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You highlight, just sort of feeds into more obama bashing, he s not like us, he s foreign, he has a foreign influence, this stuff just won t end and the right wing media will not let this stuff die. they re really fighting the last war. obama won in a land slide. he won north carolina, he won indiana. this idea that he was foreign and not like us, they won t let it go, but the american people just aren t buying it. let s go to michael on this. professor, thank you for joining us. everybody knows i was in the peace corps, i was in africa and most americans who grew up in my age group are familiar with the term mau mau. it was the uprising against the british rule in kenya. i m not a colonialist, i don t like colonizization. ....
The great thing about america and i m going to get to this at the end of the show, you don t ask somebody who their grandfather was, you don t focus on their ancestory to make a point. you let them score the points in the field they re in, whether it s sport ors any other area of american life. you let people serve in this country to the best of their ability, you don t go back into their roots to find something bad back there you can use against them. mau mau, madrassa, i know what it s saying, you tell me what you think. not only do you not go to their roots to try to disprove their american identity, you do it to embrace the fact that we can come from europe, we can come from italy, we can come from wherever in western or eastern european countries, polish, jewish, italian, lithuanian, and celebrate that we can come so america and come under the call to democracy on ....
American soil, and wherever we began with our humble roots we can rise to the top. not only with obama should we be celebrating him, his father of kenyan descent, his mother of white kansan defense. it s not eastern europe, it s from after karks but he grew up in america, what we re hearing from mau mau, what we re hearing with madrassas, not only is he foreign, it s not an exotic foreign, it s a different foreign. the skepticism about him as an african, african-american is at stake. and what mr. huckabee is trying to do is engage in code words, that other black man who s so dissimilar to us, so radically out outside the ark of our humanity that we cannot understand him. now he has to be racialized as ....
Mike huckabee made a bit of a blunder on a radio show when h talked about the man whose job he just might want to take. don t you think that we deserve to know more about this man? i would love to know more, but what i know is troubling enough, and one thing that i do know is that his having grown up in kenya, his view of the brits for example. very different than the average americ american. his perspective as growing up in kenya with a kenyan father and grandfather and the mau mau revolution were very different than ours, because he probably grew up hearing that the british were a bunch of imperialists. well, he did not grow up in kenya and he didn t visit kenya until he was an adult. he did spend time in hawaii and childhood years in indonesia, and the huckabee spokesperson says, yeah, he meant to say ....
American. his perspective as growing newspaper kenya with a kenyan father and grandfather, their view of the mau mau revolution is very different because he probably grew up that the british were a bunch of imperialists. there s a colllarification t that. i think it was farce. i want to stop this whole conversation before it even starts. good morning. it s a joke! it had to be a joke! we like mike. he was joking, right? i love mike but i didn t hear the laugh track. i didn t hear that. good morning joe. we have howard dean. hello, howard. little known fact about howard dean, he was born in the outback of libya. we brought him here to talk about this civil war. he ll help us understand. because he has a different ....