Posted on 05/26/2008 5:51:38 PM PDT by The_Republican
Hillary Clinton was "too hard" and Barack Obama "too black." Thus proclaimed my new friend at Jillian's sports bar in Columbia, S.C., at what was to have been a celebration of John Edwards's victory in the primary there. So unless Edwards somehow secured the nomination, she was considering sitting out in November. Not that she had anything against Obama, she said, but the country was "not ready" for a black president. The woman, who'd been drinking heavily, then fell off her seat, ending our political discussion. A few days later, Edwards announced he was stepping aside "so that history can blaze its path."
What path history will blaze is unclear. That Obama seems poised to become the Democratic nominee is certainly evidence we've arrived at a redefining moment in this nation's evolution. But that's not to say race has ceased to be of consequence.
Hillary Clinton made that point in a widely criticized interview, boasting she had a stronger base of support than Obama among "hardworking Americans, white Americans." (She said she was misunderstood.) Clinton is not alone in suggesting that Obama has a blue-collar, white-voter problem. Frank Newport, editor in chief of the Gallup poll, agrees that Clinton does better among whites than Obama does—but more because of Clinton's appeal to white women than because Obama alienates blue-collar whites. "In general, Obama and Clinton perform … the same among non-Hispanic white men when pitted against presumptive Republican nominee John McCain," observes Newport.
For years, most Americans have told pollsters they were prepared to put race aside when voting for a president. Some 94 percent of Americans (up from 53 percent in 1967) tell Gallup they would vote for a black candidate.
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Closeted muslim, communist, America hating douche bag President: no!
“I already voted for a black man for President - -Alan Keyes”
Will someone please tell me how to get set up for an Alan Keyes ping.
‘Barak is the Zune of presidential candidates’
Whoa!!! Cutting a little close to the bone there, I happen to enjoy my Zune very much thank you!
Obama is black, just as you should have noticed that Kerry was in Vietnam.
THANK YOU!
Very well said.
How about, Barak is the "PC Junior" of presidential candidates? (Actually, I think this is a better fit). ;-)
People will say “stuff” to polisters because they do not want to be thought of as being racists.
I second it.
Disdain for whites:
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From Dreams of My Father, “ I FOUND A SOLACE IN NURSING A PERVASIVE SENSE OF GRIEVANCE AND ANIMOSITY AGAINST MY MOTHER’S RACE”.
From ‘Dreams of my Father’, “THE EMOTION BETWEEN THE RACES COULD NEVER BE PURE...THE OTHER RACE WOULD ALWAYS REMAIN JUST THAT; MENACING, ALIEN AND APART.”
From ‘Dreams of My Father’,
“I CEASED TO ADVERTISE MY MOTHER’S RACE AT THE AGE OF 12 OR 13, WHEN I BEGAN TO SUSPECT THAT BY DOING SO I WAS INGRATIATING MYSELF TO WHITES.”
From Dreams Of My Father, “NEVER EMULATE THE WHITE MEN and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. IT WAS INTO MY FATHER’S IMAGE, THE BLACK MAN, SON OF AFRICA, THAT I’D PACKED ALL THE ATTRIBUTES I SOUGHT IN MYSELF”.
From Dreams Of My Father:
“THAT HATE HADN’T GONE AWAY,” he wrote, BLAMING “WHITE PEOPLE— some cruel, some IGNORANT, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives.”
From Dreams Of My Father;
“There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs,” he wrote. “IT REMAINED NECESSARY TO PROVE WHICH SIDE YOU WERE ON, TO SHOW YOUR LOYALTY TO THE BLACK MASSES, TO STRIKE OUT, AND NAME NAMES. “
From Dreams Of My Father, “I HAD GROWN ACCUSTOMED , everywhere, TO SUSPICIONS BETWEEN THE RACES.”
http://www.examiner.com/a-534540~Can_a_past_of_Islam_change_the_path_to_president_for_Obama_.html?cid=dc-article-obama
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http://www.examiner.com/a-536474~_Trapped_between_two_worlds_.html
Check out this awesome video:
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The same kind of terrorists who support Obama did this:
http://www.frugalsites.net/911/attack/
Never apologize for them.
Never appease them.
Never forget.
If Condi Rice were running, I would be out there as her biggest supporter. I know she is not a favorite on Free Republic, but the point is that it is the person, and not the color of ones skin.
That is one reason I am somewhat hoping for a Bobby Jindal VP slot. Not because I am a huge supporter (I honestly don't know a huge amount about him), but because it will force the MSM to stop the "America is a racist society" meme.
Comment:
How convenient to the article that the woman just happened to be drunk and a loud mouth or as we say in Southern Kalifornia A FALLIN DOWN LOUD MOUTHED DRUNK.
In all my younger days of bar hopping and bar tripping looking for women this nut found the ultimate mans woman falling down drunk and waiting to be taken advantage of by some unsuspecting author, HORSE SHIITE.
Anyone willing to take a bet on this being a Lesbian Bar?
Comment:
Shame on you for invoking the tired and worn Red Neck apology.
I'm not voting for Obama, Why? Because he is the most dangerous man in the world due to his naivete ignorance and his arrogant racists elitism attitude towards 77% of Americas population.
The national white guilt disease is prevalent everywhere from Oprah housewives to corporate America down on their knees giving head to Jesse Jackson. Redneck racists don’t stand a chance.
It’s not an issue of color or gender. The country doesn’t want a SOCIALIST President. I’m confident that if a Conservative, or even a moderate, black or female candidate were nominated, either would be elected with few qualms on the part of the voters.
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