Back to Hussein

A few weeks back a few folks noted that Hussein defined his white Grandmother as a racist, or a least reacting as a racist. By and large this was poopooed as a means of keeping his black base happy while throwing an few bones to the white populace who were disturbed by the comments of his Minister of 20 years.

If you take that view, then he is a cynical politician playing the race game.

But the comment wasn't new. He didn't think it just then. And when you understand that, his remarks reveal some very disturbing attributes.

As the title intimates, the figure in Obama’s carpet is his father, a Kenyan exchange student who met Barack’s white, Kansas-born mother at the University of Hawaii. After marrying her and fathering Barack, Dr. Obama - as he was universally known - returned to Kenya to take up a high-ranking government position. Thereafter, he showed little or no interest in Barack, whom he met only once, when the boy was ten. Though Barack’s mother had a brief second marriage that took her and the boy to Indonesia, she raised him mostly in the Aloha State - and, by his account, was unfailingly selfless and loving, as were her parents, “Gramps” and “Toot,” who helped bring him up.

Yet on whom does Barack’s memoir focus? On his father - whom Barack, against all evidence (which suggests that Dr. Obama was colossally selfish and narcissistic), seeks to portray as heroic, sympathetic, indeed near-mythic. Obama p√®re was a polygamist (and a lousy husband to all his wives), but Barack gives no indication that he finds this morally problematic; on the contrary, he seems determined to excuse his father’s many failings as consequences of imperialism, colonialism, and/or racism. One can, of course, well understand why a small boy - or even a young man - might idealize out of all proportion the father he never met. But Obama shows few signs in this book of recognizing that he’s doing this. Meanwhile, perversely, he treats his mother and grandparents, who by his own account raised him with extraordinary devotion, all but dismissively. At one point he even suggests that Gramps and Toot were really racists - and that all white people, in fact, are racists, and that black people have been so deformed by this racism that black individuals can hardly be held responsible for their own moral lapses.

Forget the content of our character; this is a work preoccupied with skin color. It’s drenched with the legacy of Malcolm X (whom Obama, at least in this book, openly idolizes). At times it’s as if there were no historical injustices in the world other than those visited upon blacks by whites. Obama routinely refers to other black men (but never white men) as “brothers”; he exhibits considerably more concern for the dignity of black men than for that of women or non-black men; and he’s acutely sensitive to perceived racial slights (yet even as he deplores the subordination of blacks in America, curiously enough, he appears to accept as his due his family’s lofty position in Kenya). While occasionally gesturing toward an ideal of colorblindness √† la Dr. King, in his heart of hearts he’s anything but colorblind, fervently endorsing black solidarity while repeatedly expressing distrust of, and even contempt for, whites. When, lamenting Kenya’s intertribal rivalries, he tells a relative that “We’re part of one tribe. The black tribe. The human tribe,” the last three words feel like an afterthought - as does his attempt, in the book’s closing pages, to move beyond strict racial line-drawing and to articulate broader sympathies. As if all this weren’t enough, it seems clear by book’s end that his heart’s home is not America but Kenya

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I especially love this comment from an obvious Hussein supporter.

Mike:
It’s amazing you can write all those words and make outrageous accusations and fail to include a single quote from the book to back it up.

I especially love when you say Obama suggests: “that all white people, in fact, are racists, and that black people have been so deformed by this racism that black individuals can hardly be held responsible for their own moral lapses.” How can you write that and not provide any evidence?

I wonder if the writer now has his evidence. (Remember the above comments were written in the first week of December '07.)

And there is little said about his father by the MSM. And while the sins of the father do not carry to the son, this article from the UK's Daily Mail paints a man who, a best, has acted in a manner not acceptable to middle America. Hussein's evident devotion to him again calls his judgement into question and an "in your face" attitude that is scary when you think of him being President.

This race has become about race. It did that when Hussein started. He can't help that he has received majorities of 85% to 95% from black voters, but his support from college educated and upper middle class whites indicates that their support is based on a "white man's guilt" that is undeserved and ignorant.

There needs to be better reasons to vote for a candidate than his skin color.

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