I don’t agree with you in the least. There is still plenty of time before the election and this economy snafu will come to light by then....even without the MSM’s help.
I have been completely optimistic McCain will win, even long before Palin was on the ticket. There are more people than you think that simply will not vote for a black man for President. In the end, they’re going to tell you that once inside that curtain and pulling that lever.
> There are more people than you think that simply will not
> vote for a black man for President.
With all my heart, I hope that this is a false assumption.
The reasons I cannot vote for Obama are purely IDEOLOGICAL, not based on his ancestry.
I voted for Alan Keyes, who is black, because his IDEOLOGY is more congruent with mine than McCain’s. Palin is way closer to my ideology than anybody on the President or VP ticket since Ron Regan.
As for Obama’s ancestry, I submit that more people will be voting FOR him than AGAINST him for his ancestry. A lot of these folks think that “it’s about time” we had a president of afro or partial afro ancestry. Of course, ancestry is the completely wrong reason to vote for or against anybody.
My reasons for voting for or against anybody have always been based on ideology, not ancestry or gender.
I don't think that's true.
I think there are a lot of people who won't vote for a black man (um, half-black) like Barack Hussein Obama for president. These people know and like many black people personally, but Obama is not like the blacks they know. The blacks they know are religious, have American values and common sense, and share cultural affinities with them. Obama's a socialist revolutionary from Chicago.