Posted on 09/23/2008 12:35:46 PM PDT by Chet 99
MEDIA, Pa.—On a cigarette break outside the Seven Stones coffee house yesterday, Ashleigh Piazza, 23, did not hesitate when asked how Democratic nominee Barack Obama's race could affect his success here in southeastern Pennsylvania.
"It's kind of sad to say, but I think it's a major issue," said Piazza, a file clerk at the nearby Delaware County Courthouse, where in a few hours GOP nominee John McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin, would hold a rally. "There's lots of talk about his race around town," says Piazza. An Obama supporter even offered Piazza's mom $40 at a local bar the other night, she says, just to listen to him make a case for the Illinois senator.
Her coworker Jackie Zane, 23, said simply: "There is a lot going on around the race issue. Some say it just doesn't look right."
The young women, both raised Catholic, didn't know it, but as they were talking about the prospects of Obama's effort to become the first black president, a new poll was released suggesting that their hyperlocal analysis was reflected nationwide. Obama's multiracial background—his mother is white and father is black—could lose him up to 6 percentage points in what is expected to be a close fall contest against McCain, according to an AP-Yahoo survey conducted between August 27 and September 5. The survey was the first one of its kind that attempted to get at a subject that both the media and voters themselves have found difficult to talk about: how racism could affect the November outcome.
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“It’s kind of sad to say, but I think it’s a major issue,” said Piazza, a file clerk at the nearby Delaware County Courthouse,
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Mike Piazza, Republican, does not approve. A government employee voting for Obama who thinks the only reason that people won’t vote for Obama are racists, what are the odds?
That is the biggest reason the left so despises Palin. She has put the lie to the divisive, factional, racist notions of the leftists.
Really, that's a brilliant talking point. A rat would choke on it.
The man is really good, pathologically good (socio-pathologically good?) at not showing us what he really thinks. When anyone gets close to uncovering that, the damage control folks are turned out in force. What is he hiding? We have many strong hints which all point in the same direction(s). Socialist/Commie, anti-capitalist, hate America, hate whiteness/whitey, larger government control of all, including property/wealth of citizens, is the answer!
Numbers 6-8, totally UNFORGIVABLE. Number's 7-8 he cannot deny. Only try to "spin".
Number 9, scary..
The constitution IS NOT a "living document"! It is a contract, stipulating the extent of the power of the Federal Government, remanding all other powers (rights) to the States and the People. This contract does not change, save only by constitutional amendment. Obama's surrounding cast of supporters are of the opinion that constructionist & strict constructionist interpretations are passe'.
I say --- a contract is a contract. If one wants to change the wording, or re-interpret the meaning(s), go through the proper channels, as are made available in the "contract", itself. May god help us all if we keep slouching & sliding down this path to Gomorrah (as R. Bork put it) enough that our constitution gets trashed from within it own limited pages.
Number 10, he has in spades. To the bone. He might even be as bad as "slick", himself, and actually believe his own shifting, changing "nuanced" positions.
Uh, no (Barack). We heard you the first time. We had to read between the lines, of course. But we are as capable of that, as you (Barack) are. Many of us are less fooled about you, than you are. Just ask your wife. She tells us you can't even close up a loaf of bread properly. And you think you could righteously execute the duties of the office of the Executive, of the United States of America? Go home, Barack. Go home, and learn how to make your own bed.
Number 11 (Inexperience) doesn't bother me as much as what he could hold up as proof against that point, like his experience with the fairly well hidden, mainly subtle "radicalism" of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, along with such doctrines as the divisive Black Liberation Theology, which is much only (racist) Black Nationalism, behind a false-christian facade. He has "experience", all right. Just not the sort we'd like to see played out on a national scale!
A portion of # 12, the Marxist part, points us toward not a "skin color" issue, but to what color Mr. 0bama is, inside. Commie Pinko/Red.
There fixed it!
I don’t believe it. Any time a campaign aide passes out money, he’s trying to buy actual votes, not just access.
Also, any “racist” would have taken the money.
Well, I am sick and tired of hearing it’s because Obamba is black. Frankly, I don’t believe it for a minute. I am pretty sure it is because those “bitter clingers” are sick of his elitist ass!
OBAMA— Live by the race card die by the race card
The more his people accuse whites of racism, the more they will steer clear of him. In the privacy of the voting booth McCain-Palin will get their lever pulled
“Arab”...he is half white and ARAB!
The 0bama camp is stirring up the disgruntled and getting them pre-whipped for the "back-lash riots" for the racists.
Racist will soon be defined as "anyone not black THEREFORE "MUST" be republicans and the cause for the loss!!!!!
Remember the media is stirring the racist riot back-lash pot by now CLAIMIMG that "White Dems" won't vote for 0bama EITHER!
I suggest getting a 0bama/Biden sticker...attach it to a magnetic strip and when the need arises...oh let's say driving thru a 0bama back-lash riot...you just whip it out and stick it on your car and you MIGHT get your lily white butt out of harm's way.
I can’t even read another “racism” article. Racism is the only reason that Obambi’s even on the ticket. He’s there solely as a token black candidate, and that’s the ultimate in racism.
“.......he is half white and ARAB!”
I don’t know where this “Arab” crap comes from. I have seen pictures of his Father and he is pure Black African!
I have read many credible sources that BHO's "dark" family is Arab...please forgive me that I don't bow to YOUR interpretation of ethnic wisdom.
LATER!
And racism by black demo-rats is hurting Senator McCain. What’s your point?
JoMa
I don't either. I think some don't understand that "Arab" and "Muslim" are not the same thing.
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