Comment: Hiring Karl Rove? I am giving up my subscription. Your legitimacy is gone, if you sell yourself out to the neo-cons, you are one more problem. Not a solution. What a disappointment.
I don't mind people I disagree with, for pete sake I am a liberal living in Orange County, CA. But, you could have hired someone with credibility. Bye-bye Newsweek...
Comment: NEWSWEEK is corrupt. Period. How about just sharing why?
Comment: Mr Meacham: Are you aware of all the facts about Obama? Have you read his own words? How can you continue to print such propaganda about his foreign travel? He's never even been to Afghanistan - his whole reason for speaking about against Iraq. Why can't you write an article based on facts not pro-Obama bias and Hillary hating? What is wrong with you? Have you no shame? NEWSWEEK certainly has no journalistic integrity. I don't know if you ever did because I never followed politics before this. Where's FACTCHECK.org? spending time disproving the accusation that Hillary's camp darkened Obama's face. This is such a joke. What lie by obama is not acceptable to you? Haven't seen one yet.
Comment: got cut off:
"IN FACT, WHITES ARE SO HEARTLESS AND DEVIOUS THAT WE CAN NO LONGER EXPECT ANYTHING FROM THEM."
I can see why he left that out. Such inspiring words from a man who "transcends race" and wants to bring America together. Listening to him say them is much more enlightening. Puts his "race speech" in fine perspective.
Comment: Since NEWSWEEK is a fantasy magazine, how about we hear a few of the messiah's lovely, inspiring words?
Words in CAPS left out of audio version.
Direct quotes from: "Dreams of My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance" by Barack Obama
"I CEASED TO ADVERTISE MY MOTHER'S RACE AT THE AGE OF TWELVE OR THIRTEEN, WHEN I BEGAN TO SUSPECT THAT BY DOING DO I WAS INGRATIATING MYSELF TO WHITES."
"I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race." (How comforting that Malia and Sasha are 1/4 white.)
"That hate hadn't gone away, blaming white people - some cruel, some ignorant - sometimes a single face, sometimes a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives."
"Never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, the son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself." (A man who abandoned him at two.)
"And yet, even as I imagined myself following Malcolm's call, one line in the book stayed with me. He spoke of a wish he'd once had, the wish that the white blood that ran through him, there by an act of violence, might somehow be expunged."
"That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be mean and then some. It was a particular brand of arrogance, an obtuseness in otherwise sane people that brought forth our bitter laughter. It was as if whites didn't know they were being cruel in the first place. Or at least thought you were deserving of their scorn. White folks."
"THE MINORITY ASSIMILATES INTO THE DOMINANT CULTURE, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND. ONLY WHITE CULTURE SHOULD BE NEUTRAL AND OBJECTIVE. ONLY WHITE CULTURE COULD BE NON-RACIAL, WILLING TO ADOPT THE OCCASIONAL EXOTIC INTO ITS RANKS. ONLY WHITE CULTURE HAD INDIVIDUALS."
"Ray assured me that we would never talk about whites as whites in front of whites without knowing exactly what we were doing."
"Our rage at the white world needed no object, he seemed to be telling me, no independent confirmation; it could be switched on or off at our pleasure."
"REVEREND WRIGHT SHRUGGED. 'SOME OF MY FELLOW CLERGY DON'T APPRECIATE WHAT WE'RE ABOUT. THEY FEEL LIKE WE'RE TOO RADICAL."
"Black politicians less gifted than Harold discovered what white politicians had known for a very long time: that race-baiting could make up for a whole host of limitations."
"A steady attack on the white race, the constant recitation of black people's brutal experience in the country...Yes the nationalist would say, the whites are responsible for your sorry state, not any inherent flaws. IN FACT, WHITES ARE SO HEARTLESS AND DEVIOUS THAT WE CAN NO LONGER EXPECT ANYTHING FROM THEM."
I can see why he left that out. Such inspiring words from a man who "transcends race" and w
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