Barack Obama Courts His Base

IBD ^ | August 20, 2007

[Kaslin]

Politics: Perhaps concerned with claims he's "not black enough," Barack Obama plays the race card in the judicial nomination of Leslie Southwick. That may score points with liberal activists, but it shouldn't with fair-minded voters.

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Speaking to the National Association of Black Journalists in Las Vegas recently, Sen. Obama took them to task for continuing to ask him questions about his "blackness." He called it "a troubling question . . . perpetrated through our press" and wondered why that was.

Perhaps to prove his bona fides, Obama has taken the lead in opposing the nomination of Judge Southwick to a seat on the 5th Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. He says Southwick has a "disappointing record on cases involving consumers, employees, racial minorities, women, and gays and lesbians." Will presidential politics further complicate the nomination of Leslie Southwick as 5th Circuit Court judge?

In other words, Southwick's another racist, homophobic, redneck Republican.

[river rat]

To “court his base”, all the “Magic Negro” has to do is to deny his white mother and Muslim background..

After all - all his base needs to see is the color of his skin..
And, it’s dark enough to “pass”...

[nyyankeefan]

To “court his base”, all the “Magic Negro” has to do is to deny his white mother and Muslim background..

he ain’t getting any other votes...they are all voting for the piaps!!!