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Democratic Candidate Woos Blacks But Doesn't Want "Black Candidate" Label
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- LOL! You want to discount the boomers? Ever guess how many there are?
Posted by trapbreak at 01:01 PM : Jan 26, 2008
Far from it. There are a lot of boomers. Thus my comment about the tyranny of the boomers. They represent the largest voting block in this country-- and they have for a long time. We can thank the boomers both for Slick Willy and George Bushit! Now, however, the boomers are finally starting to die off . . . starting to lose their overriding majority . . . the rest of us might finally have a chance to make an impact on the presidential election. That''s all I''m saying. I certainly don''t underestimate the power of teh boomers in this country! - Reply to this comment
- Obama and commentators have labelled Clinton''s warning on terrorist threat and economic recession as "fear-mongering". Well, Bhutto has been assassinated and the US economy is falling. They have happened. It was not fear-mongering. What can be called fear-mongering is floating the mis-characterization that Clinton''s negativity would spell defeat for the Democrats. It''s baseless and her bipartisan performance in the Senate proves the contrary. It would be a mistake to succumb to Obama''s fear-mongering. If America does not put an experienced agent of change in the Whitehouse, the same people who adore him now for his hyped rhetoric would be the same people devouring him with criticisms when he fails to deliver. All sentiments of hope can quickly turn into animosity just like what we''ve seen happen with Bush. As the clichi goes, %u201CLove flies out of the window when hunger enters the door%u201D. And this animosity can prove more polarizing because when that happens, the blacks will save their own skin''s face out of racial loyalty much to the dismay of the whites. And democrats will be in a greater political mess. This is not a racial statement. It is the inconvenient truth. Watch the outcome of the South Carolina primary -- the blacks will overwhelmingly push for Obama in an effort to recolor the face of America in the world as black. I wonder how it looks to recolor the face of Kenya in the world as white?
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- Who knows "what enemy?" when it comes to Obama?...He already come out for invading Pakistan...in a CBS story of some weeks ago, he said that we needed to stay in Iraq to "take out" tens of thousands of "activist extremists"...Anthony Lake would have had us invade the Sudan last year...only he''s not interested in "surrendering"...he''s interested in parleying his vote against the initiation of war in Iraq into an "anti-war" position to get the votes of the same constituency that gave the Democrats the Congress in 2006 to get us out of the war.
Obama has the backing of War Pigs and Israel- firsters...the same gang that got us into the Stupid Peoples'' Wars in the first place.
Obama is satisfied to let the election fraud in New Hampshire go commented upon...even though it has already been proven in the recount that it cost him considerable votes. This is a creature cut from the same cloth as Kerry, who let the fraud in Ohio go unchallenged. - Reply to this comment
- Rather than talking about race and gender, I wish the press would instead talk about differences in voting patterns by age.
Hillary is the boomer candidate. Check the numbers. Old people love her. Boomers are scared of Obama because he represents the future. Hillary represents the past. Hillary makes Boomer Democrats feel all warm and fuzzy inside because they know she''ll uphold the satus quo. Boomers know she''ll let them keep running up the deficit til they croak and stick the rest of us with the bill!
This isn''t a battle of white vs. black or woman vs. man. This is a battle to determine whether we will finally overthrow the tyranny of the Boomers! - Reply to this comment
- kesac4650,
I don''t know why you feel that way. He took all kinds of heat last year for laying it on the line to Musharif that if he didn''t get serious about tracking Al Quaeda in Pakastani territory he would. Bush & all theother candidates in both parties didn''t have the guts to do that.
Now we see where Pakastan is headed as the unchallenged influence of Al Quaeda grows and America continues to focus on Iraq and Iran.
He''s the only candidate in either party able to recognize where the real battlefield is. How can anyone else defeat the enemy by fighting on the wrong battlefield? - Reply to this comment
- It is a shame that he is running as the candidate promising to surrender to the enemy.
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Posted by kesac4650 at 12:28 PM : Jan 26, 2008
Surrender to what enemy? - Reply to this comment
- Democrats, Republicans, and independents all respect and admire Barack Obama. However, they all LOATH Billary. I would gladly vote for Gore, Obama, Edwards, Kuccunich, or many other candidates. However, I will never vote for Billary again.
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/05/31/040531fa_fact1 - Reply to this comment
- Mr. Obama is walking that line just fine, thank you. He is even making it look easy to appeal to all races and both sexes.
It is a shame that he is running as the candidate promising to surrender to the enemy. - Reply to this comment
- She is not Hillary. She is Billary. She is good for corporations (NAFTA, FCC, CBS, etc.) She is not good for America.
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- If the Establishment''s propaganda machine didn''t talk about race, s.ex, s.exual orientation, abortion, religion and the like, then they might have to talk about real issues...and then, the lies and BS would be as transparent as the palpable nonsense and lies that the current regime spreads.
I''ve yet to hear a Democrat talk about the private Federal Reserve and its active betrayal of one of its primary functions--to maintain the value of the ''dollar.''
The border is still open...Bush and Cheney are still unimpeached...the Stupid Peoples'' War still continues (thanks in large part to the stupid people talking about non-essentials like race and s.ex while their friends and family are fighting and suffering.)
Just ignore the stench rising from both piles and keep trying to pick your favorite Neo-Liberal Oligarch Droppings... - Reply to this comment
- George Bush had no foreign policy background, so it turned out to be his advisors who called the shots: these were the neocon fascist madmen, who have created a disaster. Obama has no knowledge and no experience of foreign policy, so it is reasonable to examine who his top advisers in this field are. We immediately find that Obama''''s foreign policy is made by the Russia-hater Zbigniew Brzezinski of the Washington Center for Strategic and International Studies and the gray eminence of the Democratic Party foreign policy establishment. Brzezinski''''s enthusiastic endorsement of Obama and scornful rejection of Mrs. Clinton last summer was a turning point in the rise of the Illinois senator. But Zbigniew is not just an individual; he is the gruff patriarch of an extended clan of intelligence operatives around which an entire coterie of the intelligence community is grouped. One is his son Mark Brzezinski, who served in the National Security Council during the Clinton era. . .
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Posted by salty1954 at 11:30 AM : Jan 26, 2008
Zbigniew Brzezinski is a smart dude, and helped fight and defeat the Soviet Union, so this guy is not foreign policy light weight, and will give Barack bags of ammunition against this Putin character. - Reply to this comment
- terrorislam6,
How''s the weather in Belguim today? Gone to any good skinhead rallies lately? - Reply to this comment
George Bush had no foreign policy background, so it turned out to be his advisors who called the shots: these were the neocon fascist madmen, who have created a disaster. Obama has no knowledge and no experience of foreign policy, so it is reasonable to examine who his top advisers in this field are. We immediately find that Obama''s foreign policy is made by the Russia-hater Zbigniew Brzezinski of the Washington Center for Strategic and International Studies and the gray eminence of the Democratic Party foreign policy establishment. Brzezinski''s enthusiastic endorsement of Obama and scornful rejection of Mrs. Clinton last summer was a turning point in the rise of the Illinois senator. But Zbigniew is not just an individual; he is the gruff patriarch of an extended clan of intelligence operatives around which an entire coterie of the intelligence community is grouped. One is his son Mark Brzezinski, who served in the National Security Council during the Clinton era. . .- Reply to this comment
- Posted by ApprovedCBS at 11:22 AM : Jan 26, 2008
Horse hockey!!! - Reply to this comment
- Obama is half-black, half-white. Why don''t we say he''s white? Because that''s what we see when we look at him. The same as we see, in fact, that Hillary is a woman. Let''s get beyond that already, and start focusing on ISSUES. ISSUES. ISSUES.
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- Obama is too good for America. We don''''t deserve him. But we also aren''''t evil enough to deserve the Clintons. That''''s the dilemma. Many Americans are decent people, many americans are lazy, selfish greedy entertainment and borrowed money addicts. The addicts love the Clintons, they love this race baiting, this hatred, this obfuscation of truth. But the decent, honest, compassionate people don''''t deserve those two hucksters and the damage they will do to this country.
I hate this situation, because it is a clear choice between good and evil, between an honest and positive man, and a pair of ruthless and selfish con artists. And I know in my heart that america usually chooses the evil over the good. Just like they chose George Bush and his hate. Helpless, watching my country commit another stupid sin, choosing the evil ones over an honest man.
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Posted by SharnCedar at 12:44 AM : Jan 26, 2008
And this country will, and should get every indignity ( certainly to come ) that it deserves; since, governments are only a representation of its people. So, once these two slugs are back in the White House again taking up where they left off, we will all know who we can thank for it, and they should shut up and eat *** for the next 4 to 8 years there after. - Reply to this comment
- All this balck white stuff is sickning to me. They look at our skin color and they think they can figure us out.
Obama''s close ties with racist cult leaders in Chicago shows what he is really like ! Not his skin color !
He is trying to pass as a non racist yet he is a member of the Trinity United Church racist cult group !
And he talks about truth and hope !
His phony lies will catch up with him soon and his 15 minutes will be over ! - Reply to this comment
- For the life of me I cannot understand the continuing reference to Obama as a black man. No one has ever referred to me as an Italian white man or Italian American, because my ancestors came to America from Italy. I do not refer to my children as black. My daughter was born to a white father and black mother. I refer to her by her name or honey, or sweetheart. She is a very neat person. My step children are dark skinned and have roots in Jamaica. I refer to them as my children, not my black children! This continuing introduction of race is what keeps the old racial discrimination alive and kickin! I must say its a good weapon to keep you Americans divided and in dialogue about something as meaningless as race! When you start to see, respect, and treat each other as people, racial hatred and discrimination will fade into the past.
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- ...a game opponent but with his legislative voting record and his ? Islamic background he never was going to get too far. Hillary has got all the momentum and she''s gonna'' roll right in the White House come next term. I just pray that Obama can bow out graciously.
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- WHAT COUNTRY DOES BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA PLEDGE TO?
Obama Disrespects U.S. Flag!
Obama: No Hand on Heart for National Anthem
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2007/10/20/obama-no-hand-heart-pledge-either-will-msm-notice
http://bobmccarty.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/forget-lapel-pins-obama-disrespects-us-flag/
http://www.democracynow.org/2007/2/21/silent_gesture_gold_medalist_tommie_smith - Reply to this comment
