American Conservative has a great post on how the late William F Buckley Jr called for the redemption of the American democratic promise thru the election of a black president, by 1980. Not for blacks, but for all of us. Very rad. (TAC says salvific–have to look that up!) Wherever you are Bill–it's happening! And we are all about to be transformed by it in ways we can hardly imagine. Even my Zionist bloods! Dontcha love this country?
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On the other hand, the Black Jesus, Gods gift to the world, The One. Might actually lose.
At the very least, a black President might be less susceptible to manipulation via Holocaust Religion (the Holocult).
Judonian agents have recently put a lot of effort into integrating Arabs into the Holocaust framework. (See also Robert Satloff — note that with Firefox you will have to search for Satloff.)
Blacks are relatively quiescent on the issue, but there is a lot of anger that USHMM has a site on the Mall while there is no memorial to enslaved African Americans.
Would Deval Patrick be so willing to visit a racist apartheid state if an African American President made Massachusetts African Americans less dependent on Zionist Jewish gatekeepers and facilitators in obtaining federal funds? I have to wonder.
Buckley was thinking Clarence Thomas, not Barack Obama. All that is beside the point. Japan is more likely to elect a Korean president than the USA is likely to elect a Black man. It's not going to happen
Buckley was wrong about many things. My soul doesn't need salve, and if a black candidate comes along that I like, I will vote for him. But I see no reason to vote for a black because he is black. I have a hard time finding a reason to vote at all.
Who was Buckley to talk about the souls of white Americans, as out of touch as he was?
Between the WWII generation and the Boomers, I can't decide which group has done more harm this nation.
MCain is now 5 points ahead. Obama will never win. You've put all your eggs in one basket.
What were those fundamental errors from The Princess Bride?
salvific=having the intent or power to save or redeem
I agree with Joachim's point about a black president, at least this candidate. I really don't think we should be voting for a war with
Iran and Syria, backed by Russia and China, especially while we are being bled at home and in Iraq and Afghanistan. McCain-Lieberman (as VP, or Sec of Defense or other high security post) is a truly horrifying notion.
I agree with Todd, except my opinion is the Boomers have had considerably less justification then the "greatest generation."
I also agree with Joachim's point about there being no memorial on the DC Mall acknowledging slavery–you'd think the Holocaust happened in the USA, and Ol' Dixie was actually located in Europe.
Shelby Steele recently said something similar. He said the election of Obama would be seen as an "expiation" for white sins – as the ultimate manifestation and realization of civil rights in modern America.
I was recently in the Middle East, and most people accepted this explanation. It truly would be an expiation, and a tonic for the white soul in relation to the white American populace. Obama is giving a very cheap bargain – elect me, I am not that scary, I am half white, I am not a radical black nationalist – and in return your souls will feel better because you will realize the hope of America.
"Obama is giving a very cheap bargain – elect me, I am not that scary, I am half white, I am not a radical black nationalist – and in return your souls will feel better because you will realize the hope of America."
I know that many people disagree with me,
but I don't believe that I need to be forgiven for anything. And I don't believe that Obama should be the elected just because he is black. I don't believe that he or McCain is up to the challenges that are facing America, and to constantly wallow in the civil rights era is just plain stupid at this point.
Also, Obama may not be a black nationalist, but I believe that he is radical, based on his twenty-year association with Jeremiah Wright, and his comments about Middle America.
America needs to concentrate on rooting out corruption, ending foreign adventures, ensuring that sensible laws are carried out across the board, and somehow educating our own citizens, while ending government and business collusion that is bound to make us a society dependent of imported labor and brains.
Histroy can't be changed, but America has been apologizing and throwing money around for the last forty years. Surely that counts for something? I just can't see how America will be a better nation by wallowing in official guilt, and building memorials to slavery while the nation is in very real trouble. Boomer fascination with self is going to sink us all.
"And we are all about to be transformed by it in ways we can hardly imagine. Even my Zionist bloods! Dontcha love this country?"
Phil, you should write Chevy commercials.
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"… redemption of the American democratic promise thru the election of a black president …"
It needs to happen. And in many ways, Barack Obama is an extraordinary candidate, as was Nelson Mandela, who broke the color bar in South Africa.
But the government which Obama aspires to head is a decaying imperialist shambles, as decadent as the Ottoman empire. And Obama, in keeping with its delusional imperialist fantasies, has proposed to escalate and "win" the Afghanistan occupation — even as Afghan nationalists step up their attacks of opportunity on vulnerable western troops.
NATO is a catastrophic, off-mission bureaucratic eff-up. Bush I should have ended it when eastern Europe and the Soviet Union fell, circa 1989-1991. The Bushes are not known for intellectual brilliance. But Obama is. Having endorsed NATO's trainwreck-in-the-making is not a failure of analysis on Obama's part, but rather a failure of nerve.
Afghanistan is Airman Bush's screwed-up war. Obama should condemn it, as the idiotic fiasco of a fool who wrecked everything he ever touched. But the miasma of Foggy Bottom sucks in all aspirants to power, as it sucks out their capacity for courage and independent reasoning.
Barack Obama had all the qualifications — including courage and brilliance — to be a GREAT president. But he blew it before even getting nominated. What's unfair is that an amoeba-level intelligence such as Bush II doesn't lead people to conclude that white folks is unfit to serve — though maybe they is. Maybe they is, ah say …
Jim:
I'm not sure where Obama has come off as brilliant. He speaks better than Bush, but I'm not sure that he's any sort of genius.
I guess that men from non-elite families face higher standards if they wish to become president, but that's no reason to overestimate them, either. I believe that Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, and many others are all more intelligent than Bush, Kerry, Gore, McCain, and many son's of elites.
To be honest, I really haven't followed the debates closely. However, I know that I will not cast a vote for either McCain or Obama. There is no doubt in my mind that McCain is not up for the job, but when Obama isn't handled gingerly, he doesn't come off as very insightful or well-spoken. To me, he has seemed exactly the opposite when he's not sure of his audience.
Jim:
Thank you for your forthright evaluation of the contemporary USA.
This place is a mess.
Todd:
Thank you for picking on the Baby Boomers, the Suckiest Generation.
They are a bane.
Michael Blaine
Phil is too culturally saturated in the victim narrative to have any balance or credibilty about Obama and he betrays himself with his hyperbole.
What is the exact mechanism by which the world will suddenly be transformed, Phil? Is it going to be Obama's application of Chicago ward politics? Or the expansion of minority sinecures like the one occupied by his wife?
I grant you that slavery is criminal in any time or place. But where would all African Americans be today without the global collision that took place three or four hundred years ago? Living in the stone age.
It is true that Europeans did not act charitably to the Africans they so clearly had an advantage over. But is it possible that the story line we have been fed about the merging of the world is not the whole truth?
What accounts for the rabid anti-European, anti-white bent of the current power brokers in the establishment? Is it simple jealousy? Are they angry that their race is not responsible for what has been termed "the collective patrimony of mankind"? That would be almost everything we think of as defining civilization today.
I cannot decide what would be better or worse or both at the same time – McCain/Lieberman or Obama/Establishment-approved stooge. One might wake us up by leading us into a far worse shitstorm than we are in currently. Which one will do so in a way that leaves us with a situation we can redeem, ultimately?
"But where would all African Americans be today without the global collision that took place three or four hundred years ago?"
Boy, you're right, Church, I guess blacks in this country should contemplate paying whites for the big favor we did for them.
I guess not – we did not do them any favors and that is clearly not what I am saying.
But the sorry state they are in today is not something we should be paying them for either. Could it be that it is not entirely or even mostly our fault? How does that story line, among others, line up in any way with what we see around us every day?
You did not provide an answer to the question posed. You appeal to emotion, not reason.
Making racial guilt or victimhood the dominant narrative, which has worked so well for the Jews (more or less as a group) in dividing and conquering, is running out of legs for gentiles.
Maybe we could stick an old coal cart under the stumps?
American gentiles increasingly don't buy the old zionist refrain anymore: "You owe us for yesterday, you owe us for tomorrow, you owe us big time, you owe us forever."
Perhaps for this reason they are also beginning to open their eyes to the lousy deal sold to us by the neocons to make the mid-east safe for Israel by sending 4,000 American soldiers to die in Iraq.