Obama Throws His Grandmother From The Train [Updated]
By SusanUnPC on March 19, 2008 at 12:26 PM in Barack Obama, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.
UPDATE: Many new readers here may not have seen this February 2008 story, and will want to read it in full for its essential background on the two books by Sen. Obama: “Obama’s Books: Composite Characters, False Memories.”
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Numerous writers today are upset that Barack Obama cheaply tried to compare his grandmother — who sacrificed so much to help him go to the best schools — with the racist, anti-American Jeremiah Wright. And our own Fleaflicker began the discussion last night in his clever, but troubling, “Throw Momma From the Train.”
Steve Sailer writes a particularly poignant post with quotes from Obama’s own book on incidents with his grandmother — and it’s a must-read that will leave you choked with rage at Obama and sorrow for his grandmother who did so much for him. (Yes, the amusing poster, to your right, is from Sailer’s blog.) Again, his full post is a must-read, but here’s an excerpt:
[A]ccording to Obama’s 1995 book, it is not at all true that she “once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street.” Instead, she once confessed her fear of one aggressive black beggar who didn’t pass by her but instead confronted her, demanded money, and then gave her — an intelligent, level-headed woman who had worked her way up to a mid-level corporate management position — good reason to believe he would have violently mugged her if her bus hadn’t pulled up.
If this was some doofus politician like Bush or Biden who retold the story in a misleading fashion, you might view it as just their usual struggle with using the English language to get across what they really kind of, sort of mean. But Obama is so superb with words that it’s perfectly reasonable to hold him accountable for choosing to slander his own living grandmother for his political advantage.
For more on his grandmother’s life, read the Wikipedia entry on Madelyn Dunham.
by Ronald Scott
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