There was a guy named Bill who saw the Punch And Judy puppet show for the first time. Punch is a puppet. He was being manipulated by a puppeteer who was himself repeating the lines of a show that is over five hundred years old.
Punch kills his wife. Punch kills his baby. Punch kills a policeman.
Bill got up and screamed at Punch. He tried to attack Punch and tear the puppet up, but the crowd restrained him.
Above all, he kept yelling that Punch was insane.
Finally some nice guys in white coats came along and took Bill off to where he could get a long rest and some helpful drugs.
I get the same feeling when I hear people, in all seriousness, attacking Obama.
Seriously. It gives me the creeps.
Sure, it’s my racial “prejudice” talking. But the reason I was considered prejudiced was that, unlike the Yankees back then, I actually KNEW blacks. I was raised with them, I led them in Africa, I worked with black members of the Senior Executive Service in Washington. They were PREjudiced. I was POSTjudiced.
I remember when Thurgood Marshall “led” the NAACP lawyers in the Brown arguments. It was his picture on the cover of Time Magazine.
It was Marshall, not any of the legal team that did the thinking in the Brown case, who was appointed to the Supreme Court. Woodward’s book on the Supreme Court described Justice Marshall, as one reviewer put it, “as a stereotypical lazy Negro.”
You know how everybody says that when they retire they are going to write a book or pursue a hobby they didn’t have time for before? Well, a reporter was astonished when he asked Marshall what he was going to do when he retired. Marshall replied, “I’m going to sit on my ass.”
That was the one remark Marshall made that was original with him and I LIKED it. But the point is, Marshall was the token Negro in the NAACP legal team. The NAACP did not have a black president until the 1960s, when it took an actual floor rebellion to finally elect a black president after sixty years.
Blacks are excellent at repeating lines. But the idea that Marshall or Obama ever said anything for themselves is absurd. When I hear people seriously attacking Obama personally it gives me a creepy feeling.
They’re exactly like old Bill above.
They need HELP.
#1 by shari on 07/04/2009 - 6:34 pm
I think you must be refering to people who know better, attacking him, personally. I find that a lot of VOTERS over the age of say 50, attack him for “being a muslim” or something. I think that many instinctively know that something is haywire, every time they see him, but are too demoralized to say what. I’ve felt a little bit sorry for him, as I think that nothing will go well for him. His wicked, or at least self-absorbed, mother set him up.
#2 by Simmons on 07/04/2009 - 10:41 pm
Easy for you to say Bob you are not a respectable who has to keep this game going. My guess that the spokespeople for the foreign creditors of our disastorous condition will be the first to speak to our situationm, that of a created cult leader who presides over a looting by for the most part the international jews.
Like Shari at times I feel sorry for this character, his mother was truly a true believer.
#3 by Dave on 07/05/2009 - 7:50 pm
The point BW is making here is important.
I too actually know blacks. I can tell you with authority: Black people DO NOT believe in racial equality, their love and adoration for white people is far too great for that.
Racial equality (the notion that white people and non-white people are equal) is exclusively a confusion of white minds (white people being a very disoriented race).
My black friends and myself are in great agreement: White people are magnificent but they are also just plain crazy.
#4 by Tim on 07/05/2009 - 9:51 pm
On any given day, I am surrounded by people who THINK this president has any power. I remember when the white house was working out GM’s deal to go into bankruptcy. Obama had given some big speech about GM and the future etc. I do not know what happened after the speech behind the scenes. But I do remember the Bloomberg news report shortly thereafter that said the Germans had demanded Hillary Clinton be involved directly and handle things in regards to GM.
Anyone that thinks Obama has any real power is nuts. He is a prop.