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Mr. Cafferty, It’s not Race, It’s Obama!
Fox News ^ | September 18, 2008 | Fr. Jonathan Morris

Posted on 09/20/2008 5:58:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Jack,

I’m appalled.

Yesterday on your CNN blog you made the outrageous claim that the only way to make sense of the closeness of this presidential race is America’s racism against Senator Barack Obama.

In your words,

“Race is arguably the biggest issue in this election, and it’s one that nobody’s talking about. The differences between Barack Obama and John McCain couldn’t be more well-defined. Obama wants to change Washington. McCain is a part of Washington and a part of the Bush legacy. Yet the polls remain close. Doesn’t make sense…unless it’s race.”

I don’t know which is more shocking 1) your offensive suggestion that many McCain supporters recognize Barack Obama’s superiority (it’s so well-defined!), but refuse to vote for him because they are racists. 2) your simplistic analysis of the differences between the candidates, particularly your wild assertion that Obama, a Washington senator, is not really part of Washington because he wants to change it 3) your frightening disconnect with the majority of Americans and what determines their vote.

Jack, as a news analyst, you make a living off giving reasons for your intuitions. But, strangely, here you saw no reason to back up your accusation with facts. Now, I admit, that would have been a daunting task.

You would have had to explain why the very white Al Gore lost to George W. Bush—the man you say is a spitting image of John McCain. Then you would have had to explain why four years later another white man, John Kerry, met a similar fate against the same candidate—the one who looks just like John McCain.

You now have a black Democratic candidate going up against “a third Bush term”—as you dub it.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; 2008polls; brownshirts; cafferty; clown; cnn; drunklookingclown; election; electionpresident; elections; issues; mccain; mccainpalin; obama; obamabiden; racism
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Didn't know I was such a bigot...
1 posted on 09/20/2008 5:58:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Me neither... but this line of attack isn't helping Obama. Just the opposite.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

2 posted on 09/20/2008 6:00:30 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If you’ll check into this mutant’s bio you’ll find he “hit-and-ran” a bicyclist while drunk. This is the type of a-hole they put on the air!


3 posted on 09/20/2008 6:01:11 PM PDT by Doc Savage ("Are you saying Jesus can't hit a curve ball? - Harris to Cerrano - Major League)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

From a earlier post we aren’t the racist it is the white democrats that are racist. Republicans/conservatives just come out and say they won’t vote or any democrat. Hard to put racism to that kind of a statement.


4 posted on 09/20/2008 6:01:55 PM PDT by engrpat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Democrats and their media allies are turning to a new, desperate, and very dangerous tactic. Rush talked about it on Friday, but he missed the mark. Rush said that Democrats are preparing the argument that racism was to blame when 0bama loses. It is, in my view, a far more dangerous strategy than that.

What Democrats are actually doing is setting the table for holding America hostage on election day. 0bama and his surrogates are race-baiting in order to agitate minorities in what will be the final tense days of the election. There will be an outright threat of racial violence and rioting if 0bama loses made in the final 48 to 72 hours. The goal is to intimidate America into voting for 0bama or face the consequences, much like the OJ Simpson jury was faced with finding OJ not guilty or watching LA burn.

Rush didn’t take his hypothesis to its natural, obvious conclusion. This is not about having an excuse the day after. This is about making a threat the day before.


5 posted on 09/20/2008 6:04:48 PM PDT by counterpunch (Jim Jones was a Community Organizer)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“Race is arguably the biggest issue in this election, and it’s one that nobody’s talking about. The differences between Barack Obama and John McCain couldn’t be more well-defined. Obama wants to change Washington. McCain is a part of Washington and a part of the Bush legacy. Yet the polls remain close. Doesn’t make sense…unless it’s race.”

No you idiot, I would not care if Obama was purple, I’m still not voting for a Communist!

6 posted on 09/20/2008 6:04:53 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (No longer holding my nose to vote - McCain/Palin 2008!)
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To: counterpunch

“much like the OJ Simpson jury was faced with finding OJ not guilty or watching LA burn”

And what does that say about our fellow ‘citizens’?


7 posted on 09/20/2008 6:08:10 PM PDT by combat_boots (God, gun and babies. Justices, taxes and sovereignty. Otherwise known as White Trash. Count me in.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Stop trying to project your own racism upon us, Jack

YOU, Jack, are in fact, are the real racist.

Historically, your Party’s racism and atrocities are undeniable. Yours was the Party of Slavery, segregation, Jim Crow, and opposition to every piece of civil rights legislation the GOP tried to pass. The KKK was the terrorist wing of the Democratic Party . . . .YOUR Party.

But even today, your racism continues. Oh sure, Jack, you smile and say how much you support blacks and how many wonderful, “articulate” blacks you admire, but beneath that lie is a contempt you show with your every action.

It is YOUR boot on the throat of every person whom you’ve made into a government dependent.

The black family, once the equal in cohesion to the white family, is now rent asunder. Welfare rules you created and touted as humane for 40 years have driven black men and black women apart. Most black children now grow up without a dad in the home. The blood of the black family is on YOUR hands.

It is YOUR abortion mills that are bringing about a slow genocide of blacks in America.

Those are YOUR abortion mills, which are carrying on the work of YOUR hero, Margaret Sanger . . . the feminist, eugenicist, and nazi darling . . . you know, the one who wanted to make sure the word didn’t get out about her plan to “exterminate the negro.”

It is YOUR people who say that the drop in crime in the 90s was brought about by the abortion of what YOU called would-be criminal black babies.

It is you who think so little of black people that you constantly tell them, in word and in deed, that they are not able to compete on a level playing field. It is you who seek to drive this message home every chance you get. It is you who uses this lie to keep them on a plantation of government dependence and electoral vassalage.

All we want blacks to do is build familes, get rich, and participate in the building of a civil society . . . .just like what we want for everyone else. And you call US the racists?

Oh, and let’s go back in time, shall we, Jack?

The Republican Party fought—and its people died—to end Slavery.

Then, we fought and died to end segregation, and to bring voting and other civil rights to all the freed slaves.

Died? Yes, died. We died because YOU created the KKK to kill Republicans and blacks, and to take away the gains we were trying to make.

And you and your party, did a damn good job of it, too. You drove us out of the South.

We fought for civil rights for 100 years. You and your party opposed our every effort.

You and your party opposed our attempts to end segregation. You and your party filibustered our civil rights bills. You and your party even fought against us when we proposed anti-lynching legislation.

Your officials turned firehoses on people marching for freedom. Your governors stood in the doorways of schools to prevent little black girls and boys from entering.

It was a REPUBLICAN president who had to send the National Guard—the National Guard!—just so that these children could go to school.

Civil Rights did not become possible because you started supporting it. Civil rights became possible because you stopped standing in the way of it.

More of our politicians supported Civil Rights legislation than yours did. Yours filibustered it! It finally made it through because of the tireless efforts of the Republican minority leader.

Oh what, now you want to tell me that it was only the SOUTHERN Democrats who were the racists? Okay fine. Half of your party were slaveholding, segregationist, KKK-creating, Jim Crow upholding opposers of civil rights.

Gee, only half? You must be very proud.

Guess what, NONE of my party ever was. We didn’t stop fighting for civil rights until civil rights legislation was finally passed.

You wanna tell me that only half your party was bad? Fine. That half of your party controlled your attitude towards race from the foundations of this nation all the way up until the 1960s. That half of your party WAS the problem. Without them, we would have done away with segregation and poll taxes and lynchings 140 years ago.

Oh, and let’s look at the South. When Democrats controlled the South, it was a bastion of segregation. Now, Republicans control the South . . . and look! We didn’t bring back segregation and literacy tests for voting. It may not be perfect yet, but it’s not the segregated place you made it anymore.

You have the nerve to call me a racist? To call us racists? Why? Because I am a Republican? You have a lot of nerve. Or is it because I have white skin?

You’d better not be saying that, because that’s called blood guilt. That says that I’m guilty by nothing more than my biology. That idea was very popular in Germany in the 1930s, but I have to say, we don’t much appreciate it now.

Oh, and funny thing, that idea was also popular among YOUR ideological forebears for almost two centuries. Interesting that you’re pushing a similar notion here in 2008.

My ideological forebears fought and died to put an end to the injustices YOUR ideological forebears wrought. I am proud to follow in their tradition. I have NOTHING to be ashamed of.

For what your ideological forebears did . . . and for what you’re doing today . . . you might want to think about feeling a bit of shame yourself.

You are still capable of feeling shame, Jack, aren’t you ?


8 posted on 09/20/2008 6:09:22 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (I will not vote for Obama not because he is black, but because he is RED)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"You're only firing me because I'm black."
"Nope. I hired you because you're black. I'm firing you because you're a lousy cop!"
Kenny Baker and Victor French, "Carter Country", c. 1977.
9 posted on 09/20/2008 6:09:35 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Teachers open the door. It's up to you to enter.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All

This is really simple and you should not over think the issue.

If you are not black and vote against Obama you are a racist.

Accept it and move on.

It will save a lot of typing and free you up to read other material or get on with the household chores!

By the way, I have found nothing in the election laws that say I must vote for Obama because he is black.

(Well actually half white and maybe arab and muslim )

So, have a nice day now that you have come to grips with your inherent racism and move on to something productive.


10 posted on 09/20/2008 6:10:07 PM PDT by Calamari (Pass enough laws and everyone is guilty of something.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I am bigoted against communists. So sorry.


11 posted on 09/20/2008 6:10:13 PM PDT by devere
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
four years later another white man, John Kerry, met a similar fate against the same candidate—the one who looks just like John McCain.

Just as a side note, President Bush is good looking. Kerry was nothing of the sort.

12 posted on 09/20/2008 6:13:05 PM PDT by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t like Barry because I am predudiced against Marxists. Does that make me bad?


13 posted on 09/20/2008 6:13:05 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They both hate Jews
14 posted on 09/20/2008 6:15:14 PM PDT by ari-freedom (We never hide from history. We make history!)
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To: Ouderkirk

Bumping an EXCELLENT rant at post #8...one to treasure!

Great job.


15 posted on 09/20/2008 6:20:27 PM PDT by Christian4Bush (No way, No how, NObama! *************McCain/Palin 08************)
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To: Ouderkirk; Chieftain

Excellant post...ping a ling.


16 posted on 09/20/2008 6:30:58 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (GOD BLESS GEORGIA! SAVE GEORGIA, OUR ALLY, NOW!)
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To: counterpunch

Buy more ammunition.


17 posted on 09/20/2008 6:31:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Barack Obama: In Error and arrogant -- he's errogant!)
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To: engrpat
just come out and say they won’t vote or any democrat.

That's exactly what I say and it true.

18 posted on 09/20/2008 6:34:31 PM PDT by BARLF
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. . .

"Doesn’t make sense…unless it's race."

Jack, Barak has been misleading us all he's conservative. He brags to his staff that he's a black Barry Goldwater -- why do you think he liked being called Barry as he grew up?

"What!"

Yes..

"I'm not voting for the S.O.B.!"

19 posted on 09/20/2008 6:36:05 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I wonder, could Cafferty explain why prior to the primaries (indeed, until about halfway through them) Obama had, excellent name recognition, huge positives and low negatives? Does he think people didn’t know he was black?


20 posted on 09/20/2008 6:37:33 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (*******It's not conservative to accept an inept Commander-in-Chief in a time of war. Back Mac.******)
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