Al-Qaeda No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri is criticizing Barack Obama in a new message, calling him a demeaning racial term implying that the president-elect is a black American who does the bidding of whites.Al-Zawahri says in an audio message, which appeared on militant Web sites Wednesday, that Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X. He calls Obama a "house negro."
The audio plays over still pictures of al-Zawahri, Malcolm X praying, and Obama with Jewish leaders.
As Andrew Sullivan points out, this doesn't make any sense. Hasn't Al-Qaeda been paying attention? Half the right-wing news media has accused Barack Obama of being a radical who is just short of Malcolm X. And one even accused Barack Obama of being Malcolm X's son.
There's a reason why none of these labels actually really stuck. Just think about it. How many contradictions are there in the labels... a liberal, socialist, communist, terrorist, secret Muslim, Israel-hating, radical who hates America. Then compare what we all see on TV at the debates or in his speeches. None of those labels matched what we saw. What we saw instead was a man with a conservative temperament who could give a great speech, but when he was talking about his plan for the country, could be a wonkish and boring politician.
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