Posted on 09/17/2008 9:52:16 AM PDT by andrew roman
According to CNN’s Jack Cafferty, the explanation for the close poll numbers between Senators McCain and Obama - the only reason – is race.
It has to be, according to him. What else makes sense?
The same way Democrats can never simply disagree with a Republican without labeling him or her as bad, or underhanded, or corrupt, or acting with an ulterior motive, so goes their interpretation of the poll numbers. Racism, for example, must be the reason the polls are as tight as they are. Add to that the fact that Republicans are masters in their ability to dupe the clear-thinking, fair-minded American, and Democrats barely stand a chance.
It cannot possibly be the ever-growing rejection of the leftist agenda or the candidate who endorses it.
Of course not.
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If it’s race it is sad but, CNN certainly can’t blame the Republicans for making him their candidate> I don’t see too many who are voting for him, so if it is race it is because Democrats are not going to vote for their own candidate. Ask them why!!
"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
To admit that liberalism/socialism is at fault, would be to admit that left-wingers’ religion is at fault. No, they are not going to admit that their articles of faith are being rejected.
I see CNN’s Jack Cafferty periodically at the gym TV and he is a Keith Olbermann twin, if you dont like ANYTHING, punish republicans. I sense a phonyness.
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Republicans generally don’t vote for Democrats. Obama is a Democrat. Obama wasn’t going to get the Republican vote regardless of his color. Hence, if there is a problem with racism in this race (that would affect the outcome of the race), it would be with those who would consider voting for a Democrat.
But, as is always the case, the Left cannot accept responsibility for anything they say or do that reflects negatively on them. Its always someone else’s fault. The Left is run and populated by Peter Pan clones who just won’t grow up.
Right before the RNC conventions this guy wrote a completely vapid editorial about how irrelevant the Republican party was. Then McCain got a big bump, almost 40 million people watched palin and now democrats are only slightly ahead of republicans in generic polling.
The only thing that turned out to be irrelevant was his liberal, elitist, cul-de-sac opinion.
CNN and MSNBC...a race to the bottom(of the toilet)
I see a little bit of a backlash on this one - my parents, lifelong Democrats, are voting Republican because they feel the Demos have made it all about race.
Then voting AGAINST McCain/Palin is sexism.
Yeah, Republicans use “racist code words”:
“I don’t look like the guy on the dollar bill.”
“My campaign is a big leap for Americans.”
Barack, do you have anything to sell except your racial background? You didn’t know what a black ghetto was until after law school.
Stop trying to project your own racism upon us.
YOU, in fact, are the real racists.
Historically, your Party’s racism and atrocities are undeniable. Yours was the Party of Slavery, segregation, Jim Crow, and opposition to every piece of civil rights legislation the GOP tried to pass. The KKK was the terrorist wing of the Democratic Party . . . .YOUR Party.
But even today, your racism continues. Oh sure, you smile and say how much you support blacks and how many wonderful, “articulate” blacks you admire, but beneath that lie is a contempt you show with your every action.
It is YOUR boot on the throat of every person whom you’ve made into a government dependent.
The black family, once the equal in cohesion to the white family, is now rent asunder. Welfare rules you created and touted as humane for 40 years have driven black men and black women apart. Most black children now grow up without a dad in the home. The blood of the black family is on YOUR hands.
It is YOUR abortion mills that are bringing about a slow genocide of blacks in America.
Those are YOUR abortion mills, which are carrying on the work of YOUR hero, Margaret Sanger . . . the feminist, eugenicist, and nazi darling . . . you know, the one who wanted to make sure the word didn’t get out about her plan to “exterminate the negro.”
It is YOUR people who say that the drop in crime in the 90s was brought about by the abortion of what YOU called would-be criminal black babies.
It is you who think so little of black people that you constantly tell them, in word and in deed, that they are not able to compete on a level playing field. It is you who seek to drive this message home every chance you get. It is you who uses this lie to keep them on a plantation of government dependence and electoral vassalage.
All we want blacks to do is build familes, get rich, and participate in the building of a civil society . . . .just like what we want for everyone else. And you call US the racists?
Oh, and let’s go back in time, shall we?
The Republican Party fought—and its people died—to end Slavery.
Then, we fought and died to end segregation, and to bring voting and other civil rights to all the freed slaves.
Died? Yes, died. We died because YOU created the KKK to kill Republicans and blacks, and to take away the gains we were trying to make.
And you did a damn good job of it, too. You drove us out of the South.
We fought for civil rights for 100 years. You opposed our every effort.
You opposed our attempts to end segregation. You filibustered our civil rights bills. You even fought against us when we proposed anti-lynching legislation.
Your officials turned firehoses on people marching for freedom. Your governors stood in the doorways of schools to prevent little black girls and boys from entering.
It was a REPUBLICAN president who had to send the National Guard—the National Guard!—just so that these children could go to school.
Civil Rights did not become possible because you started supporting it. Civil rights became possible because you stopped standing in the way of it.
More of our politicians supported Civil Rights legislation than yours did. Yours filibustered it! It finally made it through because of the tireless efforts of the Republican minority leader.
Oh what, now you want to tell me that it was only the SOUTHERN Democrats who were the racists? Okay fine. Half of your party were slaveholding, segregationist, KKK-creating, Jim Crow upholding opposers of civil rights.
Gee, only half? You must be very proud.
Guess what, NONE of my party ever was. We didn’t stop fighting for civil rights until civil rights legislation was finally passed.
You wanna tell me that only half your party was bad? Fine. That half of your party controlled your attitude towards race from the foundations of this nation all the way up until the 1960s. That half of your party WAS the problem. Without them, we would have done away with segregation and poll taxes and lynchings 140 years ago.
Oh, and let’s look at the South. When Democrats controlled the South, it was a bastion of segregation. Now, Republicans control the South . . . and look! We didn’t bring back segregation and literacy tests for voting. It may not be perfect yet, but it’s not the segregated place you made it anymore.
You have the nerve to call me a racist? To call us racists? Why? Because I am a Republican? You have a lot of nerve. Or is it because I have white skin?
You’d better not be saying that, because that’s called blood guilt. That says that I’m guilty by nothing more than my biology. That idea was very popular in Germany in the 1930s, but I have to say, we don’t much appreciate it now.
Oh, and funny thing, that idea was also popular among YOUR ideological forebears for almost two centuries. Interesting that you’re pushing a similar notion here in 2008.
My ideological forebears fought and died to put an end to the injustices YOUR ideological forebears wrought. I am proud to follow in their tradition. I have NOTHING to be ashamed of.
For what your ideological forebears did . . . and for what you’re doing today . . . you might want to think about feeling a bit of shame yourself.
You are still capable of feeling shame, aren’t you?
You can contact Jack Cafferty by email here: caffertyfile@CNN.com
“Republicans generally don’t vote for Democrats. Obama is a Democrat. Obama wasn’t going to get the Republican vote regardless of his color. Hence, if there is a problem with racism in this race (that would affect the outcome of the race), it would be with those who would consider voting for a Democrat.”
More to the point, Democrats and especially Blacks HATE Black Conservatives (whether they are politicians, co-workers or neighbors) and never vote for them.
Did Cafferty say this about Lynn Swan, Michael Steele, J.C. Watts, etc.? Did he support the nomination of Clarence Thomas. Does he support Larry Elder, Ken Blackwell, Walter Williams or Thomas Sowell? No.
Obama has already made history by beating six whites in southern states for his party’s nomination. That proves everything to me. Kerry and Gore lost because they didn’t receive enough white republican votes. Is that racist? No.
Be prepared for the whiners this November.
And, if Barack wins, will Blacks stop complaining about this “racist country”? Not one bit!
A standing ovation for #14.
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