Barack is Black?! (This Guy Really Didn’t Know)

Interesting article…

Man Sues Government for ‘Candidate Fraud’

NEW YORK – Taban Al-Awsat watched President-Elect Barack Obama’s acceptance speech in horror. For Al-Awsat, Obama’s election had been a dream. Now it seemed a nightmare. Al-Awsat was hopeful from the time he cast his ballot to the first time he saw Obama. Al-Awsat intended to vote for a Muslim candidate, but he learned  too late that Barack Hussein Obama is black.

In the wake of this discovery Al-Awsat filed suit against a number of organizations, all of which he finds at fault  for his misguided vote. Among the defendants named in the lawsuit are the City of New York, the National Democratic Party,  and the Federal Election Commission. According to Al-Awsat, he has suffered severe emotional trauma because of the defendants’ failure to fully inform the public about the presidential candidates. This, in his opinion, constitutes “Candidate Fraud.”

Taban Al-Awsat, 26, works as a taxi driver for the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission. A self-described independent, Al-Awsat claims to have never taken an interest in American politics. That changed in late September, when Al-Awsat overheard two passengers’ disparaging remarks concerning Barack Obama’s Islamic heritage. “I was instantly excited,” Al-Awsat recalls, “The two men in the back of my taxi were relentless bigots, but the possibility of a Muslim president had never occurred to me before that conversation. That made the conversation worthwhile.”

Al-Awsat’s attorney, C. Thomas Wilkes maintains that his client has a strong case against the named defendants. “The bottom line is that if Mr. Al-Awsat had been informed of President-Elect Obama’s nationality, he would have never been inspired to vote.” Wilkes believes that while his client was not physically harmed, the emotional distress in lieu of Al-Awsat’s discovery was crippling. “It’s as if a black man cast his vote for a black candidate, but later found out that the candidate is Mexican. While Mexicans are a hard working and industrious people, the black voter would be devastated.”

New York City Attorney James Fletcher immediately labeled the suit frivolous. “Everybody wants their fifteen minutes of fame, and it’s clear that Mr. Al-Awsat wants to harass a number of high-profile organizations.” According to Fletcher, Al-Awsat’s mistaken vote was his own fault. “You can’t buy a gallon of milk and complain over an ingredient clearly listed on the carton,” Fletcher contends, “President-Elect Obama is a prominent player in American politics, and his ethnic background is common knowledge. Mr. Al-Awsat has nothing to blame [for his presidential vote] but his own ignorance.”

Al-Awsat sees the case differently. “Quite simply I have been victimized by not knowing enough about Barack Obama. I have decided to file suit against those responsible for that unawareness.” According to Al-Awsat, the vote was obviously erroneous. “Look at any prominent Muslim and tell me how many black people they hang out with. Muslims and blacks just don’t get along, so why would I vote for one?” While Al-Awsat asserts this as his own social position, he also believes that this is true for Muslims as a whole. “I’ve never known why, but it just seems like blacks would rather spend time with their own people instead of Muslims. The only other race I have seen them spending time with is the Chinese, like Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan.”

Al-Awsat has received considerable criticism for his allegedly racist comments, but he maintains that his lawsuit is not racially fueled. “The issue here is not simply race, but appearance as well,” Al-Awsat asserts, “Would I vote for a Hispanic candidate or an Asian candidate? Maybe, but at least those candidates look more like me than a black man does, and this would allow me some measure of comfort.”

Al-Awsat maintains a firm stance against those responsible for informing the public. “The issue here is that I was deceived into voting for a black candidate under the pretense of him being a Muslim. This deception cannot go unpunished.”

Seems pretty ridiculous to me. This guy must have no TV, no internet, and no friends…

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What is this, Gotham City?

President-elect Obama is still one week away from inauguration, and he is already facing great (legitimate) scrutiny. His cabinet nominees, which he pledged would be ‘centrist’ and ‘change agents,’ are nothing more than the run-of-the-mill liberals we expected.

Timothy Geithner is probably the most outrageous pick of all. Not only is he yet another recycled Clintonite, we have now learned that Geithner owed over $30,000 of back-taxes to the IRS until November–until he was nominated to be Secretary of the Treasury and quickly paid the debt. Geithner, an acclaimed ‘financial genius’ and supposedly the only one who can get us out of the financial meltdown, wants us to believe that he simply forgot to pay those taxes.

The financial 'genius' who forgot to pay his taxes. Oops!

Obama is ignorantly standing by him:

[Geithner] is the right person to help lead our economic recovery . . . He’s dedicated his career to our country and served with honor, intelligence, and distinction. That service should not be tarnished by honest mistakes.

Honestly folks? Is anyone buying this?

Other outrageous appointments to the cabinet include Labor Secretary-nominee Hilda Solis. She opposes secret ballots for unions. I know, I know–we’re blowing this out of proportion. But wait, there’s more.

Let’s not forget about Eric Holder, Deputy Attorney General under (you guessed it) Bill Clinton. His role in pardoning several terrorists and the Elian Gonzalez abduction need to be more fully investigated.

The (dis)honorable Bill Richardson was originally nominated for Secretary of Commerce by Obama, but has since withdrawn his name in light of a grand jury investigation. Richardson, a Clinton-era U.N. delegate, allegedly exchanged government contracts for campaign donations while Governor of New Mexico.

Secretary of State-nominee Hillary Clinton is also a Clintonite. Go figure. Her ties to the Clinton Global Initiative have hardly been vetted and there’s almost certainly a conflict of interest between the millions of dollars raised by her husband from the very world leaders she will be expected to negotiate with.

Obama’s ‘climate czar’ nominee, Carl Browner, is yet another Clintonite (still waiting on that REAL change). Not only did she delete public records while working at the EPA under Clinton, but just last week she was named as one of the 14 leaders of socialist group’s Commission for a Sustainable World Society.

'The Foxy Commie,' Carol Browner

All I want to know is, where is the hope? Where is the CHANGE I can believe in? This is nothing more than the same old garbage from the Clinton years.

And we know with almost certainty that all of these appointments will be confirmed by the Senate–Obama is too big to fail. Obama cannot make mistakes (until he opposes Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi). The Senate will confirm these goons based on Obama’s ‘honesty, integrity, and charisma.’ If they’re good enough for Obama, they don’t need to be vetted, right?

Where is the HOPE?

This is ugly folks. This is not the centrism or the change we were promised, and he’s not even been inaugurated. If this is hope, I’d rather be hopeless.