Obama...a racist??Interesting article..

Ok,granted,its written by Ann Coulter,who I consider to be a bit looney,more than a bit. But,these are quotes taken out of his book. The book he wrote. And,yes,Ive been an Obama supporter,as I feel the other possible candidates dont hold a candle to him. BUT. I think this deserves a little scrutiny. Has anyone on here read his book? Again,not my words...dont kill the messenger..

 

Obama's Dimestore 'Mein Kampf'

By Ann Coulter
Thursday, April 3, 2008

If characters from "The Hills" were to emote about race, I imagine it would sound like B. Hussein Obama's autobiography, "Dreams From My Father."

Has anybody read this book? Inasmuch as the book reveals Obama to be a flabbergasting lunatic, I gather the answer is no. Obama is about to be our next president: You might want to take a peek. If only people had read "Mein Kampf" ...

Nearly every page -- save the ones dedicated to cataloguing the mundane details of his life -- is bristling with anger at some imputed racist incident. The last time I heard this much race-baiting invective I was ... in my usual front-row pew, as I am every Sunday morning, at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.

Obama tells a story about taking two white friends from the high school basketball team to a "black party." Despite their deep-seated, unconscious hatred of blacks, the friends readily accepted. At the party, they managed not to scream the N-word, but instead "made some small talk, took a couple of the girls out on the dance floor."

But with his racial hair-trigger, Obama sensed the whites were not comfortable because "they kept smiling a lot." And then, in an incident reminiscent of the darkest days of the Jim Crow South ... they asked to leave after spending only about an hour at the party! It was practically an etiquette lynching!

So either they hated black people with the hot, hot hate of a thousand suns, or they were athletes who had come to a party late, after a Saturday night basketball game.

In the car on the way home, one of the friends empathizes with Obama, saying: "You know, man, that really taught me something. I mean, I can see how it must be tough for you and Ray sometimes, at school parties ... being the only black guys and all."

And thus Obama felt the cruel lash of racism! He actually writes that his response to his friend's perfectly lovely remark was: "A part of me wanted to punch him right there."

Listen, I don't want anybody telling Obama about Bill Clinton's "I feel your pain" line.

Wanting to punch his white friend in the stomach was the introductory anecdote to a full-page psychotic rant about living by "the white man's rules." (One rule he missed was: "Never punch out your empathetic white friend after dragging him to a crappy all-black party.")

Obama's gaseous disquisition on the "white man's rules" leads to this charming crescendo: "Should you refuse this defeat and lash out at your captors, they would have a name for that, too, a name that could cage you just as good. Paranoid. Militant. Violent. N-----."

For those of you in the "When is Obama gonna play the 'N-word' card?" pool, the winner is ... Page 85! Congratulations!

When his mother expresses concern about Obama's high school friend being busted for drugs, Obama says he patted his mother's hand and told her not to worry.

This, too, prompted Obama to share with his readers a life lesson on how to handle white people: "It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied, they were relieved -- such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn't seem angry all the time."

First of all, I note that this technique seems to be the basis of Obama's entire presidential campaign. But moreover -- he was talking about his own mother! As Obama says: "Any distinction between good and bad whites held negligible meaning." Say, do you think a white person who said that about blacks would be a leading presidential candidate?

The man is stark bonkersville.

He says the reason black people keep to themselves is that it's "easier than spending all your time mad or trying to guess whatever it was that white folks were thinking about you."

Here's a little inside scoop about white people: We're not thinking about you. Especially WASPs. We think everybody is inferior, and we are perfectly charming about it.

In college, Obama explains to a girl why he was reading Joseph Conrad's 1902 classic, "Heart of Darkness": "I read the book to help me understand just what it is that makes white people so afraid. Their demons. The way ideas get twisted around. I helps me understand how people learn to hate."

By contrast, Malcolm X's autobiography "spoke" to Obama. One line in particular "stayed with me," he says. "He spoke of a wish he'd once had, the wish that the white blood that ran through him, there by an act of violence, might somehow be expunged."

Forget Rev. Jeremiah Wright -- Wright is Booker T. Washington compared to this guy

 

Your thoughts?

Uh yes, Ann Coulter---the 'woman' who thinks the solution to the Middle East conflict is to bomb the place and convert everyone to Christianity...I cannnot believe you would even quote this flipping wing nut.

Just remember that Ann Coulter is a loony--a very smart loony, but still a loony.  And I am a life long Republican but cannot abide those on the fringe.  Things sure can be taken out of context.

 

Barb

I think it is a moot point to attempt to gauge the intelligence of someone who is insane.

Of course he's a racist. It doesnt take Ann Coulter to point that out.

Of course---and so are Hillary and McCain...but no one mentions their racist leanings. 

Hmm.  I read "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" in high school, and it spoke to me about isolation and alienation.  And I think that many white people are afraid of black people (and I think that Ann Coulter is afraid of black presidents).  I can understand someone who has felt prejudice all his life being frustrated at someone claiming to understand his experience based on one hour of being a minority.

Does that mean I'm black?  I don't look black.

I have read it too and found it to be stark and blatantly honest. 

I love it when people say "I have a black friend so I know what they go through" therefore I am not a Racist............ To pull out of context is a ploy used by many without original thoughts of their own. Ann Coulter is about as far,far,far out there in everything she writes,thinks or does and a hater of any and all things not like herself, she is a reactionary writer deliberately promoting dissension for the sake of dissension.

 My thoughts...your first 7 words explained the whole article.

 

MOMTLJK:

Ok,granted,its written by Ann Coulter

I think the woman says these outlandish things just to draw attention to herself. Media whore. 

So far, it seems people have largely lashed out at Ann Coulter, completely ignoring Obama's own words.  It's a stretch to say these words were "taken out of context," or outlandish, they are his own -- how dare she quote his book!  And, btw, it IS the way he has handled his entire campaign.... 

 

Who will admit that if you swapped racial roles, these same words, reversed for color, would be condemned as racist?  Obama is much more subtle and really trying to backpedal the race issue but he's as much as a racist as Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson -- people who believe that the ONLY problem blacks have, or will ever have, is white people, that only white people are racist. 

 

I teach in a county that is largely rural with a WHOLE lot of white kids from poor, uneducated backgrounds.  Unfortunately, their parents may be meth addicts, in jail, or whatever, DFCS is busy here and scores are raised by grandparents who probably worked, or work, in mills, if they have a job at all.  For them, there is no United White College Fund, no black man to blame for their poverty, lack of education, addiction problems, broken & fragmented families, lack of a viable father figure, ignorance, or joblessness.  But with someone sharing Obama's or Al's or Jesse's outlook, black people who have these problems have only "white society" to blame.

 

 And that's not someone I want for a president.

 I see nothing wrong with the excerpts from his book. Just what is the problem? I fail to see how any of those remarks make him a racist. 

I could take excerpts from a book that George Bush would write put my spin on his every word and rip it apart too. 

To me,  she either prefaces a paragraph from his book or adds to a paragraph from his book....with her opinion and spin of what he meant.  How brilliant is that on her part?

She hates Obama, so don't vote for him.  I hate her president, GWB. So it looks like were even.

Oh BTW...I need to add to what I said earlier, "I could take excerpts from a book that George Bush would write..." but I need to stop there cuz that man couldn't write a book unless it was about dot-to-dot or a coloring book on ranches.

:)

I don't think whether or not you like Ann Coulter is the issue here.  Seems to me all of her "facts" can be looked up to see if they are in fact true.  If I were an Obama supporter, which I'm not, I would certainly look into those claims because they should have you at least questioning him.