You could be right AB.
In fact, you’re PROBABLY right.
But I got an argument back at ya. It’s not the reality of it, as you assert that the booing was about putting Jerusalem back on the platform and not the “God” issue.
It was not perceived this way out across the fruited plains. One of the tease lines on Lucianne.com yesterday, and that site has great teasers....was, to the effect...”Democratic convention with so many surprises. It was when they began to boo “God” that shocked.”
I watched the whole thing, just could not, could NOT believe how this was coming down.
But hey, I don’t suppose the rest of this country has to believe my lying eyes and ears. But I still trust ‘em.
A couple of liberals I know used the “They were really booing Jerusalem” argument on me, but I do agree that outside of the already-gonna-vote-Barack crowd, many saw it as booing God.
By the way, these liberals where African-Americans—who I know plenty of, being in Alabama—who to a person, are all in for Obama. I don't know any blacks, of hundreds I'm acquainted with, who will not vote Obama.
And some of my coworkers especially exasperate me. They are very, very Christian ladies, who would even be considered conservatives, if it was not for their fanatical support for the democratic party. And of course, since Obama is black, they are for him heart and soul.
It's as if all their racial hopes are wrapped up in him. When he loses, and I expect he will, they'll be serious problems for them. I'm not talking aggression, but I think some severe clinical depression will happen.
I really am confounded by black political thought. Coming from Alabama, most people—black or white—think rather conservatively, not Leftist at all, except for black voting habits. So, they're against abortion and gay marriage, for discipline in schools and at home, think work is fulfilling and necessary, love America, serve proudly in the military; all things a good Southerner would do... Except, they'll vote democrat, whether it be a quasi-democrat like Artur Davis (who is now a Republican) or a Nancy Pelosi. They can't help it. I do think they believe every Republican has a white sheet and hood on a hanger in their closet.
Black White politics are very us versus them. Frankly, whites are far more inclusionary than blacks. Hence the fact that you see both white Republicans AND white deomcrats, but almost no Black Republicans, just black democrats...