Obama Wants Another Way To Lift Blacks From Misery
July 30, 2008 / 9:39 am • By Dr. Melissa ClouthierThe first question that popped into my head while reading about Obama’s the notion of reparations: Will Obama receive 50% reparations since hes 50% black? But wait just one little minute….. His dad isn’t an American citizen and Obama’s family were never slaves–well, not American slaves. Slavery was and is alive and well in many parts of Africa so maybe he should get money for the oppression that happened there.
The second thing that popped in my head was damn, it’s hard to pander to the oppressed and deprived, and to the people who do the oppressing and depriving. I mean, it’s a tightrope. On the one hand, it’s difficult to convey how bad life sucks for black people. On the other hand, it’s tough to get votes from white people when you call them racist bigots. It’s especially hard when a good bunch of Americans (my family, for one) never owned a slave, believe slavery is reprehensible, but don’t feel the guilt because, well, they’re not guilty.
So Obama doesn’t think reparations are a good idea but as Karl notes, he’s all for socialism:
SEN. BARACK OBAMA: You know, I have said in the past, and I’ll repeat again, that the best reparations we can provide are good schools in the inner city and jobs for people who are unemployed. And I think that strategies that invest in lifting people out of the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow, but that have brought applicability and allow us to build coalitions to actually get these things done, that, I think, is the best strategy.
Not to mention a strategy that Obama believes will cost billions of dollars and involve universal healthcare. But it apparently will not involve reparations [as such are typically defined - K], which is a point worth clarifying.
The answer to past oppression is to oppress everyone today. An Obama administration we will all be “free at last” alright. We’ll be free to enjoy the socialist suckitude that England now enjoys (the good news is that there’s drugs coming that reverse Alzheimers, the bad news is that under socialism, your taxes will go so high that you can’t afford the new drugs that aren’t approved by the government):
The drugs are expected to cost the same as current treatments for the illness such as Aricept, which are £2.50 a day.
However, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (Nice) the Government’s drugs watchdog, ruled that Aricept, which has been shown to improve the memory and day-to-day life of those in the late stages of the disease, was too expensive for widespread use in Britain.
Terry Pratchett, the best selling author who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, disclosed earlier this year that he was being forced to pay for the drug himself.
Of course, if Obama wins the presidency, you might want to forget the good old days, so it could all work out.
Cross-posted at Right Wing News
3 Responses to “Obama Wants Another Way To Lift Blacks From Misery”
July 30 2008 / 3:47 pm
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Melissa, I just can’t help but to comment. When David Brooks says support education policy – he’s a wise man.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/opinion/29brooks.html?em&ex=1217563200&en=e296ab54d60b33ed&ei=5087
When Obama says EXACTLY the same thing – he’s a socialist?
Seriously, are you laughing at your readership? Poking fun? Or is this meant as actual commentary? I honestly have absolutely no idea.
This is almost as good as when you actually equated Obama with Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels.
It’s really amazing. One howler after the next. Just when I think you can’t possibly top yourself – you do so in splendid fashion.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!
And I have an idea for you. Since Nazi, Socialist, Liar, Cheater, etc are starting to wear thin – their is one more label we can skewer the man with . . .
Satanist!!
How else could he have risen from an obscure State Senator to a Presidential candidate in such short fashion? Clearly, someone made a deal with the Devil and it is time for all God-fearing Christians to set the record straight.
July 30 2008 / 11:48 pm
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How else could he have risen from an obscure State Senator to a Presidential candidate in such short fashion?
Ah, how to explain Bradgelina? Paris Hilton?
or maybe we should just ask Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers?
July 31 2008 / 2:18 pm
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Satanist!!
How else could he have risen from an obscure State Senator to a Presidential candidate in such short fashion? Clearly, someone made a deal with the Devil and it is time for all God-fearing Christians to set the record straight.
Already anticipated you, Comrade Glynn.
There are End Time Prophecy types already fitting Obama into their ongoing Pin-the-Tail-on-The-Antichrist game. (When all you have is a hammer…)
And his meteoric rise and ability to inspire collective orgasms and spawn True Believers while speaking little of substance DOES fit the profile popularized by LaHaye & Jenkins in Left Behind. (If LH&J’s “Romanian Robert Redford” Antichrist can inspire orgasms of loyalty in praise in the UN and all media just by reading off a list of UN member countries in the General Assembly (actual scene), why shouldn’t The Obama be able to do the same just repeating “HOPE! CHANGE! HOPE CHANGE! HOPE! CHANGE!” over and over?)
But you don’t have much to fear from Christian End Time Prophecy types. The Darbyite End-of-the-World that’s their default choreography is at its core a passive one. (Though dangerous in its own way — just sit around being holy and pure, and one day God will beam you up before anything bad could possibly happen to you. Don’t bother to make anything better, because The World Can End Tomorrow and It’s All Gonna Burn. Somehow I don’t think that’s what Larry Norman had in mind when he wrote the lyrics to “Only Visting This Planet”: “This world is not my home; I’m just passin’ thru…”)