October 15, 2008

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Posted by: GM Roper at Wednesday, October 15 2008 04:07 PM (1fjXG)
Posted by: Ahmed at Wednesday, October 15 2008 04:28 PM (5fuIi)
Posted by: Woody at Saturday, October 18 2008 05:50 PM (Eb/8J)
Posted by: GM Roper at Saturday, October 18 2008 06:17 PM (tLNCB)
Posted by: GM Roper at Saturday, October 18 2008 06:20 PM (tLNCB)
Barack Obama decided to invoke Malcolm X today in Philly, warning his followers not to be "hoodwinked" or "bamboozled" by John McCain. He used this same language against Hillary in South Carolina:
His use of the phrase is resonant. It comes from a scene in Malcolm X, where Denzel Washington warns black people about the hidden evils of “the White Man” masquerading as a smiling politician: “Every election year, these politicians are sent up here to pacify us,” he says. “You’ve been hoodwinked. Bamboozled.”
By uttering this famous phrase, Obama told his black audience everything it needed to know. He was helping to convince blacks that the first two-term Democratic president in 50 years, a man referred to as the first black president, is in fact a secret racist. As soon as I heard that Obama had quoted from Malcolm X like this, I knew that Obama would win South Carolina by a massive margin.Speaking of racial progress: remember the Saddleback Church conference when McCain gushed over Democratic Rep. John Lewis for his courageous efforts in the civil rights movement? Today Lewis repaid McCain's kindness by comparing him to segregationist George Wallace.
This must be Obama's promised "national conversation on race." Can't you just feel the healing?
Posted by: GM Roper at Saturday, October 18 2008 06:25 PM (tLNCB)
I love it how you surmise that saying the word "hoodwinked" or "bamboozled" constitues quoting Malcom X, an iconoclastic American radical whose poster used to adorn my room as a teen. It's no longer possible to to discern any positive political program from you folks, no it's just fear mongering, hyperbole and race baiting all the time. It's nice to see that of your friends have been hitting the street with such fervor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjxzmaXAg9E
Posted by: Ahmed at Sunday, October 19 2008 01:50 PM (f+XBb)
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