Posted on 06/11/2008 8:14:11 AM PDT by seanmerc
The doubts Barack Obama faces are far more existential than the more superficial questions raised about most candidates. They go to his very core as a person and call into question his values, his worldview, and even his patriotism.
He is a bit of a reach for the average American voter.
Hard racial divisions have softened in America, but unfounded fears persist. Obama has a strange name. He grew up in Hawaii and Indonesia. He had a Muslim Kenyan father who left when he was a baby. He made his political career in the cesspool of American politics — the traditionally corrupt Chicago Democratic machine.
His pastor of 20 years, after whose sermons he entitled his book, seems to hate white people in general and America in particular (despite getting $15 million in federal funding for his church). His wife says she is now proud of America for the first time in her adult life — and she’s in her mid 40s.
If he were white, with similar associations, he would be suspect. But he comes from a world few white voters know or understand, and the fear lingers that he is some kind of latter-day Manchurian candidate, a sleeper agent, poised to take control of the United States government.
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The short answer? “NO”.
He is a “God-Send”:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1975497/posts?page=71#71
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2021595/posts?page=60#60
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1974398/posts?page=104#104
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027884/posts?page=53#53
There have been some pretty poor Presidential candidates in my lifetime, but this guy is the worst of the worst.
Great graphic.
Possibly. But only if the GOP were stupid enough to run somebody like John McCain against him.
Weegee: “Can Morris get it right?”
Howard Dean helped McCain get the GOP nomination.
Oh thanks for that. lol
We need to see Obama’s Birth Certificate.
In before the dupe-lock.
The more important question should be --- is America ready for a POTUS whose politics are straight out of the liberal doctrine first promoted by FDR's New Deal and Truman's Fair Deal, and later advanced by LBJ's Great Society --- an ideology borne of the socialist philosophy?
In my conservative opinion, the answer is a resounding, NO!
Well said.
From Powerline today:
Noemie Emery observes the epidemic of Obamamania among the members of the mainstream media, but wonders if the phenomenon will translate to the great unwashed casting votes in the general election. Following Michael Barone, she notes that even among Democrats, the mania was “contained and confined.” It reached “white voters in only two places—state capitals and university towns, where he amassed huge followings among students, teachers, and employees of the government.” As for them, Emery comments:
They tend not to notice that [Obama’s] frame of reference is always himself and his feelings, and that his appeals to racial healing, bipartisanship, government reform and sweet reason do not connect to his acts in real life. In the real world, he has voted party line on almost all issues, has managed to befriend and hang out with an amazing collection of people whose lives contradict all these themes, including racists, demagogues, some of the most corrupt practitioners of machine urban politics, and people whose idea of political action once involved planting bombs. These sorts of things may not bother students or shoppers at Whole Foods, but they do bother people who cling to God and their guns out of sheer desperation, and tend to vote in places like, say, Pennsylvania, where Obama lost to Hillary Clinton by ten points.
Obama is Black, therefore is America ready for a black POS? If this is the dialog, then we are through.
Time for a cold one.
You need to get with the program and start judging the man by the color of his skin instead of the content of his character.
**Dick Morris: ‘Can Obama Pull It Off?’**
NO
How about putting ‘Bama in there with the Somalia garb he was wearing?
Great collage.
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