Posted on 06/21/2008 12:42:46 PM PDT by Red Steel
Barack Obama told a group of Florida donors Friday night that Republicans will try to make voters afraid of him, and suggested they would use his race to scare up votes for John McCain.
Apparently girding for a nasty general election fight, the Illinois senator has in recent days predicted that independent GOP groups are waiting in the wings to attack him, and said his presumptive GOP rival is already “fear-mongering” when it comes to foreign policy.
But his comments Friday night in Jacksonville, Fla., seemed to reflect elevated concerns that his campaign to be the first black president would run headlong into political race baiters.
“We know what kind of campaign they’re going to run. They’re going to try to make you afraid,” Obama said at the fundraiser. “They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black? He’s got a feisty wife.”
The crowd of supporters cheered, and Obama added: “We know the strategy because they’ve already shown their cards. Ultimately I think the American people recognize that old stuff hasn’t moved us forward. That old stuff just divides us.”
He said Republicans would be unable to run on the economy or foreign policy, so the election would ultimately boil down to a choice between “hope and fear.”
His “feisty wife” comment was probably a reference to a Tennessee GOP ad that criticized Michelle Obama for saying in February that she was proud of her country for the first time.
Obama mentioned the ad Friday afternoon at a press conference, where he defended his announcement
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The mere fact that he would mention it is race baiting in my book.
Obeyme’s politics of preemption.
Again, if elected, he would NOT be the first black president. He would be the first bi-racial president.
Why does the media always ignore that fact?
Um, nevermind, I already know the answer to that question.
John McCain needs to say:
“If you are going to vote for me because my opponent is African American then I do not want your vote. Stay Home on Election Day.”
america needs to fear this marxist trash being president even if he was orange with purple stripes. race has nothing to do with it.
How is McCain not completely, totally kicking this idiot’s ass?
Who the hell needs to mention race?
Just the senator’s stated positions on the issues should be MORE than enough, sans not only race but the infantile name mangling and unsubstantiated rumors- don’t need ‘em, the votes and statements of the man are necessary and sufficient to either elect senator McCain or prove this country worthy of destruction.
Using race to “scare voters” is really dumb when you’re dealing with a wealth-redistributing, Marxist who believes that the way to lower the price at the pump is to tax the hell out of “Big Oil.” If you want to REALLY scare the voters, tell them that!!!
"Ultimately I think the American people recognize that old stuff hasn’t moved us forward. That old stuff just divides us."
Bring up this Obama quote next time his comrades (Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, et al.) start demanding reparations from "whitey." Actually, hell, since the old stuff (i.e., racism) is just so divisive, why not end affirmative action right now?
No, he doesn’t need to say that. I really don’t care HOW we defeat Obama, but he needs to be defeated.
Sorry dude, I really don’t care WHY people vote against him, but they need to.
And if he did say that, and they stayed home, the result would be a President Obama.
There are plenty of Democrats as well who fit into the category described.
Does anyone doubt that Obama will base his entire campaign on racism?
Odumbo is always putting a foot in hiss mouth so all Mccain has to do is wait and odumbo will change or “explain” his position again
But the truth is independent in its own sphere and will survive his manipulations and be apparent in any case.
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
No, John McCain needs to say: “Those who will vote for a dangerous and total idiot just because he’s black, need to stay home on all election days.”
If I were McCain, I’d say:
“My opponent has said that my campaign and my party, are going to use race against him to scare voters. He can think whatever he wants, but here’s the truth. Obama reads from the book of Karl Marx and Lenin. He wants to nationalize everything, and wants to stop us from solving our energy crisis. You should be scared, and I challenege Senator Obama to look at what I just said and find one reference to race that wasn’t his own.”
How race plays out will be up to him. If he keeps ragging on it, he will get the blowback he deserves. Americans have heard nothing but race for fifty years and most are tired of it. Obama lights this fire at his own peril.
Mr. Obama, you have previously supported reparations for descendents of the victims of slavery. I assume that you have not changed your position on that. Being as over 100,000 Americans fought and died in granting freedom to the slaves, would you also agree that the descendents of those brave soldiers should also be granted reparations?
It would be a lose-lose question.
As if the Dems don’t play the race card. Come October expect the Dems to run ads blaming Bush for killing black folks at Katrina and church burnings.
Now, "African" is not a race, as I know from my nephew's ex-wife who is an African. She is Caucasian, and Jewish, and was born in South Africa. But, take Obama's father's race as being "African" but meaning "black."
Okay, that means he is half African, and half American. That means, either way, that he's "half-rican." To make things simple, I prefer to call him an inexperienced sorta-white guy who's dumb as a hoe handle on all the major issues that a President has to deal with.
But, if he chooses to push the race issue, let's just call him a "half-rican" who shouldn't get into the White House without a visitor's pass.
Congressman Billybob
Someone needs to photoshop obama’s pic and name on this.
Obama is a socialist who would expand government regulation over our lives, increase taxes, and thereby undermine freedom and capitalism. He would have us signing the UN’s Kyoto agreement, which would cost our economy hundreds of billions of dollars, if not a trillion dollars. His favorite church preaches hatred of America and hatred of whites. His friends include felons. He would attempt to appease terrorists and terror sponsoring nations. He would dangerously weaken our national defense. In terms of experience, he is a lightweight - unqualified to be president. These are reasons enough to vote for John McCain, to be sure Obama never sets foot in the Oval Office except as a visitor.
How racist and bigoted of him to do so
Obama is following the "one drop rule".
The GOP doesn’t need to say a single word about race. The fact that Obama says the GOP will do it is good enough for his supporters (and the media, but I repeat myself) to call the GOP racists.
That is an outright race card play.
Actually, the best response when Democrats bring up "reparations" is to say: "Until the Democrats step up to the plate and apologize for the Democrat Party's leading role in implementing and perpetuating slavery and Jim Crow, and opposing integration and civil rights, and until the Democrats empty their own party coffers to make reparations payments, there is nothing to discuss."
The fact is that there is no single active institution in America today that has profited more, and gained more power, from a direc involvement in slavery and Jim Crow than the Democrat Party.
I agree...and say it loudly and repeatedly...That will dampen the effect of attempts at using race as a way of coercing people into voting for Obama...
I’ve already heard the “you’re not voting for him because he’s black” line and if not addressed now, I see it getting worse and worse as the election approaches. Everyday people, especially guilty, liberal whites, will parade that to everyone who will vote McCain...It will become so bad that no one will admit puclicly that they will be voting for McCain.
Voters are already scared of Obama, without race being brought up.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Race isn’t the problem - socialism is!
Say What!
No one in the Republican party needs to mention any characteristic about Obama outside the fact that he is a Marxist and will remake this country into a third world toilet when all the businesses leave to escape taxation and regulation.
The point is that it is racist to vote for Obama because he is black and it is racist to vote for McCain because he white.
Correct. The man is no more black than white. His racial profile demonstrates who the real racists are. Republicans do not need to create fear, Obama carries it with him as a badge of honor. His candidacy is built on fear and revolution.
Obama's candidacy is, after all is said and done, the achievement of the communist cabal that has been working in this country for 60 years.
We are at a T in the road. As a nation we will turn left toward the final assimilation of our government and society by Marxism, or right toward a reaffirmation of the founding principles that made this a great nation.
All he is good for is to whine, that is what he does constantly and I am sick of it.
Exactly.
Absolutely agree.
As has been said so many times here, don't care WHAT color he is, he's a commie. End of story. Scare the stupid masses with THAT.
Obama the Post Turtle: The old rancher said, 'When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a 'post turtle'.'
1. 'You know he didn't get up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there.
2. He doesn't know what to do while he is up there..
3. You just wonder what kind of a dumb ass put him up there!
Sorry, race doesn’t scare me half as much as liars, posers and marxists.
Exactly.
These 'RATS are so transparent. If you want to know what the 'RATs themselves are doing, look at what they're accusing Republicans of doing. Their play-book never changes - that's why they're so predictable.
Is O talking about typical white GOP voters, or atypical white GOP voters?
If the republicans want to scare voters, all they have to do is point to his lack of experience, anti-semitic acolytes, socialistic policies, American hating wife, his “church”, his so-called spiritual leaders, his terroristic “friends”, his choice of Chicago political sponsors, his appeasement mentality, his arrogance, his messianic complex, and much much more. Really, his race is the least scary of this list.
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