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| Messed up Obamamaniacs, Example #17 |
| 2008-06-29 |
| Ann Althouse "'My name is such a vanilla, white-girl American name,' said Ashley Holmes of Indianapolis, who changed her name online 'to show how little meaning "Hussein" really has.'" She's one of those young Obama supporters who've adopted "Hussein" as their middle name. I assume they see themselves as good-hearted and idealistic, but: 1. How did you become estranged from your own name, to regard it — as opposed to yourself — as vanilla, white, female, and American, and to think of that combination in a negative way? 2. Why do you think the name "Hussein" has little meaning and that people who have that name appreciate your demonstration that is has little meaning? You're propagating the idea that "Hussein" is a dirty word — associated only with Saddam Hussein — that ought to be deactivated by repetition, as opposed to an honorable name within a respected tradition. I assume Ashley Hussein Whitebread-Vanilla will be roundly condemned at Obama's "Fight the Smears" website for propagating the slanderous meme that Obama is a closet Moslem. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #16 Importantly, the single equation that many Americans will use will be "If Obama was white, who would be the Democrat senator most like him in policy?" http://www.nationaljournal.com/voteratings/sen/lib.htm Who is the most liberal senator? (Table) 1) Obama, Barack, D-Ill 2) Whitehouse, Sheldon, D-R.I. 3) Biden, Joseph, D-Del. 4) Sanders, Bernie, I-Vt. 5) Menendez, Robert, D-N.J. 6) Lautenberg, Frank, D-N.J. 7) Leahy, Patrick, D-Vt. 8) Boxer, Barbara, D-Calif. 9) Reid, Harry, D-Nev. 10) Feingold, Russell, D-Wis. Please note that Obama is far more liberal than the *socialist* senator. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-06-29 21:31 |
| #15 that lecturing asshole attitude is what got you banned - do you always troll places that don't want you? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-06-29 21:31 |
| #14 Deacon> "Contrary to your belief, Aris, most Americans don't care what color our leaders are." You should care: It's one of the metrics useful in determining whether there's racial equality in practice. I.e. given the fact that the last 43 presidents were white males, one would determine gender and racial equality are still lacking. Among the candidates for the nomination, the Republican lineup still only had white males -- the Democrats had in their own lineup a Hispanic, an African-American, and a woman. |
| Posted by: Aris 2008-06-29 21:19 |
| #13 When Christians convert to the terror cult, they adopt koranic names. So why did Obama - who once signed official documents as "Barry Obama" - not abandon his terror cult nom de dhimmi? Bad judgment in my opinion. |
| Posted by: McZoid 2008-06-29 20:54 |
| #12 Contrary to your belief, Aris, most Americans don't care what color our leaders are. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2008-06-29 20:09 |
| #11 "If B.Hussein Obama had an ounce of integrity he would've changed HIS middle name to something "American" long ago." Now in any other forum I visit, I'd be sure this was snarky humor, but here in Rantburg it was almost certainly spoken for real. Looking forward to seeing when the GOP will ever nominate a non-white, non-male or non-Anglo-named in its ticket... Choose Condoleeza Rice as VP, and you'll be having 2.5 out of 3, beating Obama's score of 2 out of 3, even if only in a VP position. |
| Posted by: Aris 2008-06-29 19:50 |
| #10 1. How did you become estranged from your own name, to regard it — as opposed to yourself — as vanilla, white, female, and American, and to think of that combination in a negative way? If I had to guess, I'd say our public education system paved the way for Ms. Holmes. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-06-29 14:37 |
| #9 http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/mluphoup/Obamania.gif Obamania! Catch it! |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-06-29 14:14 |
| #8 Or just showing them as they really are. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-06-29 14:13 |
| #7 bHo is going to set race relations in this country back a generation. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-06-29 13:59 |
| #6 Since it was deemed a good neologism (though not from me), here it goes again : ethnomasochism. Seriously, it is a serious cultural issue. Check out the concept of "cultural pessimism", in its racial guise, this is what this is all about; large chunk of vanilla, white girls & boys, not only in the USA, but in France, Germany,... have basically been taught that their skin color is wrong, that their collective History is worthless and shameful, and that the Other™ is not only different, but he's better, and is not to be judged according to our own set of values (which are wrong and worthless anyway) in any case. Reminds me of that incident mentioned in passing in the Spencer's book about unPC islam, with that vanilla, white-girl american student telling him she found western History so bland and so worthless, and that she was into american indians History, because they were so much more humane and spiritual : they invented democracy, had gender equality,... Same here. Weren't BO a black guy (though he's actually a metis, but it's being black is a lot more rewarding in his own worldview, probably, and also easier to capitalize on in identity politics & community activism, saul alinsky-style), he would lose a LOT of his appeal for all those vanilla, white new voters, who will flock to him, to convince themselves they're on the right side (plus alot of other, less affected folks, who go through the motions, even while they know deep down it's flawed in face of Reality™, but will vote for BO to reassure themselves they're not raaaaaaacccccissssts, after all). BO is poison, he epithemizes everything's that is wrong about race relationships in the USA, and, yet, he's doing a service of some sort, as he's a chemical revelator, a catalyst for showing what's left in the unavowed and unacknowledged (see the trinity church and what it means, see that girl and what it means). Interesting. I'm actually learning a lot. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-06-29 13:54 |
| #5 White Punks On Dope |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2008-06-29 13:31 |
| #4 Ashley has so little meaning in her insignificant little life that she's doing this to yell "pay attention to meeeeeeee!". I guess better this than tattoos, shaved head, or piercings, but same loser mentality |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-06-29 12:30 |
| #3 If B.Hussein Obama had an ounce of integrity he would've changed HIS middle name to something "American" long ago. Better people than he have changed their names to avoid social opprobrium. It's just another indicator of BHO's arrogance, and his supporters' stupidity. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2008-06-29 11:07 |
| #2 This isn't stupid, merely foolish, naive, and ultimately meaningless. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2008-06-29 10:32 |
| #1 While the Universe does have a penalty for stupidity, it's not applied consistently. Generally, stupid=Dead. But not often enough. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2008-06-29 10:29 |