Perspectives: Obama Can’t Use Race as a Positive Campaign Note
Unlike Hillary Clinton who can use the historical possibilities of becoming the first woman president as a positive campaign note, Obama can’t use his “first” in a racially polarized nation.
April 14th, 2008 at 3:08 am
Obama has confirmed his own 2006 statement, “I do not have enough experience to run for President” with his comments ragarding foreign affairs, Wright contoversy, the NAFTA/Canada controversy, his “Present” and “Hit the Wrong Button” Votes, his blame of others for his own blunders, and now, his small town Pennsylvania speech. No, He does not have the necessary experience to lead this nation. And he does not have the trust of the majority of Americans either.
April 14th, 2008 at 3:12 am
Nice article.
He hasn’t made race an issue and this is great. This has allowed him to focus on UNIVERSAL issues. I’m African-American and know that a black president won’t suddenly change things overnight.
The Clintons have tried to introduce race into the campaign, but no one has taken the bait except some voters.
I have no problem with Wrights message because I’ve heard the entire message and know a little more about him and his style. It is just sad that many Americans will not do that research and even some that do their mind is already stained and won’t give him the bias look that he deserves.
Amazing… Clintons get a free pass despite the embarrassment they brought to the White House before. The media make their stories short lived and yet we are still talking about Wright… someone outside of the campaign and have nothing to do with policies. Clinton aides have something to do with policies and it gets brushed off. Not once, but twice… and they know this so they feel it won’t hurt.
I believe the youth in America is ready for better race relations and have a better understanding of the issue as they learn more about the truth of America’s history that older American’s were shielded from.
But the key is will America take this away from Obama and make up a reason to justify it.
If they do and think I will just say oh well and just go support Clinton they are out of touch with me and others.
She is suggesting too much in this manner and I don’t care for it.
If she can’t win fair then I can’t support her.
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April 14th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
THE MEDIA HAS ALLOWED HIM SO FAR TO ATTACKS WHITE AMERICANS!!!!Democrats NEED Clinton to stay in the race. OBAMA IS UNELECTABLE IN GENERAL ELECTION. NYT-
Reuters-Obama’s Support Softens in Poll, Suggesting a Peak Has Passed.
AP-52 % will not vote for Obama after Wright speech
Obama drops 11 pts on electability
Mainstream media needs to stop pushing Obama down voter’s throats and stop the stupid Clinton bashing. Where’s a true journalist? Obamas campaign pastor is not going away anytime soon Rev Wright says you don’t have to wait for the afterlife for the mansion on the hilltop, he’s right! To shut him up Trinity United Church of Christ is building Rev. Wright a $1 mil house on a lot that was purchased for $345,000. According to his federal income tax return Obama gave the Trinity United church $22,500 in contributions. CBS Chicago has strangely not released video they have of Obama at Trinity United Church of Christ Service with Pastor Wright. According to a Chicago Tribune article, at the Service Obama spoke to the cheering congregation and the choir sang, “Hallelujah Barack”. After the service Wright and Obama sat together, laughing , talking and signing books. if ANY other candidate had this controversy swirling the footage would have found it’s way to the national and cable news networks by now! Obama who marched with Farrakhan Also Wright is OPRAHS Pastor; Slurs Italians in Latest Magazine (CNSNews.com) Wright continues his Obama supported attacks on non-blacks now slurring Italians in issue of Trumpet Newsmag. Wright states, Jesus enemies had their opinion, Italians looked down their garlic noses at the Galileans, and Jesus death on a cross was a public lynching Italian style! This government runs everything from the White House to the schoolhouse, from the Capitol to the KKKlan of white supremacy who is clearly in charge. Every issue published Wright’s rant against white people in which he covers a world that is controlled by white supremacy, a country that’s on its way to h*ll in a hand basket because of lying politicians, in a culture that still thinks ‘white is right!
April 14th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
OBAMA LIES AGAIN AND MAINSTREAM MEDIA LIKE CNN HIDES IT!
VOTERS ARE SICK OF THE MEDIA EXCUSING OBAMA NO MATTER WHO HE OFFENDS!!!!
Sen. Obama referres to himself as ‘a constitutional law professor on the campaign trail. TRUTH: He never held any such title! Obama changed website bio to reflect that he was a ‘lecturer’ rather than ‘professor. Chicago Daily Herald
Obama gets 4 Pinocchio’s for 100 Years War-Wondered why the national media won’t call out Obama for his serial distortions on McCain’s Iraq comments, the Globe tried to help Obama rationalize it. Michael Dobbs scolded Obama in today’s Fact Checker
MSNBC-OBAMA: ANOTHER SUPER, EXAGGERATION
Washington Post caught Obama in a lie about the Kennedy family role.
The WashigntonPost Fact Check- Senator Obama CAUGHT LYING about Kennedy Role in Helping His Father Contrary to Obama’s claims in speeches Kennedy family did not provide the funding for a September 1959 airlift of 81 Kenyan students to the United States that included Obama’s father. According to historical records and interviews with participants, the Kennedys were approached for support for the program a year later, July 1960. family responded with a $100,000 donation, which went to pay for a second airlift in September 1960.
Judicial Watch:
By Klaus Marre-Obama ‘intended to leave no paper trail’ OBAMA REFUSES to cooperate in releasing 8 years of his state senate records. One main reason REZKO!
Politico reports, “During his first run for elected office, Barack Obama played a greater role than he acknowledges in crafting liberal stands on gun control, the death penalty and abortion– positions that appear at odds with the more moderate image he’s projected during his presidential campaign. The evidence comes from an amended version of an Illinois voter group’s detailed questionnaire, filed under his name during his bid for a state Senate. In response to a Politico story, Obama’s answers he never saw questioaire?
NBC- Aswini Anburajan
OBAMA LIES IN PENNSYLVANIA AD
It’s unfortunate that Senator Obama is using false advertising to explain why he can be trusted to do something about energy prices. In his ad, Obama says, I’m Barack Obama, and I don’t take money from oil companies or lobbyists, and I won’t let them block change any more. Obama has been the recipient of more than $220,000 from the oil and gas industry just since as of Feb/08. Two of Obama’s campaign bundlers are also CEOs for oil and gas companies, per his campaign Web site? Obama needs to answer to VOTERS about his dealings with one of his largest contributors Exelon, a big nuclear power company that he cut deals behind closed doors protecting them from full disclosure in the nuclear industry. Exxon, Shell, and others are among his biggest donors
Obamas record shows he infact did support the war when he got to the senate, voted twice against bringing America’s troops back home. He voted for war appropriations giving our money to Halliburton and Blackwater where Texas woman, was gang-raped by her co-workers at a Halliburton/KBR camp in Baghdad, His latest bit of posturing S 433 allows the Bush Administration to suspend any troop withdrawal, if not suspended, keeps the troops in Iraq for a long time to come
Obama said he goofed on votes angered fellow Democrats in the Senate when he voted to strip millions of dollars from a child welfare office on Chicago’s West Side. But Obama had a ready explanation: He goofed! Also announced he had fumbled an election-reform vote the day before, on a measure that passed 51 to 6. The next day, he acknowledged voting “present” on a key telecommunications vote. He stood on March 11, 1999, to take back his vote against legislation to end good-behavior credits for certain felons in county jails. “I pressed the wrong button on that,” he said. Obama was the lone dissenter on Feb. 24, 2000, against 57 yeas for a ban on human cloning. “I pressed the wrong button by accident,” he said. But two of Obama’s bumbles came on more-sensitive topics, he backed legislation to permit riverboat casinos to operate even when the boats were dockside. The measure, pushed by the gambling industry and fought by church groups whose support Obama was seeking, passed with two “yeas” to spare — including Obama’s. Moments after its passage he rose to say, explaining that he had mistakenly voted for it.
Obama would later develop a reputation as a critic of the gambling industry, and he voted against a similar measure two years later. But he was clearly confused about how to handle the issue at the time of his first vote, telling a church group that he was “undecided” about whether he backed an expansion of riverboat gambling. And, months earlier, he had voted in favor of a version of the bill.
April 14th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
OUR TIME HAS COME TO FULLY SUPPORT BEHIND SENATOR CLINTON TO WIN IN NOV
http://www.theproblemwithobama.com/
VOTERS DEMAND OBAMA DROP OUT NOW, WITH ALL THE NEW POLITICAL DAMAGING STUFF COMING FROM HIM AND MICHELLE OBAMA, IN ADDITION TO WRIGHTS CONTINUED OBAMA DEFENDED ATTACKS ON WHITE AMERICA. HE WILL SURLY LOOSE THE GENERAL ELECTION FOR DEMOCRATS.
Obama Connection to Terrorists Revealed National Association of Chiefs of Police. http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/31408.html
Obama has a dual citizenship with Kenya Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden would be praying for an Obama victory because it would help the militants win in Iraq. Citizen Wells 3/08
Memories of Obama’s recent racial stereotype of the ‘typical White person’ are still fresh. Add to this now his view of the ‘typical small town person.’ Obama is quoted as disparaging residents of small towns in Pennsylvania as being “like a lot of small towns in the Midwest” where “it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
Obama is unapologetic, even dissing of voters in Florida and Michigan one has to wonder what groups of Americans he really respects?
Racist wife, Michelle, saying she was proud of America “for the first time” only because of her husband’s presidential run.
Obama explained he doesn’t wear an American flag lapel pin or hold his hands to his heart during the Pledge of Allegiance because it is a substitute for patriotism,
Obama confirms his own moral obliviousness and he seems to have disdain for those who are troubled by his own unwillingness to break with The Great White hater Rev Wright
Rev Wright says you don’t have to wait for the afterlife for the mansion on the hilltop, he’s right! To shut him up Trinity United Church of Christ is building Rev. Wright a $1 mil house on a lot that was purchased for $345,000. According to federal income tax return Obama gave $222,500
Wright continues his Obama supported attacks on non-blacks Wright states Jesus death on the cross was a public lynching Italian style.
Obamas senate record shows he infact did support the war voted against bringing America’s troops home, voted for war appropriations giving our money to Halliburton and Blackwater, voted with Bush/Chaney latest bit of posturing S433 to suspend any troop withdrawal, if not suspended, keeps the troops in Iraq for a long time to come.
Washington Post- Fact Check- Senator Obama CAUGHT LYING about Kennedy Role in Helping His Father Contrary to Obama’s claims in speeches Kennedy family did not.
Chicago Daily Herald- Obama refers to himself as ‘a constitutional law professor on the campaign trail. TRUTH: He never held any such title!
April 14th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Barack Obama is not a “presidential candidate” and I’m disappointed that a journal of “higher learning” couldn’t grasp that. He’s neck in neck with Hillary and many more flubs like insulting small towns in America and the hot air’s leaking from the balloon of hype that’s carried him this far.