I was unable to answer my daughter about heaven; I wondered if I should have told her the truth – that I was not sure what happens when we die; anymore than I was sure of where the soul resides or what existed before the big bang.But of course, only intractable racists don't believe everything a poltician says. Jonathan Alter, writing in Newsweek, takes these "liars" to task in an article entitled How Obama Can Fight the Lies:
The problem is that some of the lies about Obama are gathering strength. In 2008, 13 percent of Americans were under the misimpression that he was a Muslim. Now the figure is 24 percent.Recently, I discussed politics with a mostly politically apathetic friend. I'd characterize him as a moderate, though many of his views match those of conservatives. Midway through the conversation, I found myself in a fluid diatribe against leftists, yet at the end of my rant, I paused. I had originally intended to use the general term "liberals" or "people who hate America", but instead I hesitated and used "Obama" as a proxy term.
But the deeper problem is a growing number of people who think the president is not just disappointing or wrongheaded but dangerous.
Beyond validation by politicians and the right-wing media, the best explanation for why growing numbers of Americans think the president is a Muslim is that more and more voters don’t like him personally, and so are increasingly ready to believe anything critical (and to them, being Muslim is a negative) about someone they are already inclined to resent.
Why did I do this? Let's return to Mr. Alter's portrayal of Obama's critics:
His enemies—and even some of his ostensible allies—have been busy for three years painting Obama as some kind of alien threat. His name, race, exotic upbringing, and determination to reach out to moderate Muslims have given those who would delegitimize him a fresh palette of dark colors. The caricatures are almost comical, as the president himself recognizes.My first blog post discussed why the youth vote went so strongly to Obama:
When the youth saw Barack Obama, they actually did see "Change and Hope." They saw their unique opportunity to be a Rosa Parks, a Union soldier, or a Harriet Tubman. The media deluged them with the monumental possibility of the "first Black President". This could be their "first Black ____" and they were going to make it happen!In an ironic turn of events, Obama has come to personify not our post-racial society, but the foreign, alien means by which the left seeks to reconstruct America. He hasn't spurred a nascent Progressive movement, but instead enlivened conservatives from their collective slumber, as in this past weekend's "Restoring Honor" rally. Obama is a symbol to rally against, a figure that encompasses all the suicidal leftist ideals.
To my politically ignorant friend, the notion that the white elite, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Harry Reid, seek the same anti-American and anti-white policies as Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson is simply untenable. The masses, removed from elite academia and largely unaware of Keith Olbermann's latest scornful prattling, can't fathom what the leftist zeitgeist has done to American politics. But when the valiant political Messiah won the Presidency amid an unparalleled fervor, these dormant conservatives couldn't help but notice.
And when he hastily excoriated an upstanding local police officer, discussed the need to "redistribute wealth", shoved health care reparations down America's throat, attended the Goddamn America church for 20 years, criticized Arizona's illegal immigration law, and supported the Ground Zero mosque, only the most brainwashed could sustain their ardor. Conservatives needed the ultimate symbol of where America is headed - and Obama has provided it. Leftist initiatives intended to undermine our most productive citizens (and then tar them as selfish racists) no longer constitute surreptitious dealings in the halls of Congress or the backdoor of corporate sweatshops. We have the most powerful man in the world openly admitting to such subversive policies, with his acolytes on MSNBC and the NYT editorial pages repeating these sentiments.
Conservatives needed a stark representation of leftist thought, the strain that smears all whites as racist, believes America has no national sovereignty, views this country as a historically amoral entity, and seeks uniformity in all aspects of life. And that's why Obama is so important. He typifies it all.
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Alter. He's Swedish, right?
Scots-Irish, you dope. Get with the program.
So what you're saying is, I don't believe X, but I think it's useful if the unwashed masses believe X.
If you found yourself on a panel discussion with others who believed Obama was a Muslim, would you play along and pretend you thought he was a Muslim too, because their erroneous opinion could be politically useful?
"So what you're saying is, I don't believe X, but I think it's useful if the unwashed masses believe X."
Fight fire with fire, why not.
This is ALL that leftists do.
Bush lied, people died.
Cuban healthcare is awesome!
Hey, those teabaggers uttered racist epithets at Black congressmen.
What's good for the goose...
So what you're saying is, I don't believe X, but I think it's useful if the unwashed masses believe X.
When did I ever refer to the "unwashed" masses or support the above idea? I love how leftists come here and put my words in my mouth.
The distinction between what you say (lying is cool) and the actual situation is that these aren't lies. Obama really is a foreign entity - grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, raised by a Muslim stepfather, hung out with radicals at Occidental, spent his community organizing career solely amongst blacks, changed his name back to Barack Hussein Obama from Barry Sortero in adulthood, supports health care reparations, keeps making statements that imply his animus towards whites and his bias towards blacks/non-whites, wrote in his book "I stopped mentioning my mother's race becuase I didn't want to ingratiate myself to whites", supported the GZ Mosque, stated "Muslims have been an integral part of AMerican history", etc.
None of those are lies. They're not even close to lies - they're either direct quotes or absolute facts concerning his biography.
One doesn't need to lie about Obama or his being a Muslim to note that's not "American".
Old definition of "lie": to disseminate and act on information you believed was accurate but was later proved to be faulty.
New definition of "lie": to disagree with the official party line regarding what a politician's true beliefs are, regardless of any evidence to the contrary.
BTW, 1stdv, John Fund echoes you today:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703369704575461653558224026.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion
"The Worse the Better"
- Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky
What you say is true. Obama epitomizes the DC-insider liberal elitist, out of touch with the American people. I was delighted to see him win, and he has exceeded my wildest expectations. Of course, he never could have gotten where he is today without help. The Bush-McCain Republicans were his strong supporters. These idiots illustrated how far the GOP had moved away from its core values. Bush I and Bush II specialized in selling out their base, something which Obama seems to have raised to a new level. But the conservative movement seems to be on fire now, and I'm expecting great things in November. But if a GOP victory leads to the type of Republicanism we had in 2001-2007, I'd just as soon have the Dems.
"the widespread belief that Obama is a Muslim"
That's ok. They make up for it by believing that Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, and maybe Washington were Christians.
He's obviously an atheist/agnostic.
Reihan Salam (himself non-White) has a column today in the Daily Beast: link. Among his notes, Americans 65 or older, are 80% White. Among Americans under 18, only 56% are White.
Rich Whites can go anywhere in the globe to escape "Amexico." Those of us not born to the manor, have to live with it. EVEN IF we shut the border, differential birth rates guarantee Whites will be a minority in their own country. Whites TFR is 1.87, Mexican is 3.
Therefore, all older Whites can look forward to living in Mexico, for the next thirty years or so. For us younger Whites, we suddenly got moved permanently into Mexico. And we don't like it. Obama is the symbol of "the Black Man Ruling" as the New Black Panther guys put it, but the reality is Amexico.
Which means constant, physical confrontations, political stuff to push Whites out of jobs, lands, society, pretty White girls are OK, the rest of us are hosed. Every White guy will have to rapidly conduct himself like an Old West Gunfighter, alert and ready for a fight, rolling with a "posse" whenever possible.
The message of Mexicans is one of DOMINATION. That is the whole point of Robert Rodriguez's "Machete" and his message of taking over. Mexicans are here to take over. Whites soon will be a minority in America. One actively discriminated against, with younger White guys getting the worst of it.
Obama symbolizes that, not the least of which is backing overtly the Amexico-ization of America.
Whiskey--huge swathes of the country is mostly wi\hite and getting more so as people move and coalesce--its more likely we'll break up into several -stans
Dana! it's rude to interrupt someone whacking off. Let Whiskey finish his fantasy of Mexican DOMINATION
Well put. He made it a point to speak in favor of the cordoba initiative, condesceningly constructing a strawman argument to tear down at the expense of ~70% of the country, yet he elects not to watch one of the largest American rallies in a decade, a rally that elicits only a cliche about freedom of assembly when it is brought up by a reporter on NBC. Out of touch indeed.
Its not a fantasy, its a nightmare PA. I live in California. In my lifetime, it has gone from majority White, to Majority Mexican. By the end of 2010, most babies born in the US will be Mexican, not White. Since Mexicans are not sensitive to the economy, good or bad they have kids, and Whites *ARE*.:
Wiki on California
According to estimates from 2008, California has the largest minority population in the United States by numbers, making up 57% of the state population.[29] In 2000, Hispanics comprised 32% of the population; that number grew to 37% in 2008.[31] Non-Hispanic whites decreased from 80% of the state's population in 1970 to 42% in 2008.[29][32] While the population of minorities account for 102 million of 301 million U.S. residents, 20% of the national total live in California.[30][33]
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Look at the photos of all those people at the National Mall at Glenn Beck's rally. They are the PAST. They are in their fifties or even older. The future of America is well, Amexica. Because Mexicans in the US, have a TFR of 3 and US Whites have 1.4 and Blacks somewhere between the two.
You can't own the future if you don't have kids.
Let me tell you what your fate will be, because it is the same as mine: you will live, as a discriminated minority (White) in a nation made up mostly of Mexicans, then Blacks, united as much as they are in their hatred of Whites. You as a White man have the same civil rights as I, also a White man, have today: NONE. As you get older, and you will, you will be easy prey for the majority population. You might be good in a fight today, how well will you function at age 70, against a gang? You will live in a variant of Mexico. Because that is who will be present in America, particularly most of the young people, who will be mostly Mexican.
Repeat: California went from 80% White to 42% White in the space of 38 years. It will happen much more rapidly for the rest of Amexica.
Neither you nor I crossed the border, but it literally crossed us, as we became Amexica.
And let me add, Obama is the symbol of all that. Today we learn that his Secretary of State has filed a human rights report with the UN ... criticizing Arizona's law as a violation of basic human rights.
"For us younger Whites, we suddenly got moved permanently into Mexico. And we don't like it."
So what are you going to do about it, gringo?
This post raises an interesting if irrelevant idea: how would things be if it were Hillary? She wouldn't have generated the same moronic hype. (Sex matters, but if it mattered nearly as much as race she would've won.) I've little doubt she'd be shrewder and more pragmatic than Obama. Further, more right wingers would've had knives out from the beginning, rather than effusing about how delightful it is that this dreadful individual is our president. And when she turned out to not quite be the devil they said she was she would earn sympathy. Finally, women are a much larger group than blacks. They aren't remotely as uniform/chauvinist as blacks, but even a vastly smaller percentage choosing to stand by their man no matter what, so to speak, could have a more substantial impact. And she'd get overwhelming black support regardless.
The economy would still be in the toilet, which will kill anyone. And maybe the idiot public would fantasize that having Clinton back in the White House should mystically turn the clock back to 1998. But perhaps Obama is our savior after all. Or would be if we had an actual conservative party.
"When did I ever refer to the "unwashed" masses or support the above idea?"
Didn't you explicitly argue a few days ago that people should be taught to believe in a false supernatural entity or they would become liberal idealists? That certainly implies both "lying is cool" and a contempt for the masses.
One doesn't need to lie about Obama or his being a Muslim to note that's not "American".
First of all, in America, the period goes inside the quotation marks. (Also, what is the word "penultimate" doing there?)
Second of all, Hawaii is not foreign. Black people are not foreign. Being liberal is not foreign.
What's most obnoxious about this post, though, is that you decide that only white conservatives are American, and then, you have the audacity to accuse liberals of wanting "uniformity in all aspects of life."
Yeesh.
@ Dave:
Honestly, why do you even read this site? To vent your haughty rage? To get in the mud with us uncouth conservatives?
Didn't you explicitly argue a few days ago that people should be taught to believe in a false supernatural entity or they would become liberal idealists? That certainly implies both "lying is cool" and a contempt for the masses.
It doesn't imply any contempt - it implies that only a handful of individuals are ever going to be materialists. That's a fact. As for the other part of this statement: the ultimate goal is a conservative state. If we have a choice between something everyone already believes in that seems to correlate with maintaining conservatism and a liberal religion (yes it's a false ideology based on faith just like the supernatural) that will undermine America, I'll go with the former. Interpret that how you want.
Second of all, Hawaii is not foreign. Black people are not foreign. Being liberal is not foreign.
Hawaii isn't foreign??! Oh god, I can't even respond to that. Being a liberal implies one sees no value in traditional American constructs and believes immigration constituting foreign peoples with foreign customs is a requisite goal. If that's not foreign, what is?
What's most obnoxious about this post, though, is that you decide that only white conservatives are American
Never said that. If one understands the history of this nation and its inexorable link to its majority racial demographic and respects that connection, then he's "American". If one has loyalty to this nation above all others, he's an "American". If one is familiar with mainstream cultural edifices, both historical and contemporary, he's an "American". If one wears a damn flag pin, he's an "American". If one understands and respects (doesn't try to aggressively change it) the social and religious history of this country, then he's an "American".
You can dissemble on America as a globalist entity all you want, but that doesn't mean it is one and that doesn't mean that's how America is or ever was defined.
Now gosh darn, I wonder why Obama is so foreign to the vast majority of people.
Black Death said: "But if a GOP victory leads to the type of Republicanism we had in 2001-2007, I'd just as soon have the Dems."
Don't worry. It will. The GOP is too invested in the status quo to make any menaingful changes to our system.
@ Whiskey:
White men deserve everything they get for the woe and death we have inflicted on People of Color for centuries.
Once the white man is out of power racism and bigotry will end.
dana said..."Whiskey--huge swathes of the country is mostly wi\hite and getting more so as people move and coalesce"
Yes, and those areas are under scrutiny by the left. You think Rich Benjamin's book, Searching for Whitopia was a how-to manual for Caucasians? What about the push for diversity in ballet and NASCAR? You think blacks and Latinos are tired of being excluded from these two activities in which they've always expressed so much interest? Whites aren't going to be allowed to coalesce much more than they have already.
"--its more likely we'll break up into several -stans"
Not if the left has its way.
Anonymous said..."'For us younger Whites, we suddenly got moved permanently into Mexico. And we don't like it.'
So what are you going to do about it, gringo?"
Maybe they'll move the border someplace more to their liking. You ever hear of the Mexican-American war?
Hawaii isn't foreign??! Oh god, I can't even respond to that. Being a liberal implies one sees no value in traditional American constructs and believes immigration constituting foreign peoples with foreign customs is a requisite goal. If that's not foreign, what is?
You are aware that Hawaii is part of the United States, I hope?
If a territory that is part of our national boundaries is to be considered "foreign", then the whole concept can have no real meaning.
By the way, what "traditional American constructs" are you thinking of that are not present in Hawaii?
First of all, in America, the period goes inside the quotation marks.
Not in the sentence you quoted, it doesn't. I like "American" as much as the next guy, but it's not an independent clause.
@ Whiskey:
White men deserve everything they get for the woe and death we have inflicted on People of Color for centuries.
Once the white man is out of power racism and bigotry will end.>>
People of Color deserved all they got, and more, because they were pedophiles.
You got slavery and colonialism because you did not register with local law enforcement under Megan's Law.
If you found yourself on a panel discussion with others who believed Obama was a Muslim, would you play along and pretend you thought he was a Muslim too, because their erroneous opinion could be politically useful?
His father is Muslim; therefore he is Muslim. It's that simple.
His father is Muslim; therefore he is Muslim. It's that simple.
By that definition, Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Muslim. So no, it's not that simple.
I don't know the person you mentioned, but if that person had a Muslimm father, that peron is a Muslim.
Yes, it is that simple.
I don't know the person you mentioned,
Of course you don't. Less than a minute on a search engine would have cured that ignorance, but that's too difficult for you, apparently, as is proof-reading your posts.
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