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Ambassador Oprah?

Bookworm on Oct 23 2008 at 8:25 pm | Filed under: Barack Obama, Britain

The British papers are reporting that, if Obama becomes President, Oprah will become the Ambassador to Britain. As is frequently becoming the case in today’s political climate, words fail me. I guess I’ll add only that it makes sense for the most narcissistic President in the history of the United States to appoint to a premier ambassadorship the most narcissistic woman in the history of American TV and publishing.

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15 Responses to “Ambassador Oprah?”

on 23 Oct 2008 at 9:27 pm 1Sierra Faith

Ambassador Oprah?…

Bookworm is dumbfounded.

I’m just numb.

…
on 24 Oct 2008 at 1:28 am 2Mike Devx

I just ran across a two-week old post on expreacherman detailing a list of Obama’s allies over the years.

As I read the post carefully, item after item after item, it become stunning. I had thought I’d understood that Obama is clearly the most radical Democrat ever to get this close to the White House. Clearly, clearly, I didn’t understand.

He’s far, far more radical even than McGovern. You can’t go through this list and still believe, in any way shape and form, that these are *just folks* in the crowd of all of his associates. This is a web of cohorts that forms a coherent worldview that is deeply hostile to America.

Plz take a look, even if just a quick one. Your eyes may be open already, but perhaps as with me they’ll be far wider open once you’re done.

http://expreacherman.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/do-obamas-religious-friends-matter
on 24 Oct 2008 at 2:20 am 3Mike Devx

Sorry, thought I’d add a followup, concerning the ‘racism’ charge that is being levied constantly against nearly all pro-McCain forces.

From:
http://www.philly.com/dailynews/opinion/20081021_Deborah_Leavy__McCain_s_racial_stain.html

McCain’s Racial Stain

IN MEMPHIS last weekend, I made sure to go to the Civil Rights Museum. It’s attached to the Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King was fatally shot in 1968. Visiting it is an intensely emotional experience.

Walking through the museum, I encountered a burned bus used by the Freedom Riders, films of police using firehoses to scatter black children, photos of the beatings on Bloody Sunday in Selma, Ala., and of black and white college students at a segregated lunch counter sitting stoically as ketchup was poured on their heads by angry white toughs.

It was a stark reminder that a vein of racism runs deep in America, a vein that John McCain has sadly tapped into by exploiting the fear of the “other” deeply embedded in all human beings.

“Who is Barack Obama?”
“Too risky for America.”
“Pals around with terrorists.”
“He doesn’t view our country like you and I do.”

These code words serve to remind white people that “That One” is different, not like us.

I don’t object that this was written, because it is clearly labelled on its site as Opinion, not News.

But I just want to comment on how tiring this is, these constant accusations. The usual “vein of racism that runs deep in America”. As if racism and tribalism doesn’t run deep everywhere, and in fact runs less deeply than in almost every other country on the face of this earth. We’ve made so much progress, in such a short number of generations, and no credit is ever, ever given. Indeed the invective actually rises these days, as Obama’s rise to power gives voice and power to the vicious hatreds of all of his allies on the far-far-left.

McCain and Palin are fighting to get a message out to all the conservative and independent voters across this country that Barack Obama does not share your values. He’s been immersed in an ocean of anti-American philosophy and rhetoric from the very day he was born, beginning with his own mother’s viewpoints and philosophies. Especially in the area of religious faith, while he has converted to Christianity (after priorly being a nonbeliever in any religion, I think), his brand of Christianity is one that few Americans outside the Black Liberation Theology movement would recognize as valid.

The mainstream media completely ignores the values question. They do this out of extreme bias and, except in limited cases such as Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber, a consistent shallowness and refusal to examine anything at all that might cause them to lift a finger and work at their profession. Really, anything complicated is beyond them.

This media de-facto censorship of any examination of Obama’s values means McCain/Palin must fight with every moment and breath to get the values issue exposed to the American public. It may well be that it is the values question itself that will swing the election in their favor. Americans won’t elect someone who doesn’t share their values, who is in fact hostile to their values. And Obama’s values are hostile to at least 2/3 of the people across this nation.

The liberal mainstream media cannot see that values are important to raise; and they cannot see that those of us who criticise leaders and aspects of life in the Black urban community are critical of that urban culture, not race. Not skin color. And so we are tarred and feathered with the stain of racism ourselves.

Color me extremely frustrated.

Sorry about the length of the followup. I feel better having gotten that off my chest, though I know Book’s comments sections are not a forum for my self-healing.
on 24 Oct 2008 at 4:05 am 4Zhombre

Could this be one of the foreign policy crises that Babbling Joe prophesied? If the Argies, flush with cash after expropriating the country’s private pensions, decide they want to invade the Falklands again, and the Brit response this time, unThatcherish, proves timorous and unsteady, will Ambassador Oprah try to broker a peace by having reps of both countries appear on an encounter on CNN International over which she presides?
on 24 Oct 2008 at 6:57 am 5McLaren

Good gravy. What’s next, Ellen Degeneres as Sec. of Health and Human Services?
on 24 Oct 2008 at 7:28 am 6Oh. My. God. « lookingforlissa

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on 24 Oct 2008 at 11:00 am 7BobK

I’d be far more comfortable if this story had come from The Onion. Truly, truly, we’ve stepped through the looking glass.

But, then again, given Sen. Obama’s experience and apparent direction in the area of international relations, a ‘feel good’ secular spiritualist like Ms. Winfrey is simply a logical choice. In fact, I’m surprised the story isn’t that she’s about to be designated SecState.
on 24 Oct 2008 at 2:23 pm 8Mike Devx

C’mon, everybody! Group hug! And when we spontaneously break out into a lively chorus of “Kumbayah”, don’t forget to sway!

In unison, folks! C’mon now, do it in unison! It’s all about the unity!

There, doesn’t that feel better? All our international foreign policy problems are now solved. Now, let’s go rape the rich.
on 24 Oct 2008 at 2:56 pm 9Zhombre

Mike D, save your rapier-like wit for the Talent Show in the reeducation camp.
on 24 Oct 2008 at 3:37 pm 10Mike Devx

Zhombre,
>> Save [it] for the Talent Show in the reeducation camp >>

Is that before or after I agree to be a snitch on my fellow inmates?

These last ten days in the campaign are going to be agonizing. Polls are everywhere, Obama is always up, but are the Democrat % projections, which “skew” the percentages according to expected vote patterns, are those % valid? Who knows? Which way will those damned independent, undecided voters break? Are McCain’s remaining paths to victory truly narrowing day by day?

I’m bitter at the thought of an Obama victory, and I wish I had a gun so I could cling to it. Maybe this’ll all restore the faith I lost in high school, and I can cling to that too. But that would be xenophobic and racist.

The Murtha polls are weird; I’ve seen the claim that the one with Russell way up is simply bogus, but who knows where the people of PA are? -
>> A Pennsylvania source has just leaked me brand spanking new poll data showing GOP upstart Bill Russell leading John Murtha among over 800 probable voters by 48-35. This comes on top of the Susquehanna poll showing Murtha ahead of Russell by 4 points, within the margin of error. The new poll is from Dane and Associates, which surveyed over 800 probable voters, randomly selected to reflect the district makeup, on Wednesday night. >>

In any case, it is close! If you’ve got any extra bucks in your wallet, Russell could really use it! Always remember what that disgusting, sneaking weasel Murtha did to his fellow Marines, trying to destroy them even before a military tribunal got underway – and they were declared INNOCENT! That vicious, sickening turncoat monster. And if that doesn’t get you going, remember he’s one of the post corrupt, pork-barrel, influence-peddling members of Congress. He’s as *proud* of all that as he is venomous towards his fellow Marines.

I’ve given $50 twice to Russell! Help him out if you can! Here’s the link:

http://russellbrigade.com/donate/
on 24 Oct 2008 at 6:40 pm 11rockdalian

In a surviving portion of an autobiographical manuscript, Mr Davis confirms that he was the author of Sex Rebel: Black after a reader had noticed the “similarities in style and phraseology” between the pornographic work and his poetry.

“I could not then truthfully deny that this book, which came out in 1968 as a Greenleaf Classic, was mine.” In the introduction to Sex Rebel, Mr Davis (writing as Greene) explains that although he has “changed names and identities…all incidents I have described have been taken from actual experiences”.

He stated that “under certain circumstances I am bisexual” and that he was “ a voyeur and an exhibitionist” who was “occasionally mildly interested in sado-masochism”, adding: “I have often wished I had two penises to enjoy simultaneously the double – but different – sensations of oral and genital copulation.”

The book, which closely tracks Mr Davis’s life in Chicago and Hawaii and the fact that his first wife was black and his second white, describes in lurid detail a series of shockingly sordid sexual encounters, often involving group sex.

Note this paragraph.

One chapter concerns the seduction by Mr Davis and his first wife of a 13-year-old girl called Anne. Mr Davis wrote that it was the girl who had suggested he had sex with her. “I’m not one to go in for Lolitas. Usually I’d rather not bed a babe under 20.

“But there are exceptions. I didn’t want to disappoint the trusting child. At her still-impressionistic age, a rejection might be traumatic, could even cripple her sexually for life.”

He then described how he and his wife would have sex with the girl. “Anne came up many times the next several weeks, her aunt thinking she was in good hands. Actually she was.

“She obtained a course in practical sex from experienced and considerate practitioners rather than from ignorant insensitive neophytes….I think we did her a favour, although the pleasure was mutual.”

http://tinyurl.com/6r6nrl

For pure speculation purposes, with absolutely no proof, I give you:

Andy Martin claims Barack Obama is son of Frank Marshall Davis, Jr.
http://tinyurl.com/65m75w

Nor do I know who Andy Marshall is. This just boils down to the controversy of Obama’s birth certificate.
on 24 Oct 2008 at 6:44 pm 12rockdalian

Mike Devx,

Walking through the museum, I encountered a burned bus used by the Freedom Riders, films of police using firehoses to scatter black children, photos of the beatings on Bloody Sunday in Selma, Ala.

With absolutely no mention that these deeds were perpetrated by DEMOCRATS.

This nutball claims McCain is the racist one.
on 24 Oct 2008 at 6:58 pm 13Ymarsakar

Faith trumps experience, Book.
on 24 Oct 2008 at 7:14 pm 14Mike Devx

rockdalian (#11)

You know, it is *highly* significant that I missed that in the article! I totally missed that!

I’ve known that it was primarily Democrats perpretrating civil rights atrocities in the south, but I’ve known it for only a few years. Also, I did not move towards conservatism until 9-11 shattered my biases; I’d been cycling between social libertarianism and liberalism for two decades.

The lesson I take from your point is that my deprogramming from all those years I spent as a liberal is far from complete. I shudder to remember, for instance, that I had three – count em, three – peaceful-dolphins-in-the-deep-blue-sea pictures up on the walls of my living and dining rooms. Programmed! Programmed!
on 24 Oct 2008 at 7:20 pm 15rockdalian

Slightly off topic, but of interest.

Lost film footage of Edwardian London discovered

http://tinyurl.com/5khaur

A historian has discovered film footage of Edwardian London that includes fascinating snapshots of people going about their everyday lives.

Found through Power Line blog.