Comments on: Global Diaspora and (an) Obama http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/02/global-diaspora-and-an-obama/ Firedoglake weblog Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:53:42 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: inmymindseye http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/02/global-diaspora-and-an-obama/#comment-1247583 inmymindseye Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:59:20 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/02/global-diaspora-and-an-obama/#comment-1247583 <p>Biodun, thanks again for your post. </p> <p>This piece has been evocative for me and brings me back to an afternoon more than twenty years ago. I was in lower Manhattan standing on the street with a friend. In the luminous and beatific light of a late autumn afternoon, the sounds of music, laughter and layers of conversations occurring in a multitude of languages enveloped me. The confluence of these many sensations was profound. It was one of those rare transcendent moments of connectedness that has been alive within me since that resplendent day. And I have again been bathed in its warmth since reading and reflecting on your post.</p> <p>More please.</p> Biodun, thanks again for your post.

This piece has been evocative for me and brings me back to an afternoon more than twenty years ago. I was in lower Manhattan standing on the street with a friend. In the luminous and beatific light of a late autumn afternoon, the sounds of music, laughter and layers of conversations occurring in a multitude of languages enveloped me. The confluence of these many sensations was profound. It was one of those rare transcendent moments of connectedness that has been alive within me since that resplendent day. And I have again been bathed in its warmth since reading and reflecting on your post.

More please.

]]> By: glennmcgahee http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/02/global-diaspora-and-an-obama/#comment-1247526 glennmcgahee Sun, 03 Feb 2008 13:59:55 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/02/global-diaspora-and-an-obama/#comment-1247526 <p>I can’t wrap my head around the idea of Obama’s willingness to hype “bi-partinsanship. Who is gonna get thrown under the bus so that he can hold hands with the Republicans. Itmust be those people that he has decided can do without healthcare. As a disabled gay man, I worry about his secular appeal also. He has based most of his campaigning on his support through the black churches. I AM NOT RACIST, but I have seen his gospel tour including “ex-gay”, Donnie McClurkin, speaking about his escape from the clutches of homosexuality during an Obama rally. The churches I mention have not historically supported gays like me and they definitely have been late in talking about AIDS because of their bias toward gays. We have had a “religious” or faith-based president before. Recently in fact and it did not work out too well. To create this great friendship with the right-wing that Obama plans, somebody will suffer. Who?</p> I can’t wrap my head around the idea of Obama’s willingness to hype “bi-partinsanship. Who is gonna get thrown under the bus so that he can hold hands with the Republicans. Itmust be those people that he has decided can do without healthcare. As a disabled gay man, I worry about his secular appeal also. He has based most of his campaigning on his support through the black churches. I AM NOT RACIST, but I have seen his gospel tour including “ex-gay”, Donnie McClurkin, speaking about his escape from the clutches of homosexuality during an Obama rally. The churches I mention have not historically supported gays like me and they definitely have been late in talking about AIDS because of their bias toward gays. We have had a “religious” or faith-based president before. Recently in fact and it did not work out too well. To create this great friendship with the right-wing that Obama plans, somebody will suffer. Who?

]]> By: lowdowndog http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/02/global-diaspora-and-an-obama/#comment-1247053 lowdowndog Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:41:27 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/02/global-diaspora-and-an-obama/#comment-1247053 <p>Obama’s African Hubris<br /> <a href="http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=26929" rel="nofollow">http://www.taylormarsh.com/arc.....p?id=26929</a></p> Obama’s African Hubris
http://www.taylormarsh.com/arc…..p?id=26929

]]> By: lowdowndog http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/02/global-diaspora-and-an-obama/#comment-1247046 lowdowndog Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:37:23 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/02/global-diaspora-and-an-obama/#comment-1247046 <p>Don’t be surprised if John endorses Hillary after Super Tuesday. Like John, she is a true blue Democrat in her values. That is why she gets the working class vote. Obama is a Obamacan Republican. It’s time for disappointed Edwards people who lean toward Obama to cash in their 5 cent can of hope and get informed about his politics. This explains why corporate media fawns over Obama: The Audiology of Hope: Dogwhistle Economics<br /> <a href="http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/the-audiology-of-hope-dogwhistle-economics/" rel="nofollow">http://riverdaughter.wordpress.....economics/</a></p> <p>Compromising with Republicans, as Obama is too willing to do if he is president, will be just another crushing boot on the neck of lunch bucket Democrats who John and Hillary champion. Glenn Greenwald explains it: What “bipartisanship” in Washington means<br /> <a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/01/30/bipartisanship/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.salon.com/opinion/g.....index.html</a></p> Don’t be surprised if John endorses Hillary after Super Tuesday. Like John, she is a true blue Democrat in her values. That is why she gets the working class vote. Obama is a Obamacan Republican. It’s time for disappointed Edwards people who lean toward Obama to cash in their 5 cent can of hope and get informed about his politics. This explains why corporate media fawns over Obama: The Audiology of Hope: Dogwhistle Economics
http://riverdaughter.wordpress…..economics/

Compromising with Republicans, as Obama is too willing to do if he is president, will be just another crushing boot on the neck of lunch bucket Democrats who John and Hillary champion. Glenn Greenwald explains it: What “bipartisanship” in Washington means
http://www.salon.com/opinion/g…..index.html

]]> By: cinnamonape http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/02/global-diaspora-and-an-obama/#comment-1246925 cinnamonape Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:40:24 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/02/global-diaspora-and-an-obama/#comment-1246925 <blockquote><p>“And he never lived in Kansas. His mother was from there.”</p> <p>Refresh for Harvard and see my 9. He lived with his grandparents in Kansas. This is well known.</p></blockquote> <p>I just heard on NPR about an Obama rally last week in Kansas. It was a huge crowd and Obama played the multi-racial card superbly…inviting his grandmother up on stage as well as all sorts of White cousins, some quite prominent in their communities. They were up there with the Governor, many black supporters…in what could only have been a fairly revealing exposure of his racial diversity and multicultural background. </p> <p>Apparently though, there is a new “hit piece” making the rounds somehow “blaming” Obama for being the trigger of the rioting in Kenya. As if decades of ethnic conflicts in that country, and repeated tribal patronage politics, support of gangs by the factions, etc. had NOTHING to do with it.</p> <p>Somehow it was Obama’s fault…all because of a short trip last year to his fathers village, I suppose.</p> <p>Is mental illness that widespread amongst the chain-email community that they see “Born of a Kenyan father” and think that there is some primordial psychic messaging ability to create a “Kenyachurian Candidate”?</p>

“And he never lived in Kansas. His mother was from there.”

Refresh for Harvard and see my 9. He lived with his grandparents in Kansas. This is well known.

I just heard on NPR about an Obama rally last week in Kansas. It was a huge crowd and Obama played the multi-racial card superbly…inviting his grandmother up on stage as well as all sorts of White cousins, some quite prominent in their communities. They were up there with the Governor, many black supporters…in what could only have been a fairly revealing exposure of his racial diversity and multicultural background.

Apparently though, there is a new “hit piece” making the rounds somehow “blaming” Obama for being the trigger of the rioting in Kenya. As if decades of ethnic conflicts in that country, and repeated tribal patronage politics, support of gangs by the factions, etc. had NOTHING to do with it.

Somehow it was Obama’s fault…all because of a short trip last year to his fathers village, I suppose.

Is mental illness that widespread amongst the chain-email community that they see “Born of a Kenyan father” and think that there is some primordial psychic messaging ability to create a “Kenyachurian Candidate”?

]]> By: broadbrush http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/02/global-diaspora-and-an-obama/#comment-1246777 broadbrush Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:16:24 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/02/global-diaspora-and-an-obama/#comment-1246777 <p>the guy that did this video is 24 years old- pretty impressive</p> the guy that did this video is 24 years old- pretty impressive

]]> By: broadbrush http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/02/global-diaspora-and-an-obama/#comment-1246775 broadbrush Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:15:02 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/02/global-diaspora-and-an-obama/#comment-1246775 <p>he’s a dangerous Rep defender of the faith who obfuscates at all committee<br /> hearings but he is good at it</p> he’s a dangerous Rep defender of the faith who obfuscates at all committee
hearings but he is good at it

]]> By: redX http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/02/global-diaspora-and-an-obama/#comment-1246437 redX Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:56:45 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/02/global-diaspora-and-an-obama/#comment-1246437 <p>Obama is as American as fuckin and apple pie.</p> Obama is as American as fuckin and apple pie.

]]> By: JayBee http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/02/global-diaspora-and-an-obama/#comment-1246349 JayBee Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:06:07 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/02/global-diaspora-and-an-obama/#comment-1246349 <p>Have you seen this funny McCain/Clinton video? They are like peas in a pod. They have both received the most money from lobbyists and are Washington insiders.</p> <p>It’s a love fest for Senators. “Why did you have to be so good” Carly Simmon <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE7V_cOMamw" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE7V_cOMamw</a></p> Have you seen this funny McCain/Clinton video? They are like peas in a pod. They have both received the most money from lobbyists and are Washington insiders.

It’s a love fest for Senators. “Why did you have to be so good” Carly Simmon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE7V_cOMamw

]]> By: broadbrush http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/02/global-diaspora-and-an-obama/#comment-1246343 broadbrush Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:03:36 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/02/global-diaspora-and-an-obama/#comment-1246343 <p>I believe his grandparents lived in Hawaii</p> I believe his grandparents lived in Hawaii

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