Barack Obama's "Arab" Baggage
Sunday December 2, 2007
Imagine what it must be like for a man like Barack Hussein Obama, the Democratic senator from Illinois and one of the major candidates running for the 2008 presidency, to walk around with a pair of Arab names and 9% of his life having been lived in the world's most populous Muslim nation (Indonesia).
The name is a gift to those who relish demolishing him, not just as part of the usual political gamesmanship that happens with every election, but as a signpost to the limits of American tolerance.
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You conveniently left out the fact that Obama is more Arab than African. Maybe you mention it later but I’ll never know because I can’t read past this:
“Imagine what it must be like for a man like Barack Hussein Obama, the Democratic senator from Illinois and one of the major candidates running for the 2008 presidency, to walk around with a pair of Arab names and 9% of his life having been lived in the world’s most populous Muslim nation (Indonesia).”
You’re flatly incorrect, and obviously are more motivated by slander and prejudice than anything else. The only thing more African in Obama is his Americanism, which is indistinguishable from that of John McCain.
If someone were to come forward with a solution to our credit crisis, the last thing I’d ask him/her is nationality, religion, etc. I’m reminded every four years of the intellectual shortcomings of the partisans.
I am wondering why people think Obam is Arab?