We can deny it, but race slithers into campaign (LAUGH ALERT)

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | August 7, 2008 | MARY MITCHELL Sun-Times Columnist

[marron]

Now what if a white columnist supporting McCain had written “black voters can’t bring themselves to vote for a candidate who surpasses them by every measure?” That writer would be accused of being a racist. Which is what Mary Mitchell happens to be.

This is exactly the kind of thing that is hurting Obama. Despite what she may think, people were inclined to like Obama. It is exactly this kind of thing, the Rev. Wright/Mary Mitchell factor maybe we can call it, that is turning people off.

Wright, or Mrs. Obama, or Wright go off on a rant, and all over America people's eyes get big, they look at one another and think "what was that all about?". "Where did that come from?" And Obama starts to lose ground. She is a big part of his problem, though she may not want to recognize it.

[subterfuge]

"And he can swill beer, hit the lanes (bowling) and ride in a pickup truck, and a percentage of blue-collar workers won't be able to bring themselves to vote for a black man who has surpassed them by every measure.

Oh Mary, you're raising your own little elitist serpent-head with this comment. All of us in flyover country know this is code for a 'bunch of bitter white folk clinging to their guns and Bibles and are hopeless racists.'

This is what I hate about liberals--they never just say what they mean. It has to always be in code.

[Clock King]

marym@suntimes.com

I should have known. This woman is one of the worse non-thinking people on the Times payroll.

[fightinJAG]

I think things got really racist when Paris Hilton kept referring to McCain as that “WHITE-haired dude.”

[fightinJAG]

Send her this for a real meltdown:

Leave Barak Alone!!

[Enchante]

Let’s see, maybe since Obama has spent his entire adolescence and adult life (same thing in his case) steeped in toxic racialist left-wing politics, by his own choices and actions, and his idea of “reaching out” to other viewpoints is to demand that he be annointed as the ultimate uniter and healer..... when he has never done a single thing in his life worth mentioning to show that he is anything but a left-wing poseur trying now to condescend to all those ‘bitter’ whites clinging to guns and religion.

The problem, Miss Mary, is that enough people are seeing exactly who he is, what he really believes, and what he stands for..... so that he has peaked in the polls and it is downhill from here.

btw, Mary, are the 95%+ of blacks who support Obama racists? Or only those of another skin color who happen to DISAGREE with his politics, and/or who happen to think that he is objectively INEXPERIENCED (indisputable) and DISHONEST (indisputable) about his real beliefs and background and commitments????

[xp38]

trying to have some fun with a funny typo...the smiley at the end of my post was a missed signal I guess

[GregoryFul]

This election is solely about who will vote for a candidate because he’s black. That’s the only thing on Obama’s resume’ that got him to where he is today.

Unfortunately, enough for the fatheaded American electorate.

[GregoryFul]

This is what I hate about liberals--they never just say what they mean. It has to always be in code.

Oh, come on, isn't that the fun part? Understanding their twisted sense of the world; well actually, yuck! (do i have the punctuation rite?)

[weegee]

Obama’s “clinging to religion” comment was also directed at the black community that votes for social conservativism against abortion and the norming of homosexuality “in spite of their own economic self interest”.