Posted on 09/22/2008 9:10:24 PM PDT by goldstategop
If Barack Obama loses the 2008 election, liberal hell will break loose.
Seven weeks before the 2008 presidential election, liberals are warning America that if Barack Obama loses, it is because Americans are racist. Of course, that this means that Democrats (and independents) are racist, since Republicans will vote Republican regardless of the race of the Democrat, is an irony apparently lost on the Democrats making these charges.
That an Obama loss will be due to racism is becoming as normative a liberal belief as “Bush Lied, People Died,” a belief has generated intense rage among many liberals. But “Obama lost because of white racism” will be even more enraging. Rage over the Iraq War has largely focused on President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. But if Obama loses, liberal rage will focus on millions of fellow Americans and on American society.
And it could become a rage the likes of which America has not seen in a long time, if ever. It will first and foremost come from within black America. The deep emotional connection that nearly every black American has to an Obama victory is difficult for even empathetic non-blacks to measure. A major evangelical pastor told me that even evangelical black pastors who share every conservative value with white evangelical pastors, including pro-life views on abortion, will vote for Obama. They feel their very dignity is on the line.
That is why the growing chorus -- already nearing unanimity -- of liberal commentators and politicians ascribing an Obama loss to American racism is so dangerous.
Andrew Sullivan of (set ital) The Atlantic: (end ital) “White racism means that Obama needs more than a small but clear lead to win.”
Jack Cafferty of CNN: “The polls remain close. Doesn’t make sense … unless it’s race.”
Jacob Weisberg of (set ital) Newsweek and Slate: (end ital) “The reason Obama isn't ahead right now is … the color of his skin. … If Obama loses, our children will grow up thinking of equal opportunity as a myth.”
Nicholas D. Kristof of (set ital) New York Times: (end ital) “Religious prejudice (against Obama) is becoming a proxy for racial prejudice.”
Gerald W. McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, in a speech to union workers: “Are you going to give up your house and your job and your children's futures because he's black?”
Similar comments have been made by Kansas’s Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, a Democrat, and by writers in (set ital) Time (end ital) magazine. And according to The Associated Press: “A poll conducted by The Associated Press and Yahoo News, in conjunction with Stanford University, revealed that a fairly significant percentage of Democrats and independents may not vote for Sen. Barack Obama because of his race.” If you read the poll, it does not in fact suggest this conclusion. The pollsters assert that any person with any negative view of black life means that the person is racist and means that he would not vote for Obama. Both conclusions are unwarranted. But “Obama will lose because of racism” is how the poll takers and the media spin it.
Why do liberals believe that if Obama loses it will be due to white racism?
One reason is the liberal elite’s contempt for white Americans with less education -- even if they are Democrats.
A second reason is that it is inconceivable to most liberals that an Obama loss -- especially a narrow one -- will be due to Obama’s liberal views or inexperience or to admiration for John McCain.
The third reason is that the further left you go, the more insular you get. Americans on the left tend to talk only to one another; study only under left-wing teachers; and read only fellow leftists. That is why it is a shock to so many liberals when a Republican wins a national election -- where do all these Republican voters come from? And that in turn explains why liberals ascribe Republican presidential victories to unfair election tactics (“Swift-boating” is the liberals’ reason for the 2004 Republican victory). In any fair election, Americans will see the left’s light.
If Obama loses, it will not be deemed plausible that Americans have again rejected a liberal candidate, indeed the one with the most liberal voting record in the U.S. Senate. Liberals will explain an Obama defeat as another nefarious Republican victory. Combining contempt for many rural and middle-class white Americans with a longstanding belief in the inevitability of a Democratic victory in 2008 (after all, everyone they talk to despises the Republicans and believes Republicans have led the country to ruin), there will be only one reason Obama did not win -- white racism.
One executive at a black radio station told me when I interviewed him on my radio show at the Democratic National Convention that he could easily see riots if Obama loses a closely contested election. Interestingly, he said he thought blacks would be far more accepting of a big McCain victory.
I pray he is wrong on the first point. But it does seem that liberals are continuing to do whatever they can to increase anger at America, or at least at “white America.” For 40 years, liberals have described the most open and tolerant society on earth as racist and xenophobic. If Barack Obama loses, the results of this liberal depiction of America may become frighteningly apparent.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I’m not going to be threatened by these people. This is a free country, and I hope to see that it stays that way.
Think about the vitriol following the Bush victory...”he’s not my president” and the viceral hatred that has had an enduring half-life. With an Obama loss, I predict an even worse recoil from the far left. It’ll be ugly, because these people have no perspective. I’m expecting violence. But it will only serve to show real Americans who the far left really is.
Bring it on. They’re all equal over the sights of my FAL.
Here's my take on all of this: The MSM and Democrat Party know full well they have a dud of a candidate on the ballot and are doing everything within their power to force Caucasians of every stripe to vote for him...but here's where they're screwing up: How the H*ll can they expect people they constantly demean and insult on a daily basis just to lap up the crap they spew out and blindly vote for their chosen candidate?! Are they really that arrogant and audacious?!
President of the United States is not an affirmative action position!!!
I’m not too concerned about the Lib elite inciting blacks to riot if they loose. Nothing I can do about that — if the blacks riot, they riot.
But what DOES concern me is that we need to win this by a healthy margin, or the Libs are going to flood close states with thug lawyers to try to tie this up in court, with the goal to steal the election.
I think Dennis hits the nail on the head here. Republican voters will vote in huge numbers for the Republican candidate. And likewise the vast majority of Democrats will vote for the Democrat. So if Obama loses due to racism, or any other reason, it will be because he didn’t get enough votes from registered Democrat voters. There are more registered Democrats than Republicans in this country, though neither major party has a majority of registered voters.
Enough Democrat and independent/fringe party voters could put Obama over the top. If these people don’t vote for him then Mc Cain wins.
If you vote race over the right to life, you have no dignity to lose.
They must be reading FR, because I’m 2 weeks ahead of all these stories that keep popping up, or I’m just ahead of the curve.
If it’s any consolation to any of you, I’ve been predicting a landslide since a couple of days after the RNC.
I’m like Henry “Nostrildamus” Waxman.
In a word YES
As far as I’m concerned, the best candidate for the job is going to get my vote. This time around, my choices are McCain and Obama. I’d love to vote for Obama, if he was the best for the job; he isn’t.
Yes. They are that arrogant.
Common values hold us together. The DNC doesn’t understand that way of thinking. Sad.
I would rather be labeled a racist than having to live with myself of being a traitor to my country and a coward not too mention being stupidly ignorant of voting for a person that has no concerns but his own and the financial handlers behind him.
I can live with it and so can my children, better to die a hero than serve as a coward.
Are they really that arrogant and audacious?!
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Apparently, if they think calling people racists will make them friends!?!?
Liberals are like spoiled children, this is a temper tantrum and by the time they say we’re sorry for calling you racists Obama will have lost in a landslide.
I think part of what is coming out with these statements is the admission among Democrats that their party is nowhere near as united as some would have us believe. First, the PUMAs and Hillary supporters violently reject Obama in terms no less strong than the strongest Conservatives.
Then they have to face the reality that not all blacks, and certainly not all Hispanics (another major D voting group) like and will vote for Obama. It is naive to think that racial sentiments will not play a major role in the upcoming election.
And he's right. If any person, religious or not, votes for a person who they disagree with on the most fundamental moral issues like the killing of babies, unborn or just born, only because of the color of that person's skin, they have no dignity, no character and no soul.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Funny how this gets mentioned TODAY, the same day my wife gets a callphone text from a 993 number that says to NOT vote for Obama because he’s a (Black).
My FIRST impression was that it is designed to shock and shame people in to voting FOR him.
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