Comments on: In Politics, Does Race Trump Gender?

Politico: Caroline Kennedy Faces Stiff Criticism While Roland Burris Is Largely Unscathed

[concorde5]

I live in the south and I grew up in a very small town. Most blacks are very conservative in small town america especially in the south. We agree with the republican platform on many social issues including their stance on abortion, gay marriage, smaller government, etc.

The problem is that white supremacists have flocked to the republican party and they have been welcomed in the republican party. This scared a lot of blacks and it made us think republicans were the party of racists.

I think if republicans would reject racists and connect with blacks on social issues they would get a lot of blacks voting republican. And considering what has happened to the republican party over the last few years, they could really use an infusion of new voters. Granted it will be tough now that obama is president to peel off blacks on a national ticket but republicans could do well on local elections and in eight years the republican presidnetial candidate could get a much larger number of blacks voting for them.

[dxgmk]

"..I''''ve never understood why you don''''''''t feel welcome..." - TexHillGirl


doesn''t everyone understand how welcome blacks are in the republi-KLAN party

[comeon11]

it is a virtue to have a conviction. you can''t live a life believing that "anything goes." tolerance and understand is needed, but accepting any and every is not.

[tmittelstaed]

"..I''ve never understood why you don''''t feel welcome..." - TexHillGirl

Of course not, this is the problem.

The Republicans ask "how can YOU change so that you like our party?"

The Democrats ask "How can WE change so that you like our party?"

I''ve never seen a Republican, when faced with proof accepted by virtually everyone that one of their precious beliefs is hogwash, refuse to give it up. Even George Bush in his last press conference refused to believe that STAYING IN Iraq (not invading) for as long as he did was a mistake. And there''s been no attempt by the Republicans to even try closing Gitmo - because even though practically every other country in the world says Gitmo was a colossal mistake, the Republicans still believe it wasn''t.

[concorde5]

There is a wonderful article produced by the black republican leadership called, "Forget the Racist Roots the Democrats Want to Keep You In" you might take some time out to read it...I read it on the National Black Republican Website.
Posted by TexHillGirl at 04:59 PM : Jan 14, 2009




I''ll look for the article and give it a read.

[tmittelstaed]

"...Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Republican
won by Republicans was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens
of the country.
Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in
government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government
welfare...."

Of course it did. There''s few government-owned tenements out in Hickville. What the professor fails to mention though is that in the territory won by Democrats, that only a small percentage of it is occupied by tenements. The rest of it is also occupied by taxpaying citizens of the country.

[comeon11]

the word "hate" is just propaganda today. because i don''t believe in or agree with gambling does not mean i hate gamblers. Stop the lunacy. We can read right through that.

[comeon11]

stop throwing the word "hate" around. disagreement is not "hate."

[beader59]

Kennedy is an attorney, writer, and editor and serves on the boards of numerous non-profit organizations. From 2002 through 2004, Kennedy worked as director of the Office of Strategic Partnerships for the New York City Department of Education. The three-day-a-week job paid her a salary of $1 and had the goal of raising private money for the New York City public schools. In that capacity, she helped raise more than $65 million for the city%u2019s public schools. She currently serves as one of two vice chairs of the board of directors of The Fund for Public Schools, a public-private partnership founded in 2002 to attract private funding for public schools in New York City. She has also served on the board of trustees of Concord Academy, which she attended as a child.
Kennedy and other members of her family created the Profile in Courage Award in 1989. The award is given to a public official or officials whose actions demonstrate politically courageous leadership in the spirit of John F. Kennedy''s book, Profiles in Courage. In addition, Kennedy is president of the Kennedy Library Foundation and an adviser to the Harvard Institute of Politics, a living memorial to her father.
She is a member of the New York and Washington, D.C. bar associations. She is also a member of the boards of directors of the Commission on Presidential Debates and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and is an honorary chair of the American Ballet Theatre.

[specialty8]

Nothing will happen to Blago, maybe a slap on the wrist, he knows to much. Sooner or later one of these crooks will talk if they don''t have some kind of unfortunate accident.You know like the ones involved in the Whitewater Clinton scandel.

[concorde5]

TexHillGirl.....I''m a black man and I voted for Obama. I don''t think I was brainwashed into voting for him.

I actually voted for Mike Huckabee in our state primary and if he was the republican nominee, It would have been a very tough decision for me.

The reason blacks vote for democrats in overwhelming numbers is not because we just agree with democrats a whole lot, it''s because we feel like we have no alternative. We feel unwanted in the republican party so that only leaves democrats to vote for. If we actully felt like republicans really wanted to include us in their party we would vote republican in larger numbers.

[rosieodminge]

Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul ,
Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the Presidential
election:

Number of States won by: Democrats: 19 Republicans: 29
Square miles of land won by: Democrats: 580,000 Republicans: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Democrats: 127 million Republicans: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Democrats: 13.2 Republicans: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Republican
won by Republicans was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens
of the country.
Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in
government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government
welfare.

[bthrasher102]

Yet another example of someone using completely different scenarios to try to make a point. Burris was appointed, congress could do nothing but debate whether the appointment was valid. Where he stood on issues didn''t matter anymore because no one could reject him for them. Kennedy has not been appointed yet. People can debate her qualifications and try to sway the governor just as she is trying to do the same. Had we known Burris was trying to get appointed, he would have gone through the same.

[mycommentspg]

This article is correct, the race card is a big issue and this is a sad fact in America.

[specialty8]

Not a Clinton fan but she should be appointing Obama right now. She won the popular vote and would have won the primary if all states could have voted.

[dxgmk]

Which DO Republicans hate more -- minorities or women?


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Posted by enviro_wacko at 04:36 PM : Jan 14, 2009


Themselves

[enviro_wacko]

Which DO Republicans hate more -- minorities or women?

[mj9501]

Roger - give me a break. just because caroline kennedy is a lawyer and raised in a priveleged life does make her qualified to be senator. as a woman, i want to see qualified people in office, not celebrities. obama was not qualified, but has the job (hope he lives up to the job). men trump woman that what the case is. just like hillary got beaten up everyday on msncb with chris matthews and k. oberman and obama got a pass from the media. sure there was the rev. wright stuff, but nothing stuck. yea, race was a factor for burris, but as for kennedy and hillary - it was gender plain and simple.

[dxgmk]

FACT, even a blind man can see Kennedy isn''t qualified!!

[mindurownbiz]

Bull. More RNC excuses. Obama was vetted by the media for TWO years and the truth is (the truth that neocons can''''t accept) is that they found very little that Americans cared about. Rev Wright and Ayers was about it (and even those were tenuous). But it only took two months though to expose Palin as the fraud she was. Too bad too, because McCain deserved better.
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Posted by Rafterman1

McCain deserved better? Who the heck picked Sarah Palin to run as their Vice Presidential nominee? Sorry McCain deserved what he got.
And contrary to your belief, Americans did care about Reverend Wright and Bill Ayers (less so though), but it was not enough to change their vote against Obama. George W Bush and his administration lost the election for the Republicans. It really is not that hard to figure that out.