Comments on: Talk About Race Returns To The Campaign

Politico: It's The Discussion Obama Didn't Want, And Not One McCain Wants Either

[kesac4650]

Obama''s excuses have begun.

[alphaa10-2009]

yodaxl7 asks, "... does that means that Black Americans will vote for color? ? Since only 10 percent voted for hillary..."
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A preference for a candidate who is 50 percent white could be considered a new level of color-blindness among black voters.

Not to forget, of course, Bill Clinton got the same vote with consistency.

The color of skin does not appear to correlate very well with voting patterns. It does correlate closely with political platform, because this bloc always votes for its economic and political interests.

Is that different from any other American voter group?

[alphaa10-2009]

StormyTexan said, "Seems like McCain and Glenn were not found complicit with the Keating 5. However the democraps with them were... Please post the facts, correctly if you''''re going to talk about this krap."
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Please lead by example, it works best.

McBush was one of the Keating Five, and was formally rebuked by the Senate Ethics Committee for running interference to stop or delay federal investigators hot on Keating''s trail of misdeeds. These misdeeds included using S&L depositors'' money as his personal acount, giving money to friends as "loans" never to be repaid, and ultimately costing American taxpayers $3.4 billion.

The other four senators ended their political careers either immediately or within one term, but not McCain. In the style of the New Nixon, McCain reinvented himself, doing talk show and press forum circuits to cast the image of the "almost-innocent", penitant neophyte senator-- and former POW, we must not forget.

Yet, the stench of the scandal was such even Bush used the Keating affair to attack McBush in his SC primary bid in 2000.

This was not to say Bush was entirely clear, himself on where the blame lay. His father was president during the wave of S&L failures that cost taxpayers $126 billion, a failure of due diligence, if there ever were one, under the mantra of "deregulation".

But $126 billion from taxpayers on the watch of Bush, Sr., is mere small change, compared to the $700 billion bailout his son is pitching to American taxpayers.

[yodaxl7]

Ninety percent of the black americans voted for Obama during the primary against Hiliary clinton. Ninety percent of black americans are expected to vote for Obama in the election against McCain. So, does that means that Black Americans will vote for color? ? Since only 10 percent voted for hillary.

[alphaa10-2009]

MCBUSH-- PACT WITH THE DAMNED?

To most of his supporters, McBush is a "holding-pattern" candidate, whose appeal lies in
promising less of the future, more of the past, more of the same eight-year ordeal of the Bush years.

That is absolutely wonderful for the minority which has benefitted financially from Bush tax cuts,
and for the wealthy minority whose income has risen under Bush and for the shrinking WASP
demographic which shudders to think those barbarians at the gate might be Americans, too.

But times have changed without permission, once again. America cannot survive as a politically-gated community, and we must learn to live together-- not merely deliver lip service to biblical
teachings about our neighbors.

(See "McBush-- Pact with the Damned?"--2)

[alphaa10-2009]

MCBUSH-- PACT WITH THE DAMNED?--2

Apparently, that applies to even Wall Street. Even if ethical considerations are somehow not
paramount to a dwindling circle of GOP holdouts, Wall Street is a parable of immense power.

Its debacle of greed and deceit affects rich and poor, both wealthy neighborhoods, and those
with crack houses on every block.

Those whose lives and fortunes are invested in corporate power must bow to the great,
unwashed mass of American taxpayers-- confessing their awesome debt to the same rabble
they gleefully plundered for the last decade.

(See "McBush-- Pact with the Damned?"--3)

[alphaa10-2009]

MCBUSH-- PACT WITH THE DAMNED?--3

Now, American taxpayers are asked by Bush to come to the aid of their wealthy brothers with
squeaky-clean resumes, collars and cuffs. As if on cue, Bush puts on a show of such earnest
hand-wringing, we wonder where he has been for the last eight years.

And McBush? The best he can do is avoid the spotlight on his Faustian deal with the Bush wing
of the GOP. Late last spring, his campaign headed for the morgue, and without significant
financial backing, McCain finally sold his political soul to Bush.

McCain changed his position on campaign reform, offshore drilling and a variety of other salient
issues. Even torture became acceptable.

The change from McCain to McBush was so radical, even TIME Magazine notes McBush has
reached the outer limits of his pact with the damned and doomed in the Bush camp--

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1842030,00.html?xid=newsletter-weekly

[smurfcrusher]

Bhoogren, don''t be an idiot. Bush did enough.

To all who might use race to influence your decision: it is in your best interest not to.
Choose the candidate who supports your views, and who you feel would best serve the well-being of this country and all who depend on her.

Relying on race will be self-defeating, as the demographics of America are changing rapidly and not necessarily in your favor, from this perspective.

If you want racist candidates, vote on race.
If you want the best candidate for the job, vote on issues and bury the old way of thinking.

I would suggest the latter...

[rudy654-2009]

The fact is, McCain saw the problem in 2006, proposed legislation to fix it...where was Obama?
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When the hell did McCain see a problem? Time and again, up until this month of September, he claimed that the economy was very strong. He just can''t sell that pig with lipstick anymore.

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A decade ago, Sen. John McCain embraced legislation to broadly deregulate the banking and insurance industries, helping to sweep aside a thicket of rules established over decades in favor of a less restricted financial marketplace that proponents said would result in greater economic growth.

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In 2002, McCain introduced a bill to deregulate the broadband Internet market, warning that "the potential for government interference with market forces is not limited to federal regulation."

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But he has usually reverted to the role of an unabashed deregulator. In 2007, he told a group of bloggers on a conference call that he regretted his vote on the Sarbanes-Oxley bill, which has been castigated by many executives as too heavy-handed.
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So, as you can see with the last piece of regulation that he did support, he later retreated on, keeping in line with his true thinking.

[remco82]

Obama should be ahead 30-35 points by all rights. The Republicans have engineered this ugly financial mess, and McCain had a role in creating it as a Senator. Even before this economic bombshell, McCain had no platform, other than to extort votes by posing as a Christ figure (he suffered as a POW so you owe him!) The only possible reason the race is this close is that far too many Americans are closet racists!