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What If Obama Loses?
Newsweek ^

Posted on 09/27/2008 12:22:02 PM PDT by Chet 99

If you had tuned in to "The Michael Baisden Show" early last year, you would probably have heard the host talking mostly about urgent issues such as "how to please your man in the bedroom" or "pimps in the pulpit." That's now changed. The new star of Baisden's four-hour syndicated radio program is Barack Obama. "It was a no-brainer," says Baisden, 45, whose freewheeling show reaches millions, primarily African-American listeners in urban markets. "The conversation had to change to 'How do we change our futures now that we have someone who might actually care about us in the race?' What amazed me was that the number of listeners for my show kept increasing even as the conversation became more serious."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2008; blackvote; mccainpalin; obama; obamabiden; urbanradio
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1 posted on 09/27/2008 12:22:03 PM PDT by Chet 99
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To: Chet 99

Don’t worry. The “national news media” isn’t going to let him lose.


2 posted on 09/27/2008 12:23:04 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill")
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To: Chet 99
'How do we change our futures now that we have someone who might actually care about us in the race?'

What a bunch of racists. As if only someone black cares about someone black.

3 posted on 09/27/2008 12:23:08 PM PDT by BlessedBeGod (John McCain and Sarah Palin: Reform, Prosperity, and Peace)
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To: BlessedBeGod

The Anointed One isn’t “Black”.


4 posted on 09/27/2008 12:24:51 PM PDT by Thumper1960 (A modern so-called "Conservative" is a shadow of a wisp of a vertebrate human being.)
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To: Chet 99

Newsweak already playing the race card — or should I say the race-riot card. This could backfire hugely.


5 posted on 09/27/2008 12:25:13 PM PDT by expatpat
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To: Chet 99

I don’t know why they are worried. BubbaClinton told them that Obama would win handily. He doesn’t lie....right?


6 posted on 09/27/2008 12:26:25 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: expatpat

The media is telegraphing a not so subtle message to white suburban soccer mom types: Vote for Obama or there will be riots in your neighborhood.


7 posted on 09/27/2008 12:27:31 PM PDT by Chet 99
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This line of argument is such a red herring. The fact is, that if Obama WINS, thuggish people are going to be just as thuggish. Don't like the president? You're a racist. Opposed to higher taxes? You're a racist.

Obama's opposition is going to be branded as racist either way. The question is, would you rather make him the chief law enforcement executive in the land before or after the thugs go after you?
8 posted on 09/27/2008 12:30:05 PM PDT by Question Liberal Authority (Don't call us, Barry. We'll call you.)
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If they can't do it with the ballots they'll do it with pitchforks and torches.

All this article does is enrage the moderate and conservative democrats to vote for McCain in the battle ground states. They quoted a Tx person which is irrelevant (TX will go GOP) and a CA based construction worker (CA will go RAT). THE ONLY VOTES that matter are the CO, MO, VA, OH, etc which are PACKED full of middle class moderate democrats or Reagan Democrats that this article seriesly pi$$es off.

Can you say Blowback?

Then when the race riots start, millions of angry democrats will be arrested and can't vote in 4 years.

Bring it.

9 posted on 09/27/2008 12:30:27 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (I Love The Smell Of Schmidt Storm in the Morning...and Afternoon....and at Night!!!!!)
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To: expatpat

If (when) there is “racial unrest,” it won’t be because of Newsweek. There are more sinister forces at work here.


10 posted on 09/27/2008 12:31:31 PM PDT by Misterioso
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Whites died to let blacks in to the society they now hate.


11 posted on 09/27/2008 12:31:33 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: Chet 99
The media is telegraphing a not so subtle message to white suburban soccer mom types: Vote for Obama or there will be riots in your neighborhood.

If you do vote for Obama, there will be the same riots, only they'll take away your guns first.
12 posted on 09/27/2008 12:31:45 PM PDT by Question Liberal Authority (Don't call us, Barry. We'll call you.)
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To: BlessedBeGod

And he aint Black.


13 posted on 09/27/2008 12:31:51 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: Chet 99

This sounds like a threat from Newsweek to Whitey.


14 posted on 09/27/2008 12:31:56 PM PDT by abclily
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The media can eat their hats


15 posted on 09/27/2008 12:32:08 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: abclily
If Obama loses and there is civil unrest the only ones in the US that are going to be busy are the game wardens.
16 posted on 09/27/2008 12:37:42 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Chet 99
"Now that the race with John McCain is as tight as Sarah Palin's smile."

Ms. Samuels sees a Cracker in a white robe behind every door that a black walks through.

So nice to see that she can leave her personal antagonism at home.

It appears that she thinks that it is quite professional to insult, on a grade school level, an accomplished, decent woman running for one of the highest offices in the land...as long as she's White.

17 posted on 09/27/2008 12:37:44 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck)
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To: Chet 99

This article disgusted me.


18 posted on 09/27/2008 12:38:35 PM PDT by sofaman (Moses dragged us through the desert for 40 years to the one place in the ME with no oil - Golda Meir)
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To: Chet 99

He goes back to being a trainee libtard senator, a few blacks get stupid about it and get arrested. John McCain is sworn in.


19 posted on 09/27/2008 12:38:39 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Paying taxes for bank bailouts is apparently the patriotic thing to do. [/sarc])
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To: Chet 99

After reading this...I can’t believe anyone in the African-American community has the nerve to call anyone else racist. Did you ever think someone may not like Obama’s POLICIES? His inexperience? Who cares about his race? Oh wait...the Black community does. Physician heal thyself.


20 posted on 09/27/2008 12:41:18 PM PDT by NELSON111
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