The Obamas: Portrait of an American Family
Gwen IfillSoon we will vote for our next president, and for the first time in history, one of the two candidates is a Black man. For a year, Essence pursued an interview with the entire Obama family‹to no avail. Finally, this summer ESSENCE became the only Black media outlet allowed a glimpse into the lives of Barack, Michelle and their two girls, Malia and Sasha, when we were invited to their South Side Chicago home. Weeks later, veteran political journalist Gwen Ifill was with the family as they campaigned in a small mostly White western town, and she flew with them to a Black church in the urban Midwest.
Sounds like a real scoop.
Barack Obama is sitting in the back of his rented luxury campaign bus with its granite counters and two flat-screen TVs. The Illinois senator’s arms are wrapped around his wife, Michelle, whom he doesn’t get to see much these days. At this very moment he is, of all things, singing.
Etc.
No wonder she’s going to ask these questions:
Mayor Palin, Barack Obama is a handsome, charismatic demigod. How many boxes of Kleenex will you need after your crushing loss?
Senator Biden, what is your favorite color? And if you have time for a follow-up question: Why?
Mayor, you talk funny and you own a tanning bed. Why haven’t you released Trig’s birth certificate?
Senator, have you seen those pictures of Obama in his swim trunks? If not, I have them right here.
Etc., here. And it’s only a partial list!
Blithe Spirit 
This whole Obama thing has a carnival-like atmosphere about it. Obama promotes his product (political agenda) with all the skills of a medicine man who was able to convince the public that his product would cure every ill known to man. Obama has this same slickness about him as he spews forth false and deceitful rhetoric to deceive the public. The mainstream media is shamelessly and enthusiastically playing along with Obama, for it is in tune with Obama’s socialistic ideology. Vomiting is not an issue with me. Perhaps I should try vomiting, but I’ve gone far beyond that outward display of disgust. Instead, my disgust is beginning to affect my emotional and physical being as I experience daily outrage and anger.
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Very funny, Jim. A few weeks ago came across a paperback called Student Power, Participation & Revolution, edited by John and Susan Erlich, and published by Association Press, 1970. Chaper 27 is essay called “You Don’t Need A Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind is Blowing.” Reprinted from Radical Education Project, 1969. Bill A. and Bernardine D. are listed among member – authors. Here’s sample. “It is necessary to defeat both racist tendencies: (1) that blacks shouldn’t go ahead with making the revolution, and (2) that blacks should go ahead alone with making it. The only third path is to build a white movement which will support the blacks in in moving as fast as they have to and are able to, and still itself keep up with that black movement enough so that white revolutionaries share the cost and the blacks don’t have to do the whole thing alone. Any white who does not follow this third path is objectively following one of the other two(or both) and is objectively racist.”
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