Obama no different than FDR, Reagan?
In an interview with CNN’s John King airing on “State of the Union with John King” this Sunday, Obama acknowledged that racism plays a role in some of the criticism against him, but added that race is “not the overriding issue.”
“Are there people out there who don’t like me because of race? I’m sure there are. That’s not the overriding issue here,” he said. “I think there are people who are anti-government. I think there’s been a long-standing debate in this country that is usually that much more fierce during times of transition, or when presidents are trying to bring about big changes.
“I mean, things that were said about FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) were pretty similar to things that were said about me. ‘He’s a communist, he’s a socialist.’ Things that were said about Ronald Reagan when he was trying to reverse some of the New Deal programs, you know, were pretty vicious as well.”
From UPI.com
“U.S. software giant Microsoft said Wednesday it’s sorry for superimposing the head of a white man on a black man in a photo on its Polish Web site.
“We apologize and are in the process of pulling down the image,” The Times of London reported the company said in an official statement. “We are looking into the details of this situation.”
The picture in question involved a stock image of three businesspeople, one white, one black and one Asian, which could be seen in its original form on Microsoft’s U.S. Web site. But on the company’s Polish site, the same photo showed the head of a white man superimposed on the black man’s body, CNET.com reported.
“In this day and age, this is shocking,” CNET reported Twitter user Barry McCauley as writing. “Unacceptable.”
The Times said Microsoft officials wrote on their official Twitter feed, “Marketing site photo mistake — sincere apologies — we are in the process of taking down the image.”
From CNN.com
Did CNN censor - or at least try to shut up Deepak Chopra - Read more on Huffington Post and see for yourself:
Since last week’s historic election of Barack Obama’s as the next U.S. president, a number of high-profile Europeans have been sticking their feet in their mouths while commenting on the situation (Well, some were being outright racist). For example, a leading Austrian television journalist said - on camera - that he “wouldn’t want the Western world to be directed by a black man.” The Italian Prime Minister tried to joke about it, by describing Obama as “young, handsome and even suntanned.” The National Democratic Party of Germany ran the headline, “Africa Conquers the White House,” on their website. And these aren’t even the extremists. Read more…
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has revealed a plot by skinheads to kill Senator Barack Obama, along with over 100 other African Americans, has been thwarted. The two Neo-Nazi white supremacists had planned to shoot 88 black people and decapitate another 14 (these two numbers are significant to the supremacist community). Obama was their final target, however they expected it was likely they’d be killed trying to assassinate the presidential nominee - rather than actually accomplishing their goal. The two men have been arrested. Read more…
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Well, this is some perspective:
The notion that there might be “racists for Obama,” as one Democrat called them, comes against the backdrop of a country whose white voters largely accept the notion of a black president.
“The economy is trumping racism,” said Kurt Schmoke, the dean of Howard University Law School and a former Baltimore mayor. “A lot of people who we might think wouldn’t vote their pocketbook because of race — now they are.”
“If you go to a white neighborhood in the suburbs and ask them, ‘How would you feel about a large black man kicking your door in,’ they would say, ‘That doesn’t sound good to me,’” said Democratic political consultant Paul Begala. “But if you say, ‘Your house is on fire, and the firefighter happens to be black,’ it’s a different situation.”
“The house is on fire, and one guy seems like he’s calm and confident and in charge, and that’s the only option,” he said.
This is a pretty chilling report.
“By the launch of the surge, many of the targets of conflict had either been killed or fled the country, and they turned off the lights when they left,” geography professor John Agnew of the University of California Los Angeles, who led the study, said in a statement.
“Essentially, our interpretation is that violence has declined in Baghdad because of intercommunal violence that reached a climax as the surge was beginning,” said Agnew, who studies ethnic conflict.
In other words, ethnic violence did the job before American soldiers got the chance.
Sectarian violence between Baghdad’s neighborhoods has been documented by an independent commission that correlates with much of the report’s findings.
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“…[B]oth the Democrats and the Republicans have been overemphasizing the surge. If it was just about the surge, the violence would be back up again because the surge is over.”
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