I don't care what color Barak is, I'm more concerned that is one of the most liberal Senators, and what looks like an interest in Marxism.  See, this is what is going on, anybody who is against Obama must be a racist or threatened by race.

 

Are you telling me people like Obama don't use their race and their so-called "disadvantages" to get sympathy?  You must be the one living under a rock if you don't see how democrats use the race card at every chance they get.

 

 

 

It would be strange to discuss Hillary's defects in an article on Obama. Perhaps if you read more you would see lots of articles on her defects here? This is a thematic article, not a unabridged analysis of the current election. Learn the differnce.

And please, take your race card home. Obama is a candidate for president. As such, he is subject to the SAME scrutiny as the other candidates, and subject the same faux pas'. The only racist in this whole circus this year are the ones that demand Obama be treated differently BECAUSE he is black. Better check the mirror.




No one does. At this point it is all conjecture. But now the thought police have decreed that conjecture is illegal. Dont you love how liberals try to stiffle free thought and speech under the guise of political correctness?

Here is my issue with the Obama-Wright thing....

I have no problem really with what Wright has said. I disagree with him, and greatly at that. But, he has a right to say whatever he wants to say, I guess.

My problem is that a man who is very very close to becoming President of the United States, a man who wants to run this country, is so closely related and intertwined with another man who outright HATES America. The fact that there are so many ppl who cannot understand why there is a problem there startles me. Here is a man who has aligned himself with another man who preaches hatred towards a country that the first man wants to control. If he wasn't so close to attaining that power, it would be humorous. But instead, it is pretty damn scary.

Again, Wright has the right to say whatever he wants. And, Obama has the right to align himself with him. I disagree, but that is what being human is all about. But, why are so many so awestruck by him? It is frightening, really. He has had issues in the past where he was looked at as "hating America"....and now this with his pastor of 20 years....and still, nobody really sees anything wrong here.

I have been called a racist before. I have had black friends in the service question me as to if my railroader (Dad's side) and coalminer (Mom's side) ancesters ever owned slaves. I have been called some "nice" names from certain members of other cultures. But I honestly do not believe that I am racist. My dad, a devout Democrat (I have explained that elsewhere) routinely refers to members of the black race as the "word that shall not be spoken". Personally, I hate that word, and refuse to say it even in chatter about someone else using it. And to be lumped into the "White Man is a Racist" bucket is personally offensive to me, but Wright does have that right to say that crap. But, again, my issues are not with Wright, exactly. It is with Obama being so closely aligned with the man.

Chris

You are probably right. That is why the democrats always wait until the right moment to spring their october surprises. Too fresh in the minds of voters to forget, and not enough time to deflect the attention from it.

I think it's pretty funny the double standard that exists here.  Now, I don't condone Wright at all.  But he gets the appropriate label of racist, but last week, Ferraro was just 'telling the truth'.

What they are said are two different things. 

It would seem to me that you don't really understand the meaning of the word racist or racism. I'll help you out though, it's always good for people to have a firm understanding of the meaning of certain words before they blurb things that later embarrass them.

racism (the prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races) http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=racism

Last I saw Ferraro was not putting Obama down because he was black, she said he was gaining ground because he was black which in a way she is right. Part of what makes Obama so appealing is that he's Black, Black people are voting for him because he is Black, White people are voting for him because they're afraid to be seen as racist, Hispanics are voting for him because they see themselves in him as a minority, young people are voting for him because they think he's cool. The one thing they all have in common is that they see Obama as change (imagine having the first Black President, that alone is tremendous change). Now if you ask them what kind of change chances are most will not really know what Obama will bring, all they know is that it has to be better than Bush.

On the other hand here you have a "Paster", a man of God, Daming his own country, his own people. Saying that Black people suffer because of White people, that Black people are still being duped today as they were back when they were slaves, that slavery still exist in this country. I can not understand why anyone who thinks they are still being treated badly, are feeling like slaves, hate everything about the country they live in and still live here? If you think this place is that bad, why don't they leave?

Could anyone actually believe that Ferraro is a racist? While I do find it somewhat entertaining to watch Democrats tear each other apart with baseless accusations of racism, its also quite ridiculous. If Obama doesn't mind publicly accusing his own 'white grandmother' of racism, he sure wont have any problem doing it to Ferraro. If Obama would do this to his own grandmother.... think of what he'd do to us.

“Don’t tell me words don’t matter.” … Barak Obama

Context… “the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning” or “the interrelated conditions in which something exists or occurs.” At least this is what Webster seems to think.

A more cynical view, a’la Ambrose Bierce, might suggest a more literal meaning these days could be… “Those interrelated elements and facets of verbal or textual discourse typically omitted or included as necessary to convey a thought, meaning or intent grossly divergent from that actually spoken or written.”

“….. taken out of context.”, has now become so common a political refrain that one begins to question whether we are any longer capable of meaning what we say or saying what we mean. Mustering all the sincerity possible into a straight face, looking eye to eye and guilelessly mouthing the words, “You took my words out of context.”, will likely not get you out of a traffic ticket, or save a failing career… or even repair a troubled relationship. But, it sure seems to be the favored choice of excusing spoken ignorance and textual insanity these days.

Presidential hopeful Barak Obama has now made what appears to be a sincere, noble and, certainly, a very well spoken attempt to reset the context of Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s impassioned stupidity. In disavowing the divisive and ignorant remarks of his longtime pastor, friend and confidant, Mr. Obama has included many idealistic truths, personal and family confessions and has even reached out to white America in acknowledging the evils inherent to the failures of affirmative action. Candidate Obama has now publicly condemned the raging insanity and ignorant hate speech of his good friend, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, but has declined to cut him loose to the whims of history. But not before attempting to excuse this man’s perfidious, divisive and hateful hyperbole by suggesting the genesis of this stupidity was the context of an America in the fifties and sixties.

There are millions of us living today that were children of the fifties and sixties and shared the good and the bad of those times with the good Reverend Wright. In the fifties, along with four siblings, I was raised an Army brat on a military post in west central Georgia along the Chattahoochee River. We attended Don C Faith Elementary school on post and I cannot recall a single class where black children were absent or a little league ball game where the prowess of my team mates, black and white and Hispanic and Asian and even East Indian… ever failed to inspire me to greater efforts. Regardless, I will concede there are other millions that did not share the wonderful bounty I enjoyed as a child of the time.

It is not Candidate Obama’s choice to remain tethered to the stupid ignorance of his Pastor that troubles me as a voting American. It is the deafening silence from his congregation and a responsible American media that troubles me most. It is the revelation that twenty years has passed and it is only now that Candidate Obama feels a compulsion to speak out for reason, understanding and change. And I feel some regret that his speech merely raises more questions. The picture of Candidate Obama standing idle before the National Anthem, sans salute, is now seen in an all new context. An even more curious question is whether the foolish ignorance of the good Reverend Wright might provide a more revealing context for Michele Obama’s remark that, “… for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.” Who’s brand of hope is that, Barak’s… or the good Reverend Wright’s?

Well… as a Caucasian American centrist, I am offended. While I cannot help but agree that we need change, this is not the change for which I had hoped. Perhaps we need to distance ourselves from the persistent stupidity, rank ignorance of hate speech and cut it loose forever to the file cabinets of history.

Perhaps we need to stand together as Americans and point in raucous laughter and ridicule in the strongest, broadest context possible, all those impassioned fools who would abandon hope and positive change; who would summarily discard common sense, common decency and the common good; and embrace and perpetuate the same tired old raw hatreds, prejudice and bigotry we heard so loud and clear in Wright’s impassioned sermons. It is not the context of the sermon that’s troublesome, it is the unambiguous clarity of the message.

This is not the time and there is no excuse for it!

Dr Guy i resent being labeled as a liberal....I merely was asking a question
unlike others im open-minded to opinions that may not be mine intially.

"Dr" Guy And please leave this "race- card" talk in the privacy of your own home. The term is ignorant and belittling. As I said before to deny the current race relations and systematic prejudices that exist in our country is just absurd.

And just to add Dr.Guy the comment was intended for Island Dog who had posted only 2 posts on Hilary as opposed to the 7 posts on Obama...ehh looks a little one-sided if you ask me..

So post-counting is the measure of fairness. Hmm... sounds like a Democrat concept to me.

Ok, you show me the questions in your statements? Putting a question mark at the end of a statement is not asking a question.

And stop casting stones if you dont want them cast back. Right WIng Convention? If you think this is a right wing convention, they Mao must be chairman as he is much too conservative for you. And labeling this as a right wing convention is not being open minded, but highly opinionated.

You brought the race card up. Sorry, if observing that Obama is running for president is racist, perhaps you had best look in the mirror. As I said, he is a presidential candidate, and subject to the same scrutiy. it seems you have the problem.



Blogging 101 - You write what YOU want to. This is not a news site where you have to balance the facts (although the news sites dont to that either). Perhaps you need to learn that on a blog you write what YOU want to, not what the campaign staff of the candidates want you too.

Learn it, live it, be it.



Sounds like another Obama shill to me - Poor picked on Barak.