OBAMA: IF YOU LOOK AFRICAN-AMERICAN, YOU ARE TREATED LIKE ONE

Drudge Report ^ | February 9, 2007

[ConservativeStatement]

Acknowledging that his presidential campaign has opened a racial debate, Sen. Barack Obama, who has a white mother and an African father, says if you look African-American, you are treated like one. Obama and his wife, Michelle, who also addresses the race issue, appear in an interview with Steve Kroft to be broadcast on 60 MINUTES, Sunday Feb. 11 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS television Network. If, as expected, Obama declares his formal candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination tomorrow, it will be his first interview to be broadcast after that event.

[ConservativeStatement]

This is on Drudge, I don't think it has been posted.

[The Blitherer]

...Unless you are a black Republican, in which case you are called an "oreo" by democrats.

[Dreagon]

The more Obama plays the race card in any way, the more credibility he loses with voters.

[ConservativeStatement]

And then there are John Edwards' anti-Catholic duo. Typical liberals.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

sigh..I guess it's time for the left to come out with their "if you don't support obama you're a racist" line..

[EagleUSA]

How about "If you look like a Muslim, how are you treated?"

I guess Osama Obama was watching Pelosi on the news playing the gender card, and thought he would pick up on the momentum. Playing the race card like the liberal that he is.

[GottaLuvAkitas1]

"OBAMA: IF YOU LOOK AFRICAN-AMERICAN, YOU ARE TREATED LIKE ONE"

But if you look like Dumbo do people treat you like an elephant?

[sageb1]

"realities are that as a black man... Barack can get shot going to the gas station"


??????

[Frank_2001]

If a black Republican candidate said what Obama did, his career would be over....

[rottndog]

I knew Obama was just another race hustler when he said the same people that wouldn't vote for him because of his policy positions are the same ones that wouldn't vote for him because of his skin color.

Just another race baiting poverty pimp.

[AngryJawa]

Paging Reverend Sharpton, a Reverend Al Sharpton...please pick up the black courtesy phone...

[BenLurkin]

And if you look like an empty suit slickter with no experience then you will be treated like and empty suit slickster with no experience.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

LOL!!!!

[albie]

"OBAMA: IF YOU LOOK AFRICAN-AMERICAN, YOU ARE TREATED LIKE ONE"


...what if he looked like a duck and walked like a duck?

[tiger-one]

I still want see his birth certificate

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

No doubt...by another Black man who is into Rap music and the anti-white culture.

[Izzy Dunne]

And if you look like an empty suit slickter with no experience then you will be treated like and empty suit slickster with no experience.

Except on 60 Minutes.

[Sally'sConcerns]

Oh good grief! I don't treat blacks any differently than I treat any other human being. Having said that though, I do realize there are people who are racist and who treat people of color differently. Hmmm, wonder if he's including democrats treating him differently because of his skin color.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Well, by society, yes. There is nothing false about that. Black blood has always been viewed as an impurity by society-- like adding a drop of muddy water to clear water gives you a bowl of muddy water.

[spectre]

Unless you are a Black Republican, then the Democrats treat you like an "Uncle Tom"..

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