Thread: The 'big bad black man' Obama thread

Oh do tell. Where is it created?

In US of course Texpat.
And what it shows is how far some americans are willing to go in order to discredit a president candidate. Notice, some..

Of course...

I'd forgotten they don't sell photoshop in London or Bangkok.

Seeing how US is outsourcing all jobs, it may be a possibility..

Where is Noodles when you need him?

Originally Posted by Texpat

Let's be honest here Sabang, you're merely making a case...

If I am making a case mate, it is about the modern day political process. Yes, too much mudslinging goes on- although, coming from Australia, I can hardly be patronising about that. Our pollies regularly call each other 'scumbags' and the like.

I am not averse to taking the odd cheap shot at 'redneck' mentality, but I do not consider the US to be a particularly racist country. No more racist than any other country anyway. But is there racism- yes, of course.

There is an underlying, more specific case. Obama (whom I support) is copping a hell of a lot of flack, that I feel is exaggerated and unwarranted. When the peanut brigade could get no more steam out of the Muslim innuendo's (mainly because they were nonsense to begin with), now it's about inflammatory remarks by his Christian church pastor- when he wasn't even present. The only criticism thus far that I lend any credence to is that he is a one term Senator.

Basically, the naysayers are flailing around desperately to say, or imply, anything they can against him- and, at it's lowest ebb, bringing Racist and Islamophobic innuendo's and slander into it. Holy cow, if this is all they can find on the guy he must be close to a saint.

This is my way of hitting back- by Parody.

Originally Posted by sabang

this is the first time an Afro American has stood up and run for President of the USA- and he is a serious contender. Due credit to the American political process for this fact

From my OP. Wheres the anti-Americanism?

^ Lotta gold in that room.

Can't put it any more succinctly than this:

"In tight spots in the colonies a century back, Cecil Rhodes used to buck up his men by telling them that each had been an Englishman and therefore had won first prize in the lottery of life. Today, to be born an American is to win first prize in the lottery of life. One understands why that might not seem obvious to black people of a certain age: Condi Rice, for example, has childhood memories of a segregated south and racial violence. But that's what makes Obama's association with Wright so significant. He's not from Alabama. He's a biracial middle-class Kenyan-Kansan Hawaiian-born Indonesian-raised Columbia and Harvard graduate who chose to immerse himself in the most corrosive and paranoid end of a racial-grievance ghetto mentality that is nothing to do with him, his family or his upbringing. He doesn't have the same excuse as a Jackson, Sharpton or Farrakhan.

Why would he do such a thing? I wouldn't expose my kids to the four-letter ravings of Jeremiah Wright because I wouldn't want them to grow up loathing their country. I find it hard not to think less of a man who does."

The Corner on National Review Online

'Ole Cecil might have been a poofter of the highest order but his message was right.

Too bad Obama's isn't...

A stupid, twisted rant.

Obama has not "immersed himself" in any "ghetto mentality", Wright is the minister for the area where the Osamas live, and the imbecile author is mistaking Wright's words for Obama's opinion.
Should he apologize that his views and life-experiences are somewhat different from what a white, middle-class pundit expects them to be?

I didn't know one has to hold certain political views as deemed appropriate by others according to one's supposed social and economic standing as of late... looks like those wingnut bloggers really do want to turn the US into an intolerant Nazi state.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Today, to be born an American is to win first prize in the lottery of life.

spare us.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

'Ole Cecil might have been a poofter of the highest order but his message was right. Too bad Obama's isn't

why do you think it is too bad that obama isn't a homosexual?



you make it too easy to help you look the fool boon mee.

Whose motivational tapes did Obama take to Harvard Law?

heh...

I find it utterly amuzing to watch people get rattled when someone else speaks ill of their chosen US presidential candidate. Seems some will spare no energy to fiercely uphold the merits and defend the honor of their chosen candidate (and sometimes chosen party). The myopic madness is great entertainment.

This amusement is is magnified 100-fold when said noble defender isn't even American.

Obama is not my chosen candidate.

What is rather amazing, is the stamina and determination with which his opponents continually invent further and more obtuse material to mudsling, and convince themselves there is any substance there.

...and then getting their knickers in a twist when the madness is exposed.
The one who has been upset about the very existence of this threat and hurt in his national pride, is YOU, texpat.

Water off a duck's back to me as far as candidates. But I can see the setup coming a mile off.

Two years from now -- regardless of who the US president is -- the same old shitslingers will still be on here with the same old lame attempts at degradation and belittlement. No matter if the economy is soaring and the Iraqis are hugging and kissing in the streets. The point is -- there is no good choice for some and there never will be.

But that's OK. If it makes you feel better...

S

Originally Posted by Texpat

Water off a duck's back to me as far as candidates. But I can see the setup coming a mile off.

Sure, you are American and the election madness must be part of the accepted 'culture', but I assure you it looks like an insane circus from the outside.

Actually, I stopped posting on another forum for this reason, there is a point when it all stops being amuzing.

Originally Posted by stroller

S

Originally Posted by Texpat

Water off a duck's back to me as far as candidates. But I can see the setup coming a mile off.

Sure, you are American and the election madness must be part of the accepted 'culture', but I assure you it looks like an insane circus from the outside.

Actually, I stopped posting on another forum for this reason, there is a point when it all stops being amuzing.

Well, hang in there Stroll 'cause we have 7 & 1/2 months of this shit to go.
It's going to get tiresome for everyone...

I wonder if someone could invite Thaiquila over to spice things up.

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Originally Posted by Texpat

OK -- whatever. But you'll come off far less genuine when after posting pages and pages of this garbage you take a swipe at Americans for being racist. Remember whose posting this garbage.

Agreed. This is just an excuse to post some sickening garbage.

You guys should lighten up a bit. I think Obama is the best mainstream presidential candidate since Robert Kennedy, a far superior human being than his current opposition. Some of these photos are just plain funny, so absurd that they qualify as a parodies of racism. You have to be retard to believe that Obama is a terrorist or a pimp. I don't think posters here really believe the stuff we're posting (I sure hope not).

TeHe, bumpety bump -



Obama downplays satirical magazine cover


Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday called a New Yorker cover that unflatteringly depicts him and his wife an unsuccessful attempt at satire that will probably fuel misconceptions he has long battled over the course of his presidential campaign.

But in an interview with CNN's Larry King, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee downplayed the impact of the illustration, which depicts him in Muslim attire in the Oval Office, with his wife, Michelle, carrying a machine gun.

"It's a cartoon ... and that's why we've got the First Amendment," Obama said. "And I think the American people are probably spending a little more time worrying about what's happening with the banking system and the housing market and what's happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, than a cartoon. So I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about it.

"I've seen and heard worse," he said. "I do think that, you know, in attempting to satirize something, they probably fueled some misconceptions about me instead. But, you know, that was their editorial judgment."

Obama downplays satirical magazine cover - CNN.com


Suave Obama will probably gain political advantage out of this one, again. Certainly, the NY'ers cover was meant to be 'Tongue in Cheek'- it is no rabid Right Wing Blog.

But the criticism of the NY'er Cover is akin to the criticism of this thread- is it OK to regurgitate non-PC stuff in a 'Tongue in cheek' sense, or does this just cater to racism & negative stereotypes?

Heres an Israeli cartoon of Obama and the 'Blackhouse'-

How about this one, from a Kuwaiti newspaper!

^ This controversy has largely died down.

The rabid Right Wing blog -



Does anyone take these seriously?