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FROM 2012 INTO 2013 POLITICS THREAD

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Moderator1, Sep 21, 2012.

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  1. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    Don't ever take that smug tone with me again.
    If this is what you believe, I'm not the stupid one:


     
  2. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    How do you explain these articles, all published about the same time as that bio, saying he was born in Hawaii?
    The new president of the Review is Barack Obama, a 28-year-old graduate of Columbia University who spent four years heading a community development program for poor blacks on Chicago's South Side before enrolling in law school. His late father, Barack Obama, was a finance minister in Kenya and his mother, Ann Dunham, is an American anthropologist now doing fieldwork in Indonesia. Mr. Obama was born in Hawaii. The New York Times, Feb. 6, 1990


    Born in Hawaii to the late Barack Obama, once a finance minister in Kenya, and Ann Dunham, an American anthropologist, Obama went to Columbia University before moving to Chicago to work as a community organizer. Chicago Tribune, February 07, 1990

    His own upbringing is a blending of diverse cultures. Born in Hawaii, where his parents met in college, Obama was named Barack (blessed in Arabic) after his father. The elder Obama was among a generation of young Africans who came to the United States to study engineering, finance and medicine, skills that could be taken back home to build a new, strong Africa. In Hawaii, he married Obama's mother, a white American from Wichita, Kan. LA Times, March 19, 1990

    Born in Hawaii -- his late father, Barack Obama Sr. was a Kenyan finance minister and his mother Ann Dunham, is an American anthropologist -- Columbia College Today, Fall 1990

    At the head of this effort [Project Vote] was a little-known 31-year-old African-American lawyer, community organizer, and writer: Barack Obama. The son of a black Kenyan political activist and a white American anthropologist, Obama was born in Hawaii, received a degree in political science and English literature from Columbia University, and, in 1990, became the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review. In 1984, after Columbia but before Harvard, Obama moved to Chicago. Chicago Magazine January 1993
     
  3. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    Don't you sass me in my house, potato bitch.
     
  4. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    Man, they've got their talking points down, I'll give them that.
     
  5. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    Don't ever talk to me like that again.
     
  6. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Different audience, different message.

    Is this hard to understand?

    He may not have ever pushed the idea that he was born in Kenya, but he certainly didn't make sure it was corrected when others presented him in that manner.
     
  7. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    How do you know he even saw it?
     
  8. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    Put me on ignore and shut it, dipshit.
    You're beginning to really bore me.
     
  9. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    They worked on his behalf.
     
  10. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    Fuck you.
     
  11. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    Stand in line.
     
  12. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    Not my problem this makes sense to you:


    Shouldn't you be harassing some people who lost their kids in the Sandy Hook shootings?
     
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