The Grand Old White Party Confronts Obama

[Sii]

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[zzzz]

Considering enlightened Obama supporters call the first female candidate for president a "*****" and blue-collar members of their party unintelligent, it's not surprising they would discriminate against another candidate on the basis of his age and race.

 

[JohnnyM]

you forgot "witch" as well, since this seems to be your new battle cry.

 

[zzzz]

Sii is the one who called her a *****, so I narrowed it down for him.

At least my battle cry is original. I didn't steal it from another movement and label it mine.

 

[JohnnyM]

well i don't have a battle cry, and i didn't say anything about obama. so i assume you're just taking this opportunity to take another childish shot at him. congrats.

 

[TrickyStickin]

? I don't get that headline at all.

That article has nothing to do with the GOP — white or otherwise — confronting Obama.

Instead, it is a rehash of the typical Dem apologist tripe we hear every election cycle. GOP is a bunch of racist old white men and Democrats are in tune with the populace. And, because of that, independent voters, and even Republicans, will defect from the GOP in droves.

Rich offers as proof "a friend in California, a staunch anti-Clinton Republican businessman" that is "tired of fighting the Vietnam War" and has drifted to Obama.

Of course, Rich is biased and admits, "Perhaps because I came of age in the racially divided Washington public schools of the 1960s and had one of my first newspaper jobs in Richmond in the early 1970s, I almost had to pinch myself when Mr. Obama took 52 percent of Virginia’s white vote last week."

Wonder if it has dawned on Rich that part of the attraction of Obama is that people are sick of fighting not only Vietnam, but the race wars too — even those waged by Democrats against those evil Uncle Toms like Blackwell and Steele.

 

[naijahorn]

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[MaduroUTMB]

Obama has a lot more to do with the power elite than John McCain does, and I say that as someone who intends to vote for Obama over McCain. I just don't think that you can claim that Obama is an oppressed underdog to anyone but isolated communities of hicks who will be handily outvoted by black people anyway.

Obama is a phenomenal speaker and the most likely candidate to get us out of Iraq, but he's not the principled champion of change who came from nowhere to lead America into a new Golden Age. He's a very powerful man who very eloquently avoids mentioning all the stupid things he wants to do.

 

[AustinBat]

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[HornsInTheHouse]

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[TrickyStickin]

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[SomeMildLanguage]

Democrats never play the race card. It's only a Republican thing.

 

[The Dog]

translation: you are an ignorant racist if you don't vote for Obama.

 

[SenateHorn]

Look for a heavy dose of the race and victim card during this election.

 

[TahoeHorn]

The New York Times is playing the race card on behalf of the Democratic Party.

 

[TrickyStickin]

What will be interesting to watch is if Obama gets the nomination, does his campaign dissuade the typical Dem race baiting? If not, does that damage his support among independents/disaffected Republicans that Obama supporters so gleefully point to as evidence that their man is a different kind of politician?

 

[groverat]

Is it possible to discuss racial aspects of political movements without having it dismissed as "playing the race card"?

 

[TrickyStickin]

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[groverat]

How would that "tolerance level" manifest itself?

 

[naked_bongo]

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[Michael Knight]

Fortunately for Obama, Ameirca hates brown people more than bacl people right now.

 

[beencounting]

you can read texags.com to see what some R voters think of Obama, and "*****" for HRC is widely used by the conservatives.

 

[TahoeHorn]

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[groverat]

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[TahoeHorn]

groverat,

I had a sneaking suspicion when I read the title of the article that the intent was not going to be to praise the Republican Party. I'll let you find my other evidence. Do you think the article portrays the Republicans as a the party which should receive your vote?

 

[naked_bongo]

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[groverat]

TahoeHorn:

Do you think the Republican party is unassailable when it comes to the issue of race?
If so, ... really?
If not, should people just not comment on it?

 

[zzzz]

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[TahoeHorn]

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[groverat]

TahoeHorn:I'm sure the Dems are as well, but that has nothing to do with this topic.

Your argument seems to be that all opinions should be ignored on the grounds that the person expressing the opinion has the opinion.

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