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I say "yay immigrants!" too. I think it is a good thing that they have something to point to, especially since immigrants from Africa or Haiti (poorer nations where people of African descent live) are given a poor reception and the INS are much quicker to ship them home. They are victims of racism because immigrants from eastern Europe, Central and South America, and the Indian Sub-Continent are privilleged over them. It is good that they have a beacon of hope and perhaps the US government will not be so quick to toss immigrants from those countries out on their asses.
By the way, al-Zawahiri called Obama a "house negro," not an Uncle Tom. There is a subtle distinction, but the concept is pretty close. Yes, I find comedic value in it (not for the same reason you do) and, in all seriousness, I can see how they would see it that way.
The thing is that Obama is only different from McCain and Bush in that he says he wants to withdraw from Iraq. However, he still wants to invade another Muslim nation (Pakistan is a Muslim nation and launching air strikes into that country counts as an invasion), he wants to escalate the conflict in Afghanistan, and he pledges unwaivering support for Israel no matter what it does and shows no interest in punishing it for being an apartheid state. There is almost no daylight between those guys and their positions. I know that HRC believes the same things and I do not like her for it, but let's be honest.
We will have to agree to disagree on the rest.
