Originally Posted By: the G-man
Similarly, it's not particularly encouraging to read that Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has jumped on the Obama bandwagon:
  • Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said Sunday that presidential candidate Barack Obama is the "hope of the entire world" that the U.S. will change for the better.
    Farrakhan compared Obama to the religion's founder, Fard Muhammad, who also had a white mother and black father.

    "A black man with a white mother became a savior to us," he told the crowd of mostly followers. "A black man with a white mother could turn out to be one who can lift America from her fall."

I don't mean to suggest that Obama can help who does or doesn't endorse him. But it would be nice to see him repudiate the Nation of Islam's leader and its racist, anti-Semetic, ideology.


Yeah, Farrakhan's support ain't gonna help, I'll grant that.

As for your other point, Obama has taken issue with Farrakhan in the past, saying Farrakhan didn't deserve an award because of his anti-Semitism.

We'll see what he has to say about Farrakhan's latest speech. But for some people, no matter what, Obama's supposed Islamism is a farrakhan conclusion.


This is not vengeance. This is pun-ishment.

"The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability." — Edgar Allan Poe