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Farrakhan hearts Obama

Monday February 25, 2008

Categories: Democrats

The Jew-hating, white-despising Louis Farrakhan has gone ga-ga for Obama:

The 74-year-old Farrakhan, addressing an estimated crowd of 20,000 people at the annual Saviours' Day celebration, never outrightly endorsed Obama but spent most of the nearly two-hour speech praising the Illinois senator.

"This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better," he said. "This young man is capturing audiences of black and brown and red and yellow. If you look at Barack Obama's audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed."

Suddenly, I'm feeling better about John McCain's chances. Seriously. If I were doing oppo research at the RNC, I would knock off early this afternoon and go have a celebratory drink. This Farrakhan gush is going to be the gift that keeps on giving.

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Bugg
February 26, 2008 1:59 PM

No credible candidate for any elective office should have any association with Farakhan, Ayers or Dorn, nor anyone that would celebrate such people like Wright. If that's crazy, stupid or racist to anyone here, that says more about how our values have been defined down than it does about that simple fact.

Ann Coulter,what ever you think of her(and personally I find her an amusing marketing scheme who has a bit of fun skewering leftists, but little more), is not only not associated with the Mccain campaign, she's on record as being strongly opposed to Mccain. You should trying reading what Ann Coulter has to say before you assume something, but when has that ever stopped you liberals? So Ann Coulter, being in the same building with a man she opposes in John Mccain is worse than Obama partying with Ayers and Dorn, people on record as committed and then some to the overthrow of the government which he aspires to lead? Got it!

Franklin Evans
February 26, 2008 2:25 PM

Guilt by association. Got it.

DavidTC
February 26, 2008 4:42 PM

Ah, yes, the Democrat's world, where Obama being introduced to someone at a party and not, I guess, immediately throwing his drink in their face or whatever he was supposed to do, is worse than McCain courting the support of an organization that has had both the racist idiots Malkin and Coulter as speakers, and has manipulated this country into war.


Of course, you've now shifted the goalposts. I was comparing Obama's relationship with Farrakhan with McCain's relationship with McVeigh. The candidates are both members of organizations that have chosen someone to represent them who supports each villain and they themselves don't support that villain. It's almost exactly the same.

Although McCain is in a political organization where that is actually an important factor, and Obama is in a religious organization where it presumably doesn't come up that much. The only reason we know about Wright's positions on Farrakhan are from an interview.

And McCain is actively trying to convince his organization he's one of them and agrees with their positions, whereas Obama is just going to church every week.

Oh, and say what you will, but in my book Farrakhan is simply a racist fool who might have let a policemen get beaten to death and helped cover it up, and it is barest outside possibility that he planned it, although I can't imagine why, but even that is nowhere near as bad as blowing up a building.

You may see some sort of crazed terrorist, but I see the sort of collateral damage the sixties produced on both sides as things got out of hand and protesters and police both got stupidly violent. Mob violence on either side is not the same thing as planting bombs and blowing people up.


And I noticed you ignored my 'Henry Kissinger' comment. That's who I compared to Ayers and Dorn. He, too, illegally killed people with bombs. A lot more people than the bombs that Ayers and Dorn might have been involved in or known about in the Weather Underground did. Although the people Kissinger killed weren't Americans so I guess it doesn't count.

And, yes, all three of them should be in jail. Ayers and Dorn aren't because the FBI decided to completely ignore the rule of law and destroyed their own case. Kissinger isn't because...wait, why isn't he again?

Bugg
February 26, 2008 7:20 PM

When CPAC tries to blow up the Capitol, rob a bank, or conpire to kill a cop, get back to us.As per this gibberish, being conservative is on par with being a criminal, even worse.

DavidTC
February 26, 2008 9:24 PM

When CPAC tries to blow up the Capitol, rob a bank, or conpire to kill a cop, get back to us.

Yeah, and when Obama does the same thing you be sure to notify me, okay?

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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.

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