Jerk! I think it's going to get very annoying if our enemies use racial slurs to taunt us. One president's called a cowboy and the other a "house negro" iit's interesting how al-Qaida knows enough about our culture to mimic our insults and to use a piece of Malcolm X footage to explain the insult:
The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Ayman al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader.What's even more interesting about this taunt is that it reflects what the left have been saying about Powell and Rice for the last eight years (yes they did, you might not have said it but plenty of lefties have -- google it yourself to see what the left has been calling Rice throughout the Bush administration). It always amazing me how much al-Qaida sounds like the left when they taunt us.In al-Qaida's first response to Obama's victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect -- along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice -- "house negroes."
Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses the term "abeed al-beit," which literally translates as "house slaves." But al-Qaida supplied English subtitles of his speech that included the translation as "house negroes."
AFP and Reuters don't even mention the racial slur in their report.
I think this insult will backfire for them. Bush was an easy target, he's pretty unpopular abroad and here at home but Obama is much more popular among Muslims given that they believe he'll be much more sympathetic to the Palestinians.
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I did as you suggested, and, in the first 19 pages of listings I checked, it sounds like "the left" now comprises Harry Belafonte in 2003 and Al Sharpton, responding to Mr. Belafonte's slur.
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It seems they "cared enough" to start insulting even before President-elect Obama has taken the oath of office. How "kind". :o)
So Michele is saying that Al-Quaeda, when it uses racist terms, sounds like the left.....
And what would you call those people at the McCain/Palin speeches who called Obama every name in the book? The right wing has not exactly been setting a good example, and this goes back a long time.
Reagan, after all, started his presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi, with a speech on states' rights. That town is most famous for the murder of civil rights activists.
This is Al-Quaeda showing that they are scared . The election of Obama has really shown the lie to their portrayal of American values, and it is making it harder for them to get recruits.
This shows that that there are other kinds of power in the world.
surely they will not like obama. unlike bush, who let bin laden go free, obama plans to capture or kill him and the rest of al qaeda.
as for "sounding like the left", i think that you're projecting, michele. how dare he speak badly of our next president! he's obviously encroaching upon your territory! clearly zawahri was watching the mccain/palin campaign speeches for talking points. fundamentalists are cut from the same cloth.
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