Ann Coulter compares Obama’s book to ‘Mein Kampf’
Ann Coulter made a post on HumanEvents.com called Obama’s Dimestore ‘Mein Kampf’ comparing Obama’s book Dreams from My Father to Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Now, I’m not going to say that all conservative Republicans are like this, because their not, but this is about as insulting as it gets. Comments like these are way out of line:
Here’s a little inside scoop about white people: We’re not thinking about you. Especially WASPs. We think everybody is inferior, and we are perfectly charming about it.
So I took the high road and added a well written, respectful comment to her post:
Ann, although I firmly believe that everyone is entitled to free speech and I respect your opinions, I find your evaluation of Barack’s book highly flawed. The subtitle of the book is “A Story of Race and Inheritance” so it’s clear that part of Obama’s experiences are going to entail racism. The experiences he wrote about were set in the ’70’s and ’80’s. Racism was still a very prominent problem even then. What Barack talks about is very much in line with what Reverend Wright referred to as “self-examination”. Barack is very candid about his experiences. The problem I have with your views on this is that you’re taking it out of context. Barack is far from the raving, racist, lunatic you make him out to be. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. You mean to tell me that this man is a racist even though he has a white mother and a family filled with people from all walks of life? Please. Barack made one speech about race and that’s it. That didn’t happen till folks like you, Pat Buchanan, and Hillary Clinton took Reverend Wright’s sermons, took them out of context, and made him out to be a raving, racist, lunatic in an attempt to make Barack guilty by association. Context is important. I listened to the two most controversial Wright sermons and, let me tell you, I didn’t hear a damn thing that shocked me once I heard everything in context. I’m white. I’m not racist nor prejudice. I do not proclaim to be a Republican, Democrat, or Independant. I’m just an out-of-the-box thinker who does his best to educate himself on the facts at hand. The only two things I can not stand is ignorance and stupidity. Ann, I feel what you say here is both ignorant and stupid. It lacks any common sense and has no basis on fact since it’s clear you didn’t actually fully read and understand the context of his book. You merely reacted to the Reverend Wright incident and tried to find more dirt on Obama. Spreading lies, distortion, and hatred is no way to improve things in this country.
“Get over it!” isn’t a solution. And comparing his book to Mein Kampf is a back-handed, racist comment in and of itself. That’s highly insulting! Man! Talk about taking things out of context and twisting them around! This sort of thinking isn’t doing a bit of good for this country!
September 19th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
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