“Never has outright racism been so exciting or so chic — both here in America and abroad! Kumbaya! In fact, a German paper called him “the black JFK”, which is an insult to the late President Kennedy, who -- again, leaving aside the blatant racism here — was nowhere near as far left as Obama.”

— Rachel Marsden

On the candidacy of African-American US presidential candidate Barack Obama <br class="br"> Barack Obama Has Little In Common With Europe http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=27669

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