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Obama trashing his grandmother again? Update: Audio link added

By Michelle Malkin • March 20, 2008 08:35 AM

Update: Audio here.

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Reader Edward e-mails:

This morning (Thursday 3/20/08) on WIP AM 610 Sports Radio in Philadelphia, host Angelo Cataldi interviewed Senator Obama. During the beginning of the segment (about 07:40 AM) Mr. Cataldi asked the Senator about his comments on Tuesday regarding his “white” grandmother. I am paraphrasing here, but his response was something like “She is a typical white person who fears people on the street.”

Please try to obtain a tape of the segment and listen to it yourself, but if I heard this correctly, it was another look at who this guy really is.

Hope the radio station posts the audio. Here’s 610’s site.

If this is how Obama responds when he’s “shaken up,” God help us if he’s in the White House during the next terrorist attack or international crisis.

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#270003

On March 20th, 2008 at 5:49 pm, Salt said:

lgm said:

emjem24 said (#183):

Your take that Obama was somehow right about the whole thing screams Monday morning quarterbacking.

Except that he said it before the kickoff. The guy who was right might have something to say to the guy who was wrong.

I believe you missed emjem24’s point. Sen. Obama was not a U.S. Senator when the decision to go to war was made. He was not reading the same reports the President and Congress were reading.

So what was Obama’s reasoning based on? Is he an Oracle?

Anyone can hazard guesses and be right without having any of the real data points in front of them. That does not mean they are a great thinker. In fact, his element of risk in being wrong was so minimal, he had nothing to lose in making it. (…and, I say this while presuming you have some evidence to back it up that he was as clear and concise as you claim he was. To be honest, I really don’t care what a state senator thought during the time because he did not have any stake in the game.)

I bet before the 2008 season that New England would lose the Super Bowl, but that doesn’t make me a football genius. It also doesn’t mean that I should be giving Bill Belichick advice. (OT- but figured I’d continue with the football theme.)
#270005

On March 20th, 2008 at 5:55 pm, yohannbiimu said:

BTW, if current polls are any indication about how the Democrat opinions are headed, Obama is beginning to tank, his “wonderful speech” notwithstanding.

Barack Obama cannot withstand ANY examination or scrutiny, because there’s nothing of substance there! He’s lied a number of times regarding the troubles regarding his freaking CHURCH! A guy’s CHURCH shouldn’t be such a huge issue, it it IS!

What about his associations with Black Panther members? What about his association with William Ayres of the “Weather Underground”? What about what is coming out about his association with Tony Rezko?

Obama’s history is coming out regarding QUESTIONABLE associations with RADICAL, EXTREMIST people, and of POOOR JUDGEMENT. What we know now is only the beginning. Just a cursory examination of this man shows without a doubt that Mr. Obama is a terrible presidential candidate. If what was known about him now was known back in 2004, he wouldn’t even be a senator.
#270020

On March 20th, 2008 at 6:19 pm, rooster said:

Absolutely scary to think how many black churches there are that have taken the place of the KKK.

When was the last time anyone heard a klan meeting secretly taped?????

The Klan is a disgusting part of our past, they are no longer relevant in the United States. If the numbers of lynchings and murders committed by the klan were historically documented, Americans would see that it was not just blacks being terrorized, but also members of the Republican party.

Let’s not forget the democrat party for forming the KKK shortly after we won the Civil War.

Black Theology is alive and thriving with a free pass from all the media and white guilt apologists cowards.

Frightening to think that this vile hatred of whites and the US is acceptable in the year 2008.
#270028

On March 20th, 2008 at 6:33 pm, shooter said:

Obama , lower than dirt and gramma throwing fool has YET to say he LOVES his grandma…the white one.
He professes his love for black pastor Wright, the ‘GD’ hater from Chicago, his love for all of the black community, but not a KIND word about the man and woman who gave him his start.
Still. not a word.
With out those two loving grandparents, he would be nowhere, stuck in Indonesia with a lousy education and stuck with his OBAMA BLOOD and all of its hate.
DONE DEAL, B. HUSSEIN, step away please.
#270034

On March 20th, 2008 at 6:50 pm, AlohaGuy said:

My hope is that most Black Churches are busy loving their neighbors. But it’s hard to shrug off Obama’s 20 year association with a church that preaches that the government infected Black people with AIDS. It’s not some youthful mistake he learned from and then moved on. This is agreement with, and association with, a trusted mentor – and with what little we actually know about Obama (thank you MSM for your stupidity and cupidity) it’s especially troubling.
#270044

On March 20th, 2008 at 7:12 pm, Jim M. said:

I wonder what Obama will say about his Church being the voice of Hamas in Chicago?
#270046

On March 20th, 2008 at 7:15 pm, slp said:

Obama’s continuing association with Rev. Wright and Obama’s statement that his grandmother is the “typical white person” clearly demonstrate that Obama is not the post-racial messiah.

Obama is a black racist just like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Jeremiah Wright, Jr., and the other black racists who developed in the 1960’s, 1970’s, 1980’s and have never moved beyond.
#270053

On March 20th, 2008 at 7:38 pm, tgusa said:

We can thank lgm for giving us a partial list of democrat atrocities perpetuated on blacks for over a century. I demand a formal apology from them followed by a stern spanking! If they keep up this game of two card monty they are going to end up even worse off than they the dems already are. These people never get it lies can be uncovered, you know, it’s called the internet. You don’t fight a war on a budget and we all know that modern dems never saw an enemy they didn’t want to surrender to. If dems had put half as much effort into winning in Iraq as they did hounding blacks we would be just about done right now. I know I know they wish it were the sixties again where lies were easy to get away with. But it isnt Bwhahahahaha.

More democrat fun facts… the Party of the Ku Klux Klan, the party that used fraud, whippings, lynching, murder, intimidation, and mutilation to get the black vote, and passed the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws which legalized racial discrimination and denied blacks their rights as citizens, the Party of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Harry Truman who rejected anti-lynching laws and efforts to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission. Whats not to like?
All info courtesy of furtheradventuresofindigored.blogspot.com go and take the quiz yourselves there is some other interesting info there as well. And if you have a chance send McCain over there he seems not to know the history of his own party. What a freaking suprize!
#270067

On March 20th, 2008 at 8:32 pm, JWS said:

This is quite disturbing. Why are none of the conservative talkies brave enough to proclaim B. Hussein the racist that he is? The idiot voluntarily attended a “church” whose whole reason for being is racist, for 20 years, and is unashamedly a “spiritual” disciple of a shameless racist “pastor” who openly admires sub-humans like Farrakhan. I’m still reading articles where the author feels, for some reason (of course I know why), the need to preface everything with “now I don’t personally believe that Obama actually feels the same way as Wright….” Obama is a racist. Nothing will ever be accomplished if Whites are too afraid to identify the obvious and state it out loud. Pathetic…
#270114

On March 20th, 2008 at 11:02 pm, Ombre Rose said:

On March 20th, 2008 at 8:44 am, orlandocajun said:
I wonder how many white people, when asked, would say that they have no problem walking through a black neighborhood? That doesn’t make grandma a racist/bigot. That makes her sane. Maybe Obama should be giving grandma credit for his intellect instead of calling her a bigot.

Ditto for BLACK people in a black neighborhood – since there is statistically more Black on Black crime than Black on White, or anything else.

I mean, if Jesse Jackson feels a sense of relief and safety if it is a White person he heard behind him, and he looks like a pretty sturdy, substantial character who should be able to take care of himself! …

BTW, I’ve never BEEN IN a church in my entire LIFE that gave out ANY excuses for ANY sins, much less CRIMES.

I still am shocked that I am not hearing more from anyone out there in leadership positions denouncing a “PREACHER” who rails against THE THREE STRIKES LAW as a reason for their culture’s ills!!!
#270120

On March 20th, 2008 at 11:40 pm, ttevolla said:

If we can’t feed the trolls then can we at least tag them in the ears and put radio tracking collars on them?
#270121

On March 20th, 2008 at 11:45 pm, 29Victor said:

That’s a great picture. I can just hear grandpa whispering in Barry’s ear: “Okay, I got my eye out for the bus. When I tap your leg, push her.”
#270122

On March 20th, 2008 at 11:53 pm, 29Victor said:

…but seriously.

I don’t know if it was an accidental slip or not, but I do know that there is a large number of racial minorities who, after Obama’s “slip,” said “yes” and “hallelujah,” just like Rev. Wright’s flock in those videos.

Of course, now Obama will come out and correct himself, or his campaign will issue a statement, and all will be forgiven. But the people who said “yes” will hear that correction with a wink and a nod. They will have had their stereotype reinforced and know (or at least believe) that Obama knows the “truth” about whites.
#270143

On March 21st, 2008 at 5:13 am, secondsight said:

Someone needs to point to the Obama that you’re just as dead no matter whether or not you can/did say the n-word out loud. Just ask the UNC class president. Oh, you can’t. She was killed by a
#270147

On March 21st, 2008 at 5:25 am, graysonret said:

Why is it that Obama condemns people like Don Imus, yet sits there and accepts vitriol from a radical pastor named “Wright”? He was one of the first to call for Imus’s resignation, in between Sunday sermons of racial hate and divide. A big double standard and hypocrisy.
#270150

On March 21st, 2008 at 5:33 am, Prime Director said:

Barry O the snow blower has no idea how hard it must have been back in the 1970’s for an older white woman to raise her daughter’s black son.

Fast forward 30 years: Reverend Wright screws the pooch for Barry and he throws his (white devil) GRANNY under the bus. Wow. What a cold hearted b*stard.

Hey, Barry: Nanna says thanks for the road rash.
#270164

On March 21st, 2008 at 7:52 am, mytake said:

Oh Obama, I know just how you feel about your typical white grandmother. I have a few black friends and some Jewish ones too! Obama, your name is Hypocrit.
#270174

On March 21st, 2008 at 9:02 am, gunslingerpatriot said:

graysonret-
Don’t you understand that liberal black people cannot be racist because they can hear the words and yet not internalize them. /sarc on

Either its racism or its not. The sad thing is that the black victimcrats don’t want true equality because their bennies will have to end. The worse part of it is that this deminishes the accomplishments blacks that are striving, succeeding, and acheiving with the same brush.

If people think that this is harsh-Check out the comments that are made consistently about Madame Condolessa Rice, Justice Clarence Thomas, and Rep J.C. Watts among others.

OT: Mayor Willie Herenton is resigning effectively July 1, 2008

GSP
#270175

On March 21st, 2008 at 9:07 am, rooster said:

King Willie of Memphis.

What did he get caught doing?
#270177

On March 21st, 2008 at 9:15 am, governmentdrone said:

lgm,

Thanks for at least responding with an issue – however cliched your arguments might be.

Let’s look at some facts surrounding the run-up to the war in Iraq:

FACT: Iraq was in violation of multiple UN resolutions, as well as the terms of surrender surrounding the 1991 Gulf War. They had been in violation of those terms for most of the Clinton administration. Clinton chose to do NOTHING about those violations – which included attacks on monitoring fly-over missions by US forces. These violations alone were just cause to resume hostilities against Iraq and the Saddam Hussein regime.

FACT: These violations were cited by the Bush administration as the primary reasons for the invasion of Iraq, along with several others, all of which were substiantiated by intelligence by not only the US, but Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union.

FACT: The liberal mantra that “the only reason Bush chose to go to Iraq was the ‘non-existant’ WMD’s is simply not true. In multiple speeches given in the run-up to invasion, the President stated repeatedly as many as fifteen (15) different reasons for the need for military action. The possible presence of WMD’s (based on intelligence from ALL of the above stated countries) was usually reason number 12 or 13 given. Also low on that list was the fact (yes FACT) that elements of A.Q. were in Iraq, either in hiding or in training. Why don’t more people remember this? Go back and check for yourself. Most of the President’s speeches simply were not covered in their entirety by any outlets other than C-SPAN or Fox News. Just about everybody else carried snippets of the speeches, in which they cherry picked what was said and packaged it so as to make it appear that the only reasons we were getting ready to go to war was to “get the WMD’s and root out A.Q. in Iraq.”

When you get hit over the head with it presented that way 90 times a day over the airwaves and by the print media, you start believing it. Too bad too few people actually remember what was said – and too bad that the Bush administration wasn’t more vocal defending itself. They have nobody to blame but themselves for that.

We could debate the run-up to the war all day long, but why? That’s in the past. The question before us is what do we do now? That’s what I’m interested in. Hillary and BHO want out – in a hurry. My feeling is that the consequences for that would be disasterous, therefore, I can not in good conscience vote for either of them based on that issue.

And don’t come back with the argument you laid out in your last post. That has been refuted, pretty well I might add, by at least a couple of other posters here. BHO was a state senator from Illinois. He had no “dog in the fight”, nor did he have access to any of the intel. Those that did (including HRC, John Kerry, and most prominent Democrats) agreed with the Bush administration and voted to authorize hostilities against Iraq. BHO was doing NOTHING MORE than saying what his constituents wanted to hear, and that is nothing more than political opportunism.

Let’s turn to domestic policy. As I stated yesterday, I will fight as hard as I can AGAINST anybody who proposes any type of single payer, socialized medicine scheme. Period.

Both candidates on the Democrat side would also call for and try to implement larger versions of Lyndon Johnson’s (a Democrat) Great Society welfare state. After 40+ years of it, you can see the results: more people on welfare, that same welfare state contributing to the undermining of the black family unit in this country, failed “housing projects” – the list goes on and on. How much is too much? I say 40+ years is enough to establish that the Democrat experiment with a welfare state is too much. The road to socialism needs to be abandoned – not expanded.

You can call it what you want, but it’s still socialism. And that goes against everything that America was founded to be.

And that’s the reason why I CAN NOT vote for either HRC or BHO.
#270184

On March 21st, 2008 at 9:40 am, rooster said:

governmentdrone,

Americans are ignorant of facts because facts get in the way of the MSM’s agenda.

We will never get our citizenry informed as long as the media is allowed to be so biased and hateful of capitalism.
#270200

On March 21st, 2008 at 10:02 am, governmentdrone said:

One correction to my post #207. Should say “Russia” instead of “Soviet Union”. I plead being old enough that it was the Soviet Union for most of my adult life – old habits and all that.

rooster: Too true. Nor will the Republican party get a decent candidate as long as we let the MSM get away with picking it for us. That’s what makes me laugh so hard at all of the angst in the MSM and with the Democrats over Limbaugh’s “Operation Chaos”. Their claims of foul play because Republicans “dared” to cross over and vote in Democrat primaries, when they did the same damn thing to us in the early primaries and chose McCain for us as our nominee. However, the Republicans could have averted this disaster if one, ONE, clearly conservative candidate had run – or distinguished him/her self early enough to give us a clear choice.

Hopefully some lessons were learned . . .
#270208

On March 21st, 2008 at 10:12 am, txvet2 said:

On March 20th, 2008 at 1:57 pm, lgm said:

How many people here work for Clinton? You’ve spend the last week doing nothing but throwing what monkeys throw at Obama.

Normally I wouldn’t bother responding to a day-old post, but since it’s addressed to me…. This is a blog message board. It isn’t a national forum, nor is it generally quoted extensively in the media. We are REACTING to the story, not producing it. And we reserve the right under the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States to speak our minds on the subject, even as you do.
#270217

On March 21st, 2008 at 10:23 am, rooster said:

governmentdron,

I was stationed in Berlin for 3 years on the inside of the wall and know the soviet style all too well. East Berlin was a propaganda festival railin against the west and our way of life.

Exactly like the modern democrat
#270243

On March 21st, 2008 at 10:46 am, governmentdrone said:

rooster:

Too true.

And thanks for your service. I was about 12 or 13 when the Vietnam War ended – my childhood was pretty polluted by the hippie generation, which unfortunately left me going through my teen years with disdain for the idea of military service. I thank God that I was able to overcome the influence of so much liberalism in my youth. Ronald Reagan won the Presidency at just the right time, not only for me, but for a lot of my generation.

Possibly my biggest regret in life is that I chose not to join the service when I was a young man just out of high school – but it left me with an undying appreciation of those that did choose that path of service.
#270246

On March 21st, 2008 at 10:51 am, mdt said:

Must say the quality & tenor of the discussion here is excellent! This is my support group to survive the constant spins put out by the TV pundits (I gave up on newspapers already).

To me, it is clear we have done a massive social experiment in last 40 years – the 100 mil mostly non-white immigrants who came here and did not subscribe to the victim mentality succeeded in all fields from medicine to construction. Whereas the native-born minorities who were conditioned to think the “Wright way” gave up all the economic opportunities that were right around them. Their leaders had this idea of a ‘rainbow coalition’ which was ridiculous as each individual & group succeeds or fails on their own merits and drive.
#270252

On March 21st, 2008 at 10:56 am, rooster said:

I’m in the same boat as you, I thought I was going to be going to Nam as soon as I graduated in 78. I wasn’t big on the military, but a couple years after high school I joined and am glad I did.

Reagan loved the military. I knew when Clinton took over, we were going to be hit hard, and we were. If a liberal gets back in, they will tear down the military as much as they can get away with, just like Clinton did.
#270266

On March 21st, 2008 at 11:07 am, Dimsdale said:

Obama, like Halle Berry, is half white.

What happened to that half? Why are they considered “black” celebrities? Why is the white half discounted or even ignored?

Is the fact that Obama’s black half is trying to get rid of his white half (and associations) indicative of how he would function as president?

That, and his association with a known racist preacher gives one pause.
#270287

On March 21st, 2008 at 11:22 am, governmentdrone said:

rooster,

The shame of it is, after the liberals get through gutting our armed forces it makes it that much harder for a conservative to build them back up. And then they take the heat for “not having adequate forces” to take care of all the problems that crop up that, quite frankly, we MUST take care of.

We hear from the liberals that conservatives simply “don’t understand” just about anything. Unfortunately, we do understand how the liberal mind thinks – and that’s why we see it as something that must be fought . . . “enemies both foreign and domestic”.
#270390

On March 21st, 2008 at 12:47 pm, slp said:

Prior to his speech on Monday, Barack Obama presented himself as the post racial messiah.

In the speech, he tried to minimize and obscure the truth. For 20 years, he has been a member of the congregation lead by a black racist. Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr., preaches black liberation theology. The racist rants are not mere snippets. The hate of white corporate America and continuing oppression and victimization of black America are core beliefs of Rev. Wright.

If Obama has moved beyond the hate to the post racial nirvana, why are Obama, his wife, and two children in the pew every Sunday listening to the hate of blacks who are mired in the 60s and 70s?

What is the character of Obama who holds his white grandmother, who raised him from age 10, up to ridicule?

Two impudent questions are:

How black is Barack Obama?

When did Barack Obama become black?

By age 2, Obama’s black father and ultra-liberal, white mother had separated.

Nonetheless, according to his memoir, Dreams of My Father, his mother taught him about his black American and African heritage.

From age 6-10, he was living with his mother and her second husband and going to school in Jakarta, Indonesia.

At 10, he returned to Honolulu, lived with his white, middle class, grandparents, and attended the private Punahou School. He writes in the memoir that the majority of the students were Asian American and he was one of three black students.

While he lived in a white, middle class, home in Honolulu, it was at the Punahou School that Obama first became conscious of racism and what it means to be an African-American.

The reality is that Obama is trying to live a double life. To white liberals he is the post racial messiah. The purpose of the speech on Monday was to confirm to white liberal Democrats that Obama has moved beyond racism. His continuing attendance at Trinity United Church of Christ is to prove to black America that Rev. Wright is still his mentor and Obama believes the hate that Rev. Wright preaches.
#270508

On March 21st, 2008 at 2:37 pm, Blind_Mule said:

Dr. Lead Based Paint said:
I guess my broad educational and career experience has set me apart from some of you ordinary peons who spew your racial hatred on this web site.

Oh, wise white man please tell us more of your revelations and rise above us all for our lack of education, so we may know the truth of our inequities.

The coalition of races against blacks here has been formed completely out of ignorance. Do you not realize that the black community has some unique cultural aspects to it?

Oh educated one forgive us for our ignorance, we do not know the cultural aspects that you speak of and will not unless we learn from your vast pool of knowlege.

Do you not realize that hundreds of years of oppression and mistreatment have something to do with their cultural differences?

Oh one of realization, I do not know of any race that has suffered so much oppression, the members of my indian ancestors have lied of the white man taking our land and our dignity, my ancestors can not be trusted to tell the truth of our plight.

Now, some of you actually seem to believe that because you are a non-black that you are in a position to judge black people because you are from a “proper” background.

Let us bow to you oh eruditios one we have only lived pristine lives of luxury, we know nothing and with out your superior intelligence we will not know of what we speak.

How many of you have actually attended a predominately black church? During my esteemed career, I have been a member of several ALL black churches where I was the ONLY white person there.

Oh esteemed one tell us more of our lack of experience with the black community so we too may be the only white in the pews.

I have worshiped with them, lived among them, and I have accepted them as my brothers and sisters: fellow citizens. I have learned to understand much of their thought patterns and thus I understand much of their culture. Black folks are just as much Americans (unless they happen to be illegal aliens) as all of us (unless YOU are an illegal alien).

Oh, omnipotent one you have more experience than any of us here, please teach us master.

So how about knocking off the persecution of our fellow Americans and get off your “non-black” supremacist high-horse and start addressing the real issues that are in play?

We will persecute our fellow citizens no more, we will look to you for guidance in all matters and will seek your permission before we state our misguided opinions.
#270559

On March 21st, 2008 at 3:35 pm, Dimsdale said:

On March 20th, 2008 at 3:54 pm, Dr. Lead Based Paint said:

Hey! Now that you all have spoken, I think I’m right! I am not only more intelligent than you, but – based on general principle – I am better than you!

Now, back to my original point: you unfairly judge Black people because you have zero perspective on their culture and heritage. You do not consider that they might think differently from you. This is because you are non-black race supremacists who think that everyone should think and act like you.

Let go of all these trumped up accusations against Obama’s preacher. He’s a Man of God just as much as any other preacher is, so leave him alone.

And yet, it is acceptable for Wright and Obama to judge whites as “typical white people,” right? How can they make judgements, blanket ones at that, about whites when they have “zero perspective on their culture and heritage?” Might they not “think differently” from Obama and Wright? Or is it because they are “non-white race supremacists who think that everyone should think and act like them?

Funny how the same can be said of them from a white perspective, isn’t it?

As for “trumped up,” if the infamous Wright sermons were just aberrations, so atypical of his real thoughts and beliefs, 1why did they feel the need to publish them on DVD for your viewing pleasure? Someone claiming to be a man of God ought to act like one. Not a lot to ask.

And why is Obama more black than white? Is it his melanin content? If so, that is racist on its face (no pun intended).

Why is it that if you are critical of Obama, it can only be because he is (half) black? Isn’t that a racist conclusion? Why can’t he just be a wrongheaded, vacuous, bloviating politician?

Is it a coincidence that lead in paint was used as a white base component?
#271304

On March 23rd, 2008 at 5:42 pm, garyt said:

Sorry for being so late LGM but I never heard Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton and now this Wright guy preach the true gospel of Christ. I have heard preachers personally for years that I know who are not saved. They never mention redemtpion,sin, heaven and hell. They are so involved in wordly affairs that they never mention the spiritial side. When Wright and the others make an Alter call to Christ then I will concede your point.