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Is America ready for a black president?
Capital Times (Madison, WI) ^ | 9/24/8 | Todd Finkelmeyer

Posted on 09/24/2008 10:51:34 AM PDT by SmithL

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To: Enchante
Great post!

Although I hold out that the Sheeple will finally "get it"...I am not all that convinced they will.

They are as dumb as bags of hammers....and basically trump people that actually do some critical and objective thinking.

"A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders."

- Larry Elder

21 posted on 09/24/2008 11:01:51 AM PDT by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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To: SmithL

Maybe we’re seeing a test of the concept of calling anyone who doesn’t vote for the black candidate a racist. Is that how Martin Luther King succeeded, by calling all whites racist?


22 posted on 09/24/2008 11:01:58 AM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them, or they like us?)
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To: Salvation

I like that picture. Lets the whole world know where Obama’s heart is.


23 posted on 09/24/2008 11:02:14 AM PDT by Islander7 ("Common sense and common decency are uncommon virtues among America's left.")
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To: SmithL

Sure, just not this one.


24 posted on 09/24/2008 11:02:38 AM PDT by Silly (www.QuestionOthority.com)
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To: SmithL
Yep.


25 posted on 09/24/2008 11:02:55 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (Beware the Bear. And I don't mean the one on Wall Street...)
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To: SmithL

26 posted on 09/24/2008 11:03:25 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Gemsbok

And the beat goes on....

Vote for anyone but the Chosen One and you’re a racist.

That’s their trump card, and they’re playing it for all it’s worth.


27 posted on 09/24/2008 11:03:29 AM PDT by Ronin
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To: SmithL

Black president, yes.

Marxist, racist president, no.


28 posted on 09/24/2008 11:04:03 AM PDT by lady lawyer
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To: Islander7

I feel as though I have plastered it everywhere! LOL!


29 posted on 09/24/2008 11:04:12 AM PDT by Salvation ( †With God all things are possible.†)
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To: SmithL

YES...if he or she were a CONSERVATIVE!


30 posted on 09/24/2008 11:04:16 AM PDT by PISANO
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To: SmithL
"Add in the fact that many pundits and politicians don't feel comfortable commenting publicly on the topic of prejudice, and it's difficult to get a good read on how this issue will truly affect the election."

Talking "race" this election has really become a taboo on most media forums. I believe some of us here on FR have finally succumbed to the "pc" world at large.

Race is certainly an issue in this election and will continue to be. Many in the black community are voting "for" Obama strictly because he is, to them, black. And conversely there are still many whites that would never vote for a black person.

How it shakes out on election day, in those terms, will never be really known. But I feel safe in saying should Obama loose the pundits in the quote won't have a problem then of, without any facts, blaming it on those nasty white racists on the "right".

At any rate it was an interesting read.

31 posted on 09/24/2008 11:04:28 AM PDT by ImpBill ("America ... where are you now?")
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To: F15Eagle

I agree. I have no problem with a black for President. Just not this one. There is a growing concern in the black community also. Many don’t like Obama.


32 posted on 09/24/2008 11:04:29 AM PDT by RC2
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To: 1Old Pro

I am for all intents and purposes an American that happens to be Black. I will not be voting for Obama or any other liberal, Marxist leftist stooge. That being said I am glad the country has progressed to where a black man can be nominated for President of the United States even if he is not qualified. Imagine if someone that was not an empty suit and conservative like Thomas Sowell or Micheal Steele was nominated.


33 posted on 09/24/2008 11:05:01 AM PDT by Warrior Nurse (Liberalism is the opiate for the idiots!!!!!)
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To: Gemsbok

Good point. I’m also ready for a Larry Elder presidency.


34 posted on 09/24/2008 11:05:23 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: DRey

Michael Steele or JC Watts, yes.


35 posted on 09/24/2008 11:05:33 AM PDT by Perdogg (Sen Robert Byrd - Ex community organizer)
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To: SmithL

Who is the “minority candidate” on the Republican ticket? It must be Sen. McCain, as there are fewer caucasian males than caucasian females in America.

And I wonder if a 9o-95 percent black vote for a black candidate will be said to constitute evidence of racism?


36 posted on 09/24/2008 11:06:12 AM PDT by Elsiejay
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To: SmithL

Sure we are...just not THIS guy.

Dr. Walter E. Williams
Dr. Thomas Sowell
Judge Clarence Thomas
Secretary of State Condi Rice
Etc. :)


37 posted on 09/24/2008 11:08:05 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: SmithL

“...narrow defeat for Democrat Harold Ford, who is black, against white Republican Bob Corker in a Tennessee Senate race. In other words, although Ford lost, there was no discrepancy between what voters told pollsters, and how they actually voted.”

That’s because a Tennessean will generally tell you what he thinks, and doesn’t care what YOU think of him. At least the ones I know will.

And about that STUPID white/black/positive/negative test. If a person can’t see the flaw in that, he’s got to be BLIND. The first part TRAINS you to associate two things with one button, and then asks you to CHANGE one of them. How long would it take you to re-learn how to type or punch in a phone number if the characters were all mixed up? Talk about a self-fulfilling prophesy!


38 posted on 09/24/2008 11:08:56 AM PDT by HeadOn (Mr. President, uphold your oath! Go after our domestic enemies as well!)
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To: SmithL

I think people don’t like terror supporting, foreign born, moslem, socialists manchurian candidates like Baraq Hussein Mohammed 0bama.


39 posted on 09/24/2008 11:08:56 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Just your average "Whitey" - bitterly clinging to my guns and religion.)
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To: SmithL

We know his biggest problem is his socialist positions, but it amazes me this never crossed the mind of this author.


40 posted on 09/24/2008 11:09:00 AM PDT by umgud
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