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Black Conservatives Weigh Voting For Obama (J.C. Watts)
CNN ^ | 6/14/08 | AP

Posted on 06/14/2008 12:56:43 PM PDT by Fargo Rock

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To: Fargo Rock

I would like add that I am extremely proud that Michael Steele, a fellow conservative and pro life Catholic, has remained true his principles and MartinLuther Kings dream. Thank you Michael.


61 posted on 06/14/2008 3:12:01 PM PDT by jwalsh07 (El Nino is climate, La Nina is weather.)
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To: Fargo Rock

If they’re voting for Obama they were never conservatives to begin with, just opportunists looking to appeal to conservative voters.


62 posted on 06/14/2008 3:16:27 PM PDT by devere
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To: pepperdog
This came from CNN! Who knows what was really said by the black conservatives.

J.C's always been a bit of whiner, but I just can't believe that his spiritual beliefs will allow him to support Obama.

63 posted on 06/14/2008 3:33:26 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek
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To: Fargo Rock

I thought this might be Scrapple Face, but its CNN

Same thing...


64 posted on 06/14/2008 3:57:00 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Fargo Rock

If they claim to be conservative and are having a hard time deciding whether to vote for Obama or not, then they are not conservatives at all.


65 posted on 06/14/2008 3:57:33 PM PDT by debboo (Stop socialism, vote conservative)
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To: Fargo Rock
"Among black conservatives," Williams said, "they tell me privately, it would be very hard to vote against him in November."

"Among whites,", Williams said, "they tell me privately, it would be very hard to vote for him in November."

The 2nd statement would be decried as racist, and a sign of how whites even today can't see past color to what a man is really like.

The first statemeny by Williams is racist, a sign that blacks cannot see past a person's color to what they really are about.

Martin Luther King must be rolling over in his grave.

66 posted on 06/14/2008 4:16:24 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Watts said he's still a Republican, but he criticizes his party for neglecting the black community. Black Republicans, he said, have to concede that while they might not agree with Democrats on issues, at least that party reaches out to them.

"And Obama highlights that even more," Watts said, adding that he expects Obama to take on issues such as poverty and urban policy. "Republicans often seem indifferent to those things."

Race trumps philosophy?

And how does the democratic party reach out to blacks? What have they done for blacks, other than to keep them oppressed, poor, and dependent on the government?

And now Watts says that "urban policy" is an important philosophy?

67 posted on 06/14/2008 4:39:06 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: KenHorse

I am a black conservative Republican. Definitely not the norm in California.

And I am here to tell you right now that there is NO BLOODY BUGGERING WAY IN HELL that I am voting for that Marxist, Abortion-Loving, Tax Raising, Appeasement Encouraging CREEP named...oh yeah, can’t say his name, that would be “racist” and an “unfair attack.” (did I mention “divisive”?)


68 posted on 06/14/2008 4:43:52 PM PDT by Christian4Bush ("In Israel, the President hit the nail on the head. The nails are complaining loudly." - John Bolton)
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To: Fargo Rock
From the article:

J.C. Watts, a former Oklahoma congressman who once was part of the GOP House leadership, said he's thinking of voting for Obama.

Watts said he's still a Republican, but he criticizes his party for neglecting the black community. Black Republicans, he said, have to concede that while they might not agree with Democrats on issues, at least that party reaches out to them.

"And Obama highlights that even more," Watts said, adding that he expects Obama to take on issues such as poverty and urban policy. "Republicans often seem indifferent to those things."

J.C. Watts, so often praised by "real" conservatives and thought of by them as a potential national candidate on a Republican ticket (because he's black and talks a good conservative game), reveals the truth. For all but a tiny, tiny minority of blacks, race ALWAYS trumps anything else, but they pretend it isn't so. In the case of Watts, as he contemplates stabbing Republicans in the back, he has to cover his racist desires with shop-worn charges that Republicans "neglect" the so-called black community.

Thank God for people like Michael Steele, who do not jettison their loyalties and political beliefs for racial (or other) chimeras. In this article, he is quoted as saying he is proud of Obama as a black man, but that "come November, I will do everything in my power to defeat him." Electing Obama, he said, would not automatically solve the woes of the black community.

69 posted on 06/14/2008 4:44:03 PM PDT by Wolfstar (Only a selfish, idiotic coward thinks the way to win in politics is for his own side to lose.)
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To: stockpirate
MLK said he dreams of the day when a man isn’t judged by the color of his skin.

He lied.

70 posted on 06/14/2008 4:44:46 PM PDT by Wolfstar (Only a selfish, idiotic coward thinks the way to win in politics is for his own side to lose.)
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To: Mark
Larry Elder won’t buy into this.

His email is sage@larryelder.com. I'd be interested to get his take on it.

71 posted on 06/14/2008 4:46:43 PM PDT by Christian4Bush ("In Israel, the President hit the nail on the head. The nails are complaining loudly." - John Bolton)
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To: Fargo Rock

Carefully chosen black Republicans, I notice. And McWhorter is a registered Democrat, so who is he kidding? CNN and the Slimes love this kind of subject.


72 posted on 06/14/2008 4:48:52 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: TNCMAXQ
What kind of principles do these men have??

Black principles.

Next question.

73 posted on 06/14/2008 4:50:06 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Nuhna di Abuv

Who you calling “us”?


74 posted on 06/14/2008 4:53:26 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: Nuhna di Abuv
I don’t think that race is trumping politics in the case of Williams and Watts. They, like us, just can’t see pulling the lever for McCain.

That's because of your own bigotry, not racial bigotry in this case, but one of a more covert, insidious type. Both Watts and Williams said exactly why they are thinking of voting for Obama, and McCain has nothing to do with it. Watts, Williams and other black so-called conservatives are voting for Obama because of his skin color. At least they're up front about it.

I have no doubt you're someone who runs around thinking you are a "real" conservative. You obviously are the type who hates candidates who agree with you, say, 70% of the time, and reserve your worst vitriol and, yes, bigotry, for such a candidate. In the meantime, you give those who agree with you maybe 5%, or less, of the time a total pass.

75 posted on 06/14/2008 5:02:41 PM PDT by Wolfstar (Only a selfish, idiotic coward thinks the way to win in politics is for his own side to lose.)
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To: NormsRevenge
Watts said he is still a Republican, but he criticizes his party for neglecting the black community.

Neglecting? I think this Watts parasite wants a Republican there to bathe and spoon feed him.

76 posted on 06/14/2008 5:07:58 PM PDT by Perchant
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To: Fargo Rock

Frankly, I’m not surprised.


77 posted on 06/14/2008 5:08:40 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (John McCain just can't help himself - and I certainly can't and won't.)
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To: Wolfstar

A tiny, cynical part of me is thinking that because Watts is trying to start up a “Black News Channel,” he doesn’t want to turn off the majority of his potential viewership by NOT supporting the black candidate.

Just a theory.


78 posted on 06/14/2008 5:10:26 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Rush on McCain: "We're so screwed.")
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To: Fargo Rock
See this link:

Allen West's response to: Black Conservatives Conflicted on Obama Campaign

Allen West is a Black Conservative candidate running for the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida.

79 posted on 06/14/2008 6:04:17 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
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To: Coldwater Creek

Well you are certainly right about CNN. But I’m still upset about JC, he needed to come out with a strong statement of Republican support regardless of who or what our nominee is, it is the second time he’s disappointed me, the first being when he didn’t come out loudly against affirmative action. One more time......and I’ll not only not be in his cheering section I’ll act as a memory bank of these things.


80 posted on 06/14/2008 6:28:00 PM PDT by pepperdog (The world has gone crazy.)
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