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Why Obamamania? Because He Runs as The Great White Hope.
Washington Post ^ | January 13, 2008 | David Greenberg

Posted on 01/15/2008 4:25:09 PM PST by forkinsocket

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History provides a precedent of sorts: In 1960, John F. Kennedy, a dashing, almost aristocratic figure who defied many nasty stereotypes of Irish Catholics, made Protestants feel not just safe in voting for him but downright virtuous. They could flatter themselves that they were not prejudiced while still choosing a candidate as cultivated as any Brahmin. Similarly, Obama -- whose strongest appeal has thus far been to upscale white liberals -- allows those whites to feel good about themselves and their country. He lets them imagine that a nation founded for freedom yet built on slavery can be redeemed by pulling a lever.
1 posted on 01/15/2008 4:25:10 PM PST by forkinsocket
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To: forkinsocket

Come on, I just ate.


2 posted on 01/15/2008 4:25:53 PM PST by dforest (Duncan Hunter is the best hope we have on both fronts.)
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To: forkinsocket

The sun is surely setting on the evil Clinton empire. Finally.


3 posted on 01/15/2008 4:26:38 PM PST by Spok
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The sun is surely setting on the evil Clinton empire. Finally.

The Clintons see it as a dark cloud

4 posted on 01/15/2008 4:28:48 PM PST by digger48 (http://prorev.com/legacy.htm)
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To: forkinsocket

Although Jackson did win a few primaries in ‘88, he did not have a realistic shot at winning the nomination — his support was upwardly rigid — as it became a 2-candidate race, his level of support didn’t rise.
Obama does have a shot though.


5 posted on 01/15/2008 4:31:57 PM PST by scrabblehack
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To: forkinsocket; Fred Nerks; george76; Beckwith
The key to his seduction, though, resides not just in what he says but in what remains unsaid.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Obama's backgroud is one of hatred of whites, and black nationalist power. Obama hates the America that I love. Obam hates the America that lets me accumulate wealth. The facts support it.

The Obama File

Many nations in the past have elected leaders based on such emotional appeal. Remembering the faces of our WWII fathers, we should not.

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6 posted on 01/15/2008 4:36:01 PM PST by Candor7 (Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing.)
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The most obvious explanation is Obama's stirring oratory, with its notes of generational change and unity. The key to his seduction, though, resides not just in what he says but in what remains unsaid.

in what he says = nothing

in what remains unsaid = everything

7 posted on 01/15/2008 4:39:06 PM PST by samtheman
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Sauron must be calling them back to the land of Mordor!
8 posted on 01/15/2008 4:39:35 PM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: samtheman
Beautifully put.
9 posted on 01/15/2008 4:40:49 PM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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He’s an empty flapdoodle with a pigeonshit brain and the media shuck and fawn over him like he’s the black second coming of Karl Marx.


10 posted on 01/15/2008 4:43:10 PM PST by samtheman
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Let’s put this as succinctly as possible:

Obama allows guilty whites the chance to feel redeemed. Therefore it’s no surprise that his support comes from well-educated white people with a liberal outlook. They feel guilty for the sins of white people and this is their chance to show that they really aren’t racists. Obama plays into that guilt by showing himself as articulate, measured, and calm in his speech.

Of course, those of us who already know we’re not racist are concentrating on policy and character, but the issue of white guilt is, in my opinion, a powerful force propelling Obama.


11 posted on 01/15/2008 5:00:12 PM PST by redpoll
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I will vote for Hillary Clinton before I vote for a disgusting muslim.

I said it!!

The democrats continue to find ways to disgust me!! I am really impressed!!

The media is the biggest disgusting liars I’ve ever seen in modern times.

How anyone could support such insanity is beyond the pale!!

Words can not express my outrage


12 posted on 01/15/2008 5:00:16 PM PST by Mojohemi
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“Jesse Jackson won 13 primaries and caucuses in 1988”

Very interesting. This is the first time I have ever seen this pointed out ANYWHERE.


13 posted on 01/15/2008 5:00:21 PM PST by COgamer
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To: Red_Devil 232

I don’t care how many rings they have, even Sauron wouldn’t want them! ;-)


14 posted on 01/15/2008 5:05:33 PM PST by doc1019 (Rabbit and the Hare … Fred ‘08)
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David Greenberg is a historian at Rutgers University. He is at work on a history of spin in American politics.

Wrong. Actually, David Greenberg is a leftist professor who is so deeply in thrall to leftist "spin" and talking points and propaganda that he can't even recognize how much it has distorted his own world view. The leftist dogma that he spews in the penultimate paragraph of his essay is all the evidence that any unbiased observer would need to understand exactly where Greenberg is coming from. For just one glaring example, Katrina was "a disgraceful racial scandal" only in the fevered minds of deliberately lying leftist race pimps and agitators...

15 posted on 01/15/2008 5:11:41 PM PST by The Electrician ("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
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The Big Empty O is only about running for power...President. He has nothing but words. He has not accomplished anything! He is an empty suit!Oh, he wants to give 170 Billion to those that “deserve” it; the poor huddled masses (legal and illegal who will sure vote for that!)

2008 - The Year of the Democratic Empty Shells

- The Year of the Republican RINOs (except for Hunter)


16 posted on 01/15/2008 5:15:13 PM PST by texson66 ("Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing." - Lord Moulton)
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He’s an empty flapdoodle with a pigeonshit brain and the media shuck and fawn over him like he’s the black second coming of Karl Marx.

How eloquent summary. Only thing mising from the title is "Baaaaaaarf". Whata pathetic parade of primary RATs.

17 posted on 01/15/2008 5:15:35 PM PST by Leo Carpathian (ffffFReeeePeee!)
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Obama's allure differs from the infatuations of past election cycles because it can't be traced to what he has done or will do.

God forbid the voters would care about what he has done or what he will do!

18 posted on 01/15/2008 5:15:41 PM PST by what's up
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Don’t make me take it back. Please.


19 posted on 01/15/2008 5:18:14 PM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: Spok
The sun is surely setting on the evil Clinton empire. Finally.

Hillary has invited the sun to an outing at Fort Marcy Park.

20 posted on 01/15/2008 5:21:08 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Hunter 2008)
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