Posted on 09/14/2008 10:42:31 PM PDT by Chet 99
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. - Michigan's history of racial tensions is tugging against its Democratic tendencies, giving Barack Obama fits when most everything else potentially benefits Democrats: a soaring unemployment rate, shrinking auto industry and depressed housing market.
The first minority candidate with a serious shot at the presidency is not running as well as his Democratic predecessors among working-class whites in this pivotal Midwestern swing state, partly because of the color of his skin.
"I've got a lot of friends ... (who) are like, `Oh, no,"' when it comes to voting for a black presidential candidate, said John Martin, a 42-year-old Democrat from Macomb County's Harrison Township who backs Obama. "They're all working people, all in unions, plumbers and stuff like that. ... A few of them have said they're not even going to vote."
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Typical dem fallback: we’re all RACISTS! The Obambi is going to lose because he has nothing to offer the American people - no plan for the economy except raise taxes and spend more and create more government requiring more taxes and spending and more government which in turn will require more taxes and spending. . . you get the idea. The Economic Emperor has no clothes and now everyone is realizing that.
Drive-by’s paving the way for using race as their main excuse for losing another election.
Against???
DemocRATS are the biggest racists to ever come down the pike. Minorities are too helpless to do anything for themselves so they need dozens of government programs.
What a crock. RATS want minorities to be government dependents.
Palin is going to be popular in northern Michigan, everywhere north of Flint. Especially the U.P. She talks like they do.
Drive-by’s paving the way for using race as their main excuse for losing another election.
McCains fault.
Sarah's fault.
It would be nice for Obama to tell all of those UNION auto workers there how much he supports them with the prius he bought to sit in his garage.
The writer obviously has no clue why the American automobile industry is shrinking...in Michigan.
Common sense might lead someone to question why Volkswaggen is constructing a plant in Chattanooga, with Audi perhaps following. Why BMW, Mercedes, Nissan, and Toyota did not choose to build their factories in Michigan.
Labor unions and exhorbitant taxes have a way of wrecking economic progress. So might our nation’s rate of corporate taxation...
And who is responsible for that?
don’t forget... Trig’s Fault... for being born.
Yeah, it's those darn Republicans causing all that.
Yes-sir you-betcha dey gon’ love her der in the UP der eh?
Obama would make the US into one giant Detroit.
There are limits to the stupidity of Michigan democrat voters.
Michigan's history of racial tensions is tugging against its Democratic tendencies, giving Barack Obama fits when most everything else potentially benefits Democrats: a soaring unemployment rate, shrinking auto industry and depressed housing market. The first minority candidate with a serious shot at the presidency is not running as well as his Democratic predecessors among working-class whites in this pivotal Midwestern swing state, partly because of the color of his skin.No, it's because Michigan is in a one-state depression, the governor is a do-nothing (correction, she's always around for contrived and staged photo-ops) who gets a free pass from the press (just as Obama does), and Kwame Kilpatrick, well, I think we all know that story. :')
Palin Democrats .......
The hit pieces like this by the MSM will only fan the flames.
It’s about race, it is about Obama being a racist. And Macomb County voters see it day in day out with seeing the pure hypocrisy of the indicted Mayor in Detroit.
I think you nailed it right there. They all moved South where the states are more business-friendly, appreciate the jobs and the factories can be run by the company and not by union bosses promising a workers Utopia while lining their own pockets.
Vote Obama or you’re a racist.
Well, I’m not racist, I hate all democrats equally.
I don’t! A lot of them are voting for Palin!
Oh yea, it has to be racism. It has nothing to do with Obama being a fraud, an empty suit with absolutely nothing to offer but a promise of bad decisions, reparations, and tax hikes.
I’m not voting for 0Bama because of his color.
He is a red!
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