Talk Radio (The Mancow show) called last night and asked me to join them this morning to comment on the Obama-Farrakhan matter. And so I made a dutiful list of “talking points” and tried to overcome my professorial politeness in order to get a few words in edgewise on a wonderfully high-energy program. The interview will be posted in a few hours at Mancow.com and here’s some of what I said.
I believe that Obama is our first Muslim Presidential contender.
No, I am not saying that he secretly is or ever was a Muslim. Obama is a Muslim in the same way that Bill Clinton was allegedly our first Black President. He is , stylistically, a United Nations-style postmodern multi-cultural relativist and that means Obama may refuse to call barbarism by its rightful name if that barbarism is practiced by Muslims .
Also, on at least one very public occasion, there is a photograph of Obama failing (or refusing) to pledge alliegance to the American flag. When challenged on this and other questions of patriotism, Obama explained that the true American patriot is one who criticizes his country’s faults, not one who merely salutes its flag.
Obama might be the first Muslim French intellectual Presidential contender, a more politically correct and darker-skinned John Kerry or Howard Dean, and the Dreamboat of Code Pink and of the many high-profile but predominantly left-feminists who have been signing “feminist” petitions for Obama. For Obama–but not for Hillary, who may be the last women in position to run for the American Presidency for the next fifty years. I admit it: I actually dressed up to vote for Hillary in the New York primary since this was the first time in nearly fifty years that I had such an opportunity.
No, I am not saying that I will automatically vote for Hillary over McCain nor am I saying that McCain is My Guy. That is the subject for future musings. And now back to Barack.
When I characterize Obama as our first Muslim Presidential contender, I am not talking about the photo of Obama wearing a turban or the headgear of a Somali Elder. I am talking about his ties to Trinity United Church of Christ Pastor Jeremiah Wright (Obama has been a member for twenty years), and Pastor Wright’s ties to Farrakhan–who just last night bent over backward in his praise of Obama as our new Savior. Farrakhan addressed only the “black, brown, red, and yellow” people of America and of the world , not the “white” people, and compared Obama to the founder of the Nation of Islam, Fard Mohammed, whose mother was white and whose father was black–just like Obama’s parents. Farrakhan claimed that both men were “Saviours” and that Obama might be the only man who can save America.
Will Obama try to minimize this? Will he disavow it? Or will he ignore these words of praise completely?
Let me remind us that Farrakhan is a black separatist and black nationalist Muslim and the man who referred to Judaism as a “gutter religion.” And Pastor Wright shares his vision of the importance of black nationalism (packaged as black liberation theology) and has publicly honored Farrakhan. When questioned about this, Obama said that families have disagreements. Yes, Michelle Obama once wrote a thesis at Princeton which allegedly recognizes the importance of black separatism given white racist America. Do the Obamas also have family disagreements about this?
Look: Where does Obama stand on Islamic gender and religious apartheid? Is he aware that it has been penetrating the West, including America, the country he wishes to govern? Does he have a plan as to how he will deal with it? Does he stand with the Islamists or with their victims, beginning with Muslim women and Muslim intellectuals? Where does he stand on the proliferation of Muslim arranged marriages. polygamy, face-veiling, wife- and daughter-beating, and honor murders in America? And on the Islamist use of American civil rights law to safeguard Islamic gender and religious apartheid and Islamic separatism in America?
Is Obama aware of the persecution of “infidels,” beginning with Christians, in Muslim lands? Does he have a foreign policy vision that would demand reciprocity for all religions in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and Iran before we allow American law to be used to construct mini-Saudi Arabias or Irans in America?
Why has no one been asking all the candidates, beginning with Our Savior Obama these questions?
Obama’s various alliances, silences, and minimizations are worrisome. In addition, Obama has chosen a foreign policy team that has been consistently pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel; many of Obama’s chosen advisors have engaged in boycotts and urged divestment in Israel as if Israel really were “apartheid” South Africa.
It is also true that recently, in Ohio, Obama did talk about the importance of Israel’s security and did recognize that she is surrounded by enormous hatred. Former American Ambasador to Israel, Dennis Ross, has said that he “saw no difference between Senator Clinto and Senator Obama on Israel policy.” However, as noted in an editorial today in the New York Sun, Obama also presumed to tell democratic Israel whom it ought to elect–and not elect, and what the parameters ought to be for a future Palestinian state. In case you are guessing, he called for “contiguous borders.”
Has he called for an end to the Kassam rockets that rain down on Israeli civilians in Sderot? And for an end to Saudi, Iranian, and Syrian support for Hamas and Hezbollah as they all seek to annihilate the only Jewish state?
Obama also wants to talk to Amadinejad who has referred to Israelis as “filthy bacteria,” has funded countless acts of murderous terrorism against Israel, and who has pledged to genocidally exterminate the Jewish state. “Talk” he said–and without pre-conditions. (Of course, Obama’s handlers are backpedaling on this one as fast as they can).
It is true: Obama is a thrilling orator. But he is vague and keeps repeating himself just as an actor might. Yes, it is thrilling that an African-American can and is finally running for the American Presidency but it is equally thrilling, or it should be, that a woman is finally a Presidential contender as well. And we, the people should not be voting for–or against– anyone because of their race or gender. Their agenda alone is what should matter.
The last time so many women cheered and swooned and orgasmically submitted themselves in large crowds to another thrilling orator took place in Germany and Austria in the 1930s and 1940s. (Lionel Chetwynd, in the current issue of The Weekly Standard, compares Obama to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada and analyzes how the wildly adored Trudeau’s practices led to the ongoing ruination of Canada).
No, I am not saying that Obama is Hitler. I am saying that people seem desperate and wish to avoid facing a grim reality and many hard choices; they would rather allow a Savior to distract them and to make promises that he either cannot keep, (no one can), or promises that, if realized, will lead to our inevitable doom.
My friend and colleague, the scholar Bat Ye’or told me that if Obama is elected, America will become dhimmified even faster than Europe.
Senator Obama: Make my day. Prove her wrong. Tell us where you stand on Islamic fundamentalism, Islamist jihad, and Islamic gender and religious apartheid
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Virginia Ray:Whew,
Thanks for this post — it is getting hard - when you are afraid to ask your “feminist” friends who they voted for, as a vote for Obama will open a gulf probably too wide to ever cross again. It is worse when you do ask and they don’t answer.
I am glad you wrote this so I can feel solidarity with you, a feminist whom I have always admired. I too dressed up for Hillary’s vote. My mother filled out her absentee ballot with extreme happiness and then cried at the news coverage. She watches the news,CNN, MSNBC, and FOX during the day and now understands mysoginy which she did not believe in before. It is heart-warming to hear this 89 year old woman swear at the telivion and shake her tiny fist.
One almost dreads the win considering the woman hatred being so nakedly exhibited in this country. Imagin what they will do to her if she gets the nomination.
But in light of the acceptance of the Arab theocracies by BO we must win. I understand the Hill is not much different than BO on the war but her presidency will be.
Obama hired a Jew hating anti Semitic Arabist foreign policy adviser? (remember O feminist, how Arabs treat women?).
“As reported in the New York Sun,:
http://www.nysun.com/article/71373 , Mr. Obama has chosen Zbigniew Brzezenski to advise him on Mideast policy,” sending this anti-Israel, anti-Semite, in the words of one of my listmembers,
“this dinosaur resuscitated from the Jimmy Carter administration, a man who spent over 30 years attacking Israel, an Arabist who recently signed a letter demanding that Israel negotiate with the terrorist group Hamas, and a defender of the notorious Walt-Mearsheimer ideology that Israel and Jews have too much influence on American foreign policy against the interests of the U.S. ”
Obama is sending him to Syria!?”
Obama is funded by Illinois Nuclear power industry Excelion [sic]. Obama supports the nuclear power industry weakening bills to regulate them. BO will see middle east attempts to develop nuclear power as reasonable.
Obama belongs to a church whose minister calls Jews “gutter people”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prhnc2fxAzg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38I55mZuSOY
Obama was absent for most controversial votes which later he uses to tell how he would have voted IF he had been there.
Obama has anti gay Baptists in his entourage and on the stage with him.
Obama is suddenly so popular having not finished even one term as a senator,who suddenly appeared on the scene fully funded with swooning Hollywood types at his feet?
Picture BO as a woman with long hair in a pants suit and ask whether anyone would considered voting for her regardless of her verbal ability. That is the power of sexism over even race.
Obama is NOT Martin Luther King whose social change work gave an authenticity to his words that was genuinely powerful. No matter how many times BO states that he was an organizer, there are no achievements for the poor that came from it.
Go here and ask who is behind the veil.
Feb 26, 2008 - 12:00 pm Anonymous:http://obamamessiah.blogspot.com/
misogyny - television - I do know how to spell them but I don’t look up from the keyboard to see where my fingers flew - sorry
Feb 26, 2008 - 1:02 pm David Thomson:“Senator Obama: Make my day. Prove her wrong.”
One can only hope that you are not holding your breath. I sense that Barack “Barry” Obama hasn’t spent five minutes of his entire life thinking about the threat of Islamic nihilism. He is truly a pseudoeducated individual. Obama almost certainly agrees with Edward Said that the predominantly dark skinned Muslims are merely victims of Western imperialism. They are angry only because of what we presumably did to them. Everything will be hunky-dory once we ask for their forgiveness and make amends.
Feb 26, 2008 - 2:18 pm J. K. Gayle:Senator Obama: Make my day. Prove her wrong. Tell us where you stand on Islamic fundamentalism, Islamist jihad, and Islamic gender and religious apartheid
This is fair enough. Every presidential candidate needs to respond. But Barak Hussein Obama because of his gender, because of his race, because of his father’s name, because he’s young, because he’s pledged allegiance to the flag since he was young, because he’s a church-going Christian, because of his pastor, because he’s an inspiring orator, singularly faces some pretty unusual questions. Blogger-scholar Rachel is asking whether there are double standards? Are there?
Feb 26, 2008 - 2:44 pm Judy Kilgore:Excellent commentary, Ms. Chesler. Thank you. It gets lonely out here. The MSM has behaved abominably and though I have written letters, signed petitions, and commented publicly, they have been unresponsive. Perhaps wiser heads than mine will suggest something else we can do to show them that we are fed up and not going to take it anymore. Boycotts, maybe?
This country is in more trouble than it has ever been in if it elects Obama as president. If we thought King George was bad, we haven’t seen anything yet! This man really unnerves me. I wouldn’t make an exact analogy with Hitler, either, but Obama’s manipulation of the youth in this country is eerily reminiscent of Hitler.
After reading about Louis Farrakhan’s remarks about Obama being the “savior of the world,” etc., I later searched in vain for a report on this in the MSM. (With the exception, I believe, of CBS.) What IS it with the media? I don’t understand. Why are they not concerned about this man’s Muslim connections and his speaking out of both sides of his mouth concerning Israel? More than misogyny seems to be operating here.
Feb 26, 2008 - 6:56 pm Nancy K:The charisma is terrifying; the alleged message of hope masks unbelievable, unacknowledged rage on the part of the masses. Elias Canetti (Crowds and Power) and Eric Hoffer (The True Believer) must be rolling over in their graves. The more I hear Obama, the more I find myself thinking: this is taquiya - the Islamic art of dissimulation.
Feb 26, 2008 - 11:36 pm Mama Palama:In observing the rising prowess of Islamic jihadic invasion unimpeded both in England and America, the crux of democracy - it seems to me the Barrak Hussein Obama for presidential candidate phenomenon is the logical progression! An Islamic proxy for President? Why have I reason to believe otherwise?
Feb 27, 2008 - 2:21 am DM:Although I read this blog daily and rarely comment, I can’t help but weigh in on this one. Like you, Ms. Chesler, I got dressed to go vote for America’s first woman candidate. She’s got her warts but she is still the first female candidate in my not so short lifetime. I have seen men rally around lesser candidates, a valuable networking skill it seems we woman still have not developed. Instead, we often thwart each other. After all the years of striving, so many women still swoon over a mediocre male candidate with charm.
That having been said, I find it absolutely frightening the way people are mortified to question this man’s plans. His spell goes way beyond entrancing America’s foolish youth who are enraptured with their latest messiah and his chants. They are so enraptured that they cut class to caucus, while their parents, who are paying for their education, are at work and have no time to caucus.
Obama’s grip also emcompasses fear of questioning anything he says and anything he does. I suspect this man is an empty suit; He reminds me of a snake oil salesman. He enjoys an obvious free ride from the press and I don’t think it’s rapture that is causing it. I think it’s fear. I am very happy that Clinton called him on the Farakhon speech. But of course, today’s press chastises her for “attacking” him. I totally agree that this man reminds one of a day when the Youth Movement was used for the purposes of the Leader.
On Monday, a trial begins and that trial will seriously question this man’s dealings with a slum lord who misused public funds and made Obama a sweet home purchase deal at the same time. I will bet that the press has little to say about this on the day before the Ohio and Texas primaries.
It is clear to me that Obama has trouble talking to the public except with a podium and a controlled crowd-like situation. When it comes to details he stumbles repeatedly. This alone is a huge red flag that so many simply refuse to see about their annointed messiah.
Frankly, I am more than just a little frightened here. The more this man is treated with gloves, the more I am reminded of Needful Things. I know that’s extreme but it is exactly what I think of now when I see him speak. This man could end up president well after his child-crowd has moved on to the next exciting form of entertainment. I am a Democrat, but not a blind Democrat. I like to think of myself as practical, and my practical side tells me that if Obama is the nominee I must vote for McCain if for no other reason than at least I know what I am getting.
Feb 27, 2008 - 8:42 am DoktorNo:From the perspective of Eastern Europe I’am watching the 2008 Presidential Elections in the US with a dose of amusement. The rivalry between two Political Correct phantasies; first possible female president, and first possible dark-skinned president, is provind the absurds of genderism, victimisation and etc.
Feb 27, 2008 - 12:15 pm Harvey Levy:Ladies, Sen.Margaret Chase Smith (R. Maine) and Rep. Shirley Chisholm [D. Ill(Black and female)] ran for president in 64 and 68, respectively. While either of them stood a snowball’s chance in Hell of getting elected both did offer females the opportunity to vote for them is several primaries.You could even consider Communist party candidate Angela Davis as being a legitimate candidate for president (just ask Ralph Nader supporters). So, I hate to burst your bubble but Hillary ain’t the first.
Feb 27, 2008 - 1:27 pm Anonymous:And I hate to burst your bubble, Levy, but no one has said that Senator Clinton is the first female to run for the presidency. She is, however, the first VIABLE female candidate. As for Angela Davis, it depends on your definition of “legitimate” in considering her as a candidate. She was a legitimate communist; that’s all you can say about her. She got, what? 3,000 votes?
If you don’t have anything of interest and purpose to add to the dialogue, Livy, why butt in at all?
I might add that since you do not know me or probably anyone else on this blog, how do you know that we are “ladies”? I am a woman, not a lady as you would define the term.
Feb 27, 2008 - 6:43 pm Judy Kilgore:Oops! I forgot to sign in on that last post. Not sure if I need to re-post. Perhaps you could send me an e-mail to advise? Thanks.
Feb 27, 2008 - 6:45 pm Carol Gould:Brilliant. And if anyone saw Ralph Nader on Sunday they will have learned that Obama is one of Capitol Hill’s staunchest supporters of the Palestinians, whom Nader says are ‘dying 300 to 1′ in Gaza due to Israeli brutality. Nader also said Obama had abandoned the Palestinians in this campaign when before he had been a champion of their plight. Bat Ye’or is right; I think I might stay in England..
Feb 27, 2008 - 7:17 pm Harvey Levy:Dear Anonymous Judy Kilgore;
From DM:Like you, Ms. Chesler, I got dressed to go vote for America’s first woman candidate. She’s got her warts but she is still the first female candidate in my not so short lifetime.
So, what’s the verdict now?
I disagree that Hillary is the first viable (no need to shout here)female candidate considering that both Senators Smith and Rep. Chisholm could have had more success under the right circumstance, especially Mrs. Chisholm who failed to receive any support from Black leaders such as Jessee Jackson. Still, even without the support of the good ole boy network both Chase and Chisholm received support at their respective conventions.
On Angela Davis, do you think that Ralph Nader is a legitimate candidate? Adding Davis to the mix was not intended to be taken seriously.
And, you’re correct in assuming that I don not know anyone who blogs here but you don’t know me either so how do you know which is my definition of a lady? I would bet that DM is a lady. If that term offends you that’s another matter. You can refer to me as a gentleman anytime and I will defend your right to be offended, geez.
Feb 27, 2008 - 8:10 pm Lee S Gliddon Jr:Very enlightening information! Very.
Feb 27, 2008 - 8:43 pm mark:As a Conservative with America’s best interests at heaert, I pray that these Obamaniacs wake up before it gets too late.
The wisdom of Obama’s handlers is that they have gained a ‘toe hold’ on political NEOPHYTES who have no idea as to what’s up in the real world! To boot, they have the Leftist College Professors working with them!
They may ‘wake up’ too late!
My BLOG, http://www.DesertConservative.com has a lot of TRUTH respecting Obama! Feel free to visit!
stop being so hard on Obama
Feb 27, 2008 - 9:10 pm DM:Dear Mark:
Start being harder on Obama.
Dear Mr. Levy:
Thanks for your input. I promise to give it all the weight I think it deserves.
Feb 27, 2008 - 10:19 pm Virginia Ray:Nancy K.said:
“The more I hear Obama, the more I find myself thinking: this is taquiya - the Islamic art of dissimulation.”
I agree. As proof, just today his campaign is stating they are not REALLY using to Zbigniew Brzezenski to advise Obama on Mideast policy. And as usual after one question the media immediately dropped the subject without asking if Obama had met with Brzezenski, or talked with him about Syria. The media made no attempt to get the reporter from NY Sun who did the original article to comment on Obama’s denials.
Oh and by the way, Obama said today he does not support the right of return regardless of what Nader thinks. And did his pastor call the Jews gutter people - Really? He must have not been paying attention. Louis Farrakhan’s endorsement came out of left field - Obama has no idea why. Why would Nader say he supported the Palestinians - no more than is reasonable - really.
This IS like Hitler’s rise to power when the media serve as the mouthpiece for the Messiah/Savior and brainwash people instead of informing them.
When everyone says, Oh don’t worry -it is not so bad, it is just words. He wouldn’t really do anything. It won’t be so bad. None so blind as those who will not see from their own goodness the evil that threatens.
I believe it is too late unless a miracle happens. He will be the next president even if people are beginning to become uneasy now. The media and Big Money will make it so.
I relate it directly to women’s failure to organize as feminists for women in Iraq and Afghanistan during the war. The lack of a feminist movement educated and educating about sexism and the dynamics of Muslim fascism resulted in this unashamed sexist campaign coverage. To this sexist media coverage there has been an inadequate political response from women who are not organized as feminists and who were not prepared to fight this kind of sexism from the men all around them. Legitimate fears related to the acceptance of Muslim culture are being labeled racist by the Obama campaign who so tainted innocent remarks by the Clintons.
To point out taquiya as a tactic is being used by Obama invites ridicule.
To point out it is actually Obama who will say anything to get elected, not Hillary who is NOT denying her past or her record, falls on deaf ears.
I think Israel should fortify itself. Should expect to lose US support. And what about us - what should we do?
Feb 28, 2008 - 7:32 pm Jayne Goldman Officer:Reading these comments is certainly a revealing and refreshing experience. I have spent only about an hour today doing some on-line research concerning Obama and ties to Islam. Again, my eyes have been opened. Why has no one brought any of this to light in the media? No matter which way you observe it - it does deserve some vetting. Farrakhan, Junaid Afeef?? What’s going on here??
Feb 28, 2008 - 7:42 pm Tolerance:I am an African American who emphatically opposes any form of discrimination including anti-Semitism. I agree that Obama’s response to Farrakhan was woefully inadequate. However, your obvious racism is not an ethical strategy for challenging anti-Semitism. Not only are you saying inaccurate and offensive things about Barack Obama, you are deliberately trying to promote even more racism by misleading people about his religious identity. Obama wants to reform a Black/Jewish alliance and you want to encourage Jewish Americans to be racist towards Obama and other Black people. Don’t try to hide your contempt for Black people behind the pretense of protecting Jewish Americans. The Jewish community deserves much better than that. I am glad that many Jewish Americans, unlike you, sincerely oppose racism. I will work with THEM to renew the important historical alliance between Blacks and Jews while you continue to lie, deceive, and promote racism. Shame on you. You are violating the beautiful values of your faith.
Feb 28, 2008 - 9:26 pm Virginia Ray:Tolerance proves my point. First, he does not seem to understand the meaning of the word racism. Obama’s campaign frequently uses the race card this way. My objection to the actions and policy of one man is not racism. Tolerance’s use of the word racism is designed to silence opposition. That is a fascist tactic.
However, the Tolerance’s of the BO campaign cannot, by name calling, silence people who have actually fought racism and who therefore do know what it is.
I am afraid of people like Tolerance who seems to be typical of the Obama supporter and operatives. I think they represent the kind of country that will be created by the Obama.
Opposition will be labeled racist and then outlawed. We have seen this before.
Already the TV broadcasters are stating that the emails they receive about Obama are just disgraceful attempts to smear him and they will not investigate the allegations contained therein much less report them. This, after 6 months of degrading every positive accomplishment of the Clinton campaign and endless speculation about her motives and tactics. This after stooping to deride her laugh, clothing and sincerity.
Obama’s arrogant destruction of Hillary Clinton is the second example of what his reign will mean for those of us who hoped for real change. Obama’s parroting of all Clinton’s programs without any past attempts or even proof of his future ability to implement them, his passive use of sexism to destroy her (she is not “likable” enough), his use of tightly controlled rallies to create a messianic TV image, his use of the homophobic souther Baptist church, his distortion of Hillary’s consistent opposition to Bill’s NAFTA, Obama’s use of four right wing, sexist, television news stations some of whom have majority Saudi shareholders and his use of racism to silence his opposition is not good for this country and will not have a good outcome. But his use of the war, and the weariness of the US people with the war, is the worst sign of what Obama represents.
Imagine if Churchill had done the same for personal advancement. What if Churchill had used the weariness of the war to urge his country to repudiate what was a necessary and noble undertaking. Obama has done this. He has not just said we have done enough, but said, we should have never removed Saddam Hussein in the first place. We should have never attracted the source of Muslim fascism to Iraq and decimated them. We should have never exposed the tentacles of the beast and the madrases they use to grow them.
The task now is to try to understand how to survive what is coming. Obama needs to defeat the Republicans and it looks like he is going to use anti Semitism to do it just as he used sexism to defeat Hillary. Over the years the left has perfected their Jew hating so that it can be sold to the modern masses. It is a variation of the Jewish conspiracy theories. Our Middle East policy is “unbalanced”. We should be “even handed” between the thug-rule, slave-holding, theocracies and Israel because we should not show favoritism to any “side”. Jewish “oppression and occupation” of Palestine is a modern holocaust. Palestine is the homeland which is why no arab state should be required to provide territory for a state. Supporting Israel is not in our interest. What do we get economically from supporting Israel? Any attempt to question Obama’s middle east policy will be labeled racism pushed by the Jews.
My hope is that this will wake everyone up but the sexism against Hillary just helped him. I predict this use of the word racism will silence Jewish opposition both because it feels bad but also because many progressive Jews will not want to help elect a republican openly associated with the right wing. This is the same reason many of us who seriously doubt Obama will vote for him if he is the democratic nominee.
Even I will be conflicted.
I must say, I have never more sincerely hoped I am wrong. I would like to believe that BO will be OK. But over the years I have learned to believe that things are what they seem to be. Overlooking people’s background and affiliations in the hope their inner goodness will cause them to see clearly and do the right thing is self-defeating. People protect their own beliefs and associations. They believe that is the right thing.
If the people Barrack is affiliated with have always supported Muslims over Jews that is what Barrack will do in the White House. If Barrack has always supported nuclear power, that is what he will do in the white house. If Obama has always opposed the military, he will gut our defense systems once he has the power to do so. Hopefully, he will just investigate the companies that have been war profiteers and try them in court to recoup the damages. But he may skip that process and simply eliminate our defenses and ability to respond.
It is harder to see what Obama means for women. Obama will certainly support the spread of Muslim culture under the guise of tolerance. Muslim schools with their gender apartheid will proliferate. They exist now in the Midwest as well as the coasts under the guise of tolerance. The republicans issued the bills that diverted tax money to private religious schools and the proliferation of women hating religious bigotry of all kinds is the result. McCain’s anti abortion pandering is also not a good sign. We cannot afford any more right wing Supreme Court justices. The Equal Pay Act has already been declared unconstitutional. Congress promised to restore the Equal Pay Act but it has been over one year and they have not done so.
So here we are. If Obama gets the democratic nomination what can anyone do? Women are almost compelled to vote for him. The only hope is that Clinton can prevail. If not, I ask again what is there to do?
Feb 29, 2008 - 12:52 pm Virginia Ray:I have to correct one thing I said which is that Pastor Wright did not call Jews “gutter people”.
“Dr. Wright has equated Zionism with racism; has compared Israel to South Africa under apartheid; and characterized the terrorist attacks on American soil on 9/11 as the result of violent American policies overseas. ”
He is close to Farrakhan and gave him an award but it was only Farrakhan who used the phrase gutter people.
Mar 1, 2008 - 1:29 am John R:Tolerance says he opposes any form of discrimination and then proceeds to label any reasonable opposition to Obama as racism. His tepid dismissal of Farrakhan is an outrage. Hey tolerance, do you have the courage to come out and call Farrakhan exactly what he is?: A black racist, hitlerian anti-semite, and apologist for muslim atrocities? Oh and 90 percent of black Americans are supporting Obama. But not because he’s black of course, right? Yes, there is a race problem in this country. But it’s not primarily a white problem.
Mar 1, 2008 - 8:48 am Lorna Craig:Better question: Where does John McCain stand on polygamy, child marriages, rape of children, and blood atonement. I wrote a letter to Senator McCain a while back asking him to support a law in Arizona that would make it a felony to engage a child under 18 in bigamy. His response to me was that religious freedom should be respected. Arizona lowered the age to 16 in their law. Which means that if a teacher, doctor, police officer has sex with a 17 year old he can get arrested. If a polygamist from Warren Jeff’s group located in Arizona does he gets off free. Mr. McCain has never spoken out against the many polygamist crimes in his state. Please why go after Obama on polygamy when we have it here in America.
Mar 2, 2008 - 7:34 pm truthisgold:A scum article by a fear monger! Obama is as pure a politician as you’ll ever find running for president. He will improve the lives of the people, not the lives of the lobbyists, corporate elite, or high income bracket rich.
Mar 3, 2008 - 5:31 pm Helen:Are we really so dumb and blind as to who Obama is? Can we really be soo blind as to forget 911. Remember the fear and the terror. I have learned if you have doubts about something you do not proceed with it. There are too many things about Obama that have never been addressed or that have been pushed under the rug. When will he tell us what it all means? When we are in the middle of something so terryifying we cannot get out of. How can someone that we even may have one hint of a thought that he is tied in with and to the Muslim beliefs, become president of these United States, that were founded on God. Like it or not this nation was once a God fearing nation and in some respects it still is. Are we truly going to elect someone tht will hand over this country to the terrorists? Oh no, we say, he wouldn’t do that. Oh really! Did you know that the reason we have not had another terrorist attack is because the terrorists are waiting to see who we elect. It is far easier to walk in then to bomb their way in. Wake up America before you find you have lost your God given rights & freedoms. Once they are gone it will not be easy to get them back.
Jun 6, 2008 - 11:50 am