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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

If you thought the "plagiarism" foofarah was bad, you ain't seen nothin' yet
Posted by Jill | 6:57 AM
Wait till the wingnuts start in if Barack Obama is the nominee. They're starting already, but no one's paying attention....yet.

Until I came across this article by Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media, which I regard as factual — with all that that implies — the questions about Obama's background that should have come naturally never quite rose to the surface of my mind. Barack Obama is the new man, of course. His mixed race is a symbol of that. Just like Tiger Woods — as we have read, endlessly. What's to wonder about?

But maybe it's not so simple. Obama and I are roughly the same age. I grew up in liberal circles in New York City — a place to which people who wished to rebel against their upbringings had gravitated for generations. And yet, all of my mixed race, black/white classmates throughout my youth, some of whom I am still in contact with, were the product of very culturally specific unions. They were always the offspring of a white mother, (in my circles, she was usually Jewish, but elsewhere not necessarily) and usually a highly educated black father. And how had these two come together at a time when it was neither natural nor easy for such relationships to flourish? Always through politics. No, not the young Republicans. Usually the Communist Youth League. Or maybe a different arm of the CPUSA. But, for a white woman to marry a black man in 1958, or 60, there was almost inevitably a connection to explicit Communist politics. (During the Clinton Administration we were all introduced to then U. of Pennsylvania Professor Lani Guinier — also a half black/half Jewish, red diaper baby.)

I don't know how Barak Obama's parents met. But the Kincaid article referenced above makes a very convincing case that Obama's family, later, (mid 1970s) in Hawaii, had close relations with a known black Communist intellectual. And, according to what Obama wrote in his first autobiography, the man in question — Frank Marshall Davis — appears to have been Barack's own mentor, and even a father figure. Of course, since the Soviet Union itself no longer exists, it's an open question what it means practically to have been politically mentored by an official Communist. Ideologically, the implications are clearer.



But wait a minute. I thought Obama was a double-dog-secret Islamofascist mole trying to infiltrate our government! So which is it? Is he an Islamofascist or the product of a Jewish Commie Conspiracy? I wish these people would make up their minds.

(h/t)

UPDATE: Dave Johnson has more links to the spew already emanating from the sick, sick minds of wingnuttia.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...
"But wait a minute. I thought Obama was a double-dog-secret Islamofascist mole trying to infiltrate our government! So which is it? Is he an Islamofascist or the product of a Jewish Commie Conspiracy? I wish these people would make up their minds."

BOTH! "First it's a candy, then it's a gum. Making up Obama lies is so much fun."
2/20/08, 7:29 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Jill,

Don't you know that the Islamofascist conspiracy is nothing but the continuation of the Commie Conspiracy? I'm sure that'll be the next statements coming from the right...
Indeed, consider our current comments about Mr Putin, how he's trying to reestablish the old Soviet empire [read Georgia, Serbia/Kosovo, any of the -Stans, ...]
The Repubs need someone to fight. The Commies [ie, Cuba currently] were -- and perhaps will be again -- a willing target... And they did so well with them for 50 years... It was so much easier to see a commie under every bed and behind every bush than it is a Muslim.... After all, guys running around with funny rags on their head can't hide very well...
2/20/08, 8:33 AM  
Blogger K said...
Utter horseshit is right.
2/20/08, 8:47 AM  
Blogger Joshua said...
Ever notice how many of the former Soviet republics end in "-stan"? Hmm?
2/20/08, 10:53 AM  
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