Posted on 09/16/2008 6:46:24 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
http://iowaindependent.com/5627/sebelius-obamas-race-may-be-a-factor
Sebelius: Obama’s race ‘may be a factor’ By John Deeth 9/16/08 8:31 PM IOWA CITY — Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius publicly considered the possibility that Sen. Barack Obama’s race might be a factor in this year’s presidential election during an appearance here Tuesday.
“Have any of you noticed that Barack Obama is part African-American?” Sebelius asked in response to a question about why the election is so close. “That may be a factor. All the code language, all that doesn’t show up in the polls. And that may be a factor for some people.”
The remark, delivered in the governor’s low key, folksy, out-from-behind-the-podium style, raised a couple chuckles but few eyebrows in the downtown Iowa City crowd, but Republicans took offense and responded in short order.
“Governor Sebelius’s remarks in Iowa City today are hurtful and divisive at best,” said Republican Party of Iowa Executive Director Caleb Hunter in a press release. “With less than 50 days to go, Democrats will continue to try and change the focus away from the issues that will decide this election.”
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Hey, Guv! YOU brought it up....not we.
Gov., if the famous Kansans Stanley Ann Dunham and George Tiller, M.D. had met, would Barack have survived?
thank God the b**** didn’t play the race card...
But he’s not African-American. He is Kenyan, Indonesian and white.
Please, somebody ask her for some examples.
I believe that it is. There are a lot of white people out there who are ashamed of their skintone and believe that by voting for Obie, they can apoligize for both slavery and the Ray Steven mega-hit, “Ahab the Arab.”
Yeah, it couldn’t be that 0bam is a fiscal liberal, and folks prefer to keep their earnings and have more opportunity to keep earning, instead of cashing a small government check
In these days when victimhood is "chic" most folks with even a drop of black blood would identify themselves as black.
Or are you trying to suggest that Osama is not,in fact,"American"? ;-)
I wonder if she would also insist that all the blacks in Kansas that didn’t vote for her was because she is white?
What an idiotic thing to say. The reason people don’t like him is he is a liar and a socialist
The left and their handmaidens in media and entertainment are going to be insufferable if that lying, marxist, boogerflinging sock-puppet loses the election.
You've just described 95% of the residents of a city that I visit regularly....Cambridge,Massachusetts.
Bears, woods, maybe...
I used to have relatives in Cambridge. I don’t know what ever happened to them. It was like they were from another planet.
I believe he is 50% white, 43.25% Arab and 6.75% black African - so the least of what he is ethnically or racially is black.
If I’m wrong about this please let me know but I think this is correct.
Yes, she’s right, every poll I see says 17-19 % of Democrats will be voting for John McCain, racist democrats won’t vote for their parties candidate and Øbama will lose because of racism.
Us “R’s” will just vote as we always do, for the candidate that we agree with, regardless of race, sex or anything else you want to throw on the wall.
I wonder how many blacks will come home to the Republican Party after they see Øbama was torpedoed by the racists in their party?
Not to mention the fact that about 2 years ago he was fixing parking tickets in Peoria and that,basically,he started running for the Presidency on the day he arrived in DC.
No, policy and ideals are a factor. Obama’s come from Mao, Mohammed, and Hitler, and I don’t care for any of those three “community organizers.”
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