Comments on: Video: Barack Obama slams “white executives” living out in the suburbs who do not want to pay taxes to inner city children”

By: AKD

AKD — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:00:45 +0000

It’ true that the editing seems pretty questionable (e.g., starting and ending portions of the clips in mid sentence). It’s like running a clip of McCain saying “…to redistribute the wealth…” and saying look! look! McCain is a socialist.

If someone can link to a full transcript of this talk, we can discuss it; otherwise, it looks to be a hatchet job…

By: Stinky Weaselteats

Stinky Weaselteats — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:01:14 +0000

Good lord: I cannot believe the sheer stupidity of that video. Does it occur to anyone that it is produced by the exact same type of person who puts out the hack-jobs on John Mccain? Think: endlessly repeating “John McCain stated the fundamentals of the economy are strong” without once exploring (or asking) exactly what he meant. I guess it is just too much trouble to go into any depth–much easier to splice together some clips. This kind of crap actually HELPS Obama–by completely discrediting his opposition.

By: snowy egret

snowy egret — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:35:50 +0000

Its quite plain that OBAMA IS A FLATLANDER and a city slicker he knows nothing about the rural part of america especialy when he gets the food he feeds his sorry face with

By: Pam

Pam — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:50:54 +0000

GKP,

Thanks for the links backing up your argument.

By: gkp

gkp — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:37:34 +0000

obvious hatchet edit job– weak attempt to start a controversy. so ignorant, doesn’t even understand the arguments that are included in the edited version that actually counters claims that this is racist against white people.

he argues for common ground between whites and black in the full clip; specifically, how the fate of the white person living in the suburbs is tied to the fate of the black kid in an underperforming urban school district.

and he says essentially that turmoil on africa CANNOT be blamed on white people, i.e., colonialism, and is instead a result of ethnic conflict, i.e., black on black repression, like that in bosnia and in gang-torn los angeles, i.e, black on black and brown on brown violence.

but, if the editing style is any indication, intellectual honesty is clearly not a priority for the manufacturers of this desperate, faux controversy.