Dude

“One of the creepy things about our ‘need to have a conversation about race’ is the assumption that whites can somehow make blacks feel better, or be happier, or be more self-accepting. Nobody has the power to do that, except what individuals do for themselves, one person at a time.”

The phrase as applied to the Senator could also mean that there is nothing behind that hat that he will reveal to anyone. This is nothing new with him. His refusal to take a stand on policy issues on the campaign trail in Pennsylvania in 2008 is consistent with how he conducted himself when he was in Law School at Harvard , where he was elected President of the Law Review

“He then and now is very hard to pin down,” said Kenneth Mack, a classmate and now a professor at the law school, referring to the senator’s on-the-one-hand, on-the-other-hand style.
Charles J. Ogletree Jr., another Harvard law professor and a mentor of Mr. Obama, said, “He can enter your space and organize your thoughts without necessarily revealing his own concerns and conflicts.”

From Law School to the campaign trail, we are witnessing someone who finds it exceedingly difficult to take a stand, for fear of alienating a potential supporter.

Hope! Change!

Change! Hope!

I don’t imagine Obama will take a much different view than this.

I can’t wait to hear what Dr. Sowell has to say about Dr. Rice’s remarks. Especially her remarks about throwing in her support for George Bush back in 2000 because of the No Child Left Behind Act, which I consider to be a boondoggle, letting the foxes to continue to guard the henhouse. Dr. Rice’s remarks some months ago about paralleling the Paleosimians with blacks in the Jim Crow South were also revealing at her historical lacunae.

OK, here comes the flames from Matt. No, I haven’t parsed every word out of Mr. and Mrs. Obama’s mouths. I will leave that task to Matt.

In the absence of contrary evidence, I think I’ll vote for a severe case of black anomie combined with contemporary politics (sleaze). It’s common for someone struggling with identity to embrace extremism, an identity with the boldest outlines. I think race is a fiction, and don’t have a good way to express this notion, but bear with me: “half-breeds” recoil against that “half” which considers them contaminated. If one drop of Negro or Indian blood excludes you from being white, you are very likely to be black or red with a vengeance, no matter what color you are.

That is who I think Obama is, a victim of anomie, trying to sleaze his way through politics, clutching to an identity of blacker than black, hoping no one will notice how light he actually is. Would he die to protect his family, friends, or others, or run away and hide? I don’t know (I hope I never know) and prefer to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Either race doesn’t matter or IT DOES MATTER and we have racial preferences — but it’s intellectually offensive to have it both ways at the same time while claiming moral superiority on top of THAT.

Kevin

Cringe? Over trivia like that? Hell, if he had to deal with China or Iran or even southern Senators, he’d plotz.

No thanks.

I’ve thought this myself for quite a while and it seems to be turning into a consensus among conservatives. What does it say about the other Democratic candidates that they either didn’t notice it or wouldn’t address it for all these months? The material from Jeremiah Wright’s sermons has been readily available, along with Obama’s calling him his mentor, yet it just comes out when he’s almost sealed up the nomination!

I think Barack’s not the only one with a lack of courage.

Further, affirmative action is a particularly weak place to make either argument. Even Republican politicians have almost all be been afraid to actually come out against affirmative action, even in places such as Michigan, where the voters themselves (and not just Republican voters) have decided to end it through referendum.

He is hiding behind a false face and he lies to protect the person he actually is. He tries to be all things to all people.. insecure lying coward

“Had the reverend not retired and had he not acknowledged that what he had said had deeply offended people and were inappropriate and mischaracterized what I believe is the greatness of this country, for all its flaws, then I wouldn’t have felt comfortable staying there at the church,”

–Barak Hussien Obama

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/obama-suggests-ex-pastor-is-contrite/n20080328164909990069?ecid=RSS0001

What courage…

“…nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

Our Constituiton does not grant us rights, it constrains and limits the powers of the government. We are either governed under the rule of law or we are not. If we are not governed by the rule of law then we are ruled by the whim of man, not really very far removed from the divine right of kings.

[Note from neo-neocon: that commenter has been banned.]

I call this the “Spock” syndrome. (Spock was half Human. He was more Vulcan than most Vulcans.)

I’ve noticed: most of the folks who are obsessed with “black”ness think Obama isn’t black, BECAUSE he has that white blood in him.

I’ve got Indian blood in me.
I’ve got slave blood in me. (true, said slaves were in Ireland, but a slave is a slave)
My family does go a bit “over” for being Irish, at least on my mother’s side, but we don’t hate ANYONE for it– we take the joy and leave the jerks, so to speak.

I think anyone who is hates/is repelled so much as to dispel the good from themselves for so stupid a reason as race or nation should NOT be given power, let alone power over those they hate/are repelled by.

2nd liar:McCain Strolls Through Baghdad Market, Accompanied By 100 Soldiers, 3 Blackhawks, 2 Apache Gunships»

3rd liar: Sen. Hillary Clinton spoke about her trip to Bosnia in 1996

The mighty godfather of lies is Bush, which horse you put your money on?

Let’s see… a guy who actually did something…
or a woman who claims she did something until it’s proven, on tape, that she’s lying through her teeth.

Also: believe someone who libels, or not … um… I’ll go with “not.”

Have you no shame?

But there are many more eyes on Obama, and this long campaign is finally starting to enlighten voters as to the character of the man.

Excellent point by Anarchus, too.

As harry McH pointed out, Obama never said he would have LEFT the church, only “ … then I wouldn’t have felt comfortable staying at the church …”.

That is a lawyerly difference, one that talks about about comfort and nothing more … as in “if the cushion wasn’t in the pew, I wouldn’t have felt comfortable sitting there”.

What a con man.

1. Why would any Jew kiss up to Jew haters?
2. How soon can I put an end to any attack?

Jews is Russia were never granted any form of affirmative action. Anti-Semitism in Russia is encouraged by the governmental institutions and is a fact of life. Now as always. In short, there is no “Jewish history months” there.
There is no mass exodus of Blacks from US. There is (and have been, as soon as government of the time allows it) mass Jewish emigration from Russia.

People of mixed Jewish/Non-Jewish heritage (what he disgustingly calls “half-bred”) deal with it in many different ways. As people of mixed ethnicity do in every country where their racial composition determines their success in life. Some display courage under fire - and become “bigger Jews than their rabbi”, some chose to join the oppressor’ side and by same psychological need to belong become even bigger fascists than Slavs. Some dodge the identity question as much as possible. I have known half-Jews of all three varieties.

Sergey had demonstrated his racist streak here before - the way he described Georgians residing in Moscow, for example, was totally appalling.

If Obama truly believes he is a “post-racial” candidate, he would oppose affirmative action because its time would have passed with his nomination, because that is proof that white people are willing to hire a black man.

Which is exactly the opposite of life blacks in US have.

Being a person of mixed Black/Non-Black racial composition in US if anything, will propel your career. You have more chances to be accepted into prestigious college than someone on equal (often - higher) academic level if (s)he is white. You have more chances to land high-paying job. And what I find hard to explain to Russians living in Russia - this attitude is not just government-prescribed. People generally are more attentive here to those they perceive as suffering side. They will cut them lots of slack, unlike to those of their own race/ethnicity.

re: racists. Funny, racism exists, but the word doesn’t, eh? Look in the mirror if you want to see a living example.

I don’t believe that Sergey is “racist.” He seems to be very thoughtful scholar who tries to understand the world as it is, not as we would like it to be. I always find his posts interesting, even though I may not agree with his conclusions.

Please don’t call someone “racist” just because you disagree with them. There are better and more convincing ways to argue with them.

I’m sure you have your reasons for your high opinion of him. I don’t. He consistently displays lack of understanding of American reality, which doesn’t stop him of giving us his evaluation and advice. I’ve seen thousands of Russians like him online - inflated sense of self-worth, self-importance, Soviet-upbringing-bias in every opinion , but delivered with astonishing confidence, although the person HAS NO CLUE.

Calling him “a scholar” is too ridiculous for criticism.

My name is spelled Tatyana. Not Tatiana.

I copy:

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September 16th, 2007

This is a nation of narcissists, very good in dancing and singing and any kind of show buisness, but hardly in anything else (except organized crime of the most malignant sort). A good half of the most heinous crimes in Moscow is performed by Georgian etnic mafia structures.

I’m not even amused. That famous Russian knack for picking up discarded Western fashion - in this case red herring-type argumentation - is too boring.

I mean, it sounds like he was scared of the idea of maybe Choudhury’s jailers having an appreciable voting block or something. And this was an issue which had the unanimous (discounting the ever discountable Ron Paul of course) support of both houses of Congress! If he lacks the courage to agree with everyone about something where “right” is this obvious, what will he do about something a little grayer??

Try that again (my friend Preview is not here!)

The lack of courage is all over Obama’s encounter with the Shoaib Choudhury
issue.

I mean, it sounds like he was scared of the idea of maybe Choudhury’s jailers having an appreciable voting block or something. And this was an issue which had the unanimous (discounting the ever discountable Ron Paul of course) support of both houses of Congress! If he lacks the courage to agree with everyone about something where “right” is this obvious, what will he do about something a little grayer??

I’ll appreciate suggestions of more relevant word.

the term “racial discrimination” shall mean any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life. ‘[1]

This definition does not make any difference between prosecutions based on ethnicity and race, in part because the distinction between the ethnicity and race remains debatable

Look to the mirror you will see shameless face!

What prove you like, a video telling the truth about her visit isn’t enough to you?.

McCain walked ten of meter in “Shorjah” market in Baghdad will all the area scured and telling it’s Iraq save, while none of Iraqi goverment can walk ten meter in any place outside Bubble Zone.

Is there more lies dude, unless they are same ilk to you?

The Bill of Rights makes explicit those rights which the framers felt were indeed human rights, innate rights of sovereign citizens, and could not be granted, and therefore could not be denied by any gosvernment. The Constitution was assumedly a contract between the federal government it established and the people. All it could state were the agreed upon powers it did or did not have Changing the contract assumedly required the permission of the people. (Yeah, right.)

Human rights seldom collide with each other, but they are often misrepresented as doing so. For example, freedom of speech or conscience is rarely such as to require abridgment. Self defense is a human right accepted even by Thomas Hobbes, and, like freedom of speech, has no counter-right with which to be in conflict. There is no right to be free from public experiences execept in the privacy of your abode. So if you don’t want to risk offensive speech, stay home. However, there are civil rights which have to do with relationships among people which sometimes derive from exercising human rights. While the government can’t forbid the expression of ideas, it can regulate time, place and manner to protect civil rights–which may frequently conflict. You may have a right to taking your turn on the soap box in the park oratory. You may not have a right to use a loud speaker everyone in the park can hear because of their right to be be sufficiently free of you to enjoy the park.

Human rights conflicts usually arise when politicians and political jocks want to sacrifice human rights for political ends. Hate speech and hate crimes are a case in point: Any way you cut it, when you punish someone for their emotions or attitudes regarding others, you create an Orwellian government punishing thought crimes and create political prisoners. Such legislation is patently unconstitutional, whether by the feds or, under the 14A, by the states and local governments.

I disagree that human rights are often in conflict; civil rights frequently are often in conflict and are properly handled by governments. Human right conflicts–as in PC thought control efforts–are usually the result of distortions and political machinations.

I’m of the notion that if something costs other people money , then it isn’t a human right.

Or .. If you can’t have it on a desert island, then it isn’t a human right.

read comments # 14,15,16
http://iperceive.net/obama-odinga-the-kenyan-jihad/