Comments on: Obama accused by the Religious Right of plotting African ‘infanticide’

By: Miriam Binder

Miriam Binder — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:22:30 +0000

The day Obama took over the oval office, the sun was brighter, the sky clearer and the scent of hope for the future was in the air again.

Okay having waxed lyrically, anyone who can piss off the far right and religious twats in one fell swoop can’t be all bad. You go Obama you go man and more power to you.

As for slurs such as â€˜Barack Bananaâ€™ … the man was born in 1961. He has grown up struggling to reconcile social perceptions of his multiracial heritage and his own experience of a variety of cultures in a climate of mutual respect. Those that seem somehow hung up on what the man is rather then who the man is are giving a greater insight into their own inadequacies then Obama’s.

By: urs

urs — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:46:43 +0000

haha this is the first good thing ive heard about obama, shame about taking troops out of iraq and sending um to afghanistan instead…

By: Marcus

Marcus — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:14:15 +0000

Krish, thank you so much for confirming that god-botherers are always seeing things that don’t exist. Once you learn to stop wandering around in a fog of make-believe, you might start reading things as they are written.

By: Buffy

Buffy — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:57:57 +0000

Yes. It’s so much nobler to encourage women to spawn en masse. Then you let countless children suffer die because you don’t want to pay those “lazy welfare mothers” any of your “hard earned tax dollars”. Go ahead and vote down every after-school program, health care initiative, housing assistance program, etc. Let homeless people die in the streets because you can’t be bothered to part with a few extra dollars a year to help them out. To hell with people who can’t afford health insurance. But you’re “pro-life” because you champion the rights of fetuses in the womb, even if the woman was raped or molested by her father.

Bloody hypocrites.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:42:19 +0000

Bob is a glutton for punishment–he probably feels its his religious duty to post to this blog in order to be” persicuted” by the unbelievers. Bob why not go and nail yourself up somewhere else

By: Dave McKeegan

Dave McKeegan — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:17:53 +0000

Krish, I believe the report is accurate as it stands, as it does not say or even imply that you claimed the second swearing in was illegitimate.

By: krish kandiah

krish kandiah — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:46:31 +0000

Thanks for mentioning our press release.
We made no claim that Obama’s second sweaing in was illegitimate but we did send him a Bible as he apparently couldn’t find one in the white house.
I know you will want to be accurate in your reporting.
PS. I am not a fan of fruitcake either.

By: quedula

quedula — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:29:17 +0000

So far so good. Obama is upsetting the right people so must be on the right track.

By: frankyV

frankyV — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:04:42 +0000

The Marie Stopes Clinic has suffered a lot from Bush’s policies. They were quoted, when our government were looking at the Human Embryology (late abortions), that a large percentage of late terminations were caused by the women getting bad advice from those with a ‘religious conscience’. How nice of them! These clinics do good work. I find it despicable that the church whines on about contraception, then when a woman gets pregnant they whine even more. No-one else is entitled to decide for a woman about her sexual health except her. I find the thought of a wizened, aged virgin with testicles (?) trying to control women’s sex lives disgusting. They don’t seem able to think of anything else. I hope Barack Obama will keep these ignorant fundies in their place – in the swamp (sorry frogs).

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:47:21 +0000

Is “Obamas in Pyjamas” racist too? or maybe there’s a sliding scale of racistosity?