Op/Ed
"They don't hate us."
A Conservative Blog
by Ed Donath
Other than a Face Book whacko and some widely-scattered campaign poster defacements, not a single racial slur by anyone of note ever made it to media quote-ability during the nearly two years since Barack Obama became a household name.
In fact, had it not been for the candidate's own oft repeated "They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?” attempt at putting the race card in the hand of his adversaries through the inventive use of passive/aggressive reverse osmosis, a visually impaired person might never have realized that an African-American was running for president.
Despite the president-elect's renewal of his campaign vow to be a co-defender of Islamo-fascists' rights by closing the Guantanamo Detention Center, abolishing torture of any kind and making sure those in custody get treated more like defendants than enemy combatants, the de facto leader of the terrorists, nonetheless, made disparaging racial remarks about Obama in his first post-US election video rant.
"House Negroes" is the way Ayman al-Zawahri characterized Barack Obama, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. The so-called al-Qaida No. 2 (aren't they all?) went on to criticize Obama for being "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans like Malcolm X."
Malcolm X, a Sixties civil rights activist, was slain in a New York City mosque by fellow Black Muslims. Many say that Obama's long-time Chicago friend Minister Louis Farrakhan was part of the plot to assassinate Malcolm X, if not one of its participants.
Meanwhile, militant gay rights activists have been violently protesting the result of California voters' recent defeat of a ballot proposition that could have legitimized homosexual marriage. You don't think that their protests are merely harmless outpourings of frustration, do you? Make no mistake, invading churches during worship services, menacing and threatening pedestrians while shouting obscenities at them, employing in-your-face street theatre scare tactics, disturbing the peace and dishonoring the democratic process are definitely acts of violence.
Change or no change, the majority still rules in the USA.
If militant Islamists use the Arabic equivalent of the "N-word" in reference to the next President of the United States and former Secretaries of State, what do you think they call costumed gays in the streets of San Francisco? More importantly, what do you think they would do to those people -- and in what order of priority would they appear on the terrorists' to do list -- if al-Qaida and the Taliban ever became our dictators?
Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who denied the existence of homosexuals in his homeland during his recent UN/Columbia University visit to New York, implied that such perversion could only exist in western nations. He also continues to demonize the state of Israel, openly calling for the destruction of its "fake regime" and insisting that it "must be wiped off the map."
Is it remotely possible that Ahmadinejad feels differently about the USA, Israel's staunchest ally? Is there any way that Barack Obama having a chat with the little Hitler would make him any less ready to carry out his threats? Iran will certainly need the nukes it is developing, both to bring about a second holocaust and to defend against the USA when we are forced to follow through on our long-standing promise to defend Israel if it is attacked.
The ACLU is on the case for "mistreated" terrorists and gays forced to have sex out of legal wedlock but they could care less about the abridgement of Joe the Plumber's rights in the manner of numerous unauthorized checks on every element of his background through the State of Ohio's database.
Michael Moore is excited over the collapse of capitalism but expresses no regret over the loss of jobs that autoworkers and others will experience if the domestic car companies collapse.
Rep. Gary Ackerman, a New York Democrat, asked auto executives at a hearing held by the U.S. House Financial Services Committee: "Couldn't you have downgraded to first class or something, or jet-pooled or something to get here?" But no one has ever heard a Democrat politician ask Al Gore the same question during one of his Global Warming barnstorming tours.
It is possible that al-Qaida's use of the Arabic N-word for the president-elect will enable some of the aforementioned liberals to understand not just how much the terrorists hate all of us but how much more they actually hate those who champion gay rights and other liberal causes. Unfortunately, that is unlikely to happen.
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Reader Comments:
I believe this is a clear and concise explanation for exactly [what] went on during the election. I believe it is sad that the media has abandoned their responsibilities to the American People by choosing not to report accurately on the facets of the election.
easypaul
(from Springfield, MO News-Leader)
Why? Please do us a favor and answer...why?
0CHRIS
(from Mansfield, OH NewsJournal)
Bin Ladin said his goal was to bankrupt the USA. Seems like it's working and Bush's war economics has fallen right into his hands.
Anonymous
[Good reason to hate 'em both. But which one do you hate more? - ED]
Wow. Uh, no. "not a single racial slur by anyone of note ever made it to media quote-ability" some might say 'that one' qualifies, but I don't believe that. It isn't "media quotability" that loses votes on election day; it's the 7% of America that thinks he's a Muslim, an AY-rab, that thinks that the've had enough of "Hussein"(that's a quote too), that just "doesn't trust him" and refuses to elaborate. Racism can be more subtle than slavery, but I bet you think it's OVER anyway. "campaign vow to be a co-defender of Islamo-fascists' rights" Ah yes, back to this. "Obviously torturing every brown person we capture is the way to go. Sure, they're not ALL guilty, but if we spend enough time waterboarding 'em, we might interrupt a terrorist plot or something. Save American lives and all that. You LOVE America, don't you!?" "Many say that Obama's long-time Chicago friend Minister Louis Farrakhan was part of the plot to assassinate Malcolm X, if not one of its participants." Yeah, you're going to need to back you accusal of involvement in an assassination with something other than "many say". Thanks. "invading churches during worship services, menacing and threatening pedestrians while shouting obscenities at them, employing in-your-face street theatre scare tactics, disturbing the peace and dishonoring the democratic process are definitely acts of violence." Hmm, let's see. They've just had their right to marry taken away, and now there's a large movement that wants to take away civil unions altogether. You know, I think there's gonna be some gay guys who're angry enough to do something illegal. Just maybe. "Change or no change, the majority still rules in the USA." News flash: this is not an absolute democracy. We hold the rights of individuals ABOVE the will of the people, so a majority of Californians voting for something unconstitutional doesn't mea...
Syph01
(from St. Cloud, MN Times)
What's your point?
JamesPeters
[My point is brought home by the previous poster. - ED]
"News flash: this is not an absolute democracy ... " Of course not. Never has been. It is a republican democracy with a system of checks and balances among the executive, legislative and judicial branches. That's the way the Founders planned it. And, depending on what happens with the California Supreme Court, this could wind up with SCOTUS.
GreenPen17
They were [strewn] across the web and in e-mails. I believe, just like Palin referred to her [detractors] on the internet, that's what the new president was referring to.
another_patriot
(from Des Moines, Iowa Register]
I heard plenty of it locally. One of the posters/writers who most ardently said in the Spectrum that disliking Obama didn't make him a racist was privately emailing things that would have made the KKK blush.
Damian
(from Southern Utah Spectrum)
I sure hope you're active in your local Republican party - the party needs people with your clear headed opinions...
Craig51
[I appreciate the compliment Craig51. But as a registered Conservative the only Republican candidates I've ever voted for are those who also appear on my party's line (Reagan, Giuliani, Bush and McCain are among them). It must surprise you that we've actually got a Conservative Party here in NY. - ED]
I am glad we live in a time when we can first consider a mulatto (no pejorative here, he is half white) for the presidency and secondly disagree with that person's politics.
xaticus
And we all know that if no one "of note" sticks his/her foot in his/her mouth, then the whole issue is dead and buried, eh? In addition, the man will be president, if you're going to be writing about him, do you think you could learn to actually spell his name correctly? One "r" in Barack. I'll bet you can spell his middle name though.
markboggs
[The typos have been corrected. - ED]
Let's see, you mean except overt attempts to link Barack Obama to all the "bad black stuff" with almost daily mentions of Jeremiah Wright, Black Liberation Theology, Louis Farakahn, Malcom X? You mean except almost daily mention of an essay his wife wrote ten years before they married.
Leftee
[Yes. And I give you credit for paying attention to the handful of news sources that weren't in the tank for Obama. -ED]
Isn't his middle name like W or something? ;)
Oil Field Trash
Realistically Versed!! I agree. The Majority is nowhere near "dead". Let's all start hollering more. And louder!! We can use that tool too!!! Croatian
Mansfield Ohio
So the "He pals around with radical terrorists," wasn't trying to get people afraid of Obama? The long winded attacks on him because of a vague connection that had no relavence was not stirring the hatred and fear? McCain never let any of his pundits use Obama's middle name as a source of fear to the far right did he? And before McCain choose Palin, he never once said anything about Obama not being ready did he? The point is, while they may not have said, "We don't want a black man," they made enough ad hommin remarks to make it very clear that they'd do or make up anything to attack him and inspire racial fear amongst the sheep that believed the far right. Obama won because people were tired of random idiocy by the far right of the country in their leadership, and in their campaigning, and that is why Obama won with the most votes in US history, and carried a hard core republican state like Indiana.
Jamkel
(from Indianapolis, IN Star]
[It's too soon to try and fool people with this kind of revisionist history. -ED]
Amen Righteous! It was the left who played the race card time and time again. Simply pathetic!!!!
BROWNS2K
No racism? Are you kidding? Get your head out of the sand. Forgive me for forgetting his name, but a politician from Georgia called Obama "uppity"...twice. Then there's the young man who was kicked off the Texas University football team for his comments on You Tube..."There's a "N***** in the White House, get your guns ready". And you better believe there are millions of Southerners who think the same way. As far as your comments about Gore...he isn't asking Congress for billions of dollars. One more thing...you conservatives want less government, right? And less spending. Then how come the Reagan and Bush Administrations have run up the biggest deficits in history? Clinton left Bush a budget surplus!! And how come you're always trying to tell women they have to have their unwanted baby...how come your against gay rights...what business is it of yours if gays get married...how's that affecting your life?...How come you're always trying to us what books we shouldn't read, or what movies we shouldn't see. A little hypocrisy there, wouldn't say? One last thing....I'm a liberal and VERY proud of it. If it wasn't for liberal administrations, we wouldn't have Social Security and Unemployment Compensation (FDR) and Medicare and Medicaid (LBJ) If it were up to the conservatives, the retired and the unemployed would still be standing in soup lines like my father did when he was a kid during the depression. Enjoy your Thanksgiving. CoachEd Lacey Township, N.J. [Happy Thanksgiving to you, as well Coach. You are entitled to your rant and I don't want to diminish it except for one point of clarification. "...not a single racial slur by anyone of note..." is what I wrote. Since you can't remember the congressman's name and since bigoted YouTubers and college students aren't exactly famous, I stand on my original remark.
The point that you and others may have missed is that I decry bigotry and racism as much or more than anyone and advocate for conservatives and liberals to stand together against it regardless of its origin. Playing the Race Card, however, is wrong whether it is played by al Qaida's #2, a college football bigot, Rev. Wright, a Georgia congressman or Barack Obama himself. - ED]
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November 23, 2008
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