Comments on: Barack Obama: Dunderhead or Racist – You Make the Call

By: bigdogdaddy

bigdogdaddy — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:50:50 +0000

I’ll go with both – and Mike – you’re a dumbass – if the priest at my church said he hated black, white, yellow or brown people I’d go to church down the street.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:32:25 +0000

What is wrong with you people, Sen. Obama a racist? Basically you are saying the only way he could have put this behind him is, “throw the pastor under the bus.” First of all, all of you who believe this must have NEVER read a bible, EVER! You never follow man, you follow GOD! The reason you never follow man is because man will disappoint you, fail, fall short, lie, die or whatever! If you have a disagreement with a pastor yes can leave, but this is a personal choice…Let’s be honest if you always left because you did not agree with the pastor, then you would probably never go to church! But it is not about his pastor, it is about his personal relationship with GOD! Rev. Wright can’t save his soul, for him to go to heaven. In my humble opinion, you don’t leave the church…Because he did not go to that church entirely because Rev. Wright, it is about worshiping God….And I’ll end it with this, if he said he did not agree with him, denounced, and rejected what he said, WHAT ELSE CAN HE DO? If you leave the church it is because you are following man not God………….

By: Steve S

Steve S — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:39:29 +0000

Never mind, wikipedia answered my question about Senator Obama’s early years…..
Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. (born in Nyangoma-Kogelo, Bondo District, Nyanza Province, Kenya,[8] of Luo ethnicity) and Ann Dunham (born in Wichita, Kansas).[9] Throughout his early years, he was commonly known at home and school as “Barry”.[10] Obama’s parents met while both were attending the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was enrolled as a foreign student.[11] They separated when he was two years old and later divorced.[12] His father received a Masters Degree in Economics from Harvard University, then returned to Kenya, where he became a finance minister before dying in an automobile accident in 1982.[13][14] His mother married another foreign student, Lolo Soetoro, and the family moved to Soetoro’s home country of Indonesia in 1967.[15] Obama attended local schools in Jakarta, from ages 6 to 10, where classes were taught in Bahasa, the language of Indonesia and Malaysia. He first attended Fransiskus Assisis school for almost three years, where he was taught the Catholic catechism, although he was registered by his family as a Muslim, the religion of his father.[16] When his family moved to a new neighborhood, he attended the secular, government-run SDN Menteng 1 school to complete the third and fourth grades.[17][18] Being registered as a Muslim here meant he studied Islam for two hours each week.[19] Although Obama was twice registered under his father’s Muslim identity, Obama’s stepfather was “not religious”, and “never went to prayer services except for big communal events”, according to Obama’s sister, Maya Soetoro.[19] Obama returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents while attending Punahou School, a private college preparatory school, from the fifth grade until his graduation in 1979.[20] Obama’s mother, Ann, died of ovarian cancer and uterine cancer a few months after the publication of his 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father.[21]

In the memoir, Obama describes his experiences growing up in his mother’s American middle class family. His knowledge about his African father, who returned once for a brief visit in 1971, came mainly through family stories and photographs.[14] Of his early childhood, Obama writes: “That my father looked nothing like the people around me—that he was black as pitch, my mother white as milk—barely registered in my mind.”[22] The book describes his struggles as a young adult to reconcile social perceptions of his multiracial heritage.[23] He wrote that he used alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine during his teenage years to “push questions of who I was out of my mind”.[24] Reflecting later on his formative years in Honolulu, Obama wrote: “The opportunity that Hawaii offered—to experience a variety of cultures in a climate of mutual respect—became an integral part of my world view, and a basis for the values that I hold most dear.”[25]

After high school, Obama moved to Los Angeles, where he studied at Occidental College for two years.[26] He then transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in political science with a specialization in international relations.[27] Obama received his Bachelor of Arts in 1983, then worked at Business International Corporation and New York Public Interest Research Group before moving to Chicago to take a job as a community organizer.[28] As the $13,000 a year Director of the Developing Communities Project,[29] a faith-based community-organizing agency on Chicago’s far south side, funded by an arm of the Catholic Church and overseen by a coalition of black churches,[30] he worked with the low-income residents of Chicago’s Roseland community and the Altgeld Gardens public housing development to counteract the dislocation and massive unemployment caused by the closing and downsizing of southeast Chicago steel plants. [31][32][33][34] Obama has called this experience “the best education I ever had” and cites it as one of the reasons he would make a good president.[35]

Concluding that community organizing was not effective enough to solve major domestic problems,[36] Obama applied to Harvard Law School, which he entered in 1988.[37] In 1990 Obama was first black in the 104-year history of the Harvard Law Review to be elected president of the independent student group responsible for the journal.[13] He completed his J.D. degree magna cum laude in 1991.[38][dead link] The president of the Harvard Law Review usually goes on to serve as a clerk for a judge on the Federal Court of Appeals for a year, and then as a clerk for an associate justice of the Supreme Court.[13] Instead Obama returned to Chicago to direct a voter registration drive that resulted in voter registration in Chicago’s 19 predominantly black wards outnumbering those in the city’s 19 predominantly white ethnic wards for the first time in Chicago’s history, and by a substantial 676,000 to 526,000. More than half a million blacks went to the polls in Chicago, and Chicago magazine hailed Obama as “a new political star”.[39]

As an associate attorney with Miner, Barnhill & Galland from 1993 to 1996, he represented community organizers, discrimination claims, and voting rights cases.[40] He was a lecturer of constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1993 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004.[4

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Interesting that he wrote that in his formative years, living with a causasian mom in a multicultural environment in that noted hellhole (sarcasm)…Hawaii…attending Punahou (private College prep school, $$$$$$), etc. He noted that he lived in a culture of mutual respect. That sure does not sound like any acvice I have seen from Rev. Wright,…. mutual respect of non-blacks.

By: Anne

Anne — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:30:58 +0000

No way did this man attend Rev. Wright’s church and not know exactly what Rev. Wright and the entire congregation believed/believe. None of Rev. Wright’s statements were a surprise to any of those folks in the congregation. I didn’t see any looks of shock and disbelief, but rather clapping, dancing, laughter and patting the Rev. on the back. Sorry Obama, this doesn’t fly. He has been supporting this church with his tithes and offerings for twenty years. More importantly he has entrusted the spiritual guidance of his children to this man and this congregation of bigots. No way would he support this church financially or allow his children to hear this rot if he and his wife (whose statements line up with the Rev.’s views as well) were not in agreement with the Rev. and congregations views.

By: Steve S

Steve S — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:06:42 +0000

That Rev Wright sure can spew some hateful verbiage. Really gets worked up about the past and probably rightfully so. But the past IS just that, the past. Join the NOW, join and embrace the country you are in NOW. Make a difference by contributing, not whining and hatefully attaching yourself to the past. I am not responsible for the horrific slavery issues of the past, and truly wish that it had never happened. Some side notes:I think it was fellow Africans who actually trudged through the African back country catching fellow Africans for sale to white slave traders. Where would Oprah Winfrey and Barak Obama be today if there had been no slavery?? On a real stupid side note (this whole issue is stupidity), where would professional sports be in the U.S. had there been no slavery, and do you think they caught the fastest most clever ones?

Anyhow, I really prefer to think of the Reverend Martin Luther’s ….”Someday we will judge people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.”
Senator Obama has certainly shown a strange kind of character of judgement with some of the folks he has surrounded himself with for many years. His Momma probably told him to be careful of the friends and associates he keeps, my momma told me and I have so informed my own kids.

I have a question to those much more informed….Did Barak Obama grow up in black neighborhoods, and how did he overcome so much oppression and attend and graduate so highly the premier schools he attended.

By: garth

garth — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:29:33 +0000

For me the problem is less the racist view. But the virulent Anti-Americanism. How can somebody belong to and attend consistently and not have a clue about what is going on? He is either clueless (not having a clue what the minister said), spineless (knowing but not willing to do a thing about it) or anti-American.

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:29:29 +0000

Obama is a Dunderhead. I do not know if he is a racist, but one thing that is clear to me as a future voter is Obama’s very poor judgment in this entire matter. Why did he have “Uncle Jeremiah” serving on his campaign? How would Rev. Wright influence his presidency if, as Obama asserts, he never makes a major decision without first consulting him? How much influence has Wright’s invective had on forming Obama’s views? On top of this, Right Truth reported that Obama had Nation of Islam people working for him in Chicago and saw nothing inappropriate about that. Here is the link to that explosive story and if the MSM has the guts to expose it, Obama will never be elected President of the United States. http://righttruth.typepad.com/right_truth/2008/03/obamas-nation-o.html. I, for one, have had enough of Obamania. No way do I think he is ready for the highest office in the land, so this voter is running to Sen. McCain with cash and vote in hand.

By: susan

susan — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:16:42 +0000

” i will stand with the muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction “. this is a quote from obamas book the audacity of hope.

By: Sauu

Sauu — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:48:42 +0000

Not 1980′s, but 1970′s.

By: Sauu

Sauu — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:46:30 +0000

People, dont be fooled. There are still ‘deep-seated’ racial prejudices in America, and no amount of band-aiding will close the chasm. The experiences that Blacks faced in a predominantly ‘white’ country during the 1950′s, 1960′s and the 1980′s was obviously an era of a lot of racial discrimination, hurt, frustrations and anger….and to this day it continues. Racism is alive and well in the 21st century, and I wonder, which race suffers the most from ‘racial discrimination ???
Get back to the issue of building ‘HOPE and ‘Vision’ for our future generation, so that they can endure some ‘love, joy, peace, happiness, prosperity and unity. This is the only way the world can ever be at peace.

Enough of the ‘HATE’ talk ! STOP IT !!