Comments on: Michelle Obama Becomes GOP Target

Politico: Both Parties Are Trying To Define Democratic Candidate's Wife For The General Election

[rowdywicca]

How can you say this about a man who is the presumptive nominee for POTUS???? HOW IS HE MARGINALIZED? I think maybe America has come quite a ways in apologizing for past racism, and I think it''''s time for all to give up this obsolete racial prejudice of any sort, by law the country has, those that continue to rage over it maybe have a bad habit to get rid of. On both sides of the question.


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Posted by cryhavoc2 at 04:03 AM : Jun 16, 2008

Does that mean that I have stop blaming the government and all the rich people and all the ethnic cultures because the world won''t let me have a lamborghini? You know, because I want one the damned world should make one affordable enough for me to have it! This old ''97 Miata just doesn''t cut it for my lifestyle here in this old farmhouse on the edge of town.

The audacity!

[neoconrcrazy]

attacks on obama''s wife by GOPers (greedy-old-perverts) show just again how low-life these neocon politicians are -

but what else can they do?

they''re ruined the economy, started unnecessary war, got alot of people killed on lies and misrepresentations, so we''ll just have to let they scream at the passing train and be thankful if they never, ever again, return to power.

[kailumego1]

minnick8 obviously you''re extensive research or advanced sociology classes has not given you much insightfulness to how ethnically-heterogeneous societies is economically/socially/politically lethal.

I have a degree in psychology/sociology/anthropology/history, which I''ve did considerable research on ethnic-heterogeneous societies and economic stagnation.

[rowdywicca]

Barack Obama%u2019s willingness to meet with the leaders of rogue states such as Iran and North Korea %u201Cwithout preconditions%u201D is a naive and dangerous approach to dealing with the hard men who run pariah states. It will be an important and legitimate issue for policy debate during the remainder of the presidential campaign.

Consider his facile observations about President Kennedy%u2019s first meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in Vienna in 1961. Obama saw it as a meeting that helped win the Cold War, when in fact it was an embarrassment for the American side. The inexperienced Kennedy performed so poorly that Khrushchev may well have been encouraged to position Soviet missiles in Cuba in 1962, thus precipitating one of the Cold War%u2019s most dangerous crises.

Such realities should cause Obama to become more circumspect, minimizing his off-the-cuff observations about history, grand strategy and diplomacy. In fact, he has done exactly the opposite, exhibiting so many gaps in his knowledge and understanding of world affairs that they have not yet received the attention they deserve. He consistently reveals failings in foreign policy that are far more serious than even his critics had previously imagined.

[rowdywicca]

What is implicit in Obama%u2019s reference to %u201Ctiny%u201D threats is that they are sufficiently insignificant that negotiations alone can resolve them. Indeed, he has gone even further, arguing that the lack of negotiations with Iran caused the threats: %u201CAnd the fact that we have not talked to them means that they have been developing nuclear weapons, funding Hamas, funding Hezbollah.%u201D

This is perhaps the most breathtakingly naive statement of all, implying as it does that it is actually U.S. policy that motivates Iran rather than Iran%u2019s own perceived ambitions and interests. That would be news to the mullahs in Tehran, not to mention the leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah.

It is an article of faith for Obama, and many others on the left in the U.S. and abroad, that it is the United States that is mostly responsible for the world%u2019s ills.

[kailumego1]

gaprddesc I''m ready for a debate any time and any where, on American policies as if relates to the African American dilemma, but unlike you in order to understand the racial dynamics within this country you have to first understand Eurocentric discourse as it relates to Africans or any other ethnically-fractionalized society.

And denial, I don''t think so, it sounds like you''re more in denial than me, because I choose to think outside the box and look at the "whole" picture and not just selected pieces, for that you''re no better than those white folks you have castigated.
I choose to examine the xenophobia that exist between African Americans and use the regression hypothesis as it relates to African Americans in this society.
Because after all, considering the enormous strides "Civil Rights" leaders and activists like A.Phillip Randolf, W.E.D. DuBois, Martin Luther King, Fannie Lou Hammer, Eda Wells, Rosa Parks etc. have made African Americans have taken great strides backwards, notwithstanding.

You talk a good talk, but you conveniently dance around the truth, in which your poignant comments don''t reach far enough into the scope of racial dynamics in America.

[kailumego1]

In order to understand why African Americans remain socially/economically stagnant you have to research into the "collective consciousness" of both Euro-Americans and African Americans.

And examine the reasoning why African Americans continue to be circumscribed socially/economically/politically, while a white majority enjoys prosperity. The disenfranchisement of African Americans lies within Euro-American''s philosophy towards the African race.

So it''s important to examine how Africans and African Americans have played a pivotal role in buttressing Euro-American hegemony over Africa that led to the confiscation of valued resources.

The pivotal role I''m speaking of is ethnic-fractionalization, and since you''ve mentioned Native Americans, you should be able to juxtapose the colonialization of Africa with that of Native Americans, as it relates exploiting existing animosities, weakening internal resolve, and enabling Euro-Americans latitude to conquer entire nations and civilizations.

[kailumego1]

Considering both Africans and Native Americans are of ethnic-heterogeneous societies, this laid the foundation for European invasion, enslavement, and exploitation of valued resources.

And if you''re, as smart as you''ve implied, then you''ll reach beyond your limited scope of reason,to also juxtapose Western Europeans with the Eastern European societies, to see how these comparisons can provide further insight into why Africans, Native Americans, Asians were vulnerable to Western European invasion.

Cohesiveness, technological growth, and homogeneousness is what has kept Western Europeans way ahead of Eastern Europeans, Asians, Africans, etc.

Examine what''s occurring in Northern Africa and in the Middle-East, the religious factionalism that has polarized these regions and led to bitter violence.

The African American prosperity is a lot more complicated than changing the "collective consciousnesses" of white Americans it is an endemic problem within the African American discourse.

So, if you have an insightful solution to a complicated dilemma, by all means discourse.

[rowdywicca]

Maybe she should have said %u201CIf Barack doesn%u2019t manage a decent debate performance, then it%u2019s over%u201D.

And his performance last night was his worst debate performance ever.

Once again, he was completely overshadowed by Hillary%u2019s strong and commanding performance. She looks and sounds presidential while Obama and the rest shrink in stature when they share a platform with her.

I don%u2019t know who the GOP nominee will be but whoever it is will also suffer the stature gap when they debate Hillary. After 6 = disastrous years of the Bush administration %u2013 Americans want competence. And that%u2019s exactly what Hillary offers!

[rowdywicca]

know for a fact that Barack and Michelle Obama would like the tape of her blasting %u201Cwhitey%u201D during a rant at Jeremiah Wright%u2019s church to never see the light of day. They are worried, appropriately so, about the damage this tape will inflict on the Obama campaign. They can be certain of one thing%u2013the tape will hit the blogosphere and TV land come October if Obama is the nominee.

How do I know? I have learned from someone in touch with a senior Republican over this holiday weekend that a major McCain backer has a copy of the tape in addition to the one controlled by the Karl Rove folks. McCain%u2019s supporters are not about to cut Hillary a break. They believe that John McCain stands a better chance of beating Barack rather than Hillary. That%u2019s why they are holding the video. They realize showing it now would likely boost support for Hillary and erode support for Obama among the Super Delegates. Simply put, McCain wants Obama.