Posted on 01/29/2007 4:24:50 PM PST by kiriath_jearim
NEW YORK -- Being black doesn't necessarily mean White House hopeful Sen. Barack Obama has a lock on black voters. In wooing a faithful Democratic constituency, Obama faces two-term New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the party front-runner who enjoys strong support in the black community. She also is married to former President Clinton, so wildly popular among black voters that novelist Toni Morrison dubbed him "the first black president" in a 1998 essay.
Obama also must contend with John Edwards, the 2004 vice presidential nominee who has won praise from black leaders for his commitment to fighting poverty. It was Edwards who recently addressed a high-profile New York commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. -- at the invitation of the slain civil rights leader's son.
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Barack Hussein will try to divide and conquer as he did in the IL rat primary.
Well he is a "Halfrican" don'cha know?
He is not the RIGHT KIND OF BLACK as far as Black Americans like Jesse Jackson, Maxine Waters, Al Sharpton, etc. consider a black person to be.
The plantation lives. Bill Clinton was "good Marse Bill" and Hillary is trying to come across as "good Miss Ann". These are positive white stereotypes for many in the black community. By this measure, Obama comes across as an alien interloper, a smooth carpetbagger who does not have the plantation's best interests at heart.
Osama O'bomba. I like the sound of it. Its hip, its fresh and it should sell with the young folks.
Hitlery will use him as a shield from real questions about her own past.
I was going to ask why it is that Hillary should be considered the leader among black voters. You've answered it.
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