Ever heard of the Obamorons? These are the morons who will cheer anything that Barack Obama says. Right now the Obamorons are wildly enthusiastic about their man's race speech, and are trying to persuade the rest of us to stop talking about the Reverend Jeremiah Wright and move on to talking about how Obama is the next best thing since Jesus Christ.
Obama does have some very good qualities, but it's clear he also has a dark side that is only now beginning to surface. Consider his bizarre analogies aimed at vindicating the Reverend Wright. Many of us, he argues, "disagree" with things that our pastors and family members have said. True, but how many of us have pastors who say stuff like the Reverend Wright? It's one thing to sit quietly while my pastor says things I don't agree with about evolution or the Rapture, quite another for Obama to sit quietly while his pastor says that America deserved to be attacked on 9/11 and that the U.S. government deliberately injected AIDS into the country. My guess is that even in the black church "God damn America!" is not exactly standard rhetoric. Certainly the Reverend Martin Luther King didn't talk like that.
Especially bizarre was Obama's analogy between the Reverend Wright and his white grandmother. According to Obama, grandma too was given to racial "stereotypes" and at one point confessed to her fear of black men. First of all Obama didn't cite what stereotypes his grandmother held. A stereotype is merely a generalization: it may be true or false, harmful or benign. As the sociological literature on the subject shows, most stereotypes contain at least a grain of truth, because stereotypes develop out of popular experience.
As I document in my book The End of Racism, fears of black men are rationally explained as the consequence of the fact that black men have the highest violent crime conviction rate of any group in our society. One out of four young black men are at any given time in prison, on probation, or on parole. Some years ago Jesse Jackson admitted that if he heard footsteps in the dark and turned back to find out that the person was white, he would feel relieved. The point here is that Obama's grandmother's views, as relayed by Obama, seem rooted in empirical facts and bear no comparison with the Reverend Wright's maniacal ravings.
Besides, she's his grandmother! We choose our pastors and mentors but we don't choose our grandparents. When Obama calls the Reverend Wright "family," this is because he selected him as a friend and teacher. At any point during the past two decades, Obama could have walked away from the pew. Wright is not "family" in the involuntary sense that Grandma is family. In addition, Obama's grandmother made her remarks in private, within the sanctity of the household. The Reverend Wright has been shouting his doctrine from the pulpit for decades. Private prejudice is much less harmful than public hate speech.
Obama is smart enough to know all this. So what is the explanation for the bizarre moral equivalence that he seeks to create between his pastor and his grandmother? It cannot be that she treated him badly, since Obama himself says she loved him more than anything in the world. The only other explanation is that Obama is that Obama is more attached to the radicalism of the Reverend Wright than he is to his kind old grandmother. He is quite willing to protect Wright, and his own presidential prospects, by throwing grandma under the bus. Hell of a guy, right Obamorons?
Reader Comments ( Page 39 of 40)
571. I'm back, relaxed and refreshed. Anyone that has never had a massage, a real massage, I highly recommend it. It is worth every penny. It feels amazing and you can clear your head for at least an hour. I would say that it is better than sex, but that would be a stretch. I'll say, it's better than some sex, but not better than great sex.
tay at 9:18PM on Mar 27th 2008
572. :)
tay at 9:53PM on Mar 27th 2008
573. I'm back, relaxed and refreshed. Anyone that has never had a massage, a real massage, I highly recommend it. It is worth every penny. It feels amazing and you can clear your head for at least an hour. I would say that it is better than sex, but that would be a stretch. I'll say, it's better than some sex, but not better than great sex.
tay at 10:12PM on Mar 27th 2008
574. Sorry
I reposted my first post instead of the new one.
tay at 10:14PM on Mar 27th 2008
575. Botts
Do you believe in heaven and hell as they are depicted in the bible?
tay at 12:43AM on Mar 28th 2008
576. "Botts
Do you believe in heaven and hell as they are depicted in the bible?"
Hi Tay,
I believe there is, but I don't know there is. And I don't live my life thinking if I do something right, that I'll be somewhere better after here.
I just try to do the right things, because their the right things to do.
Botts at 1:18AM on Mar 28th 2008
577. Me too. I was hoping you would say that.
tay at 1:32AM on Mar 28th 2008
578. Me too. I was hoping you would say that.
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Let me clarify- Me too - meaning, doing the right things because they are the right things to do, not for a better afterlife.
tay at 1:53AM on Mar 28th 2008
579. Now, what's really going to screw you up, is when I tell you that before I went to bed last night, I could feel your tiredness through your words.
And before I fell asleep, I said aloud, "I would like Tay to get some sort of relaxation, whatever it may be. Give her some good news and make it happen."
Then here you are this morning answering my request.
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I guess I need to give credit where credit is due. Thank you Botts, it was amazing.
tay at 2:05AM on Mar 28th 2008
580. Is anyone here???
I know no one has been here all day, but if you come back, I went to
a Religious Science websight, and this was listed under
beliefs.......
Religious Scientists believe, very simply, that the Universe is
fundamentally spiritualâ?"it has intelligence, purpose, beauty and
order. Whether we call it God, spirit, energy, or Universal
Intelligence, every person, place and thing emanates from this
spiritual universe. We believe this Universal Intelligence is within
us, as well as around us, and that we are conscious of it. Our
beliefs are in harmony with the basic tenets of all the worldâ?Ts
great religions.
Religious Scientists believe that God is a loving Infinite
Intelligence, operating through and in all of life, never separate
from anyone or anything. Through classes and study we come to
understand our oneness with this indwelling Divine Presence. The way
of life we teach and practice is learning how to live in accordance
with spiritual principles. These principles, or metaphysical laws,
are as reliable as the laws of physical science.
In the scientific aspect of Science of Mind®, we believe there is a
body of knowledge about spiritual laws which operates in the Universe
as Cause and Effect. We teach that "It is done unto you as you
believe." Our thinking and our expectations create our reality. It is
in studying and applying spiritual laws that we can change our
unconscious beliefs and create improved conditions in our lives.
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This is listed under principles......
We believe in God, the Living Spirit Almighty; one, indestructible,
absolute and self-existent Cause.
This One manifests Itself in and through all creation, but is not
absorbed by Its creation.
The manifest universe is the body of God; it is the logical and
necessary outcome of the infinite self-knowingness of God.
We believe in the incarnation of the Spirit in us and that all of us
are incarnations of the One Spirit.
We believe in the eternality, the immortality and the continuity of
the individual soul, forever expanding.
We believe the kingdom of heaven is within us and that we experience
this kingdom to the degree that we become conscious of it.
We believe the ultimate goal of life to be a complete emancipation
from all discord of every nature, and that this goal is sure to be
attained by all.
We believe in the unity of all life, and that the highest God and the
innermost God is One God.
We believe that God is personal to all who feel this Indwelling
Presence.
We believe in the direct revelation of Truth through our intuitive
and spiritual nature, and that any person may become a revealer of
Truth who lives in close contact with the Indwelling God.
We believe that the Universal Spirit, which is God, operates through
Universal Mind, the Law of God.
We are surrounded by this Creative Mind which receives the direct
impress of our thought and acts upon it.
We believe in the healing of the sick through the Power of this Mind.
We believe in the control of conditions through the Power of this
Mind.
We believe in the eternal goodness, the eternal loving kindness and
the eternal givingness of life to all.
We believe in our own soul, our own spirit, and our own destiny.
We understand that the life of humankind is God.
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What do you think??? K, if you attend one of their churches, I would
be interested in hearing about what you thought of it.
tay at 7:10PM on Mar 28th 2008
581. I don't think that there is any loving being in the ether.
We are all created as was the universe we inhabit.
To think that there is a supreme being is not logical. To believe that we are all basically connected, to me, is a logical assumption based on the fact that we all inhabit the same realm The rest is just wishful thinking.
Indwelling presence sounds like an infection - ick.
And what is this Truth. A truth I made up in my head? Or the truth that is being shoved down my throat by religion?
I'm not sold.
TJ at 11:00PM on Mar 29th 2008
582. I'm not sure about it either. It sounded somewhat like GHB's concept, so I thought I would share it.
Indwelling presence sounds like an infection - ick.
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Sounds a litte like Aliens. Maybe it's an alien cult who's sole purpose is to impregnate earth women.
tay at 12:23AM on Mar 30th 2008
583. OBAMA DISSED HIS WHITE GRANDMA PRECISELY BECAUSE SHE "IS" WHITE. YOU WILL NOTICE HE SPOKE KINDLY ABOUT HIS "BLACK" UNCLE, JEREMIAH WRIGHT. AND HE COUDN'T DISOWN THE "BLACK" COMMUNITY. SO HIS GRNDMA WAS AFRAID OF WALKING DOWN A DARK STREET WHERE BLACK YOUTH LOITERED. BUT SO WAS JESSE "HYMIE TOWN" JACKSON. IS OBAMA NOW GOING TO DISS JACKSON?
gonefishin at 5:13AM on Mar 30th 2008
584. So now Dinesh has resorted to name calling. Just exactly how desperate are you? With this article, I have lost what little respect I had for your opinions. You are a worthless puppet of your political party, and nothing more. You are also egotistical, smug, and one of the most self-serving bloggers I've ever seen.
I remain here only to share COMPETANT discussion with others who post. Your text no longer matters.
Strados at 11:20AM on Mar 31st 2008
585. DINESH. YOU'RE USUALLY A STEP AHEAD OF THE CURVE, BUT ON THIS ONE YOUR OFF THE MARK. ST. OBAMA THREW HIS GRANDMA UNDER THE BUS PRECISELY BECAUSE SHE WAS "WHITE."
NOTICE, HE DIDN'T REFER TO HIS BLACK GRANDMA AS BEING "TYPICALLY BLACK" AND FEARING A GANG OF WHITE "TOUGHIES." SEE, HIS BLACK GRANDMA ISN'T "TYPICALLY BLACK." SHE PROBABLY WAS EDUCATED RIGHT UP THROUGH 5TH GRADE; DIDN'T GET PREGNANT UNTIL SHE WAS OVER 13; DIDN'T GET WELFARE UNTIL SHE WAS 15; AND DIDN'T ATTEND WRIGHT'S CHURCH UNTIL SHE WAS 11. ST. OBAMA'S CHILDREN MAY BEAT THAT RECORD.
gonefishin at 4:12AM on Apr 1st 2008