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Whites' Great Hope? (Barack Obama and the Dream of a Color-Blind America)
Wall Street Journal ^ | 10 November 2007 | JONATHAN KAUFMAN

Posted on 11/10/2007 4:33:44 PM PST by shrinkermd

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To: shrinkermd

When Obama loses the primaries they’ll say it’s due to bigotry. And after all, it’s hard to choose among socialistic junior senators...


21 posted on 11/10/2007 5:20:45 PM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Call me a pro-life zealot with a 1-track mind.)
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To: shrinkermd
You got to get rid of Jackson and Sharpton two chief agitators to get a color blind America, just a start.
22 posted on 11/10/2007 5:32:35 PM PST by boomop1 (there you go again)
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To: boomop1

Science does not fully understand DNA. Is it conceivable that you have been race conscience programmed in your mothers womb through your DNA.


23 posted on 11/10/2007 6:00:39 PM PST by Mojohemi
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To: shrinkermd

Ironic, but unsurprising that it’s conservatives who don’t give a damn what sex or color their candidate happens to be while the progressive, enlightened liberals are obsessed with it.

“It does not matter if the cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.” Deng Xiaoping.


24 posted on 11/10/2007 6:02:33 PM PST by sinanju
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To: shrinkermd
After 9-11, I don’t know anyone who is going to vote for a guy with a name like Barack Obama.
25 posted on 11/10/2007 6:15:03 PM PST by kempo (blA)
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To: Hot Tabasco

For me, Condi Rice would be a better candidate for the Presidency then Barack Obama.

As afar as mr. Oliver the Reagenism comes to mind:

“If your not a liberal when you are younger, you have no heart, if you are not a conservative when you are older, you have no brain”


26 posted on 11/10/2007 6:16:10 PM PST by padre35 (Conservative in Exile/ Isaiah 3.3)
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To: shrinkermd
I wouldn't vote for Obama because he's a stinking socialist. If being black was a requirement for a candidate, I would be doing cartwheels for Alan Keyes. Michael Steele would also be high on my of list candidates.
27 posted on 11/10/2007 6:22:59 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: shrinkermd

Is Obama too racist to admit he is just as much white as he is black? Is he ashamed of being white?


28 posted on 11/10/2007 6:23:29 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: padre35

I thought that was something Winston Churchill said.


29 posted on 11/10/2007 6:25:12 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: shrinkermd
Ahh, yes. Don'tcha love the black candidates who opine for a color blind society.

And then turn at warp speed to the race card when they get criticized, as other politicians get criticized.

30 posted on 11/10/2007 6:26:01 PM PST by Lizavetta ( Politicians: When they're speaking, they're lying - when they're not speaking, they're stealing.)
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To: taillightchaser

You know racism is not what they sell it to be when a man who is half white and half black chooses to be 100% black because it is to his advantage.


31 posted on 11/10/2007 6:28:32 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Verginius Rufus

I don’t know about that. Mind you, I dislike Harold Ford Jr because he’s liberal.

More than race, although it surely did help along with his last name, but I think his personality is his draw (which works wonders on the dims). He’s as slick a politician as you’ll find. Close you eyes sometimes and you’d think it was a conservative talking (Depending on the situation of course).

Even Ann Coulter likes him (for a dim) and backed him in the Senate race... whatever that’s worth.


32 posted on 11/10/2007 6:31:01 PM PST by cpanter
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To: trumandogz
What a shame that so many people are opposed to interracial marriage.

Actually, given that about fifty years ago when they surveyed whites re: interracial marriage, 95% disapproved, tremendous progress has been made in a relatively short period of time.

33 posted on 11/10/2007 6:33:33 PM PST by LWalk18
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To: shrinkermd
Gee, I hate to break the news to these stupid young whitey supporters, but Obama is popular with whites because he is white. Also, he is being pushed hard by the enemedia.

Obama was raised by rich white grandparents after mama failed in two marriages, the second one to a jihadi. Obama's only claim to blackness is his sperm donor. I cannot call someone who disappeared on a two-year old a father. Then, again, I wasn't married to his mother, so maybe he had good reason for bugging out.

34 posted on 11/10/2007 6:36:47 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: cpanter

Ford differed from the mainstream of his party on one or two issues where the Democratic position was unpopular in Tennessee, but his overall voting record was as liberal as they come, I believe. If Ann Coulter thought it would be better to have him in the Senate instead of a Republican who would vote the right way most of the time, I don’t follow her reasoning...maybe it was pique at a less conservative Republican winning the primary (because two conservatives competed for the more conservative voters).


35 posted on 11/10/2007 6:37:02 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

It could be Churchill, I did think that Ronald Reagen said it though.


36 posted on 11/10/2007 6:37:51 PM PST by padre35 (Conservative in Exile/ Isaiah 3.3)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

Obama is Halfrican American.


37 posted on 11/10/2007 6:38:29 PM PST by Beagle8U (FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: taillightchaser

If it wasn’t for his sperm donor, it is hard to imagine him as anything more than a ward boss in Chicago.


38 posted on 11/10/2007 6:38:59 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: trumandogz

Forget about your neighbors, it’s a given that is none of your business. The evidentiary test would be your position on your daughter wanting to marry, let’s say, a tribal Afgani, or a native of Toga, for example. What would be your position then?


39 posted on 11/10/2007 6:43:01 PM PST by balls
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To: kempo

You forgot Hussiem.


40 posted on 11/10/2007 6:50:32 PM PST by Unicorn (Too many wimps around.)
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