Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder One link provided here is an article written by Peter Hong, who was previously a writer for the L.A. Times. He talks about his upbringing, which was very similar to Obama's. Unlike, say, Glenn Beck, Hong knows a little something of which he writes. The link is to L.A. Observed's intro to the longer piece and I've copied and pasted here what they've highlghted about the article. L.A. Observed link: <a href="http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/09/writer_calls_bs_on_the_ri.php" target="_blank">http://www.laobserved.com/arch...e_ri.php</a> Article link: <a href="http://zocalopublicsquare.org/thepublicsquare/2012/09/19/was-my-almost-neighbor-barry-a-honolulu-indoctrinated-radical/read/who-we-were/" target="_blank">http://zocalopublicsquare.org/...we-were/</a> Highlights: Obama’s tribe was far more Country Club than Counterculture. Obama graduated from the elite Punahou School in 1979. According to anti-Obama conservatives, it was a multi-culti academy teaching “oppression studies.” No way. Punahou, founded by East Coast Congregationalist missionaries in 1841 (when California was still part of Mexico), was easily the whitest, most Republican school on the island and the second-wealthiest private school in the western U.S. (The wealthiest private school in the U.S. was then, and is today, Kamehameha, a school for native Hawai’ians. It has $9 billion in assets).... Native Hawai’ian activism and anti-colonial politics existed in the 1970s, to be sure, but Punahou then was about the worst place to look for it. The Hawai’ian cultural renaissance, which took off in earnest after Obama left, has revived the native language and other traditions. It’s a broadly embraced movement, feared by no one, and the tourist industry has even capitalized on it. Disney’s recently opened resort on O’ahu commissions local artists, hires community residents, and touts its Hawai’ian-ness to charge visitors $1,000 a night to stay there. This is the capitalist, democratic Hawai’i Obama visits at least once a year. [skip] Characterizations of Occidental as a radical hotbed, especially during the early 1980s, are equally disconnected from reality....Oxy had a decent football team, cheerleaders in short skirts, fraternities, sororities, and an active college Republicans group. The campus organization with highest participation may well have been the Christian student club. Alumnus Jack Kemp was a rising conservative star in Congress when Obama was in college, and I attended a campus ceremony in which Kemp was awarded an honorary degree. Kemp always praised Occidental, and, last year, the college named its football stadium in his honor. This world from which Obama came is not frightening but familiar, a conventional place for anyone who might bother to look.
Originally Posted By ecdc Curiously, this same info was also used by conservatives to attack Michelle Obama's DNC speech, basically saying that the Obamas have led privileged lives and her tales of woe are a myth. They really can't make up their minds.
Originally Posted By TMI No doubt. SImilarly, they can't seem to decide whether Obama is a brainless dolt who couldn't tell you his own name without a teleprompter, or an evil genius hell bent on seeing his master plan of turning the United States into some sort of Soviet Clone come to fruition through a series of elaborate schemes years or decades in the making.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 I still question his choice of wearing a White Sox jacket when he would throw out the first pitch of at a Nationals game.
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 There's something to be said for sports loyalty - you should know that!<< Big difference between a common fan and the Commander in Chief... If anything he shouldn't have worn any team jacket....
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <Big difference between a common fan and the Commander in Chief... If anything he shouldn't have worn any team jacket....> I disagree. Everybody knows he's a White Sox fan. The Nationals aren't even in the same league - it's not like he wore it to a Tigers game (which he'd still be entitled to do, although it might cost him some votes.)
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 Here are my two sports apparel rules. 1. Unless your team is the playing or has played in the arena/stadium, you may wear that apparel. So say the NCAA basketball tourney is going, you went to North Carolina and they played and now the other games are happening acceptable. Not acceptable, the Brewers and Cardinals are playing and you wear a Cubs jersey. Also not acceptable, wearing a jersey for a completely different sport. Don't wear an NBA jersey to an NFL game. Note this does not apply to bars where there are multiple games of various sports going on. However if you are invited to a party the previous rules do apply. 2. Unless you share the same last name as player on your favorite team, no placing your own name on a jersey. And especially no nicknames, like Tiny, or Uncle Meatball.
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 I personally would love for Obama to wear a Bears jersey in Green Bay. Lol
Originally Posted By TomSawyer People who wear team jerseys are no different than people who wear Star Trek uniforms in public.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Romney would wear a different jersey depending on the town he was in. "I'm a lifelong Reds fan." "I'm a lifelong Pirates fan." "I'm a lifelong Phillies fan." "What do you mean these statements are being recorded?"
Originally Posted By TomSawyer No, Romney wouldn't say he's a fan. "I have friends who own the Reds." "Friends of mine own the Pirates." "I vacation every summer in Monaco with my friends who own the Phillies."
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 <<I personally would love for Obama to wear a Bears jersey in Green Bay. Lol>> That is probably the one thing that would give Romney the state. lol
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 <<People who wear team jerseys are no different than people who wear Star Trek uniforms in public.>> No we're cooler.
