March 17, 2008

Obama's Taxicab

The famous Youtube clip of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright includes this:

“ Folks are hatin’ on Barack Obama. He doesn’t fit the mold, he ain’t white, he ain’t privileged. Hillary fits the mold. Europeans fits the mold. Giuliani fits the mold. Rich, white men fit the mold. Hillary never had a cab whiz past her and not pick her up because her skin is the wrong color."[Transcript at Chicago's 560 AM WIND]

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all our Irish-American and Irish readers. Mark Steyn has a post today on how the "No Irish Need Apply" signs "remembered" by anti-Nativist immigration enthusiasts are an urban myth, a subject covered previously on VDARE.com.

The Quotable Saul Alinsky

Saul Alinsky, famed radical community organizer in mid-20th-Century Chicago, figures prominently in Steve Sailer's current article on Barack Obama at VDARE.com's main page.

Obama Flew To D.C. To Attend Farrakhan's Million Man March

In a long article on the young Barack Obama in the Chicago Reader, December 8, 1995, as he was launching his political career, I found something I had not known before:

New York Times Blows Obama's Half-Brother Mark's Cover

In an asinine op-ed in the New York Times, "Obama's Brother in China," Roger Cohen reveals the location of Barack Obama's half-brother Mark, bragging: