What Obama has wrought: A disastrous regression in race relations

Trans-racial my TWP a$$.

The Chickens of Identity Politics Come Home to Roost? [Victor Davis Hanson]

Watching the parade of apologists for Rev. Wright’s hatred—“garlic noses”; “KKK of A;” “God Damn America;” “Condamnesia;” the U.S. deserved 9/11; America is no different from al-Qaeda; we caused the AIDs virus; Israel is a “dirty word” and sought an Arab and black ethnic bomb, etc—is, well, depressing. Instead of offering distance from Wright, far too many African-American professors and pastors interviewed on the cable stations the last few nights instead praised his brilliance and inspiration.

At best, there was a feeble ‘you just don’t get it’ about the venting and wink-and-nod culture of the black church. But the net message from the African-American liberal establishment, at least I fear, seems to be something like the following: ‘Wright is not going to offer an apology and we aren’t embarrassed about his ranting, which is not ranting at all, but rather historical and biblical exegesis which we endorse. And the problem is yours, not ours, since we expect exemption—given the history of race in this country—from your so-called norms of public discourse.’

This is what the triangulation of Obama has helped to unleash: most Americans will now doubt the moral authority of the African-American intellectual and religious community not just to question the questionable racial remarks of a Bill Clinton, Ed Rendell, or Geraldine Ferraro, but also the Wright-like crudity of a Don Imus or a Michael Richards. Context is now king.

This disastrous regression in race relations is the natural dividend of liberal identity politics, most recently brought to the fore by the wife of the first “black President”, the first “transracial” black Presidential candidate, and the “prophet” and “healer” Reverend Wright.

Barack Obama is on his way to a McGovern candidacy.

-source- The Corner

Obama: Babies are a punishment.

Some things are too disgusting for even this TWP to post.

-source-Not too disgusting to link.

Obama: Throwing down against our enemies with a throwback defense policy.

Obama takes a right turn on the Road to Change.

Sen. Barack Obama said Friday he would return the country to the more "traditional" foreign policy efforts of past presidents, such as George H.W. Bush, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.

At a town hall event at a local high school gymnasium, Obama praised George H.W. Bush — father of the president — for the way he handled the Persian Gulf War: with a large coalition and carefully defined objectives.

Obama began a six-day bus tour through Pennsylvania, the largest remaining primary prize in the contest with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination. Sen. John McCain is the Republican nominee-in-waiting.

-source- Associated Press

"By the sixth day I'm all unshaven and my suits are all wrinkled,"

On the Road to Change in Illinois. A promise for the penny and TMI for TWP.

He refused to let Illinois take the blame for stopping the production of pennies, and promised that he would look into it promised that he would look into it with one condition.

"I will seriously consider eliminating the penny as long as we can find Lincoln another place to land. Because Lincoln's a pretty important guy," Obama said.

And he told the crowd that they were "lucky" to get him on the first day of the bus tour. "By the sixth day I'm all unshaven and my suits are all wrinkled," he said.

-source- MSNBC

Philly Mayor: Obama Pastor Talk Beyond Pale

They said it, not me.



-source- ABC News Google headline screen capture

Obama's campus skit lap dance gets a rise out of the Moonbats

But...it was for a good cause.

North Dakota State University is investigating complaints about a campus skit in which a white student in blackface portrayed Barack Obama receiving a lap dance.

The same skit, part of a charity fundraiser held at a campus theater, also featured a depiction of cowboys having sex with each other, witnesses told The Forum newspaper, which first reported the backlash Friday.

"We're trying to find out the right approaches for accountability, but at the same time try to heal wounds that have occurred and allow the campus to move ahead," Janna Stoskopf, NDSU's dean of students, told The Associated Press on Friday.

The March 18 skit involving the NDSU Saddle and Sirloin Club was performed at the Mr. NDSU Pageant, which is sponsored by the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority and raises money for diabetes research.

People who attended it said a pageant contestant from Saddle and Sirloin dressed as a woman from the Internet video "I Got a Crush on Obama" and performed a strip tease for another student, who was wearing dark makeup and an afro wig.

In the background, two male students dressed as cowboys simulated anal sex while holding an Obama sign that one student ripped at the conclusion of the 30-second performance, the Forum reported.

"That seems to be consistent with what's been described to me," Stoskopf said.

-source- My Way News

Garlic Nose a compliment...really.

That's what I tried to tell Typical White Husband last night, too.

"The View’s" Joy Behar is so partisan as to spin an ethnic slur from Barack Obama’s pastor into a compliment. Discussing Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s "garlic nosed Italians" comments on the March 28 edition, Behar noted "he’s talking about the ancient Romans here," (apparently Reverend Wright did not know that Italy did not exist as a country until 1861) and claimed "the Roman nose has been celebrated in art and history...I don’t think it’s insulting." She also added that garlic in her diet helps with her "gorgeous complexion."

-source- Newsbusters

Obama: A new kind of politician

I mean, really - is their any other kind?

A college-age supporter for Barack Obama in Erie represented himself as a Hillary Clinton backer when he visited the local campaign office, the Clinton campaign said. And he tried to get information at Clinton’s campaign office in the West Erie Plaza on Thursday, the Clinton campaign said.

The Clinton campaign identified him as Sam Glenzer of Wisconsin. Glenzer could not be reached for comment.

Clinton campaign officials said Glenzer was a paid staffer, but Obama spokesman Matt Lehrich said he was a volunteer in Erie. Lehrich said Glenzer was asked to leave the campaign.

-source- GoErie.com

Obama throws pastor under the time warp machine bus

without so much as a backward glance.

“What they spoke to was, I think, a brilliant man who was still caught in a time warp back in the ’60s, early ’70s and the ’50s, where he grew up, and had a sense of where America was and didn’t have a good enough sense of how it had changed,” he said.

Obama disputed what he called an overstated notion that Wright was his “spiritual adviser” or “mentor.”

-source- Fox News

Obama embarks on "Road to Change"

across Keystone State.

Obama also explained what he would do for Pennsylvania if he would win the upcoming November election. He said the economy of cities like Johnstown was top on his list.

“You can turn communities around,” said Obama. "It requires someone who is fighting for workers and not for Wall Street."

The road to change is evidently paved with pork and powered by hot air.

"... he wants to provide more factory jobs by investing alternative energy sources like solar panels and wind power. As for deficient roads and bridges in the Allegheny region, Obama said he has a plan for those too.

"I think it's important to invest in infrastructure. I put forward $60 billion that will help infrastructure, above the normal highway transportation funds."

-source- WJAC-TV. News you can count on.

And if cows shi$ butter we wouldn't have to churn...

Obama would have left if Wright stayed. Honest.

"Had the reverend not retired, and had he not acknowledged that what he had said had deeply offended people and were inappropriate and mischaracterized what I believe is the greatness of this country, for all its flaws, then I wouldn't have felt comfortable staying at the church," Obama said Thursday during a taping of the ABC talk show, "The View." The interview will be broadcast Friday.

-source- Yahoo News.

When Barry became Barack...

Spin.

When Sen. Barack Obama moved from using the name Barry to Barack, his formal name, it was part of his almost lifelong quest for identity and belonging -- to figure out who he is, and how he fits into the larger American tapestry. Part black, part white, raised in Hawaii and Indonesia, with family of different religious and spiritual backgrounds -- seen by others in ways he didn't see himself -- the young Barry was looking for solid ground. At Occidental College, he was feeling like he was at a "dead end," he tells Newsweek, "that somehow I needed to connect with something bigger than myself."

-source- Hold your nose and click.

Greed bad, says Obama

then he goes down to Wall Street for a fund raiser.

Barack Obama went to New York Thursday and blamed lobbyists, greedy businessmen and complacent Washington politicians for creating “an ethic of greed” that led to today’s foreclosure crisis.

Not long after he left the stage, the Democratic presidential hopeful attended a fundraiser held by his campaign in a room in the Manhattan headquarters of Credit Suisse, one of the major investment companies caught up in the subprime lending mess.

-source- Politico

Obama: Muslim Wolf in Christian Clothing

The glib handling of criticism of his relationship with the anti-American ("God Damn America!") and anti-Israel ("a dirty word for Negroes") Reverend James Wright may have bought him a little time. But the legacy of dissimulation about his long-concealed identity is about to come crashing down around the ears of Barack Hussein Obama, courtesy of the assembled testimony of his family, friends, classmates and teachers.

-Consider the source- IsraelInsider

Obama stirs Money Honey's pot with

idea to double capital gains tax.

Then he just falls apart and starts babbling about Warren Buffet (sic).
-Full transcript at source-

BARTIROMO: "How do you plan to change the tax code when it comes to capital gains? How high will that 15 percent rate go?"

Sen. OBAMA: "Well, you know, I haven't given a firm number. Here's my belief, that we can't go back to some of the, you know, confiscatory rates that existed in the past that distorted sound economics. And I certainly would not go above what existed under Bill Clinton, which was the 28 percent. I would--and my guess would be it would be significantly lower than that. I think that we can have a capital gains rate that is higher than 15 percent. If it--and if it, you know--when I talk to people like Warren Buffet or others and I ask them, you know, what's--how much of a difference is it going to be if it's 20 or 25 percent, they say, look, if it's within that range then it's not going to distort, I think, economic decision making. On the other hand, what it will also do is first of all help out the federal treasury, which is running a credit card up with the bank of China and other countries. What it will also do, I think, is allow us to make investments in basic scientific research, in infrastructure, in broadband lines, in green energy and will allow us to give us--give some relief to middle class and working class families who have been driving this economy as consumers but have been doing it through credit cards and home equity loans. They're not going to be able to do that. And if we want the economy to continue to go strong, then we've got to make sure that they're getting a little relief as well."

-source- Ben Smith's Blogs at Politico.

Typical White Husband

is a garlic nose. Just sayin'.

The article also quotes him referring to Italians’ “garlic noses,” and characterizing Jesus’ crucifixion as “a public lynching, Italian-style.”

-source- Hold your nose and click.

Rev's Chickens Coming home to roost in $1.6 coop

Coop, sweet coop.

FOX News has uncovered documents that indicate Wright is about to move to a 10,340-square-foot, four-bedroom home in suburban Chicago, currently under construction in a gated community.

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According to documents obtained from the Cook County Register of Deeds, Wright purchased two empty lots in Tinley Park, Ill., from Chicago restaurant chain owner Kenny Lewis for $345,000 in 2004.

Documents show Wright sold the property to his church, Trinity United, in December 2006, with the proceeds going to a living trust shared with his wife, Ramah.

The sale price for the land was just under $308,000, about $40,000 less than Wright’s original purchase two years earlier.

Public records of the sale show Trinity initially obtained a $10 million bank loan to purchase the property and build a new house on the land. But further investigation with tax and real estate attorneys showed that the church had actually secured a $1.6 million mortgage for the home purchase, and attached a $10 million line of credit, for reasons unspecified in the paperwork.

There is apparently nothing wrong with that, according to non-profit tax expert Jack Siegel of Charity Governance Consulting, who examined public documents FOX News obtained from the Cook County Register of Deeds and the Village of Tinley Park.

“At least looking at it from a public document standpoint, there’s clearly not a problem that jumps out or some sort of wrongdoing,” Siegel said.

Siegel characterizes the transaction as unusual, however, because of the way Wright sold the property to Trinity and the way the deal was financed, with the attached $10 million line of credit. Because churches are classified as private businesses, Trinity isn’t required to reveal its intended use for the line of credit. Nor, because it’s a non-profit entity, is it required to provide that information to the IRS. -snip-

-source- Fox News

Well, well, well.

May I be the first to advise you that Typical White Person

is happy to be back online with you.

Blogger thought I was a SPAM BLOG and took me off line for a few days.

And believe you me, I was itching to be blogging about Obama - it's like it's bred in my experiences or something.

Judas Iscariot Richardson

Democratic reconciliation on the horizon? Carville wishes Obama's new BFF a happy Easter.

"An act of betrayal," said James Carville, an adviser to the Clintons.

"Mr. Richardson's endorsement came right around the anniversary of the day when Judas sold out for 30 pieces of silver, so I think the timing is appropriate, if ironic," Carville said.

source - Herald Tribune

"Some little white no-good trasher in America..."

Another voter for Obama.

WTA head Larry Scott said Thursday that he strongly disagrees with comments made by Richard Williams, father of Serena and Venus, regarding racism on the women’s tour.

Saying he was disappointed by Williams’ recent remarks during an interview in India, Scott said in a statement: “The Tour has a zero tolerance policy when it comes to racism, and I have previously let Mr. Williams know that he should let me know if he ever had evidence of racist comments or acts in women’s professional tennis.”

While his daughters were playing earlier this month in Bangladore, India, where Venus reached the quarterfinals and Serena won the title, Williams told the Deccan Herald, “Well, I’m black and I’m prejudiced, very prejudiced. People are prejudiced in tennis. I don’t think Venus or Serena was ever accepted by tennis. They never will be.”

He said the media treated his daughters unfairly, that it was “the worst media job that they have done on any human being in the world,” and that if he were Serena and Venus, he would have quit playing.

“But if you get some little white no-good trasher in America like Tracy Austin or Chris Evert, who cannot hit the ball, they (the media) will claim this is great,” he said.

source - Yahoo Sports