Posted on 10/19/2008 11:12:01 AM PDT by Perdogg
Here are just two African-Americans off the top of my head for whom I would vote in an instant, even if they ran as Democrats:
Kenneth Irvine Chenault
(born Long Island, June 2, 1951) has been the CEO and Chairman of American Express since 2001. He was the third African-American CEO of a Fortune 500 company. He attended the Waldorf School of Garden City, received a B.A. in History from Bowdoin College in 1973, and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1976. After Harvard he worked as an associate with the law firm Rogers & Wells in New York City, and as a consultant for Bain & Company. He joined American Express in 1981, working in strategic planning. He became President and Chief Operating Officer in 1997. He is currently ladri of the Business Roundtable, a director at IBM, and a member at the Council of Foreign Relations. In 1995, Ebony listed him alongside Michael Jordan, Rosa Parks, Bill Cosby and Colin Powell as one of 50 "living pioneers" in the African-American community.
Thomas Sowell
(born June 30, 1930), is an American economist, social commentator, and author of dozens of books. He often writes from an economically laissez-faire perspective. He is currently a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In 1990, he won the Francis Boyer Award, presented by the American Enterprise Institute. In 2002 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal for prolific scholarship melding history, economics, and political science. Sowell has taught at prominent American universities including Howard University, Cornell University, Brandeis University, and UCLA.
Plugs is just flogging the party line.
Don’t you just love the “Change” Comrade Zero is touting and all of his campaign and running mate, prospective cabinet members and picks are just more of the same ‘ol, same ‘ol entrenched democrat shills.
Some change Comrade Zero. Maybe you meant change from the change? Or perhaps gimme da change? What about change is for suckers? How about “change” because you dumb democrat voters can’t tell the difference between a Marxist and a Carney Barker?
How arrogant and presumptuous! Notice how Obama and Biden both go to San Francisco to say how contemptuous they feel about the bitter clingers.
In addition to being racist, they are mentally incompetent, un-American and hate Christians.
What has some people undecided is the irreconcilable dichotomy between what they are being fed day after day by the liberal MSM vs. the truth that is leaking out from alternative media sources. They simply don't know WHAT to believe.
Here is a bi-racial candidate, with his one marriage, his one wife, and his two kids, who speaks in melodious tones about hope and change and political transparency and unification. That he is mulatto makes it appear he is 'post-racial.'
But if they dig just a little beneath the surface, the melodious becomes malodorous. 0bama is a puppet, who's never really done anything of note, who's had some close ties with some very questionable characters, and it gives them pause.
Many undecideds are romantics who WANT desperately to believe that 0bama is who he says he is. They WANT a post-racial, unified country. But they sense that he really isn't the one to make it happen. And that confounds them.
Many view McCain as a milquetoast, an unenergetic, more-of-the-same-old-same-old, typical white politician. There's nothing compelling about him except Sarah. And they have heard NOTHING but negativity about her in the media.
(I am basing this on conversations with undecideds that I have spoken with.) Biden's making a bid that, if you're undecided, go ahead and vote for 0bama. It will prove you're not racist at least. And the undecideds I know may do just that.
I have done my best to educate them, but the media has done a fine job in making US look like the rabid ones. Watch and pray.
LLS
Let me see if I understand the numbers here. 10 to 12 percent of Americans are as yet undecided therefore they are racist. In predominately African American areas 99.9 percent of the population ACORN registered or not say they will support Barack always on a first name basis with their candidate and where is the racism. Now using the above referenced numbers that 10 to 12 percent must be about 95 percent white. This must be the source of little Joey O’Biden and Barack Hussein’s fear.
Does anybody know the answer to this? What IF it is proven that 0bama is NOT a American born citizen AFTER (IF) he is inaugurated. Obviously the Dems would never impreach him, so how could/would he be removed?? Are there any groups out there investigating this that we could support??
BTW. I know it would make Biden prez, but at least Bidens just a lib, not a Marxist.
I was amazed how many of my friends who support 0bama are not aware that his middle name is “Hussein”. Perhaps Sarah should remind more people about this.?
Pull my finger, Colin.
About 90% of the state of PA is west of Philly. It would please me greatly to concede Philly to Obama if the good guys can have the rest of the state.
Don’t put all your eggs into the Obama non-citizen basket. If there was something to that, Hillary would have been all over it BEFORE the primary even started.
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