"Racism" and Obama by Columnists

"Racism" and Obama
June 21, 2008 04:00 AM EST

This is truly pathetic. From now till the election any tough question leveled at Barack Obama will be responded to with screams of 'racism'? Well it's par for the course.

Oh but don't take my word for it. Go look at about 10k liberal blogs backing Obama against Clinton. Why vote for Hillary? Because not voting for her makes you a sexist. Why vote for Obama? Because not voting for him makes you a racist. I guess libs care more about the plight of blacks than the plight of women. So ladies – to the back of the equality bus please.

Ninety five percent of the lefties I've argued with call me a racist for not supporting Barack. Conversely ninety five percent of the lefties I've argued with can't tell me what Obama stands for. All they see is his dark skin tone and they get all gushy. I thought a 'racist' was someone who judged people solely based on their color. So who's the racist here? I know why I'm opposed to Obama and it has nothing to do with how he looks.

Obama loves to portray himself as the son of a poor single mother'a single mother who lived in Hawaii a place most Americans only visit in their dreams. Okay Hawaii has one of the highest costs of living in the US, I'm with you. I would believe that most people in the aloha state are working their butts off to make ends meet. But a few years later she moved back. Okay – I guess I'm still (somewhat) willing to believe the 'Oh woah is me' act'except that Obama went to a PRIVATE SCHOOL there.

Again most Americans can only dream of sending their kids to private school. Even if they have the Congressional connections to get the paperwork to send their kids to a place for a better education, most Americans can't afford it. I can only guess how outrageous the cost of private school in Hawaii is.

He went to college at Harvard and Columbia. How many poor kids can claim attendance at these places? I've known people who were really sharp on the uptake and wanted to go to such places. But they couldn't afford it even stacked to the gills with student loans and scholarships. Likewise his wife went to Princeton and Harvard.

What's next – Steven Spielburg's niece going to come out and lecture us about how tough it was growing up on the mean streets of Beverly Hills?

Now if you listen to the Obamas, black people can't do what they've done in America today. And they're going to be joined by the usual band of suspects: Oprah Winfrey, Spike Lee and before it's over many, many others who'll join the chorus of lecturing us about what a rotten place America is because people like them are getting screwed and have been screwed.

We've all felt ostracized at some point in our lives because we were the wrong race, the wrong sex, the wrong religion, the wrong political party and so on. To sit here and argue that it's exclusive to only one race, religion or sex is so far off it is offensive. To argue that one single group got it worse than all the others is likewise offensive. During the early 1900's laws all across America attempted to destroy German culture. You couldn't even speak German publicly in a lot of places. Likewise the Indian tribes were forced off their lands. Likewise the Irish suffered from horrible discrimination during the 1800's.

Yet people like the Obamas only want to talk about how they were shafted. It's amazing to me. 'God Damn America', screaming about 'white privilege' and other prejudiced stereotypes aren't racist? But asking Barack a question he's not ready to answer *is* racist? And the people who claim to be the smartest amongst us can't follow that simple chain of logic? How stupid is that?

He claims that he didn't hear any of this while sitting in his church for TWENTY years. This is the guy who wants to go talk to our enemies. Is he going to listen to their answers? Or is he just going assume that they don't mean it when they tell him they want us all dead? His wife was paying attention to all of those sermons. What's he going to say to our enemies anyway? 'Please don't kill us.'? 'Please don't build nuclear bombs.'? We've been saying these things to people who don't like us for 50+ years now. It hasn't worked. They're still working on nukes. They're still drawing up plans to murder us. The idea that this is a change of any kind is naive.

One last thing: Barack comes from a long line of slave owning plantation overseers on his father's side. Will Spike Lee demand forty acres and a mule from Obama? Will people like Spike Lee even point out Obama's slave owning background? I didn't think so.

There is a grain of truth to the article; although, nothing new. I spent the entire primary season voicing the same complaint.

When you dust off the veneer of "racism" and "right wingnut" accusations, there's nothing new about Obama ... there's no change. He's just another liberal Democrat with the usual smokescreen of "tax the rich to prop up the poor" that will once again become the middle class's burden.

Same old shit ... different package.

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No...it's the same COMPLAINTS by the right.

Still doesn't excuse the troll's misstatment of everything he posts, IMO.

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"Trust none of what you hear And less of what you see" Springsteen

When the Founding Fathers protected our right to free speech, I think that meant we were supposed to use it.

Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi was the world's most unhinged lunatic. He's now dead. So that moves Ann Coulter up to first place - David Letterman

O, when she is angry she is keen and shrewd; / She was a vixen when she went to school, / And though she be but little, she is fierce. — Shakespeare

51 days left http://www.backwardsbush.com/

It's the same old complaints because it's the same old TRUTH. As I stated from the very beginning amid all the cries of "racist" and deflections to McCain or Bush, there's no "change," and Obama is just another jacked-up politician who will be every-bit "more of the same" as McCain will, depending on who wins.

I get kind of tired of the misuse of the label "troll" by some around here. A few people hereabouts tend to label anyone they disagree with a troll.

Troll (Internet) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

I'd say THAT definition fits the bill for anyone who responds to questions about Obama with "MCCain this or that ...." or "Bush this or that ...."

The mere fact that he created this thread removes him from that definition in this case.

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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing” - Edmund Burke

So I guess you just ignore his past associations eh.

I do agree WOW misstates a lot when he posts, but in this case there is at least some truth to what the article says.

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Charles_Main

"Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct."
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"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."
Thomas Jefferson

Ninety five percent of the lefties I've argued with call me a racist for not supporting Barack. Conversely ninety five percent of the lefties I've argued with can't tell me what Obama stands for.
This is a daily evolving situation.

I do not misstate anything. I do not always read through the BS correctly, but then I'm human.

Reporters write misleading, vague reports and the reader is placed in a position to sift through their personal politics to get to the truth.

To say any reporter does NOT have a personal bias, is to say a reporter is not human!

Feel free to point out my misstatements and I will address them!

ah you mean like the "Obama's genocide" post you just made, where you Imply it is Obama's fault in the title, when the article you posted puts the blame in the mayors, and city councils lap.

I suggest you start reading things before you post.

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Charles_Main

"Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct."
Thomas Jefferson

"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."
Thomas Jefferson

Hahahaha you are misstating my post.

Obama was a community organizer and Constitutional lawyer.

I would say Obama was directly involved with the genocide on the streets of Chicago! If someone wants to refute this, then explain exactly what Obama was doing as a community organizer and Constitutional lawyer?

No why don't you explain how any thing Obama did equates to Genocide big guy, after all you are the one making wild claims, not me.

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Charles_Main

"Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct."
Thomas Jefferson

"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."
Thomas Jefferson

Which means what, exactly?

Of the two candidates, what does each stand for and/or what are the differences in their stances?

Both appear about equally useless to me.

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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing” - Edmund Burke

Obama has positions? Other then run from Iraq, tax us till we bleed, create a trillion dollar new Government spending programs, what positions does Obama have? And of those I listed only one has he sort of admitted too.

Perhaps Jillian could provide us with a detailed list of Obama's positions, she supports him and keeps claiming he is better then McCain. Yet she has never stated a single thing he stands for. Just that he won't be Bush.

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Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

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I never said that you had no right to have an opinion. I just said that it was, in fact, worth nothing.

-Maineman ( on 12 June 2007)

Don't forget how she keeps repeating the Democrat talking point that McCain is running for Bushes third term.

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Charles_Main

"Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct."
Thomas Jefferson

"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."
Thomas Jefferson

Well, I wouldn't say that if he'd stop doing it....

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"Trust none of what you hear And less of what you see" Springsteen

When the Founding Fathers protected our right to free speech, I think that meant we were supposed to use it.

Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi was the world's most unhinged lunatic. He's now dead. So that moves Ann Coulter up to first place - David Letterman

O, when she is angry she is keen and shrewd; / She was a vixen when she went to school, / And though she be but little, she is fierce. — Shakespeare

51 days left http://www.backwardsbush.com/

Care to educate use all with a point by point comparison of Bush and McCains positions on more than just the war in Iraq?

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Charles_Main

"Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct."
Thomas Jefferson

"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."
Thomas Jefferson