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My New Hero
ednbarby:
Doin' The Bump.
Check out the video if you can - well worth the five-minute length. Particularly nausea-inducing is the actual videotape footage of Rush Limbaugh making fun of Michael J. Fox. But it's most worth watching just to enjoy how really, sincerely angry Keith Olbermann is, God bless him.
Ellemeno:
How does he stay on mainstream TV? "God (et al) bless him" is right.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on November 04, 2006, 01:48:04 pm ---Barb <--- thinks the answer is Obama Barack and wishes everyone else did, too
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Um, it's Barack Obama--and he could well be our first Black president. At the risk of sounding both offensive and more cynical than I am, I think he's ideal for that role, and one reason being that while his father was Black, his father was also an immigrant to the U.S. from Africa--which means that while Obama is Black, he is not personally--as in his own family background--burdened with the history of slavery, so that issue cannot be used against him.
And I have another new hero, too, at the moment--Mike Jones, the hustler who blew the whistle on that hypocritical Pharisee Ted Haggard.
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on November 06, 2006, 04:14:32 pm ---Um, it's Barack Obama--and he could well be our first Black president. At the risk of sounding both offensive and more cynical than I am, I think he's ideal for that role, and one reason being that while his father was Black, his father was also an immigrant to the U.S. from Africa--which means that while Obama is Black, he is not personally--as in his own family background--burdened with the history of slavery, so that issue cannot be used against him.
And I have another new hero, too, at the moment--Mike Jones, the hustler who blew the whistle on that hypocritical Pharisee Ted Haggard.
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Good point about his father's immigration, thanks Jeff, I hadn't thought of that. And I agree about Mike Jones. And Neil Patrick Harris, who simply normalizes his life.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on November 06, 2006, 04:28:16 pm ---Good point about his father's immigration, thanks Jeff, I hadn't thought of that. And I agree about Mike Jones. And Neil Patrick Harris, who simply normalizes his life.
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Thanks, Clarissa.
I'm not sure I phrased what I was trying to get at with regard to slavery and Barrack Obama's father's immigration particularly well, but I guess it came through. It won't be possible to accuse him of having a personal agenda with regard to slavery because his ancestors were not slaves in the U.S.
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