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Long ago it was said that Mohammed's greatest error was in not describing in any way what good leadership or government was. This resulted in a "might makes right" attitude among Muslims.
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'Moose, I think Mohammed would have described that as a feature, not a bug. He was, after all, a warlord who ruled by terror as much as by inspiration.
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03/20/2008 12:21 Comments ||
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But Anonymoose, it's clear from the history and the stories that Mohammed knew neither how to govern well nor to lead well. So how could he possibly have instructed his followers in best practices for either activity? Do be fair. ;-)
Kind of like an evil 3 little pigs version of Martha and the Vandellas. They'd have Allan turbans and Korans coverd in pig-skin and bookmark ribbons made of bacon.
By Liam Julian
Barack Obama, who apparently believes that the only way to get beyond race is by constantly evoking it, said Tuesday that while we do not need to recite the history of racial injustice it nonetheless festers in just about everything Americans do. Then he recited the history of racial injustice.
Going to church in 2008, Obama noted, is infused with historical, racial meaning. So, too, are scads of other activities, such as going to school: Segregated schools were, and are, inferior schools; we still havent fixed them, fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, and the inferior education they provided, then and now, helps explain the pervasive achievement gap between todays black and white students.
#2
Liam could have condensed his article even further; "I am a Clinton supporter...nuff said"! He needs to make his point NOW, why? If Hillary wins, and it's Hillary versus McCain, he'd just as well have to restart his graduate major over to "Fellow Of White Studies!! Now I could swallow that!
#5
Barak - wanna stop bad schools in black areas? then do what the good white schoosl do:
GET THE PARENTS INVOLVED! Do not sit and wait - go and DO! And stop glorifying and paying women to have welfare babies and multiple "baby daddy". Stop deriding blacks who perform academically as "poindexters". Stop glorifying drugs and baggy pants gangsters in the urban "rap" culture. Treat your women wiht respect, no Bitches an Ho's. Treat yourself with respect - stop calling yourself "niggers".
No amount of money thrown at the schools can fix a broken culture. And right now Black Culture is broken - its mired down in victimhood, blamecasting and collectivism - it needs to grow the hell up and start cleaning up: self respect, individualism, achievement. Throw away the poverty pimps and the self appointed massah's like Al Sharpton. Start breaking free of the chains you let them put you in.
Ask the Asians - they played by the rules - education, self reliance, hard work. Ask the hispanics who are now moving past blacks economically - same thing.
What theyhave in common? culture that emphasizes family and hard work. Same things black culture has thrown away.
Until you remove yourselves from VOLUNTARY slavery to "black culture", you will continue to fail.
Obama ought to know this - he broke out of all that and went to Harvard.
#6
Agreed about the culture issues, OldSpook. But the honourable Senator Obama was carefully sheltered far from the Black culture you describe, and if I recall correctly, he went to Harvard not just on his own ability, but as a legacy. Isn't that where his parents met, his father on a JFK scholarship for bright young Third Worlders?
The honourable Senator Obama is an expat brat just like the trailing daughters. He spent his formative years abroad, amongst the ambitious and worldly international managerial class and their offspring, and grew up knowing himself to be more widely experienced, more worldly, and more sophisticated than his stay-at-home peers.
#7
Stop glorifying drugs and baggy pants gangsters
The other day I saw a guy who had long arms and was wearing baggy pants. And then it struck me: because the baggy pants made the legs look much shorter he had the silhouette of a chimpanzee. That is what the liberals (of course they are liberals, what else?) want blacks to look like, and that is what they consider them to be: not humans but apes. And that is what blacks have allowed themselves to look like.
#8
I would ask the senator to explain the logical relationship between segregation and 9/11 conspiracy theories. How does Jim Crow give rise to AIDS infection?
There are many problems with Obama's speech, notwithstanding the NYT view of the matter, not the least of which is that it changed the subject of what the preacher was actually talking about.
I think the senator has set back race relations. That's a sad legacy for a would be healer more ambitious than sincere. Maybe some good will still come out of this, but the prospect of an Obama presidency hardly seems a vehicle for improving much of anything.
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"There is (a) class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs -- partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs ... There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public."
-- Booker T. Washington
#10
Besoeker (#3), you're falling hook, line, an sinker into the 'race card' played by the Clinton campaign, to win the top spot whether you like it or not. This 'race baiting' won't stop until 24 hours of Obama's decisive win or lost in this quest! A strategy to check his elementary school attendances and papers hinted at the research undergoing to 'raise the fear in whites'! The African photo, the 'Middle Name' issue, 'Guilt By Association trysts, Disenfranchiser for obeying the DNC rules concerning Michigan and Florida, etc. are ALL hidden backroom logistics thrusted forward to cement the '2 for 1' strategy of the Clintons; and it astonishes me, some whites can't or won't see through this. After Hillary realized in February, that she could no longer count on the sheer strength of 'white women' to put her ahead, the scheme to segment the 'entire' white vote was enacted, the so call 'why have a lump when you can have the whole loaf' belief!
My advise to blacks; should Obama lose due to the underhanded, unfair, negative, 'race baiting' tactics of the Clinton camp this summer; don't stay home, vote for McCain as a block. The Republican 'whites' joined by 90% of the 'black' vote, would propel a grateful McCain into the Presidency most assuredly, and "The enemy of my enemy, is my friend" can be a soothing, pleasing revenge.
#11
Maybe while BO was in El Dorado, Kansas, singing the praises of his grandparents he should have picked up that 'Kansas: as bigoted as you thing" bumper sticker. He sure didn't seem to think his grandparents were bigoted then, but now he thinks they are.
In light of this new information (if the MSM can't do investigating reporting about a presidential candidate then how come they know everything about Iraq...). I demand a re-vote for Kansas - and how is he doing in the polls of other states which have already voted? So all those voters who chose him as a moral whitewash of their sins are reconsidering after being called members of the KKK? Tasty. Here is a question: If his grandma was frightened, to use BO's words, of 'black people' then why did she help raise BO and if so was frightened still confided this knowledge with BO?
Maybe, if his healing message were true, he should have stopped in Topeka and given note to BvsBOE instead of picking up loved trinkets from the friends of his grandparents...
Whats your beef swksvolFF, you obviously didn't 'waste your vote' on Obama, so why are you so angry? There is no such thing as inevitability is this race, is there?
Barack has just trashed the grandma who raised him. To me, that puts him right in there with Bill Clinton and the governor of NY and the past governors of NY and NJ. These are people who are willing to cheat on some of the people they're supposed to love the most. What a sorry spectacle.
If Hilary doesn't beat him, McCain will. You think it was unfair that Hilary tried to dig up dirt on him? C'mon. Hilary is fighting like an alley cat, just as expected. He wants to be President of the United States so his life becomes an open book. That's democracy and you really wouldn't want it any other way, would you? The American people have a right to know these things and it falls upon opposing candidates to expose them. You didn't think the NYT would, did you?
What amazes me is that this guy who is, apparently, an otherwise intelligent man harbored these ambitions of his while attending a church where a racist hate monger held forth every Sunday for twenty years. He didn't try to hide his pot smoking so how did he expect to get away with this? Did he think that nobody would notice? That's absurd.
Maybe he's been misled himself and he really believes that's what it means to be a Christian. Maybe that's the best we can expect from someone who was born Muslim.
White people did it a LONG time ago. Grand Ole Opry. Dave "Stringbean" Akeman. Not the baggy pants, waist belted at the nkees, and he even has the wallet chain.
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
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Damn, gromky, Booker T. sure was psychic!
He died in the early part of the 20th century, but he still predicted how Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, et al., would act nearly a century later.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
03/20/2008 19:00 Comments ||
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#20
No beef with any one candidate, I'll call out on all of them. The problem with obama is that he may have talent but has absolutely no experience...its like taking that hotshot quarterback or pitcher right out of college and starting them the next year in the pros, and it shows like a tenticle where a nose should be.
People called out hillary after she broke down crying, they voted for her and swung some states, then she went and campaigned in Florida like she promised she would not do and voters were pissed.
Mccain screwed up with the amnysty deal and it shows imo in the amount of money donated to him vs. democrat contenders.
All my east state buddies were sending me e-mails 'watch the speech live'; I read the damn transcript and his speech was all about nothing as far as answering critical questions concerning his ability to work as a public servant but people (crossed fingers over your heart yall) 'felt good about it'.
You can't pick your family, but you can pick your friends, your spouse, and your pastor/spiritual advisor (at least in America you can, damn it!). The guy has had so many mulligans that I am on my 3rd beer and still the 1st tee box. Now that something 'sticks' to mr. butter people cry foul when in fact, imo, it is the least important reason as to why he is not qualified for POTUS.
Posted by: Jan ||
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#22
mccain has good timing; he goes to iraq and looks presidential and on site - al'obama & her thighness are slap fighting like a couple amateur parisians...mccain is coming out like a rose (I still don't care for him, just my $.02)
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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