
It's not like he doesn't have problems unresolved from childhood. Richard Nixon said "Nobody can hate like Barbara Bush.'
We need to stand with the Muslims, just not the whackjob Muslims. You know, those would be our current so called allies in th one hundred year's war on an abstract noun. The state of Israel (as opposed to Jews in general) is NOT our ally. The Royal House of Saud is not our ally, no mater how many times the titular head kissed Dubya on the mouth.
The Saudis and the Israelis are playing ping pong with American foreign policy. I think we need to be standing with Syria, Iran, Turkey and Lebanon. The other three besides Iran are semi secular to totally secular states. They have common interests and enemies. They all need to deal with the Kurds newfound wealth and enhanced ability to create a Kurdish state in northern Iraq .
Together they would moderate Iran AND figure out a common U.N. acceptable policy regarding the Kurds. But those who use internet sources like BBC online for news know all this.
Between the Israelis, Kurds, Saudis and the Pakistanis, we are in a very bad place, vis a vis not being in the middle of a nuclear war. Ironic that we are rattling our sabers at the Iranians, who are not at the moment nuclear according the the CIA, and not at the above, who are*, whether they admit it or not. India is also a big nuke power, but they have only one real target and it ain't us.
BTW, having an oilman pres and veep is not providing us with the promised cheap gas. Wholly unexpectedly, the electing of two charlatan oil industry execs funded directly or indirectly by Wahabbist money has resulted in profit so obscene for the oil industry that Jabba the Exxon CEO now requires a prosthetic brace for his additional three chins. It is rumored that to celebrate this years windfall profit he ate an entire Angolan village, goats and all.
The Iranians currently are ambivalent about us not because the have been smokin too much sharia law, but because when they decided they owned their own oil, not BP, the CIA deposed their president and set up a brutal dictator, the Shaw Reza Pahlavi, who terrorized them for two generations with our aid and blessing.
Their civilization under its old name, Persia, fought a protracted land and naval war with the Greeks at a time when our ancestors were mostly naked, gathering coal off the beach, and tin to sell to the Phoenician traders who in good weather sailed as far as Erin with trade beads and tomahawks in essence.
We were worshipping the Tuatha de Danaan and hacking our inventory of cows on the edges of rocks at the point they were reading Homer AND the Bahavad Gita.
We are about to nuke them for no damn reason at all. Or rather, no reason we can admit to the rest of the world. Or ourselves, for that matter.
So what I gather from the forwarded post is that I should fear the black man lusting after the white house.
And the white boie sings, 'Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran...'
love,
RealP
* not 100% sure about the Kurds, but I assume that AQ Khan has nuclearized much of the Sunni Islamic world by now.
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