Posted on 05/11/2008 10:23:07 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
She also brings high negatives.
I love how Brit looks at him sometimes. Priceless!
“obama’s got a growing problem with whites.”
yeah; it’s the problem with the growing perception that obama attracts bigots who hate whites.
The missing link is the number of Clinton votes who were/are actually true "Not-Obama" votes as opposed to pro-Hillary votes. I have been guessing at about 20%. They are the likely defectors to McCain if Obama is the 'rat nominee. That would be a couple million votes which otherwise would largly stay with the party. Big problem indeed.
It just occurred to me: Obama’s father was Muslim. We all know who ran the slave trade in Africa, as well as who did the actual slavecatching. Might be an interesting family tree to trace.
Interesting that few people realize that Obama is mostly white! He’s only 6.25% black, 50% European white and the rest African Arabic. Strange nobody is reporting this fact.
At the least, I'd say that a few years on Fox have made him more sensible. The same goes for Mara Liasson. Alone among NPR correspondents, these two understand how conservatives view the issues.
What? You mean that calling whites who won’t vote for Obama obvious racists ‘cause they won’t vote for the black guy isn’t a winning strategy? Guilt’s the way to go.
I’m not voting for anyone who calls me a European, a white, or a white European.
I have never heard this. I don't doubt it at all but do you have any thing more to support this claim.
If Obama is elected, will it become just as bad for blacks to be racists as it is for whites?
If so, it might be worth it.
Not.
Obama and his reverend opened this race talk. The Philadelphia speech will go down, if remembered, as divisive, the polar opposite of King’s dream speech.
Some whites are talking back. What HRC said this past week about her getting the white vote would have been met with the vapors in newsrooms only a few years ago.
From Dreams of My Father: ‘I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.’
From Dreams of My Father: ‘I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race.’
From Dreams of My Father: ‘There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.’
From Dreams of My Father: ; ‘It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.’
From Dreams of My Father: ‘I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, Dubois and Mandela.’
From Audacity of Hope: ‘I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.’
... and he’s not “African-American” like a large part of his constituency ...
I don’t think Williams is getting more conservative. He realizes an Obama loss in the general election because of the Bradley effect would have repercussions for years for potential black candidates.
The Dems would be in clover if Obama had run a good race without coming close to unseating Hillary. If she went on to win with him as a V-Pres then he would have been a shoo-in for the Dem nomination in his turn—and the country would have been conditioned to ignore race as a factor.
What does it say about blacks that they vote 90% for the black candidate? At least 40% of White Democrats vote for a black man. For white democrats it’s not so much about race, for black democrats it apparently is.
Obama has a color problem. He’s a R-E-D.
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