Obama Quotes (not sure if true or not)...

[MistyWolf]

Not sure if this is true and I am not snooping it .. feel free if you want .. but, if it is true, something to think about .. I'll stick with McCain!



Think you know who this man is? The possible President of the United States ?? Read below and ask yourselves, is this REALLY someone we can see as the President of our great nation!!!! Below are a few lines from Obama's books; In his words!

From Dreams of My Father: 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.

From Dreams of My Father : 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.

From Dreams of My Father: 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.

From Dreams of My Father: 'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.

From Dreams of My Father: 'I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.

And FINALLY the Most Damming one of ALL of them!!!

From Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

[speedygirl]

They're taken out of context. I read the book and if you read those statements with the rest of the paragraphs, that is not the meaning. It was about a young person's feelings growing up as a biracial child and struggling with his feelings and trying to find his ethnic identity.It talked about the feelings he felt as a youth at times, when he wasn't accepted by either community as being black or white.
It was trying to push the point of how the race issues growing up drove him to a life of service.

[Njean31]

Love the last one. taken out of context or not..........that scares me.

[speedygirl]

Love the last one. taken out of context or not..........that scares me.

Here's the context in which it was written, as you can see it was definitely misrepresented. Nothing scary about the fact that he would stand up for our citizens regardless of their faith. ;

"I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
This is a corruption of a quote from Obama's book The Audacity of Hope. It is from a section that talks about the concerns of immigrants who are American citizens.

Here is the accurate and more complete quote: "Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific assurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."

[cSoReNSoN]

They're taken out of context. I read the book and if you read those statements with the rest of the paragraphs, that is not the meaning. It was about a young person's feelings growing up as a biracial child and struggling with his feelings and trying to find his ethnic identity.It talked about the feelings he felt as a youth at times, when he wasn't accepted by either community as being black or white.
It was trying to push the point of how the race issues growing up drove him to a life of service.

Exactly! I, too, have read the book.

[janelle]

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