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(Some Guy)   Barack Obama tells NAACP not to be "bamboozled" by Bush; loses ground a few minutes later by proclaiming "Kid Rock fell on us"   (baltimoresun.com) divider line
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ChairmanKaga
2006-07-20 10:43:40 AM  
I don't get it?

/am I just too old to understand?
 
LarsThorwald
2006-07-20 10:48:21 AM  
I believe it is a reference to the statement by Malcolm X that "we didn't land on Plymouth Rock; Plymouth Rock landed on us!"

But, yeah, I'm still scratching my head at the joke in the headline.
 
gilgigamesh
2006-07-20 10:50:29 AM  
I don't get it either.

But I do get desperate election year GOP pandering, as I am sure does the NAACP.
 
gilgigamesh
2006-07-20 10:52:25 AM  
Ah, yeah that has to be it.

I still don't get the "Kid" part of the reference.

Is G Dubya banging Pam Anderson? He has Hep C? Help us out, eh, Submitter?
 
John Paul Jones
2006-07-20 10:53:15 AM  
Booo.
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2006-07-20 10:54:26 AM  
Seems to me that an African-American congressman who didn't really experience the ugliest parts of the civil rights movement does his pandering every bit as clumsily as a white guy trying to bridge the same cultural gap.
 
Logweasel
2006-07-20 10:59:13 AM  
Seems to me that an African-American congressman who didn't really experience the ugliest parts of the civil rights movement does his pandering every bit as clumsily as a white guy trying to bridge the same cultural gap.

Yeah, they totally fixed racism like, 30 years ago.
 
NikolaiFarkoff [TotalFark]
2006-07-20 10:59:36 AM  
We didn't land on Fraggle Rock, Fraggle Rock landed on us!

[image from wherearemytoys.com too old to be available]
 
Last One Left
2006-07-20 11:00:00 AM  
gilgigamesh: I still don't get the "Kid" part of the reference.

Isn't Kid Rock a Republican supporter?
 
gilgigamesh
2006-07-20 11:03:01 AM  
The CraneMeister

Obama may be pandering, but I have yet to see him do that or anything else clumsily. He is the anti-Bush.
 
Mr. Anon
2006-07-20 11:03:45 AM  
Last One Left: Isn't Kid Rock a Republican supporter?

I'm pretty sure he is.
 
gilgigamesh
2006-07-20 11:06:44 AM  
Last One Left

Ah. Seems you are correct.

Mystery solved.
 
schgsyi
2006-07-20 11:20:24 AM  
"...two Democratic senators urged yesterday that those attending the meeting to hold the administration accountable.."

That shiate just hurts my head. Where are the farking proofreaders?
 
Last One Left
2006-07-20 11:25:04 AM  
gilgigamesh: Mystery solved.

Meddling kids FTW!
 
NikolaiFarkoff [TotalFark]
2006-07-20 11:34:28 AM  
I still can't get over his name. It just sounds like Japanese for "The Black Bomber." For some reason, this is always entertaining to me.
 
MasterThief
2006-07-20 12:09:23 PM  
[image from img209.imageshack.us too old to be available]

/had to
 
ChairmanKaga
2006-07-20 12:56:57 PM  
I am still confused:

Is it proper for White people to question his "blackness"?

/I have NO idea what tribulations he has or has not been through, I cannot begin to judge this.
 
Jabber
2006-07-20 1:03:30 PM  
ChairmanKaga: Is it proper for White people to question his "blackness"?

It might just be me, but he reminds me a lot of Thomas Dubois from The Boondocks. I don't know if McGruder did that intentionally or not.
 
jarrett
2006-07-20 1:07:53 PM  
The CraneMeister: Seems to me that an African-American congressman who didn't really experience the ugliest parts of the civil rights movement does his pandering every bit as clumsily as a white guy trying to bridge the same cultural gap.

Yeah, just another case of a black leader pandering to black people by trying to advance legislation that's in the best interest of their community. It's so transparent!
 
RocketRod
2006-07-20 1:09:59 PM  
[image from haverford.edu too old to be available]
Seems to be good enough for the Quakers.
(Check the image's properties if you think I'm trolling.)
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2006-07-20 2:18:22 PM  
Logweasel: Yeah, they totally fixed racism like, 30 years ago.

Granted. Two questions, though:

1. How many African-Americans were in the Senate in, say, 1965?

2. How many times has Barack Obama been to jail/been beaten by cops/sat in the back of a bus/had a firehose turned on him/been attacked by police dogs/ran from a lynch mob?

Racism is never going to totally go away. But let's not pretend that things aren't infinitely better in the US.
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2006-07-20 2:20:01 PM  
The CraneMeister: things aren't infinitely better in the US

Pardon me--meant to say "better than they were in the US."
 
anal brazil men
2006-07-20 2:20:15 PM  
LarsThorwald: But, yeah, I'm still scratching my head at the joke in the headline.

I challenge you, sir, to think of a more appropriate name that ends with the word "rock."
 
bmasso
2006-07-20 2:45:15 PM  
NAACP to Bush : Come to our meeting & lets talk.

Bush to NAACP : OK

Obama to NAACP : Unacceptable. All your bases are belong to us.
 
AgeOfReason
2006-07-20 2:49:11 PM  
anal brazil men:

I challenge you, sir, to think of a more appropriate name that ends with the word "rock."

Fraggle: NikolaiFarkoff not me.
 
Car_Ramrod
2006-07-20 2:55:10 PM  
More like:

NAACP to Bush : Come to our meeting & lets talk.
Bush to NAACP : No
NAACP to Bush : Come to our meeting & lets talk.
Bush to NAACP : No
NAACP to Bush : Come to our meeting & lets talk.
Bush to NAACP : No
NAACP to Bush : Come to our meeting & lets talk.
Bush to NAACP : No
NAACP to Bush : Come to our meeting & lets talk.
Bush to NAACP : No
NAACP to Bush : Come to our meeting & lets talk.
Bush to NAACP : Hmmm....Republicans might lose control in midterm elections. This is a "great opportunity" to grab some of the black vote. OK

Obama to NAACP : Unacceptable. Bush is a huge d-bag.

/fixed that for ya
 
jer2911tx
2006-07-20 2:59:32 PM  
Senator Obama's latest photo op:

[image from maryhartz.com too old to be available]

Obama loses the moderate vote in 3...2...
 
nicinthewater
2006-07-20 3:00:27 PM  
I challenge you, sir, to think of a more appropriate name that ends with the word "rock."

[image from free2explore.com too old to be available]

/The
 
Techhell
2006-07-20 3:02:54 PM  
Hmm. According to that article, gilgigamesh, Kid Rock performing for the Republican Youth is grounds for leaving the Republican party...

If someone could swing Eminem to perform a duet with him, and bring Marilyn Manson along as a backup shock, maybe we can get the entire Republican party to leave itself?
 
Executive Monkey
2006-07-20 3:05:12 PM  
Did he instruct them on the difference between shiat and Shinola?
 
Miles D Davis Jr.
2006-07-20 3:05:49 PM  
this is playground shiat. They both want it renewed because it keeps all of the incumbents in office. All of this is just posturing that keeps people glued to the two party dichotomy that is ruining our country.

Booo...
 
bunnyThor
2006-07-20 3:10:41 PM  
anal brazil men: I challenge you, sir, to think of a more appropriate name that ends with the word "rock."

Chris?
 
Executive Monkey
2006-07-20 3:10:51 PM  
Car_Ramrod

This is a "great opportunity" to grab some of the black vote. OK

There is no way the GOP is going to make any gains with blacks in the next election, not after Katrina. Even before that incident approximately 90% of black voters chose Democrats. This year, and in 2008, it'll probably be more like 98%. I don't know why Bush is going, but if he thinks he'll get votes for Republicans he's wrong. It'll be like the funeral of Coretta Scott King - Bush, or at least his policies, will get lambasted by speaker after speaker.
 
MusicMakeMyHeadPound [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2006-07-20 3:14:47 PM  
01:09:59 PM RocketRod

That was such a weird movie. In the sense that I liked and hated it at the same time. Classic Spike Lee.
 
Car_Ramrod
2006-07-20 3:32:38 PM  
Yay! jer2911tx thinks all black people look alike!
 
bmasso
2006-07-20 3:33:16 PM  
Car_Ramrod ,
What's often forgotten is that Bush HAS addressed the annual NAACP meeting - when he was a candidate. They were polite enough to him at the time, but most every mention of Bush by the NAACP leadership since might as well have been scripted by the Democratic National Party.

Meeting them now - and in front of rolling cameras - seems unlikely to garner black votes already bought & paid for. ( Just like meeting Ms. Sheehan a second time seems unlikely to promote dialog, closure, or any other useful result.)

So not sure why he's addressing them again now - the same folks that think it's political discourse to accuse him of wanting Blacks killed aren't gonna open up their thinking process enough to allow themselves to consider any alternatives to the same policies (ie - Dem ones) that have kept ao many blacks stuck in the economic underclass for so long.

Well, Bush ain't running again, maybe he's planning on pulling a "Bullworth" and giving them some straight talk instead of the canned platitudes every other politician gives them.
 
lumberjackbreakfast
2006-07-20 3:50:33 PM  
Barack is not a tool and he is not pandering. He is stating the obvious: any gesture from the Bush administration at this point is likely to be hollow, and even if they can get him to act in their interests, how can they ignore the fact that Bush was dragging his feet on the way to the meeting.
 
DanUFfan
2006-07-20 4:19:00 PM  
Actually, it has been the Democratic Party that has been "bamboozling" minorities for years. Look at many of the Democratic "strongholds" and you will see that they are NOT the utopias that they want you to believe. Besides, how can you trust a party that has as one of its more powerful leaders a former KKK member, Robert Byrd.
 
HarryDeanStanton
2006-07-20 5:01:17 PM  
I thought that was a really funny headline. Kid Rock. Ha!
 
chaunceymo
2006-07-20 5:02:21 PM  
Re: the joke in the headline, I think it's just tacking on another semi-Spike Lee related quote (he directed Malcolm X too). Not all that funny, unless it's somehow more subtle than we're picking up on.

And DanUFfan, in spite of your excellent taste in sports teams, your statement is ridiculous. Robert Byrd is one of the few surviving members of the admittedly racist Dixiecrats, and one of the few who didn't bolt to the Republican party (a la Strom Thurmond or Jesse Helms) as soon as the Dems started embracing the civil rights movement. While I am not entirely comfortable with the average Democrat's motives in courting minorities (I think it's as much about vote whoring as actually caring about their situation), it's the end result that counts. Obama, I think it's safe to say, cares more than the average Democrat joe.
 
rppp01a
2006-07-20 5:22:22 PM  
Oops. I thought this was a reference to the 'racial draft' from the Chappell Show.
 
emilyek_1
2006-07-20 6:29:31 PM  
The NAACP will hate Bush if he talks or he doesn't.

Why get excited about that meeting?

So, make the speech anyway, and the first-generation american congressman-- the son of an African who abandoned him to his white american mother, no less-- will be cheered by the NAACP for calling you a liar. It's all a bunch of crap.
 
Logweasel
2006-07-20 6:31:35 PM  
The CraneMeister
1. How many African-Americans were in the Senate in, say, 1965?

I don't know that this was the best example to use. There were exactly 2 prior to 1965 (both during reconstruction - neither elected), and there have been only 3 more since 1965, all serving years apart: Edward Brooke (1967-1979), Carole Mosely Braun (1992-1999), and Barack Obama (2004-present).
 
nicinthewater
2006-07-20 7:56:54 PM  
emilyek_1
and the first-generation american congressman-- the son of an African who abandoned him to his white american mother, no less--


Oh the horror! Why do we let these people into our government?!


/Seriously, wtfwt?
 
Great Odins Raven
2006-07-21 4:36:39 AM  
So we have black democrats telling the NAACP not to think for themselves? Is this constructive, or an insult?

Idiots.
 
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