Does Racism Lurk Behind Every Blue-Collar Vote For Hillary?

Beacon Street Journal ^ | 5/08/2008 | John Kinsellagh

[pby]

Does racism lurk behind every black vote for Obama?

[Sgt_Schultze]

You betcha.

Shhhhhhhhhhhhush

[beacon street bandit]

that’s the whole point of my article…

[Panzerlied]

When whites vote for Hillary because she’s white, they’re racist. When blacks vote for BO because he’s black, they’re...

Oh! I forgot. Minorities can’t be considered racist for any reason since they are minorities.

I forgot my Democrat Newthink.

[MrB]

Absolutely, the left will attempt to “guilt” everyone into voting Obama with the assertion or implication that if you don’t vote for him, you’re a closet racist.

[beacon street bandit]

What you say is sad, but true…

[TeleStraightShooter]

For those enamored by and wedded to the theory of voting behavior as exclusively racially motivated, let me suggest a thought experiment. Are you listening MSNBC’s Chris Matthews? Is it possible that many blue-collar white voters may be voting against Obama because they feel his value system or world-view is decidedly out of sync with theirs (remember the elitist and disparaging bitter and clinging comments)? Could they be rejecting his increasingly apparent hard-left big government Liberalism, and not merely the color of his skin? By the same token, could African-American be voting en masse for Obama because of intrinsic ethnic pride (remember Catholics voting for JFK?), and that through the vehicle of his candidacy he embodies their collective aspirations for the potential of having the first black elected president?

IMO that line of though accounts for 66-85% of BHO's & HRC's respective votes this season.

[MrB]

The dhimmirats have intentionally trained their constituencies to believe that they are all part of some victimized group that has to stick together to fight some outside group that wants to oppress them.

[TeleStraightShooter]

IMO that line of though thought....

[TeleStraightShooter]

my tagline

so, is BHO's voters motivated more by ethnic pride or victimization, such as Black Liberation Theology?

[klgator]

Just maybe blue collar whites don’t want to vote for a black man who attended a church where hate of white people and our country is expressed vehemently. Obama’s message says one thing, his associations with Wright and Ayers says another. Add to that the remarks of his wife. Just maybe they don’t want to fall for the old bait and switch.

[beacon street bandit]

Agreed…

Obama , the “post-racial candidate” has not offered a satisfactory explanation for why he voluntarily associated with a church and pastor who don’t have nice things to say about white people.

[Continental Soldier]

“Does racism lurk behind every blue collar vote for Hillary?”

Since 92% of black votes in North Carolina voted for Barrack Obama, shouldn’t that headline question be, ‘Does racism lurk behind every black vote for Barrack Obama?’

[TeleStraightShooter]

IMO the quote in post #8 concurs

[The Woim]

I prefer Barack to Hilary, because Barack is a man albeit a liberal girly-guy, he at least has the asset of logic and we can work with that.

Yours truly,
The Woim

[Tahoe3002]

Additionally, the white blue collar workers generally have “skill jobs”, which means they are more likely to have a HS education, GED or military experience. They may also resent people who degrade them (HRC does the same thing).

As opposed to Katrina types who have spent their lives on welfare, at least since the war on poverty began under LBJ.

[ken21]

now this is rich!

hillary leads among white men without college educations

and gay men.

go figure.

[beacon street bandit]

Good point…

[School of Rational Thought]

If she wins - yes. If she loses - no.