Bosire Mosi
24 October 2007
opinion
RACISM is the reason US Senator Barack Hussein Obama is losing the Democratic presidential nomination to Senator and and former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Led by their so-called free press, Americans are saying Obama is "inexperienced," their politically correct word for "intellectually deficient."
To a majority of white Americans, Clinton's vote for the slaughter in Iraq is the "good judgment" and "experience" they want whereas Obama's opposition to this illegal war which is state terrorism by any other name is "inexperience."
The United States media outlets and white voters are tacitly questioning Obama's "Americanness" on the basis of his Kenyan ancestry and family ties. Obama's middle Muslim name of Hussein is their code for "terrorist."
He has been incessantly accused of having attended a "madrasa" terrorist camp while in primary school in Indonesia, where he lived with his mother and step father.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard remarked that if Obama is "accidentally" elected president, he would be the greatest American gift to Al-Qaeda and the world's number one thug, Osama bin Laden.
DNA pioneer and Nobel laureate James Watson, who told the Sunday Times, London, that "laboratory testing" shows Africans do not measure up intellectually was a political message intended for white voters back home in the US.
Dr Watson timed to make his racist comment at the zenith of the United States Democratic presidential nomination campaigns.
As an authority on genetics, he knew the impact his not-so-disguised political intervention would have on white voters back home. Watson deliberately attacked black intelligence in the United Kingdom and not on the United States' soil in an abortive attempt to conceal his political motive.
He mistakenly thought he could be seen as a non-politician just addressing an overseas audience and not white American voters.
With the ninth parliament about to be dissolved any moment now, it is encouraging to see Western diplomats in Nairobi back on the streets condemning Kenya's "tribal democracy," rightly terming it a threat to free and fair elections.
But how come the Kenyan ambassador to the United States is not reciprocating and equally castigating America's "racial democracy?" A sign of intellectual inferiority?
Good luck, Senator "Hussein"!
The writer lives in the United States of America
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