I wonder if Farrakhan’s “space brothers” have been communicating with him again:
In his first major public address since a cancer crisis, 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.
The 74-year-old Farrakhan, addressing an estimated crowd of 20,000 people at the annual Saviours’ Day celebration, never outrightly endorsed Obama but spent most of the nearly two-hour speech praising the Illinois senator.
“This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better,” he said. “This young man is capturing audiences of black and brown and red and yellow. (What? No white???) If you look at Barack Obama’s audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed.”
No, I believe the word is fooled.
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.”
A…..Messiah, perhaps?
Gateway Pundit said it best:
It’s now an official mutual admiration party: Obama loves his minister- His minister loves Farrakhan- Farrakhan loves Obama.
A Circle of Hope!
Farrakhan also leveled small jabs at Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama’s rival for the Democratic nomination, suggesting that she represents the politics of the past and has been engaging in dirty politics.
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Finally, an endorsement she’s not going to get, that she doesn’t actually want.
Seriously though….is the McCain campaign taking notes? This needs to come back and haunt him as does so many other things.
February, 25, 2008 at 9:36 am
Can I say, I told you so? … or, do I have to wait till he endorses Islam over Christmas?
February, 25, 2008 at 11:41 am
Louis Farrakhan as a guest at the White House?
I’m telling you, this Obama is Manchurian candidate. If he gets to the White House, we may discover- TOO LATE- that we have elected an enemy of the United States as President.
February, 25, 2008 at 11:51 am
No, the McCain is not taking notes. Pointing these things out would be unfriendly to the Democratic candidate, and McCain only rips into Republicans.
February, 25, 2008 at 11:57 am
*Sigh*
I’m telling you right now, if McCain doesn’t use all this negative information that’s coming out about Barack, he. is. going. to. lose.
February, 25, 2008 at 2:33 pm
I wouldn’t worry Deb. Ralph Nader is going to pull 5% and if white women can be convinced that “ears” is more Mickey Mouse than Maasiai, you’re probably in for one of the largest landslides in history….Then again, white women gave us Bill Clinton.
February, 25, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Be Very careful. THese race politics will backfire on you.
February, 25, 2008 at 5:38 pm
This has nothing to do with race.
February, 25, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Ross Perot gave us Bill Clinton.
February, 25, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Bill Clinton’s deciding demographic was white women which was overwhelmingly in Clinton’s favor. Most polls indicated that Perot actually drew his 18.6 % share of the popular vote in 1992 equally despite the pundit claim that he drew from Bush.
In Clinton’s second election, again white women and apathy were his margin of victory in either the lowest or one of the lowest voter turn outs in history for presidential elections.