Barack Obama was proving irrefutably on Sunday night that he is Big Money’s candidate:
Obama one day record haul: $7.8 million at San Francisco big donor fund raisers
By Lynn Sweet Chicago Sun-Times August 18, 2008

(John McCain raised only $1.75 million in Atlanta the following day:
The AtlantaMcCain’s Atlanta fund-raiser takes in $1.75 million, By Aaron Gould Sheinin,
Journal-Constitution, August 18, 2008)

But Obama showed something else too: he wants to be, and apparently is, the candidate of the Indian immigrant community. We learn from Obama reaps big bucks at S.F. fundraisers
[by Carla Marinucci, San Francisco Chronicle, August 18, 2008]

a crowd of about 200 deep-pocketed supporters at a VIP reception for South Asian and Pacific Islander supporters at the Fairmont Hotel….wrote checks for as much as $14,000 for the special Asian-Pacific Islander VIP reception filled with CEOs, executives and spouses–a few in elegant saris–that included a meeting and individual picture with Obama.

(“Pacific Islander” in fact seems to mean Indians from the Pacific Islands such as Fiji where they comprise the business elite)

Obama laid it on thick in the traditional sycophantic way:

Obama told the group–which included many Indian and Pakistani immigrants–that he is not only familiar with their cultures–but also proud of his lifelong association with them.
“Not only do I think I’m a desi, but I’m a desi,” he said, using a colloquial term that describes South Asian immigrants.

To applause, he said he became an expert at cooking dal and other ethnic dishes, though “somebody else made the naan,” the trademark Indian bread.

“I have an enormous personal affection for the people of South Asia.”

A thought experiment: Will one day Obama tell white America how much “enormous personal affection” he has for the people who built the society and (misguidedly) established Affirmative Action without which he would be nobody?

Of course, most politicians will make spectacles of themselves in the presence of rich donors. The question is, why does this notoriously rich and entrepreneurial immigrant minority display such enthusiasm for this socialist mongrel?

Could it be that color–anti white hostility–transcends economics?

Karl Rove, call home

I don’t do criminal defense, but I know attorneys who do. Most are liberal or apolitical. Still, they don’t hesitate to relay the deep anti-white hatreds of some of their clients, most of whom are black. Some will refuse to have a white attorney appointed: “I don’t want the white mutha******,” they declare.

Ah, to be liberated to speak your mind on racial issues. These criminal defendants find company with corporations like Wal-Mart, which will drop a law firm if it is “too white.”

Anyway, luckily, no attorney I know has had an experience like this:Former prosecution may have prompted attack, By Sarah Rodriguez,Virginia Lawyers Weekly, August 18, 2008

This recollection, from the local legal press, was probably prompted by this story,
about a 32-year-old lawyer nearly killed by her client, David Allen Hagelin (race unknown), last year.

In the recollection from attorney Charles Crosby, the journalists make the spin that Crosby’s former prosecution must have set off the defendant. But with an outburst like “I’m going to kill that white m***** f*****,” it’s a little hard to get around the racial angle.

And don’t forget: for any charges resulting from attemped lawyer-murder, the defendant will get… another lawyer. Paid for by taxpayers. Where does this end, exactly?

To recap: you’ve got two racial groups, both of which have been at odds since one had the thoroughly despicable idea of enslaving the other. In ensuing decades, the first racial group has bent over backward to accommodate the second, but the second continues to commit crime far out of proportion to its percentage in the population. Despite this, the legal system created by the first group–with an assumption of intra-ethnic agreeability–affords overly generous protections to criminal defendants of the second, whose own homelands likely afford far less, if any, protection. And within this generosity, the very individuals assigned to help with the defense–at the expense fo the first group–risk having their carotid arteries punctured. I can pretty much guarantee you that this is not what the framers envisioned when they penned the 6th Amendment.

Remember that joke from Jerry Seinfeld, about space aliens observing the human ritual of dog-walking and wondering which of the creatures was in charge? I imagine how baffled an observer from another planet would be to witness our racial dynamics here.

Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo (email him) has big ideas about how to solve the worsening gang problem which he shared in today’s LA Times [Going global to fight gangs].

In it, he illustrates the upside-down mindset of many public officials regarding crime committed by foreigners. The elite apparatchiks attend cushy conferences in places like Acapulco etc. with foreign officials in similar positions where the agenda is propaganda about “working together” and “partnering.” It’s another strategy for Latin American freeloaders to mooch more dollars from Uncle Sucka.

“Global” approaches are distractions, and only serve to dilute responsibility. Job #1 should be to keep the bad guys out of the country — that’s the purpose of borders.

Delgadillo is trying to wiggle out of LA’s decades of failed, politically correct policing.

He-e-e-e-e-re’s Rocky…

The two fastest-growing and most powerful gangs in the world are homegrown products of Los Angeles. The Mara Salvatrucha gang, or MS-13, and the 18th Street gang, known in Central America as Mara 18, sprang up in Pico-Union and the densely populated neighborhoods around MacArthur Park. But unlike many local street gangs, these two were entrepreneurial: They recruited Central American immigrants across the city and then expanded farther — throughout Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Conservative estimates put MS-13’s ranks at 20,000 and 18th Street’s at 30,000 worldwide.

Stopping street gangs is no longer a local matter — a point driven home to me during a symposium in El Salvador. During the conference, two points of consensus emerged. First, MS-13 and 18th Street have become an international concern — indeed, even Interpol is now involved in the fight. Second, past strategies to handle these gangs have failed.

In the 1990s, the U.S. strategy centered on deportation: Undocumented gang members convicted of crimes were sent back to their country of origin after their prison sentences. But this only exacerbated the problem, spreading both gangs like a virus until they grew into transnational “super-gangs” with countless cliques in southern Mexico and Central America in addition to their presence in California, Nebraska, New York, Texas, Virginia, Oregon and even Canada.

The FBI now acknowledges that the MS-13 and 18th Street gangs have become America’s new organized crime, using their numerical superiority and sheer muscle to extort “rent” or “taxes” from local businesses, including legal and illegal vendors. These “protection” rackets are an insidious form of crime, often going undetected because the victims are unwilling to come forward lest they incur the gangs’ wrath; they also supply the gangs with steady profits and fuel their growth.

To paraphrase Tip O’Neill, All crime is local. Instead of imagining dreamy strategies of global crime-fighting, Delgadillo should be leading the charge against his own city’s sanctuary policy, Special Order 40, which directly caused the death of Jamiel Shaw II and others.

Arrest. Incarcerate. Enforce immigration laws on the borders and in workplaces. Utilize “broken windows” policing regarding illegal immigrants, and stop coddling job thieves and violent criminals. The fundamentals still work: effective policing and tough penalties decrease crime.

For a year now, I’ve been pointing out that the mortgage meltdown is partly related to the Establishment’s long campaign to loosen traditional standards of creditworthiness for lower income and minority households. This national priority gave the get-rich quick artists in the business world the perfect excuse for doing what they’d always wanted to do: take the money and run and let the taxpayers and savers pay for the clean-up.

Now, others are starting to pick up on that insight, including the Village Voice. Via Arnold Kling, Edward Barrett writes in a hit piece on the New York attorney general, “Andrew Cuomo and Fannie and Freddie:”

Perhaps the only domestic issue George Bush and Bill Clinton were in complete agreement about was maximizing home ownership, each trying to lay claim to a record percentage of homeowners, and both describing their efforts as a boon to blacks and Hispanics. HUD, Fannie, and Freddie were their instruments, and, as is now apparent, the more unsavory the means, the greater the growth. But, as Paul Krugman noted in the Times recently, “homeownership isn’t for everyone,” adding that as many as 10 million of the new buyers are stuck now with negative home equity—meaning that with falling house prices, their mortgages exceed the value of their homes. So many others have gone through foreclosure that there’s been a net loss in home ownership since 1998.

(more…)

In a recent VDARE column, I wrote that, “When it comes to… criticism of Obama, even the most obviously non-racial disparagement of Obama has been seen as cloaked bigotry.”
The two criticisms I brought up specifically were “radical” and “elitist.” However, it looks like I missed an even more outrageous “code word.” According to a Reuters article last thursday,

References to his alleged “inexperience” as a one-term U.S. Senator…could also be seen as subtle racial digs, political commentators say.

Inexperience might be a substitute for an idea with roots in the era of U.S. slavery that African Americans couldn’t be trusted.[When it comes to race, U.S. politicians talk in code, By Matthew Bigg, Reuters, August 14, 2008]

Although ridiculous, I can see at least some sort of logical plausibility over how “elitist” or “radical” could be a “code word.” However, I am still scratching my head as to how these people think “inexperienced” has anything to do with slavery.

Charles Murray has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on the harm done by pointless bachelor’s degrees:

For Most People, College Is a Waste of Time - WSJ.com

By CHARLES MURRAY
August 13, 2008; Page A17

Imagine that America had no system of post-secondary education, and you were a member of a task force assigned to create one from scratch. One of your colleagues submits this proposal:

First, we will set up a single goal to represent educational success, which will take four years to achieve no matter what is being taught. We will attach an economic reward to it that seldom has anything to do with what has been learned. We will urge large numbers of people who do not possess adequate ability to try to achieve the goal, wait until they have spent a lot of time and money, and then deny it to them. We will stigmatize everyone who doesn’t meet the goal. We will call the goal a “BA.”

You would conclude that your colleague was cruel, not to say insane. But that’s the system we have in place.[More]

Murray’s suggestion is a system certification in a trade or profession, similar to the certification used by CPAs, or the one used by Microsoft to certify systems engineers.(Of course, this system is likely to run up against the disparate impact problem.)

This is one of the proposals in Murray’s new book, Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America’s Schools .

Steve Sailer discussed this recently in  The College Paradox: Not Everyone Gains By Higher Education.

Many Republicans are up in arms over Howard Dean’s slip -

“If you look at folks of color, even women, they’re more successful in the Democratic Party than they are in the white, uh, excuse me, in the [laughs] Republican Party.”

According to RNC Chairman Mike Duncan:

Howard Dean’s comments on race and gender today are disappointing and wrong. His efforts to divide Americans are an insult to all our nations citizens and have absolutely no place in the national dialogue.

Duncan would be well advised to listen to what Dean’s “white party” comments were prefaced by:

The fact is that the Democratic party is made up of lots of different people, and we’re all minorities in our party. That’s the way it’s been for a long, long time. We’re the party of opportunity. So the demographic trends favor the Democrats.

Were it not for massive Third World immigration, being the “White Party” would mean being “The Winning Party”. Dean simply recognizes that the more non-white the country becomes, the worse the “White Party” does.

The GOP’s obliviousness to this reality hurts them in two ways. They shy away from any sort of issue such as immigration and affirmative action that would galvanize the white vote for fear that they would “divide America”. At the same time, rather than try to reverse the “demographic trends” that will create more and more Democrats, they hold on to the fantasy that they can somehow pander their way into getting Hispanics to vote Republican.

To my knowledge, America has never had a president who was during his term of office a citizen of more than one country. The president may only be a citizen of the U.S.A., because he would otherwise have divided loyalties.

The Rocky Mountain News previously reported, but has since retracted, that Barack Hussein Obama is a citizen both of America and of Kenya.

Does that mean we should believe the Rocky Mountain News’ original story, or its current one? Or is this a variation on what my Autonomist editor, Rocco DiPippo, calls the “infamous Obama Media Memory Hole.” I’d like to see Obama prove he isn’t a Kenyan citizen. (What’s that, you say? You can’t prove a negative? Well, then, I’ve got him!)

Now, imagine a president who was simultaneously a citizen of three different countries. Impossible? Legally forbidden, but not impossible, to someone who flouts America’s laws.

The claims some bloggers make, such as that BHO was not born in America (e.g., Hawaii), but somewhere abroad, and that the birth certificate he has provided is a forgery, could give a fellow a headache.

But what of Barry Soetero (aka BHO)? Well, at “Will the real Barack Obama please stand up?,” Rocco DiPippo has posted a copy of, and placed a link to an enlarged image of a birth certificate showing one “Barry Soetero” (the name by which BHO was then legally known) to have been born in “Honolulu,” whose religion was “Islam,” and who was a citizen of “Indonesia.” The certificate was filled out by Obama/Soetero’s Indonesian stepfather, Lolo Soetero in 1968.

The original image is the property of the Associated Press (registration required). (As DiPippo suggests, check it out before it “disappear[s] down the infamous Obama Media Memory Hole.”)

Far be it from me to vouchsafe for the truth of AP properties. However, the AP is an operation that is considered by places like the New York Times, Wikipedia, and the Democratic National Committee, a “reliable source.” And AP Boosgate hoaxmeister Tom Hays does not appear to have any involvement in this story.

If I’m not mistaken, should Obama wish to be legally elected president of these United States, he would have to prove that he has already renounced citizenship to any foreign states, or immediately renounce his citizenship, and hence allegiances to those countries, forthwith, and those nations must confirm that he is not a citizen of theirs. Conversely, if he wants to claim that the AP and everyone else is lying about him (or racist), that’s fine with me, too.

Here’s my favorite Olympic sprinting picture: Barcelona in 1992, the 4×100 meter relay, Carl Lewis followed by the Nigerian anchorman and the Super Mario-looking little Cuban anchorman, all celebrating their medals after they crossed the finish line, not 40 meters in front of it as Jamaican Usain Bolt did tonight. With the race barely half over, Bolt dropped his arms to his sides like Muhammad Ali, thumped his chest to taunt his Jamaican rival Asafa Powell (and teammate in next Saturday’s relay, but who’s thinking ahead?), and mugged for the cameras, all before cantering across the finish line, still eight feet ahead of the field in a world record time of 9.69.

Sprinters …

Here’s my June post on Usain Bolt and the general topic of doping in Olympic sports, with some interesting comments on runners and swimmers (e.g., Dara Torres) by people who know a lot more than me.

In case you’re interested, here are some old articles I’ve written related to the Olympics:

Here’s my article on the 2004 Athens Summer Games from The American Conservative.

Why did the gender gap in Olympic running speeds between male and female medalists unexpectedly widen after the 1988 Olympics? My 1997 National Review article explains here.

Here’s my 2000 article from VDARE.com on the Sydney Games, including the media-induced psychological pressures that often keep the sports crazy Japanese from performing up to expectations, and the remarkable lack of interest in sports of Indians.

Here’s my 2006 VDARE.com article on why Bryant Gumbel doesn’t like the Winter Olympics — too many guys.

Here’s my 2000 VDARE.com article on why nationalism and the Olympics go together like bread and butter.

Here’s my 2002 VDARE.com article explaining why the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta were notoriously full of organizational snafus, while the 2000 Winter Games in Salt Lake City were a model of efficiency.