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Video: Obama’s Wife Plays Race Card on ‘60 Minutes’
Hot Air ^ | 2/12/07

Posted on 02/12/2007 12:20:24 PM PST by areafiftyone

VIDEO IS HERE

Chicago Tribune:

The heavy presence of security around Obama was also a silent reminder of the change that took place with the announcement. Michelle Obama, the candidate’s wife, acknowledged it in an interview to air on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” in which she was asked if she fears for her husband’s life as a black candidate.

“I don’t lose sleep over it because the realities are that . . . as a black man . . . Barack can get shot going to the gas station,” Michelle Obama said in the interview, set to air Sunday night. “You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.”

Well, I’m sure glad I’m white because that means I won’t be shot while “going to the gas station.” I forgot about that unwritten rule where only black men can be shot and no one else.

(h/t Randy)


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: electionpresident; obamagasm
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To: areafiftyone

Sorry folks, but I agree with her point of view. He could indeed get shot at a gas station if he went there to rob it.


61 posted on 02/12/2007 12:41:05 PM PST by U S Army EOD (Support your local EOD Detachment)
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To: areafiftyone

The race card in various forms is front and center in Obama's campaign. His supporters in the MSM for weeks have written on the subject of "is America ready for a black president" and more than hinted that if Obama is not elected, it would be only because of the racism of whites. As if it would be impossible to oppose an Obama presidency on any other grounds.

I didn't see the "60 Minutes" interview, but they played part of it on the radio this morning. Regarding the question, "are you black enough?" Obama related that when he walked around the southside of Chicago, and visited his barbershop and played basketball, the folks down there would never question his blackness. He also said that he felt black enough when he had to catch a cab. I call BS on that one -- especially any time in the past 15 or 20 years. Maybe as a young man he ran into the fear that some cabdrivers have when picking up black riders in certain neighborhoods, but I seriously doubt that Barack Obama -- Harvard Law student, law professor, state senator and U.S. Senator, has run into that anytime recently.


62 posted on 02/12/2007 12:41:44 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (NoBama)
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To: areafiftyone
Obama's wife is a race baiter. I remember here in the Pittsburgh,PA. area about 4 or 5 years ago a black guy went gunning for whitey. One poor slob was shot dead in his car waiting at the McDonald's drive through.

What a stupid statement from a stupid woman.
63 posted on 02/12/2007 12:42:40 PM PST by 4yearlurker ("Nothing is true,and everything is permitted"--7 th Satanic vow. Sounds like Liberalism!)
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To: areafiftyone
Barack can get shot going to the gas station,”

And odds are by another Black man!

64 posted on 02/12/2007 12:43:00 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: dfwgator

Lord loves a workin' man; don't trust whitey; see a doctor and get rid of it.


65 posted on 02/12/2007 12:43:56 PM PST by Zeppelin (Keep on FReepin' on...)
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To: TexasCajun
And odds are by another Black man!

Did she say anthing about the race of a possible shooter?

66 posted on 02/12/2007 12:44:31 PM PST by paulat
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To: Mo1

Don't think it is too rough (for him). Heard somewhere he recently bought an additional portion o the neighboring lot off a mafioso type neighbor who happns to contribute to his campaign. The question is did Obama pay fair market value for it or is this a Harry Reid type of land deal.


67 posted on 02/12/2007 12:44:53 PM PST by rod1
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To: areafiftyone
...as a black man . . . Barack can get shot going to the gas station...

Yeah, I saw and heard that. I rolled my eyes so hard I thought I'd flip over.

She left out the part that he'd most likely be shot by another black man, if she had looked at the statistics.

What color was John Lee Malvo? Oh yeah, black.

68 posted on 02/12/2007 12:45:03 PM PST by TChris (The Democrat Party: A sewer into which is emptied treason, inhumanity and barbarism - O. Morton)
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To: Mo1

Don't think it is too rough (for him). Heard somewhere he recently bought an additional portion o the neighboring lot off a mafioso type neighbor who happns to contribute to his campaign. The question is did Obama pay fair market value for it or is this a Harry Reid type of land deal.


69 posted on 02/12/2007 12:45:46 PM PST by rod1
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To: mkjessup
The last time a junior Senator ran for president from a major state, it didn't turn out so good. Think '1968' and wonder if history could repeat itself.

I have lately had a gnawing feeling that a staged "attempt" would be made against the junior senator, then found to have been perpetrated by a conservative/republican/christian in an effort to garner last minute sympathy for her. Remember how quickly they jumped on the VRWC right after the OK City bombing. These folks ambitions know no bounds and we'd probably all be amazed at the tricks they have up their (collective) sleeve.

70 posted on 02/12/2007 12:45:53 PM PST by ProfoundMan (Money is the mother's milk of politics but righteous indignation is the drug of choice.)
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To: paulat

The ignorace on this thread is astonishing.

She never said ANYTHING about the race of a possible shooter.

The DC snipers shot blacks AND whites.

I am ashamed to see this crud crawl out of FR.


71 posted on 02/12/2007 12:46:30 PM PST by paulat
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To: paulat

she DID play the race card- she asserted that him being shot at a gas station had to do with him 'being a black man'


72 posted on 02/12/2007 12:47:15 PM PST by verum ago (The Iranian Space Agency: set phasers to jihad!)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
Maybe as a young man he ran into the fear that some cabdrivers have when picking up black riders in certain neighborhoods, but I seriously doubt that Barack Obama -- Harvard Law student, law professor, state senator and U.S. Senator, has run into that anytime recently.

How a cab driver know what school he went to? If a cab driver decides that he is going to avoid black patrons for whatever reason, then it wouldn't matter what school the black person went to, where they live, or whether their mother was white. It is strictly based on the color of that person's skin, and the reasons why the driver may avoid such people.

73 posted on 02/12/2007 12:47:35 PM PST by LWalk18
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To: ProfoundMan
I have lately had a gnawing feeling that a staged "attempt" would be made against the junior senator, then found to have been perpetrated by a conservative/republican/christian in an effort to garner last minute sympathy for her.

You mean a black version of the movie "Bob Roberts."

74 posted on 02/12/2007 12:49:00 PM PST by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Championship U)
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To: ishabibble

Will you just calm down?? Did she at any point say she fears a white man will kill her husband??? Laura Bush isn't exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer either, in fact she looks like the Joker, seems like a nice lady though. Is it true she sold weed in her dorm when she was in college? That was a wild rumor at one point, I always doubted it, but hey, you never know, that crowd loved to party at that time. It was the 60s!! you know draft dodging let's get s*itfaced time!!!


75 posted on 02/12/2007 12:49:04 PM PST by nuve9
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To: paulat; aruanan; Eva
He stands a far greater chance of getting shot by another black man than getting shot because he's (half) black.

Folks, let's get our liberal terminology straight.

He's halfrican American.

76 posted on 02/12/2007 12:49:05 PM PST by IncPen (When Al Gore Finished the Internet, he invented Global Warming)
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To: areafiftyone

Barack Obama is one-half white and one-half black, and just about everybody in America knows that. And who's stopping him from running for President?


77 posted on 02/12/2007 12:49:09 PM PST by popdonnelly (Conservatives must have their own long march through the institutions.)
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To: verum ago
she DID play the race card- she asserted that him being shot at a gas station had to do with him 'being a black man'

Yeah...and black men get shot...a lot. And by blacks, too. That ain't playin' the race card. It's a fact.

78 posted on 02/12/2007 12:49:23 PM PST by paulat
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To: PA-RIVER
BTW, my cousin was near death and in critical condition for almost a month. He did eventually recover after many surgeries and then retire.

As for the African American who shot him, I don't remember if he survived.
I do know that he was not running for president that night.
I would also bet that at least one of his fellow officers was African American.
79 posted on 02/12/2007 12:49:24 PM PST by PA-RIVER
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To: areafiftyone

I'm guessing Barack hasn't pumped his own gas in a lonnnnng time.

Once again, Dem/Libs just making it up as they go along.


80 posted on 02/12/2007 12:50:17 PM PST by JennysCool (Blink 182 isn't just a band, it's Nancy Pelosi's per-minute average.)
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