Race and the race: Will the MSM quit fear-mongering now?
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Ok. Now that Barack Obama has won a resounding victory in 94.9 percent white Iowa, will the MSM and the Dems stop yammering about racist, un-diverse voters already? The bigotry concern troll act is getting old and tired. Not as old and tired as Hillary Clinton’s campaign. But close.
For the second time in less than a month, “Good Morning America” co-host Chris Cuomo asked a Democratic presidential candidate to speculate about the inherent racism of American voters. Talking with John Edwards on Wednesday’s edition of the program, the ABC journalist wondered about Thursday’s Iowa caucus. He inquired, “When you think people get into the room, do you think race or gender may play an unspoken role in the caucus voting?”
Clearly, this is a topic that weighs heavily on Cuomo. On December 20, he spoke to Senator Barack Obama and asked, “What do you think the bigger obstacle is for you in becoming president, the Clinton campaign machine or America’s inherent racists, racism?” In fact, GMA has a long history of harping on how bigoted America is. Since November 13, 2006, “Good Morning America” has featured the question, in some form or another, a total of five times.
Flashback: Video of the “inherent racism” meme.
Flashback (via State 29): The DNC hate Iowa crackers.
Well, it looks like the answer is no. No, the MSM won’t stop yammering about un-diverse white voters. Here’s the NYTimes editorial this morning, right on cue as I predicted, clamoring for an end to the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary by zeroing in on its lack of, you guessed it, racial diversity:
We don’t question the enthusiasm or the commitment of the people of Iowa and New Hampshire. But Iowa, where a huge turnout amounts to less than 10 percent of the population, is about 92 percent white, more rural and older than the rest of the nation. New Hampshire has a non-Hispanic white population of about 95 percent…
Yes, white, rural, elderly voters turned out in droves for black candidate Obama and rejected white, union-backed hacks Hillary Clinton and John Edwards.
This must be stopped!
The Times editorial concludes:
…None of this has led us to a choice in the nominating contests, never mind for the presidency. The majority of Americans are in the same position. That’s why they should be allowed to see and hear more of these candidates, and not have to settle for the judgments of the people of Iowa and New Hampshire.
Oh, we’ve seen and heard plenty. And who’s being forced to “settle for the judgments of the people of Iowa and New Hampshire?” Voters in the rest of the nation’s caucuses and primaries will get their chance. Someone has to go first. The Times proposes a regional system “in which states are divided into regional groups that vote on a designated day. The honor of going first would rotate year to year among the regions.” But even if the Times editorial board got its way, I guarantee you the paper would still complain that the designated first-in-the-nation regional group to vote had an unfair electoral advantage that tainted other regional voters’ decisions.
Well, on to New Hampshire.
Or, as you’ll be hearing endlessly for the next four days, 95 percent White New Hampshire.
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Silly side note: Looks like Obama reeled a few voters in with an all-important Scarlett Johansson endorsement and personal appearance in Iowa. A dash of Danish/Polish-American starlet diversity never hurts.
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Don’t most editorial writers have a file drawer full of hackneyed topics that can be whipped out and used as a deadline looms? Just change the names and dates and most of the readers won’t notice.
When I think of a verbal caricature of conservatism, I think stale, dated, limited, cynical, and elitist. The NYT editorial board is a funhouse mirror reflection of what they abhor.
Silly inquiring minds want to know: Where do the Jonas Brothers stand on the candidates?
The only racism left in the USA is in the imagination of the leftist media.
The short answer is? No. If anything, just watch…it will get worse…now they will have to tear him down.
I’ve noticed over my 60+ years how folks tend to judge others by their own personal values. It should tell you lots about GMA & their producers. Perhaps they cannot look at America without having to look through their own colored (pardon the pun) lenses?
I just hope it will be possible to shine a light on Obama’s extreme left socialist views without being called a racist.
Lame Stream loves racism. It’s like honey to bees, bringing in lots of attention spawned by their inflammatory rhetoric. Beyond that, racism is an idea that shackled one’s mind into the belief that we’re all different. Eliminating skin color, for the most part, and we’re all conscious beings of a very similar make-up. If only people would let go and let God…
Cracked me up when poster on another site compared last night’s winners to Gomer Pyle and W.E.B. Dubois. Might set the stage for Nurse Bloomberg to spend his own 500 mil or so to run as Indie.
But seriously folks, is this what we’ve come to? I have nothing against Obambi’s race whatever it is or Huck’s purported religiosity, but both are a disaster in wanting to tax and spend and foreign affairs, etc. I am already wretching when hearing that Barack will “heal” our society’s racial ills and Huckster talk the talk and walks the walk in biblical goodness and can convince our enemies how we can make nice. Let’s all sing Kumbaya and tithe the UN/send more dollars to the poor terrorists.
Scarlett Johansson is absolutely gorgeous, but I still don’t care what she has to say about politics. But I do give her props for hanging out in the heartland. How many other Hollywood types ever stop their private jets in flyover country?
The Democrats, black and white, are all horrible. God help us if they get elected.
Leave it to the NY Slimes to light the racism and religion fire. Our own modern-day form institutionalized Grand Klan.
I wonder if Oprah will re-emerge? No doubt, she has to collect her commercial fees for assisting Mr. BO.
No comments by the MSM about the 90+% of “African-Americans” who vote “democrat”. No. Not one chirp.
No “analysis”, no pondering, no getting to the “root causes”. ABC, etc. use race to sell ads. Yellow journalists did the same centuries ago in other ways.
This issue was basically over in the early 70s.
What would you do if you saw your ratings take a nosedive?
They are only doing what they do best…resurrecting old news/ideas and calling it-progressive.
Leave GMA alone.
/sarc
That was the first observation I made to my kid….95% white IA just gave their votes to a black candidate….so race hustlers can now shut up….they won’t, but it won’t be as effective.
I have to say that I agree with that. Since I was old enough to vote, it has be frustrating at times that when this whole process starts that the candidate I like has dropped out by the time the primaries hit my state because he didn’t do well in Iowa or New Hampshire.
Maybe they wouldn’t have done well in Tennessee, but I’d at least like to make that decision and not have it made for me by people thousands of miles away.
As fars as the MSM and racism goes, some of them have no news unless they can make some news. They’d rather cover an invented conflict than a “somebody did good” story.
well fox news is back on britney watch, that didnt take long…. barf.
MSM=Tabloid
And then there was the election in Louisiana of Bobby Jindal (R)…a Roman Catholic Conservative of Indian descent..in a state that is probably 70/30 Black/White. But, well, “crickets” chirped on that one too. Guess the MSM just can’t figure out that we the people are looking for the candidate with the best message not the “right” skin color/religion.
One might note that the Msm does not give their approval to so-called Uncle Tom candidates such as Steele in Maryland. We have had many black mayors who had plenty of white votes. I would say the quality was rather lacking from my perspective- Dinkins, Berry, Goode and sundry others. Perhaps the liberal black Pres. Palmer on 24 was ok; his brother sucked. Besides we already had a black President for 8 years in the guise of Bubba. I had hopes for Condi, but she lost her way exposed to the mutants in the State Dept. Better that she fulfill her dream of being NFL commish. I suppose Colin Powell has the gravitas, but seems rather liberal to me.
This was more of a no-Hillary vote than a yes-Obama vote. And Edwards has been there campaigning since he and Kerry were running in 04. We will see a truer picture on Super Tuesday of what a larger number of voters across the country are thinking.
Wow, not feeling well? ROFL
When a white American male voter poses a question regarding the inherent racism of white American voters, he’s setting himself up for a serious bitch-slap………..yet no one ever takes advantage of it.
Cuomo is white…..male….American…..and a voter.
The poor guy…………..having to deal with his own inherent racism must be tough.
My heart weeps………..
Well said MM. I think that if we expect only people of the same race to vote for the race of the candidate, we haven’t moved past racism at all.
If a white candidate can get a majority of black votes, we have moved past racism. If a black candidate can get a majority of white votes, we have moved past racism.
If we say that a state which is mostly white can’t be an important primary, then that is more racist than the state. I hope people realize that just because an area isn’t diverse doesn’t mean they are bigoted.
Not yet. First, the reminants that are still part of the Clinton Slime Machine have to be convinced that the Wicked Witch of the (Mid)West is dead.
However, the moment that Obama as the Dem nominee is mathematically-inevitable, they will change their tune so fast they’ll forget they ever conducted said fear-mongering.
What about our disgust at the inherent leftwing idiocy of the Democratic party?
MM asks: “Race and the race: Will the MSM quit fear-mongering now?”
I don’t know why people are surprised that the people of Iowa voted for someone that was only half white. See, this is the glass half full/half empty argument.
NYT=Racism
I agree with MM that it says something good about America and Iowa that all those white people voted for a black candidate. That said, you can’t live in America and not know race is a factor, not as big as before thank goodness, but still a factor. In Iowa, Democrats over 65 voted overwhelmingly for Clinton and Edwards. Is that partly racism? You would have to be from another planet not to think so.
I wish they would quit calling Obama black (that is an old slavery concept, that being part black makes one black). He is multiracial.
Huckabee on ABC’s GMA this morning –
Interviewer cited a recent release by “scientists” that Creationism has been overwhelmingly debunked and asked Huckabee if he believed Creationsim should be taught in the public schools. Huckabee replied that as Governor he never made that an issue and it’s not for the federal government to decide. Interviewer, not satisfied, then demanded a Yes or No answer (obviously to attempt to box in Huckabee and displease those on either side of the issue).
So the set up by the MSM begins to portray Huckabee as a “religious bumpkin”. As Rush says, “They (libs) can’t help themselves.”
Chesapeakegal beat me to it.
Juan Williams tried to spin Obama’s victory last night by saying he won the “white vote” in Iowa? OK, let’s think about this; 38% of Democrats voted for him, and the state is 92% white (why is this a bad thing, by the way? Are we implying Iowans are racists because they haven’t met their black and minority quota?!). There were no blacks to vote for him! Of course he got the “white vote;” everyone did!
OT
This is the group of people we are going to choose from to be the most powerful person in the world? God help us. Three socialists, a bunch of RINO’s, and two conservatives, only one of which has a remote shot at getting elected. Sheesh, one would think we could do better.
The more things change….
When I was a boy I remember the big question of the day from the MSM was “Is America ready to vote in a Catholic for POTUS”
What I am trying to say regarding the racism issue is, Nothing to see here move along.
On January 4th, 2008 at 9:52 am, Mister P said:
I wish they would quit calling Obama black (that is an old slavery concept, that being part black makes one black). He is multiracial.
I believe the old slavery concept was “one drop” made you black.
The main reason for that is the MSM shoving down our throats that we are still racists. Affirmative Action is the MOST racist government policy ever created, yet to be against it makes you ‘racist’.
Racism is a cottage industry. If there was no perceived racism, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, et al would not have a job. Racism is now an industry, not a societal problem. Everyone in America has an equal opportunity to succeed based on hard work – that means we are not racist.
Quite right. The point here is that if you look black, you are black, and inherently worthy of entitlement, special treatment, exclusive use of select vocabulary (rap, hip-hop, anyone?), automatic exemption from hate crime law, and receipt of the all-important white guilt. This gets us comments from the likes of lgm, who said old people from Iowa are racist because they voted for a white person.
Half black is a mulatto, a quarter black is a quadroon, octoroon means one eighth black.
Q: would it be racist to call Obama a mulatto?
A: If you are white, yes…blacks could call him the N-word and it wouyld be “all good.”
what’s wrong with this picture?
I was thinking the same thing last night but not just about MSM, not at all actually, but about black people, themselves.
Did the winning of Obama prove anything to black racists last night? I hope so, but only if they want to believe all whites aren’t racists.
This gets us comments from the likes of lgm, who said “old people from Iowa are racist because they voted for a white person.”
cue zeppelin crash…
“oh the inanity!!”
…..Question???????
Now that a Black Democrat has won in 95% White middle America, when will a White Republican win in a majority Black inner city?
Also…..I wonder how they are spinning this at the U of Delaware.
Newsmax, has prelim results from a survey conducted for the AP re: the voters who voted last night. Here’s a snippet:
More here.
Obama won out over Hillary in convincing fashion. Racism may or may not have played a part. If it did, it’s not as bad one may have thought. If it didn’t, then I am glad to see race relations moving in the right direction.
Max#37, is that really necessary?
voters who voted. That’s funny.
Next, they will propose nationwide busing to make each state equally “diverse”!
So-called “racism” is the only reason Osama Obama is where he is. If he didn’t have the color-thing working for him, he’d probably be a drone flipping burgers in Chicago.
Same with so-called “sexism” and Miz Bill.
The MSM knows this.
Even better, they have MM wasting her time on this non-issue when the real issue is the the American Public is about to get shafted again by the entrenched, inbred politicos who are setting us up for more taxes, more giveaways and less individual freedom.
Yeah, I mean all of ‘em, in both parties.
Except maybe Duncan Hunter, who has been thrown under the bus by his own party, including self-important mouthpieces like Limbaugh.
Why does someone have to go first? Why can we just have one primary night, just like we have one election night? How about on the first Tuesday in February, everyone in the country picks the nominee for their party?
No. They’ve invested 40 years of themselves into that routine. They couldnt stop doing it now if they wanted to, and they don’t.
As far as calling the multi-racial Obama black, I agree 100% that it’s dumb, though I disagree that it’s attached to the people in question from old societal standards: this is something that occurs from within the ranks of the black/white multi-racial society, not from without.
I wait with great anticipation for a single black/white multi-racial celebrity to call themselves white while acknowledging their multi-racial heritage. “Multi-racial” is the term to be used, but I’d like just one to call themselves white, just for balance.
I don’t understand the question. A “white state” gave a huge win to a “black” man and that’s racist? How on earth are the race mongers trying to twist that as racist? The only answer I can come up with is that if he doesn’t become president now, it must be because of race. In other words, all white people are required to vote for him or we are racist. But then again the media wants Hitlary so how are they going to keep him from getting the nomination.
But if he does get the nomination…We are not permitted to disagree with his extreme left wing agenda, we have to ignore our values and accept him because he’s black? It that the underlying message? My head is getting square from banging it against the wall.
My husband is white and I am black. I am not sure how our kids will identify themselves. However, to say that they are black denies their father and to say that they are white denies their mother. I recall Tiger Woods being asked the question of whether or not he self identifies as black. Here’s an excerpt.
Go figure.
Heavens no, we can’t stop crying racism. What would Jesse and Al do?Actually go to (forgive my language)work?
Here is how atrocious it is. While the MSM obsesses over any perceived notions of racism by whites towards blacks, they dare not challenge any of the same type of racism in reverse.
I have been following the Fiasco at Grady Hospital and as ancillary story is the race for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Georgia. It pits Vernon Jones, black against Dale Cardwell, white.
Jones is in my estimation a very bad guy and evil person. He is almost certainly a multiple racist, has been involved in several shady land deals, and he presides over not only one of the most corrupt policed departments, Dekalb County, but also hospitals Grady Hospital.
All of this Cardwell knows all too well since he was an investigative reporter and broke many of the stories I just recounted.
You won’t hear Cardwell repeat any of this though because if he did he would immediately be labeled a racist. The MSM would be a willing participant in demonizing Cardwell. That is the state of race reporting in the MSM.
here is my dossier on Vernon Jones.
The outcome in Iowa proves that there is still a glass ceiling for women in politics and in business, and that while an exotic Halfrican-American can win over a woman, yet when they get into the voting booth white voters still will not pull the lever for a true African-American who knows the black experience in racist America, like Allan Keyes for ex.
And she still did poorly!
Ignorance. Bigotry. Maybe projection. Definitely narcissism–they’re “better” than people who live in the rural Midwest, how can they feel superior to someone as “enlightened” as themselves?
I just want to thank Michelle for being one of the very few right-of-center blogs that isn’t painting Iowa with the same old tired ignorant stereotypes this morning. Good God, when people write about blacks or Hispanics in the manner they’re writing about Iowans this morning we all call them out…
Lol….you call that “fear-mongering”? I think that is a stretch. Improper? Maybe. Racist? Slightly. But if you want to talk about fear-mongering take a look at your own party MM:
GOP Ad
Rudy Ad
Obviously the racist only appear to exist in the MSM and special interest groups these days (Rainbow Push Coalition, La Raza, etc.). I could care less about any candidates, race, religion (except for Islam), or sex when selecting the best person to set the direction of this country. All I want to see is a candidate that will lead this country on the conservative principles that have made it the greatest nation on the planet. I fear for the future of this nation if a liberal or RINO gets the reins of Government in 2008.
If they did this, 60 percent of the states would never see 80 percent of the candidates. They would spend their time in New York and California.
You know what is really interesting about this rainbow crap?……the 1st presidential candidate run by ‘the rainbow coalition’/National Alliance Party was ‘the Brother’, Dennis Serrette….his VP was a Jewish woman, I believe. Immediately after his failed bid as an independent Presidential candidate, Jesse J.co-opted this party. SO!….where was the MSM for this 1st BLACK Presidential contender????….huh????? FKng where?
Can I worst-case this for a sec?
If a Democrat wins, I want it to be Obama. Why?
Anyone but HRC. She’ll get us in a mess of trouble quickly and begin the 2012 re-election bid on day one.
Edwards? Enough said.
At least Obama will be a newbie and get trounced in four. HRC has the roots of the Clinton years just waiting to spring back up and entangle DC. Inside the beltway, they’re salivating for her return. You can smell it here from NOVA. Ask Michelle, she knows.
I don’t take much stock in these results (remember Dean?) but I’m pulling for BHO to take the Dem nomination.
(And no, I don’t think the current crop of Republicans can fight their collective way out of a wet-paper bag, but I will turn up for the nominee, hold my nose and vote.)
I heartily agree, only because I am 1/2 Danish heritage. And I hope she switches parties and helps Fred and Duncan Hunter!
“Barack Obama won in Ohio, therefore racism no longer exists in America.”
That sounds about right for this site.
Call it racism if you wish, but there’s no way this country will elect Obama as President. I hope that he wins the nomination. Not because he’s black, but because that would take Hillary and a Democrat out of the equation.
It’s way too early for high-fives anyway. Hillary will surely take New York, Pennsylvania and most of the other significant states.
It’s also way too early for Huckabee to pop the corks. He won’t carry the big states either. Remember…I believe that Pat Robertson won the Iowa Caucus.
Switching topics slighly:
I’ve seen McCain interviewed a few times now since his “win” in Iowa. It infuriates me that every time he’s asked about immigration he says “I did not support amnesty.” I feel like shouting “YES, You did!” and you supported the Dream Act too, which is just another form of amnesty.
I hope Romney attacks him hard, even if it means Romney goes down. McCain lives in a cloud. I wonder if his own home state supports him for Prez?
Explain to me how McCain’s fourth place position in Iowa is a “win” and Thompson’s third place position is not newsworthy?
Putting aside Obama’s so-called “charm”, Mr. Empty Suit is a very partisan left wing agent.
Certainly not a real agent for “change” as he claims. Just look at his thin record.
Thank you.
Sadly, proof of a negative such as a lack of racism in this case won’t convert bleeding hearts into equal opportunity, self determination for all believers much less advocates.
Thats because bleeding hearts is just the kind of people they are and that won’t quit.
The racist projection left isn’t likely to leave it behind because if for no other reason its been such a wonderful blame tool and money maker for them.
So again, we must remember that its impossible to appease the unappeasable, its only possible to leave content those reasonable enough to see, accept and appreciate the difference and most of those are us.
Congradulations on being both color-blind in a good way and conservative. My (beautiful, ahem) wife is West Indian and I’m white. I wonder though, if the four of us were all seated together at a resturant, how many liberals would assume we’re four liberals and how many conservative wouldn’t have any idea one way or the other. That’s a fundamental difference between liberals and conservatives, yet liberals have the continual gall to call conservatives “racist”. And I’ll bet the makeup of this board, run by an Asian, is regarded by liberals as “white racist”.
Somehow, some way, we conservatives really need to find a way to put an end to this kind of disgusting, unconscionable reverse racism on the part of liberals. Who knows how with the MSM having closed ranks on the subject, but somehow.
The MSM is DEAD!!! & Fred Thompson scares the SHT out of them because he reminds them of how dead & out of touch they are.
Dear MSM!, WE SEEeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEE YOU!!!
BOO!
I see Obama as more a Jimmy Carter type than a JFK type candidate. And at least Jimmy Carter helped produce Ronald Reagon, but it was a very tough 4 years.
Will the MSM stop? No, they won’t.
They won’t because they find themselves an anachronism; a legacy form of communications that can never change its ways. Their approach was successful in the past, and despite their abysmal sales numbers they will never get past the fact that they can no longer control the distribution of information or public opinion.
They will never stop because hatred is the only fuel they have left to drive their broken down machine. While they no longer appeal to nor control an ever growing population, their base if one that will remain loyal. And that base demands hate to sustain its very life.
This country has for the most part moved on in terms of racial prejudice. The only people sustaining that prejudice today are ironically associated with the victims of the past. They also work to sustain the negativity and hatred, for without it they would also become insignificant. They no longer seek equal rights not justice, but now seek superior rights and justice above and beyond the level that equality demands.
Race baiting is big business, and it will not soone die. And the MSM needs racial tension to continue using their old playbook. In March of this year, the LA Times ran an editorial calling Obama “The Happy Negro” as a way of explaining his appeal to those not of African descent. That, my friends, is the epitome of racism – a black man in this country cannot rise on his own merit and hard work, and any progress he makes is due to something other than his intelligence and work ethic. One might have read something similar from the KKK decades ago. Now it is the liberal left parroting the messages of the hate groups of the last century under the guise of informed journalism. That is also evidence of the left’s true view of minorities in this country.
Robert Byrd must be smiling like the cat that swallowed the canary.
Link to the LA Times editorial:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19,0,5335087.story?coll=la-opinion-center
Why not integrate Iowa and New Hampshire better? Instead of Sen. Mary Landrieux looking for over $500k in federal aid per New Orleaner why not bus them to Iowa and NH? Several problems solved- no more rebuilding in an obvious flood-prone area and the msm might be happier with a better racial balance in those “too whitey states”. of course the good citizens of NOLA might not care much for the current winter weather conditions. I expect that land, taxes and cost of building are cheaper in Iowa at least.
Or maybe the liberal press in Los Angeles and Miami could tout the virtues of the midwest to the good citizens living in Watts, South Central and Liberty City? In that case, there would be more space for the Mexicans in LA and Cubanos in Miami.
I ask posters here to be more careful. I wrote that some people are racist. You (you know which of you) read “people are racist” then “all people are racist” then started yelling at me for something I didn’t say.
I’m over 50. When I was a kid in a state that borders Iowa, segregation was everywhere and widely accepted. Many of those people are still living (like me). It’s not realistic to say race is not a factor for any of them.
Hillary came in Third Place yesterday. Yeah!
Norman Hsu was sentenced to Three years today. Yeah!
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When Fred Thompson answered a resounding ‘NO!’ to schoolmarm’s command to raise hands during one of the debates,
a spectacular moment of mental freedom, from the bondage that decades of American public/private schooling has produced, was heralded.
Let’s call it the Thompson Factor…when in one unanticipated moment, a self-thinking Adult emerged in scripted television-debate-land!, & cracked that ball outta the park, echoing across chalkboards everywhere…a more personalized offing of ‘I will not submit’ to the post effects of decades of manipulation by public school. I mean, how fast did some of those hands fly….it felt like 5th grade all over again.
My point. I think this was a landmark moment in the ‘collective american psyche’ as you will…& therefore….something like this.
The more the Media shoves their candidate/agenda down the throats of Americans in complete disregard of the facts that rail against them…the more your average voter is going to come to the ThompsonFactorMoment….& say NO!.
In short,…..the more Fred is ignored by the MSM the better his chances in November…..jus’sayin’….& thank you for listening.
As they should as those are two big states for electoral votes in the general election. But the electoral system (and to a similar degree the delegate system) mutes the effect of large state vs. small state.
Why should NEW HAMPSHIRE of all places be one of the most important states regarding presidential primaries? Just because they have a law that says they must be first? What would happen if another state tried to pass a law saying they must be first? I’d love to see someone try to sort out that mess.
Me too. My beef is their characterization of evangelical Iowans in particular. A vocal minority of left-leaning Evangelicals have been saying for years that Christians are being cynically manipulated by the Republicans – The amount of vitriol being spewed by the Right Wing blogosphere today makes me wonder if they might be on to something. I am no friend of Huckabee. However, if the non-evangelical right wants evangelicals to vote for their candidate, they need to promote a candidate that they can get behind, not tell them that their views are irrelevant and then be shocked when evangelicals go somewhere else. I am thinking of some comments made over at the Ace of Spades website some months back….
I think it’s also quite interesting how people think that if you don’t like Obama that means you’re a racist. I’ve seen a lot of those accusations floating around the ether of the internet.
As a conservative (Republican at the moment), Obama is anathema to me. He represents all the wrong things I’m looking for in a candidate. He’s really quite naive (Jimmy Carter-esque) with the sense that he’s not a “Washington insider” so he’s gotta be taken seriously.
Yes, it’s also interesting that the media downplayed his meteoric rise, assuming that the average voter could never vote for a person of a different skin tone. No, I think the issue that many have with this man isn’t his skin color, it’s how he refuses to engage voters on anything substantive. Yes, I think he uses his race to a certain degree to emphasize the whole outsider thing.
The thing that irks me the most about this guy is the “politics of hope.” Hope for what? There can be no hope if there is no plan. By the way, what are your plans? Where is your analysis of the issues? Then again, why would you want to take the time, Obama, and write something down…that would then actually start a dialogue and give people the opportunity to assess you and what you bring to the table.
To be quite blunt, this man is bad news for the country and the Republicans. Many American voters are so desperate for any kind of “change” they won’t examine this guy with a microscope. He’s been given a pass. He’s Clinton lite and the opposite of Pres. Bush. He seems earnest, hopeful, idealistic. He’d be a better preacher than a president. He’s gloss and no substance.
Obama is making fools out of the Democrats and the turncoat Republicans who voted for him. It’s pretty easy to do given the other choices they have. I’m sorry but if he becomes the nominee…I’m voting for his opponent. His stance on illegal immigration (does he have one?), health care, the military, and foreign policy leave me pretty cold. The only thing I agree with him on is ending outsourcing.
But Rush Limbaugh was called a racist for playing a parody song called Barack the Magic Negro (sung to Puff the Magic Dragon).
I believe the song was based off the same article and Obama was actually called “Magic Negro”, but I may have it confused with a different piece.
If you think the race-baiting and accusations are bad now, think
about what it will be like if this bozo gets elected. Any
criticism of his performance as president will be cast as a racist
attack and (white) people will be reluctant to say anything for
fear of being labeled racist. Just wait. Race relations will
probably get worse under a black president because of all the race
hustling that will be going on and the resentment that it will
generate among non-blacks.
lgm has made a good point that’s largely been ignored:
Can anyone unequivocally say that race will not play a part in the decision process for some voters? That doesn’t mean that YOU are racist, as some people seem to be taking it. The question is how many voters will take race into consideration? It’s an interesting question and one that many wouldn’t answer honestly.
Now is this a racist statement or is this not a racist statement?
Race relations in the US will be worse solely because the President is black(despite the fact that he’s multiracial)
My question to those who are backing Obama….Why?
I’ve tried to figure what he stands for or what issues he is passionate about and I keep coming up with nothing.
Will a candidate step forward who has respect and honor for the position of POTUS? Will someone, anyone step forward and discuss what it means to serve the good people of the United States?
You wonder why there is voter apathy? It’s because, we the taxpayers of the U.S., have almost no say anymore in how our country is run. We just keep paying and paying with very little in return.
It is saddening and maddening at the same time
Emjem said:
Let’s examine this statement. “He’d be a better preacher than a president”.
Why? For a man that rarely brings up his faith, why would he make a better preacher than a President? Am I the only one that sees that racial undertones of this statement? He can speak well and passionatately, and for that reason he should be a…preacher. Can anyone imagine this being said about any of the other candidates on the trail? Edwards can speak well and passionately. Ron Paul speaks well and passionately. Hell, even Romney can pull it off. But does anyone think the suggestion would have been made that they be a preacher?
It’s subtle racist statements like this that are touched upon. It doensn’t have to be overt “I hate black people” type stuff, but it’s the institutionalized racism that makes us think “Speaks well + black = preacher” rather than “speaks well + black = Diplomat, Speaker, Senator..etc”.
And as an aside:
You don’t know if he has a stance on illegal immigration, but you know that you don’t like it. Quality.
Ditkaca,
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You write that “we the taxpayers of the U.S., have almost no say anymore in how our country is run.”
The most publicized platform that Obama is running on is one of change; particularly in the way the government is run. It seems you support him on that point.
Well, Iowa and New Hampshire have histories of not being accurate predicting the next President anyway. As far as black candidates go, I would vote for them if they supported what I believed. Unfortunately, none running, do. I do know some black Americans I would vote for, but they won’t run…Walter Williams, for example.
. Black candidates, these days, are generally liberal democrats. Why they support the party of slavery and “Jim Crow” laws, and downtrodding the black population is beyond me.