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Obama worried GOP will inject race into campaign at Florida fund raiser in June
Chicago Sun Times ^ | July 31, 2008 | Lynn Sweet

Posted on 07/31/2008 5:15:47 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776

The comments presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) made about his race in Union, Missouri on Wednesday--was not the first time Obama talked about his expectation that the Republicans will use race to detail his candidacy.

Last June at a Florida fund-raiser Obama--the first African American to have a viable chance of becoming president--said the GOP will go after him because he is black.

Obama said then, "The choice is clear. Most of all we can choose between hope and fear. It is going to be very difficult for Republicans to run on their stewardship of the economy or their outstanding foreign policy. We know what kind of campaign they're going to run. They're going to try to make you afraid. 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?"

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008electionbias; liberalbigot; nobama2008; obama; playtheracecard; racecard
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Surely you jest Obama... I mean it was you that stood up in front of thousands of Germans and said People of the World "I know that I don't look like the Americans who've previously spoken in this great city. The journey that led me here is improbable. My mother was born in the heartland of America, but my father grew up herding goats in Kenya. His father - my grandfather - was a cook, a domestic servant to the British."

Every chance you get Obama you are talking about your blackness, You Obama are "playing the race card" , you want America to vote for you because of your skin color,and you are constantly laying it out there for "the People of the World to see" .

Obama I am not voting for you.. exactly because You are way too liberal, have no experience, and because your Middle name is Hussein, and well Obama you will just have to live with it. I don't care if you are black , purple with pink polka dots, you ain't worthy of sitting in the Oval office.

I personally do not like you Obama, you are not impressive and you are shallow..an empty suit.

1 posted on 07/31/2008 5:15:48 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: AmericanMade1776

Nice try Liberal media. Obama has played the race card throughout the campaign.


2 posted on 07/31/2008 5:17:33 PM PDT by Rosemont ($4+ for gas. Can we drill now?)
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“Obama worried GOP will inject race into campaign at Florida fund raiser in June,” ...before he would be able to do it himself. So he beat them to the punch by bringing it up now.


3 posted on 07/31/2008 5:18:00 PM PDT by villagerjoel (Unfortunately, Mr Worsley's crab will not be displayed in any museum. A friend has eaten it.)
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To: AmericanMade1776

I’m worried that Obama will claim “racism” in EVERY disagreement to his Socialist agenda.

Hey Barry, why not take on your POLITICAL critics and deny your Marxist leanings?


4 posted on 07/31/2008 5:18:02 PM PDT by weegee (Hi there.)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Oh, thank you!! He’s the only one injecting race in this campaign, time and time again! THE MORON!!!!


5 posted on 07/31/2008 5:18:24 PM PDT by fishergirl (My warrior, my soldier, my hero - my son. God bless our troops!)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Wait? Obama’s Black? How ever would I have known?


6 posted on 07/31/2008 5:18:51 PM PDT by Ingtar (Haley Barbour 2012, Because he has experience in Disaster Recovery. - ejonesie22)
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To: AmericanMade1776

The only one talking about race is Obama. He is the racist.


7 posted on 07/31/2008 5:18:58 PM PDT by TheWasteLand
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To: AmericanMade1776

The irony is that Obama’s single greatest accomplishment, certainly the only one that is responsible for his being in the position he is today, is that he was born black.

Ferraro had it right. If Obama was “Barry Jones” a white state senator from Illinois, no one would know who he was.


8 posted on 07/31/2008 5:20:56 PM PDT by NavVet ( If you don't defend Conservatism in the Primaries, you won't have it to defend in November)
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To: Ingtar

You probably never heard that John Kerry served in Vietnam...


9 posted on 07/31/2008 5:21:07 PM PDT by weegee (Hi there.)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Obama is a very emotionally warped individual.


10 posted on 07/31/2008 5:21:37 PM PDT by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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To: Ingtar

Now in 2008 it is “Obama’s black?” like it was in 2004: “Kerry was in Vietnam?”

They do these things to themselves.


11 posted on 07/31/2008 5:22:45 PM PDT by olivia3boys
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To: AmericanMade1776

He’s just a typical ‘Rat-he can raise the issue when it helps him, but if anyone else does, because he does, it’s wrong. Just typical liberal ‘rat hypocrisy. They have an entrenched pattern of being hypocrites on any and every issue. They don’t even care that everyone can see that they are, as long as they keep doing it, and the Republican leadership never calls them on it. They make me more exasperated than Obama, he’s just doing what ‘rats do.


12 posted on 07/31/2008 5:22:58 PM PDT by mrsmel
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You probably never heard that John Kerry served in Vietnam...

Absolutely amazing! The next thing you know, you will tell me that Nixon sent him into Cambodia before ol' Tricky Dick was elected.

13 posted on 07/31/2008 5:23:21 PM PDT by Ingtar (Haley Barbour 2012, Because he has experience in Disaster Recovery. - ejonesie22)
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To: AmericanMade1776

.” And did I mention he’s black?”

And how will his press agents spin this statement?

“Oh it wasn’t the race card at all. He was trying to say they will say he’s a hack and it just came out wrong.”


14 posted on 07/31/2008 5:26:13 PM PDT by keepitreal ("I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message. . . until I don't.")
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To: TheWasteLand

“The only one talking about race is Obama. He is the racist.”

He must be a typical black Dem.


15 posted on 07/31/2008 5:28:25 PM PDT by Canedawg
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Obama worried GOP will inject race into campaign.

That's like restaurant owners saying it was their competitors who put MSG in the food.

16 posted on 07/31/2008 5:32:52 PM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: Ingtar
Ingtar wrote: Wait? Obama’s Black? How ever would I have known?

If you don't believe Obama is black watch CNN or MSNBC, they are constantly breaking down voters as black and white, and spouting Obama will carry black voters... why you ask? because they claim Obama is black.

17 posted on 07/31/2008 5:38:19 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: Jess Kitting

Obama wasn’t so worried when his pastor of 20 years Rev. Jermiah Wright injected race into his sermons. Obama doesn’t mind when his favorite rapper Ludicrous ..injects race into his rap.


18 posted on 07/31/2008 5:39:53 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: AmericanMade1776

The only person putting race into this is himself!


19 posted on 07/31/2008 5:42:05 PM PDT by autumnraine
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To: Ingtar

>>”Wait? Obama’s Black?”<<

He’s actually grey. White (mama), black (papa) = grey


20 posted on 07/31/2008 5:42:23 PM PDT by panaxanax (Writing in Duncan Hunter/John Bolton in 2008!)
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