Obama Friends Crawling Out From Under The Bus

Many of Barack Obama’s “former” friends who had been shoved under the proverbial bus for appearances sake, obviously now feel comfortable enough to crawl out from under, now that he has been elected.  Seeming none the worse for wear, Louis Farrakhan, William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright, loquacious all, are delightedly spewing forth long pent-up words of praise and frustration.  The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that Minister Farrakhan spoke glowingly about the new president-elect, who he once called “the Messiah,” and explained his recent reticence:

“For nine months, I kept quiet because I saw that the good words that I spoke about this beautiful young man at our Saviours’ Day convention and the way they were misused,” Farrakhan said of Obama. “I decided it would be better for me to just be quiet rather than be drawn into the controversy that was swirling around his pastor, Father Pfleger, and others.”

Farrakhan then added with a smile, “I feel freer today to say the things that are in my heart.

William Ayers, the “unrepentant terrorist” (say it with me) obviously feels pretty free now, too, according to the Washington Post.  The day after the election, Ayers complained to WaPo that Obama’s opponents were trying to turn him into a “cartoon character,” even though he and Obama are “not that close.”  And they most certainly do not “pal around.”

“Pal around together? What does that mean? Share a milkshake with two straws?” Ayers said in his first interview since the controversy began. “I think my relationship with Obama was probably like thousands of others in Chicago. And, like millions and millions of others, I wish I knew him better.”

Poor Bill.  How well can you get to know a guy you share office space with, huh?  And it must be hard to sit idly by while your good name is being besmirched by both the “liberal media” and the Republicans.  Especially if you’re innocent:

“I didn’t do anything. It’s all guilt by association. They made me into a cartoon character; they threw me up on stage just to pummel me,” Ayers said. “I felt from the beginning that the Obama campaign had to run the campaign and I had to run my life.”

Seems old Bill is making up for lost time, when it comes to the spotlight, though.  On Friday, he attended a Northwestern University appearance of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who was speaking at the university’s first “State of the Black Union” in Cahn Auditorium.  It was a make-up date for Wright, who had been dis-invited last spring when the school rescinded it’s offer to issue Wright an honorary degree.  Much like Obama dis-invited Wright to his coming-out speech.   Anyway, Ayers, obviously scarred by Tom and Jerry during a troubled childhood, repeated his “cartoon” characterization comments to reporters at the event:

“Both Rev. Wright and I were brought up as cartoon characters in this campaign because disinformation and dishonest news,” Ayers said. “I did not suffer as much as he did, but we both got out of it with a certain amount of dignity.”

The Chicago Sun-Times says Wright’s speech was uncontroversial, yet their headline screams, “Wright Rips Media in NU Talk.”  The article claims Wright lead off his remarks by “criticizing” the media, then immediately quotes Fox News:

In a recent interview with Fox News, he said he’d been asked if he thought the media had treated him unfairly. His response, he said, was, “Ray Charles could see that.”

Other people under the bus, like Jesse Jackson and Father Michael Pfleger, are probably still going to have to stay there, and though Ayers, particularly, seems blind to the reality, there’s no guarantee that he, Farrakhan, and Wright are going to be allowed to stay out.   Maybe that’s what Rev. Jesse was crying about.  Maybe he’s the only one who knows the truth.

This “Obama/Race” Thing Is Starting To Piss Me Off

People, especially  pseudo-journalists in the mainstream media and blogger-bullysphere, faux-celebrating the heralding of America’s new racial Kumbayah era being ushered in by the super-duper, “uber-historic”  groundbreaking election of a self-described presidential “mutt” with at least one black parent, have written some amazingly stupid freaking things throughout the interminable nominating and election process.   But today, on Jonathan Martin’s blog, we’ve gone from the ridiculous to the “you have got to be out of your fucking mind.”  Quoting Dr. Alvin Poussaint as well as Dr. William H. Cosby, Jr., in a New York Times Arts piece with a hinky link, we learn that we owe the Huxtables for Barack Obama’s success:

Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, a psychiatrist at the Jude Baker Children’s Center in Boston and a professor at Harvard Medical School who was a script consultant on “The Cosby Show,” said in an interview that “there were a lot of young people who were watching that show who are now of voting age.”

Dr. Poussaint added: “When ‘The Cosby Show’ first came on, it was a professional, middle-class family. And they said, ‘That’s not a black family.’ We heard it from blacks and whites. I think that’s why Karl Rove calls it postracial, because it was universal.”

In an interview on Thursday Mr. Cosby praised Mr. Obama and his campaign operation as “the architects of the almost perfect run for, and winning of, the office.” He added, “This isn’t something that happened just because of a TV show.”

But Mr. Cosby strongly suggested that his series, which ended in 1992, had a lasting effect on America’s racial views. Its legacy, he said, might have played a role in the country’s embrace of Mr. Obama and his family.

“I would not be surprised with the comfort level of people looking at a family and not being afraid of them, and not holding them to some strange old thoughts of a nation,” he said. “It’s what people have done with themselves by watching that show and believing in it.”

The link for the more in-depth, but no more deep, NYT article is here.  The Guardian wonders if rap music won the election for Obama, and on 60 minutes the Camp O architects lie about their efforts to exploit the race issue.

Please people, Obama has brown skin.  That is no reason to vote for him, though it was promoted as such, and sadly, was used as an excuse to do so, while dire warnings that the opposite would be true blared from every electronic and print orifice as a sort of perverse motivational technique.  All this happy crappy about “the fact that he’s brown represents a cosmic shift in the fabric of the universe” and all other such bullshit and drivel being shoveled by the dumptruck-full in order to sell newspapers, air time, and the office of the president, is beneath contempt and an insult to rational people.  Anybody who swallows this kind of pap whole probably owns a Chia Pet and more than one Clapper.

Happy Obama Day!

There are plans underway to declare a Barack Obama holiday.  Okay, take your time, read that sentence again if you need to, take a deep breath and I’ll continue.  Better now?  Anyway, according to the Topeka Capital-Journal Online, rallies and special fast-food cakes and everything are in the works:

Plans are being made to promote a national holiday for Barack Obama, who will become the nation’s 44th president when he takes the oath of office Jan. 20.

“Yes We Can” planning rallies will be at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. every Tuesday at the downtown McDonald’s restaurant, 1100 Kansas Ave., until Jan. 13. The goals are to secure a national holiday in Obama’s honor, to organize celebrations around his inauguration and to celebrate the 200th birthday of President Abraham Lincoln, who was born on Feb. 12 1809.

At 7:30 a.m. on Inauguration Day, Obama Cake will be served at the downtown McDonald’s, and a celebration is scheduled for 8 p.m. to midnight Jan. 20 at the Ramada Hotel and Convention Center, 420 S.E. 6th.

Oh, happy-hopey-joy-joy!  Obama cake!  I wonder what that is, white cake with chocolate icing?  I can hardly wait to find out.  You?  Like always, though, we’re one step behind the Kenyans; they’ve already declared a National Obama Day:

Barack Obama’s Kenyan relatives and Africans across the continent sang, danced in the streets and wrapped themselves in U.S. flags Wednesday to cheer for America’s first black president. Kenya will party for two days, after the president declared a national holiday.

Scenes of jubilation broke out in the western village of Kogelo, where Obama’s late father was born. A group of exuberant residents picked up the president-elect’s half-brother Malik and carried him through the village.

TimesUK Online says those Kenyans really know how to party; slaughter a couple of large animals, pop a few sodas, and it’s on.  A freshly purchased goat presented to the Obama family by the article’s writer was to be part of the merriment:

He was to be only one small part of a vast celebration feast starting last night and comprising four bulls, 16 chickens and assorted sheep and goats.

“We are Africans, so our plan is to slaughter a bull and have friends come over,” said Abongo, the candidate’s oldest half-brother.

“We invite Kogelo (the village where Mr Obama’s Kenyan family lives) to come over and it will be open house. People will just come on over and bring a couple of sodas.”

Parrrrtay!