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2010-12-09 Britain

Hannan: Why Barack Obama doesn't much care for Britain

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Posted by tipper 2010-12-09 01:01|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Fascinating article, especially the bit about Obama and his grandfather.

"The young Obama was horrified: I had imagined him to be a man of his people, opposed to white rule, he wrote in Dreams from my Father. What Granny [Sarah Obama, one of Onyango's wives] had told me scrambled that image completely, causing ugly words to flash across my mind. Uncle Tom. Collaborator. House nigger.

It never occurs to him that his grandfather might have watched the British improve life in Kenya. After all the British only took Kenya on as a protectorate in 1890, even if his Grandfather wasn't around pre-British there certainly would be folks around who were and watching civilization spread. Certainly seems worth asking why, instead of the childish white bad, black good name calling that Obama writes about.

After all "apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"

Posted by rjschwarz 2010-12-09 09:33|| 2010-12-09 09:33|| Front Page Top

#2 It never occurs to him that his grandfather might have watched the British

.....reported their activities to Mau Mau insurgents, even though he wasn't Kikuyu, and was subsequently jailed for espionage.

Yes, people USED to be imprisoned or shot for passing classified information. Any other questions as to why Zero fails to make substantive comment on the WL event stream?

Posted by Besoeker 2010-12-09 09:41|| 2010-12-09 09:41|| Front Page Top

#3 For crying out loud, forget about some perceived wrong that you never really knew. I'm sure most of us could drag up something in some unknown relative's past that we could bitch and sulk about. Get over it.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-12-09 09:55|| 2010-12-09 09:55|| Front Page Top

#4 The entire moral posture of leftism is "righting" perceived wrongs. It doesn't matter if the wrongs are imagined or non-existent, as long as all good lefties believe the wrongs occurred. All the killing in USSR and Mao's China weren't wrong, you see, because they ameliorated larger wrongs, in the lefty mind. Get that and you GET IT...

Posted by M. Murcek 2010-12-09 14:49|| 2010-12-09 14:49|| Front Page Top

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