Thursday, May 8, 2008

Barak Obama is Terrorist!

I don't really believe that; my daughter suggested I try writing something more controversial to get more traffic to my blog. She also said I should try funny.How am I doing so far?Actually I got an email a few weeks ago suggesting that Barack has ties to a terrorist organization and that his intention in making a bid for President of the United States is part of plot to continue the 9/11 Jihad I am pasting a part of it here this is supposed to be from some missionaries in around or in Kenya.... We are living and working in Kenya for almost twelve years now and know his family (tribe) well. They are the ones who were behind the recent Presidential election chaos here. Thousands of people have been displaced by election violence (over 350,000) and I don't know the last count of the dead. Obama under 'friends of Obama' gave almost a million dollars to the opposition campaign who just happened to be his cousin, Raila Odinga, who is a socialist trained in East Germany. He has been trying to bring Kenya down for years and the last president threw him in prison for trying to subvert this country! December 27th elections brought cries from ODM (Odinga Camp) of rigged election. Obama and Raila speak daily. As we watch Obama rise in the US we are sure that whatever happens, he will use the same tactic, cyring rigged election if he doesn't win and possibly cause a race war in America.Do I believe this to be true? I don't think it is very likely but I do think the press has had a very kid gloves approach with Barack Obama and it leaves him open for this kind of speculation and accusation. We say we have come so far when it comes to racism but we really haven't come so far. We have gotten really good and being polite and "correct" in regards to race and I think this is what is going on here. The press and most others in the public eye are so afraid of being accused of beating up on the black guy they don't treat him like they would any other candidate. It is just like when I was in high school and we got a black kid in our group home. He was the first black kid to go to our school and all the students had to sit through a week of lectures about racism and and the penalties we would face for harassing this boy or anything along those lines. We were told we should treat him just like he was anyone else. But when he got there; the students weren't the ones not treating him like he was just anyone else. The teachers and other staff let him get away with any and every thing so they wouldn't look like they were singling him out.I grew up with racism first hand like most people I grew up with. I lived a small town in the mountains of Colorado and everyone I went to school with was white up until I was in 4Th or 5Th grade. There were Hispanics that lived literally on the other side of the railroad tracks, just on the edge of town but they had one guy who came into town to do the shopping and they never enrolled children in school. Then one year a Hispanic family came that enrolled a boy named Larry. I really liked Larry and I played with him a lot after school; but never in my house and never in his house. I don't know what happened to him; after 6Th grade they were gone again. Then came the "black kid". I don't ever remember his name ( isn't that awful!), he only lasted one semester and I think it was because he got caught doing something by the police, which could have just been being out past curfew but in that town at that time it didn't take much. Our group home was not for those in serious trouble and I sure that he was quickly given that title deserved, or not.What I am trying to say is Yes I don't like Barack Obama; No it is not because I am racist, but I don't deny being racist. I don't want to be racist and try very hard not to let my lack of empathy with people who are not like me affect my treatment of them. I know being born white has given me advantages and perspective that others don't have. I don't like Barack Obama because he is not loyal to the country he wants to run, he is not loyal to his friends. He's also a liar, but show me a politician who doesn't lie and I will show an unemployed politician.Controversial enough?

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