Posted on 02/12/2007 12:20:24 PM PST by areafiftyone
VIDEO IS HERE
The heavy presence of security around Obama was also a silent reminder of the change that took place with the announcement. Michelle Obama, the candidate’s wife, acknowledged it in an interview to air on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” in which she was asked if she fears for her husband’s life as a black candidate.
“I don’t lose sleep over it because the realities are that . . . as a black man . . . Barack can get shot going to the gas station,” Michelle Obama said in the interview, set to air Sunday night. “You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.”
Well, I’m sure glad I’m white because that means I won’t be shot while “going to the gas station.” I forgot about that unwritten rule where only black men can be shot and no one else.
(h/t Randy)
Sorry folks, but I agree with her point of view. He could indeed get shot at a gas station if he went there to rob it.
The race card in various forms is front and center in Obama's campaign. His supporters in the MSM for weeks have written on the subject of "is America ready for a black president" and more than hinted that if Obama is not elected, it would be only because of the racism of whites. As if it would be impossible to oppose an Obama presidency on any other grounds.
I didn't see the "60 Minutes" interview, but they played part of it on the radio this morning. Regarding the question, "are you black enough?" Obama related that when he walked around the southside of Chicago, and visited his barbershop and played basketball, the folks down there would never question his blackness. He also said that he felt black enough when he had to catch a cab. I call BS on that one -- especially any time in the past 15 or 20 years. Maybe as a young man he ran into the fear that some cabdrivers have when picking up black riders in certain neighborhoods, but I seriously doubt that Barack Obama -- Harvard Law student, law professor, state senator and U.S. Senator, has run into that anytime recently.
And odds are by another Black man!
Lord loves a workin' man; don't trust whitey; see a doctor and get rid of it.
Did she say anthing about the race of a possible shooter?
Don't think it is too rough (for him). Heard somewhere he recently bought an additional portion o the neighboring lot off a mafioso type neighbor who happns to contribute to his campaign. The question is did Obama pay fair market value for it or is this a Harry Reid type of land deal.
Yeah, I saw and heard that. I rolled my eyes so hard I thought I'd flip over.
She left out the part that he'd most likely be shot by another black man, if she had looked at the statistics.
What color was John Lee Malvo? Oh yeah, black.
Don't think it is too rough (for him). Heard somewhere he recently bought an additional portion o the neighboring lot off a mafioso type neighbor who happns to contribute to his campaign. The question is did Obama pay fair market value for it or is this a Harry Reid type of land deal.
I have lately had a gnawing feeling that a staged "attempt" would be made against the junior senator, then found to have been perpetrated by a conservative/republican/christian in an effort to garner last minute sympathy for her. Remember how quickly they jumped on the VRWC right after the OK City bombing. These folks ambitions know no bounds and we'd probably all be amazed at the tricks they have up their (collective) sleeve.
The ignorace on this thread is astonishing.
She never said ANYTHING about the race of a possible shooter.
The DC snipers shot blacks AND whites.
I am ashamed to see this crud crawl out of FR.
she DID play the race card- she asserted that him being shot at a gas station had to do with him 'being a black man'
How a cab driver know what school he went to? If a cab driver decides that he is going to avoid black patrons for whatever reason, then it wouldn't matter what school the black person went to, where they live, or whether their mother was white. It is strictly based on the color of that person's skin, and the reasons why the driver may avoid such people.
You mean a black version of the movie "Bob Roberts."
Will you just calm down?? Did she at any point say she fears a white man will kill her husband??? Laura Bush isn't exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer either, in fact she looks like the Joker, seems like a nice lady though. Is it true she sold weed in her dorm when she was in college? That was a wild rumor at one point, I always doubted it, but hey, you never know, that crowd loved to party at that time. It was the 60s!! you know draft dodging let's get s*itfaced time!!!
Folks, let's get our liberal terminology straight.
He's halfrican American.
Barack Obama is one-half white and one-half black, and just about everybody in America knows that. And who's stopping him from running for President?
Yeah...and black men get shot...a lot. And by blacks, too. That ain't playin' the race card. It's a fact.
I'm guessing Barack hasn't pumped his own gas in a lonnnnng time.
Once again, Dem/Libs just making it up as they go along.
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