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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:43 AM
Original article: First lady got back

WHITE GUILT IS DEAD

By Tom Adkins

Look at my fellow conservatives! There they go, glumly shuffling along,

depressed by the election aftermath. Not me. I'm virtually euphoric.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not thrilled with America 's flirtation with neo

socialism. But there's a massive silver lining in those magical clouds

that lofted Barak Obama to the Presidency. For today, without a shred

of intellectually legitimate opposition, I can loudly proclaim to

America : The Era of White Guilt is over.

This seemingly impossible event occurred because the vast majority of

white Americans didn't give a fluff about skin color, and

enthusiastically pulled the voting lever for a black man. Not just any

black man. A very liberal black man who spent his early career

race-hustling banks, praying in a racist church for 20 years, and

actively worked with America-hating domestic terrorists. Wow! Some

resume! Yet they made Barak Obama their leader. Therefore, as of Nov

4th, 2008, white guilt is dead.

For over a century, the millstone of white guilt hung around our necks,

retribution for slave-owning predecessors. In the 60s, American

liberals began yanking that millstone while sticking a fork in the eye

of black Americans, exacerbating the racial divide to extort a socialist

solution. But if a black man can become President, exactly what

significant barrier is left? The election of Barak Obama absolutely

destroys the entire validation of liberal white guilt. The dragon is

hereby slain.

So today, I'm feeling a little "uppity," if you will. From this day

forward, my tolerance level for having my skin color hustled is now

exactly ZERO. And it's time to clean house. No more Reverend Wright's

"God Damn America ," Al Sharpton's Church of Perpetual Victimization ,

or Jesse Jackson's rainbow racism. Cornell West? You're a fraud. Go

home. All those "black studies" programs that taught kids to hate

whitey? You must now thank Whitey. And I want that on the final.

Congressional Black Caucus? Irrelevant. Maxine Waters? Shut up.. ACORN?

Outlawed. Black Panthers? Go home and pet your kitty. Black separatists?

Find another nation that offers better dreams. Go ahead. I'm waiting.

Gangsta rappers? Start praising America . Begin with the Pledge of

Allegiance. And please...no more ebonics. Speak English, and who knows

where you might end up? Oh, yeah...pull up your pants. Your underwear is

showing. You look stupid.

To those Eurosnots who forged entire careers hating America ? I'm still

waiting for the first black French President.

And let me offer an equal opportunity whupping. I've always despised

lazy white people. Now, I can talk smack about lazy black people. You're

poor because you quit school, did drugs, had three kids with three

different fathers, and refuse to work. So when you plop your Colt

45-swilling, Oprah watchin' butt on the couch and complain "Da Man is

keepin' me down," allow me to inform you: Da Man is now black. You have

no excuses.

No more quotas. No more handouts. No more stealing my money because

someone's great-great-great-great grandparents suffered actual pain and

misery at the hands of people I have no relation to, and personally

revile.

It's time to toss that massive, obsolete race-hustle machine upon the

heap of the other stupid 60s ideas. Drag it over there, by wife

swapping, next to dope-smoking. Plenty of room right between free love

and cop-killing. Careful...don't trip on streaking.. There ya go, don't

be gentle. Just dump it. Wash your hands. It's filthy.

In fact, Obama's ascension created a gargantuan irony. How can you sell

class envy and American unfairness when you and your black wife went to

Ivy League schools, got high-paying jobs, became millionaires, bought a

mansion, and got elected President? How unfair is that??? Now, Like a

delicious O'Henry tale, Obama's spread-the-wealth campaign rendered

itself moot by it's own victory! America is officially a meritocracy.

Obama's election has validated American conservatism!

So, listen carefully...Wham!!!

That's the sound of my foot kicking the door shut on the era of white

guilt. The rites have been muttered, the carcass lowered, dirt shoveled,

and tombstone erected. White guilt is dead and buried.

However, despite my glee, there's apparently one small, rabid bastion of

American racism remaining. Black Americans voted 96% for Barak Obama.

Hmmm. In a color-blind world, shouldn't that be 50-50? Tonight, every

black person should ask forgiveness for their apparent racism and

prejudice towards white people. Maybe it's time to start spreading the

guilt around.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:50 AM
Original article: First lady got back

Before my crucifixtion begins, let me say this

I don't agree with everything he said.

However I find it an interesting compliment/contrast to this article about Michelle Obama's ass.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 12:01 PM

Derbig Mooser

As the passage of prop. 8 in California proves, not all the religious fanatics went running to the right wing.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 06:23 AM
Original article: God enough

Let's check the record

Science gave us:

medicine, technology, the knowledge to increase our agriculture and the ability to share it with more people, the ability to heat our homes in winter, and the ability to understand nature and how to survive it's perils.

Religion gave us:

superstition, intolerance, war, fear, guilt, and an excuse to kill other humans

hmmm....I think I'll stick with science

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 06:30 AM

Where did the real Democrats go?

We've got Dean/Pelosi/Reid giving Bush everything he ever dreamed of from record corporate welfare to a free pass on illegal wiretaps to tax money for churches.

Now we have Obama encouraging his party to reward a member who openly campaigned for the opposition.

As someone who has voted Democrat all my life I have to say I won't make that mistake anymore.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 06:42 AM

LOL

"That doesn't seem like the Obama we've come to know, who appears to be a person of courage and integrity."

Your kidding right?

Obama has lied and changed his positions on every single issue since the beginning of the campaign.

He smeared Hillary and Bill racists, he encourages discrimination against gays, he favors record corporate welfare, and now we have him rewarding Leiberman (someome who campagined for Republicans).

Dean/Pelosi/Reid/Obama are destroying everything the Democratic Party once stood for.

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