Latest Right-Wing Freak-Out: Obama Wants To Give Manhattan Back To Native Americans

[babylonsister]

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Latest Right-Wing Freak-Out: Obama Wants To Give Manhattan Back To Native Americans
Jillian Rayfield | December 28, 2010, 1:55PM


The good news is that the right-wing isn't talking about President Obama being a secret Muslim right now. The bad news is that they're now concerned that he's going to use his honorary status as a Crow Tribe Indian to return the United States to Native Americans.

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Obama was adopted as an honorary member of the Crow tribe during the 2008 campaign, and was even given the name "One who helps people throughout the land." Most of the outrage lobbed at the President in the wake of the announcement, naturally, references that fact.

Last week, the "Director of Issues Analysis" for the Christian conservative American Family Association, Brian Fischer, wrote a blog post claiming that "President Obama wants to give the entire land mass of the United States of America back to the Indians. He wants Indian tribes to be our new overlords."

"Perhaps he figures that, as an adopted Crow Indian, he will be the new chief over this revived Indian empire," Fischer wrote. "But for the other 312 million of us, I think we'll settle for our constitutional 'We the people' form of government, thank you very much."

Yesterday, the right-wing blog World Net Daily took it a step further in a post called "Obama to give Manhattan back to Native Americans? President believes nation can spare some sovereignty." The article describes how "President Obama is voicing support for a U.N. resolution that could accomplish something as radical as relinquishing some U.S. sovereignty and opening a path for the return of ancient tribal lands to American Indians, including even parts of Manhattan."

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[BrklynLiberal]

1. These guys need to get jobs writing for The Onion.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Want 'em to freak out BIG time?

Start the rumor that he's going to return the entire state of Oklahoma, to which the freeps have an even bigger emotional attachment than the isle of Manhattan.

[ZombieHorde]

4. We should start a rumor President Obama wants to return Texas to Mexico. nt

[KatyaR]

11. I live in Oklahoma, and I'd have no problem with that.

We'd have better representation in government than we do now....

[sudopod]

15. It would also guarantee that he won Texas. nt

[DBoon]

3. "it's a dumb world out there"

and here we have more proof of the pervasiveness of dumb

[Demoiselle]

5. Didn't Calvin Coolidge already do this?

I mean,here's the photographic proof:

www.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=en&q=Calvin+Coolidge+in+an+Indian+headdress+image&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=Qm8aTe-TMIG88gayrvm5Dg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CDAQsAQwAA&biw=1093&bih=605

I'm sorry I am a technical idiot. Can anybody else post that classic Coolidge pic in the beautiful headdress in the actual body of their message?

[karynnj]

17. Well, Coolidge was from Vermont

This article is the silliest thing I ever heard. I just hope that their idiocy eventually becomes great enough that few follow.

[nmbluesky]

6. Actually Native-America really their land

this land is not our!!!!!
That's great if Obama give to all native America get their land back.. That's so great!!!!

[FreakinDJ]

7. Start with the Black Hills

[HockeyMom]

8. Bloomberg owns Manhattan

What don't you understand about this?????

[nmbluesky]

10. Indian owns manhattan however

Donald Trump actually own Manhattan...

[vaberella]

20. No. It's Jamie Dimond....that's a fact. Trump only owns like .3% of Manhattan.

And no one ever really walks on that part of Manhattan since it's next to the highway. Not to mention his building is closer to empty than full.

[vaberella]

19. How? I figured Chase owned us...which means Jamie Dimond owns us. n/t

[baldguy]

9. These people should get the same amount of exposure as flat-earthers

And people who converse with trees.

[butterfly77]

12. Oh,the Insannity!!!

[pacalo]

13. If that's all I had to worry about, my life would be utopic.

I'm concerned about silly things like survival.

:silly:

[Kurovski]

14. Oh, no ma'am. No, no, no.

Not until we get them beads back.

[Aristus]

16. He wants to be the chief of an Indian tribe? What for?

He's already the President of the U.S.A., and the most powerful man in the world!

Sheesh! How tall is this Brian Fischer fellow? I want to know how high shit can stack...

:eyes:

[vaberella]

18. Well the Manhattan Tribe is extinct. Sad to say. n/t

[treestar]

21. After all the brouhaha about giving a piece of it to the Muslins!

:rofl:

[dawg]

22. I, for one, welcome our casino-owning overlords.

Just please don't treat us the way we treated you.