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To: bentway who wrote (498401)	7/27/2009 9:19:03 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574519

"Do you really believe that Obama's parent's cooked up this scheme BEFORE HE WAS BORN so he could be an illegitimate president?" are you loony ??? I've heard this stupid statement from tons of libs, must be the DNC talking points. Obama's mom just wanted him to be a US citizen, there's more benefits to that than a Kenyan one. Why do pregnant women from around the world come here so their kid will be born in the states. Are they thinking about them becoming President later ??

To: bentway who wrote (498401)	7/27/2009 9:28:16 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1574519

The President’s Accidental Gift on Race by Andrew Breitbart This week’s Washington Times column: Less than a month after being confirmed as the nation’s attorney General, Eric H. Holder Jr. called out the American people as “essentially a nation of cowards” for refusing to talk openly about race. So, thank you, professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and President Obama, for starting the long-awaited national discussion on black and white identity - while averting our attention from the cockamamie scheme to nationalize health care. And kudos to the professor and the president for choosing Sgt. James Crowley of the Cambridge Police Department as the representative of the Caucasian-American side of this difficult and much-needed historic debate. Poetry was at work as the archetypal racist white cop who, according to the admittedly fact-challenged president, “stupidly” arrested his “friend.” Sgt. Crowley waged a swift and effective public relations campaign that quashed the racism meme that Mr. Gates was recklessly pushing. Sgt. Crowley, as it happens, is the Cambridge police force’s hand-picked racial profiling expert and was selected by a former black police commissioner. He also performed CPR on black basketball star Reggie Lewis, whose widow praised the public servant for doing everything he could to save her husband. Sgt. Crowley’s own police department immediately jumped to his defense in a picture-perfect multiracial photo op and press conference. Even though Mr. Gates and Sgt. Crowley are poised to put their individual grievances to rest - over a beer negotiated by the president of the United States - the scope of the problem that brought them international attention lingers, underscoring the need for continued robust public dialogue. We’re finally talking, Mr. Holder and Mr. Obama. Why stop now? Of course, the attorney general is essentially right in his assessment. Much of America is petrified to bring up race, especially in public forums - the media, in particular. But for exactly the opposite reasons Mr. Holder, the Obama administration and the brain trust of modern liberalism assert. Americans, especially non-blacks, are deeply fearful that the dynamic is predicated on an un-American premise: presumed guilt. Innocence, under the extra-constitutional reign of political correctness, liberalism’s brand of soft Shariah law, must be proved ex post facto. You can read the column in full here.