I see you're into the religious symbolism too? 
Posted on 11/03/2004 11:19:39 AM PST by Thebaddog
I have been gently reminded that a politician will break your heart. And Lord knows, I've had my heart broken more times than I care to remember. So, many of us are hoping. No, we are praying that Sen. Barack Obama will prove to be a new breed of politician.
We've had our fill of charlatans. They steal your heart with their charisma only to betray you with their chicanery.
As only the third African American to go to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction, we know Obama will go to Washington carrying a heavy burden. He will not just be the Illinois senator representing a diverse population, he will be the only man in the Senate that African Americans can look to as one of their own.
Born to a woman from Kansas and a man from Kenya, Obama never ran from his black ancestry. We loved him for that.
He and his wife, Michelle, and their two children, represent an image seen too seldom in the national spotlight -- an intact, loving, black family.
As one of my single sisters put it, it wasn't Obama's electrifying speech at the Democratic National Convention that moved her.
It was the image of the coffee complexioned, smartly dressed Michelle Obama on the platform, at his side waving at the crowd.
Brown sugar sister
Black women needed that moment. That this Harvard-educated biracial man, who was raised in a white family, chose a brown sugar sister to marry gave black women all over this country a boost.
The Obamas are now the African-American First Family.
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Mary Mitchell is indeed a hack. She has never penned anything that did not trot out the race card in some fashion. She is a leftist kool-aid drinker who will happily follow the Obama piper to oblivion.
I suspect the gay marriage issue (GWB wouldn’t describe it that way) earned GWB votes and certainly increased turnout. But approaching social issues from a perspective of moral superiority doesn’t appear to be politically productive. I guess portraying 70% of Illinois voters as sinners doesn’t win votes.
"I do believe he is a socialist."
He's beyond socialist. He's an out-and-out Marxist.
Unfortunaetly, she is a regular columnist. And she never writes anything that doesn't in some way trace its premise back to race.
Can you imagine the *firestorm* stink that'd have been raised had a white person said that?
"The Obamas are now the African-American First Family."
HA!!
Yea maybe they are.
Still.
...Bill Clinton was the 1st black president. :o)
"It can only get better from here, if Judy Judy Judy gets launched."
I hope by "launched" you mean sent into orbit never to return. Judy Baar Topinka has lowered the casket into the grave that George Ryan dug for the Illinois Republican Party. She is blowing taps over the carcass of our state party. Judy is awful. The Illinois Republican Party will be in the wilderness of state and national politics until it sends Judy a-packin'.
Amen, brother!
You nailed it.
I do. I've sort of felt that she was a democratic mole. At least she was coopted by Daley, IMHO.
That's the kind of rhetoric that led to Keyes' strong showing last night.
I think you're overestimating her intelligence.
They are shallow, very shallow. No one should put the self interest of color, creed, or race before being a responsible American citizen and making the most informed decisions to preserve the common good of our home, our nation.
When everyone finally grasps that concept there will be no racism from any direction.
The liberals' incessant black counting is so tiresome. Do you ever get the feeling that in 50 years they'll still be saying Mr. So and So, the 79th black to be elected ____(fill in the blank)?
We can agree on that. I was being generous. I am suprised that Keyes did not get more votes. I would have thought his numbers would be somewhat close to the Presidents. This means there are very few conservatives there and that most of the Presidents votes were independants and moderates.
They will never count Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice, or Clarence Thomas. And I bet that those fine souls wouldn't want to be counted in such a base way.
You're right, a candidate with name recognition, which Keyes has, shoud be withing shouting distance of the top of the ticket, even without advertising $
Consider that Alan entered the state bashing anyone who'd consider a Democrat a sinner, and Republicans in Illinois as corrupt, morally and otherwise, other than those who drink a big glass of Keyes Kool Aid.
I admit I say that having not voted for Keyes, rather opting fot the Republican candidate, having been called everything from a RINO to a commie to a homosexual for having suggested Alan was perhaps running a lousy campaign.
Assaulting the electorate isn't an effective was to win votes. Assaulting the Republican party might not be the best way to get support either.
That's depressing ...
This hack is blinded by racial identity politics.
I'm already sick of Obama, and he was just elected yesterday. Move over, John McCain, the media has a new darling.
I see you're into the religious symbolism too?
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