WashPost Writer Lounges in 'Polygamy Commune' Crack, Ignores Polygamy In Obama Family!
When Montana Gov. Brian Schweizer whacked Mitt Romney as descending from a Mexican "polygamy commune," the Obama White House distanced itself from the remarks, but Washington Post reporter Aaron Blake found them instructive, that "despite Schweitzer’s overly blunt and inartful phrasing, it’s worth looking at the broader point he was trying to make.The truth is that Romney should be able to draw on his personal history for ammunition to fight back on issues such as the Latino vote and his image as a fat-cat businessman. But in both cases, fighting back would require reminding people that he’s a Mormon." What a pickle.
Blake, who is a well-known digger for "outlandish" Republican dirt, did not find a great "broader point" like James Taranto on Friday, noting that if that partisan from Montana wanted to mock an exotic foreign polygamist, he should perhaps look at -- Barack Obama's daddy:
[Barack] Obama's father, who apparently converted to Catholicism while attending a Roman Catholic school, was also polygamous in keeping with local custom, taking an informal Kenyan wife who preceded Obama's mother but remained a consort, according to accounts by local people and the senator himself.
That quote comes from that right-wing birther maniac Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times, who visited Obama Sr.'s childhood village of Kogelo, Kenya, in December 2008. Kristof fretted:
Frankly, I worry that enemies of Obama will seize upon details like his grandfather's Islamic faith or his father's polygamy to portray him as an alien or a threat to American values. But snobbishness and paranoia ill-become a nation of immigrants, where one of our truest values is to judge people by their own merits, not their pedigrees.
Not to mention the pedigrees of their supper! Which is actually very much a related point. The Obama campaign and its surrogates have shown an amazing inability to anticipate the ways in which their attacks on Romney backfire against their own man.
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Tough campaign ahead of us
Submitted by pockets64 on Sat, 04/21/2012 - 6:54pm.
I see a real dog-eat-dog fight.
How long can the media hide the Obama dog eating?
Submitted by frank14 on Sat, 04/21/2012 - 8:21pm.
I say one more week.
Then a week on
Submitted by Boudin on Sat, 04/21/2012 - 8:53pm.
This : ]
That was "ruff"
Submitted by creekrat on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 7:38am.
Loved it !!! First real fun I've had at this administrations expense is this dog fight. There is an entire website dedicated to Obama jokes.
Please do a public service
Submitted by OhioHistorian on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 12:09pm.
Please post the link to the Obama jokes. I'm talking about funny jokes, not the Rev Wright, Van Jones, the Emmanuel brothers, Bill Ayers, Tax Fraud Geithner, Joe Bite-me, Slum-lord Jarrett or any of the many rest of the jokes that he has surrounding him.
Thomas Alva Edison
One would think that the
Submitted by dr-go on Sat, 04/21/2012 - 6:57pm.
governor of Montana would have better things to talk about while having drinks with Max.
These idiots........
Submitted by BEGRUNT on Sat, 04/21/2012 - 7:07pm.
better be careful throwing around the "polygamy" charge......Since there are PLENTY of examples of it in Obama's family. That sword cuts both ways, and I have a feeling the sharper edge is towards Zero!
"A nation can suffer it's fool's, but cannot survive the traitor"
Cicero
Hypocrisy
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sat, 04/21/2012 - 8:45pm.
I don't see how the all things LGBT media can point an accusing finger at any lifestyle choice as bad.
I kinda like the idea of polygamy.
Submitted by Savonarola on Sat, 04/21/2012 - 8:50pm.
Hey if men can marry men, and women can marry women, why not polygamy? So, we can have several men marry one woman , or several women marry one man. Wow, this is so far out. Equal Rights for Mormons !!
Savonarola, Better head off to moslem lands.
Submitted by upcountrywater on Sat, 04/21/2012 - 9:03pm.
Kuz the Mormon Church ditched that practice over 100 years ago.
You Didn't Build That.
So Mitts great grandfather was a polygamist?
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Sat, 04/21/2012 - 9:25pm.
Du Bumblers "FATHER" is a polygamist. Bring it on MORONS!
Go figure
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 7:13am.
I've heard of a number of white Mormons being arrested for polygamy in America, but not a single Muslim.
I wonder why.
Because the Muslims
Submitted by azgal602 on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 9:46am.
usually stone or behead the women so that they can marry again. What about bin ladin, didn't/doesn't he have multiple wives. What a dumb comment
You think it is because the Muslims don't or do practice?
Submitted by OhioHistorian on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 12:24pm.
Your comment isn't clear. Is this because you think there is inequity in justice, or because you think that Muslims don't practice polygamy? If the former, justice is blind, al a Zimmer, Rodney King, etc etc etc, and if the latter, they must have changed in the last couple years because I knew of a couple of Somali harems living around here.
Thomas Alva Edison
Oh just shut up about little bamby's daddy
Submitted by ohio granny on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 8:56am.
Shut up already about Obama's daddy. Don't you know he is not responsible for what his daddy did. But remember Mitt Romney is reponsibile for what his granddaddy did. That is how this game is played. Get with the program all you deniers.
Obama is the great messiah come to deliver us from the darkness and we must honor him. You must be a racist if you disagree with this.
yesterday was dog eating,
Submitted by jkwtrading on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 12:21pm.
yesterday was dog eating, today is daddy's polygamy, Is tomorrow's news Obama's gran daddy, got shrunken heads on poles outside the hut? If so it'd end all talk of dog eating and polygamy.
like they say Pandora's box is open and another chapter or episode is being written in the soap opera. Tune in..
Dreams of my Polygamist Father
Submitted by CobraMan on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 12:43pm.
Somehow, I don't think this will be much of a topic during the debates.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
[Barack] Obama's father, who
Submitted by Pinetree3 on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 4:55pm.
[Barack] Obama's father, who apparently converted to Catholicism while attending a Roman Catholic school, was also polygamous in keeping with local custom, taking an informal Kenyan wife who preceded Obama's mother but remained a consort,
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Progressives can use the word 'informal' as an out. He was just getting some on the side, but she wasn't a real wife.
"Obama's father, who
Submitted by TheLoudDreamer on Mon, 04/23/2012 - 4:43pm.
"Obama's father, who apparently converted to Catholicism while attending a Roman Catholic school, was also polygamous in keeping with local custom, taking an informal Kenyan wife who preceded Obama's mother but remained a consort..."
(emphasis added)
Wow. You know, only journalists can get away with pumping in irrelevant facts like that. Is Catholicism a religion that supports polygamy? No. Was the local practice of polygamy connected to the school? No. My English teachers past and present would go mad if they saw this, I would get points deducted from my grade, if I did something this random more than twice in one paper, there is a good chance I would get a D. But my point is that Journalists are terrible journalists they KNOW how to write. My point is that Journalists, Left and Right, are willing to throw journalism under the bus if it means they can take a shot a anything remotely Traditionally Christian, especially Roman Catholics. They go out of their way to paint Catholicism with the same brush as polygamy.