Comments on: Bad Dreams From Obama

By: EN

EN — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:31:24 +0000

There are some guys who are ambition at an early age. They mean to get somewhere (although, the final destination is rarely known) and lying, throwing Granny under the bus, even marrying a bullying black woman--it's all in a day's work. He is plays fast with the truth with many things, and this book is a no more than another lie on the path to his success. Wanna bet that the party he took his white teammates to never happened? I'd look into that. I got a lot of money that says the boy Barry was whiter than me until he got to college. Soon after, being a sharp lad and all, he decides that his blackness was the path to success. If we pressed him on the quotes he likes, and the things that shaped his outlook on life, we'd find out the real Barry preferred Emily Post and Walt Whitman.

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:20:46 +0000

I know this is somewhat off-topic, but as someone who works in the adoption field, I feel compelled to comment that black children adopted by whites, in general, do quite well. They don’t do as well as white children on certain measures, but they do as well as or better than their black peers on nearly all measures. Their only real shortcoming is that they are less likely than other blacks to have a strong racial identity. Whether this is a plus, a weakness or neither is in the eye of the beholder, I suppose. But adoption studies suggest that Obama’s obvious struggles with his racial identity are not characteristic of black children raised by white parents.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:56:59 +0000

When my wife and I looked into adoption, I speculated that a black child raised by whites in American would be subjected to too much “racial bull***t” as I termed it. The saga of Barack Obama seems to confirm my fears. Funny thing is that last week, I asked Anna if she wanted to take a course in Chinese culture this summer – she could care less. OK either way with me.

Racism, perhaps, is in the eye of the beholder. It is everywhere if one chooses to make it so. I’ve raised my daughter for 10 years and we have NOT encountered it. I saw that {to a lesser extent than Obama} with my brother who interpreted nearly everything in the lens of “anti-Semitism” while I saw it as my brother being a jackass and people responding to him in kind. My brother became quite Orthodox, hung out for a time with the Jewish Defense League, and started talking with a quasi-Yiddush accent – all of which appalled my father. He decided that most of our family was also anti-Semitic and moved over to Samaria. It was relatively recently in my own life that I have seen that most Orthodox Jews are normal, non-paranoid people.

But, given the right disposition, one can see the evil hidden forces of sexism, racism, anti-Semitism, communism, or whatever-sinister-evil lurking pervasively.

By: Henry Bowman

Henry Bowman — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:04:42 +0000

Coulter enjoys being deliberately outrageous -- I assume that she thinks that being outrageous helps book sales [it might]. However, this column of hers is really rather scary. Mr. Obama seems to be a die-hard racist, very much in the same mold as his former pastor, J. Wright. Previously, I regarded him as merely another run-of-the-mill ~~Marxist~~ Democrat, but it appears that he is actually much worse. He seems to be living up to the appellation, "The Obamanation".