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"An old white lefty's view of where Obama is coming from"

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Anonymous Auntie Analogue said...

Could this turn out to be the Bain of Obama's reelection campaign?

5/27/12, 1:45 PM

Blogger Peter said...

For a New Yorker such as Robert Fitch the mere concept of demolishing public housing must have seemed freakishly weird. Every single housing project that New York City has ever opened, going back to the 1930's, remains in full occupancy today.

5/27/12, 1:52 PM

Anonymous Peter A said...

Is Obama an evil muslim socialist actively trying to destroy America? Or is he a typical political hustler using race and ethnicity make sure he and his pals can get a cut of whatever wealth this country generates? I think Steve has shown for a while now that the latter is much more likely to be true, although the far right will never be convinced of this. Ironically Steve's portrait of Obama would be far more political damning than rants about birth certificates and Reverend Wright, simply because it goes more directly after the leftist myth that Obama is "special." Too many of the far Right attacks are also premised on the idea that Obama is somehow "special", which helps sustain the Obama myth. He's not special though, he's really a pretty mundane politician who has been smart enough to use race to advance his career. Neither a messiah nor a demon. Just the banal everyday evil of American political corruption.

5/27/12, 1:55 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is quite intereting, Harold Washington was the first and probably the last black mayor of Chicago like David Dinkins in NYC.

5/27/12, 1:58 PM

Blogger Whiskey said...

This shows why Obama is failing. His whole model, his political positions, are about shaking down various moneyed groups to produce NARROW political patronage. Chicago, NYC, etc. depend on real estate money, outside insurance, and massive wealth transfers. Its Greece in miniature. Thats why its failing.

None of that speaks to the White middle class, which gets screwed. Or the desire by the White working/middle class to move up in wealth, which requires real wealth creation in manufacturing, energy extraction, and agriculture. Stuff that actually creates wealth not simply moves it around.

If you made Richard Daley President, you would not get much different. Look at Jarrett -- a total failure as an advisor, she does not understand that the President gets judged on results, like a football coach. Have a crummy won-loss record, you get bounced EVEN IF YOU ARE BLACK.

The President controls the brakes (regulations), the gas (spending, interest rates, printing money), and the steering wheel of the economy (the budget and who/what gets money spent on it). People demand results. They want gas cheap, and food and clothing too. They want more not less money in their pockets at the end of every month. Nothing in the Chicago Model of trading favors among the Universities, non profits created by the Wealthy, crony-capitalist real estate, insurance, and finance, has prepared Obama for anything but massive failure.

5/27/12, 2:09 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

it's spelled Champaign - Urbana & it has some university influence, so it's not really hickville. it's over 3 hours south of chicago. & C-U already has more than its share of ghetto-americans! (with their typical ghetto-american behavior)- panjoomby

5/27/12, 2:20 PM

Anonymous countenance said...

Peter A wrote:

Is Obama an evil muslim socialist actively trying to destroy America? Or is he a typical political hustler using race and ethnicity make sure he and his pals can get a cut of whatever wealth this country generates?

The answer is yes.

One does not preclude the other.

The better way to think of this post is that when you stuff enough money into the mouths of the big chiefs (Reverends), that will have the effect of keeping the Indians (ghetto blacks) in line. Obama's Chicago career is basically an intermediary between Chief and Indian.

5/27/12, 2:24 PM

Anonymous formerly no name said...

Is Obama an evil muslim socialist actively trying to destroy America?

Obviously this is just the extreme edge of GOP partisan rhetoric. Only goobers are fooled by such stuff. The late Midwestern GOP operative Tom Roeser used to describe a form of it when he told tales of campaign slush funds used for "spreading rumors in bars."

5/27/12, 2:28 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Chicago, NYC, etc. depend on real estate money, outside insurance, and massive wealth transfers. Its Greece in miniature. Thats why its failing.

I'm not sure these metropolises are "failing".

Cities are population sinks that survive by taxing the agricultural base, importing its food, resources, and women. They always depend on imports.

5/27/12, 2:30 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

He was there, he looked dignified, he uttered sonorous speeches, he was friends with the players, he tried to foster compromise that would advance the interests of the rich, white and black, without damaging the interests of demagogues like Rev. Wright by driving blacks all the way out of Chicago. But he doesn't appear to have been a major player himself. He doesn't seem to have been a driving force in the dealmaking. Was this out of scrupulousness (ethical, racial, or careerist)? Or is he just more decorative than dynamic?

Have you forgotten about Michelle and the patronage job which was created for her in the UChig healthcare system, wherein her duty was to steer undesirable [aka "ghetto"] blacks AWAY from UChig and into the local community healthcare clinics, thereby making UChig once again safe for "the rich, white and black"?

5/27/12, 2:54 PM

Blogger TGGP said...

Whiskey, I predict that Obama will be re-elected. Care to wager against me?

Also, Obama does not directly control the Federal Reserve, though he certainly could have devoted more time & thought to his power to appoint people to it rather than leaving vacancies for such a long time.

5/27/12, 3:04 PM

Anonymous Catperson said...

Peter A said...
Is Obama an evil muslim socialist actively trying to destroy America? Or is he a typical political hustler using race and ethnicity make sure he and his pals can get a cut of whatever wealth this country generates?

The primary reason Muslim extremists dislike America is that they view it as a puppet for Israel, so if Obama were of this ideology, I think it would manifest itself in attempts to disenfranchise Israel rather than the U.S. per se.  One could argue that obama's foreign policy is both pro-American and anti-Israel, in that he attacks enemies of America (bin laden) but opposed attacking enemies of Israel (saddam Hussein, Iran).  But if Obama is pro-Muslim, why has he targeted so many Muslim extremists?  Perhaps because he's intelligent enough to understand that Al  Queda is bad for Muslims and good for Israel because their terrorism on U.S. soil inspires Americans to unite with Israel against the Islamic world.  Bin Laden was not intelligent enough to understand this; he thought that punishing America for their support for Israel would cause America to distance itself from Israel, but in fact it had the opposite effect.

  Eliminating terrorists allows Obama to cleverly look anti-Muslim while actually being pro-Muslim.  Perhaps this is why Obama is so hated in Israel; he avoids attacking threats to Israel, but is quick to attack the threats to America which had been scaring America into joining Israel's war on terror.

But if Obama is pro-Muslim, why do so many American Jews support him?  I'm not sure they do, or ever did.  In the Democratic primary Hillary clobbered Obama in the Jewish vote, and the media did not really rally around Obama until he looked like he would get the nomination.  Once he got the nomination (thanks largely to Oprah) Jews rallied around him because they tend to oppose Republicans, especially evangelical hyper-fertile Republicans like Sarah Palin.  Still there is clearly a subset of liberal elite Jews who worship Obama.  I suspect they're attracted to his secularism, eloquence, apparent intellectualism, and the eliteness of his education, appearance, and mannerisms.  And perhaps Obama is so intelligent he has even the smartest Jews fooled into thinking he supports Israel.  But then maybe I'm giving Obama way too much credit for being a brilliant cunning strategizer with a master plan.  Maybe he's just a shallow opportunist with no grand plan beyond self-aggrandizement and enrichment.  We really won't know who this man really is unless he gets a second term  and thus unleashes his true agenda.

5/27/12, 3:40 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Seducing them into a socioeconomic class system which, while training them to earn more dollars, hypnotizes them into believing they are better than others and teaches them to think in terms of “we” and “they” instead of “us.”

So, while it is permissible to chase “middleclassness” with all our might, we must avoid the third separation method – the psychological entrapment of Black “middleclassness.” If we avoid this snare, we will also diminish our “voluntary” contributions to methods A and B. And more importantly, Black people no longer will be deprived of their birthright: the leadership, resourcefulness and example of their own talented persons.


This is actually a good analysis of how whites are bought off by the hostile elite.

5/27/12, 3:51 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I walked ten miles today through the Gold Coast, Lincoln Park, and Lakeview in Chicago. Very few blacks to be seen anywhere and lots of white yuppies and their small children. The gentrification of Chicago is in full force.

5/27/12, 4:14 PM

Blogger Power Child said...

I'll admit, I only skimmed this, but about 2/3rds of the way through I came up with a great idea: Steve, you should write historical/cultural atlases, through the iSteve lens, of all the cities you've lived in or whose political innerworkings you are intimately familiar with! Such a project could combine your narrativistic insights into politics, your interest in racial and immigration issues, your expertise in human biodiversity, and your theories about...wait for it...topography!

Whaddaya say?

5/27/12, 4:27 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"But cursing out white folks is not going to get the job done. Anti-Semitic and anti-Asian statements are not going to lift us up.
but bashing whites - a-ok- in fact the other two afore mentioned groups want it that way.

5/27/12, 4:32 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"...as far as I can tell, he doesn't appear to have been a major player himself. He doesn't seem to have been a driving force in the dealmaking. Was this out of scrupulousness (ethical, racial, or careerist)? Or is Obama, on the whole, just more decorative than dynamic?"

Well, somebody is calling the shots in the White House. Is that Valerie Jarrett? Maybe she gave the order for Seal Team Six to ventilate Osama bin Laden.

5/27/12, 4:44 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Without a doubt this is Steve's most interesting post of 2012. It reminds me of prying up old floor boards in a dilapidated building; finally the thousands of scurrying rats and bugs living underneath are revealed.

5/27/12, 4:52 PM

Anonymous anony-mouse said...

I can't believe that Chicago politicians are corrupt.

If so maybe someone should make a movie about it. See if that Cary Grant fellow is around. And maybe Rosalind Russell.

5/27/12, 4:59 PM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

"topography!"

I spent my first ten years in Chicago asking Chicagoans where the secondary Continental Divide is that divides the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence north Atlantic watershed from the Mississippi Gulf of Mexico watershed. Finally, a man at the maritime museum on Navy Pier told me there was a 50' tall bronze statue of French explorers on the continental divide in Summit, IL, about 12 miles SW of the Loop. Sure enough, there was.

Many years later, I discovered that Benjamin Franklin's entry into global politics concerned Chicago, even though it wouldn't exist for 75 years. The British were thinking of trading newly conquered Quebec City back to France for a sugar island, but Franklin insisted over and over to London that the St. Lawrence and the Mississippi had to have a portage, and that to control the entryways to that portage -- i.e., what would become Chicago in the 1830s -- was to control the continent.

Old Ben was pretty smart.

5/27/12, 5:05 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

TGGP said,


"Whiskey, I predict that Obama will be re-elected. Care to wager against me?"

I fear you might be right, but God, I hope you're wrong.

5/27/12, 5:17 PM

Anonymous Paul said...

Interesting but too long- for blog posts, you should keep it shorter- no more than 1/3 or 1/2 of this length...

5/27/12, 5:33 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's clear that the alliance of the two ends of the Bell curve comprising the Obama coalition mainly benefits the right side. It appears to be the mid-20th century American Jewish strategy writ local of using the moral imperative to uplift blacks to do well by doing good (as Poor Richard would say).

5/27/12, 6:08 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Great insights and inside info by Steve Sailer and Robert Fitch.

The gentrification of the largest american cities is in full swing. Led by prosperous white-ethnics and homosexuals to whom suburbia was never very attractive or welcoming.

More and more blacks are getting squeezed out and many are heading back South.

5/27/12, 6:16 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Steve, you make the mundane-ity of everyday living and wheeling and dealing (that everyone does) sound so incredibly conspiratorial and sinister!!

You can find stories like this behind any ____________.

Where is the scandal?

5/27/12, 6:16 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"But Obama ignored the plight of Rezko’s tenants who complained to Obama’s office."

"In 1994, the LA Times reports, Obama appeared in Cook County court on behalf of Woodlawnn Preservation & Investment Corp., defending it against a suit by the city, which alleged that the company failed to provide heat for low-income tenants on the South Side during the winter. There were several cases of this type..."

The contrast with his claimed ideals is amusing.

“Give us this day our Daley bread,”

I recently heard the word "bread" clearly used to mean "money" in a Kanye West "song".

"which in Dreams from My Father is symbolized by Wright telling his secretary not to move to the suburbs to keep her son safe."

Hasn't the Rev. himself now moved to the suburbs?

5/27/12, 6:25 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The stealth ethnic cleansing of black people from Manhattan, Cabrini Green etc is the other even more under-reported aspect of section 8.

5/27/12, 6:50 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I guess this means that big statue of Revilo Oliver isn't going to be built in his hometown of Urbana after all.

5/27/12, 6:54 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Or is Obama, on the whole, just more decorative than dynamic?"

I think most of them are because of all the time it takes to deal with all the public engagements.

The man standing behind the face will be the dealmaker. Bush had Cheney, Blair had Mandelson, Obama i guess had Rahm (left over Iran?) and now somebody not as good whoever they are.

I think it's only the especially gifted ones like Clinton who can do both the public stuff and the dealmaking at the same time.

It's a bit like the Chinese emperors being given endless ceremonial duties while the mandarins do all the actual governing.

5/27/12, 7:13 PM

Anonymous Fuenlabrada said...

re: Allison Davis - if these pictures are correct, that is one very white 'black' family.
http://www.geni.com/people/Allison-S-Davis-Esq/6000000009103322585

5/27/12, 7:42 PM

Anonymous Rrrrrroger said...

I disagree with Paul. I think Mr. Sailer should keep writing as long as he thinks it's interesting.

5/27/12, 7:44 PM

Anonymous Joe Six-Pack said...

"I guess this means that big statue of Revilo Oliver isn't going to be built in his hometown of Urbana after all."

Revilo P. Oliver was a WWII veteran and intellectual giant.

He was totally rigth on his views about politics, history, religion and modern America.

5/27/12, 8:06 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow, it's a good thing for this Obama guy that he's not in a public position. What would happen to him if anybody actually started looking into any of this?

5/27/12, 8:21 PM

Anonymous Wright Stuff said...

I always thought Rev. Wright had a big ideological overlap with the criticisms of global-scale hyper-meritocracy, among which I'd include Chua's "World On Fire." However it's unclear whether this tendency was mostly organic (in daily competition with NOI, which preaches its own separatist meritocratic principle) or mere academia-influenced pandering to the increasingly politically denatured lumpenproles of SS Chicago. Wright was a Navy medic, with 2 degrees from the most prominent HBC, deep associations with the black clerical elite, and came up in the febrile environment of the early 70s so probably he is just a consummate marketing pro like Cornel West.

5/27/12, 9:36 PM

Anonymous DPG said...

Great digging here, Steve. I'm going to have to re-read this. I thought the Breitbart 'vetting' concept was a little overblown, but stuff like this gives it fresh life.

I basically know nothing about Obama's political start in Chicago, despite being an avid consumer of news. My suspicion has always been that he's a bit vacuous, but that he's a well-spoken black man who was willing to play ball with the powers that be.

If the Republicans had any sense, they would used Wright's denouncement of middle class values to hold Obama's feet to the fire. If there's one thing that has bipartisan appeal amongst moderates in this country, it's "middle class values."

5/27/12, 10:05 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

“Life’s not safe for a black man in this country, Barack. Never has been. Probably never will be."

Funny. Non-whites say, "Life's not safe for a non-black anywhere where a lot of blacks live. Probably never will be."

It would seem blacks agree.

5/27/12, 10:26 PM

Anonymous marry Harry but mess around with Ike said...

I never read a lot into Obama's Chicago origins. He used it for his springboard, and they've used him, but he's not much of a machine-savvy political athlete (look how he's faltering in the re-elect campaign and it's not even summer). Unlike 50 years ago it's just one among many destinations with local rich Democrats. By contrast, when a legit Republican contender comes out of somewhere other than the sunbelt (Dallas/Houston, the Atlanta sprawl, Florida) it's taken for a miracle...

5/27/12, 11:13 PM

Anonymous Nanonymous said...

developing and rehabbing the new housing for the refugees from the demolished projects—who were re-settled in communities to the south like Englewood, Roseland and Harvey.

Englewood? Then it must be pure co-incidence: Murder Rate Down Everywhere In Chicago But Englewood - "The figure for murders in Englewood is up 40 percent compared with 2010"

5/27/12, 11:28 PM

Anonymous Reg Cæsar said...

And his long-time partner Allison Davis, who’s black.

Speaking of "senile sodomy"...

Fitch must have been pretty old indeed if he was unaware of the connotations of the phrase "long-time partner". Especially since he-- and any Chicagoan in earshot-- would have known that Davis was among the last of the dying breed of male Allisons.

Almost everyone now is careful to specify business partner in these situations.

5/27/12, 11:51 PM

Anonymous jody said...

"Is Obama an evil muslim socialist actively trying to destroy America?"

yes, he is actually. he's just not very capable or competent, and is saved and bailed out at every turn by the extremely skewed and totally one sided treatment the US now doles out to any person who is african or part african and shows a modicum of ability.

his stated goal is to fundamentally transform america. i don't see how it could be any clearer. he just doesn't have lots of solid plans or goals, because he's not that smart, and because he's never actually accomplished anything in his life, having had everything handed to him, while completely ensconced in an academic, and then legal, and then political bubble. aided by affirmative action at every step.

his cabinet works fervently to remove european males from society and replace them with anybody else. once they get in there though they realize they have no idea what they're doing.

"Steve's portrait of Obama would be far more political damning than rants about birth certificates and Reverend Wrighta"

because he's half african, and being a communist, racist, anti-american liar, is ok now for people who are african or part african.

the truth is probably that obama was born in the US, but that there's some incriminating information on his private documents which shows he committed identity fraud. this is likely why he's often reported as being born in kenya in multiple physical documents - because he probably often lied about that, and somewhere, there's a possible felony level crime with regard to identity fraud. that's why he has an entire army of lawyers hiding all his stuff. maybe he said he was kenyan to get financial aid for college, or something like that. put aside the birth certificate - several of this guy's documents are suspect.

"He's not special though, he's really a pretty mundane politician who has been smart enough to use race to advance his career. Neither a messiah nor a demon. Just the banal everyday evil of American political corruption."

even though he's not that competent, he has an army of jewish allies and liberal euro americans who have helped him for a while now. they've done massive, incredible amounts of damage to the united states in only 3 years. the US may never recover long term from things which obama has already done. another 4 years would guarantee the end of the US as we know it, and transition it into some bizarre future that previously would have been only imagined in some work of science fiction, a book or movie, positing a weird alternate future united states.

5/27/12, 11:52 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow, well worth the slog through if you look at the last bit quoted! Brilliant find, Steve!

Classic methodology on control of captives teaches that captors must be able to identify the “talented tenth” of those subjugated, especially those who show promise of providing the kind of leadership that might threaten the captor’s control.

Applies just as much to white people as black, but we can't get away with saying that publicly, especially in conjunction with our own racial organizations etc.

Also I love how gentrification is talked about by the left as "ethnic cleansing", with no mention of how the "white flight" that is the direct result of high black crime rates is ethnic cleansing too.

5/28/12, 1:36 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The whole thing sounds very "People I Know". Great movie, btw.

5/28/12, 1:38 AM

Blogger jack strocchi said...

There seems to be a pattern here.

Black mayor in a major US city (Dinkins in NYC, Barry in WDC and Washington in CHI.) oversees urban blight and crime wave and gets involved in personal scandal. Gets dumped for yuppie mover-and-shaker (Guliani-Bloomberg, Williams-Fenty, Daley-Emmanuel) who cracks down on crime and revitalises urban property values.

Poor blacks ethnically cleansed and move to nearby derelict cities (Newark, Baltimore, Chicago ex-urbs) with depleted tax-base. Educated blacks economically elevated to provide cover for the whole squalid process.

Lather, rinse and repeat until the End of History.

5/28/12, 3:49 AM

Blogger pat said...

I came across an odd fact a couple days ago that throws some light on the Obama birther controversy. Probably you and the well informed iSteve readership already know about this but on the chance that you don't, I will share.

There is a well established and similar birther conspiracy established for Dwight Eisenhower and for the first George Bush. There is a somewhat similar conspiracy theory about Nixon too, although it is so confused it hard to understand completely.

Eisenhower is said to have been born in Austria by the Holocaust Denial movement. This makes sense to them because Eisenhower is one of the most critics of the Denial movement. He enlisted Patton and Bradley as witnesses to the Nazi atrocities and had photographs taken so as to undercut any subsequent attempt by Nazi apologists to brand the Holocaust as mere propaganda.

So many in the Denial movement needed to denigrate Eisenhower's credibility. They said he was an Austrian Jew and the whole born in Texas story was a fabrication.

I had never heard this particular bit of paranoia before. I stumbled across it while googling this Illinois group that was attacked in the restaurant by the hammer wielding "anti-racists".

Holocaust Deniers also have photos of George Bush Sr. and his father Prescott Bush in a group photo with many top Nazis including Joseph Mengele. The photo is real enough but the man (supposedly Prescott) and the boy (George) don't look very much like the Bushs. I think they claim that George H.W. Bush was born in Germany and was of course a Nazi.

It isn't clear if Nixon was actually foreign born but according to the site I saw was clearly working for some group with interests inimical to those of the US. Among this group's interests is some sort of Kennedy assassination cover up.

So the fuss about Obama being a "Manchurian Candidate" or born abroad is not unprecedented. I understand why Eisenhower had to be defamed by the Denialists although the why the Bushs are portrayed as a German Nazi family seems a little mysterious. I suspect there are millions who
believe that Nixon was somehow involved in one or more of the Kennedy assassinations - certainly Lyndon Johnson was widely believed to have been involved at the time.

The paranoia about Obama's birthplace now seems to have been solved. He, being well known to be obsessed by race and under attack from many black politicians as not being black enough, had the story proliferated that he had been born in Kenya. That probably helped in his race against Bobby Rush but later came back to haunt him in his run for the Presidency. It's not really much of a mystery and it seems the birth myth was a myth of his own doing.

If anything it seems that Obama has had rather fewer paranoid attacks from the fringes than average. But those attacks have gotten much more media attention. The liberal media "line" on Obama was that he would be attacked unfairly because he's black. That didn't happen, so the few fringe elements that did promote wild theories got more attention than they would have if they had been aimed at white Republicans like Eisenhower, Bush or Nixon.

Albertosaurus

5/28/12, 4:49 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Although they’re not well known outside of Chicago, the Pritzkers rank among the richest families in the U.S. There are ten Pritzkers among the Forbes 400: Thomas is the richest at2.3 billion. Anthony and J.B. are next at $2.2 billion; Penny in fourth, at $2.1 billion—Daniel, James, Gigi, John, Karen, and Linda weigh in with $1.9 billion. Penny is finance chair of the Obama campaign.

May I assume that everyone at iSteve is aware that the Pritzkers turned off the credit card security authentication checks for the 2008 campaign [here, here, here, etc]?


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I suspect that the secret end game envisioned by the more hardheaded liberal white leaders (I'm looking at you, Mayor Emmanuel) is likely not just to yuppify the Near South Side and move poor blacks to the Far South Side of Chicago where they can still vote in Chicago elections. Instead, the hard men want to use Section 8 rental vouchers to send poor blacks packing clear out of Chicago to hickvilles like Champaign-Urbana...


Emanuel Disavows 25% of School Kids, Says CTU
By Mary Ann Ahern
Tuesday, Feb 28, 2012
nbcchicago.com

Karen Lewis, the Chicago Teacher's Union President, and Mayor Rahm Emanuel have a testy relationship at best.

But it wasn't always that way.

The two leaders met privately last year ahead of Emanuel's inauguration. They went for dinner and to attend a dance — both are fans of the art form — and to develop a working relationship.

"We were both seeing who the other person was," she said.

Lewis said she got her answer about Emanuel's character rather quickly.

"In that conversation, he did say to me that 25 percent of the students in this city are never going to be anything, never going to amount to anything and he was never going to throw money at them."

She said the comment took her aback, and she looked at him askance...



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Hasn't the Rev. himself now moved to the suburbs?


Yeah, Steve covered that story just the other day.

What with Wright moving to Tinley Park, and Barry moving to the Not-So-Black-House at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, there's an eery similarity with the final scene of George Orwell's Animal House:

HUMANS = Scots-Irish [MacPritzkers, MacEmanuels, MacAxelrods, MacMinows, etc]

PIGS = Uppity Light-Skinned Mulattoes [Barry, Rev Wright, Valerie Jarrett, etc]

WORK ANIMALS = Dark-Skinned Problematic Ghetto Blacks

But as the animals outside gazed at the scene, it seemed to them that some strange thing was happening. What was it that had altered in the faces of the pigs? Clover's old dim eyes flitted from one face to another. Some of them had five chins, some had four, some had three. But what was it that seemed to be melting and changing...

5/28/12, 4:58 AM

Anonymous Chicago said...

This throws a little light on the man of mystery we happen to have as president. It really makes the whole "hope and change" advertising jingle out to be one colossal obscene joke. And this article is written by a lefty who is inclined to go easy on him; imagine a full story by someone less enchanted with leftist mythology.

5/28/12, 4:59 AM

Anonymous Marlowe said...

Half of ’em think that the former gang-banger or the former Muslim got no business in a Christian church. Other half think any black man with an education or a job, or any church that respects scholarship, is somehow suspect.

The Very Reverend Wright seems quite sharp.

5/28/12, 6:56 AM

Anonymous Eugene Sawyer said...

Harold Washington was not the last black mayor in Chicago.

5/28/12, 6:58 AM

Anonymous rob said...

make sure that public housing project blacks are only relocated as far as the South Side, where they can still vote and still attend Rev. Wright's church, not all the way to exurban hickvilles like Round Lake Beach.

Thank God there's some incentives keeping the Rahm Emmanuel's from transfering all the vibrant blacks to Whitopias.


How do we make sense of all of this seemingly conflicting information about Obama? I suspect the simplest answer is that Obama never quite made sense out of it all either.

These highly decorative affirmative action diversities like Obama and the supreme court hispanica don't really have philosophies, ideologies or even agendas really. They like what's been good for them. They aren't liberals, or conservatives, or progressives; they're after the gibsmedats. Maybe they're gibsmedatists.

5/28/12, 7:55 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Robert Heinlein* alert: Veterans Give Romney Big Lead Over Obama... Men give Romney an eight-point edge, while women opt for Obama over Romney by seven points. It turns out that the male skew for Romney is driven almost entirely by veterans. Romney leads by one point among nonveteran men, contrasted with the 28-point edge Romney receives among male veterans....





*For the three people at iSteve who don't get it, go here.

5/28/12, 8:35 AM

Blogger J said...

This portrait of Obama makes much more sense than the original you painted two years ago. Then you suspected that Obama was a child of the international development gang, the World Bank and the Ford Foundation, with some CIA connections thrown in.

Now it seems he was the consegliere of a powerful Chicago real-estate developer group operating like the Chinese "New Men" - Party Members and all. Someone took notice that the man has speaking talent, and they decided to finance his political carrier. The rest is history.

May be he not such a bad President. The world seems to have accepted his leadership.

5/28/12, 8:49 AM

Anonymous Jonathan Silber said...

While exhorting parishioners to remain, for the greater good of their race, in Chicago, and to forgo the greater safety, from black violence, of life in the suburbs, the Reverend Wright was building for his retirement a million-dollar home in Tinley Park, a suburb of Chicago that is ninety-four percent white, and less than two percent black.

5/28/12, 9:18 AM

Anonymous riiches said...

Fuenlabrada commented above on Allison Davis' whiteness. In an interview about his consulting work on the "Human Stain" film, he talks about passing.

http://www.blackfilm.com/20031031/features/allison_davis.shtml

5/28/12, 11:29 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

This portrait of Obama makes much more sense than the original you painted two years ago. Then you suspected that Obama was a child of the international development gang, the World Bank and the Ford Foundation, with some CIA connections thrown in.

Now it seems he was the consegliere of a powerful Chicago real-estate developer group operating like the Chinese "New Men" - Party Members and all. Someone took notice that the man has speaking talent, and they decided to finance his political carrier. The rest is history.


There could be some truth in both theories. Well-connected guys switch lanes from time to time, especially when they sense that they're untouchable.

5/28/12, 1:05 PM

Anonymous Mr. Anon said...

"Anonymous said...

I recently heard the word "bread" clearly used to mean "money" in a Kanye West "song"."

You must be very young. "Bread" has been used to mean "money" since at least the sixties. Actually, it's one of the more immediately recognizable terms from the hip-patois of that era. It was one of those words that even squares knew.

Good God, I'm getting old.

5/28/12, 1:06 PM

Anonymous Mr. Anon said...

Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate should not be referred to as "industries". They are businesses, but not industries - they do not involve the creation of wealth, only the rearrangement of it.

5/28/12, 1:09 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oops: "George Orwell's Animal House"
= "George Orwell's Animal Farm"

5/28/12, 1:32 PM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

I want to see that movie!

5/28/12, 1:34 PM

Anonymous Mr. Anon said...

"Anonymous said...

""Oops: "George Orwell's Animal House= "George Orwell's Animal Farm""

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

I want to see that movie!"

What Otter said to Flounder could is the quintessence of communism, or indeed any left-wing undertaking:

"You f**ked up. You trusted us."

5/28/12, 2:40 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

There seems to be a pattern here.

Black mayor in a major US city (Dinkins in NYC, Barry in WDC and Washington in CHI.) oversees urban blight and crime wave and gets involved in personal scandal. Gets dumped for yuppie mover-and-shaker (Guliani-Bloomberg, Williams-Fenty, Daley-Emmanuel) who cracks down on crime and revitalises urban property values.

Poor blacks ethnically cleansed and move to nearby derelict cities (Newark, Baltimore, Chicago ex-urbs) with depleted tax-base. Educated blacks economically elevated to provide cover for the whole squalid process.

Lather, rinse and repeat until the End of History.



Blacks getting cleverly shafted. This conspiracy theory presented by Sailer that you summarized so well is far more believable, since it explains the ground reality and recognizes who really has the power. But will Fox News and Rush Limbaugh ever embrace it? Of course not. Maybe they are part of the conspiracy assigned to blow smoke to cover what's really going on?

5/28/12, 3:13 PM

Anonymous irishman said...

I just checked. I can't believe that was 4800 words!

5/28/12, 4:00 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oops: "George Orwell's Animal House"
= "George Orwell's Animal Farm"


The Germans bombed Pearl Harbor. The Germans have ALWAYS bombed Pearl Harbor.

5/28/12, 5:31 PM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

"The Germans bombed Pearl Harbor. The Germans have ALWAYS bombed Pearl Harbor."

!

5/28/12, 5:43 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Now it seems he was the consegliere of a powerful Chicago real-estate developer group operating like the Chinese "New Men" - Party Members and all.

Obama is not bright enough, or experienced enough, to be anyone's consigliere.

5/28/12, 5:52 PM

Anonymous Let's! said...

"Talented tenth"? Sounds like Barr, I mean Wright, gets HBD! Otherwise, he would have spoken of the "Charter school tenth" or the "terrifically tutored tenth," no?

5/28/12, 6:24 PM

Blogger TGGP said...

I always thought twitter's hashtag was stupid, but now I've gone and created one for George Orwell's Animal House.

5/28/12, 7:32 PM

Blogger J said...

Obama is not bright enough, or experienced enough, to be anyone's consigliere.

Why you say that? He worked years as a lawyer in ghetto real estate issues in Chicago.

5/28/12, 9:20 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Steve, Hannity had an entire show dedicated to 'dreams from My Father' last night. Might be a good idea to start advertising your study guid again.

5/29/12, 1:18 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Steve, Hannity had an entire show dedicated to 'dreams from My Father' last night.

Yeah, I caught some of that last night.

Boy is it weird [frankly surrealistic] to see blacks [albeit very light-skinned] who actually "get it".

But I have heard that there is a something of a gender gap amongst American blacks - by and large, they vote about 95% DEM - but that 95% breaks down as something like 100% DEM for black females, compared to only 89% DEM for black males.

So I guess there really are conservative black dudes out there, but the MacFrankfurt School is sure as Hades ain't ever gonna let you see them on MSM broadcasts.

5/29/12, 3:48 AM

Anonymous Dahinda said...

Gentrification in Chicago started as far back as the 1940's when civic leaders wanted to make sure that the middle class did not leave the city. It was the reason for the high rise public housing in the first place. Also, why is the West Side always forgotten? On the West Side of Chicago, there is a ridge that runs north to south at approx. 6000 west, and that, Steve, is the continental divide.

5/29/12, 6:01 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think Erik Rush reads isteve, he claims to have broke the Jeremiah Wright story:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7r8GBqL914

5/29/12, 7:09 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

My family is all from the area of Chicago by Calumet City.We would go back and see the blue ERV logos that were the signs of Vrdolyak. (Stevie Ray Vaughan used that typeface and logo as his "SRV") Fast Eddie was a hero to the Poles, Slovaks and Ruthenians that occupied the blocks of row houses everyone my family knew lived in.

5/29/12, 7:12 AM

Blogger David said...

>You must be very young. "Bread" has been used to mean "money" since at least the sixties.<

Hey kids! 1960s-speak FYI:

Bread = money
Groovy = awesome
My bag = my interest or specialty or talent; syn. my thing

etc.

We need a sitcom or "Mad Men"-type series focusing on the late 1960s/very early '70s. It won't be too soon by the time it gets out of development. Think urban renewal machers with "Easy Rider" kids, or something.

5/29/12, 8:47 AM

Blogger David said...

>You must be very young. "Bread" has been used to mean "money" since at least the sixties.<

Hey kids! FYI 1960s-talk:

Bread = money
Groovy = awesome
My bag = my interest or specialty or talent; syn. my thing

etc.

We need a sitcom or "Mad Men"-type series focusing on the late 1960s/very early '70s. It won't be too soon by the time it gets out of development. Think urban renewal machers losing everything and their kids doing the "Easy Rider" bag. Edge: DON'T put MLK or Woodstock in it (maybe peripherally). The black character could be Obama's dad.

5/29/12, 8:51 AM

Anonymous Londoner said...

Not a word of Obama's autobiography sounds even close to believable. Trite vignettes with scripted, cliched, folksy dialogue, probably written with a long-term view to being narrated by Morgan Freeman. It just sounds made up.

"Bread" has been a slang term for money in Britain for a very long time. There was a tv sitcom called "Bread" in the mid-1980s, and the term definitely pre-dates that by several decades. "Dough" is another old word for money.

5/29/12, 1:51 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think Erik Rush reads isteve, he claims to have broke the Jeremiah Wright story:

Boy, it sure would be nice to have a calm, reasonable, friendly [or at least not too antagonistic] conversation with a black guy who "gets it".

Dittoes for a Scots-Irish guy [although, in fairness to him, Mencius Moldbug has been fairly honest at times as to the nature of Scots-Irish politics].

5/29/12, 2:01 PM

Anonymous Forgot My Alias Again said...

Steve, the portage between the Maumee and the Wabash makes for a much more graceful arc from Quebec to New Orleans. Forget Chicago...the key to the continent is Fort Wayne!

5/29/12, 5:30 PM

Anonymous Douglas Knight said...

The slang usage of bread meaning money was popular in the 40s. Dough goes back to the 19th century.

5/29/12, 6:29 PM

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