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May 11, 2008

A Slap in the Face

“Nice job, kid, but we can't give you the nomination because, well, you're black. White people might not like that.”

From the beginning, Hillary Clinton has campaigned as if the Democratic nomination were hers by divine right. via Truthdig

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#1
May 11, 2008
 
Guess what the better candidate is winning, and has my vote in November only because I agree with his stand on issues. No other reason that is enough.
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Obama's support among Whites is on the decline because the fairy tale story of his "change" is finally crumbling. He's been weened on corrupt Chicago politics his entire career. He campaigns on "change" but he's never changed anything in Illinois so how can he change the nation?

Why is it ok for Obama to draw a racial divide and talk about "typical White people"? Why is it ok for Obama to have over 90% of Black votes? Is it because Blacks vote on race and nothing else? Why is it ok for Obama to acknowledge his support from Black voters but arrogance for Hillary to do the same? Because she's White? Because she's a woman?
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If white s vote based on their culture and racial backgound they are labled as racist Devils , but Blacks have a free reign to be prejudiced, biased and yes racist in their beliefs.
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#5
May 12, 2008
 
You are so ignorant!
Obama's "crumbling " support:
Pres '08
May 10 LAT/Bloomberg
Obama (D) 46%, McCain (R) 40%
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.c...
No one has found any trace of corruption in Obama's background. The Rezko trial is over, and the big news was the GOP involvement. Obama sat down and answered all the questions about Rezko weeks ago. Lie all you want, no one is listening.
And here's the truth about the race card:
May 11, 2008
Hillary Clinton’s suicidal gamble with race poison
Before Super Tuesday, Clinton campaign operatives aired rumours that Obama had been a drug dealer – hint, hint – in his younger days. When Obama scored a landslide in South Carolina, Bill Clinton reminded the media that Jesse Jackson had won the state as well. He called Obama a “kid”, perilously close to calling him a “boy”, prompting the former Clinton operative Donna Brazile to say:“I tell you, as an African-American, I find his words and his tone to be very depressing.” The black civil rights icon John Lewis switched from Clinton to Obama. When Clinton told white rural voters that Obama didn’t care about “people like you”, it stung.
In the last months, the Clintons pushed the story about Jeremiah Wright (Obama’s fiery pastor) hard, but the media did all the heavy lifting. The Clintons shrewdly focused their efforts on older, white Democrats in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana (the kind who had once voted for Ronald Reagan) and refused to shoot down categorically rumours that Obama was a closet Muslim, and stopped even addressing predominantly black audiences in North Carolina.
Last Thursday, Senator Clinton – dazed from a brutal setback in last Tuesday’s primaries – went even further. She told USA Today to consult an Associated Press story “that found how Senator Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me”.
Yes: a candidate was explicitly arguing that she was the candidate of white Americans. No Republican would be so crude, certainly not John McCain. And that became her primary rationale for carrying on. After North Carolina, the short-term electoral costs have evaporated: West Virginia has a black population of just 3.3%, Kentucky has 7.5%, Oregon has 1.9%, Montana and South Dakota both have less than 1%. There are no black superdelegates willing to switch from Obama to Clinton at this point.
And so a strategy that was essentially telling superdelegates that a black man could not win the general election became Hillary’s last resort. In this, the Clintons were egged on by the less principled members of the Republican right....in a few months, the Clintons have turned a 30-point lead among African-Americans into a deficit of more than 80 points....he Clintons are destroying themselves and their legacy and their capacity to bridge the very gaps they now must widen to stay in the race. It is a Clinton tragedy – and one that most Americans seem slowly, cautiously but palpably determined not to make their own.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/colu...
You should be ashamed of yourself for lying like that. Leave the election to decent Americans!
Trufax wrote:
Obama's support among Whites is on the decline because the fairy tale story of his "change" is finally crumbling....
Why is it ok for Obama to draw a racial divide and talk about "typical White people"? Why is it ok for Obama to have over 90% of Black vote....
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May 12, 2008
 
Yeah, this presidential run sure is showing us how blatantly stupid we can be as a society. It's staring us smack dab in the face. When will we ever learn? It always comes down to race and gender and power and control. It's all one big ass illusion. If one plants ice, he can only harvest wind.
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