Posted on 07/05/2008 5:10:28 AM PDT by Kaslin
I have to respectfully disagree. There's still a LOT of hidden racial feeling in this country that will prevent many white Americans from voting for Mr. Obama. I frequently hear people who I thought were beyond racial negativity use the "N" word when speaking of him (I feel so wimpy and PC using the term "N word").
Before you flame me as a liberal for calling out racism, take a look at my past posts. I've been here for a while, and I'm definitely no lib. Just calling them like I see them.
The unspoken theme of this entire campaign is: The ONLY reason you're not voting for Obama is because you're a racist!
I just wish one of these wussy Cambridge libs would have the nads to say that to me.
Why would anyone vote for someone with so little experience and such a socialist agenda just because he is half Black? We do not need an affirmative action president in these dangerous times.
So if I don’t vote for this two faced, flip flopping communist, I am a racist? How sweet.
Is it racist when in the Dem primaries Obama received more than 90% of the black vote? Barone has written in many ways a defensive article. He says that the “test” is for Obama, but the very fact that he needs to write an article about it indicates that the race card has already been pulled.
Hillary had the the whole of that base in her pocket. What happened on the way to the podium?? She met an "orator"...an empty suit with no experience...but a true communist like herself seeking POWER.
Go back to Bubba's campaign...The theme was "change".
Ditto!
All other issues aside, I wonder......
How many people will NOT vote for Obama because he is black (xenophobes, Klansmen, or whatever)
How many people WILL vote for Obama, just BECAUSE he is black. (e.g., those who think it’s about time, or it’s progressive or whatever).
Which group is larger?
Colin Powell, as Obama, is disqualified from being the first black president. Colin Powell's parents were Jamaican immigrants, so Colin Powell does not have "slave blood". (I'm only repeating what black authors have written.) I agree with Rush that Obama is the first "black Clinton".
Rendell, in defense of his support for Hillary, said that Pennsylvanians wouldn't vote for a black man, even though LOTS of us voted for Lynn Swann for governor. It was Ferraro who said that Obama wouldn't be where he is if he were white and she was excoriated.
I am sick of being called a racist because I don’t want to vote for a marxist, race-bating, inexperienced guy whose wife hates my country. I would love to vote for a CONSERVATIVE black candidate. I would even love to vote for a white conservative.
I didn’t realize we had a *black* candidate up for nomination for President.
I’ve been retired from the rat race for almost 10 years but when I was still in it, it was fairly common to hear n***** among some of my coworkers.
I really don’t care why people don’t vote for the socialist baby killer as long as they don’t.
I have a demorat s-i-l who won’t vote for him because “he is an atheist and a muslim”. That’s fine with me.
What is really needed, is strong leaders like Rev. Perryman, Star Parker, Bill Cosby or someone like them, to come out and show that Obama is a fraud and racist. Obama is playing the ultimate race card. He doesn't qualify to call himself black by the definitions of the Census Bureau.
He isn’t half black. He is 6% Black African.
He is ignoring his white grandmother
>>>If Obama was white, he wouldn’t even be in the race.
He is white. 50% white (mother) and US Census classified American Arabs as white. He is only 6% Black.
He is ignoring more than that.
” Or are they still so overcome by racial prejudice as to reject the first black candidate with a serious chance to win?”
No, because we would vote for Condi Rice or Colin Powell if they were running. Not an empty suit.
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