Comments on: Back to Watergate: Obama, Grandmothers and Charles Colson

By: tim maguire

tim maguire — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:58:50 +0000

I’m reminded more of Al Gore’s use of his son’s accident in the 2000 election. Trying to show his emotional side by describing how he suffered as he held his little boy’s broken body.

Disgusting.

By: Gary Rosen

Gary Rosen — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:08:18 +0000

“every single of your comments indistinguishable from the Marxists”

Not to mention remarkably content-free.

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:03:45 +0000

pjbishop3, I agree that Colson has expiated himself to a great degree since Watergate. I was obviously going for the “grandmother thing.”

By: Barrett

Barrett — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:21:51 +0000

Obama’s grandmother could not be blamed if she disowned him for his disrespectful typical white person comment. All she did was step in and provide him with the foundation that got him to where he is today. But she probably has too much class.

Maybe if more folks took her view of responsibility and her value system, which obviously includes hard work and doing the right thing, we would have a better world. We certainly would have smaller government (because less people would be on the public dole) and more freedom.

In any case, all he cares about is getting power. So what if grandma has to pay the price. If he gets power, you can bet that lots of us will be thrown under the bus as he expands government to create dependencies to keep himself in power. Perverse!

By: srlucado

srlucado — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:02:41 +0000

All I can say is, if I were Obama’s grandmother, I’d stay home for a while. Columnists are referring to her being thrown under a train, under a bus, in front of a truck…

The poor woman must be terrified (and not just of black men).

By: Ray Zacek

Ray Zacek — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:14:32 +0000

There is a symmetry to it. Having elevated the African father and grandparents he never knew to mythical level in his life, he can roughly use and practically discard the actual grandmother who raised him; the poor old woman, however good-hearted she may be, serves no symbolic purpose. She’s a typical white person; not a mythical African father. Obama made great ceremony of visiting the graves of his father and grandfather in Kenya, and thus “getting in touch with his racial roots”; but a visit to granny’s condo in Honolulu offers nothing but comfy, drab, middle class humdrum, none of it in sepia tones, none of it of any political use.

By: stumbley

stumbley — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:40:06 +0000

qrstuv:

I think it’s because “CT” stands for “Claiming Tobea”…

By: qrstuv

qrstuv — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:27:08 +0000

CTRepublican:

For a guy who claims to be a Republican, why is every single of your comments indistinguishable from the Marxists who drop in here to fling poo?

By: pjbishop3

pjbishop3 — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:10:57 +0000

Roger…

we can agree to disagree on many things… and perhaps this is one of those times…

the comment above “So this places Obama ahead of Nixon (or behind, if you will) and in the company of the sleazy Colson. Not a great place to be, in my book.” regarding Mr. Colson is troubling… His life and service since the time of his conversion and time in prison seems to be one of selfless sacrifice… Unless I am missing something… You may not agree with his world view… but I would think it would be hard to argue that he hasn’t made a very positive contribution to society in the time since Nixon and Watergate…

Respectfully disagreeing with your above take.

Paul

By: CTRepublican

CTRepublican — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:05:24 +0000

Roger, for a guy who’s always complaining that liberals are stuck in 1968, why is it that just about everything reminds you of some bygone era?

Or is this just another quick ‘n’ easy opportunity for a cheap shot at an insufficiently-militant politician with whom you disagree?