SubscribeObama: Grandma Is A Typical White Person
From the Philadelphia Inquirer:
Obama wows WIP sports jocks
By Sam Wood
March 20, 2008
Sen. Barack Obama called into sports radio 610 WIP this morning, charming the usually rambuctious morning talk show hosts and winning their endorsements.
“People are really swept up [by this candidate],” said host Al Morganti. “It’s almost like teenaged girls at a concert. It’s goofy”
Before Obama’s interview even began at 8 a.m., jocks Angelo Cataldi and Morganti greeted the Democratic presidential hopeful with a scatted, and offkey, rendition of “Hail to the Chief.” …
Obama this morning sounded relaxed as he hit Cataldi and Co.’s softball questions out of the proverbial ballpark.
“Why should we elect you?” Cataldi said.
“I think we’re at a moment in our history where we need to break from the past in a fundamental way,” Obama replied.
The legislator from Illinois repeated his campaign’s constant refrain, that culture and policies of the Federal government must change.
Obama lambasted Washington lobbyists, expressed sympathy for citizens losing their homes to mortgage foreclosure, and offered sympathy for families with loved ones deployed to Iraq…
The hosts asked Obama about his speech at the Constitution Center.
They zeroed in on comments he made about his white grandmother and her racial phobias.
“The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity,” he said. “But she is a typical white person. If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know. . .there’s a reaction in her that doesn’t go away and it comes out in the wrong way.”
“What makes me optimistic is that every generation is feeling less like that,” Obama said.
They asked how being the first African-American to hold the nation’s top job would affect his ability to govern.
Obama said he’d have bigger concerns than that if he occupied the Oval Office: health care, rising college tuitions, and bringing troops home from Iraq.
“But wouldn’t that empower our enemies,” one host asked.
“We’ve empowered our enemies by going into Iraq,” Obama said. “Bin Laden is still at large.
“We’ve spent more money on this war than any war in our history and there’s no end in sight. It has strained alliances and fanned anti-American sentiments.”
Swept up by Obama’s words, the hosts bid him goodbye.
“If there’s anything we can do to help you carry Pennsylvania, let us know,” said one jock.
Said Obama: “Maybe I can stop by the studio some time.” “Could you stop by after you’re President?” one responded.
“Wow” is right.
Hey, I guess Jesse Jackson is a typical white person, too.
From the archives of the New York Times:
In America; A Sea Change On Crime
By BOB HERBERT
Published: December 12, 1993Jesse Jackson is traveling the country with a tough anti-crime message that he is delivering to inner-city youngsters. In Chicago he said, “There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery — then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.”
In fact, the reverend is probably more of a typical white person than Mr. Obama’s grandmother is.
Since, as we have noted, Obama’s book does not describe her as the racist he is now trying to make her out to be.
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March 20th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
David Axelrod, Obama’s campaign manager, is a saavy guy who has been involved in Chicago politics for a long time. He’s no dummy.
But there is a age old saying “when you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.”
Perhaps Axelrod should take away Obama’s shovel.
March 20th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
“It’s almost like teenaged girls at a concert. It’s goofy”
A sports station, it’s goofy, sounds correct.
They don’t call us Pennslowmanians for nothing.
March 20th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
retire05 ……”Perhaps Axelrod should take away Obama’s shovel…..”
He doesn’t need a shovel….the little rodent is doing quite well withoit one.
March 20th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
“But she is a typical white person. If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know. . .there’s a reaction in her that doesn’t go away and it comes out in the wrong way.”
If any white candidate had said that about someone who was black, all Hell would break loose. If Obama isn’t a racist, then he’s doing a damn good impression of one. Speaks volumes about the dhimmirats and the general stupidity of Obama’s followers that they can just accept this skunk as being acceptable to be president.
March 20th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
“But she is a typical white person. If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know. . .there’s a reaction in her that doesn’t go away and it comes out in the wrong way.”
Well he is half white , so what does that say about him?
He is an idiot who has a nice tan, nothing else…
March 20th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
It’s alright SR, everybody’s got that crazy uncle or other relation who says stuff that, you know, you don’t agree with, so you choose to ignore him. I think I’ve discovered who the crazy uncle is!
March 20th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Ya know what’s scary…. I was listening to Medved today (and I usually can’t stand him) he had a caller on from TUCC who referred to Clarence Thomas as a self hating black man.
Houston, we have a problem.
March 20th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
The fact is that her reaction is only human nature. It’s a defense mechanism. We all do it; all day long to every person we see. Let’s say you’re waiting for an elevator and two become available at the same time and both have only one person waiting in each to go to the next floor. One is a white man wearing a suit and tie carrying a briefcase. The other is a black teenager with his hat turned to the side, pants around his knees with an intimidating grimace on his face. Almost unconsciously, you choose to get on the elevator with the white man based almost solely on this mechanism. That doesn’t make you a racist. That only demonstrates your desire to survive. Now switch the race of those two men, but nothing else. You still get on the elevator with the man in the suit. Race has nothing to do with it. You may still get robbed either way, but the decision at the time seemed sound because it was based on a lifetime of similar experiences. Ask anyone who studies human behavior.
It’s just amazing to me that a man we’re told is so brilliant is such and idiot when it comes to understanding a basic force of human nature, but would rather see that as racism on his grandmother’s part. I guess Pastor Wright’s message was getting through.
March 20th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Now Noyz, if grandma was packin’ heat she’d be empowered to tell the panhandler to look up her grandson. He’s the guy you go to when you want “change”.
March 20th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
And where is Michelle Obama? Still crying after he husband’s [non] Kumbaya speech?
Or did Obama tell her to go home to Chicago, take care of her job, the kids and the lawn (provided courtesy of Mrs. Tony Rezko for a nominal fee) and shut the hell up as he is doing just fine killing his candidacy all by himself?
March 20th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
“Obama wows WIP sports jocks”
Oh hell, Thats all I needed to hear, Put the man in the White House.
Whats next, Bobby Knight faining over his basketball skills?
This is getting frigging ridiculas.
Oh, Is calling it the White House racist?
March 21st, 2008 at 1:19 am
I wonder if the junior Senator would have been happier and where he is today if he had been shipped off as a young lad to be with his father, who he once described as, “When I was ten, my father came back from Africa to visit us for Christmas. After a week of my father in the flesh, I decided that I preferred his more distant image, an image I could alter on a whim - or ignore when convenient. If my father hadn’t exactly disappointed me, he remained something unknown, something volatile and vaguely threatening.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pag.....ge_id=1811
March 21st, 2008 at 9:24 am
Obama Tries to Explain ‘Typical White Person’ Comment About Grandmother
http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=66034
March 21st, 2008 at 11:34 am
“We’ve empowered our enemies by going into Iraq,” Obama said. “Bin Laden is still at large.
Now how has invading Iraq empowered Bin Hidin? Since we dismantled the Taliban and forced sadam to become a hole dwelling stink meister, all we’ve heard from bin hidin’ is cryptic audio tapes, no attacks, etc. bin hidin is such a vain narcisist that, if he was able, live telecasts would be flying out of the middle east like magic carpets. I can’t believe the repubs let that no experienced BO get away with such statements. bill clintoon visited my home town the other day and touted how America solved problems through diplomacy first, yes the same diplomacy that let the nazis grow and north korea lob a few defunct nukes our way. These guys have no clue whatsoever and all I can say is good luck America, start stock piling your weapons because these damnocrats are going to let the enemy grow with their usual diplomatic prowess.
March 21st, 2008 at 2:04 pm
He also said -> “There’s a reaction that has been bred into, ah ah our experiences that don’t go away…”
audio: http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=65704
Yet we all know what he wrote in his book…a totally different story.
He’s said he couldn’t disown the reverend because he led him to Christ - a reason the MSM uses to excuse him for not dropping Wright. Yet he’s on record stating - “I’ve always been a Christian.”…..
http://bourbonroom.blogs.foxne.....christian/
This guy is a real con artist and the media continues to give him a pass.
March 21st, 2008 at 2:21 pm
BLT - Marxism by another name:
http://www.redstate.com/blogs/.....other_name
“A cancer that’s growing.”
IMO, Hillary’s a better choice than Obama by a long shot….