Comments on: Barack Obama’s Typical Awful White Grandmother

By: anon

anon — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:49:24 +0000

It’s sad that Obama’s grandmother didn’t live to see the outcome of tomorrow’s election.

By: Victoria

Victoria — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:30:30 +0000

People are sick I have been to churches, not agreeing with what someone always says dosen’t make them a hate munger. I can be under the reign of someone I know has a great heart, but thinks about certain things differently. I can’t control others but I know whats right and wrong. It dosen’t make me a bad person because that person is around me or vice versa. Rev Wright is an Intelligent man and so is Obama. The media and some of the way Americans think are sick. This was nothing more thatn another form of Racism. It exist and it always will by some people, as we as minorities, Black, Asion, hispanic, Indian, Native American, Females, etc continue to rise to the top.

By: AnninCa

AnninCa — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:29:18 +0000

Great piece, Uppity…..and I have to tell you that my Gen-X son and I discussed this. I said, “No, not a great speech. NOBODY throws their grandmother to the wolves as he did.”

My son got it. It’s just …. *prissily here*….

Unseemly.

Thanks for a great read.

By: Southiad

Southiad — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:16:39 +0000

Hawaii is a place where many financially challenged people live. Many are homeless. Many natives are mixed with black heritage. (How smart are you)

Ooop’s, many whites have too mixed with black heritage. Have you checked your DNA?

By: TimRussertIsATwit!!!

TimRussertIsATwit!!! — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:17:08 +0000

Obama has a white Mom?? What?? Really?

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:13:53 +0000

There were no negative comments of his grandmother, just the truth.
Those who don’t know or those who won’t remember, white life in the United States at that time, included the fear of “those” people.
Everyone was categorized, Blacks, Jews, Poles, Italians, Catholics.
WASP was the United States.
It was what it was, learn, grow, and move forward.

By: J

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:28:09 +0000

Completely false article and usual attack garbage.

Obama’s grandmother spoke about how wonderful she thought the speech was that used her in an example of how someone you love can say something you disagree with.

She also has appeared in commercial ads talking about Obama. Obama does not hide her at all. She speaks when she feels like it.

Taking things out of context seems to be all the enemies of Obama’s campaign can do. Sticking to the issues doesn’t work for them.

By: whoframedrudy

whoframedrudy — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:12:22 +0000

The only reason he threw his grandmother under the bus was to let ‘White America’ know he is part-white. It’s insidiously racist — (“I’m not really black”) — just like his assurance to ‘White America’ that he won’t actually be running the government, just setting a ‘vision’ for his white ‘operating officers’ (Power, Kahl, Brzezinski, Goolsbee).

These are the racial ‘dogwhistles’ that Spike Lee can’t hear, or ignores because he wants the movie rights. Lee’s in it for the cash. When blacks wouldn’t finance his movies, he called them ‘uncle toms’ because they wouldn’t invest in his box office turkeys. No, they are not ‘uncle toms’, they are capitalists who expect a return on investment.

By: Hope

Hope — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:19:57 +0000

Spoken like a true garlic stuffed nose woman!

By: Ciardha

Ciardha — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:10:15 +0000

Interesting, shows Dean’s hidden misogyny there.

By: Faith

Faith — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:01:41 +0000

He had to blame someone – taking responsibility is against his religion!

By: Ciardha

Ciardha — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:46:47 +0000

Yes, it’s been proven if you raise the status of living of women you raise everyone’s status of living. (UN reports)

Think about it, women and girls are 52 percent of the population worldwide. Women account for 70 percent of the world’s people who live in absolute poverty. Women work 75 percent of the world’s working hours, produce 50 percent of the world’s food, and yet earn only 10 percent of the world’s income and own less than 1 percent of the world’s property. Worldwide, 25 percent of all women are raped during their lifetime. Depending on the country, 25 to 75 percent of women are regularly beaten at home. Between 10 percent and 50 percent of women report they have been physically abused by an intimate partner in their lifetime. Over 120 million women have undergone female genital mutilation. Women hold only 12 percent of parliamentary seats worldwide. Women account for 66 percent of the world’s illiterate adults, and girls account for 66 percent of the world’s children without access to education.

By: TWP

TWP — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:46:39 +0000

so far.

By: Pug

Pug — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:39:50 +0000

NO QUARTER has become one of the most hateful blogs on the internet.

Pathetic.

By: Cee Hussein

Cee Hussein — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:24:14 +0000

Uppity,

Campus Watch?? C’mon! Outrageous that you would use them as a source!!
Daniel Pipes supports an Iranian terrorist group!!

The year since Congress passed the USA Patriot Act has brought an ever-growing enemies list from our nation’s thought police. First there was Senator Joseph Lieberman and Lynne Cheney’s American Council of Trustees and Alumni report unveiled last November–”Defending Civilization: How Our Universities Are Failing America and What Can Be Done About It.” The forty-three-page document purports to advocate the preservation of academic freedom and dissent while being all about suppressing both when the views expressed conflict with blind support for US foreign policy.

In attempting to smear dozens of “unpatriotic” professors, the organization laid the foundation for the Middle East Forum’s recent blacklisting project, Campus Watch–a website that hopes to do for students and professors what Project TIPS would have done for mail carriers and plumbers.

Based in Philadelphia and headed by anti-Arab propagandist Daniel Pipes, Campus Watch unleashed an Internet firestorm in late September, when it posted “dossiers” on eight scholars who have had the audacity to criticize US foreign policy and the Israeli occupation.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20021125/mcneil