When It Comes to the Big Question, Game Change Punts
Even when Hillary Clinton correctly pointed out that it took a seasoned hand in D.C. politics, Lyndon Johnson, to turn Martin Luther King Jr.’s soaring equal-rights rhetoric into actual law, she found herself in trouble, “trying to dance delicately through a minefield of racial sensitivities,” the authors write. On cue, the New York Times cited the LBJ/MLK remark as evidence that Hillary “came perilously close to injecting racial tension” into the contest, practically branding her with a scarlet R. Then the Obama campaign put out a memo citing the comment, plus the mentions of Obama’s Bush-backing 2004 position on Iraq, “to suggest the Clintons were playing the race card,” write Heilemann and Halperin. A followup sentence is priceless: “To Bill [Clinton], the picture was all too clear. By accusing him and Hillary of slapping the race card on the table, the Obama campaign was doing exactly that itself.” You think?
John McCain scored his first hit on Obama when he ran a campaign ad called “Celeb.” It mocked Obama’s popularity and compared him to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. (McCain lieutenant Steve Schmidt scuttled a version that also featured Oprah Winfrey saying, “Don’t politicize Oprah. She’s more powerful than you can comprehend, like Obi-Wan Kenobi.”) Obama counterattacked by arguing, essentially, that a commercial featuring two white celebrities was, in fact, racist. “What they’re going to try to do,” he told a campaign rally on the day the ad was released, “is make you scared of me. ‘You know, he’s not patriotic enough.’ ‘He’s got a funny name.’ ‘You know, he doesn’t look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills.’” Weeks earlier, Obama had made a similar remark: “They’re going to try and make you afraid of me. ‘He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?’”
Obama aide David Axelrod argued that the “Celeb” ad painted Obama as undeserving of his success — the affirmative-action nominee. And he thought that McCain would be sure to hammer away at Obama’s race in other ways — such as by raising the issues of crime and taxes.
Far be it from a political campaign to mention such minor issues as those! John McCain, who never did say, “Did I mention he’s black?” or suggest that voters should choose the candidate with the less funny-sounding name, had specifically ordered his campaign not to air any attack ads featuring the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Still, as Heilemann and Halperin put it, McCain “feared that innocence wasn’t a sufficient defense when it came to racial matters.”
Nope — innocence is no defense.
Barack Obama definitely benefited from white race guilt. It was the number one reason why he became the president of the United States. Any other factor rates, at best, a distant second. I was among those who said so during the campaign—and my insights were not always warmly received. It is safe to say that I paid something of a price for stating the obvious. Some conservatives deleted my comments on their blogs, and one major website even banned me. Obama freely employed the race card on a consistent basis. I agree with Bill Clinton that a couple of his statements were taken out of context to imply they were somehow racist. Obama’s people were seeking any excuse to slime him. The former president, for instance, engaged in bit of hyperbole when pointing out to Ted Kennedy that a few years earlier Obama would have been getting them coffee. Obama’s race had nothing to with it. Somebody with his slim resume normally would not have had any opportunity to be considered a serious presidential candidate.
Shelby Steele wrote, A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can’t Win. Some argued that the author was proven wrong by the candidate’s successful election campaign. Nothing could really be further from the truth. Obama was fortunate that the politically correct John McCain was his opponent. I remain convinced that had the Republican standard bearer no later than June of 2008 criticized Obama’s relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright—by the middle of September the Democrat’s race for the presidency would have been effectively over. The majority of voters would have concluded that Obama was too big of a risk. Oh well, such is life.
Wait for it – during November 2010 elections there will be more accusations of racism. And it’s a pretty funny one. Read the prediction on my blog:
http://hyphenatedamericans.blogspot.com/2010/01/accusations-of-racism-in-november-2010.html
The politically correct are no longer able to suppress the subject of race and racial differences. Barack Hussein Obama (and his Hessian Eric Holder ) have seen to that. But by his ascension to the Oval Office, Obama has also placed the subject within acceptable rhetorical bounds.
For decades now, the “piety” that there are no differences among the races has gone essentially unchallenged, in the face of a great deal of statistical evidence to the contrary. A towering irony has arisen as black identity-politics groups have striven to use that evidence as political ammunition with which to press for race-based preferential treatment, minority set-asides, and “reparations” for slavery. White Americans have practically abased themselves before black race-hustlers’ demands, while simultaneously denying at the top of our lungs that there are or could be any objective differences among the races.
And now we have a duplicitous, arrogant, inept chief of state, one of whose greatest campaign assets was the color of his skin.
Given this new locus of vulnerability, we may expect the shamans of political correctness to redouble their efforts to muzzle us on the subject of race. I don’t think it will matter. Thanks to Eric Holder, Van Jones, William “Cold Cash” Jefferson, Charles Rangel, Barack Hussein Obama, and a host of others, ordinary Americans aren’t listening any more.
Since taking office Barack Obama has made a fool of himself, disappointed the members of his own race, splintered the Democrat Party and repeatedly embarrassed our nation on the world stage.
If any person wants to view these truths from the perspective that Mr. Obama is black, so be it. That does not mean that the person is a racist.
Want proof? Hold your breath until the liberals select another black as their candidate for president.
You are a racist pig. After 300 years of oppression people of color have a right to positions of power. Investigating their qualifications and abilities is a white racist trick.
The authors betray their bias in many ways, once you get used to their code. Here’s a quote: “On the Sunday before midterms, Obama attended church with Democratic congressman Harold Ford, Jr., the African American Senate candidate there, whose campaign had been rocked by a negative TV ad that fanned fears of miscegenation…”
Asserting that ad was racist is quite contentious, yet the authors take it as a given.
The race baiters and liberal politicians never understood and never will understand that most peoples dislike, nay distrust of “the one” was NEVER about race. There are more than enough incompetent, arrogant, insufferable government employees in Washington DC. who are white, brown, yellow, red and some that are multi-colored (the ones with a yellow stripe running down their backs, red necks and black hearts).
It was always about competence, always about ideas, always about the ability to lead and the desire to serve. None of which the Democratic candidate had. He is a puppet, a charlatan, a wisp, an invertebrate. He stands for nothing, but power and even then he doesn’t know what to do with it once he has it, thank goodness. This is what you get when you allow whole generations to exist without contributing to society, no matter what their ethnicity. They truly believe they have a right to other peoples money, goods and services. It’s THEIR TURN!!!!! If you stand in their way there are hot button labels ready to use to distract and distance. Racist, Hitler, Brown shirt, and the most damning Conservative.
So I, like most people who voted against socialism, hope this administration fails, epically. Not because I hate liberals, because I don’t. I’d have to care a lot more about them to hate them. Not because I’m a racist, because I’m not. I ascribe to everyone the ability to be a moron, which knows no color. Not because I’m a conservative, well I am conservative, but that doesn’t mean I have to hate people who disagree with me. That’s a liberal mentality that I don’t buy into.
I hope he fails because he and his cabal are wrong. They have no idea how things work as demonstrated by the fact that just 7% of the current cabinet have any business experience at all. “Dear Leader” has none. I hope he fails because he and his coven have NO discernible moral compass, no conscience, no standards of any kind, shape or variety. But more than that I hope he fails because he used his race and his youth to scam the very people he should have been helping. He was the flimflam snake oil, traveling salesman of the kind who have preyed on people for centuries. He played on their fear, their feelings of entitlement and exploitation and well, exploited them for his own gains. He is what most Liberals hate more than anything else, a consummate Capitalist. If Liberals and Democrats could just see that I wonder how many heads would explode? Maybe it should just be our little secret.
Comment # 5 says, people of color have a right to positions of power. Investigating their qualifications and abilities is a white racist trick.I wish I thought she was joking.
I would have thought it beyond obvious that race played in Barack Obama’s favor. Nevermind actually being racist, the vast majority are horrified to appear racist or have it implied that they are racist by the race baiters. Obama’s rise had everything to do with race and our desire to transcend it and his demise has everything to do with his inexperience and the incompetence of his administration which most of us easily saw because we had transcended the racial issue. As it should be.
Obama is HALF WHITE! That gives you some ammunition. People say if you criticize Obama it is because you are racist, but consider this: emphasize that your critiques are directed at Obama’s white half, which is an Alinsky-style left wing radical neo-marxist. But you really admire his black half.
Before anyone flames Mrs Wigglebottom she is obviously joking.
It is going to take a few more years before anyone is going to be willing to explore the issue of how much Obama’s race benefited him in 2008. He remains unvetted even today. If he runs again in 2012, can you see a group of 30 lawyers and investigators going to the various places he’s lived to “dig up dirt” on him? It’s never going to happen. Obama will continue to be judged by a different set of standards and it will be left to future generations to explore the Man vs. the Myth.
#5
It is attitude like yours that get in the way of truly qualified people.
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ANY candidate should have their background laid out to the public..but people didn’t with Obama…
People were “afraid” of being labeled “racists”, so they allowed an unqualified, arrogant elitist to be elected and try to destroy our country, because he is black. NOT AGAIN!!!
If you apply for a job…you need a resume and lay your background out> well, a leader has to have an even more indepth resume, his background back to the womb needs to be know, all associations , jobs etc.
We did not get this with Obama,,,and we should have… If you think this background check is only because Obama is black then you are a fool, have your head in the sand, and you are looking for excuses for his failure.
Obama is an arrogant unqualified elitist. If that makes me a racist..then use rally bright colors to write it please…
I use to laugh at the notion Obama was the antichrist…and his followers are big bird.. Obama has damaged race relations, the economy and international relations.
Alice:
I do hope that’s sarcasm.
Alice is so right. Time will show that Lord Obama is above all that. All what? you ask. Take your pick, Lord Obama knows best and will make it all perfectly clear, make no mistake.
Anyone with any common sense knew the race card was always on the table and the Obama team would use it as a cudgel. Axelrod et al. created the perfect candidate, one who was immune to any substantive criticism because of the indelible shield of race and its attendant “white guilt”.
Not being able to consructively criticize someone because of his race is just as bad as criticizing him because of his race. Obama is the most unqualified, least vetted, unknown person to ever attain the office of the U.S. Presidency. We still have no idea about most of his past and to ask any questions about it would be “racist”.
Race is the primary (if not only) reason Obama is president. As Geraldine Ferraro (D-NY) pointed out during the campaign, a white man with Obama’s complete lack of real world accomplishment would never be taken seriously as a candidate. But to question Obama’s qualifications was racist. So all the good little white leftists dutifully assauged their white guilt and elected the most unqualified presidential candidate in history so they could “feel” better about themselves.
My jaw still hangs loosely on my chest. It’s been over a year since the election, and I am still dumbfounded by how thoroughly reason was hogtied by political correctness. That McCain made it his number one priority to avoid even oblique references to Obama’s middle name or his vile pastor proves he lacked the backbone to lead the nation in challenging times. Oh, and Alice Wigglebottom . . . what the . . .?
John McCain couldn’t point fingers at Obama; there are too many warts in his own past: his carpetbagging entrance into Arizona politics, the Keating Five (he was cleared although he appeared tighter with Keating than any of the others), divorcing his critically ill wife to wed Cindy, using his wife’s (Cindy’s) plane for campaigning AFTER getting his fingers whacked for riding on Keating’s plane. I respect the soldier, but the politician is and was fatally flawed.
When I get Alzheimers I hope the first thing I forget is the last election. Just disastrous!
Ah, the irony, after playing on contemporary white guilt and promising racial redemption to get elected, the black President delivers Chicago style politics and a never ending racial spoils system, as usual. The military was racially integrated almost over night while academia is still playing the affirmative action game fifty years later. At least affirmative action has worked for white females. The American law school graduation ratio between males and females is now 1:1. Maybe the progressive President could institute a gender normed draft for females to ameliorate their under-representation in the armed forces? Gee, if women had to register for the draft like males, and were actually required to show up, there might be more Alice Wigglebottoms humping the Tora Bora? Maybe the killed in action ratio between males and females would no longer be 54:1? Didn’t the President promise to get women registered for universal Selective Service?
don, any reason in particular you see women as the problem? Perhaps women do well in school because they are good students? To move on, regarding military service, I like how the Israelis handle it. Unlike our current President, I can tell a real enemy from, say, Fox News. Not sure what you meant about “humping the Tora Bora”…serving our country is a great thing and I hope we can all do it with fewer killed in action. Fewer Americans killed, that is.
The Dems played political correctness beautifully. The MSM in particular…wouldn’t go anywhere near Obama’s past or examine his record in Illinois in any serious way…some of it was fear of being called racist…some of it was the fact that most reporters were for him.
The major media is finished as a result. They will never recover when the whole story is told…and it will be…someone always writes a book. The major news networks led by the NYTIMES did not dare look at his college records, his drug admissions and his youthful mentors. They have committed long term suicide. They will never be trusted again.
If anything good came out of Barack Obama’s victory, let us hope is finally assuaged the pandering, phony white guilt. The problem with Alice’s comment is not that it isn’t funny – it is. The problem is that to this day, we still have to ponder if it a joke. This is the group think of most on the left.
There are indeed many qualified black men for higher office. Unfortunately, Barack Obama wasn’t one of them and it shows.
2. Hyphenated American:
Wait for it – during November 2010 elections there will be more accusations of racism.
The first “conservative” who caves gets crossed off my list.
I don’t think Obama realizes he’s half black….or is it half white…or???
How about half @$$ ….incompetent,pandering, arrogant, loser..
Our elected officials have treated the American public like we should be happy they hae graced us with their presence.
Perhaps the worm has finally turned with the Mass election.
Did Obama lose votes from people who otherwise would have voted for the Democrat but didn’t because he was black? Most assuredly. But the votes he picked up because of his race cancelled those many times over. I’m repeating myself here, but: If Stanley Ann Dunham had bedded down with your run-of-the-mill, American, white Marxist, the world wouldn’t have given their boy Barry a second glance. There would have been no scholarship to the fancy prep school or Occidental College, no transfer to Columbia, no Harvard Law, no Law Review, no book deal, no patronage by the Chicago machine, no coveted slot at the Democratic convention, no Senate seat, no absurdly fast track to the nomination. That is not to say that Barry Dunham, white male, couldn’t have accomplished all those things, but he would have to have been an exceedingly talented achiever and we all know Barack Obama, African-American male, is no exceedingly talented achiever. Sounds harsh, I know, but I believe it to be the case.
In the last election, the only people who played the race card were Obama’s people. And you know, I’ve always wondered, just how many presidents does Obama think are pictured on the dollar bill?
OK, everybody at once. “I’m not a racist. You are!” Feel better? Good. oh, by the way, did you know that all the bankers are Jews? Yeah, Rush told me. Somebody should look into that.
Identifying President Barack Obama as “black” is misleading. He is not a descendant of American slaves, but a man whose father was from Kenya and whose mother was an American “white.”
“” … Hillary Clinton correctly pointed out that it took a seasoned hand in D.C. politics, Lyndon Johnson, to turn Martin Luther King Jr.’s soaring equal-rights rhetoric into actual law … “”
Should, more accurately, read to the effect:
It took a (Dwight David Eisenhower and then a military-industrial-complex-owned, operated-and-controlled, war-profiteering, individual liberty-squashing, Socialist-International and soft bigotry of low-expectations/”Great Society”-serving statist) Lyndon Johnson — (and the enthusiastic support of the entire Eisenhower-inspired Republican Party) — to (in the face of the inherently and systemically racist and closely Ku Klux Klan-associated “Democratic” potty’s vicious resistance to the end of desegregation) by turning Martin Luther King Jr.’s soaring equal-rights rhetoric into actual law – cynically orchestrate the long-term capture of what the “Democrats” like to call “the black vote.” That they nowadays take for granted.
I find it impossible to believe that there is NO ONE ANYWHERE who can find out all Obama’s hidden information.
Re: #22: Would love to know what you all think about that and when (if) you think we will know these hidden things about Obama.
The racial quotient exhibited by Obama’s election was all the country could muster.
Sadly, in the haste to get a black representative into the position, Obama was elected.
And, sadly, he has been a disappointment and disaster to his chosen race.
Right; I said “chosen”. You think he would have won the election calling himself white?
@ Alice Wigglebotton
Ms. Alice, it is YOU who are apparently the racist pig (well, say, Miss Piggy!) There is no such a thing as a RIGHT to hold position of power and be excused (excluded, or investigated when necessary) from scrutiny and criticism! Racism is the lowest and crudest form of collectivism and ANYONE trying to play that card, in defence or in offensive, is the RACIST himself par excellence, regardless of his (her) color of the skin!
So how do those that did vote for this unqualified inexperienced man now feel about the vote they made? Do they wish they had voted another way or not at all? Electing a president is a serious thing, and should not be a decision made just to “make history” for the sake of making history. It is something that has serious consequences as we are seeing right now due to his bad policies and those in the administration that surround him.
Here we have probably the first president in history to become a lame duck within the first year of his administration, but looking at what he has done so far it comes as no real surprise and I am sure David Thomson might agree that soon we might see him completely come undone, possibly when he gives his State of the Union address because he really has no real accomplishments (especially health care reform) whether it is good or bad (current bills are toxic).
I will not watch or listen to his little speech as it will all be about him but not about his failures, I am sure that within his speech he will manage to lay balme on all bad to George Bush, and make up facts like jobs “saved or created” or that it could have been worse without his bold new policies…hell he hasn’t a clue and I for one am ready for a new Congress to come in and truly make history and impeach him and throw him out of office as well as Joe Biden.
the big O isn’t descended from slaves, but he is the biggest CO-OPTER ever elected. the civil rights MLK stood for wasn’t his legacy. just because he’s half African he co-opts it. the legacy is for Americans. ok he gets it because his white mother was American. Co-Opter in chief.
Old Skeez represents the phony piety from the left. Every four years, pander for the vote always expecting the black man to be too ignorant to notice until next election.
Tip of the hat to the Democrats and skeez – they’ve played the game of low expectations and their own egregious form of racism well.
Regarding Leigh; I mean humping the Tora Bora packing a weapon as distinct from sun bathing in a bikini in Bora Bora; females are still banned from combat units. So what’s it going to be? Mandatory equality of conditions or optional equal opportunity? And exactly when do those two concepts of equality merge in the feminist ideology? Apparently when it’s convenient it’s equality of conditions, when it’s inconvenient it’s optional equality of opportunity. Or is pointing that out denote having a problem with white women as apposed to, say, black males or Chinese females? And it is a political issue, since the Supreme Court passed on requiring females to register for the draft, leaving that gender discrimination issue up to congress to decide in 82. So far congress has passed on it. Must be inconvenient, especially for Madam Speaker when she’s got health care on her plate, and then there’s ending “don’t as don’t tell” for gays in the military too–who only make up 3 percent of the population as apposed to females who make up a majority. Ah, the silent majority, that explains it, now I understand when equality of opportunity and conditions merge.
the barry campaign. there never was a nation to unify until this demøgogue began shouting about racism that didn’t exist. pretty funny since he and wifey slurped from the great big huge trough of affirmative action.
Racism–96 percent of blacks voted for Obama , because he was black. Enough said. #5– I GUESS IF YOU ARE GOOD AT WIGGLING YOUR BOTTOM, THAT IS ENOUGH QUALIFICATIONS AND ABILITIES TO BE PRESIDENT. GO FOR IT.
30. Francesca:
I find it impossible to believe that there is NO ONE ANYWHERE who can find out all Obama’s hidden information.
They must have some extraordinary locks on it at Columbia and Harvard. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’d directly edited the relevant databases.
36. don:
Why are you conflating “women” with “feminists”? You sound bitter. Also wrong.
Before you know it left wing radicals will request to see his long form birth certificate, not just the short form certifying he was born?? Maybe even have a desire to see his academic record?? Who knows, maybe after the next Muslim terrorist attack on NYC even the Times will see fit to print the Mohammed cartoons?? Barry, keep digging that hole.
Barry is a halfy just like me. Just because he’s got darker skin than others means bubkiss to me and it should mean diddly to everyone else. But of course it means the world to many of those who also have darker skin.
Sheesh…
MLK Jr is probably spinning in his grave seeing all of those who have come after him trampling his great dreams and ideals.
Ostensibly, the purpose of affirmative action was to fast track minorities into the learning and experience stream so that they could eventually vie, based on skills and merit, for the really important jobs just like anyone else. But add in constant bullying by race baiters over the years, the aggressive incompetence of the left/liberal agenda, the emphasis on ideology without consideration for its real world consequences – and voila, you get Obama as President.
You only need to follow the careers and writings of people like Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams to see the real deal. They are African Americans with serious technical knowledge and superb reasoning skills that are the equal of anyone in their professions. There are probably plenty more African Americans out there that would be vastly superior to Obama in the role of President. That he is “the one” should create a great deal of consternation and self examination by those who promoted or voted for him. But fat chance.
Barry S will always get 110% of the black vote.
#1 David.
Excellent post, you pretty well nailed it on all the material you brought up.
My own answer to the article’s question of “what role did race play…”, goes beyond the presidential race. No one seems to ever question that about our House members and the fact that blacks are there in far greater numbers than their racial percentages and qualifications would ever support. Coupled with that, why are there no blacks in the Senate?
It is simple to answer – in all House districts throughout the country, where blacks are in the majority, they always vote for blacks regardless of their qualifications or worthiness. As long as they are black and a Democrat, that is all that matters. To say that the House is tarnished because of this practice (think Maxine Waters, Charlie Rangel, Jefferson, et al) is an understatement.
The fact that there are no blacks in the Senate is simply because blacks will not run for office there because there is no ‘district’ to control, and they must get the votes from the entire state based on merit. House members know this and are content to sit in place knowing that they will be there for life, protected by their black constituency (if not thrown in prison first).
Black politicians practice this ‘reverse racism’ very successfully.
don, thanks for clarifying. I’ll be honest and say I have not given a lot of thought to women’s roles in the military and whether all combat units and roles should be open to women. There might be good reasons for all citizens of a certain age to register with the Selective Service and I have always been in favor of that. It has been many years since I was physically strong and fleet of foot and if we had gone to war when the US had hostages in Iran, I would have enlisted.
I am not trying to make this all about you or me but suggesting there are many women like me who are pro-military, believe that serving our country is an honor, and would have gone along with whatever role was assigned to me.
A bit back on topic–I remember how big of an issue it was that Clinton did not serve in VietNam. Has anyone ever asked Obama why he never considered military service or mentions those who do so infrequently? I know his cheerleaders will say that he was just too brilliant but I don’t buy it.
I blame the Republicans. Bush for becoming the biggest-spending president since LBJ and his inability to speak without giving the impression an empty head was trying to communicate via a mouthful of peanut butter. And John McCain because he was an even worse candidate than Ole Bob Dole. And the GOP establishment for succumbing to Inside-the-Beltway disease. The Tea Party movement is a recognition that the Republican Party was too sclerotic to waste time reforming. Even now its chairman has scheduled a leadership conference on a white sand resort in Hawaii. Is this out of touch in the current economic climate or what?
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“his inability to speak without giving the impression an empty head was trying to communicate via a mouthful of peanut butter.”
I heard Cinco de quatro is coming up, perhaps Obama should make it an official holiday in all 57 states.
My prediction for Obama’s State of the Union:
) Obama-as- Heroic Fighter: He will present himself as Himself, i.e., larger than life. He is in the right, courageous, feisty, working against ‘all odds’ (which include the ignorant American people who reject his, sorry, His Wisdom)…He’ll define any who are against him as against progress and change..etc..
2) Obama-as-Wise Guardian: He will define Health Care as an integral part of the economy (which it is) but will define His reform of it as beneficial, reducing costs, blah blah.
He’ll also tout everything he’s done as wonderful…
3) Obama-as-Victim: He will define himself as a victim of Bush, the past economy, the past foreign infrastructure, and yes, even of racism, etc, etc.
That is – no change. He will refuse to change and will continue to behave as Messiah, Heroic Fighter Against the Enemy, and as Victim.
I don’t see that he, as a narcissist, entrapped in these above three myths for so many years…can change.
And, the people who run him, the radical socialists, have only ONE agenda…to insert a statist infrastructure. They can’t give it up.
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David, I normally agee with most of your posts, but I have to disagree with two points.
I disagree that white guilt played the most important role in electing Obama. While it may have played a role, the biggest voter block was the vote against Bush. The Obama Campaign recognized that it was their strongest point to hammer home, and it worked.
It was up to H. Clinton to point out the Rev. Wright connection. It was too late for McCain. The GOP base was disconnected from McCain and Obama ran a good campaign.
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Walt,
Take a look at Sheila Jackson Lee’s district. It is like an old hose left uncoiled. It makes no sense. A good and honest post.
No Hillary was not the only one to see his arrogance. The MSM simply ignored and fabricated a complete persona for the narcissist in chief. Anyone opposing him was attacked in every possible way.
The MSM was carrying obie’s water.
Do you seriously believe if obie was some white junior senator with no experience to speak of the MSM would have given him the time of day??
If you believe obie-wan got where he is on the merits of his accomplishments you are living in fairy tale land…
Obama no where near represents the best the black community has to offer America. Liberal or conservative.
Obama is what he is, a community organizer and an insider leftist political hack.
He ain’t no different than the hacks that have come before him.
Hope & Change,, what a freaking joke….
Today he was speaking with concerned blue dog democrats and has the gall to tell them that his personal appeal will pull them through their upcoming election in 2010.
Just like in Virginia or New Jersey or Massachusetts where it worked but not for the democrats…thank Obama for pushing through those we actually like instead of who you like or want! Yep blue dogs don’t worry Obama is behind you hopefully true also in the 2012 race when he is shown the door unless we get enough conservatives to impeach and throw him out due to a massive turnover in the house and senate.