Posted on 01/20/2007 7:40:33 AM PST by shrinkermd
WASHINGTON — As pastor of the Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Sumter, S.C., the Rev. James Blassingame feels pride at the thought of electing the country's first black president. But Blassingame, one of his state's most prominent black ministers, will not support Sen. Barack Obama's bid to achieve that historic goal.
Instead, the minister will campaign for one of Obama's white rivals for the Democratic nomination, former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina. Obama, he said, is a "stranger" with a faraway home and little-known biography, whereas Edwards — "he's a homeboy."
Other black leaders are wary that the relatively untested senator from Illinois might prove weak in the general election.
"Obama's ambition could bring all of black America down," said state Sen. Robert Ford of South Carolina. "If the Democrats lose control of Congress, we're going to go back and struggle and struggle and struggle."
A supporter of black candidates Shirley Chisholm and the Rev. Jesse Jackson in decades past, Ford said he would choose between Edwards and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) this time around.
Excitement is spreading among Democratic Party activists that Obama might have a shot at winning the White House, but black opinion leaders are still sizing him up — and some are already expressing greater kinship with other candidates.
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His claim to fame is he is the candidate of the guilty White, meritocratic liberal who see in Obama a transcendental experience of "can't we all get along" or "Gee, we are all multicultural now.." That is why he sells.
He obviously is more liberal, antiwar and radical than any of the other candidates but like most charlatons he pictures himself as a "uniter not a divider" and so on and so on.
He will be tough to beat!
Sounds like a football locker room scene.
If he's not too blasphemous towards Queen Hillary during the primary he may be given her VP slot.
The stupid party will hand them the election.
The preacher is just going to support one fool over another fool!
It's all about the money. Whomever makes the largest donation will get supported.
Jesse Jackson endorsed Obama....
I would say he's a size nine.....ears that is.
I am from NC and Edwards is about the biggest assclown to ever come out of that state next to Jesse Helms.
Obama isn't even half African-American. Nor is Colin Powell. Neither are African-Americans.
The libs are trying every trial balloon -- including Obama, trying to pass him off as a Black American. Which he is not. He just looks that way. His Black ancestry is not even from America and he is only part Black. He is also totally unqualified to be a President, and he is a socialist.
Just another liberal carpetbagger.
Jesse and Al don't want no black President!
If we get a black Presudent the gig is up for them,.
Who's gonna speak for the oppressed black folks if the The President is black?
Ain't going to those two losers...
Who apparently was educated for four years in a WAHABI MADRASS !
..But omits to tell people.
Who apparently was educated for four years in a WAHABI MADRASS !
..But omits to tell people.
Who apparently was educated for four years in a WAHABI MADRASS !
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Scary, isn't it. What the libs are willing to try and put in the White House.
"I put the straw in my nostril, but didn't snort".
Obama is going to get "swiftboated" so fast it will make your head spin.
Barrack Hussein (sp) Obama is NOT running for president, he'll be Hillary's running mate.
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