Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise by Barack Obama
Looks like that background is what was used for his campaign logo.
Posted on 09/27/2008 8:04:29 AM PDT by markomalley
The white lady at the dry cleaner wanted to talk politics, specifically Barack Obama.
She liked the Illinois senator, she said, but there was just something she couldn't quite express that was preventing her from voting for him.
"I just don't know about him," she blurted.
What, I asked her a bit exasperated, did she not know about the man. He's a 47-year-old African American raised mostly by a single white mom. He graduated from Columbia and Harvard, has been a state and U.S. senator for 11 years, has lived in Hawaii and Indonesia, written two books and endured a bloody slugfest with Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary. He is a married man with two children. His wife is also an Ivy-League-educated lawyer.
Well, she said, fighting for words, she was concerned that if Obama got elected, somehow it would embolden black people — black men, in particular — to feel entitled.
And what if, she said haltingly, a black president meant a change in the country's power structure? And what if, she continued, this new black power structure decided to treat whites the way whites had historically treated blacks?
Whew. She blew me away with her candor — and ignorance. I appreciated it, actually, because I'm sure there are others who share that viewpoint.
(Excerpt) Read more at courant.com ...
where’s the “BARF” alert?
Do you actually believe this conversation took place?
This is the same Hartford Courant who had the geologist who was trashing Wasilla, and the professor who had Alaska as part of the Pacific Northwest, yes?
Sounds like the story in the St Petersburg paper quoting a woman who never talked to them about Obama.
"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
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Wondering when the pictures of the Simpson’s will start to show up on this thread.
11 years huh. I wonder where she heard that.
How exactly do you spell AFFIRMATIVE ACTION and RACE-BASED ADMISSION?
That's the trouble with affirmative action...the quality of the credential means nothing because its merits are always suspect.
To be fair, I’m sure the “journalist” will go to an inner-city and get poor black people to say racist thing about whites.
One of the classic symptoms of the liberal infected mind.
You make up “people” who said this or think that...
sad sad stuff
No. This is the way the world takes shape in the minds of moonbats.
I’m so bored reading this kind of drivel. Just keep it up and whites will start voting for McCain just because he is white. People are getting sick and tired of these false allegations.
Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise by Barack Obama
Looks like that background is what was used for his campaign logo.
Is that why over 90% of Blacks are voting for Obama?
Just because he is Black???
No way......(sarc)!
From the article:
“Well, she said, fighting for words, she was concerned that if Obama got elected, somehow it would embolden black people — black men, in particular — to feel entitled.”
My take on that subject already posted here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2089459/posts?page=85#85
- John
Yes- the Norman Lear screenplay said it happened: “based on a true story”
Funny...that was my first thought as well. Something about this type of candor coming out of a conversation with a complete stranger, screams bull-shite.
And this is enough information to elect someone President? It's easier than I thought!
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