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I disagree about Cynthia McKinney being the politician least like Jesse Helms, if anything, she's the offspring of racist southern whites like Helms: an angry, race-baiting African American who feels she's entitled to privilege, especially if a working class honky gets in her way, like a congressional security guard. What about it superior minded progressives, Helms wasn't the political Jesse that recently called for Obama's castration on national televison, where's your humor about the genital mutilation of your alleged political ally, or rather where's your righteous outrage? Did Jesse Jackson stage this gaffe as code-speak to knowing African Americans in their racial inner circle, Obama is uppity and he ain't black like us? So what then, let's vote for McCain? This superior political intelligence get's confusing to us simple minded types. Is Jackson just trying to race-bait Obama? WTF? Obama out to sock Jackson in the nose.
Sexism practiced by angry white progressive females, that most over-privileged example of their gender on the planet, and practiced by Latinas, a group of people who arguably demand preferential treatment based on their sex and Iberian ancestry and many of whom don’t believe in American national sovereignty, almost sank Obama’s campaign. And now we have Jesse Jackson, an alleged Obama supporter, but really a closet Oreo cracker? Here’s the Democratic Party’s Jesse publicly expressing his desire to remove the genitalia of a young and successful African American Democrat? Why is Jesse Jackson afraid of the potent virility of Barack Obama’s male organ? Does Jesse J have a Jesse H somewhere in his ancestry and it came out as a Freudian slip? Or, is race not an issue at all here, and this is an example of the Viagra generation trying to get back at a more vigorous and successful younger politician? Progressives educate me on this one, as I’m totally lost as to Jesse Jackson’s fear of Barack Obama’s Johnson. It's not black enough? Apparently it's big enough if Jackson has a desire to render it impotent.
That Jesse Helms begat the knee-jerk progressive wing of the Democratic Party including Jesse ”the castrator” Jackson, who is as bigoted as any southern white gentleman or cracker, makes Helms guilty of contributing to America’s slide toward the “two wrongs make a right” justification of Progressive double standards and bigotry. I’m glad Obama was able to overcome the sexist Clintonistas and even though I disagree with the politics of the Clintonistas, would never celebrate Hilllary (or Bill) Clinton’s demise be it timely or untimely. This is just cheap journalism. How does Jesse Jackson get away with the threat of castrating the black presidential candidate Barack Obama on national television? Our national politics are bitter and twisted and beyond absurd, and like his politics or not Phil Gramm is right, we are a nation of whiners on both the left and right, and not far away from becoming 3rd world where your political opponent is truly your mortal enemy. Listen to talk radio or read the Huffpost. Tell a fellow American his politics is sick and he’s likely to express his right to bear arms and blow your head off for expressing your right to free speech. Regardless of what Jesse Helms stood for, when a progressive today labels someone else a homophobe or a racist or otherwise demands special treatment for their special interest group, a thinking American has to be skeptical about that political wrecked-em’s motives, and ask whether the progressive’s the real hypocritical bigot.
What does it mean to talk white? Speaking the Queen's English? Speaking like Steven Speiberg or Neil Young, the Canadian? Speaking like Tony Soprano or John Rambo? Speaking like Steve Irwin used to speak? Speaking like Bill Cosby? Or, to speak in an articulate and educated manner? If it's the latter, why would that be verboten for a biracial American, or even the blackest African American? Is speaking like 50 cent the way Obama ought to speak, to speak like an authentic black man? To be black is to always be angry and preachy? Go tell that to a Sri Lankan, they are as black as can be and speak English with an Indian accent.
Ralph Nader's proven he's become an idiot, and a racist. Go away, please. Won't Armenia or wherever you came from take you back?