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"The late John Updike's insights into the Obama family"

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Anonymous LaDiDa said...

Outstanding blog entry, Steve. Who the hell else is talking about this fascinating subject. Thanks for connecting the dots and relentlessly mining Obama's own books for jaw dropping incite into his deeply ingrained racial power trip.

By 2011 or so a lot more mainstream journalists will be coming out with Sailerian critiques of Obama. Maybe even by 2010 judging from the rocky start of this administration.

It's amusing to think of all the journalists who have theoretically perused both of the Obama autobiographies, and then yawned and declared "nothing to see here". Nope, not a single juicy quote to be found! And there's no evidence of the man's true inner thoughts and feelings either! He'll always be a man of deep, deep mystery! The only we can be sure of is that he's a great healer of differences!

The Obama Show is going to the Democratic Party's greatest disaster.

1/27/09, 7:22 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Obama’s mixed blood can’t as easily be wished away as Malcolm’s. "

Malcolm Gladwell? Sorry I missed something.

Anyway, I'm also from Africa. I just cannot see all the romanticism that Obama and his ilk look for there. Basically the place sucks. The landscape and the animals are great, and the potential for wealth enormous. But the people f. it up. All.the.time. Ask any Afrikaner or Rhodesian. They spent the last 300 years trying to turn Southern Africa into modern nations. With lots of infrastructure development, agriculture, water systems, hospitals, schools etc. And they came close. What’s happening now, that the locals are in charge again? Zimbabwe has just gone through the complete cycle: prehistoric->colonial->independent on the way to a 2.-rate nation->”liberated”->pre-historic. It’s happened over and over. Also in Kenya. For example, the only connecting road between Nairobi and Ethiopia was built in colonial days. And never maintained since. Basically the level of civilisation in Africa is indirectly proportional to the time since the last colonial powers left. What’s so cool about that?

1/28/09, 12:06 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

LaDiDa sed
"The Obama Show is going to the Democratic Party's greatest disaster."

Dunno, I'm sceptical. Bascially Dems, like socialists in most western countries, can get away with anything. Because the MSM leans Dem and will always cover for them. And where the MSM decides to look away, there is no scandal.

1/28/09, 12:09 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Obama will be a disaster because a nuclear bomb will take out New York City on his watch. Combine his inability to throw Israel to the wolves with his lackluster national security credentials, the result will be the literal destruction of a huge Democrat population.

1/28/09, 2:05 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Outstanding blog entry indeed, and it also has to be said, Obama is a superb stylist.

1/28/09, 2:56 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

One thing Obama has going for him is competence, a trait which Bush Jr. and McCain both lack. His policies might be a joke now but his management skills so far are far above and beyond what the Republicans managed to put up.

1/28/09, 3:10 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Obama will be a disaster because a nuclear bomb will take out New York City on his watch."

Sounds Sci-Fi to me. Or t99. But one thing you have to give Bush is that nothing more happened on his watch. It either proves 9/11 was an inside job, or that the Feds were [looking a little harder]/[not ignoring the obvious]. I still wonder how the US avoided another 9/11 given the porous border and globalism.

1/28/09, 4:48 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I've never seen such a disparity in quality between a blog post and comments that attempt to be supportive to it. Steve Sailer, you are your readership are unique. Sort of like if New York Review Of Books' readership was the people who attended Sarah Palin rallies.

Hopefully Anonymous

http://www.hopeanon.com

1/28/09, 6:55 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

It is Obama's one insight, born of the admiration for his bigamous, corrupt father, that America can be governed as an African "republic." by a popular big man who punishes his enemies and rewards his friends. Obama recognized the similarities between corrupt African states and America: an anti-American, anti-Capitalist (and often anti-Semitic) academic class which lauded hierarchical, socialist rule by dictators; a corrupt business class interested in the common people of America in the way a tick is interested in a dog.

May we survive the age of Obama.

1/28/09, 8:37 AM

Anonymous dorkus malorkus said...

Steve, I would like to know your thoughts on why so many foreign governments (China, Pakistan, Al-qaeda, et al) have not caught Obamania? Muslim jihadi groups especially.

1/28/09, 12:20 PM

Blogger albertosaurus said...

Another Obama insight that predated 2008 :Clip.

1/28/09, 12:59 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"I've never seen such a disparity in quality between a blog post and comments that attempt to be supportive to it. Steve Sailer, you are your readership are unique. Sort of like if New York Review Of Books' readership was the people who attended Sarah Palin rallies.

Hopefully Anonymous"

Okay. Who left open the screen door? A SWPL got in here. Somebody grab a flyswatter.

1/28/09, 1:37 PM

Anonymous testing99 said...

Throwing Israel to the wolves will do nothing except destroy the "picket function" of Israel to soak up the Islamists attacks.

Russia, and China, suffer Jihad. So does India. No Jews there. It's not us, it's them. Muslims live in a polygamous Big Man society with a huge surplus of young men with no wives or hope for wives, and frozen tribal structures. The way for social peace is war on the infidel (preferred) or each other when the infidel is far away or too powerful.

Modern technology (cheap jet travel) and nuclear proliferation means the infidel is now both close and not very powerful. Aircraft carriers and all of America's might were nothing against determined jihadis crashing planes into buildings, killing more than at Pearl Harbor.

Israel, like the picket Destroyers spread out around the Aircraft Carriers in WWII, takes the kamikazes or jihadis suicide attacks first, sparing the more important capital ships. Without Israel the US would get the full attention of the jihadis, Russia having done deals plus brutality (leveling Chechnya) and China executing any who advocate Jihad.

The easiest path to power in a fractured, tribal and violent society is a successful attack on the US. The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright shows how in detail, Osama and Zawahari hit upon terror against the US because it got them men, money, and power -- lots of it. As opposed to their home countries.

Obama has done stupid things that will create disaster. He's killed European missile defense guaranteeing that every European state (which is most of them) that can will go nuclear, as fast as possible, to stop both the Russians coming in and Iranian threats to be the protector of Independent Muslim Republics inside Europe.

He's decided to live with Iranian Nukes without making Iran afraid of the US and unwilling to use them -- particularly the various factions that seek to undermine the other by provoking acts of war. Like Khomeni's endorsement of the US Embassy take-over. Obama has failed to intimidate Pakistani factions in a nation of more than 100 nukes (and growing) and brutal factionalism.

If talk is all you have (that's Obama) then eventually the hard boys call you on it. Of COURSE we will lose a major Western city soon, even guys like Sam Nunn agree on that.

As for Bush stopping further terrorist attacks -- it is no secret. Rove wrote about how it was done in the WSJ. Each high-level terrorist was questioned aggressively (likely with drugs) and revealed connections to other high-level guys who were snatched up, process repeated. Ultimately that led to high-value guys like Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the architect of 9/11 and uncle/mentor (all these guys are related and know each other -- it's a small world) of 1993 WTC bomber Ramzi Yusef. Which in turn led to the apprehension of the guys plotting to fly planes into LA's Library Towers, etc.

What was different? Unlike the Clinton era, no "Wall" preventing the FBI's intel and counter-terrorism divisions from talking to each other. Unlike Clinton era policies, no over-lawyering and restrictions on questioning, or sending the guys to Egypt for rendition where questions have to be put in writing (to avoid allegations of torture directly). Unlike Clinton era policies, no lawyer-directed requirements for non-allergenic tape to tie up bin Laden, restrictions on discomfort, etc. Unlike Clinton era policies, no CYA first, go after terrorists later. This included an aggressive attempt to Hellfire missile the key terrorist leaders, plotters, financiers, etc.

You can as a government CYA, with little criticism of the various NGO's, Human Rights people, and Muslim groups including lawyers paid out of Gulf money, or you can go after terrorists without much restriction, including I have no doubt use of drugs to make these guys talk.

With nuclear proliferation, the cost of CYA goes up and up and up. Literally we are talking about NYC here because now THEY have the Maxim Gun. Plus the will to use it.

It's just a question of will -- do we want to live as much as they want to kill us?

Obama, coming from the old ages of racial resentment (a luxury of pre-proliferation times) is like putting a Spanish-American War Admiral in charge of the Pacific Fleet in WWII. The worst possible leader in the most dangerous moment.

1/28/09, 2:00 PM

Blogger Pons Seclorum said...

"why so many foreign governments (China, Pakistan, Al-qaeda, et al) have not caught Obamania? Muslim jihadi groups especially."--Dorkus

Muslims are reticent and testing the waters to probe just how much they will be able to wring from Obama. Should Obama happen to deviate from policies beneficial to them they will play on his obvious postcolonialist mindset and effortlessly gain concessions thereby. They can also play the apostasy card since technically Obama was born into Islam yet defected to Christianity. As the perpetrator of such a grievous sin and betrayal to the Islamic community, Obama could be as putty in the hands of Middle Eastern leaders.

1/28/09, 2:06 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Steve,

Your post told me much more about Updike than I cared to know. I had no idea he had lived such an exotic life. Would reading his first Rabbit book have prepared anyone for this?

I downloaded your Obama book weeks ago, and feel guilty that I have yet to read it. After a while, I felt I couldn't stand to hear or see the name "Obama," and was just tuckered out from it all. From reading these excerpts in this post, I wonder if my immediate, initial notion about Obama's parents will change after reading the book.

That initial notion went something like this: Here is a guy who is going to be a model to black children, whose father resembles almost all the black males they've ever known. That is, Man boinks promiscuous woman, impregnates her, abandons her. Woman wanders from man to man, dropping more babies along the way.

Some of us blacks feel that Obama's life makes the now conventional black lifestyle official. All that's missing is a prison sentence.

You quote:
"I knew as well that traveling down the road to self-respect my own white blood would never recede into mere abstraction."

As someone has said so well, I do wish this guy would find his "identity" on his own time. He sounds downright tormented.

-- Victoria

1/28/09, 3:54 PM

Anonymous d.c. watcher said...

"One thing Obama has going for him is competence, a trait which Bush Jr. and McCain both lack. His policies might be a joke now but his management skills so far are far above and beyond what the Republicans managed to put up.

Sometimes I hesitate to get worked up because I think it's a joke. But on the out chance you're serious...

Obot alert. BHO has given absolutely no evidence of "competence." Quite the contrary. He couldn't even take the Oath of Office properly, can't talk without a teleprompter, gives no evidence of being able to discuss economics in any detail and just had no HISTORY of management.
Soros, Brzezinski and a thousand little & big Obots did all that for him. All he is is a sock puppet trailing clouds of ... well, of what we really don't know since so much was locked away.

btw, are you Obots going to be on the payroll for the whole 4 years?

1/28/09, 4:32 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"cheap jet travel) and nuclear proliferation means the infidel is now both close and not very powerful"

Oh, poo. It's simple.

Close the borders and do not let members of enemy ideologies or countries board planes that are bound for U.S.

Just say YES to profiling.

1/28/09, 4:33 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Paul Theroux's book, Dark Star Safari and Keith Richburg's, A black man confronts Africa book are equally depressing but both are well worth reading.

BTW the EU wants Europe to accept 45-50 million African immigrants over the next twenty five years.

Richard - London

1/28/09, 4:41 PM

Blogger PRCalDude said...

No Jews there. It's not us, it's them. Muslims live in a polygamous Big Man society with a huge surplus of young men with no wives or hope for wives, and frozen tribal structures. The way for social peace is war on the infidel (preferred) or each other when the infidel is far away or too powerful.

There seems to be a distressing lack of interest in Islamic doctrine on this blog. No amount of Jews thrown under the bus will stop Islamic infidel hate. Read Surah 9:5, it's all you need to know.

1/28/09, 6:00 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Throwing Israel to the wolves will do nothing except destroy the "picket function" of Israel to soak up the Islamists attacks.

Oh please!

I thought Israel was the unsinkable (and unused) aircraft carrier, now its a form of composite armour.

1/28/09, 6:22 PM

Anonymous Big Bill said...

"Throw Israel under the bus", you say?

My goodness, are all those nasty Christians after the Jews again? The "2000 year old hate" and all that?

The Israelis could decide to change things if they wanted to, of course.

They could, for example, petition the USA to make them the 51st state or a protectorate, like the Philippines or Puerto Rico.

Heck, Texas did just that 165 years ago and it worked out for them.

I do pray they quick-like-a-bunny grow a pair and do what has to be done with the 3rd or 4th largest nuke arsenal in the world. It is so embarrassing to see them dithering all the time.

I fear they are now too liberal and gutless to stand on their own hind legs, act like a man and take out the Arabs.

It really is a pity, but what can one do? Sell them a spine?

1/28/09, 7:17 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

One thing Obama has going for him is competence, a trait which Bush Jr. and McCain both lack.

Competence in what? Politics? Well, Bush won two national elections, Obama has so far only pulled off one of those. Maybe you meant competence in fields other than politics? One can argue that Obama has shown competence as a writer. However, based on the style of what Steve quotes, I would never ever buy a book of his. And I love books. It's a complex, but boring style. Steve should be given a medal for slogging through hundreds of pages of such tripe. One could say that outside of politics McCain has shown competence as a pilot. Of course, we get into the same problem here as with Obama's writing - McCain was employed as a pilot for a while, but was he ever a GOOD pilot? 5 lost planes are kind of like 2 boring books here - they don't inspire confidence in the man's competence.

Looking back over last year's other candidates, I'm thinking that Romney was the most competent one, followed by Edwards. Edwards must have been a heck of a lawyer to have gotten so rich.

1/28/09, 7:53 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Regarding the infamous quote from Malcolm X about eliminating the "white blood" of his supposedly rapist maternal grandfather from his veins: Bruce Perry, author of Malcolm: The Life of the Man Who Changed Black America, went to Grenada (homeland of Louise Little, Malcolm X's mother)to investigate the charge. Louise's relatives told him that the relationship between her parents had been consensual. There was never any "rape."

We should remember that many blacks LIKE the idea of having a "white rapist" ancestor (as opposed to one who cared and provided for his family) because they hate whites but love white genes. White genes are viewed as the source of intelligence (Note that most people claimed as high-achieving "blacks" are really mulattoes)and beautiful women (Almost any "black" women described as a beauty is really a mulatto). Mulattoes and tarbrushed whites who REFUSE to submit to a forced "black" racial identity are demonized in the black/liberal media (Google names like Anatole Broyard, Capt. Michael Healy, James Augustine Healy, Francis Patrick Healy, Belle DaCosta Greene, Anita Hemmings).

1/28/09, 10:12 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Paul Theroux's book, Dark Star Safari and Keith Richburg's, A black man confronts Africa book are equally depressing but both are well worth reading."

Speaking of Richburg, here's an excerpt:

Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa
http://issues-views.com/index.php?article=2072

-- Victoria

1/28/09, 10:26 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Regarding the infamous quote from Malcolm X about eliminating the "white blood" of his supposedly rapist maternal grandfather from his veins: Bruce Perry, author of Malcolm: The Life of the Man Who Changed Black America, went to Grenada (homeland of Louise Little, Malcolm X's mother)to investigate the charge. Louise's relatives told him that the relationship between her parents had been consensual. There was never any "rape."

We should remember that many blacks LIKE the idea of having a "white rapist" ancestor (as opposed to one who cared and provided for his family) because they hate whites but love white genes. White genes are viewed as the source of intelligence (Note that most people claimed as high-achieving "blacks" are really mulattoes)and beautiful women (Almost any "black" women described as a beauty is really a mulatto). Mulattoes and tarbrushed whites who REFUSE to submit to a forced "black" racial identity are demonized in the black/liberal media (Google names like Anatole Broyard, Capt. Michael Healy, James Augustine Healy, Francis Patrick Healy, Belle DaCosta Greene, Anita Hemmings).


Powell, So what if we world wide blacks like white genes? Yeah we like white genes, dammnit. The question should be "who doesn't like white genes / symmetry of the face or light skin in their women?" I think everyone likes "white" genes, even you. I think every ethnic group is "made pretty" with white (really Caucasian) genes. Asians (eurasians), Hispanics(mestizos), Middle Easterners who are pretty much Caucasian already. It's all about symmetry of the face.

Concerning the "hate" claim...
A majority of blacks don't hate anyone, let alone hate whites. And I'm sure a majority of whites don't hate anyone, let alone hate blacks. Some blacks hate whites. Some whites hate blacks. There is some of everything.

1/29/09, 1:16 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hello Victoria,

Fresh insight into black feelings, thanks. I'm a white from South Africa. I also notice the massive disconnect between plastic Obama and traditional African life, with all its warts but also its built-in strengths. Of course I'm bitter that Afrikaners are being driven from South Africa. But really, the ideology behind the ANC is more in tune with the US black caucus and their anger than local traditional blacks in South Africa, or the local problems. Unfortunately it’s a foreign import but we are all choking on it, both Afrikaner and normal blacks. Just like Zimbabweans are choking on the fix Carter and Young had for Rhodesia. Man I wish Americans could keep their ideas for themselves and try out their pet theories at home instead of always looking for a new laboratory in Africa or the ME.

Reading your post reminds me again of the positive relations I had with traditional blacks in South Africa. Long ago.

1/29/09, 4:19 AM

Anonymous Rain And said...

Steve,

Where did Updike get his ideas and inspiration for The Coup. Do you know? Have you read interviews?

My assumption would have to be that Obama's story isn't entirely unique, and there were news stories or cases known to Updike that heavily inspired his book.

1/29/09, 5:25 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"As Updike‘s Ellelloû lectures his mistress, “The difficulty with government in Africa, my dear Kutunda, is that in the absence of any considerable mercantile or industrial development the government is the only concentration of riches and therefore is monopolized by men who seek riches.”"

Even if there is a "considerable mercantile or industrial development", like in South Africa, the big men make sure they get it under government control, through schemes such as BEE (Black Economic Empowerment) and radical AA. Because then the big boys in government can just dig deep into government coffers, and presto, the money once owned by whites is now magically theirs.

1/29/09, 9:31 AM

Anonymous Robert said...

This was one of the most interesting articles that I have read in some time! I just wished that I owned a newspaper that I could publish this in!

1/29/09, 2:02 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"in the absence of any considerable mercantile or industrial development the government is the only concentration of riches"

Is this the direction we are headed in the US?

Dogmatic Ricardoism (ie unilateral economic surrender in the name of 'free trade'), and other trends, promoted by academic and 'think tank' 'economists', who identify with and are financed by those who also benefit from Ricardoism and those other trends, leads us to offshoring, de-industrialization, a 'third world' society and the end of widespread prosperity.

And doesn't it ("government is the only concentration of riches") make access to government contracts (with the AA implications) even more so the goal of all politics.

Does this make sense, are any of these terms or concepts useful, and can anyone rephrase this into a more friendly paragraph. Thanks

1/29/09, 4:54 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

many blacks LIKE the idea of having a "white rapist" ancestor (as opposed to one who cared and provided for his family)

Accounts of Bob Marley often take care to point out that his father was a white British Army officer who had nothing to do with him (or presumably his mother) after he was born. Its not claimed that it was not consensual btw.

But I kind of feel that the abandonment gets quite a lot of play given the routine nature of white mother-mixed child-runaway black father. We are asked to share Bob's resentment of this abandonment yet not that of other examples. You know, that reminds me of someone quite famous right now...

1/29/09, 5:54 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

We are asked to share Bob's resentment of this abandonment yet not that of other examples.

Maybe not quite a counterexample, but black neocon pundit Amy Holmes had a Zambian father who abandoned her white mother when Amy was three. Don't know whether she resents her father, but she certainly doesn't resent her white mother. Amy's being female might have something to do with that.

Interestingly, the stunning Ms. Holmes seems to have a thing for short Jewish men. (Wonder how that came about.) Hey, maybe T99 has a shot at her.

1/29/09, 9:55 PM

Blogger Truth said...

Amy Holmes likes short OLD Jewish guys. Now that Larry King's wife has found a Mandigo, she must be blowing up his phone.

BTW, I had never heard of Belle DaCosta Greene. I looked her up and it says that she spent her life passing as white, giving herself a Portugese name and all. I looked at her picture and this is probably the greatest evidence of the Flynn efect there ever was!

Since she lived a hundred years ago, the average white person had an IQ of about 70; this would probably have been necessary for anyone to believe that this was not a black person.

1/30/09, 9:48 AM

Anonymous d.c. watcher said...

"Since she lived a hundred years ago, the average white person had an IQ of about 70; this would probably have been necessary for anyone to"

Whites never scored that low. That's the african average, as you know. Rural whites with little literacy were scoring about 88-90. Literacy and urban life raises the innate IQ about 10 points.
god,where do you pull this stuff from? Take a look at the 8th grade final exam for 1890. The kind they gave to school kids in Kansas one-rooms. Few university grads of today could pass it.

1/30/09, 6:42 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I had never heard of Belle DaCosta Greene. I looked her up and it says that she spent her life passing as white, giving herself a Portugese name and all. I looked at her picture and this is probably the greatest evidence of the Flynn efect there ever was!

Since she lived a hundred years ago, the average white person had an IQ of about 70; this would probably have been necessary for anyone to believe that this was not a black person.


I this comment and this is probably the greatest evidence that Truth is taking the wrong lessons away from the Flynn effect there ever was!

1/30/09, 8:19 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Truth said...
Amy Holmes likes short OLD Jewish guys.


You're not suggesting that adorable little Amy Holmes is just a smarter, darker Anna Nicole, are you?

1/30/09, 9:58 PM

Blogger Truth said...

"Whites never scored that low. That's the african average, as you know."

My understanding of the Flynn effect is that it raises group IQ 15 points every 50 years.

2/1/09, 5:02 PM

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