It’s fun to watch Obama fight the bigots with their own weapons.

With regards to Michelle Obama, she reminds me in many ways of the TV icon Claire Huxable of the Cosby Show.  She is a woman who had an opinion and I hope that Michelle is allowed to spread her wings.  Hell she has earned the right to be open about her thoughts.

Kath Cantarella, my statements were not a direct criticism of you, they were meant to be a general statement responding to the Robinson post.  Hatred is something that is not exemplified exclusively by racism.  In the US society, hatred is displayed in most areas of public engagement.  It’s expressed in mild and harsh form in the cultural arena as well as in the civic arena.  My hatred statement is just my clumsy attempt to put this human trait front and center and not allow race to stand alone as the only form of hatred that we need to discuss.  And as you amply said, how men are soft on sex offenders is a travesty.  Yet if we just look at race or gender offences, we fall into a trap that does not reveal what any person can say or do to control the idea of hate.  If people insist that they must hate Obama because of his skin color, then nothing can change that if we just talk about race.  Yet if we look at hatred in all its complexities, we at least can understand why a person could hate someone because of skin color. 

NF you find the real issue is whether an Obama presidency would lead the US to look like socialist Europe.  I suggest that you look at the type of government that those countries have.  Most of the Western European countries have unitary systems, whereas the US system is a federation.  Obama has worked successfully in both a state and federal legislature.  He is a constitutional lawyer, a rarity in the legislative arena.  What I can say to you is that he fully understands the importance of state’s rights.  This is evident when he agreed with the recent Supreme Court decision that addresses the death penalty in child rape cases.  And he agrees with the 2nd amendment decision made by the court today.  He fully understands that the rule of law trumps personal beliefs, therefore legislation has to be constitutionally correct not emotionally correct.  If his legal expertise is socialist, it will have to be examined in the realm of the law.  Make your judgement of both McCain and Obama based on their understanding of the law and the effects of legislation, not on race or some other identity, that as I said above, only exemplify hatred.

Mr Carter, if my posts hit the wrong note with Mr Robinson’s article, I’m sorry.

reply to J Mezure Carter:

Do you think he can be hated that much? He is so damn likeable. I have to keep reminding myself that he’s a politician (i don’t like them much) just to keep it straight. I think he knows what he’s doing, and he has played a perfect game. He doesn’t need my advice, i believe you.

I recently fell for one of those ugly racist rumours, but i fell for it because Obama’s a bloke, not because he’s black. If someone said it about McCain I would’ve believed it just as easily (in fact, about Mac it’s probably true, even if he keeps it to himself). Men’s attitudes generally (not all men), and the legal system too, in Australia, are very soft on sex offenders. There are almost no convictions (those lying whores!), and when there are they often get no time or time served, or a couple of months or years with parole. (Apparently, there are always mitigating circumstances for raping someone, esp. if you don’t bash her up real bad while doing it.) The rape survivor gets life. And then the country does not improve, it gets worse. Because people are allowed to think of others that way. That you can rape them and it is largely acceptable.

Obama is a very smart, good and fair man. Michelle wouldn’t have married him otherwise.

Obama is human! human! human!

What is a cynic?  Is it someone who believes that everyone is out for his self?  If the nature of the beast isn’t self interest there would be no human race.  So now let’s address this on key posting.  That old 19th-century one-drop rule dictate is not very well understood by 21st-century Americans, but hatred is a human trait that does not need defining.  What was evident in the primaries and will be present during the general election period is the vile behavior of those who are consumed by this debasing characteristic.  Advise to Obama is rampant.  He is told to profess his religious leaning, but not too blatantly, to speak proper English, but not too properly, to show his companionate character, but not show vulnerability.  Obama is a black man, a half white black man, a foreign man, an African man, an elite man, an erudite man.  All these identities find me wondering, is Obama human?  Is he suffering from identity fatigue?  He had better watch what he is doing cause those bad racist Republicans are gonna get him.  He had better pay homage to those Hillary feminist.  He had better defer to those disenfranchised mountain folks.  Oh you should be afraid Obama cause they gonna get you.  This is scary stuff.  What forty-six-year-old person is pristine, without pimples or prickly nerves pulling at every vital function. Let Obama’s campaigners rack their brains over all these silly machinations, but those of us outside that arena need to shout in response, he’s human, he’s human, he’s human.

Obama is in court charged.

The big screen has footage of GWB telling the world that he witnesed the first 911 air strike on the WTC from a school in Florida.

Question from the prosecutor: Senator Obama how could it be… the networks never broadcast it, so how did it get there.

Obama, sweatin’ a little grunts.

The Prosecutor: You are gonna be found guilty of capital treason lest you tell the court how the footage got there.

Obama: Well I guess the President’s own people had a link.

Prosecutor: Sure they did, so as a United States Senator is it not your responsibility to bring such massive treason to the attention of the wider public.

Obama: Under what jurisdiction do you propose to bring this prosecution, no one else said anything, why should I.

Prosecutor: Under the capital provisions of revolutionary justice, do you have anything else to say, because your assertion that although you were aware of treason at the White House you remained silent, despite the oath you took in the Senate to uphold the laws of the United States.

Obama: This court is illegal.

Judge: Senator Obama you are found guilty of capital treason, and are sentenced to death.

The Appellant Judge endorses the decision of the bench, the execution is to take place immediately.

The court was convened on the dirt street of a western town, Obama is requested to walk under a lamp post, I fix a hemp noose about his neck and give the order to heave, and Barak Hussein Obama is hauled high on a lamp post and dies kikkin’and jerkin’ right on Main Street.

Hillary will be tried in the same way, with McCain and Ron Schmaul and every one of other traitors, who conspired before or after the fact of 911.

Mr. Robinson,

You said, “The Republican Party has a problematic history on race”

Please, as a latin who has suffers from racism as well Obama has some answering to do.

His pro Lincoln blather is painful. How far up the cringe inducing ladder does this run?
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1077287,00.html

It’s time for our first legimate black candidate for president explain how he can adulate a person who is the antithesis of the official line. Since this site is called truthdig, please don’t tell me you are a lincoln lover as well. Perhaps you’ve never read any of his writings, speaches, etc.

It just shows that Obama is a politician same as the rest.

That said, I will vote for him as McCain is pscho. He should be put in an old person’s home not the oval office.

Dino

June 24, 2008
Dissociated Press Dispatch

John McCain has chosen Don Imus as his
running mate.  During a press conference at
the Republican National Electoral Demagogy
Committee McCain announced his choice:
“John and Don, that’s our ticket; he’s got
the mouth and I’ve got the war record, what
more do ya need, in Aridzona or anywhere?”
McCain was seen to list slightly as he left
the podium.  One Republican pollster opined
“Definitely Reaganesque”.

Marjory Ross will set the record straight.

i forgot to mention that i liked this piece very much, Eugene.

As I am Australian this may not apply to many US citizens, but personally my suspicions about Obama were (still are) about his profession and class, his style, gender (perhaps you need to have lived my life to figure that one out), and his meteoric rise: he is a successful male politician who charms the pants off everyone, and i am a cynic. I’m sure race is an issue as you say, as an American you would know, but be careful you don’t make more of it than it is worth. If it really was a big issue, Obama wouldn’t be where he currently is. There’s probably more prejudice against Obama because of his class, than his race. He needs to be careful how he expresses himself in that respect. Anything that sounds like condescension will be a mistake. He also needs to treat Hillary’s female supporters with respect, because he took something very precious away from them.
I also think he needs to talk more about what he’s actually going to do when he gets into office, not just rhetoric. Because that’s how the Republicans have been attacking him, and if Obama is clear about his policies in his public appearances, they won’t be able to con people so easily, prejudice or no.
As for Michelle, she’s in line for the same treatment recently dished out to Hillary.
Personally i’ve never had a problem with Michelle, i wouldn’t mind if you made her president.