“Excuse me, do you vork here? I need more ice for my drink…”
Fareed Zakaria gets mushy on dat ass, or should I say from dat ass. The good Muslim and editor of Newsweek endorsed Barack Obama, citing his consistency, show of knowledge and policymaking wisdom, and the excellent campaign he is running.
At the end of his column however, he makes a racial appeal, saying his presidency would mark a new type of America where even his little Zakaria, Omar, can have big dreams:
And imagine how Americans would feel if they saw their country once again fulfilling its founding creed of equal opportunity, if they saw that there really were no barriers in their country, not even to the highest office in the land, not even for a man with a brown face and a strange name.I admit to a personal interest. I have a 9-year-old son named Omar. I firmly believe that he will be able to do absolutely anything he wants in this country when he grows up. But I admit that I will feel more confident about his future if a man named Barack Obama became president of the United States.
I am not sure if this is more than soft, wet bullshit.
I personally have always had mixed feelings about Zakaria. He’s always been too big on liberalism, without address the many victims of the purveyors of that ideology. It’s like rampant socialists who ignore crimes in socialism’s name. However, he does expose many Americans to international views. For instance, without his show on CNN, Americans may never get to see eloquent and educated third world pundits speak (even if most of his guests are also pro-West liberals). But what difference does it make if Obama’s cast of supporting characters are the same old, same old, and all the change we were promised ends up as much less than what we were sold?
Then, we can revel in the joy that we’d be getting screwed by a leader of color. It would make us feel more like back home.
So when President Omar Zakaria is kissing Israel’s ass during the 2048 centennial celebrations of Israel’s birth, I can look back at how far American racial politics has come; American Muslims will have finally arrived to the promised land.
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Fareed ZakaKHARA is the biggest wankster on the planet. He’s a clown.
Posted by Yasser | October 20, 2008, 3:24 pmAs an old man who has seen many moons I would remind all that talking down to one of Allah’s creations is the same as taking his good name from him and is an abomination.
Politics are of this world and hence the prophet would see an attack on Zakaria as a defilement of the law and name of Allah.
Posted by Kahlil | October 22, 2008, 3:28 pmI’ve been finding him irritating for a while, but now I’m wondering if he’s actually a neo-con, he certainly talk like duck. If not, then he must be the token Muslim member of the the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations.
That aside, in his little show on CNN, he delivered the best mass media-quality articulation of the case against McCain… http://www.cnn.com/video/#/
video/bestoftv/2008/10/20/
gps.zakaria.endorsement.cnn?iref=videose
Posted by Fayyad | October 23, 2008, 8:26 amKhalil,
Shut the fuck up. Fareed Z is a bitch.
Posted by Yasser | October 24, 2008, 2:27 pmFayyad, what the fuck are you smoking in connecting neo-cons and CFR?
I’ve worked for CFR in the past, and they’re a very sensible, pragmatic organization; associating them with the neo-cons makes zero sense. If anything, the scholars there tend to lean left, though there are conservatives such as Max Boot (and a nonpartisan think-tank without conservatives wouldn’t be much of a non-partisan think-tank).
CFR has earned its reputation as the top foreign policy think-tank in the world for damn good reason.
Posted by Joe | October 24, 2008, 6:33 pm