http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/OLDRUSTYBUCKET1/7795              RETRACTION  THANKS TO "RAGMAN'S" comments that all the following statements were lies and they should've been verified before being posted here, checking SNOPES.COM revealed RAGMAN was correct. It is never Rusty's intent to present untruths to his readers so please forgive him for this mistake. Below are a few lines from Obama's books; In his words!      From Dreams of My Father: 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.'      From Dreams of My Father : 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.'      From Dreams of My Father: 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.'      From Dreams of My Father:  'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.'      From Dreams of My Father: 'I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.'   #*#**#*#*#*#*#*#*##*#*#* And FINALLY the Most Damming one of ALL of them!!!    From Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'                RETRACTION  THANKS TO "RAGMAN'S" comments that all the following statements were lies and they should've been verified before being posted here, checking SNOPES.COM revealed RAGMAN was correct. It is never Rusty's intent to present untruths to his readers so please forgive him for this mistake. Below are a few lines from Obama's books; In his words!      From Dreams of My Father: 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.'      From Dreams of My Father : 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.'      From Dreams of My Father: 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.'      From Dreams of My Father:  'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.'      From Dreams of My Father: 'I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.'   #*#**#*#*#*#*#*#*##*#*#* And FINALLY the Most Damming one of ALL of them!!!    From Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'   en-us These are all lies.  It is very easy to check these things out before passing them off as truth.  This type of assassination is just shameful. Just disgusting. http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/OLDRUSTYBUCKET1/7795/#c_54645 http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/OLDRUSTYBUCKET1/7795/#c_54645 These are all lies.  It is very easy to check these things out before passing them off as truth.  This type of assassination is just shameful. Just disgusting.   Rusty, your comments are worth nothing more than a warm rusty bucket of spit. No pun intended http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/OLDRUSTYBUCKET1/7795/#c_54894 http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/OLDRUSTYBUCKET1/7795/#c_54894   Rusty, your comments are worth nothing more than a warm rusty bucket of spit. No pun intended