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2008-04-28 Home Front: Politix
Obama says race not an issue in election
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Posted by Fred 2008-04-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ]  Top

#1 "what they're looking for is somebody who can solve their problems"

Which sure as hell wouldn't be YOU, Senator - or any of the other candidates.

The people looking for someone to solve their problems need to check a mirror.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2008-04-28 01:22|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]  2008-04-28 01:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Barbara, lighten up; you may live to see your nineties and you're dreading Obama like he's the last President the US will ever have, or that he'll plunge your fragrant utopia down... into the lowest brimstones of the fiery hell!! Actually, I believe the founding fathers would have been utterly astonished if they could have peered into the crystal ball and seen such a fruit of their arduous labor of love; An American 'colored' sitting at the seat of the reigns of power, in their founded society, and in less than 300 years. Such an achievement no doubt they would have recalled, assailed any known history they where familiar with from the British empire back through the Romans and Greeks! Mr Washington himself, surely...would have shed a tear of accomplishment and awe!!
The feeling would not have been the same for the founding fathers for Hillary, as their thoughts of Empirical England; the Monarchy and it's entanglements would have creped in, permeating a feeling of abode and concern.
Posted by smn 2008-04-28 01:56||   2008-04-28 01:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Obama = a large bag of empty rhetoric.

BO is a product of that corrupt Chi-town patronage politics system. That means he's been bought and paid for pol, groomed by the Chi-town ward patronage system.

1) OB is woefully short on anything but TALK. He's an empty vessel IOW.

2) He's never managed a large business, or a small biz for that matter.

why would that count you might ask smn?

Think Having to suffer the consequences of your own choices, reality IOW smn. Now having yourself, family and employees suffer your own bad choices is one thing, how about 303 million Americans?

OB lacks real experience.

3) OB was never in uniform. Our Armed Forces are a tremendous but complicated World Standard institution.

Our DOD and Armed Forces are going to BE a HUGE part and PLAY a Huge Part of every American's future.

OB lacks real experience.

4) OB was never a Governor w/ the incumbent staff, bureaucrats, employees to manage or has he any experienced running a State budget and having to raise the moneys in State Taxes to run the Government.

Deeds as opposed to talk.

It is America's BAD luck that we have two other flawed choices to pick from.

McCain is a War Hero but 'out of touch' with his base on immigration etc, . A bit daft too, the only thing going for him are the other two are much poorer choices than he is.

Her Thighness: Her qualifications: She Chose to marry Billy Blue-Dress Clinton who won his first Presidential term with 40+% of the National Vote.

all three are weak, but Obama is by far, the riskiest choice of all.
Posted by RD">RD  2008-04-28 02:19||   2008-04-28 02:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Opus had an interesting perspective on the issue of race in the election, yesterday.
Posted by Bobby 2008-04-28 06:35||   2008-04-28 06:35|| Front Page Top

#5 The first problem I had with Obama was his alleged left-leaning. The angry wife shouldn't matter, except we had one of those (Hillary) and I didn't like it. Then the Pastor/Mentor thing. His race is only incidental to his anger.

I'd vote for Bill Cosby in a heatbeat, but then - he's an "oreo", isn't he.

For those of you who haven't spent 15 years in Texas, Oreo is a term of derision applied to a black person who is too white - black on the outside and white on the inside.
Posted by Bobby 2008-04-28 06:57||   2008-04-28 06:57|| Front Page Top

#6 What? He get 98+ percent of the black vote and it's "not about race". If whites voted in November 98+ percent for a white opponent candidate would it be about 'race'? What would smn say? Heh.
Posted by Procopius2k 2008-04-28 09:21||   2008-04-28 09:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Race isn’t an issue in the 2008 presidential election huh? Somebody better tell DNC Chairman Howard Dean. You may recall his remarks when he addressed the National Baptist Convention this year.

"But the tide is changing. Our Democratic candidates for President…aren't we proud to have a slate of Democratic candidate running for President that looks like the rest of America. Our candidates do not look like they're from the 1950's and talk like they're from the 1850's.”

Do you suppose Deans’ 1950's comment was a not-too subtle reference to Jim Crow? Hmmm…and come to think about it…maybe, just maybe, his 1850's remark was a stealth suggestion about slavery? Gosh…do ya think? Oh that’s right…making sweeping generalizations about bigotry based on ones skin color isn’t racism if you’re talking about “Old White Males”. What was I thinking?
Posted by DepotGuy 2008-04-28 10:58||   2008-04-28 10:58|| Front Page Top

#8 The Romans were in the habit of making successful non-Romans into citizens, which is why so many of the emperors, including all of the later Byzantine ones, were of non-Roman stock. The Founding Fathers were surely aware of this. Certainly George Washington was pleased to consider Jews as worthy to be American citizens as members of his own Church of England. There's no reason to think he wouldn't have been just as pleased to consider educated and successful men of colour his political, if not social, equals, Thomas Jefferson be damned.

You need to read a bit more history, smn.

Really, that's a dreadful picture of Candidate Obama. It looks like he struck a noble pose, then checked to see if his audience was impressed. And what was his wife thinking, letting him go out in a black suit with a silver tie as if he were prosecuting a murder in the summer? It should be navy blue or charcoal with classic patterned tie, which say, "I belong in charge, and you can trust me." The shirt is gorgeous, though.
Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife  2008-04-28 11:52||   2008-04-28 11:52|| Front Page Top

#9 His many poses with his chin tilted up are a combination, I think, of his Ivy League arrogance and the aerodynamic effect of the passing breezes on his flapdog ears, which act as canards and force the head back once he's started the tilt.
Posted by Woozle Elmeter 2700 2008-04-28 12:48||   2008-04-28 12:48|| Front Page Top

#10 Barry don't make the rules, much as that pains him.
Posted by mojo">mojo  2008-04-28 13:13||   2008-04-28 13:13|| Front Page Top

#11  Procopius2k, Don't forget your history, Hillary was on her way to coronation and with 90+% of the 'Black Vote', and Bill Clinton the cherished 'first black president'...until Obama joined the race but more so, the historical considerations given his 'run' by white Iowa, New Hampshire, and other states! After that, blacks rallyed around whites for him. So yes, if it's about race, than ask whites why they promoted it?
Woozle Elmeter 2700, I'm so sad you missed your Reich by 988 years! Aryan ears, we all know are better hearers!
Posted by smn 2008-04-28 13:58||   2008-04-28 13:58|| Front Page Top

#12 Obama is not a candidate because of race. Obama is a candidate because of Hillary. So many people can't stand Hillary that an alternative was inevitable, and Obama seemed to be an intelligent well-spoken man with the least political baggage at the time. Now the light is shining on him so strongly that all can see he is carrying snooty liberal baggage in one hand and oppressed-race baggage in the other -- while keeping one foot on top of some dubious Chicago baggage. At this point I can imagine Hillary beating him, race riots at the Democratic convention, and a strong McCain victory in November.
Posted by Darrell 2008-04-28 14:13||   2008-04-28 14:13|| Front Page Top

#13 But atleast you'll be happy, and at peace with yourself...right Darrell? Don't fret though, I got your back...I'll be with ya!
Posted by smn 2008-04-28 14:57||   2008-04-28 14:57|| Front Page Top

#14 smn, try answering the questions instead of dodging them - because you KNOW the answers and they show you to be an ignorant ass.
Posted by OldSpook 2008-04-28 16:04||   2008-04-28 16:04|| Front Page Top

#15 ..the historical considerations given his 'run' by white Iowa..

White Iowa didn't vote. A very narrow self selected group of party activists usually identified as guilt ridden liberals who happen to be white participated in a caucus.
Posted by Procopius2k 2008-04-28 16:08||   2008-04-28 16:08|| Front Page Top

#16 I think Obama "Looks like America" intelligent and well educated (No I'm not going to vote for him, but it's NOT because of what color he's been painted by birth, you have NO choice about that).
Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim  2008-04-28 16:24||   2008-04-28 16:24|| Front Page Top

#17 smn, you're beginning to sound suspiciously like a troll. As far as this 'Burger is concerned, you can take your 'Bama-worshipping idiocy elsewhere along with all the rest of your foolish tripe. If you're stupid enough to actually believe the nonsense you post, you're too damned stupid to write anything worth reading. Straighten up or go away.
Posted by Thaimble Scourge of the Pixies4707 2008-04-28 17:24||   2008-04-28 17:24|| Front Page Top

#18 Thaimble Scourge of the Pixies4707, I plan to give Rantburg a sebatical on June 4th anyway; something I have do do for a while every year or two to 'vent'. I don't cuss on this site, I stay extremely focused on the issue discussed in forum, and yes react to the direct 'barbs' tossed my way by the enbeds! As for being a troll, I'm insulted; the ole "throw the baby out with the bathwater" eh?
Hang in there for another month...and like Nixon once eloquently obliged: "...You won't have ole smn to kick around anymore!"
In the long term however, if Frank G, Fred, and OldSpook agree that I should leave, I'll pick up my marbles and scurry to the next sandbox.
Posted by smn 2008-04-28 20:57||   2008-04-28 20:57|| Front Page Top

#19 "if Frank G, Fred, and OldSpook agree that I should leave, I'll pick up my marbles and scurry to the next sandbox"
Attention: Frank G, Fred, and OldSpook -- clean-up on Aisle 18!
Posted by Darrell 2008-04-28 21:21||   2008-04-28 21:21|| Front Page Top

#20 I don't really care. Smn is silly at best, projectionist racist at worst, and not worth worrying about except as an ignorant chewtoy. As always, it's Fred's call.
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2008-04-28 21:41||   2008-04-28 21:41|| Front Page Top

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Posted by gorb 2008-04-28 21:43||   2008-04-28 21:43|| Front Page Top

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