I cannot believe the way people are looking at Barack Obama as a messiah. I would like nothing better than to see him completely turn this country around so that it is the great nation it used to be, but common sense tells me what he plans to do will drive us deeper and deeper into the hole. As for him being "the first African-American President" -- big deal! You would think from the way that people are talking that all the blacks have just been liberated from the plantations. The reality is that for more than 40 years, there has been no forced segregation -- quite the contrary. Integration is what has been forced, and we see what that has done.
Ruben Navarrette is one of those ringing the "free at last" bell. In a recent column, he referenced an appearance by Will Smith on Oprah Winfrey. Both Will and Oprah, of course, are black. Will Smith said that his mother and father had raised him to think that he could accomplish anything in life; it wasn't until Obama came along that he actually believed it. Will Smith began his TV series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, in 1990. I would suspect that's when his wealth began to significantly increase. He is now worth more than $60 million. Oprah Winfrey did The Color Purple in 1985, and I suspect that she was no pauper at that time. Oprah Winfrey's net worth is now $1.4 billion. Where was Barack Hussein Obama in 1990? He was in law school and no one had ever heard of him.
It appears to me that Will Smith is either stupid, a liar, or completely hoo-dooed by the Obama mystique, because Barack Obama wasn't even on the scene when he and Oprah Winfrey amassed their millions and billions!
"Even before taking office, Obama changed our world." The Dallas Morning News; January 19, 2009; p. 19A.
http://www.knowyournetworth.com/will_smith_net_worth.html
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/O0ZT.html
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