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What If Obama Loses?
Newsweek ^ | 27 September 2008 | Allison Samuels

Posted on 10/06/2008 8:32:39 PM PDT by Terrence DoGood

Racism, naturally, plays a part in the conversation. "I've never forgotten that he is a smart, articulate black man with a smart, articulate black wife," says Linda Wright, 34, a nurse's assistant from Houston."You think white people were just going to turn over the keys to the most important job in the land without a fight?" The overriding feeling is apprehension, a vague fear of losing something people thought was theirs to keep. "My kids love Obama and they think it's so obvious he should be the president," says actor D. L. Hughley. "I was just honest in saying life isn't always fair and certainly isn't always fair for African-Americans. But Obama has overcome so many obstacles, it's easy to forget reality."

There's not a lot of anger—yet—but you can start to sense the potential for it. "I'm going to be mad, real mad, if he doesn't win," says Daetwon Fisher, 21, a construction worker from Long Beach, Calif. "Because for him to come this far and lose will be just shady and a slap in black people's faces. I know there is already talk about protests and stuff if he loses, and I'm down for that."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bloat; brownshirts; daetwon; extortion; obama; racism; threats
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To: Terrence DoGood
"I'm going to be mad, real mad, if he doesn't win"

TRANSLATION: We get the Liberal Messiah crowned King or there will be a race war.

I quadruple dog dare this idiot, and his ilk, to try. Now I have an extra reason to vote for McCain-Palin.

61 posted on 10/06/2008 8:55:16 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: valkyry1

Well, “protests” might be one thing to happen. But “protests” and “stuff”???? What is the “stuff”????

Why is it ok, or understandable to some, to have rioting after an event such as the Rodney King verdict, where some black felt our justice system failed?

Why was there no rioting by white folks after the OJ verdict, in which many similarly felt that our justice system failed?


62 posted on 10/06/2008 8:55:22 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: wendy1946

“If he loses we tell people it was because of his big ears....”

So Ross Perot and Dumbo will then storm through the cities?


63 posted on 10/06/2008 8:55:31 PM PDT by Harris ((optional, printed after your name on post))
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To: babyfreep

There are tons of stories out there like this and those that say the ONLY reason one would not vote for Obama is racism.


64 posted on 10/06/2008 8:56:18 PM PDT by Terrence DoGood
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To: Terrence DoGood

I was in NYC this weekend and there were these painted trucks parked on the streets that said “Imagine loving your President...Vote Obama”.


65 posted on 10/06/2008 8:57:00 PM PDT by crymeariver (Good news...in a way)
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To: Gasshog

True...sorta. But in lumping them all together, as the press is bound to do, the press elevates the scum that commits these crimes in plain view up to and above the level of the quiet people in those same places who respect the law and end up being the real victims. The people who tell the rioters to stop are ignored, while the thugs who are filmed throwing cinderblocks at people and property and made into heroes one to two months later.


66 posted on 10/06/2008 8:57:14 PM PDT by dr_who
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To: CitizenUSA
>"I’d rather have that than the socialist “paradise” Obama intends to create."

Hey it's done wonders for the Cuban low power rice cooker industry!!!! And the astronomers in NKo. have the most unlightpoluted view of the nighttime sky!!


67 posted on 10/06/2008 8:57:22 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (I will stand with the Muslims ~B Hussein Obomunist ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Verito Possumus~Verified Sleeper!)
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To: Porterville

Uh, they won’t be rioting here in Dallas. Well, Oak Cliff maybe but who cares, it is a crappy part of town anyway!


68 posted on 10/06/2008 8:57:46 PM PDT by gop4lyf (Obama wants to raise taxes and kill babies. Palin wants to raise babies and kill taxes.)
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To: curling
How about sending me a black man like Thomas Sowell? I'll vote for him in a minute, but not because of identity politics. Heck, send me Margaret Thatcher. Same dealeo.
69 posted on 10/06/2008 8:58:14 PM PDT by ashtanga
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To: Gasshog

LOL!!!!


70 posted on 10/06/2008 8:59:18 PM PDT by therut
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To: curling

Agree 110%!!!

If those jackasses riot, should Obama lose, send in the National Guard and spank ‘em down quickly!

No sympathy for that kind of garbage...

Kinda like the OJ trial, back in the mid-90’s, when a MURDERER was found “NOT GUILTY”, and there were shots of black folks dancing in the streets and hootin’ and hollerin’ and praisin’ Jesus, in churches... What a wonderful site that really helped racial relations, in this country!

The election has squat to do with RACE and EVERYTHING to do with letting a VERY liberal, un-qualified, inexperienced, JUNIOR Senator gaining control of this nation...


71 posted on 10/06/2008 8:59:23 PM PDT by youshouldknowthetruth (http://mccainpalinvictory08.blogspot.com/)
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To: Terrence DoGood
My kids love Obama and they think it's so obvious he should be the president," says actor D. L. Hughley. "I was just honest in saying life isn't always fair and certainly isn't always fair for African-Americans.

You didn't see to do too bad.

72 posted on 10/06/2008 9:00:37 PM PDT by TheCipher
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To: gop4lyf

I have been saying that all along. Sad, but true.


73 posted on 10/06/2008 9:00:44 PM PDT by ozaukeemom (Nuke the ACLU and their snivel rights)
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To: svcw
I fear that obama’s failure will bring riots that we haven't ever seen before. Let's remember that the Islamic death cults are also looking for a reason to kill burn and rape. Together they can explode on the American society and cause major damage in all of the large northern cities.
There is the possibility that it would take months for the major conflict and violence to come to a halt.
This is a very real and plausible.
74 posted on 10/06/2008 9:01:16 PM PDT by odin2008 (EVIL TRUMPHS WHEN GOOD MEN DO NOTHING)
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To: St. Louis Conservative

From your lips to G-d’s ear!


75 posted on 10/06/2008 9:01:20 PM PDT by April Lexington (I'm voting for McCain in 2008 and Jefferson Davis in 2012)
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To: Terrence DoGood

Well, I’m not surprised.

I would like to point out that the L.A. riots (a la Rodney King) indeed began in Long Beach, where this fine, young construction worker was interviewed. I remember it like yesterday, because I attended a landscaping show at the Long Beach Convention Center that very day, and we left early to high-tail it back to San Diego. What a coincidence!


76 posted on 10/06/2008 9:02:18 PM PDT by SoCalConservative
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To: Terrence DoGood; Liberty Valance
I picked up another 75 round drum for the AK and enough reloading components to last for a couple years.

Oh, I'm stocking up on pizza stuff too. I wonder if they make pizza MREs.

77 posted on 10/06/2008 9:02:53 PM PDT by Brucifer ("The dog ate my copy of the Constitution." G W Bush)
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To: Terrence DoGood
If he wins, BLOAT for all of the Chicago goon squads he'll bring with him to the White House. Daley, Axelrod, Emmanuel, Rostenkowski, Resko, Ayers, Dohn, Plouffe, Pritzker.

If he loses, I'm out in the sticks, but with an Ann Arbor mailing address, I'm more about concerned about the white trust fund babies rioting than I am about the blacks in Willow Run going after me when the rich folk are in nearby Canton or Ann Arbor itself. I'll be carrying my .357 that day just to be safe, and at home I have a 12 gauge and a few other defense mechanisms.

78 posted on 10/06/2008 9:03:30 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (The Detroit Lions suck)
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To: Terrence DoGood

Racism won’t be the problem... Radical Islam will!!!


79 posted on 10/06/2008 9:03:47 PM PDT by pollywog (I will lift mine eyes to the hills from whence cometh my help. My help comes from the Lord...Ps 121)
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To: Repeal 16-17

the “race war” will only last until the shops are cleaned out of DVD players and boomboxes, etc.


80 posted on 10/06/2008 9:03:58 PM PDT by Gasshog (eyes open, mouth too - tough!)
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