Comments on: Obama Walks A Tricky Racial Line

Democratic Candidate Woos Blacks But Doesn't Want "Black Candidate" Label

[socrates392]

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!

[mg1220]

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?

[prinzowhales]

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.

[socrates392]

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!

[realpatriot1]

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?

[l00ker]

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?

[oldabeeagle]

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

[kesac4650]

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.

[oldabeeagle]

She is not Hillary. She is Billary. She is good for corporations (NAFTA, FCC, CBS, etc.) She is not good for America.

[prinzowhales]

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...