a post mocking sexism---and they all jump on like crickets!

Forum Name General Discussion: Primaries
Topic subject OUTRAGEOUS! Obama sexism runs rampant in big speech!
Topic URL http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5140803#5140803
5140803, OUTRAGEOUS! Obama sexism runs rampant in big speech!
Posted by reflection on Tue Mar-18-08 02:08 PM

It took me a few minutes to realize how close I came to being fooled - but the scales have fallen from my eyes and thank goodness, I can see this misogynistic charlatan for what he is. I submit the following excerpts as proof:

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This time we want to talk about the men and women of every color and creed who serve together, and fight together, and bleed together under the same proud flag. We want to talk about how to bring them home from a war that never should’ve been authorized and never should’ve been waged, and we want to talk about how we’ll show our patriotism by caring for them, and their families, and giving them the benefits they have earned.

I would not be running for President if I didn’t believe with all my heart that this is what the vast majority of Americans want for this country. This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected. And today, whenever I find myself feeling doubtful or cynical about this possibility, what gives me the most hope is the next generation – the young people whose attitudes and beliefs and openness to change have already made history in this election.

There is one story in particularly that I’d like to leave you with today – a story I told when I had the great honor of speaking on Dr. King’s birthday at his home church, Ebenezer Baptist, in Atlanta.

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(Note the first letters of each paragraph. He is making a thinly-veiled reference to a 'tit'. Clearly a sexist male code word for his woman-hating supporters. BUT WAIT, there's more)

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But the remarks that have caused this recent firestorm weren’t simply controversial. They weren’t simply a religious leader’s effort to speak out against perceived injustice. Instead, they expressed a profoundly distorted view of this country – a view that sees white racism as endemic, and that elevates what is wrong with America above all that we know is right with America; a view that sees the conflicts in the Middle East as rooted primarily in the actions of stalwart allies like Israel, instead of emanating from the perverse and hateful ideologies of radical Islam.

As such, Reverend Wright’s comments were not only wrong but divisive, divisive at a time when we need unity; racially charged at a time when we need to come together to solve a set of monumental problems – two wars, a terrorist threat, a falling economy, a chronic health care crisis and potentially devastating climate change; problems that are neither black or white or Latino or Asian, but rather problems that confront us all.

Given my background, my politics, and my professed values and ideals, there will no doubt be those for whom my statements of condemnation are not enough. Why associate myself with Reverend Wright in the first place, they may ask? Why not join another church? And I confess that if all that I knew of Reverend Wright were the snippets of those sermons that have run in an endless loop on the television and You Tube, or if Trinity United Church of Christ conformed to the caricatures being peddled by some commentators, there is no doubt that I would react in much the same way

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(again, look at the first letter of each paragraph. How many times have you heard the term 'bag lady' or 'that old bag'. This is outrageous! Blatant sexism, for sure. But we're not done yet. Here is the worst offending excerpt.)

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And Ashley said that when she was nine years old, her mother got cancer. And because she had to miss days of work, she was let go and lost her health care. They had to file for bankruptcy, and that’s when Ashley decided that she had to do something to help her mom.

She knew that food was one of their most expensive costs, and so Ashley convinced her mother that what she really liked and really wanted to eat more than anything else was mustard and relish sandwiches. Because that was the cheapest way to eat.

She did this for a year until her mom got better, and she told everyone at the roundtable that the reason she joined our campaign was so that she could help the millions of other children in the country who want and need to help their parents too.

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(You read it right. ASS! This is a clear sign that, if elected, Barack Obama would take his advice and direction, not from Jeremiah Wright, but from Sir Mix-A-Lot. He likes big butts, and he cannot lie, but OBAMA can. You other brothers can't deny.)

You may think you are flying under the radar, Mr. Obama (if that IS your real name), but I'm on to you. I'll not stop until I expose your filthy, sexist tripe for EVERYONE to see.

(edit for spelling)