Posted on 06/23/2008 7:20:40 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
On Friday, Senator Obama warned a cheering audience about the Republicans. “They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?”
A few months ago, historian Sean Wilentz dubbed this tactic the “race-baiter card.” Smear your opponents as racists, and if there’s no evidence for the claim, accuse them of using “coded language.” There is no authoritative racial codebook, so the charge is easy to lodge. The campaign need not make such accusations directly, since sympathetic writers will do so.
Consider Senator Clinton’s “3 A.M.” television spot. The ad did not mention Obama. It merely said that if a crisis erupts while our kids are asleep, we need an experienced president to take the call. A race-neutral appeal, right? Not according to Professor Orlando Patterson. Noting that the ad’s sleeping children were white, he recalled the silent movie Birth of a Nation. This racist epic glorified the Klan, picturing black men as threatening and brutish. “The danger implicit in the phone ad — as I see it — is that the person answering the phone might be a black man, someone who could not be trusted to protect us from this threat.”
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
But his campagn has been engineered for people to avoid even thinking about it.
Obama's ardent followers (including most of the MSM) are not swayed by logic, reason, or truth, and regardless of his positions, his gaffes, his past, or his associations, they worship him as an idol.
Those wild-eyed people represent the millions of Americans raised in the government day-care and indoctrination centers we call public schools who did not have, or would not listen to, parents and others who tried to counterweight the propaganda they heard at school...who have been raised on 60 second sound bite time spans and know no better.
You have other tens of millions on the dole who will vote for him regardless of position because he promises to keep pilfering the public largess for them.
Still othes of millions will vote for him simply because he is black, not caring to hear or look at his actual positions.
Other millions will vote for him because they know exactly who he is and what he represents and agree with his anti-American positions.
The first three are all what is termed, useful idiots, a term coined by Lennin for the dupes he got to support him.
Against this it is left to us to educate, arouse, and amass the tens of millions of Americans, of all races and creeds, who understand and hold fast to the foundational principles our constitutional republic rests upon...many of them the bitter, rural Americans clinging to their guns and religion that Obama so arrogantly spoke of.
Finally, understand that this is not the first time in history that rock-star, messianic status has been conferred on a populist, charismatic individual in order to hand them the reigns of power. Although there are many critical differences, still it is important when you consider the danger that this candidate poses to American foreign policy, our economy, our social fabric, and to the war we are fighting against fanatical Islamic Jihad terrorists, to note the following comparison:
Barack Hussein Obama is the apex of the hate-America, domestic enemy in this country. His election as president would be the greatest coup any enemy has ever scored against this country and could easily lead to the worst, horrific disaster in our nation's history.
[ CLICK HERE FOR DIRECT QUOTES BY OBAMA IN WRITTEN FORM ]
As Ringy would say, you don’t judge a person by the color of their skin, you look at what the person stands for, their integrity.
It’s like Pol Pot all over again.
Snakeoil salesman.
It’s getting to the point where this whole race thing has gotten tedious. If they keep it up, I won’t vote for Obama because he is black and won’t shut the f*&k up about it.
Now, not that he ever had a chance of getting my vote as a marxist democRAT, you keep talking about race and it WILL become about race.
...also by the company they keep. On all counts, Obama fails the test IMHO.
Or our very own American Mugabe.
I was never impressed with Obama because his speeches were nothing but airy platitudes. But this and some of his previous statements cause me to question both his intelligence and common sense. He’d be laughable if he hadn’t gotten so close to the presidency.
But nothing will dissuade most of his fervent followers.
My advice to Senator Obama is to run as a Man and Leader, and the American people will evaluate you as such, not as a victim. This is a Presidential race, based solely on a capacity to lead the United States of America. It is not about skin tone...however, perhaps we should come to expect these immature statements.
It also seems rather humorous that the Presidential candidate who was supposed to be such a "uniter" and transcend race is the one talking about it the most. If Senator Obama was confident in his abilities and character, he would not need to create a crutch for failure. Senator Obama has just tipped his hand, any criticism of him and his policies will be directly attributed to racism. I congratulate Senator Obama for taking race relations in America back some 30 years.
- Lt. Col Allen West, candidate for Congress in Florida's 22 District
OK. This stuff scares me. This guy has some serious issues. There is more in this guys background that he fears the public will find out about. My guys is we have only seen the tip of the iceberg.
I only hope that the important issues surface before the election!
Guys=Guess
That is a damn good article.
BTTT
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