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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Dowd: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2007-12-02
In The Atlantic, Andrew Sullivan lays out what he sees as Obama’s “indispensable” capacity to move the country past baby-boom feuds and the world past sectarian and racial divides. “It’s November 2008,” he imagines. “A young Pakistani Muslim is watching television and sees that this man — Barack Hussein Obama — is the new face of America. In one simple image, America’s soft power has been ratcheted up not a notch, but a logarithm.”
A man who wouldn't know a logarithm from a spherical harmonic.
“I’m in this race because I’m tired of reading about Jena,” he said. “I’m tired of reading about nooses. I’m tired of hearing about a Justice Department that doesn’t don't understand justice. ... I don’t doesn't want to wake up four years from now and discover that we still have more young black men in prison than in college.”
Or twice as many black women in college as black men. But if you want to be a 'brother' you gotta get the lingo right.
Grrrr. I lived in Obama's state district for a while. The man is earnest enough but he's clueless on world affairs. I can forgive a president who has a clunky sense of domestic policy; we have a Congress to handle (or mis-handle) that. But a president who doesn't understand how the world works is dangerous. I don't want someone who is into NGOs, and flower power, and how the world 'should' be. I want someone who understands how it is, and how to make it move in a direction that's beneficial to all of us.

Obama isn't that man.
Posted by:KBK

#14  So, in a Barack Obama administration, a judge could not send a black man to prison, even if he is found guilty?
Posted by: Rambler   2007-12-02 22:28  

#13  How many football scholarships does the Univ of Miami have?

The Dallas Cowboys are always shopping for new felons, er, I mean talent.
Posted by: SteveS   2007-12-02 13:27  

#12  He went to school in a mosque. That's all we need to know.
Posted by: Icerigger   2007-12-02 13:26  

#11  I wonder if Barrak thinks OJ is innocent and that those nasty cops spilled his blood all over the murder scene ?
If Barrak gets the nomination, then the trunks have the donks at the edge of destruction, and the trunks had better do it right. Split them into little pieces and lock the RINOs in the back room while we chop gubmint down to size and reduce taxes. I give this dream about a one in thirty chance. But it is doable, once we sweep the jackasses out of the way, anything is doable.
Posted by: wxjames   2007-12-02 13:10  

#10  so, apparently he's going to empty the prisons of black males and put em in colleges? That'll work swell....How many football scholarships does the Univ of Miami have?
Posted by: Frank G   2007-12-02 10:51  

#9  #6 #5 I will consider voting for the first black candidate for president who refuses to play the race card, and not before.
Posted by Eohippus Flaviger5399 2007-12-02 03:13

Do you mean the Reverends Sharpton and Jackson will be out of race-baiting jobs?
Posted by: JohnQC   2007-12-02 10:30  

#8  And he can probably spell "grammatically", too :)
Posted by: mrp   2007-12-02 08:18  

#7  Obama's actual quote (as published in the Dowd column):

“I’m in this race because I’m tired of reading about Jena,” he said. “I’m tired of reading about nooses. I’m tired of hearing about a Justice Department that doesn’t understand justice. ... I don’t want to wake up four years from now and discover that we still have more young black men in prison than in college.”

As far as I know, the Senator speaks gramatically-correct English.
Posted by: mrp   2007-12-02 08:16  

#6  #5 I will consider voting for the first black candidate for president who refuses to play the race card, and not before.
Posted by Eohippus Flaviger5399 2007-12-02 03:13|| Front Page|| ||Comments Top

Ditto!

Posted by: Besoeker   2007-12-02 03:18  

#5  I will consider voting for the first black candidate for president who refuses to play the race card, and not before.
Posted by: Eohippus Flaviger5399   2007-12-02 03:13  

#4  I'll chip in on that, Steve.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2007-12-02 00:23  

#3  Jimmuh reelected

Relected, hah! If I can ever get this damn time machine to work, he won't get elected in the first place.
Posted by: SteveS   2007-12-02 00:20  

#2  "I don't want someone who is into NGOs, and flower power, and how the world 'should' be."

You sayin' you don't want Jimmuh reelected, kbk? ;-p
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2007-12-02 00:14  

#1  The new plantation owners don't want the help to look in the mirror because only the truth can set them free. Free from their real oppressors and those who pose as their 'friends'.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2007-12-02 00:11  

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