Here it comes...
By John Amato Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 1:16pmObama's family must be Commies. That's a new one.
Lisa Schiffren at the Corner, perfect representative of the modern GOP:
Obama and I are roughly the same age. I grew up in liberal circles in New York City — a place to which people who wished to rebel against their upbringings had gravitated for generations. And yet, all of my mixed race, black/white classmates throughout my youth, some of whom I am still in contact with, were the product of very culturally specific unions. They were always the offspring of a white mother, (in my circles, she was usually Jewish, but elsewhere not necessarily) and usually a highly educated black father. And how had these two come together at a time when it was neither natural nor easy for such relationships to flourish? Always through politics. No, not the young Republicans. Usually the Communist Youth League. Or maybe a different arm of the CPUSA. But, for a white woman to marry a black man in 1958, or 60, there was almost inevitably a connection to explicit Communist politics.
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Time for some investigative journalism about the Obama family’s background, now that his chances of being president have increased so much.
Cole: You know what that means- someone needs some pictures of 60’s era countertops. CITIZEN JOURNALISTS, YOU HAVE YOUR MARCHING ORDERS!
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Derek Jeter of the NY Yankees is the product of a black father and a white mother ; are his parents friggin' "Communists" , too ?
Who is this Lisa Schiffren nitwit ?
She possesses all the brilliance of an old bar rag..........
Jeebus, it's the black/white commie conspiracy - do all conservative talking points come from 50 year old John Birch pamphlets?
Communists!?!?!?!? Hell if it wasn't for the Chinese Communists we'd all be eating dirt right now. They OWN our debt. Pick another boogyman ... please ....
Toss it up as a loss already for the Democratic party. We always finds ways to lose. Hillary can still kick the repubs ass, but our party still wants bambi.
My god, the stink of fear coming off these people is pungent.
I didn't know Lenny Kravitz was a communist. Good to know. This woman is a moron!!!
And somewhere in the secret bowels of the thug party, the next Karl Rove is cackling with glee because his Operation Lynch Mob is proceeding so loud and so publicly.
Ajt @ 4:
Hillary can kick Repub ass ; unfortunately , she is way too divisive and polarizing (for reasons unknown) , and would not win the election anyway ..............
Ajt @ 4:
Who the hell is bambi? Must be your cat.
Whats next the Hannity Liberation Army?
hmmm... wonder if THIS has anything to do with THAT:
'American Leadership Project'
The new pro-Clinton 527, the American Leadership Project, incorporated with the IRS on Feb. 15, and lists as its chief a former Clinton White House deputy press secretary and former Gray Davis aide, Roger Salazar, according to its federal filing.
[...]
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0208/American_Leadership_Project.html
just wondering...
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And this is Schiffren's argument as to why one should not mix races?
Communism?
She doth project her racism too much.
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Ajt @ 4:
Have you read a newspaper, watched a news program or checked the internet at all lately? Every poll has Obama beating McCain. The same polls have McCain beating Hillary. Wise up.
MCMetal @ 8:
Because the MSM says so.
People will believe the MSM before they will their own judgment.
I heard from a VERY TRUSTED SOURCE that Obama is PART AFRICAN AMERICAN. Jeesus Lord on High, please deliver us from those who do not know what they do.
It's like they eat their own waste and then point out that their waste looks just like food. It's like the GOP is one big feedback loop that recycles its own handful of paranoid vibes until they manage to create strange new ones.
Let's see, why were most interracial couples "leftists"? Because the conservative nuts were such bigots that they would not allow them a place in their community. And, "racial mixing" was part of the communist "plot" to destabilize the country. So whether or not Obama's parents were communists, they would have been considered communists. And, since "good americans" shunned them, if they had any friends at all, they were probably of a leftist stripe.
Fast forward to the 21st century.... Obama is biracial, which, according to the GOP, isn't a bad thing... because racism doesn't exist and we need to move beyond making race an issue. But, according to the 1960s standards, it was a bad thing then. So, his parents must have been bad people back then, too. Which means that Obama will be a communist president.
The illogic is stunning. But it is what I have come to expect from the W'08 crowd.
so, lisa "bed sheets aren't made for sleepin" Schiffren postulates a simple equation:
white mother + highly educated black father = communist
einstein would be proud.
i hereby coin this the Schiffren equation. also known as "the commies are coming, the commies are coming!!"
it is refreshing, in our ever changing world, to see that the national review stands steadfast in its insular and insulting ways.
The guys on TV say so! Good enough for me! Besides, I want to be in with the in crowd! Comfort in numbers.
New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg yesterday alleged "fraud" in the unofficial count of New York City's votes, which left Obama with zero votes in 80 election districts.
How to be your own unique individual self by doing what everyone else is doing.
MSM approved
I read last week part of an interview with an old friend of Obama's mother.
He called her a "fellow traveler".
Some friend.
I'm a dog person. Don't have cats and bambi was a fawn if you don't know :)
Bison @ 19:
I bet it's those Tricky Clintons again. Slick Bubba!
Actually, it's an old one.
L.A. Confidential @ 14:
The MSM "says so" , but doesn't give any specific reason(s) ; and Tweety Matthews is insistent on hearing what Obama's accomplishments are.
Perfect rationale................
Wow, she thinks white women go with black men due to politics? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
I am not surprised to hear such attacks.
Does Barack Obama still think he can be "bipartisan" with those types of people? I would "hope" not for his sake.
"But, for a white woman to marry a black man in 1958, or 60, there was almost inevitably a connection to explicit Communist politics"
This has got to be one of the stupidest comments I've heard (thus far)... can't wait to see what else pops up.
So Sammy Davis Jr's second wife, Britt May, was a Communist? She was Swedish so she was probably socialist. Sammy was clearly a Red, though. You can tell from the company he kept: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Joey Bishop, etc.
Fascism is virulently anti-communist/anti-socialist. These are the only groups (and perhaps some anarchists), who have been the only consistent and effective anti-fascist fighters, and are the fascist's first targets.
Ajt @ 22:
So let me get this stright. The Disney party is running bambi, and how is that going to effect the dems?
I read through Lisa's remarks three times and I can't quite make out what the f&#k she's trying to say. Is she saying that people in mixed race relationships are communists? If that's the best they can do, let them. That's the most insane bullsh#t I have ever read. As far as the call to arms to citizens journalists... "Cole: You know what that means- someone needs some pictures of 60’s era countertops. CITIZEN JOURNALISTS, YOU HAVE YOUR MARCHING ORDERS!"
Don't underestimate turdblossom. He's already done all of his "research".
Republicans are human filth.
The definitive reason that Hillary lost the nomination:
http://thetimtimes.com/?p=175
It ain't rocket science, it's rudimentary
Enjoy.
Here's some news for Lisa Shiffren. Barack Obama did NOT grow up in New York City so there is no relationship between her attack and Obama's life. It's just speculation and thanks for letting the Obama campaign know that this is going to be one of the Swiftboat attacks. Lisa Shiffren cannot stop the tidal wave nor will the MSN. There are so many feet on the ground that the Lisa Shiffrens of the world need to either get out of the way or get on board. The elephant is dead. And I'll hug her elephant if she kisses my ass.
MCMetal @ 1:
An Ann Coulter cultist.
"But, for a white woman to marry a black man in 1958, or 60, there was almost inevitably a connection to explicit Communist politics."
That sentence made me laugh out loud. Talk about a blanket statement. Is this person a scholar of marriage in America or something? Yeah right, I'm gonna take her opinion with about a quarter of a grain of salt. In these days of people can just say shit, seems like lots of people do.
The Lynch Obama Movement proceeds unabatted:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v376/acefsw/Politics/?action=view¤t=Orielly.jpg
Can we say White House.
If Obama sr was a a communist why did he come to America for schooling instead of the Soviet Union?
Filthy Harry @ 26:
Thanks. Coffee on the keyboard.
THIS is the best they got?
Next thing will be, "We also should find out if Obama's mom had any JEWISH
Friends....THEY were all Commies TOO, you know"
"...It was, of course, an explicit tactic of the Communist party to stir up discontent among American blacks, with an eye toward using them as the leading edge of the revolution..."
Is that why the US government has kept the black man down? Through drugs, guns and prison? Afraid of a little revolution?
What a bizarre load of shite. Old school trolling-that was the FBI's bailiwick. Drop agents into organisations to stir up discontent.
You know if Lisa Schiffren is confused about why a white woman would be with a black man, I have some videos she could watch that might clear it up, and I promise there is nothing communist about these vids, they are pure free-market hardcore.
Filthy Harry @ 43:
I'm sure it had nothing to do with Obama Sr. being a nice guy.
I can hear the questions from the Senate committee now...
Are you now, or have you ever had a relationship with a (insert race here)?
Filthy Harry @ 43:
So what does a big di&^k have to do with running our nation. Please explain.
"I have in this envelope THE NAMES of ALL The communist
Fellow-Travelers who were FRIENDS of Obama's Mom...."
I guess we know the answer to that famous question:
"Have you no shame"...
Republics? Not so much.....
My goodness. People in geographic proximity with mutual interests often meet, fall in love and marry. Who knew?
Here are two more very telling lines from this article:
"I don't know how Barak Obama's parents met."
"Time for some investigative journalism about the Obama family's background..."
So according to Schiffren there's a pressing need to investigate Barack Obama, but Schiffren just can't be bothered to do it.
Now, she's worried about "cheap accusations of racism." Perhaps she should be concerned about accusations of cheap, condesending, and lazy commentary.
Ajt @ 38:
You missed my point. People will take your opinion alittle more seriously without the personal slurs. Leave that shit for the rightwing trolls. Then again, maybe you can't spell his name. I'll help ya, O-b-a-m-a.
I see it didn't take long for the MEN in this country to do double time to defend obama. WHERE IN THE HELL WERE YOU WHEN THE REPUBLICANS WERE ATTACKING HILLARY? Oh I got it she's a woman. You can't waste your time on that, you are too busy attacking people because they start to spin something about obama. Figures....
Is there a name for reporting or even opinion pieces like this which are lacking in any logic at all, like Voodoo Journalism or something? I laughed at the six degress of separation character of the way she connected people and ideas. Here's one I think is under reported: George Bush has shaken the hand of disgraced Republican congressman Mark Foley; Mark Foley has enjoyed placing his hand in pants of under aged boys; so what I want to know is how come our President is therefore a document pedophile and no ones says anything about it.
I love logic!
Is this their best stuff they are flinging against the wall? They are using it all now and it will be debunked long before the election in November. They need to work on their timing a little more.
Ajt @ 47:
Maybe he wont swagger around the world stage like an asshole to overcompensate for having a little one?
Doesn't matter anyway, I think you're reading into my comment things that aren't there. I was HUMOROUSLY pointing out how silly it was for Lisa Schiffren to think that the only reason for a white woman and a black man would be because they're both communists.
I guess OJ and Nicole Brown Simpson were actually Communists. Wow, the things ya learn when trolling wingnut websites.
$50 says Michelle can kick bill's ass around the block three times.
Communist = Bad
Bad = Communist
Too much sugar is bad for you, therefore, sugar is a communist threat.
That is all a Republican needs to know about it.
I suspected all along that Obama was an America-hating-Communist-African-Muslim-plagiarist-criminal-that-hates-Jesus. I hear he eats babies for breakfast, lunch and dinner and kills dozens of puppies and kittens before he goes to bed. bin Laden, Gaddafi, Satan al Sadr and Mengele make up his cell phone's "Five" too.
We're not even into March and already the GOP is so scared of Barack Obama that their proxies are have started spewing racist rhetoric thinly veiled as conjecture.
-AF
Obama is a kin to Osama bin Laden
Obama is agent of Islam, he denounces Christianity and embraces Islam.
Obama is black, therefore he is not of Christ (who we know is white)
Obama is a cult figure bent on destroying all things Christians
Obama will leads this country to more culture wars
Obama is Satans agent
Omabus (from Nostradamus prophecy) refers to Obama
Michelle Obama is the serpent/naga/dragon depicted in Revelation.
All these are comments and rumors propagated in any white evangelical church today, from the priest preaching in the pulpit down to the parking lot attendants in the church.
"CITIZEN JOURNALISTS!" ? yee-haw! git on yer innernetz and talk to bobby-joseph down the way and git da truth out on this red commie nigra!
Actually that one sentence* really does highlight right-wing confusion about sexuality, race, politics, history. No wonder they're so screwed up.
*"But, for a white woman to marry a black man in 1958, or 60, there was almost inevitably a connection to explicit Communist politics"
hillary married a black man, whats their point??
James @ 33:
Keep giving them ammo.
well, j.e.hoover knew that any black political awareness was communist, right?
maybe they can exume him for his opinion. it's certainly more informed than malkin's.
Just because he was a cross-dresser doesn't mean he didn't know his commies...
LOL
All I can say is... stop this madness!! McCain's Mom has some soothing words for everyone to cut the crap and move forward:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sK_xVZ9F_w&feature=related
So much to look forward to up until November.
The term "Obamunnist" is starting to surface. What is it about elections that turns us into three-year olds? Granted, there are countless terms denegrating Dumbya (case in point) but I'm sure most of that was after he got elected and started to show his spots.
Well, as discovered on Thom Hartmann's show this morning, they (the filthy republicans) are in full-fledged attack-with-lies mode.
The filthy Fox network and web site quoted Michelle Obama as saying:
What she actually said was:
That filthy network and web site dropped "really" from the printed quote as well as the AUDIO in the clip of Michelle speaking. Somebody actually doctored up the audio to drop "really" from her remark.
All of the filthy republican talking heads and sites picked up the same corrupted quote and audio.
I hate these people more than I can express in mere words. You know why?
Because THEY HATE THE UNITED STATES.
gene214 @ 55:
but OJ wasn't educated.... he went to USC for chrissakes.
Marge, I'm not a Hillary fan, but where have you been? I couldn't count the column space that's been devoted to shooting down GOPer attacks on Hillary in particular and the Clintons in general. I'd suggest you do more research before saying folks here ignore attacks on Hillary. I would say there are so many right wing attacks on Hillary you almost can't expect any blog to confront all of them.
Lollimom @ 67:
I have only one caveat to that: The repugs don't hate the US, they hate what the US stands for and they hate the 'other' people in the US.
ScrewBush @ 69:
Don't sweat Marge. She thinks not voting for HRC means you're a misogynist. Which by her reasoning makes her a racist.
So what? Michael Savage Weiner was raised by commies and now he is totally normal.
"Obama's parents met while both were attending the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was enrolled as a foreign student.[10] They separated when he was two years old and later divorced.[11] His father went to Harvard University to pursue Ph.D. studies, then returned to Kenya, where he died in an auto accident in 1982."
From wiki
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pissed off patricia @ 73:
A typical communist story. Ask around Moscow, you'll hear some variant of it over and over.
Right, because communists are our biggest problem right now. Hyper conservative administrations with new Lessay Fair capitalism hasn't friggin' gutted out country.
Keep looking for communists, socall islomofascists, and gays under ever rock and around every bush, the rest of us have real work and issued to attend to.
Communists?!? Sheesh.
ScrewBush @ 52:
I think the word you're looking for is "fox". :lol:
Ajt @ 47:
I refer you to the wisdom of Drunk in Bar in Team America: World Police.
OT, but I've never seen this site so hot before. This is the place to be.
After voting in the Wisconsin primary yesterday and watching the numbers come back, second-place Senator Clinton nearly doubled McCain's numbers, and she was soundly defeated By Senator Obama. I can't help but think if Sen. Obama stood up today and said "I am a card-carrying member of the communist party," he'd still kick everybody ass.
gempei @ 78:
Its all this talk of interracial action. *sizzle!*
Filthy Harry @ 74:
Yeah, "liberal circles in New York City" or the university of Hawaii at Manoa, it's all the same, right?
Speaking of investigative journalism, the wannabe reporters who are planning to "video the vote" or "polaroid the polls" ought first confirm they won't be running afoul of state or local election laws.
http://www.projo.com/news/content/ELECTION_PIX_01-14-08_PC8HR4I_v30.2877...
Marge @ 51:
Hey Marge, what's for dinner?
Homer Simpson @ 83:
D'OH!
lol lol lol lol
Homer Simpson @ 83:
Better be careful with Marge. What's for dinner might be your ass on a platter.
Bill Murray and Paul Schaffer doing "Race Wars" to the theme of "Bar Wars" which was the theme borrowed from "Star Wars"
can you believe that "person"s description of proper coital adjudication of the hump, with properly signed contracts in triplicate?
it is comforting to know that the US of F*%#ing A, never learns a new thing unless it is from....... sorry, can't think of any learning the country does together except find out how to get screwed?
I Am A Banana @ 75:
Communists are people that we buy all of our frozen food and toys from, right? They are Most Favored Trading Partners.
Weaseldog @ 87:
Hey, that's right! If Obama is a commie, maybe he can get us some good deals?
Did any of the commentors take the time to read the article by Cliff Kincaid, Schiffrin links to in her commentary? She may be an idiot but the inspiration for her stupidity comes from the linked article by Cliff Kincaid. What Schiffrin says about interacial marriages can easily dismissed as stupid but what we should really be paying attention and responding to is the Kincaid article whose concept she is trying to promote.
I Am A Banana @ 75:
"Lessay Fair"? Seriously? It's "Laissez-faire". Unless you're referring to the Lessay Fair (La Foire de Sainte-Croix) in Normandy, France, to be fair.
ROFL!!!!!!!!! The radical-right sounds more and more buffoonish as time goes on. unlike the 80s, people are TUNED IN. Also, there is no National tragedy to rally around (9/11) and if there was, people see how the Repugs screwed that one to pieces both before and after. Listen up . . . CONSERVATISM IS DYING. To steal a phrase, it's the demographics stupid. America is no more just a bunch of jowly white men in board rooms and, but for that identifiable group and the rednecks, NO ONE votes Republican anymore. There IS no pendulum this time. Thank god for the Internet.
LOL!!! This shit is funny...These people are nuts.
Poor Lenny Kravitz is reversed -- his mother is BLACK and the father WHITE...
Mr. XXXX @ 27:
The right wingnuts are in their last throes.
P.S. @ 89:
I read it, and found it disjointed and repetitive, so I'm not really sure what his "concept" was, other than trying to portray Obama as a Manchurian candidate. What did you get out of it?
PazuzusPetals @ 90:
Lezzie Fair? Is that a crossdressers' boutique?