Category Archives: Democrats

'Homie Has Some Rings To Kiss'

Democrats, Elections 2008, Politics, Race

“To me, [Barak] Obama has always seemed a reluctant recruit to racial politics; driven more by expediency and fear —fear of his overbearing wife and the Reverends Jackson and Sharpton.” But this is not how “Debra J. Dickerson, apparently a black racial theorist of note,” sees him. She “argues” in a Salon.com article that [Obama] doesn’t look right —he looks East African, when he ought to look West African. And horrors, “the handsome Obama” resembles his white mother. In short, he isn’t black enough.
But fear not, Dickerson’s commentary is never skin deep. Our African Aristotle, beloved of the liberal media, goes on to explain that “‘Black,’ in our political and social reality means those descended from West African slaves. Voluntary immigrants of African descent’ are not to be admitted into the Club. (This, of course, is good news for their Designated Oppressors; the tougher the admission criteria into the Club of the Eternally Oppressed, the better.)”

Read the rest in my new WorldNetDaily column, “Homie Has Some Rings To Kiss“

Ellison Talks Taqiyya

Democrats, Islam

Democrat Keith Ellison, aka Hakim Mohammad, the first Muslim US congressman, is already talking Taqiyya. After pledging allegiance to the US on a Qur’an that belonged to Thomas Jefferson, he went on to burble something about America’s third president recognizing that wisdom can be gleaned from many sources, including “the Muslim book of Jihad.”

No, that was not quite how Ellison referred to the Qur’an; but Ted Sampley, editor of U.S. Veteran Dispatch, does. In the essay, “What Thomas Jefferson Learned from the Muslim Book of Jihad,” Sampley dispels the myth Ellison is trying to cultivate: Jefferson, a man of the Enlightenment, communed with Mohammad, his absolute antithesis.

“At the time Jefferson owned the book,” writes Sampley, “he needed to know everything possible about Muslims because he was about to advocate war against the Islamic ‘Barbary’ states of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Tripoli.”

“Ellison’s use of Jefferson’s Quran as a prop illuminates a subject once well-known in the history of the United States, but, which today, is mostly forgotten – the Muslim pirate slavers who over many centuries enslaved millions of Africans and tens of thousands of Christian Europeans and Americans in the Islamic ‘Barbary’ states.” [Sic]

“When American colonists rebelled against British rule in 1776, American merchant ships lost Royal Navy protection. With no American Navy for protection, American ships were attacked and their Christian crews enslaved by Muslim pirates operating under the control of the “Dey of Algiers” —an Islamist warlord ruling Algeria.”

The rest of the column reminds Americans that Jefferson sent “American Marines and many of America’s best warships” to defeat the Muslim Barbary States. Being indeed a “visionary,” he sought first to learn about these pirates from their manual of war, the Qur’an.

Roar No More, Nancy

Democrats, Feminism

If I hear Nancy Pelosi, or any of her acolytes, roar once more about her womanhood, I’ll be sick. To listen to Bill Press, Arianna Huffington, and other left-liberals, Pelosi’s election as “the nation’s first-ever female House speaker” should mean a great deal to me as a woman. That’s a whole lot of nonsense. Anyone, man or woman, who intends to increase minimum wage, further socialize medicine, and make global warming the official state religion, doesn’t make me proud.

Here’s Nancy roaring:

Today I thank my colleagues. By electing me as speaker you have brought us closer to the ideal of equality that is America’s heritage and America’s hope,” Pelosi said. “This is an historic moment —for the Congress, and for the women of America. It is a moment for which we have waited more than 200 years. Never losing faith, we waited through the many years of struggle to achieve our rights.

Now put a sock in it.

Oprah’s Obama

Democrats, Elections 2008, Politics, Pop-Culture, The Zeitgeist

Before being swept up in it, let’s trace the genesis of Barack Obama mania for a moment. It was started by Oprah Winfrey. I’m not saying he ought to be discounted because his popularity is of the Queen of Kitsch’s making. For one, it’s too late for that. Oprah is a powerful person. However, since the media have taken on her mantle and kept the momentum going, we seemed to have forgotten that Oprah introduced Obama to the public.

Obama is a nice enough man. Whereas most candidates are quite ignoble, he’s merely mediocre. I think he was against the war, which ought to elevate him above The Hildebeest among Democrats. Republicans won’t have worthy candidates, unless Tom Tancredo or Ron Paul decides to run.

In any event, it doesn’t hurt to remember that Obama was launched by the confessional queen and in many ways represents the Oprah-ization of American life, down to his names.

Had he been christened “Barak,” he’d be the namesake of an impressive “military general in the Book of Judges” in the Hebrew Bible. Alas, if his mother intended to so name him, she misspelled “Barak.” If this indeed is the genesis of his name, it would also be emblematic of contemporary America.

Obama’s middle name — “Hussein” — he shares with Saddam and many millions of Muslims. That too provides a snapshot of modern America.