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Jack and Jill Politics
A black bourgeois perspective on U.S. politics
The ultimate irony of Christopher Hitchens is that a man who endlessly presents his own atheism as moral superiority comes to the same conclusions about war, colonialism and race that the most fundamentalist Christian warmonger does, so what’s the point?
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1 year ago
Other relationships/associations are coming to light and the republicans are going to try and portray Obama as a far left radical.
Found this today:
"Obama's Other Spiritual Mentor, Who Makes Wright Look... Eh, About The Same
Sure, Jeremiah Wright is Barack Obama's spiritual mentor. But he's not the only spiritual mentor Obama has — he also has James Meeks. We looked at him recently:
It's not like we're hearing an Obama delegate from Chicago in a church pulpit saying, "We don't have slave masters, we got mayors! But they are still the same white people who are presiding over systems where black people are not able to be educated. You got some preachers that are house n———! You got some elected officials that are house n———! Rather than them try and break this up, they're gonna fight you to protect that white man!"
Oh, wait, now we are hearing this.
What's fascinating in the video that Confederate Yankee dug up is the state senator, Reverend James Meeks of the South Side Baptist Church, declaring that the N-word is a "term of endearment." I kid you not.
Okay, so Obama's first two spiritual mentors have a propensity for screaming racially-charged language from the pulpit. But he has a third spiritual mentor, Rev. Michael Pfleger, and this one's a Catholic. So how radical could he be?
Dave Kopel found out. Some highlights:
Ambushed by a Bill O'Reilly camera crew, Pfleger stated: "He has—first of all, he has not called Judaism a gutter religion of blood suckers. That is not what he has said because I have heard that talk. I stick up for Louis Farrakhan because he is another person that the media has chosen to define how they want to do it. And they demonize how they want to demonize somebody. I know the man, Louis Farrakhan. He is a great man. I have great respect for him, ho has done an awful lot for people and this country, black, white, and brown. He's a friend of mine." (The O'Reilly Factor, Apr. 3, 2008.) Farrakhan spoke at St. Sabina's on May 25, 2007. (Chicago Sun Times, May 10, 2007.) ...
Rev. Pfleger does not respect the property rights of persons who sell products he does not like. He "is known for climbing ladders to deface liquor billboards." (Crain's Chicago Business, Dec. 20, 2004.) ...
In another demonstration at Chuck's Gun Shop, owned by John Riggio, Rev. Pfleger told the crowd: "We're going to find you and snuff you out....Like a rat you're going to hide. But like a rat, we're going to catch you and pull you out....We're going to snuff out John Riggio." Rev. Pfleger also promised: "We're going to snuff out legislators that are voting against our gun laws. We're coming for you because we're not going to sit idly."
Rev. Pfleger later denied that his words had been meant to invoke violence, or that he had known that "snuff out" means to "kill." Rather, the determination to "snuff out" Riggio was a determination to find out his home address, which was not publicly available.
So, of all the priests, ministers, preachers, rabbis, imams, clerics, gurus, monks and medicine men in Chicago, Obama just happens to pick these three."
1 year ago
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1 year ago
If this is all they have, Obama has lived a chaste life.
1 year ago
1 year ago
I looked up “sell-out” in the dictionary and found a picture of Juan Williams.
1 year ago
As a dare I say it, Christian, in the blogospher I was a little shocked.....Let me know, JJP.
1 year ago
There is also a Woods Foundation, Obama, Davis, Rezko connection.
While some of you may yawn, or try to wish these connections away, they are the foundation upon which Obama built his political career and they will be used to paint Obama as a far left radical.
This may be OK with JJP readers but how will it play in the general election?
My concern is to be prepared for the attacks to come.
The Democrat party has been moving to the left since Bill Clinton left office, and the Republicans will paint Obama as the most extreme candidate to date. Couple this with his sparce yet highly partisan, 'most liberal' voting record in the Senate and the charge does not seemed so far fetched.
What does Obama truly believe? What does his association with such radicals in his past say about his judgment? What does it say about his patriotism?
This is only one of the lines of attack Republicans are going to lay out against Obama. It would be better for his supporters to look ahead and find ways to fend off these attacks rather than yawn or listen to the echo chamber of Democrat blogs.
1 year ago
But Hitchens is a moron and a jerk, and I SO wish the press would start ignoring him. I suppose they find him entertaining; there's no shortage of morons and jerks on TV.
I've never known an atheist that wasn't a nice, reasonable (and generally liberal) person, and it pains me to see a guy like Hitchens purporting to represent atheism. Uh.
1 year ago
well said!
1 year ago
That's not an attack, it's the truth.
1 year ago
But, I'm not down with having grown folks being held accountable for what other grown folks say.
Not down with that at all.
1 year ago
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Yawn.
The Republicans better hope McCain can get through a debate without calling Obama a racial slur.
As it is, he called his wife the C word in public.
1 year ago
There's truthiness from a drunk, and then there's Christopher Hitchens spouting drivel and wants to convince you its the truth. I tuned him out when he tries to debate about God, and he's an atheist. You have to believe in something, and he usually believes in having another drink.
1 year ago
He repeated his list of paranoid delusions: the US government created AIDS to kill blacks; abortion is a US government plot to kill blacks, and many more.
Then there is the Final Call and the NOI website, where every anti-Semitc tract imaginable is available for sale, as well as a long list of books informing blacks how whites exploit them every second of the day.
Yeah, old Louis, he's the essence of racial harmony.
1 year ago
do you want to "harmonize" with the races?
1 year ago
I observe that when Chris drinks, he sweats and is more insecure, cutting people off mid-sentence, not observing those social niceties. I don't exactly see moisture, it's more of an impression of sweatiness. He appears less "sweaty" these days, and drinks lots of water during interviews. Maybe he's overcome the liquor demons.
I am not fond of the white man's variation of the Jewish god...fictitious though he be. It is ironic that this authoritarian, punitive god would come to be so beloved by Americans of African descent. Though he slay them, yet will they trust him.
1 year ago
1 year ago
As long as clowns like Farrakhan have the stage, racial harmony -- that is, peaceful co-existence -- will suffer.
As the leader of the NOI, Farrkhan lives for the NOI dream of a separate state for blacks within the US. He and his predecessors and followers believe separation is the only way. And one of his followers seems to be Rev Wright.
I think Obama will receive the Democractic nomination. Then the fun will start. But it will all end in November when Obama loses in the largest landslide in US history.
8 months ago
Heh. I suppose you've already fled the country in shame.
1 year ago
Farrakhan doesn't "have the stage". Are you saying you believe that after 400 years of slavery and jim crow that Farahkhan is the singular impediment to racial harmony? Are you saying that if Farrakhan would just go away, whites would be able to accept blacks?
If your concern is racial harmony, take a black fellow American out for coffee one day. Talk to him or her as a human being. Ask him or her about family, hopes and dreams.
And remember, while you worry about petty so-called victories and divisiveness, China is owning your behinds; but, Republicans don't have any answers except war and tax cuts. Time has passed you by, but you're too dumb to see it. You just haven't been slapped around by Republican policies enough...you need to have your ribs broken as well. Well, some people don't want to be slapped around anymore.