Posted on 05/03/2008 11:31:29 AM PDT by kingattax
RALEIGH, N.C., May 2 (UPI) -- Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has been avoiding stops in black communities in his quest to become the first black major party nominee for the U.S. presidency.
Isaac Onah, a political science professor at the University of North Carolina, told the Boston Globe that black voters appear to understand Obama's campaign strategy. They also understand why Obama had to repudiate his longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Onah said.
"I think black voters are saying to themselves, 'Why isn't Rev. Wright shutting up?'" Onah said.
Obama hopes for a strong victory in North Carolina, similar to the one he got in South Carolina, the report said. In South Carolina, 80 percent of blacks voted for Obama in the Democratic primary, helping him trounce Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.
Darryl Carson, a 41-year-old industrial clerk, told the Globe he sees Obama "walking a thin line." He believes other black voters in North Carolina will be there for Obama where it matters, in the voting booth, the newspaper said.
Obama is taking his base for granted perhaps?
He doesn’t want to be seen as just a black candidate.
exactly
Blacks really do seem to have their own brand of condescension, Reverand Wright is just the nuclear version of it.
Because he quit using drugs years ago?
If only African Americans would wake up to the fact that Barack’s skin color only runs skin deep. He has nothing in common with them.
He is not taking anyone for granted. He deployed the same tactic in Pennsylvania and didn’t campaign in Philadelphia. He himself said that there is no point in spending time in areas you are strong. At the very end he had the famous 35K people rally in Philadelphia.
His campaign was hoping that he would win Philadelphia with 100K vote margin. In the end he got 130K vote margin.
Klintons would like to split Black Base. Divide and Conqueor is the very first chapter in Klinton Playbook. I am sure Begala, Blumenthal, Carville and McAullife are sending emails to Blacks about how Obama really doesn’t care about them.
Blacks have fallen for Klinton evil once. Lets hope they don’t fall for it again.
Its not like he forgot where he came from. I don’t think the guy has ever lived in a “black” neighborhood, has he?
No way!
After all he is a man of conviction, not just another politician. /s
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“I think black voters are saying to themselves, ‘Why isn’t Rev. Wright shutting up?’”
I wonder about that.
All of the blacks that I hear calling in to BOR, Rush, and Hannity are complaining that we are painting Wright unfairly and that Obama should be totally free from any implications and history altogether.
Putney Swope???? I hated that movie.
He'll gladly accept their votes, however.
Perhaps he feels his typical white democratic voter, does not understand him in black neighborhoods.
“If only African Americans would wake up to the fact that Barack’s skin color only runs skin deep. He has nothing in common with them.”
Well, they do have a common disdain for typical white people.
He is staying out simply because he knows that THEY know him for what he is....
You can take the boy out of the 'hood, but you can't take the "hood out of the boy.
I wonder if anyone did a poll about these black voters like they did the "Less-educated whites" in the FR thread below?
Polls: Less-educated whites hurt Obama (crAP, "dumb white folk hurts our candidate")
Obama’s been pampered his whole life. I don’t think he relates as well to blacks in the inner city nearly as well as poorer urban whites.
Honolulu, Jakarta, Honolulu (private prep school), Columbia University, Harvard Law School, Chicago ($1,600,000 dollar house)... Such ghettoes!
To be honest, Obama’s campaign has handled a lot of things brilliantly, but then the fact he stayed in that church is conversely..monumentally stupid. He should have left it at least 5 years ago. Speaking purely from a strategery point of view, even Britney Spears could have figured out Rev. Wright would be a disaster.
Its a strange dichotomy.
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