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To: TideGlider who wrote (116168) 3/1/2008 2:17:16 PM
From: jim-thompson 1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 116215
here is something to read on okra's Obama:
> Say What, Barrack?
>
> By Paul R. Hollrah
>
> Tuning in to C-Span recently, I found myself listening to a speech by
> Senator Barrack Hussein Obama, Jr. He was standing in the pulpit of a
black
> church in Selma, Alabama, and as I studied the body language of the dozen
or
> so black ministers standing behind the senator, I couldn't help but be
> reminded of the little head-bobbing dolls that people used to place in
the
> rear windows of their 1957 Chevrolets. If their reactions are any
indication,
> the new "Schlickmeister" of the Democrat Party is actually a pretty
> accomplished public speaker.
>
> However, as he spoke, I found my b.s. alarm going off, repeatedly. But I
> couldn't quite figure out why until I actually read excerpts of his
speech
> several days later. Here's part of what he said:
>
> "...something happened back here in Selma, Alabama. Something happened
> in Birmingham that sent out what Bobby Kennedy called, "ripples of hope
all
> around the world." Something happened when a bunch of women decided they
were
> going to walk instead of ride the bus after a long day of doing somebody
> else's laundry, looking after somebody else's children.
>
> "When (black) men who had PhD's decided 'that's enough' and 'we're going
> to stand up for our dignity,' that sent a shout across oceans so that my
> grandfather began to imagine something different for his son. His son,
who
> grew up herding goats in a small village in Africa could suddenly set his
> sights a little higher and believe that maybe a black man in this world
had a
> chance.
>
> "So the Kennedy's decided we're going to do an airlift. We're going to
> go to Africa and start bringing young Africans over to this country and
give
> them scholarships to study so they can learn what a wonderful country
America
> is.
>
> "This young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets and came
> over to this country. He met this woman whose great great-great-great-
> grandfather had owned slaves; but she had a good idea there was some
> craziness going on because they looked at each other and they decided
that we
> know that, (in) the world as it has been, it might not be possible for us
to
> get together and have a child. There was something stirring across the
> country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks
are
> willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama
Jr.
> Was born. So don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma , Alabama. Don't
> tell me I'm not coming home to Selma, Alabama."
>
> Okay, so what's wrong with that? It all sounds good. But is it?
>
> Obama told his audience that, because some folks had the courage to
> "march across a bridge" in Selma, Alabama, his mother, a white woman from
> Kansas, and his father, a black Muslim from Africa, took heart. It gave
them
> the courage to get married and have a child. The problem with that
> characterization is that Barrack Obama, Jr., was born on August 4, 1961,
> while the first of three marches across that bridge in Selma didn't occur
> until March 7, 1965, at least five years after Obama's parents met.
>
> Obama went on to tell his audience that the Kennedys, Jack and Bobby,
> decided to do an airlift. They would bring some young Africans over so
that
> they could be educated and learn all about America. His grandfather heard
> that call and sent his son, Barrack Obama, Sr., to America.
>
> The problem with that scenario is that, having been born in August 1961,
> the future senator was not conceived until sometime in November 1960. So
if
> this African grandfather heard words that ''sent a shout across oceans,''
> inspiring him to send his goat-herder son to America, it was not a
Democrat
> Jack Kennedy he heard, nor his brother Bobby, it was a Republican
President,
> Dwight D. Eisenhower.
>
> Obama's speech is reminiscent of Al Gore's claim of having invented the
> Internet, Hillary Clinton's claim of having been named after the first
man to
> climb Mt. Everest, even though she was born five years and seven months
> before Sir Edmund climbed the mountain, and John Kerry's imaginary trip
to
> Cambodia.
>
> As one of my black friends, Eddie Huff, has said, "We need to ask some
> very serious questions of the senator from Illinois. It's not enough to
be
> black, it's not enough to be articulate, and it's not enough to be
eloquent
> and a media darling. The only question will be how deaf an ear, or how
blind
> an eye, will people turn in order to turn a frog into a prince."
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