Posted on 02/17/2007 10:44:13 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Obama: U.S. ready for black president
By JIM DAVENPORT, Associated Press Writer 13 minutes ago
White House hopeful Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record), taking a fellow black lawmaker to task, said Saturday voters are ready to elect a black president.
"At every turn in our history, there's been somebody who said we can't," the Democratic senator from Illinois told a nearly all-black audience of about 2,000 at Claflin University.
"Some people said we can't do this, we can't do that, so we shouldn't even try. If I have your support, if I have your energy and involvement and commitment and ideas, then I'm here to tell you, 'Yes we can.'"
The comments drew the loudest ovation during a question-and-answer session in his first campaign swing through South Carolina, an early voting state.
The first-in-the-South contest here is seen as a test of candidates' abilities to reach black voters. Half of the state's Democratic primary voters are black.
Obama responded to comments this past week by Democratic state Sen. Robert Ford of Charleston, who helped mobilize black voters for former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards in 2004, but has switched to Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 2008 presidential race.
Ford said Tuesday that Obama, a first-term senator, has much to prove. "The media made this guy bigger than life," Ford said. "This guy isn't tested and they made him a rock star."
Ford said one reason he was supporting Clinton, the New York senator, is that he is skeptical Obama can win the presidency and worries his nomination could hurt other Democratic candidates.
"Every Democrat running on that ticket next year would lose — because he's black and he's top of the ticket. We'd lose the House and the Senate and the governors and everything," Ford said.
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"Yes, but not him."
You beat me to it and I AGREE.
Yea, I agree with Obama.
If Obama wants to be black, thats his freedom. He is darker than my dad.....
Have we not already had our First Black President?
Obama is not "black". He shares absolutely nothing with the experience of slavery suffered by American blacks. Condi Rice's father stood on his porch with a shotgun to protect his family against the KKK. Obama's family were wealthy African Muslim landowners and he lives a sheltered and privileged existence his entire life. Barack Hussein Obama Jr. is a Muslim. American Blacks--please do not be fooled by this charlatan.
That's got to be one of the most ridiculous things I've seen said on this forum. Nutty.
But only if he's articulate and bright and clean!!!!!!
He considers himself black, because he married a black woman
LOL
If that's all it takes, then that would make me an Irish-Cherokee.
Amen to that.
The BEST thing about all these Obama threads is that
24/7 Obama ALL THE TIME is starting to wear THIN!!!!
Mason Dixon
Of course, David Palmer rocks!
And that woman is the BEST thing in his life right now....
Try 24/7 x 52!
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