Why Black Republicans Support Obama

World Net Daily ^ | 07/07/08 | Jesse Lee Peterson

[abigail2]

Recent comments by well-known black Republicans J.C. Watts and Armstrong Williams that they're conflicted about the upcoming presidential elections and are contemplating voting for Barack Obama have sent shock waves through the Republican Party.

I'm hearing many black Republicans echoing similar sentiments. They say that because of the historical significance of casting a vote for the first legitimate black presidential candidate, they may cross party lines. These statements don't surprise me.

[The_Republican]

So that’s what like 6 or 7 more votes for Obama?

[mpackard]

I really hate to say this.....BUT...putting myself in their shoes I think that it would be difficult, if not impossible to resist casting such a historical vote. I hope that they dont but I just cant get too angry with them for considering it.

[Dick Vomer]

If this is true, which is a BIG if

well, there you go.....

[realdifferent1]

...the first legitimate black presidential candidate...

'Legitimate'; God, I want to heave...

[abigail2]

So, how did black Republicans get to a point where they're willing to abandon their own "values" to vote for a socialist? To get an understanding of this phenomenon, I recently interviewed several black Republican leaders on my radio program. Calvin Stephens, chairman of the African-American Republican Leadership Council in Texas, said that he's voting for Obama because this is a "black pride moment!" Can you imagine if a white person in a similar position even hinted at voting for a candidate because it was a "white pride moment"? That person would be castigated, labeled a "racist" and fired.

[Logical me]

And this shi@ is not racial? BS. Keep this stupid crap up and the backlash might be huge.

[Chicos_Bail_Bonds]

Armstrong Williams yesterday said “of course I’m not voting for Obama. I’m voting for McCain”.

[TheThirdRuffian]

A truly historical vote would be a vote against the content of Obama’s character, not for the color of his skin.

[abigail2]

LOL, I think that’s our problem, that little bit of empathy for them.......It will be the undoing of the United States of America.

[pipecorp]

Ah, racism at its finest. If I were to cross the line to vote "white", I would be pillaried as a racist bigot.

[realdifferent1]

I really hate to say this.....BUT...putting myself in their shoes I think that it would be difficult, if not impossible to resist casting such a historical vote.

That is pure bullstuff.
One does not vote for 'history'.

[piytar]

Well, if THEY are going to define THEMSELVES, judge the candidates, and decide THEIR VOTE on the basis of RACE, then why shouldn't I judge THEM on the basis of race?

I have always bought into the idea that it was the content of one's character and the ideas one supported that mattered. Thanks, Watts and Williams. I now see that I was naive and wrong. What matters is RACE. Glad you cleared that up for me. I will endeavor to act accordingly in the future.

[abigail2]

Plus all the Republicans voting for Obama because they don’t want to vote for a McCain.

[Williams]

Like heck, I can assure you I could avoid casting an “historical vote” for Mario Cuomo.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Blacks voting for Obama because he is black is ridiculousracism.

[johnny7]

So that’s what like 6 or 7 more votes for Obama?

Well put...

[Dutchboy88]

There is the crux of the matter. The very cause the “color blind” black activists (MLK jr.) wanted the nation to adopt is being cast aside by them in favor of....color. Amazing.

[abigail2]

Armstrong Williams yesterday said “of course I’m not voting for Obama. I’m voting for McCain”.

Where did you hear that?

[TexasCajun]

...and Martin Luther King got it all wrong.

It IS the color of one's skin, not his charater, that counts.