Obama, The African Colonial »
Posted By btatman22 2 months, 1 week ago in Political OpinionHad Americans been able to stop obsessing over the color of Barack Obama's skin and instead paid more attention to his cultural identity, maybe he would not be in the White House today. The key to understanding him lies with his identification with his father, and his adoption of a cultural and political mindset rooted in postcolonial Africa...
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plowshare2 months, 1 week ago
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CRYMTYPHON2 months, 1 week ago
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This was a breathtaking work of genius,
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broad in its scope and titanic in its implications.
Those who will insist it is a poorly written
piece of hate mail from people obsessed
with Obama and unable to come to terms with
his presidency, would do well to remember the words
of Churchill as he looked out over the lawns of the fair
estate of British freedoms in the twilight of the
empire and noticed the sewers of London overflowing
into Downing street with debrie from europe's
degraded future, and spoke to the Queen those immortal words,
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vor2 months, 1 week ago
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It did open for me. What a pathetic xenophobic rant. This is pure hatred without a shred of truth. It is why there is no argument with you goons. It is why I hold back no venom when addressing you. You don't deserve to tread the ground of this country. Do you really think Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Franklin, any of the Founding Fathers, would support your actions? You are simply taking advantage of the freedoms America provides. You mock the idea of free speech with this tripe. If such a rant took place in a country run by an African dictator you would not be fogging a mirror tomorrow. Here under Obama you live and breathe freely.
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It is why I warned my mother not to put an Obama sticker on her car. She has such belief in the good of man. Yet she was brought to reality the other day when she was leaving the hospital after some tests. One of your ilk approached her and asked "Is this your car?" She innocently said "Yes, it is". To which this pathetic piece of garbage then asked her, "How is your nig--r President doing?" You hide nothing by the fact you don't actually use that word in this article.
This is all now far behind anything related to some of comments from the Far Left about Bush. There is no pretense to the racism. No pretense to the hate. No humor whatsoever involved, only hate. I see it everyday in my local paper and hear it on occasion at my work. It takes unreal restraint not to respond. I have to read or hear some moron compare a US President to Hitler or Idi Amin. To insult history in such a manner is by itself atrocious. But there is also zero reality to such a comparison. It boggles my mind that anyone could support such talk but there are plenty. My mental image of you is nothing more than a white sheet with eyes and a length of rope in hand.
Btatman22 you have no shame. You have no morals, no scruples, no respect for common decency. You are a despicable human being. "Fresh Conservative"? This is what conservatism has come to? You and the other wastes of DNA that propped this article would never hesitate to call yourselves "patriots" when nothing could be further from the truth. Seditious, libel spewing traitors is far more correct.-
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plowshare2 months, 1 week ago
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vor, you obviously feel very strongly about the article, but how about actually addressing the content? That's what I was hoping to see someone do, and so far I have been severely disappointed, not just in you but in everyone else who dissed the article and btatman.
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Do you even have a clue as to what colonialism in Africa was like? What the attitudes were of the white elite and, especially, of the Africans who wanted to rise to the top? The article makes some fairly sweeping and detailed comments about these things. Can you?
I have to admit, I cannot. And I am completely open-minded about what the article is saying. If it is crap, tell me how, and I promise you, I'll read your contribution just as intently as I did the article--and maybe praise yours and agree with it, rather than with the article.
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plowshare2 months, 1 week ago
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An article can be breathtaking in its scope and still be very misleading and full of errors. I would rate the Communist Manifesto that way, for instance. But unlike with the Communist Manifesto, I have no in-depth knowledge of African society that would serve to either confirm or refute what the article is saying.
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Do you?
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Will13132 months, 1 week ago
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funny looking around the blog. i see Ted Nugent as a PATRIOT..
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considering his statements regarding how he avoided service in Vietnam a prime example of a modern Republican hero
An interviewer from the British newspaper The Independent questioned Nugent about a 1977 interview in High Times magazine in which Nugent allegedly detailed elaborate steps taken to avoid the Vietnam draft.[32]
"I got 30 days' notice of the physical," Nugent told them. "I ceased cleansing my body. Two weeks before the test I stopped eating food with nutritional value. A week before, I stopped going to the bathroom. I did it in my pants. My pants got crusted up." [32]
Nugent dismissed the veracity of these statements, saying "You've got to realize that these interviewers would arrive with glazed eyes and I would make stories up." He explained that he did not go to Vietnam because he had a one-year student deferment. When questioned, he admitted that he had "not wanted to get his ass blown off in Vietnam," but made note of a tour he made with the USO in 2004 to Fallujah and Afghanistan as support of his assertion that "I am not a coward." He also said that "Because I failed to serve in Vietnam, I feel an obligation now, to do everything I can to support those defending our freedom. Do I feel guilt and embarrassment? Yes
A GUY WHO CRAPPED IN HIS PANTS FOR A WEEK.. YEP THAT'S A PATRIOT.
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ForrestPhelps2 months, 1 week ago
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Well, I'm glad you liked the article. About the only thought it provoked in my mind is this:
Why, after spending most of the article describing what an ACP is, does the writer (in the end) use but one example?
That of the British, in 1914.
(And even then, it's just the author's conjecture, absent of any footnote to facts).
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ForrestPhelps2 months, 1 week ago
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Well, I'm glad you liked the article. About the only thought it provoked in my mind is this:
Why, after spending most of the article describing what an ACP is, does the writer (in the end) use but one example?
That of the British, in 1914.
(And even then, it's just the author's conjecture, absent of any footnote to facts).
[this is the bit to make the second identical post no be construed as SPAM - ignore it]
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CRYMTYPHON2 months, 1 week ago
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Pink panties!
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And in a wad again.
Why is always in a wad?
But the pink is original, at least.
Probably not original by you,
- but at least someone is tinkering with the cliches.
And who the heck is attacking?
You propp a poison pen letter to our prez;
we are laughing at it.
But we are not picturing you
in pink panties; that's just gross.
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plowshare2 months, 1 week ago
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Lame? how so?
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It makes an assertion which the rest of the article attempts to support. The margin of Obama's victory (which wasn't a landslide of 1932 proportions) came, I think, largely on the basis of two words: hope and change. Anyone reading the article and agreeing with it would say those two words were hollow indeed.
Do I agree with it? No, I am agnostic about it, and if what I've read so far in this Comments section is typical of what is to come, I may forever remain agnostic about it.
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sinophil492 months, 1 week ago
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With all due respect to the African heritage and to the hard work of the authoress that earned her a degree of success in the USA, she is writing nonsense and psychological non sequiturs.
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She likes to write in seeming contradictions to make herself sound more profound, like some mystical gurus.
"Of course, none of this qualifies me to say what I am about to -- but it does."
"Obama Sr. was enraged at the transformation of his native land by its colonial conqueror. But instead of embracing the traditional values of his own tribal cultural past, he embraced an imported Western ideology,.."
She also asserts that Obama Sr. was so influential and transformative in Obama Jr.'s life without so much as a whiff of proof. Obama Sr. was an episodic figure in Jr's first 3 years of life and then he divorced the mother and disappeared almost completely from his life. How in the world could an absent father figure impose such a profound influence? If anything, Mr Soetero, the stepfather, was a more constant figure in Obama's young life.
Then she goes on to make claims to be the sole arbiter of what Obama is really thinking of and wants to do.
"..despite what CNN and the rest are telling you, Obama is nothing but an old school African Colonial..."
"Barack Obama is intrinsically undemocratic and as his presidency plays out, this will become more obvious."
Well how does she know all this if 1) CNN and the rest say the opposite of what she is saying; and 2) his being undemocratic still has not surfaced and will only show up in the future "as his presidency plays out." Really? How do you know?
Then she offers tantalizing little hints of darkness - "Obama's Muslim heritage" - without actually saying that Obama was or is a Muslim.
Another dark little secret is Obama's "African socialism," that will result in a "complete power grab whereby the 'will of the people' becomes completely irrelevant."
Oh, please. She is so full of pseudo intellectual phrases and psychobabble without proof, without revelation of any actual acts of Obama that support her claims.
This is what passes for deep thought among the rabid anti-Obama haters. The other fact that provides a sheen of legitimacy without reality is the fact that she is from Africa.
By gosh, she must know what she is talking about if she is from Africa!! Obama must REALLY be a power-grabbing socialist.
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DenCuddy2 months, 1 week ago
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Sino, you are assuming the writer is actually an east African woman. I have found no proof that the author with that name actually exists. If it's a pen name, why hide your self from your opinions? My guess is that some hack in the Heritage Foundation wrote it and posts a false bio to give it credibility.
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JamesMarcus2 months, 1 week ago
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Oh, I see. So if I visited Odessa to connect with my own family's roots, that would make me--a Russian. And not only a Russian, but a vicious Commie, intent on destroying America's kulaks and putting the torch to free enterprise. The article is rhetorical nonsense. Of course post-colonial African despots are a horrifying bunch, just like their European counterparts. But Obama's not a despot, he's an elected leader who will be shown the door if he fails. Do you really think that, say, Idi Amin would have found it so difficult to sell a public health care option to the Ugandan public?
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BB642 months, 1 week ago
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Actually, if your family came from Odessa, it might make you an imperialist. During the Revolution, that region saw Lenin and Stalin murder many. What wasn't destroyed, deported or enslaved by them were most likely killed by the Germans in WW2. So if you're from that region, you're probably not a "commie."
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As to the article, it's actually well written and thought out. One item not mentioned has to do with Winston Churchill. A bust of Churchill has been in the White House for many years. Obama sent it to storage replacing it with one of Lincoln. While I have no problem with either men, I did find out his reasoning. It seems he doesn't like Churchill because he father didn't like him. Something about the Empire and colonialism or something. Just found it funny he didn't like Churchill so he put a Republican up instead. Must not have any Dems busts available.
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fsev412 months, 1 week ago
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Charlson2 months, 1 week ago
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Another article of conjecture and fiction that is being passed off as, now let's see if I can get this correct:
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"The article is breathtaking in its scope and implications."
"Hell id prop it 50 times if i could."
"Great article. Thought-provoking, interesting, and worthy of discussion, not attack without fundament."
"As to the article, it's actually well written and thought out."
Sad, this is what the right has evolved into, a gaggle of delusional, ignorant puppets of conspiracy theories about Obama.-
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plowshare2 months, 1 week ago
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I could run off a series of quotes from participants who dissed the article, and they would look no better--in fact, worse, because I for one am making no pretense at actually knowing enough to critique the article. They seem to be totally confident that they know it is a piece of crap. And that's only one of the mildest things they said about the article. Only sinophil49 rises above this crowd.
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You are reading too much into my words, to the point of foolishly making me out to be a puppet of conspiracy theories about Obama. Like I said in my earlier replies, I have a totally open mind about this article. Sinophil has pointed out some of its shortcomings. I hope they induce the author, L.E. Ikenga, to either support the piece with some data and references, or send a message thru btataman retracting it.
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btatman222 months, 1 week ago
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Some folks seem to think the author of this intellectual article is racist. I couldn't disagree more, and she has real-world experience in what she writes about. Not understanding what you read is no excuse for running your mouth about the content of the article. Here's a link to L.E. Ikenga's article: http://www.freshconservative.com/Fresh_Conservativ...
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Racist! D'oh!
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