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Home Front: Politix
So When Will a Muslim Be President?
2008-11-13
Posted by:tipper

#10  Old news bigjim-ky, and he also may have been a Jew.
Posted by: tipper   2008-11-13 15:00  

#9  Is this guys suggesting that Lincoln was gay?
I must be a real hick, I've never heard this before.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2008-11-13 13:56  

#8  And as regards German-Americans in World War Two - Both Eisenhower and Chester Nimitz were of German descent; Nimitz was the grandson of Charles Henry Nimitz who was a leading citizen of Fredericksburg. I don't think anyone during World War II had any doubts about where those gentleman's true loyalties lay.

Incidentally, CH Nimitz is an on-going character in my soon-to-be-available and hopefully local-niche-best-selling "Adelsverein Trilogy"

Posted by: Sgt. Mom   2008-11-13 11:22  

#7  besoeker had it right jan 20
Posted by: chris   2008-11-13 10:31  

#6  That is akin to asking during WWI when "We will have a Nazi or a "Japan uber alles" guy as president? Being Muslim is not being part of a minority but adhering to an ideology. And if it is about minority ideologies how about "When we will have a Republican as President?". Republicans are people (sort of) too!

(1) Main designer of the P51 Mustang a German American. A German Americans got the Medal of Honor fighting Germany during WWI. Their genes could have been German but their minds were as Americans than the one of any "Son of the Mayflower"
Posted by: JFM   2008-11-13 10:28  

#5  As long as the president is an American first, I could care less about the rest.
Posted by: Mike   2008-11-13 10:23  

#4  Personally I would vote for a Scientologist first.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2008-11-13 09:21  

#3  I suspect we'll have a pagan before a practicing Muslim. After all the US is at war with some Muslims and other Muslims have shown a remarkable indifference to picking sides.

If we do have a Muslim President in my lifetime I suspect he'll be a hero who fought for the US military and thus removed any and all doubts about where his loyalties are. The media is trying and I'm just not seeing a lot of Muslim hero stories, at least not ones that are in the US military so I think it's unlikely.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2008-11-13 09:20  

#2  This really p*sses off, because it assumes there's some kind of inherent positiveness in having a "minority" president. Because, the dominant ideology plainly and clearly posits that whites must share power in their own (historically white & homogenously white) homelands. Again, to go back at the idea of transnational positivism, this is YET an another avatar of the progressist ideology, which is RACIST again (but with whites as the demonized ethnicity), and which again aims at "deconstructing" society to achieve utopia.

Anyway, the simple fact of having a guy named with a muslim name, who is let's just say "ambiguous" in his relationship with islam, and who is anyway an apologist (cf his goal of an excusatory seech in a big muslim country during the early days of his presidency), elected just 7 years after 9/11 is in itself a very worrying symptom of a sick society, to put it bluntly.
And, no, I still think the USA are less advanced in the deathcurve of civilizational suicide, as compared to EUrope... but you've got to admit, you've got seriously worrying entropic forces at play here.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2008-11-13 06:29  

#1  20 January?
Posted by: Besoeker   2008-11-13 05:55  

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