Have you ever wondered whether it’s at least possible that your dislike of Barack Obama might be driven by unexamined, unconscious racism? You can find out for sure one way or another in just a couple of seconds by taking this simple, quick, and one hundred percent accurate Racism Test.
I was kind of depressed this evening but this cracked me up (in a good way).
LOL! Before I clicked, I was tempted to say “I’m white. Therefore I’m racist.”
I still wanted to reach through the screen and place my hands on his shoulders and give him a massive head butt!
I ain’t no racist, but I don’t like no uppity college boys.
So, whats with Jimmy Carter anyways?
I must be getting old. I thought that was Alfred E Newman from Mad Magazine.
So THAT’s what a “mutt” looks like!
Joe, my comment here about a year ago, a black Alfred E Newman.
That’s worse, dammit!
This is the official one: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
I did it a while back. Turns out I’m not a racist, but I tend not to associate women with advanced abstract science – freakishly enough – and also, I don’t like old people. Go know.
Joe – didn’t know the name, but, yeah, me too.
the press turns toxic , although most of these moments were part of the lieberal MSM
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1929415,00.html
I’m surprised that no one’s yet mentioned, “What Me Worry”?
That Mad magazine concept may not strike a mental image in some, but it did in mine.
Subtle Photoshop massaging perhaps?
Must be my age, as I also thought it was Alfred E. Newman.
It is starting to look like Jimah might get bumped as the worst POTUS ever.
damn.. my first thought was also Alfred E. Neuman
Coif by Edwards, I think.
PiperPaul, yes
Hey, Black Mamba…if you’re still up, this old lady found a transcript and put the link up for you.
I was going to bed but after looking at the photoshopped Alfred E. Newman, I have to have a nightcap. That’s eerie.
Would Jesse Jackson have voted for him? Or Michelle married him?
With his gene pool, he could have looked exactly like that and we’d not be looking at the president.
Funny, the little twists of fate and their sad consequences.
Yes, it’s odd. Jimmy Carter/Obama/Mad Magazine Guy – weird.
Everyone should do that Harvard test, though. I’m pretty sure it’s complete bollux, but it’s fun.
Spitting image; Alfred E Neumann
Obama is a Hollywood Black, he is a white that hates his race….I often wonder how he reacts
when after a bad dream he wakes up in bed with a real Black “American” lady.. Cracker
I am still amazed people call the Owe “black”. His mum was caucasian, ergo he as as much “white” as he is “black”. Do his alledged supporters subscribe to the really racist attitude that “a touch of the tar brush” is all that is needed to be a Negro?
I don’t get it?
I took the test, and all I could see was a very astute young man that I wish my sister would date. What’s up?
Ladies and gentlemen. Please refrain from insulting Mr. Neumann.
O’whO narcissist*?
“Self-pity is a terribly unattractive quality.”
“Emanuel calls it “F***nutsville,”.
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“The Increasingly Self-Pitying Obama White House
Peter Wehner – 08.09.2010 – 3:59 PM
According to the preview offered by Vanity Fair:
[Todd] Purdum spends a day inside the West Wing and talks to Obama’s top aides, who tell him about the challenges of playing the Beltway game, ugly as it has become, even as their boss insists they find a way to transcend it.
“There’s a relentlessness to this that’s unlike anything else, especially when you come into office in a time of crisis,” says Obama senior adviser David Axelrod. “We did not exactly ease into the tub. The world is so much smaller, and events reverberate much more quickly, and one person can create an event so quickly from one computer terminal.”
Larry Summers, who served as Clinton’s Treasury secretary for the last 18 months of his term, says, “It used to be there was a kind of rhythm to the day” with the tempo picking up after the markets closed and as newspaper deadlines approached, between four and seven P.M. “That’s gone.” And, according to Rahm Emanuel, C.I.A. director Leon Panetta thinks “it’s a huge problem” that Washington runs at such “a highly caffeinated speed.”
Emanuel calls it “F***nutsville,” and Valerie Jarrett says she looks back wistfully to a time when credible people could put a stamp of reliability on information and opinion: “Walter Cronkite would get on and say the truth, and people believed the media,” she says.
It got so bad last December that President Obama and Emanuel would joke that, when it was all over, they were going to open a T-shirt stand on a beach in Hawaii. It would face the ocean and sell only one color and one size. “We didn’t want to make another decision, or choice, or judgment,” Emanuel tells Purdum. They took to beginning staff meetings with Obama smiling at Emanuel and simply saying “White,” and Emanuel nodding back and replying “Medium.”
I’ll reserve final judgment until I read the entire piece. But based on these excerpts — which presumably reflect the thrust of the 10,000-word article — what is striking is the degree of self-pity we find in Obama’s advisers, which is reflected in the president’s words and attitude as well. Team Obama sounds nothing so much as overmatched and overwhelmed, unable to understand what has gone wrong, and increasingly bitter toward the nation’s capital and the pace and nature of politics.
What we are seeing, I think, is a group of supremely arrogant people humbled by events. They are turning out to be a good deal more incompetent than they (and many Americans) ever imagined. They see impending political doom in the form of the midterm elections. Yet this is not leading them toward any apparent serious self-reflection; rather, they are engaging in an extraordinary degree of whining, finger-pointing, and self-indulgence.
It was said of President Kennedy that he was a happy president. “Happiness, [Kennedy] often said, paraphrasing Aristotle, is the full use of one’s faculties along lines of excellence, and to him the Presidency offered the ideal opportunity to pursue excellence,” Theodore Sorenson wrote in Kennedy. “He liked the job, he thrived on its pressures.”
One doesn’t get that sense with Obama or his key advisers. In 18 months they appear to have developed deep grievances and an increasing unhappiness and frustration with the duties of governing.
Life in the White House is challenging; anyone who has worked there can testify to that. And Washington, D.C., is certainly an imperfect city, as all are. But the impression Team Obama is trying to create — that no group has ever faced more challenges, more difficulties, or more hardships — is silly and somewhat pathetic. Politics is the worthiest ambition, wrote John Buchan (the author of JFK’s favorite book, Pilgrim’s Way); it is the greatest and most honorable adventure.
If Obama and his aides don’t see that or anything like that — if they view politics and governing only through a lens tinted by bitterness, frustration, and resentment — then it is time for them to step aside. If not, then they should man up. Self-pity is a terribly unattractive quality.”
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/wehner/338666
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“*Barack Obama – Narcissist or Merely Narcissistic?”
“Due to their lack of empathy, disregard for others, exploitativeness, sense of entitlement, and constant need for attention (narcissistic supply), narcissists are rarely able to maintain functional and healthy interpersonal relationships.
Many narcissists are over-achievers and ambitious. Some of them are even talented and skilled. But they are incapable of team work because they cannot tolerate setbacks. They are easily frustrated and demoralized and are unable to cope with disagreement and criticism. Though some narcissists have meteoric and inspiring careers, in the long-run, all of them find it difficult to maintain long-term professional achievements and the respect and appreciation of their peers. The narcissist’s fantastic grandiosity, frequently coupled with a hypomanic mood, is typically incommensurate with his or her real accomplishments (the “grandiosity gap”).”
http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-obama-elections
maggie’s farm?
‘they say sing while you slave but i just get bored.”
Man, I hate that guy’s hair.
The Puritans vs Dennis the Menace.
Batter up:
“Yogi Berra. I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I …”
(brainyquote)
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“White House unloads anger over criticism from ‘professional left’
By Sam Youngman – 08/10/10 06:00 AM ET
The White House is simmering with anger at criticism from liberals who say President Obama is more concerned with deal-making than ideological purity.
During an interview with The Hill in his West Wing office, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs blasted liberal naysayers, whom he said would never regard anything the president did as good enough.
“I hear these people saying he’s like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested,” Gibbs said. “I mean, it’s crazy.”
The press secretary dismissed the “professional left” in terms very similar to those used by their opponents on the ideological right, saying, “They will be satisfied when we have Canadian healthcare and we’ve eliminated the Pentagon. That’s not reality.”
Of those who complain that Obama caved to centrists on issues such as healthcare reform, Gibbs said: “They wouldn’t be satisfied if Dennis Kucinich was president.””
“Just last week, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow described Obama political adviser David Axelrod as a “human pretzel” for his explanation of the administration’s position on gay marriage. Axelrod had explained that Obama opposes same-sex marriage but favors equal benefits for partners in gay relationships.
Attacks from liberal political groups like the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC), which raises money for liberal candidates and causes, are also frustrating to the White House.”
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/113431-white-house-unloads-on-professional-left
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/08/09/beads-on-a-string/#comment-118678
If that’s Obama, he should part his hair on the left.
I hate Obama about the same as I hate my X-wife and I couldn’t possibly hate her more than I do without some sort of skin rash appearing … she’s white … so there, I am not racist.
Knight 99 do you really hate your sister that much?
“Knight 99 do you really hate your sister that much?”
Joe
No, no, no! He sees an “astute young man” there…In other words, he sees a clean hair cut smile in a fancy suit…No need to ask for credentials where just “hope” would suffice.
On Nov 2 2008, there was enough Knight 99’s out there to elect this “astute young man” unfortunately.
But – what if I’m black, and I dislike him being pictured as white. Wouldn’t I be racist?
norm
I have many friends that are half-casts, and some in my family. In each and every case, 100 percent of the time, they consider themselves black. Not white, not half, but black. When they walk into a shop or a restaurant NOBODY thinks “hey, there’s the half white guy”, ever.
For the record, I’m not supporting nor defending anyone or thing. I’m simply telling you how it is, like it or not.
Lying ego-maniacal communists are not a “race” so, no, my contempt for BO is purly political.
However I would nike to know if BO’s contempt for Tea Party people is race based.
Indy – it’s a little different in Britain, I think. My friend in England who’s half-black – quite dark, Indian-looking really – has only ever dated white guys and basically doesn’t really consider herself anything, apart from a brief sort of half-hearted poseur-y phase she went through at 19 or so.
You can probably get away with this if you’re middle-class enough. I think it’s healthy; people define themselves far too much by their ethnicity.
(Should you ever run into her, though, as unlikely as that may be, I wouldn’t call her a “half-caste” 🙂
I wonder how many people would have voted for Mr. Hopey Change if that was what he looked like? Who’s the racist now?
Is there a polite way to say anything regarding such a topic? My point is nobody will ever mistake you for white if you’re mixed (or whatever) and that’s likely why (or so I’m told) that whatchamacallit people don’t identify with whites. That said, I can’t speak to Europe; although, the black community does poke fun at European blacks, especially in black entertainment. It’s not considered very manly.
My kids are mixed for what it’s worth.
Ive come to terms with my inherent white racism. Projected at me from the haters of Humanity. Marxists who really do think others are superior.
Pretty hard to make the Human race divided when you believe God, that where all related & descended from a World flood. If not Two individuals before the Judgment. (O:}
I could care less what colour a leader is, but I extremely dislike, bordering on hate, Marxists of either the communist or fascist variety or clones of either.
Hey at least this “astute young man” knows that he could never win a presidential race against a black Obamba!
Hey at least this “astute young man” knows that he could never win a presidential race against a black Obamba!