Posted on 12/04/2013 7:34:10 AM PST by Kaslin
How? Why?
Under what possible scenario can you attribute goodness to a vote for Barack Obama?
My parents were good people, but when they voted for Obama, it was not based on goodness, but on their naïveté and willful blindness.
I agree. It’s Obama’s commie white blood that is the root cause of our problems.
So why didn't you run yourself, Mr. Williams? You fit the above bill, in my opinion.
Are you just repeating liberal talking points on Buchanan, or do you have some reason to criticize his presidency?
Most of the criticism against Buchanan is that he did not violate the Constitution or the law to favor those in his own party or the Republicans. How dare he have principles!
I don’t think you understood the context of that statement. Agree with sentiment of the upthread post saying it wasn’t only the goodness of the American people. There was, as part of that goodness, an unfounded optimism (wishful thinking) that Obama would be a capable president. The goodness/innocence/naivety of the American people led them to take a chance on an unqualified candidate who happens also to be black.
I think you are right.
8 out of 10 white Protestants voted for Romney...95% of black Protestants voted for Obama...
Perhaps the ability to throw out the first pitch is related to presidential skills.
Liberal-dominated political entities exhibit what I’m going to call the Dinkens effect. They have to elect their first black mayor, governor, senator, or even president just to prove to themselves how wonderful they are. After they’ve gotten that out of their system, they go back to evaluating and voting for candidates based upon their perceived qualifications and competence.
If the first black mayor, governor, etc. turns out to be a great or even moderately competent one, future black candidates will be evaluated according to their perceived ability to do the job. If, however, the first turns out to be utterly incompetent and/or corrupt, it sets back future black candidates for generations. It will probably be decades before New York City elects another black mayor after David Dinkens, Los Angeles elects another black mayor after Tom Bradley, Chicago after Harold Washington, and America elects another black president after Obama.
Of course, if blacks - the most racist voters on the planet - completely dominate the political entity, it will keep electing black leaders regardless of their competence. See Detroit. Of course, we can see where that got them.
Someday America will see another black president. It will probably not happen again until mid-century or later, by which time the catastrophically incompetent, corrupt, and abusive presidency of Obama has faded from memory.
I had the same reaction, what is Walter Williams thinking?
The way I see it Obama’s success is proof of the stupidity of the American people. We are certainly not better people than the Americans of thirty years ago and they would have had better sense. I have often tried to imagine a candidate exactly like Obama in every way except with blond hair, blue eyes and white skin. He would never have gotten to first base in anything, he would be lucky to find employment of any kind.
The truth is that “the first black president” is not black, he is mixed race and he is not president in spite of being black, he is president mainly BECAUSE he calls himself a black man. There are many pictures showing up in which he appears to be almost as white as the average Irishman, lighter in fact than many Arabs. He must spend a lot of time under a sun lamp trying to appear darker.
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