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4 Years Later, Race Is Still Issue for Some Voters (It's not called enemedia for nothing!)
The New York Times ^ | May 3, 2012 | Sabrina Tavernise

Posted on 05/03/2012 9:12:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — This is the land of die-hard Democrats — mill workers, coal miners and union members. They have voted party line for generations, forming a reliable constituency for just about any Democrat who decides to run for office.

But when it comes to President Obama, a small part of this constituency balks.

“Certain precincts in this county are not going to vote for Obama,” said John Corrigan, clerk of courts for Jefferson County, who was drinking coffee in a furniture shop downtown one morning last week with a small group of friends, retired judges and civil servants. “I don’t want to say it, but we all know why.”

A retired state employee, Jason Foreman, interjected, “I’ll say it: it’s because he’s black.”

For nearly three and a half years, a black family has occupied the White House, and much of the time what has been most remarkable about that fact is how unremarkable it has become to the country. While Mr. Obama will always be known to the history books as the country’s first black president, his mixed-race heritage has only rarely surfaced in visible and explicit ways amid the tumult of a deep recession, two wars and shifting political currents....

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: lmm; obama; ohio
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This, "saving" General Motors and Osama are what they're going to run on? That's all they've got?
1 posted on 05/03/2012 9:12:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Enemedia. I like that. Is that a contraction of the enemy media, enema media or both?


2 posted on 05/03/2012 9:16:54 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est; zero sera dans l'enfer bientot.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
That's all they've got.

Oh, and you're racist if you don't vote for him.

This is why I predict with 100% certainty that the October Surprise (August, actually) will be that we will be in a shooting war with Iran.

3 posted on 05/03/2012 9:19:25 PM PDT by Lazamataz (To the wall, street occupiers!!!!!)
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That's all they've got.

Oh, and you're racist if you don't vote for him.

This is why I predict with 100% certainty that the October Surprise (August, actually) will be that we will be in a shooting war with Iran.

4 posted on 05/03/2012 9:19:37 PM PDT by Lazamataz (To the wall, street occupiers!!!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Even multi generational brain dead dim voters can see when their life, and future progeny are in dire peril.


5 posted on 05/03/2012 9:19:37 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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4 Years Later, Race Is Still Issue for Some Voters

I'm not going to click thru to the NYT, but from the tone of the excerpt I'm guessing that the clueless author of the article never considered that for more than 80% of black voters, the President's race is what matters as far as casting their vote.

Curious blindness, isn't it? (no, actually it's not - this is the NYT we're talking about after all)

6 posted on 05/03/2012 9:20:45 PM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Lynch Mob Media is closer to the mark these days.


7 posted on 05/03/2012 9:20:55 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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They are punching the "racist" button as hard as they can because that's all they got.

The narrative was, and now is, "If you don't vote for Obama you're racist." That's the bottom line. It wouldn't matter if "The Won" burned an American flag on the White House lawn and took a special trip to the National Archives to pee on the Constitution -- only racists will refuse to vote for Obama.

They can't point to his successes because there are none he can really claim. GM is by no means out of danger and offing Bin Laden was more in spite of him that because of him.

There may indeed be people who vote against him solely because he is Black, but that is probably the smallest category on the list and you have to dig deep to find them -- as this shill was obviously willing to do.

8 posted on 05/03/2012 9:22:24 PM PDT by Ronin (Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life - Rep. L. Gohmert, Tex)
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To: grumpygresh
Go ahead and put em together.

Enemamedia. Almost sounds Latin.

It certainly is highly descriptive, of what they spew, and whom they are!

9 posted on 05/03/2012 9:22:34 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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To: grumpygresh

Hey Sabrina, ya idiot, he’s not black, he just looks black. His momma was white as the driven snow! Notice I didn’t say she was ‘pure’ as the driven snow. Anyway, if it was to his advantage politically he would say he was white! Stop with the divisive BS, it is not going to fly this time around!


10 posted on 05/03/2012 9:23:44 PM PDT by Batman11 (Obama's poll numbers are so low the Kenyans are claiming he was born in the USA!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nothing said about whether these suddenly black-hating districts of white rednecks voted Obama in 2008, of course.

If they hate Obama it’s because they hate the color of his politics, which was a cipher in 2008 but not now.


11 posted on 05/03/2012 9:25:06 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Away with them and the high horses they rode in on.)
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To: Lazamataz

Or race war. Or civil war. Or martial law. Or some combination of all of those.


12 posted on 05/03/2012 9:28:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Ich habe keinen Konig aber Gott)
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“Or race war. Or civil war. Or martial law. Or some combination of all of those.”

You can bet the farm that, if the polls look bad for him, there will be some sort of Reichstag fire. These people will not go out quietly. Be prepared for anything!


13 posted on 05/03/2012 9:33:50 PM PDT by Batman11 (Obama's poll numbers are so low the Kenyans are claiming he was born in the USA!)
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To: Lazamataz

Israel didn’t mobilize to have a weinie roast at the park, did they?....


14 posted on 05/03/2012 9:36:57 PM PDT by One Name (Go to the enemy's home court and smoke his ass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Of course it’s still an issue. The vast majority of black voters are going to vote for the marxist messiah simply because he’s “one of them”.

If you want to see the racism in the coming election, look no further than that.


15 posted on 05/03/2012 9:40:40 PM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (With (R)epublicans like these, who needs (D)emocrats?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I would vote for Clarence Thomas, but never Zer0. Does that make me racist?


16 posted on 05/03/2012 9:41:15 PM PDT by MtnClimber (To the left wrong is right, down is up and backward is "Forward")
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Israel didn’t mobilize to have a weinie roast at the park, did they?....

I dunno man, have you had a Hebrew National hotdog lately? Those are wieners worth fighting for.
17 posted on 05/03/2012 9:43:36 PM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (With (R)epublicans like these, who needs (D)emocrats?)
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To: Ronin
They are punching the "racist" button as hard as they can because that's all they got.

I believe the race card is all played out with most Americans. They are going to have to steal this election.

18 posted on 05/03/2012 9:46:51 PM PDT by oldbrowser (They are Marxists, don't call them democrats)
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To: Dr.Zoidberg

I have had them and some other all kosher meat wieners; they are excellent although I might actually fight to eat pork sausage.


19 posted on 05/03/2012 9:47:13 PM PDT by One Name (Go to the enemy's home court and smoke his ass.)
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To: Lazamataz

It’s all about the melanometrics..


20 posted on 05/03/2012 9:50:04 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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