After watching Obama’s brilliant speech on race, I find it hard to articulate my feelings towards him. Since, sometimes it’s hard to find the right words. However, I was sent this post from craigslist which pretty much sums up how I feel about the democratic nominee. Here it is:
i really want to give barack obama a blowjob right now
Date: 2008-03-18, 1:54PM EDTso i went out to get soy milk for my son ezekiel earlier, my wife chloe was on the phone berating her editor or her assistant or something, i don’t know, but i was forced to go. along the way, i stopped off at gorilla coffee for a latte. the girl with the shaved head that wears the bandana was behind the counter. she always smiles at me and that makes me happy.anyway, they had pulled out a TV from the storage room or something. everyone was gathered around watching obama give his speech in philly. it was so moving.
michel gondry movie moving.
tom stoppard play moving.
elliot smith ballad moving.
even the lesbians were crying.
it was in this moment that i realized that i wanted to, with the intensity of a million suns, give barack obama a blowjob.
now you probably think by my stating such that i’m joking or i’m a closet gay hopelessly trapped in a lustless marriage with my passionless since the day we first met in the library at brandeis flame, but you’d be wrong.
i’m a roaring straight!
so barack, if you happen to read this and you’re ever in park slope, look me up. i’m always around, either polishing the manuscript that i’ve been polishing for the past two years or at couples yogalates with the lovely and gracious chloe.
perhaps she can give you a blowjob too once she comes off of her hillary high horse?
Yes, it was a gutsy speech. But, it was the speech he has been avoiding all along. He was forced into it. And, as you know, I dont find it convincing.
Obama used an emotional device to get the listener to stop thinking. “I will not disown” This language gets us to feel an emotional bond. But, emotional bonds to people with wicked thoughts and who teach lies and falsehoods are dangerous.
Obama ought to disown this man, not yesterday, but 20 years ago. Obama upon hearing that Klannish thinking should have run the other way.
But, Obama held on to Wright and Trinity because they were his tie to a black community he had never been a part of. Obama, from an elite prep school in Hawaii and Harvard, was looking for street cred in the hood. He has used Wright for 20 years. And, this is just as evil as the words of Wright himself.
Evil?
This whole thing is silly. Obama didn’t say these things, and because he knows this man and he is his “advisor” doesn’t mean Obama agrees with him. Why should Obama have to give a speech on what someone else says? He isn’t the one endorsing Wright. Just like I don’t think Hillary needs to apologize for what Ferrara said. Say you disagree with it and move on.
And come on, he’s been involved with the Obama family for a while, thinking that it’s part of his evil plan to be president is just a strange conspiracy theory. And who are you to decide that when someone tries to get closer their racial community that it’s disingenuous? If that even is his hypothetical reasoning. That’s two random assumptions.
Let’s raise some of the questions that have come up in the race (not their validity, just their implications). People say bad things that work for/involved with Obama or Hillary. McCain is suspected of dealing with a lot of lobbyists. Which one of these actual deals with the character and actions of the candidate? I don’t even think the Hillary and Obama “scandals” even speak to a doubt of character.
And while I agree that Obama used emotion, that was probably the most open analytical discussion of race in America that a politician has given in quite a long time, if not ever. And I think that’s what the media is reporting as well. But you can just say that’s biased, but I agree with that assessment.
oh man. park slope is such a gem.
crying lesbians and soy milk drinking babies living together in perfect harmony.
also, barack is cool.
I never said he was planning for the presidency 20 years ago. But, he was preparing for a career in politics 20 years ago, and Wright was his ticket to credibility in the black community of which previously he had never had wit of experience, coming from an elite prep school and Harvard. He was just at Trinity to establish his connection to the black community. And, yes, Wright’s speeches are evil. And using a Church for political gain is also evil.
where the fuck are you culling these assumptions from, fr. j.? you’re making up obama’s own internal narrative. you’re just totally filled with bullshit.
Well, what I’m saying this whole thing has no affect on his character or the way he would be president. This is because the criticism isn’t aimed at him, but some other guy he hangs out with sometimes.
Not to bring it up again, but it’s the most recent example I can think of…the McCain lobbyist ties. That would affect what his spoken stances were, is a question on how he actually acts, and would affect his governing.
Now I don’t judge people’s religion, but I would say probably most people in politics just choose Christianity because it’s the safest way to get elected. I would say most, exagerrate it. But I kinda don’t know how you think you have the ability to judge someone elses sincerity concerning religion. I mean, you can look at this article describing how politically thoughtful Bushs’ religion is, http://www.slate.com/id/2186343/
I mean it’s the safest political bet. But again, I’m not actually doubting his personal sincerity, and I think that you do betrays your own biases against him. I mean you know nothing about his decisions, and again except for this conspiracy theory that he’s been planning this 20 years ago, before he was even working in politics. Unless you buy the Hillary attack that he his elementary grade paper on wanting to be president is valid.
And besides, the hateful part, Obama brought it up as well, how most priests, pastors, rabbis probably have said things people disagree with. That are sometimes hateful. Hateful towards homosexuals, other religions, or whatever. It doesn’t really reflect on the person, especially when you have no action on part of the person you’re condemning. Just assumptions.
Fommenting hate is never the job of a priest, minister or rabbi. That is why Wright’s words are not those of a real minister of the Gospel but of some kind of self appointed street corner prophet. No doubt Wright’s words are popular among those looking to have their prejudices stoked, but that is not the Gospel.
Reckless. What assumptions are you referring to? Barack in fact had no connection with any black community until he moved to Chicago. His black father was absent and he was raised in a middle class setting. His only connection with the urban black community is through a couple of years of community organizing and 20 years’ membership in the Trinity congregation with Rev. Wright.
If you write with fewer expletives and more specifics, it would be helpful.
What assumptions? I’m getting tired of them actually.
It doesn’t matter if he had no connection to the black community, your opinion that he is only doing it for politics is an ASSUMPTION.
Your opinion that he isn’t sincere in his religion is an ASSUMPTION.
And as far as I can tell, that he had ambitions to be in politics 20 years ago is also an assumption. Since he only got into politics 10 years ago.
You have absolutely nothing to back up anything you’re saying except your opinion on the man, and I don’t even see any evidence of what character traits in which you’re trying to back up your argument.
That’s the bullshit. How can you just keep talking about this without actually hearing that part, and still come back with no real hard reasoning for anything you’re saying?
Yeah!
What is really so bad about Jerimiah Wright anyway?
The only thing that seems off the wall to me is his comment about the government inventing HIV to kill black people.
What he said about the government introducing drugs, bad laws and bigger prisons seems to be almost absolutely true (perhaps not on the introduction level), and his September 11 comments really aren’t that controversial beyond him saying “God damn America.” I mean policy analysts say the same thing about chickens coming home to roost, they just prettify the language by saying that the US being a state sponsor of terror over the last 3-4 decades has led to “blowback.”
imaginarydomain said:
“What is really so bad about Jerimiah Wright anyway?
The only thing that seems off the wall to me is his comment about the government inventing HIV to kill black people.”
This particular paranoia is rooted in a government with a history of abuse and inhumane treatment of Black citizens (in prisons and university medical centers.) http://tinyurl.com/2jpjlp
“In 1990, a survey found that 10 percent of African Americans believed that the U.S. government created AIDS as a plot to exterminate blacks, and another 20 percent could not rule out the possibility that this might be true. As preposterous and paranoid as this may sound, at one time the Tuskegee experiment must have seemed equally farfetched.”
Just some context…
Anyway, as a Black person, I watched the whole exercise with a lot of heart-wrenching fear that eventually gave way to real bemusement.
Was I afraid that he would make one poorly received statement (”typical white person,” anyone?) and every black and brown person would have to worry about being enslaved again? Ha-ha no. But discussing race, gender, what’s is “wrong” with America, etc. are issues- that face it - no one in their right mind enjoys bringing up in mixed company in this day and age. There are still the warring tensions in the way the race issue in particular seems ridiculously scarily to anyone of a certain generation and absurdly and hilariously pointless to the next.