Sunday, May 2, 2010

"O, Such Sad Deception"

By Eileen F. Toplansky

"As I read this book, I am constantly reminded of what I predict will be the end game for so many blacks who ardently believe in the promise of Barak Obama. They see in him a vindication of the bitterness of slavery, and of the denial of their civil rights up until recently. They see him as a natural result of the incredible work of Martin Luther King but it is not so. King was a unifier; Obama is divisive. But it is not only the many Black Americans who view Obama as the messiah. It is the many progressives who cannot see past his gibberish and, instead, deign him to be a gifted orator. Oprah Winfrey referred to Obama as "the One." Acknowledged anti-Semite, Louis Farrakhan also sees Obama as the deliverer. In a 2008 Washington Post interview, Joel Stein stated that "the messiah would make an excellent president.""

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