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Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Rightwing Smearers of Obama Don't know a School from a Madrasa
Very few Americans can dispel that kind of rumor but few listeners can be found. Who ever heard of Juan Cole? Americans don’t like experts. They have ugly tradition of blaming one religion, hating because one has darker skin or supporting their leaders knowing they are committing ugly crimes. Barack Obama lived few years in Indonesia predominantly a Muslim country and went to school there, Obama’s attending a school (Madrasa in Arabic) in a foreign country was a ground for white people to dismiss him as a legitimate American who could run for the presidency! America is way, way behind this kind of stuff: first they said his middle name (Hussein) might discourage people from voting for him now this. To be a friend of a Whiteman will cause you nothing but pain. But on the other hand being critical of the criminality of the establishment of the United State of America and how it came about will free you.

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