The First Time I Heard Of Barack

By Tom Fife
11-20-8

 

During the period of roughly February 1992 to mid 1994, I was making frequent trips to Moscow, Russia, in the process of starting a software development joint-venture company with some people from the Russian scientific community. One of the men in charge on the Russian side was named V. M.; he had a wife named T.M.   V. was a level-headed scientist while his wife was rather deeply committed to the losing Communist cause - a cause she obviously was not abandoning.   One evening, during a trip early in 1992, the American half of our venture were invited to V. & T.'s Moscow flat as we were about to return to the States. The party went well and we had the normal dinner discussions.   As the evening wore on, T. developed a decidedly rough anti-American edge - one her husband tried to quietly rein in.   The bottom line of the tirade she started against the United States went something like this:   "You Americans always like to think that you have the perfect government and your people are always so perfect. Well then, why haven't you had a woman president by now? You had a chance to vote for a woman vice-president and you didn't do it."   The general response went something along the lines that you don't vote for someone just because of their sex. Besides, you don't vote for vice-president, but the president and vice-president as a ticket.   "Well, I think you are going to be surprised when you get a black president very soon." READ MORE:http://www.rense.com/general84/brck.htm    The consensus we expressed was that we didn't think there was anything innately barring that. The right person at the right time and sure, America would try to vote for the right person, be he or she black or not.   "What if I told you that you will have a black president very soon and he will be a Communist?"   The out-of-the-blue remark was met by our stares. She continued, "Well, you will; and he will be a Communist."