I’m convinced we’re about to see a giant "Obama effect" on the culture: that win or lose, Obama’s values of global awareness, community law, and racial justice have already been inhaled by his faithful and are going to be reflected in the media, corporate life, public policy, on down the line. Well tonight’s "60 Minutes" had two Obama effect stories: 1, a stirring piece on a project to free Dallas men wrongfully imprisoned through the long-ago efforts of a racist railroading D.A. named Wade. Some of these men were incarcerated for 20+ years. 2, A piece on Paul Farmer, the doctor who built a hospital in central Haiti 25 years ago and has gone on to provide health care to Third World peoples everywhere. Both pieces featured black victims of unfairness. Both featured idealists–doctors, volunteers for a Dallas justice project–who would work for nothing in order to help others. Both stories were tear-jerkers that made you want to smash the world our parents gave us. I know: classic "60 Minutes" investigations. But back-to-back, and black, it’s the Obama Effect. About time!
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ODE TO OBAMA (Third Ed.)
by Publius II
There once was a man named Obama
His life began with drama
An African Muslim father
And a wild white mama
Obama’s white grandparents
They gave him a charmed life
Raised on the beaches of Hawaii
Far from ghetto strife
He went to private schools
Fourteen thousand dollars a year
Working-class white folks
They were nowhere near
He attended Columbia
Then Harvard Law
A very soft and liberal upbringing
Something Americans eventually saw
He then went to Chicago
Nation of Islam, Farrakhan, Black Panthers and Jackson
The only friends he made
All from the extreme left-wing faction
He joined a radical church
His Pastor downright insane
Blacks and whites, he said
Think with different parts of their brain
His church praised a man named Cone
With hateful opinions he was filled
He said white people were “the devil”
And Gods who love whites must be killed
Obama first ran for State Senate
With permission from Chicago’s Marxist King
A domestic terrorist named Ayers
Obama kissed his ring
He wrote a book called “Dreams From My Father”
From start to finish a racist rant
After people finally read it
They later said: “Obama, no we can’t”
He wrote how he rejected his mother’s race
And that Malcolm X was a hero
People had a clear warning
Obama was a dangerous zero
He was then elected to the U.S. Senate
Obama’s ego grew very bold
He barely served a year
I will run for President was the story he told
He spent millions to stage rallies
The crowds would yell and cheer
But then it all fizzled after he said
Typical white folks cling to religion, guns and beer
His wife said America was mean
She was never really proud
Her Black Separatist thesis at Princeton
Became a campaign cloud
People said he was a Muslim
His supporters scoffed and jeered
Then his Black Liberation Church was exposed
And Obama’s ugly head was reared
He tried to recover in a speech on race
The radical left-wing media offered raves
But he said white folks had an “untrained ear”
And abolitionists in Pennsylvania turned over in their graves
He claimed to be a uniter
He would bring people together all at once
But after his speech in Philadelphia
He proved to be a demographic dunce
He tried once more to persuade whites
But his bowling was a mess
He rolled a 37
Like a 5-year-old girl in a sundress
He then played basketball
He drove the ball to the rack
But when all was said and done
He looked like an old man having a heart attack
He said damn those white voters
Their Mutual Funds I will tax
I’ll double the capital gains rate
And deliver yet another smack
He wouldn’t cover his heart
As the National Anthem played
It’s a meaningless gesture he said
But Americans felt betrayed
He wouldn’t wear a flag pin
It was against his One World view
It doesn’t matter he said
And the American people stewed
He first called terrorist Ayers his friend
Then said this man he didn’t really know
More deceit and cover-ups
Obama’s lies began to grow
Farrakhan, Jackson and Sharpton
Three of Obama’s greatest fans
He tried hiding them in the closet
So not to further offend the white man
Then came his anti-American Pastor
Obama’s mentor for 20 years
He preened, shucked and jived
White people rose up and sneered
NBC and the New York Times
They tried each day to save Obama’s campaign
But real Americans said “FU”
And Obama spiraled down the drain
The radical left-wing Democrats
A Presidential race lost once again
Is it really a surprise
(continued)
They've lost 7 of the last 10?
"I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe."
-Barak Obama
The man refuses to trash his preacher because he must "keep it real." But he has no problem bashing whitey grandma.
However, once the Rev became too hot, he cuts his throat. Obama is indeed cold. He is a typical fucking politician who will do anything to get elected, just like the Clintons.
He trashes his grandmom, his preacher, and has licked the boots of AIPAC.
Obama can't wait to intervene in Darfur. I'm sure he'd relish the sight of pale skinned Army Rangers being killed in a civil war of zero consequence to America.
Just as David Frum and Richard Perle get hard-ons at the thought of goyish American soldiers killing and dying for the benefit of Israel.
Cone's theology was explained at Salon today. (or recently). He's not a white-hater. But people will believe what they want to believe.
I should add that I'm not defending Cone because I respect Obama. I think it's obvious Obama is lying about his knowledge of his pastor's opinions. I don't find all those opinions all that shocking (though some are dumb). Obama's lies bother me more than Wright's understandable belief that a government which used blacks as laboratory rats might have tried to exterminate them too.
One other point–from what little I know about the man, I strongly suspect Paul Farmer despises Obama and sides with Wright. Farmer is an advocate of liberation theology.