Obama won’t lose for being black but for not being American enough

The Telegraph ^ | August 25, 2008 | Janet Daley

[Schnucki]

The Left is preparing its excuse in advance for Barack Obama losing the presidential election. All together now, let’s hear it: It’s All About Race. However few Americans there may be who are actually prepared to utter the words, “I wouldn’t vote for a black man”, the truth, it is said, is that racial bigotry is at the heart of Obama’s failure to take a convincing lead.

Indeed, on some accounts, the fact of people refusing to utter those words is proof that racism is the main issue in this campaign. So if you say them you’re a bigot, and if you don’t say them, you’re a closet bigot. And on what evidence is this argument, which it is logically impossible to disprove, being based? From what I can see in the published versions, it rests largely on some crass jokes from the shock-jock community, the mumblings of gun-shop customers and a “virulent internet campaign”.

The first two categories are roughly the American equivalents of tabloid headline-writers and taxi drivers. As for the “virulent internet campaign”, the internet is much as it is here: the home of the Green Ink brigade who have got access to the Universe. How would you like it if the mood of Britain were to be judged by the blathering of that small army of dysfunctional men in dressing gowns hunched over laptops spewing out gratuitous hatred at an unappreciative world?

So no, Obama’s failure to close the deal is not “all about race”. Nor will his defeat (as I believe it will be) in the election be evidence of endemic American prejudice. This election will be a little bit about race, a lot more about class and a very great deal about what it means to be identifiably American.

[Arrowhead1952]

However few Americans there may be who are actually prepared to utter the words, “I wouldn’t vote for a black man”, the truth, it is said, is that racial bigotry is at the heart of Obama’s failure to take a convincing lead.

However few many Americans there may be who are actually prepared to utter the words, “I wouldn’t vote for a LIBERAL, black man”, the truth, it is said, is that racial bigotry is at the heart of Obama’s failure to take a convincing lead.

[FreedomPoster]

I have been saying for quite some time, that based on reading his first book, Dreams from My Father, that in many ways, Obama simply isn't of America, and that choosing him would be a disaster because of this.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

The Telegraph is not a left-leaning newspaper. If it was, I wouldn’t be a regular reader. It’s stereotypical readership consists of retired army officers with double-barrelled surnames and old-fashioned Tory Squires....

[Labour-Watch]

The Telegraph is not a left-leaning newspaper.

Well said, that man. The good old Torygraph is probably the most truly conservative paper in the world. All Freepers should visit www.telegraph.co.uk every day.