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"Time Magazine on Mama Obama"

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

There is a trailer for the Black Orpheus that Mrs Obama would have seen. It is on http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NkxGkL7o9xk

It looks pretty good.

4/13/08, 6:58 AM

Blogger Jim Kalb said...

Is there any connection between Mama's attraction to 3rd world men and Son's attraction to aggressively black and left wing types like his various mentors and maybe the missus?

4/13/08, 7:17 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"...even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves."

Like all blinkered egomaniacs, Obama is great at seeing the underlying motivations for everyone else's behavior, but crap at noticing his own.

Tell me he didn't choose his wife for her forceful, rather masculine personae, which compensates for his own meticulous, delicate, high strung nature. Michelle is man enough for both of them.

4/13/08, 7:22 AM

Blogger RobertHume said...

Steve,

No need to "type in Obama's endless sentences".

Your correspondent should use a scanner and optical character recognition software. A scanner that I bought about two years ago does the job with software that came with it.

4/13/08, 7:39 AM

Anonymous Bill said...

Makes me feel sorry for Obama. He comes off more as his grandparents' child than his mother's.

However, his afrocentrism is probably more than just a result of his mother's behavior. Children who have a missing parent usually romanticize the one who is gone. His father was definitely gone, and African through-and-through.

4/13/08, 8:31 AM

Blogger Carlos said...

Your British reader mentioned "Michael X" and his white girlfriend, Gale. Go see the new Jason Statham's new flick "The Bank Job" (best movie of the year so far). Their story is a major element of the plot.

4/13/08, 9:27 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Interesting that Time chose a fairly flattering picture of his mother. She looks to be 14 or 15 at best. In all of the other pictures I've seen she is by no means a looker. Late puberty/early adulthood was in no way kind to her.

Also interesting that Obama notes that his grandparents were lapsed Baptists and Methodists. I thought they became Unitarians? Is that incorrect or did Obama not want to mention that?

Obama's mother reminds me of those girls who are smart and idealistic (and usually very multiculturalist), yet deranged (and frequently hypochondriatic).

4/13/08, 10:55 AM

Anonymous Josh? said...

Heartbreaking stuff. The aid worker who fell in love with her African warrior,and wound up buried alive. Would their special song be "Take My Breath Away"? And could a similar fate await George Clooney?

4/13/08, 11:32 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Michael X" was rumored to have helped in a 1970s English bank robbery to retrieve incriminating evidence on a Royal family member.

http://blogs.chicagoreader.com/film/tag/Gale%20Ann%20Benson/

The movie "Sexy Beast" had a similar plot. In that movie there were incriminating pictures of an anonymous woman woman. While they weren't part of the story, I wonder if someone was letting something slip on purpose.

4/13/08, 2:01 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Things like the "Michael X" story should be an instruction manual to these jejune young white girls who are so desperately seeking to prove how open minded they are. A "Scared Straight" type of thing to these naive sheltered types falling for the exotic nonsense...of course,white girls who grow up in more urban areas don't need such admonishment. Common sense and reality will steer them in the right direction.It's ALWAYS the Stanley Ann Dunham's who end up in this predicament.

4/13/08, 2:16 PM

Blogger michael farris said...

""I suddenly realized," he wrote in his memoir, Dreams from My Father, "that the depiction of childlike blacks I was now seeing on the screen ..."

Oh God, another politician who doesn't understand the difference between his ass and art. Just what the world needed.

Black Orpheus may not present a realistic portrayal of slum dwelling Brazilians (I certainly never assumed it did) but so what?

It's a work of art and on its own terms moving and beautiful. Carmen is hardly a realistic portrait of Gyspy-Spaniard relations either (hint: Carmen is neither gypsy nor Spanish but French). Black Orpheus presents French archetypes in an atypical setting. Anyone who can't understand that is just ...

While nothing is more cliched than a sheltered white girl falling for a brown or black outlaw, his mother seemed does seem to have been genuinely engaged in the world and other people in a way that the self-absorbed untouched-by-others'-failtures Obama is not.

4/13/08, 2:34 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dear Bildebergers,

If this affirmative action spawned mediocrity called Obama is all part of some brilliant scheme to get me to be grateful for either McAmnesty or a broad as President, I have to say this is some of your best work.

Regards,
Random Peon

4/13/08, 4:07 PM

Anonymous tommy said...

Benson sounds like a typical radical. The hard left doesn't value life, so how can they care about the downtrodden?

For all the left-wing radicals' compassionate-minded prattle about the poor and oppressed, and all their rage against the sufferings and injustices faced by common men, when the time comes to make tough moral decisions they show no capacity for genuine concern for other human beings. The masses serve merely as a smokescreen to hide inhuman ideologies and a self-absorbed fascination with change for its own sake.

4/13/08, 4:29 PM

Anonymous Lucius Vorenus said...

Jim Kalb: Is there any connection between Mama's attraction to 3rd world men and Son's attraction to aggressively black and left wing types like his various mentors and maybe the missus?

Spengler, over at the Asia Times, has been exploring this theme for several weeks now; e.g.:

Obama's women reveal his secret
By Spengler
Feb 26, 2008
atimes.com

4/13/08, 6:03 PM

Anonymous Marc said...

However, his afrocentrism is probably more than just a result of his mother's behavior. Children who have a missing parent usually romanticize the one who is gone. His father was definitely gone, and African through-and-through.

Yeah, his afrocentricism is definitely a projection, and as someone with the same pattern of an absent father and a subconscious idealization of his absent father's country/people (Italy/Italians, in my case) I can sympathize. But at the same time, I think such notions should disqualify one from the Presidency. The President of America's first loyalty must be to America and her people, not whatever country or people acts as a stand-in for his absent father. Of course I'm probably preaching to the choir here.

Anyway, Steve's valiant efforts aside, I think there's a good chance Obama is going to get the nomination and the Presidency (I'd probably prefer him to McCain but not to Hillary -- how sad is that?). I just hope Steve's right that he can be kept in check by the electorate. We have to make him more frightened of us than he is of his shrew of a wife.

4/13/08, 8:15 PM

Anonymous testing99 said...

Marc, Obama hates the "typical white person" and it shows. He can't hide his Type II Kinsleyan gaffes -- saying what he really believes. He's toast in the General. McGovern time.

As for the attraction by women, particularly white women, for dangerous and charismatic black men, it spans classes. Rich white women are the cliche, but so too the working class women. That Cop in Ohio who murdered the woman he had one kid by and gotten pregnant again was Black, the victim and all three of his mistresses/wives were white women (all good looking).

Women are hardwired for the most masculine, dangerous men. Unless constrained they'll fall in with those guys every time.

Why do these women go out to places like Africa in the first place? To seek out the most dangerous and violent men. "Aid work" is just the excuse.

4/13/08, 8:41 PM

Anonymous Lucius Vorenus said...

Random Peon: Dear Bildebergers, If this affirmative action spawned mediocrity called Obama is all part of some brilliant scheme to get me to be grateful for either McAmnesty or a broad as President, I have to say this is some of your best work.

Okay, that was funny.

4/13/08, 8:49 PM

Anonymous headache said...

"but I'll have to postpone it until I have time to type in more of Obama's endless sentences."

That kind of summarizes the guy I guess.

4/14/08, 12:41 AM

Blogger Truth said...

"It's ALWAYS the Stanley Ann Dunham's who end up in this predicament."

And the Linda Clarksons, the Bonnie Lee Blakeys, the Jon Benet Ramseys, the Natalie Woods, the Marilyn Monroes, the Natalie Holloways, the Sharon Tates, the Chandra Levys...

4/14/08, 5:06 PM

Blogger Truth said...

...The Mary Jo Koepecknes the Virginia Rapps, Dorothy Strattens, the Rebecca Schaeffers, the Martha Moxleys, the Polly Klasses...

4/14/08, 5:19 PM

Blogger Truth said...

...The Susan Cabots, the Nancy Benoits, the Joy Admonsons, the Judith Barsis...

4/14/08, 5:20 PM

Anonymous ben tillman said...

...the Holly Madduxes....

4/15/08, 10:42 AM

Anonymous David said...

Women aren't children, but all of them have pronounced child-like personality traits. They are looking to be led by Mr. Muscles. A little later, or if disappointed, they seek Mr. Moneybags.

Since we get the human race through them, we'll have to continue playing along and taking their crap.

Heroic indeed are the Mormon men with multiple wives!

4/15/08, 11:16 AM

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8/25/10, 6:42 AM

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