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June 13, 2008

Obama: GOP Trying to Paint Me & Michelle as 'Too Black'

@ 11:21 am by Andy Barr

Barack Obama said Thursday at a fundraiser in Chicago that the GOP is trying to make him and his wife Michelle appear "scary" and "too black."

"They�re going to try to make me into a scary guy. They�re even trying to make Michelle into a scary person. Right?" Obama said at an event in the Hyde Park area, according to CNN.

Obama said Republicans were trying to start a drumbeat questioning Obama's patriotism and whether he is "too black."

"I don�t know, before I wasn�t black enough," Obama said. The Illinois senator then suggested Republicans might say, "'now he might be too black.'"

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That's exactly right Sen. Obama - it's simply another version of the same tactics Billary tried to use - remind the people that he's Black and "not one of us."

The silver lining to this is that the Republicans obviously have nothing to attack your candidacy with.

The TIDE IS TURNING! GOBAMA '08!

Comment by Just Capri — June 13, 2008 @ 1:21 pm
It is pathetic that they will go after Sen. Obama or his wife on race, and that is exactly what this is. What I find even more pathetic is that among some people already harboring prejudice and fear - it will work. There is plenty to attack Sen. Obama on regarding policy. Sen. McCain and Sen. Obama have widely differing views on where to take the country.

Comment by Dawn — June 13, 2008 @ 1:28 pm
Dawn says, "Sen. McCain and Sen. Obama have widely differing views on where to take the country." That's correct. McCain wants to stay the course, and Obama wants to change course and go in a new direction.

Comment by fivecard — June 13, 2008 @ 1:32 pm
This is why the Republican Party is becoming increasingly irrelevant in America. It is not a part of Regan or Goldwater Conservatives. It has become a party of intolerance on so many critical issues. When you make it part of your strategy to denigrate people for being progressive and open minded, it is a sign that an entity has lost its soul. John McCain is a fictional american hero, a morally and intectually bankrupt corporate shill who cannot run on a record of accomplishment so instead will run on the theme of I am white, I was in the Navy…vote for me, the other guy is too black.

Comment by Christopher London — June 13, 2008 @ 1:34 pm
It's kind of ironic. Obama spent most of his career trying to prove he was "black enough". Now some people think he's too black. Can't he just be who he is?

Comment by Laura — June 13, 2008 @ 1:35 pm
Lacking any defense at all on the issues, they are appealing to the latent racism in some Americans.

For once they are underestimating the American people.

Comment by Eileen — June 13, 2008 @ 1:36 pm
Cindy McCain stole life saving donated medications , that were for poor and needy babies , woman & children here and abroad. She sold those drugs , use the money to pay her drug dealer , for Cocaine / Heroin and LSD. Using a fake charity that she founded as cover not only to steal the drugs , but to bring into the USA illegal drugs to feed her habit. She also open illegal bank accounts , in the names of some of her employees , so the money could not be traced back to her. Now she is making a trip abroad + have all these credit card debts. $250 ,000 is this the money she is paying her blackmailing drug dealer. Why is this woman not in jail ? As john McCain said she is nothing but an over made - up CU-T

Comment by Joyeta E. Anderson — June 13, 2008 @ 1:38 pm
The allegation that Michelle got up in church and started railing against 'whitey' is a prime example.

The term 'whitey' has not been used since the blaxploitation films of the 70's. Absolutely, no black person no matter how racist would use this outdated term unless they are still sporting an Afro and got stuck on expressions like:

Can you dig it, can you DIG it ?
DyNoMite
Give Me Five
Let's Groove
.

Comment by LeftLeanWing — June 13, 2008 @ 1:39 pm
Rather than trying to paint the Obama�s as something scary, which is absolutely absurd… the Republican�s should be more concerned that their candidate is falling apart, everyone is wondering what the guy actually stands for, I don�t even think he knows at this point! McCain�s flippin� all over the place!

Comment by Ag — June 13, 2008 @ 1:42 pm
Eileen said: Lacking any defense at all on the issues, they are appealing to the latent racism in some Americans.For once they are underestimating the American people.

I hope your right. I'm trying to stay positive that most Americans won't allow themselves to be duped by scare-tactics any more. Yet, so many still believe the negative chain emails or they just don't care to want to know the truth. Hopefully those individuals are few and will be outweighed by the decency of the rest of us.

Comment by Monica — June 13, 2008 @ 1:45 pm
Republicans are insulting the intelligence of Americans by trying to use race. It is not going to work. The better candidate will win. I like Obama's response about this issue a few weeks ago. He said if he lost it wouldn't be because of his race but because he failed to offer what the people want or something to that effect. I like to believe that.

Comment by romeo — June 13, 2008 @ 1:53 pm
Commenting on Eileen and Monica comments….

I also hope that the American people can make a judgement past race. I have my doubts though. It is absolutely critical that everyone votes this time. I try to stress the importance of this particular election to anyone I can, especially the younger people. This Presidential election will do a lot in determining where our country will be heading.

Comment by Dawn — June 13, 2008 @ 1:53 pm
@LeftLeanWing - Great point. Only other way is if it was tongue in cheek. Considering that a decent portion of that congregation is white, no one - particularly not a politician's wife - is about to get up in the pulpit and start dissing white people as "whitey" with even a shred of sincerity.

Comment by will — June 13, 2008 @ 1:56 pm
Obama is campaigning to "change the ways" of Washington. I'd like to campaign for "changing the ways" of America.

Race has served no purpose in America and throughout the world. How the concept that race is has stood the test of time is beyond me, but I do know this: It's time to end it.

We need to re-educate our country. We haven't the slightest of idea of what race is and how it became to be.

Comment by Ronald Lewis — June 13, 2008 @ 1:58 pm
It's a sad day when Blacks have to be put down
for who God made them,Black as he may be, He's
Qualified to be The President of the U.S.A.
Are you? I Feel so sorry for you who have nothing but Hate !! in your Heart.

God Forgive you, You'll Need it.

Comment by Norma Grant — June 13, 2008 @ 2:08 pm
Has none of these people stood up and took notice of how the whole world (earth) is beginning to view us favorably sense a black candidate has made nominee? Mccain and his few followers need to come into the 20 th century. Black isn't important any more, people are people and it's time it became common place like it has around the world. mrs. Obama is a dignified, intelligent woman, who will make a great First Lady of the United States. The only thing about their skin color is the fact the world see us in a more favorable light than before, for haveing them out in front and center in this campagne! Ya for us!

Comment by alberta treaddway — June 13, 2008 @ 2:09 pm
I have always said this election would be decided by Race. McCain as a candidate does not what he stands for. He says one thing today and says another tomorrow and still with all that, the polls still show Sen. Obama struggling.
Its not because he is not a good Candidate its just that he is a Black Man. If the Democratic candidate was a child�s doll but white as McCain, I do not think we would be still talking of who would be the President in January, with all what the Republican Party has done to the image of America as a nation. Funny enough Sen. Obama is 50% Black and 50% White.
Americans the World is watching. After this election must have been taken from Sen. Barack Obama because of his Race and I should say here Racism, then I really do not know how then, President McCain and Americans would come out to the World and say we are planting Democracy in the Middle east or some other non-democratic nation somewhere in Africa, Asia or the Middle East.
Waiting to see to see "Racism" in the 21 Century in America of all Nations.

Comment by Chrys — June 13, 2008 @ 2:19 pm
The Republicans have been all about racial fear since the 60s. They lost track of 'conservatism' and became reactionary. And as The Shrub has shown, they still rely on fear, ignorance, prejudice and paranoia, playing to the darkest side of human nature. That's all they're about, and all they have to offer. America is starting to realize it, but this will be the Republican approach during the election. "This scary black man is going to be the end of us! There goes the country!"

We can remain paralyzed by their fear of progress, among all the others, or we can make the future.

Comment by John — June 13, 2008 @ 2:35 pm
Surely Obama didn't try a blatant and ridiculous political sham like that and expect anyone but his true believers to fall for it!

Anyone with a knowledge of American history knows that the GOP has been the Party instrumental in paving the way, and providing the means for a black person to be running for POTUS.

The color of his skin didn't make him a flaming leftist with the reputation of being the most liberal senator in the United States Senate. THAT is why I won't vote for him. There are any number of conservatives with blacker skin that he or Michelle. I'd vote for any one of them before either he OR John McCain.

What's scary is that so many of his lemmings will swallow that drivel, and that he isn't a bit ashamed of the sham.

The most disgusting thing of all is those in the mainstream news media who know better and don't call him on his lies.

Comment by J1cw — June 13, 2008 @ 2:56 pm
This election will have been decided by race only if Obama loses. I am an Obama voter and financial supporter. I am white, male, 51 and southern. If Obama wins he wins despite his race. If he loses when the majority of Americans prefer his policy stance on every single major policy facing us this year, sometimes by as much as 75%, that is ample evidence that people voted race.

Some will say they voted "experience". That's just B.S. code for race; they didn't vote experience when it was Bush v. Gore, and the "experience" they are voting for has promised four more years of the experience we have had the last 7.5 years: Failure, bankruptcy and utter corruption.

Comment by Tony C. SA TX — June 13, 2008 @ 3:08 pm
Well, Well, Well, quite a unanimity of posts here, at the moment. Here's a different one: Obama is pulling the old Saul Alinski "head fake". Nobody I know says, or even "thinks", that Obama is "too black". Many think he is too unqualified, inexperienced, and, because essentially unknown, a potentially risky choice for President. Speaking of choice, he did belong to a racist (Black "Liberationist"/Black Value System) church for 20 years, didn't he; who forced him to do that? Who made that up? He was an ACORN style "community organizer", wasn't he? Praise for surrogate(for the alcoholic one who abandoned him)"father", Communist Party member Franklin Marshall Davis? Read about it in Obama's Book. Who made that up? Interesting topic: what is the psychlogical baggage associated with that issue? Reasonable topic for discussion about a Presidential candidate? Of course. Space here is short. You get the picture, however: a thin-skinned "whiner", attempting to "cow" the "PC crowd" into running interference for him. Cover up potentially interesting information, necessary to know. And, just palying the "race card": tacky, tacky, tacky.

Comment by Bruce Hodge — June 13, 2008 @ 3:11 pm
As an African-American woman who has been in a positon of authority for my entire adult life (33 years)primarily in male dominated fields, it is disheartening that although much has changed, by the same token, little has changed. We, as blacks, cannot be judged on the merit of our work, because the emphasis has to be on tbe color of our skin. Why is it so intimidating to know that a person of color possesses the skills and acumen to hold a positon of authority, and to actually be better at it than a white counterpart? Too many of our accomplishments have to be conditional - as if they not valid based on merit alone - as if they are some type of illusion (or dream to paraphrase Bill Clinton).It's not enough to just be black, we than have to have varying degrees of "blackness". A little black, too black, just black enough - and that has to be quantified by
a nonblack, be it a subordinate, a superior, or an adversary. Obama's nomination is a testament to the fact that times have changed, but the undercurrent of racism is never far from the surface. In the military some 30 years ago I was threatened by a white male who could not accept my being his superior - so he pointed an M-16 at me and said "I'll kill you you black b—h".
About 6 years ago a white subordinate, with the same mentality, said "why don't you go get a green card". I am an American citizen, and was his boss, but he had no problem saying that to me. That was not military, but in a very high end event planning business. It's as if we are not afforded our dues, not matter what our qualifications, without having to be judged for no other reason than the color of our skin.

The Obama's are expected to walk a tightrope to appease all that feel they have the right to determine if they're worthy of this position - not based on political merit, but by the yardstick of a moral superiority that feels the right to make these judgements. I know the entire population is not guilty of such animus, but it's a sad commentary on our country that the highest position one can attain has to be qualified by the unwarranted opinions of those who still feel empowered and entitled to judge us by race and not merit. It's no wonder that even the Clintons chose to be the moral authority when faced with the prospect that Obama was winning. When will it be recognized that all men are created equally? All of this posturing simply states the obvious - despite attaining the positions we hold - myself, others, and the man who will possibly hold the highest position in the United States - we are still often seen as less than worthy. The woman who called Obama an "inadequate black man" spoke the sentiments of far too many, and felt the right to make such a distasteful statement publicly. Ignorance isn't bliss, it's just ignorance. We are not required to awake each day and choose the shade of black that will be most accomodating to our white counterparts, to make them feel more comfortable, or to be more acceptable.

Comment by Debora — June 13, 2008 @ 3:12 pm
The Republicans are pushing string. Obama looks like a nice kid with big ears and it has served him well. He does not appear to have a suppressed ugly side to him like McCain has. Obama does not appear scary nor threatening. Though the Republicans should be scared of him. Obama has the potential to send their party into political oblivion for the next 20 to 30 years.

Comment by afgail — June 13, 2008 @ 3:44 pm
My mother use to say "GOD DON'T LIKE UGLY AND VERY FEW PRETTY". She also told me that "if something is for you, it can not be un-for you. If it is in God's plans, can't no man keep it from you". My mother was a wise woman, too bad the memebers of the GOP wasn't raise by her!!!!!

VOTE

Comment by Sharon in Oakland, CA — June 13, 2008 @ 3:45 pm
I grew up in an all white town in Wisconsin, went to college in an all minority neighborhood in Chicago and worked in primarily all minority units in county hospitals as a nurse for multiple years. I have been assaulted twice by minority men and watched young men shooting eath other out my window in the alley. I also have lived in middle and upper middle class neighborhoods later in my life, have worked for civil rights, turned liberal after Viet Nam and have always had multiracial friends as an adult.

My kids have always had multiracial friends and now my son is married to a beautiful South American who is multiracial and they have a beautiful multiracial son. Oh, I'm an Obama supporter and have supported his campaign financially for over a year. I live in Texas now just outside of Dallas in a town that is that is integrated. We bus our kids economically, not racially which is pretty unusual. Mine is just a normal American story now.

Comment by Barbara Mathews — June 13, 2008 @ 4:08 pm
For those of you who think Obama is "playing the race card" here…

He is trying to pre-empt the kind of racial codewords being used by republicans on TV to scare us… such as "terrorist fist jab" (Michelle Malkin) and "exotic" (Buchanan).

Comment by jj — June 13, 2008 @ 4:09 pm
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The scary one is McCain. His speech from New Orleans with his lopsided smile under wild eyes gave him the classic Hollywood look of a demented villain. The Manchurian candidate made palpable. The amazing thing is he spent two weeks preparing for that speech.

Comment by afgail — June 13, 2008 @ 4:20 pm
It's a fact. So what else is new?

Comment by avepa — June 13, 2008 @ 4:20 pm
I guess I am a racist too - I think that Michael Jordan is the best player to have ever played the game, I think Tiger Woods will prove himself the best golfer of all time, I think that Lewis Hamilton is the best driver of Formula 1 race cars, I think MLK was the most visionary human on the planet at the time, and I think that Barack Obama is the best choice for president. funny, for a white guy, all my heroes are black..go figure.

Comment by Neil — June 13, 2008 @ 4:42 pm
obama's nomination as the presumed democrat's nominee affirms his post racial stance and confirms that mccain is stuck in america's shameful past of racial apatheid.

Comment by dele — June 13, 2008 @ 4:47 pm
The nerve of these people, "too Black," what the hell is "too Black," it's funny how you can be "too Black," but you can never be "too White," matter of fact you can't be White enough… what nerve… you damn near have to be a Black Anglo-Saxon to be accepted in this country. The nerve of these people… it makes me sick to my stomach!

Comment by Mike Jones — June 13, 2008 @ 4:50 pm
Let me see..
The Obamas have the same organs as everyone else.
They eat food and expel waste, just like everyone else.
They put pants on the same way as everyone else, on leg at a time.

Hm, I would say the are human beings just like everyone else. No difference there. And right now, we need some simple respect for basic human dignity in the Oval Office, 'cause it hasn't been there since 2001.

Comment by Rev. Spaminator — June 13, 2008 @ 4:56 pm
It is not the Republicans, nor even the Press that is making Obama and his wife seem scarey, they have done it to themselves. As a caucasion woman who is the mother of a mixed race child I have had the opportunity that many caucasions have not had. One of them was to attend briefly Trinity Church. I did not go back because of the racism that was DOMINENT in that church. Fact: Obama remained a member of that church for better then twenty years. Fact: Michelle Obama wrote a racially provocative paper for her Degree. It espoused and encouraged a segregationist viewpoint. So, my opinion is that they remained members of that church not in spite of the Rev. Wright's viewpoints, but rather because of them. That is what makes them scarey!

Comment by slp1954 — June 13, 2008 @ 5:02 pm
slp1954 is clearly racist and never ever in her life attended Trinity Church. She is trying to cover for hatred of people with other skin colors.

Comment by RM — June 13, 2008 @ 5:18 pm
Well, Barack, if the are doing so you deserve it for the race-baiting you have done in the last few months. I'm not voting for Barack, and it has nothing to do with race. He is a sleezy Chicago pol who wants us to believe he represents change.

Comment by JayM — June 13, 2008 @ 5:22 pm
#35

Please read:

http://www.peggynoonan.com/article.php?article=417

"nobody left that church and punched anybody in the eye."

Comment by margoharrisa — June 13, 2008 @ 5:44 pm
JayM #37

what proof do you have that he is a sleezy Chicago pol? You must still have your hillary goggles on.

Comment by margoharrisa — June 13, 2008 @ 5:47 pm
Google "my brothers keeper mccain" , it is heartbreaking for the Indians

Comment by Jules — June 13, 2008 @ 5:48 pm
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RPYMaF2vAmg

I made a youtube about the Obama's. I hope you will watch and enjoy it!

Comment by Chloe — June 13, 2008 @ 5:59 pm
They should be attacking the fact that he is a terrorist.

Comment by dyoung — June 13, 2008 @ 6:03 pm
Thank you, Chloe. Very nice, they are really a love match and a wonderful example for all.

Comment by margoharrisa — June 13, 2008 @ 6:06 pm
It's not that he's too black, it's that he's too socialist.

Comment by Trevor — June 13, 2008 @ 6:13 pm
42 dyoung
You are a complete fool. Not this year, not this time, Not this election. Ain't gonna work!
The GOPeeing their pants! lol

Comment by margoharrisa — June 13, 2008 @ 6:14 pm
Barack Hussein Obama,
Prove, prove otherwise. Up until this point in time, you have demonstrated anything but, "change" and "crossing the bridge".

Comment by Mark Duecker — June 13, 2008 @ 6:18 pm
Trevor,
Where do you get your information from. Please find out the truth. Read his plan. You really think our country is on the right track?

Comment by margoharrisa — June 13, 2008 @ 6:23 pm
slp 1954,

i am very suspicious of your claim that you attended trinity. if you did, can you name some people of the congregation and some events they put up on their bulletin?

More importantly, your cut and paste of smear emails against Obama clearly denotes your need to justify your racism. How do you know what Michelle Obama wrote in her thesis? That thesis is not viewable until after the election. Were you her professor or committee member who read and approved the thesis?

Your second fact regarding the Reverend Wright.Is it your opinion that the Reverend preached the exact same sermon, held the exact same opinions for the last 20 years in the exact same way? The Reverend maybe a bit colorful and eccentric but there is enormous truth to the ways in which Black oppression still exists in our society. And given that this man has served for our country, he has earned the right to criticize his government.

Lastly, Obama is not the same person as the Reverend. He has the right to agree and disagree with the Reverend's perspectives. He knows the Reverend in a very different way than you and I know him from the media soundbyte. If you are going to judge Obama, judge him by Obama's words, his actions, his voting records. Anything else is a reflection of your own racial prejudice.

Comment by anita — June 13, 2008 @ 6:24 pm
Mr Obama is right that some don't think he is "Amirican" enough. I am one of those. Once I heard the clip of him at a commencment address saying that "some of you will go out and make as much money as you can and buy a big house, but I hope most of you don't as we are a collective community". Isn't the American dream to work hard, makes lots of money, and live in a nice house? It was when I was growing up!! That's what I am teaching my children. How can be be too black? He has a white mother, to me that makes him white but with an agenda of socaialism I will that the other guy!!!

Comment by SCOTT — June 13, 2008 @ 6:25 pm
46 Mark Duecker

Look at his track record:

http://www.democraticuderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&adress=388×275

Ill. State Senate;

http://www.democraticudergroud.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132×4379566

Comment by margoharrisa — June 13, 2008 @ 6:28 pm
This kind of preemptive strike by the Obama campaign is actually a subtle form of race bating and reverse racism that is known in the psychological domain as paradoxical intent. He and his campaign have utilized htis technique quite effectively throughout the campaign on several issues. Once someone crosses any line they set up this way, the pouncing will be swift and forceful and very loaded. McCain and the Republicans better watch out. Of course, by issuing this they then can have the freedom to claim even true facts, such as LBJ's efforts with the passage of the Civil Rights Act is really being racist because it did not give full (and untrue) credit to MLK.

Comment by Galee — June 13, 2008 @ 6:36 pm
49 SCOTT

He was just saying that material things are not the most important things to reach for. Money doesn't always buy happiness. He was appealing to their better angels to give back something to your fellow man, to your country. If you would find out about him you would see that he is very patriotic and loves this country. Ignorance = fear

Comment by margoharrisa — June 13, 2008 @ 6:38 pm
51 Galee

I guess Fox news calling their little affectionate fist bump = terrorist?

Or refering to the wife of the democratic nomineee for president as "Obama baby momma"

Read some history about MLK role please.

Comment by margoharrisa — June 13, 2008 @ 6:43 pm
I just read all of the above, and my comment is not sophisticated or lofty. I just feel happy after I see and listen to Barack and Michelle. After watching McCain in New Orleans, with his intermittent smiles, I just thought: "What in the world?" He was just weird.

Comment by JoAn — June 13, 2008 @ 6:47 pm
Obama and his wife ARE scary. He is a bona fide Alinksky neo-Marxist who is taught to look moderate to get power and his wife's speeches sound just like Che Guevara (and its no wonder one of his Houston campaign managers has Che hanging on the wall).

Who the heck could vote for a guy that wants sex education for kindergartners (he endorses that) and "gay police" from the department of justice enforcing strange things like the "gender expression" he wants to make protected (its on his website and in his speeched to homosexual groups - who needs innuendo with Obama? ).

Add the above to glowing endorsements from Farrakhan, Ortega, Sharpton, Hamas, Wright etc and who could vote for this weirdo rationally? Plus his party took the side of the enemy during the war and now is using tons of Soros money to further attack the country.

Obama is a weirdo and if people weren't so dumbed down and corrupt he wouldn't have a chance to even be nominated. Good people who are informed can't vote for this racist, neo_Marxist phony who has more slogans than idea for his creepy followers.

Comment by Johns — June 13, 2008 @ 6:47 pm
I just love Barack Obama…everything about him. He is amazing and we are so fortunate as Americans to have him willing to serve our country. What an extraordinary individual. There's never been a presidential candidate (in my lifetime) as intelligent and forward-thinking as he is. I love that he will likely be a role model for my young boys.

Comment by Emily — June 13, 2008 @ 6:51 pm
McCain is the creepy one…man. He looks robotic and his wife is plastic…Stepford city.

Barack and Michelle are REAL. I don't want doughy McCain and his billionaire zombie bride representing me. No thank you.

McCain just says whatever he's told. Another idiot puppet. I want a real, inspirational person in the white house again. Obama is strong and smart and knows what to do for this country. Not another puppet.

My bank account can't handle another George freakin' Bush. What an embarrassment.

Comment by Persian — June 13, 2008 @ 6:59 pm
Do you people really believe this crap that the GOP wants you to believe. A bunch of liars who manipulated the country into an illegal and immoral war, a war that has brought us to our knees financially a war that has shown the limits of our military power and has ruined our reputation around the world.
The only thing that the republican's can do is try to destroy him with the politics of personal destruction they have nothing to offer so they cannot run on issues. Fear and hate are not american values.

Comment by margoharrisa — June 13, 2008 @ 7:11 pm
wow…as an independant, I have many issues with both parties…Obama's idea of 'change" seems to be to make the country more socialist - ie. let the govt. take care of everything…add mmore taaxes to the "rich" and the big companies, redistribute to the 'poor', etc. when will you folks on both sides start to listen and really understand what is being said by this guy? All of you seem to be drinking the Obama coolaid without real questioning, etc…so are the republicans with McCain…. We don't need to discourage companies that are creating jobs, punishing those who are making big money (and also creating jobs, spending their money back into the economy etc.)…when has raising taxes EVER helped an economy? If you go back and do a analysis you will see that when taxes go down, the tax revenue to the Govt. goes UP, as does the growth in the economy….taxes up has the opposite effect… Think people…what sort or "change" are these guys talking about…?? As for the Mrs. Obama "whitey" comment - that runmor was started in a DEMOCRAT blog…not by the RIGHT…again..research folks…don't just accept everything you are spoon fed….

Comment by eric — June 13, 2008 @ 7:19 pm
I am an Independent who is going to vote for Senator Obama. The democrats and republicans have made our country much weaker and disrespected. I feel our last chance is Senator Obama, and he represents ALL of us from every walk of life.

Independent for Obama '08

Comment by Joyce — June 13, 2008 @ 7:29 pm
Lenin brought change, too.

Obama would bring the same type of change, government controlling where you live, what you do, what you eat, where you work and exactly how much money you have. The great Obama/Messiah knows better than you do what you need to do with your life.

That is not America. Obama is trying to make this about race. It isn't. Obama's "former" church is anti-white and he and his wife attended it for 20 years, but that is besides the point. Obama's ideas are pure Karl Marx, anti-capitalism, pro-communist lies. Government does not know what you want, believe me, as someone who works for the government (prosecuting attorney) the people in government don't have a clue about true life, and yet most agencies are "Experts" in what you need…although they always create an exception for themselves.

Obama is not God. He is socialist who will take everything from you, including our will to create and grow. I lived and worked in France for two years–there is no will for new ideas/products/innovation because socialism has robbed the people of their will to be better.

Obama must be stopped.

Comment by Apollo — June 13, 2008 @ 7:30 pm
55 Johns

Republican talking points = B/S
Creepy followers? How regressive and repulsive you and your ilk are. You will let fear and hate lead you over the cliff and drag us all over with you. Time to turn the page, write a new chapter. GOP=Toast!

Comment by margoharrisa — June 13, 2008 @ 7:34 pm
margoharrisa…of course FOX was racist which is one of many reasons I don't watch it. The standards they use allowed the Obama campaign to issue this gauntlet to assure it does not enter main stream media in the same way and FOX gave them the excuse. They, You and I know that no one who depends on FOX for news is someone who will ever vote for them anyway. But they have thus been able to forwarn MSM that to expect hell to pay if they go there. Smart, effective move.
And, by the way, I lived through MLK (don't have to go read about it) and know he led us by his words, but the passage of the bill was maneuvered through congress by back room phone calls from President LBJ. MLK had talked for years about the need for the civil rights bills and many of us white and black marched for them, just as I also marched a few years later for years to get the Equal Rights Amendment passed. Women did not have their LBJ to push ERA through so 20 years later we are still second class. I hope in your young life time ERA comes up again and passes because even three weeks ago a Supreme Court decision said that it is okay to discriminate in salary unless a woman finds out within three months of being hired she is being paid less that a man doing the same job and files a lawsuit. So if you don'ot find out for 4 months or 20 years, SOL. But read your history of government and learn that without LBJ, it would have taken years longer to get the Civil Rights act passed or met the same fate ERA did. Better yet, go to the LBJ Library and listen to some of the tapes of phone calls he made to recalcitrant senators when the voting was called telling them what bills with their earmarks would be vetoed if they voted the wrong way on this vote. I think he knew if it did not pass, there would be more death and destruction and burnings in the streets of places like Detroit and he pulled out all stops to protect this nation from its raging self.

Comment by Galee — June 13, 2008 @ 7:44 pm
..I have read his plan….it looks like a lot was borrowed from Marx….punish business, raise taxes on the righ, create more "social programs" (more taxes by the way), etc. I am not even a Republican and I can see that this guy (Obama) is more like a Socialist Party member than a Democrat…

Comment by eric — June 13, 2008 @ 7:46 pm
I think the real problem is that John McCain is too white… just too too white! Well, maybe I need to reconsider this. Yes I've reconsidered and I think John McCain is not white enough. By the way where is his daughter? we never seem to see her on the campaign trail. I think she is just right!

Comment by Cynthia Waller — June 13, 2008 @ 7:55 pm
The problem with obama are his idiotic ideas. how can you pay for everything he is promising and not raise anyone's taxes that make up to 250k per year. that covers 95% of workers. does it make any mathmatical sense that the remaining 5% could make up the difference? get a hold of yourselves, this guy is no different than any other power monger. what difference does it make if the money spent on Iraq is spent on something else, you're still are spending more than we have. and remember folks, money spent on the military supports real human beings just the same as giving away to welfare recipients only we get work from the military and jobs for the private sector. Most O supporters just hope for a change in political workings in Washington. Obama won't change that no matter what he says or what you hope. And speaking of change how you liking the change since the Dems took over congress? Real progress huh? Be smart folks, register Independant. don't vote for someone based on hopes and dreams or "he has such a nice smile". These people don't walk on water and if you look at their accomplishments in office you'find lots of building dedications and fluffy work. and then they get paid to work part time, ignoring the real work while they aggressively look for another job. Now is that right? People, senators are not leaders, they are hand shakers and fund raisers. research people research. "If nominated I will not run, if elected I will not serve".

Comment by lowdowndave — June 13, 2008 @ 8:34 pm
eric
you have not read his plan. You are not being honest.
btw, don't vote for him, if you don't want to, for whatever reason. But STFU and stop spreading lies and false rumers. Why not tell us about what great ideas McSame is offering?

Comment by margoharrisa — June 13, 2008 @ 8:39 pm
The Obamas are very scary.
Just look at their role model preachers.

Comment by Bubba — June 13, 2008 @ 8:41 pm
lowdowndave
Obama's Senate Record:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=388×275

Comment by margoharrisa — June 13, 2008 @ 8:43 pm
This from the year 1911. Interesting!
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Comment by Leon — June 13, 2008 @ 8:48 pm
He is the one that always brings up race. His wife constantly talks about race. These two are affirmative action Ivy league grads who use their color any chance they can get.

Barak Hussein Obama insists he was not born a Muslim. Then why on earth would he have a Muslim name?

Comment by Get real — June 13, 2008 @ 8:53 pm
I knew that he would eventually play the race card.
If you critize me, you are a bigot.
If don't vote for me, you are a bigot.
If you critize my wife you are a bigot.
If you are white, you are a bigot.

I guess I should enroll in bigot rehab.

adios,
A. B. Normal
Lancaster, Mexifornia
dial 1 for english mano

Comment by A. B. NORMAL — June 13, 2008 @ 8:53 pm
I do make over 250,000 a year. I am not rich. I went to college, med school etc. Why does Barak hate me so much? I too have huge student loans.

Comment by Get real — June 13, 2008 @ 8:55 pm
This was his suggestion?
This is news?
What happened to the uniter
Thin skinned?

barry, remember:

'In politics nothing is contemptible.' Disreali

adios
A. B. Normal
Lancaster, Mexifornia
dial 1 for english and viva la raza

Comment by A. B. NORMAL — June 13, 2008 @ 9:01 pm
We all recall that Susan Eisenhower endorsed Barack Obama. When asked what her grandfather, Ike, would have said about this, she said that Ike wouldn't recognize the republican party of today. Ike had character. I doubt that he would want to be a member of a party that has done the things the republicans have done in their efforts to stay in power and to contain the wealth for a few. As Ike was leaving office, he warned America that we faced a danger from the direction of a Military/Industrial complex. His words were prophetic and it has come to pass. Now it's time to clean up the mess. John McCain isn't capable of doing the job. Barack Obama is.

Comment by karela — June 13, 2008 @ 9:06 pm
One more thought. To "Get Real". Obama doesn't hate people who make over $250,000 a year. He just thinks that they have made their money from the people of the country and it is reasonable to ask that they share a little bit of the wealth. If you pay a little more tax, you'll still be able to eat. Your children won't have to go without medical care. Your home won't have to be kept at 55 degrees through the winter. The people at the other end of the spectrum face those challenges. I make about $70,000 a year. I don't feel rich either, but I feel that I should pay a bit more tax than a single mother with three kids and an income of $30,000. Don't you? Really?

Comment by karela — June 13, 2008 @ 9:13 pm
I have student loans too with an annual in the $100,000 range. I am happy to pay a little more. Obama is going to put a great deal of funding into early education, which is critical to helping children in general and poor and rural children in particular in developing the skills they need to be READY TO LEARN. Invest in America's future by investing in our children.

Comment by Jeanie — June 13, 2008 @ 9:28 pm
[...] he wasn't black enough, today Obama and his wife are existence varnished as too black by the GOP. Who could have [...]

Pingback by Naval News Today · Real Clear Politcs — June 13, 2008 @ 9:33 pm
How absolutely LAUGHABLE! Obama played the RACE CARD AGAINST HILLARY - now he's going to play it against the republicans! How predictable he is and how predictable you sheep followers are!

Comment by Breana — June 13, 2008 @ 9:35 pm
Obama is running out of steam. His half bro says he was raised a muslim and practiced the faith until he was 24. Another "O" lie. Obama is a muslim-marxist.

Comment by michael loehrer — June 13, 2008 @ 9:36 pm
it starts again. is obama using the "race card"?

Comment by jrterrier — June 13, 2008 @ 9:49 pm
Obama doesn't represent the majority of Americans, only the haters who hate our country and think it is evil. He will represent the interests of the entitlement generation (and race) who believe the government abused them, should take care of them, and that hard work is for old white guys. He thinks people who worked hard for their money and took risk should give it to people who watch TV. NObama for me!

Comment by Tim — June 13, 2008 @ 9:56 pm
I have a black hero. Tiger Woods! To me, most every other black person is a disaster. Look at Barry Bonds, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Gary Sheffield, Charles Barkley, Al Sharpton, Jessie Jackson. Name me a black hero!! I'm waiting. Barry Hussein and his wife openly hate Americans.
Wait until the tape of her speech comes out. Then everyone will know.

Comment by Pete — June 13, 2008 @ 10:05 pm
Wow, John McCain really has no agenda for defeating Obama. He cannot beat him on the issues. He can not beat him with charm and appeal so now we have to try and defeat him based on my skin is white and yours is black therefore you should vote for me. That is so sad. The GOP would be smarter to spend their time teaching McCain the difference between Sunni and Shi'ah or developing a plan to bring our children home from Iraq. They would do better informing McCain that there is something wrong with the economy and people do not have jobs. Definitely they would do well to teach McCain how to speak in front on an audience, because currently if he comes to town, no one will show up and if he is on the TV, no one is interested in listening. Absolutely, these are things for the GOP to consider and work on instead of painting Obama as a radical black man that will destroy white people. Really, Senator Clinton was the start of this foolishness and she should really think about how she gave the GOP the idea that it is okay to make race such an issue. I see someone wrote that Obama used the race card on Hillary Clinton. I have to wonder how and when did he do this? I dream of a day when Obama and any other man or woman will be looked at as a man or a woman instead of a black man, white man or whatever. We must continue to evolve in our thinking.

Comment by Cindy — June 13, 2008 @ 10:07 pm
82 michael loehrer
You are a liar. Where is the proof? From a rethuglican smear website? You are a real creep.
Get a life and wise up. a$$hole!

Comment by margoharrisa — June 13, 2008 @ 10:11 pm
Race card. WTF is that? Who coined that phrase. The white supremists? The KKK? the rethuglicans?
He has more of the ideals that we call American than all of you haters put together. To be honest he has had the "race card" played against him. The rethugs are playing to the lowest common denominator as usual, as they have no ideas or vision for the future. All they want is to use his race and his name, how sad is that, to spread hate and fear is the minds of people like you. To drive a wedge to divide to
keep their corporate buddies in the money and fu$k the people of this country.
Obama wants us to be involved in the government make it transparent, cut waste, cut taxes on the middle class.
The rethugs want to give our tax dollars to the industrial military complex. That's who they care about, talk about transfer of wealth, that's where the real transfer of wealth is.
But you sad stupid and ignorant people will fall for it again. Talk about drinking kool-ade.

Comment by margoharrisa — June 13, 2008 @ 10:32 pm
The only scary thing I see in this campaign is the forced phony deathlike grin of John McCain and the possibity of him nominating more Supreme Court Justices like Alito, Scalia and Thomas.

Comment by MizLiz — June 13, 2008 @ 10:40 pm
Actually John, the civil rights act passed not so much by democratic votes as the dixiecrats split from the party and became republicans after its passage. There were a number of fine, moderate socially progressive republicans from northern states back then who on some issues put what is right above party. They tended to be the same ones who in the 70's stood up and said Nixon needed to go. I am not sure thre are any left now except maybe on some issues Hagel. People like Lowell Wicker, Schweiker, Nelson Rockefellor, and a others would not be recognized these days.

Comment by Galee — June 13, 2008 @ 10:45 pm
Get real, I am sure after medical school you do have school loans to pay off. So my question to you is are you denying yourself other niceties in life, trips, etc, the nicest house and the like in order to pay them back sooner or are you like many who drive an expensive car when a less expensive one would get them to work, buy the best etc first. Do you pack a lunch or eat out at an expensive restaurant and try to live up to the standard of your peers and pay back your student loans slowly becaue they are the lowest of your loans? Just what are your priorities about how fast you will pay the student loans back? Several of my doctor acquainances live a pretty good life and are intheir 50's still paying back those loans and complaining about student loans, but from my observations they seem to live a pretty high life for someoen so in debt. Most teachers I know probably on their low salaries are much more diligent about getting out of debt quickly…but then they cannot affort the financial advisors telling them how to maximize their income to their advantage.

Comment by Galee — June 13, 2008 @ 10:55 pm
Hey friends and neighbors - there are many of us that aren't going to vote for Obama - and it has NOTHING to do with his race. Black man, white woman, purple transvestite, just give me a candidate who has experience and isn't a socialist.

Comment by tired — June 13, 2008 @ 10:58 pm
85 pete
Show the tape. Put up or STFU! The Obama's are quality people and the rethugs know it. Personal destruction is the politics they practice. That's all they know how to do. Dirty tricks, nasty lies, totally morally corrupt. They have broken a once great country and shredded the Constitution. A bunch of liars who manipulated the country into an illegal and immoral war a war that has brought us to our knees financally a war that has shown the limits of our military power, and has ruined our reputation around the world.

They have no ideas or solutions to move us forward. They are anti-science, anti-education and will end up in the dust bin of history.
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"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, the you win."
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Comment by margoharrisa — June 13, 2008 @ 11:05 pm
There's a lot of comments about Obama here.

The right wing stuff is all nonsense.

Say this, say that. Just say we won't have another Republican for President. Praise God, for sending us a rational thinker like Barack Obama.

Someone said Communism? Excuse me, but the Republican's have already replaced our Democracy with a totalitarian government!
They make communism look good.

Barack is a middle of the road democrat. They can yack all they want but he's still gonna be the next President of the United States*

Comment by georgia atkins — June 13, 2008 @ 11:16 pm
NoBama08 is so far left that Clinton is a conservative by comparison.

This black nationalist and his wife belong anywhere but the USA….maybe Camp Gitmo for these commies……..

Comment by Moishe katz — June 13, 2008 @ 11:19 pm
89 MizLiz - What is it about Supreme Court Justices who actually APPLY THE CONSTITUTION that is so scary? It's activist judges like Kennedy, Souter & Bader Ginsburg that have severely crippled the country and the Constitution. More like them and God help us all.

Comment by tired — June 13, 2008 @ 11:19 pm
tired 92

John McSame has no experience being president either. The only people with presidential experience are ex-presidents, brainiac.
McSame has the worst attendence record in the Senate. He collects social security, and also collects 100% disability from the Navy. He has government healthcare (cradle to grave) and his wife is worth 200 million. He is totally out of touch with reality and is flip-flopping all over the place. His own party hates him. Give me a break.

Comment by margoharrisa — June 13, 2008 @ 11:19 pm
margoharrisa 97 - I said nothing in support of McCain, genius. You give ME a break.

Comment by tired — June 13, 2008 @ 11:21 pm
Recently Fox News had a caption on their show alongside a picture of Michelle Obama, with the text "LIBERALS SAY: STOP ATTACKING OBAMA'S BABY MAMA."(sic) Where they could have used the respectful term, "Wife", they chose a stereotypical uneducated black attributed phrase.

Of course the right wing is trying to paint Obama as too black.

Comment by Bob Markal — June 13, 2008 @ 11:22 pm
The high court has set in motion the destruction of this country. Activist judges have to be exposed for what they are and removed by the president. When the hight court begins to make law as opposed to interpreting the law the beginning of the end begins.

Comment by Moishe katz — June 13, 2008 @ 11:22 pm
tired
Sorry.
"Bitter" Hillaryite or Ron Paul devotee?

Comment by margoharrisa — June 13, 2008 @ 11:25 pm
tired
I guess bitter Hillaryite.

Comment by margoharrisa — June 13, 2008 @ 11:26 pm
Addendum - McCain's party does hate him because he is a RINO who serves the Leftist nightmare more than he does his constituents. They are both two distasteful, left-leaning politicians, and my distaste for Obama and McCain has nothing to do with race; it has to do with policy. I'm hoping that whichever of these two get into office, that their term will be no more than four years and everything that they try to do will be blocked by Congress. Doubtful, but I can hope.

Comment by tired — June 13, 2008 @ 11:27 pm
You are wonderful at assuming, but incorrect - Hillary and Ron Paul were just as nauseating, albeit in different ways. Frankly, I haven't been impressed with a candidate since Reagan was in office. I am bitter, though, but only because my country has nothing better to offer me than these two.

Comment by tired — June 13, 2008 @ 11:33 pm
To number 85: you're a bit of a disaster yourself, Pete.

You want the name of a black hero, ok, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
Rosa Parks, Harriett Tubman, The four little girls who were murdered in 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, Mohammad Ali, Jesse Jackson,

Race hatred is a cowardly act, found attractive, usually by those who have an inferiority complex.

Grow up Pete, don't wait till some white guy re-instates the draft and sends your son to war!

Check out this website for more black heroes!

http://www.raahistory.com/

Wild Child full of Grace, Savior of the Human Race. sa

Comment by Sadie Adams — June 13, 2008 @ 11:35 pm
tired
Yes they hate him because he is a RINO, but no they just hate him also.

Obama will win by a landslide the American people will get it right this time.

I am sorry that St. Ronald Reagan is dead. Obama admires Ronald Reagan. The funny thing is that Obama is a actually a real conservative.

Comment by margoharrisa — June 13, 2008 @ 11:36 pm
Ok I'll bite. Define "real conservative" for me and tell me how Obama qualifies.

Comment by tired — June 13, 2008 @ 11:37 pm
tired
Yes they hate him because he is a RINO, but no they just hate him also.

Obama will win by a landslide the American people will get it right this time.

I am sorry that St. Ronald Reagan is dead. The funny thing is that Obama is a actually a real conservative.

Comment by margoharrisa — June 13, 2008 @ 11:37 pm
To number 73.

Obama has his father's name. Does not mean he's a Muslim. Many people are given family names, they could come from any kind of religious background.

Besides most of the trouble in the world starts with religion, I'm a Jew, you're a Catholic, she's a Protestant, so what! Do you really think God cares what religion a person is. If God doesn't care who are you?

Comment by Sadie Adams — June 13, 2008 @ 11:47 pm
So right Emily 56.

He's a brilliant man. Far superior to anything the Republican's could produce, if they tried forever.

Comment by georgia a. — June 13, 2008 @ 11:52 pm
Name-calling and the politics of personal destruction is all the Republicans have left. They're done……if someone (like Obama) calls them on it and people back him up.

Comment by TC — June 14, 2008 @ 12:02 am
To Tim 84: You're just saying that because you probably have no friends or relatives in Iraq being used as missile targets!

As of yesterday June 08′ fatality totals were 14 beautiful young Americans.

Today's the 13th of June.

In May there were over 40 fatalities.
Such Lovely people, who want to continue to kill our young 19 and 20 yr. old American kids.

They make me wanna puke!

Or think back in time if you, which you weren't, 18 in 1967, and being shipped off to Vietnam against your will. Or would you go happily?

Don't kid yourself. You may not remember or recognize an abusive government, but I do. And the Bush administration are one.

Obama doesn't hate America, he's trying to save us. And we are all gonna go along willingly no matter what anyone says!

Comment by georgia a. — June 14, 2008 @ 12:02 am
Hmmm. Guess I'll check back in later for an explanation of "real conservatism" and how it applies to Mr. Obama. Can't wait.

Comment by tired — June 14, 2008 @ 12:04 am
Oh wow. georgia a.: "…he's trying to save us. And we are all gonna go along willingly no matter what anyone says!". This statement stands alone and explains so much, doesn't it?

Comment by tired — June 14, 2008 @ 12:09 am
tired 107
Check it out:

http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=46a816dc-f843-41ec-9fe4-fbeac17bcfca

Comment by margoharrisa — June 14, 2008 @ 12:11 am
To: Bubba 70

What's scary is that you can look at a beautiful woman like Michelle Obama and think she's scary. She's beautiful inside and out. So is Barack. You people must all be high to generalize the way you do!

Didn't you ever hear that a lot of white people say bad things about black people? A lot more than black people say bad things about white people.

By the way, remember a little thing called slavery, that lasted over 200 years? Or segregation. I guess African American's might still have some grievances left over.

You sure have no problem bitching and moaning!

From a white girl.

Comment by georgia a. — June 14, 2008 @ 12:12 am
Excuse me Mr. Obama but it was a member of the BLACK Community that originally labeled you as NOT BEING BLACK ENOUGH!
As a matter of fact Gary Younge a columnist for the Guardian made the comment of OBAMA not being black enough.
Now you are laying blame on GOP for trying to paint as you as being "TOO BLACK" That's rediculous and a COP OUT if you ask me. Quit playing the victim and represent ALL CITIZENS equally. The racial divide exists on both the black and white side but quit making it a crutch.

WHINING won't get you the presidency! Listen to ALL points of view and quit using class warfare to expand your agenda. This isn't Venezuela and hopefully you aren't HUGO CHAVEZ.

-General Mortars

Comment by General Mortars — June 14, 2008 @ 12:16 am
Nice fluff piece from a liberal publication - with no sourcing. I don't see "real conservatism" represented, but I appreciate the effort.

Comment by tired — June 14, 2008 @ 12:22 am
"..I have read his plan�.it looks like a lot was borrowed from Marx�.punish business, raise taxes on the righ, create more "social programs" (more taxes by the way), etc. I am not even a Republican and I can see that this guy (Obama) is more like a Socialist Party member than a Democrat�"

eric, I guess you'd rather your tax dollars continue to go to line the pockets of corrupt politicians, contractors, and corporations? very smart … NOT!

Comment by truthbtold — June 14, 2008 @ 12:25 am
61. Apollo

Switch this to:
the Republican's brought change, too. and this statement would make more sense.

Lenin brought change, too. The Republican candidate
would bring the same type of change, government controlling where you live, what you do, what you eat, where you work and exactly how much money you have.
(they certainly do).

The great Republican/Messiah knows better than you do what you need to do with your life.

That won't be necessary, the great Bush/Messiah, has pretty much decimated this country beyond repair!

Making Lenin look like a liberal!

God Bless America, for the freedoms we have*

Comment by georgia a. — June 14, 2008 @ 12:27 am
never mind obama and his wife, have you seen his top foreign policy adviser, donna rice? talk about scary!! the obama's must have dug her up at the trinity church as well! gd america!!!

Comment by popeye — June 14, 2008 @ 12:31 am
118 tired
Liberal publication? The National Review was founded by William F. Buckley.

Comment by margoharrisa — June 14, 2008 @ 12:37 am
And here I thought John McCain was "scary" and "too white"! If anyone's scary these days look at all these white Republican men!

Comment by Cristina — June 14, 2008 @ 12:43 am
You know what, He's not black enough, He's too black, He's scary, where do you all get this stuff?

Take a deep breath and try to Focus!

Obama is a good, honest man. What the hell has his race got to do with anything?

Do people point to you on the street and say you're not white enough, you're too white. Give me a break!

Do you want a decent man for President or a bunch of Genocidal murderer's.

You or your's could be next on their list. And don't worry they'll only call you nice names when they strip you of your constitutional and civil rights and send you off to war.

A white girl.

Comment by georgia atkins — June 14, 2008 @ 12:45 am
The link you sent was for a column in the New Republic, a left-wing publication, not the National Review.

Comment by tired — June 14, 2008 @ 12:46 am
popeye=TROLL

Comment by margoharrisa — June 14, 2008 @ 12:47 am
tired
are you still here?

Comment by margoharrisa — June 14, 2008 @ 12:49 am
tired
I found the link on npr. you are right but Jeffery Hart the editor of National Review is a Obama supporter.

Comment by margoharrisa — June 14, 2008 @ 12:53 am
Well tired 114, it explains a lot to me. I have no idea what you mean by your remark, sounds like you just can't think of a rebuttal.
My motives on the other hand are pure, I don't want any more young American's to die in a corrupt war. It seems that Republican's do always get us into war. It has nothing to do with black or white. It's all about smart or stupid. and that's what says it all.

Maybe after a good night's sleep you may experience a miracle and wake up a Democrat!

Comment by georgia atkins — June 14, 2008 @ 12:57 am
We are human beings first and foremost, not political party loyalists. I encourage every person to raise objection in each and every instance race is used as a wedge issue.

Silence will be perceived as permission to discriminate. That would be a major set-back for civil rights not just for African Americans, Hispanics, Latinos, Asians, American Indians, etc., but whites and women, too.

There is no reward for fanning the flames of hatred and fear.

Should [republicans or] anyone else decide to go that route they need to know an attack on Barack and Michelle Obama is an attack on all of us — all human beings — and a set back civil rights.

Using the race card must be condemned not encouraged.

Silence is not an option.

Comment by serena1313 — June 14, 2008 @ 12:57 am
They forget that he is also white. He's one of them and they don't like it. We still have a ways to go on race in America. The white people think that they are losing control over "their white America." They forget that we will not treat them as they treated us. Respect to all people, always.

Comment by oneblackvote — June 14, 2008 @ 12:59 am
I hear a lot of whining here.

Comment by Doc — June 14, 2008 @ 1:15 am
margoharrisa - I do appreciate the discourse, but we may have to agree to disagree here. But please, know this, my distrust and unwillingness to vote for Obama has nothing to do with race - to vote for or against someone based on skin color or gender is idiotic at best.

Georgia A - It doesn't surprise me that you don't understand how scary it is that that we all must go willingly with someone we don't agree with. With all due respect, I don't need Obama to "save me" and I won't go willingly into socialism, no matter who it is that is guiding the way. Keep your miracle as I've already had mine.

If a man is not a socialist by the time he is 20, he has no heart.
If he is not a conservative by the time he is 40, he has no brain.
(sometimes attributed to Winston Churchill)

Good luck to us all.

Comment by tired — June 14, 2008 @ 1:19 am
how strange that 99% of anything to do with obama's race comes out of the mouth of those who support him,not from those who oppose him.Both parties will end up pandering to the powerful behind the scenes people who support them.And that includes obama,who will leave you with higher taxes to foot the bill.It's just a matter of who you would rather be screwed by.

Comment by mike — June 14, 2008 @ 1:19 am
95. Moishe katz

My great-grandfather's name was Moishe.

Like anybody ever cared about us. We supposedly weren't white enough or as good as them, either, and in many places still aren't.

Be careful not to get in with the wrong crowd who will lead you down the wrong path.

Comment by georgia atkins — June 14, 2008 @ 1:24 am
Bruce Hodge 21.

What's the psychological baggage/damage to a country that has lost almost 5,000 of it's young people in order to make some people rich! Not to mention the over 38,000 of those who are among the badly wounded?

Why do you concentrate on race, religion, hurling comments and perpetrating ignorance.

Your energy would be much better spent focusing on life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

God bless America, for the freedoms we have!

Comment by georgia a — June 14, 2008 @ 1:36 am
the only color i see when i look at obama is red!
communist/marx red!both of his parents were red also.his mother stanley ann dunham the self proclaimed atheist,went to high school where two of her teachers were communist,the family went to a church nicknamed the little red church on the hill!move to hawaii hook up with obama sr. in Russian language class,little red baby born.daddy leaves to join Kenyan government to push for African socialism all should read his report from 1965 calling for government taking of land.barack is introduced to "frank" the commie by his grandfather.goes to collage and in his own words was drawn to marxist teachers/radical groups and goes to socialist meetings.goes to the windy city to help the opressed.gets hand picked by Alice Palmer communist party of America member to replace her meets with bill the s.d.s./weatherman Ayers old lady dohrn and Dr. young for their blessing.barack,michell and dorn work at same law firm for two years.join up with marxist,racist Jerry wright for 20 years who likes to visit uncle Fidel in Cuba give hate whitey/u.s. sermons. hang around with Lou farracan.barack gets bank rolled by tony rezko(sic)gets a sweet deal on a little house for 1,600,000.00 blah blah blah.this guy wants to change this great country!change it into a socialist police state.wake up people this guy is not too black/white he is too red with a yellow stripe down his back.read the facts at http://www.usasurvival.org

Comment by remember seal team 10 — June 14, 2008 @ 1:41 am
Dear Tired 133. I do understand your point of view.

It's just as scary for me, real scary, surreal, twilight zone scary when I see what has happened again to America with the republican administration.

Putting personalities and rhetoric aside. Obama is a good man. So who do you suggest as an alternative candidate?

Comment by georgia a — June 14, 2008 @ 1:45 am
Hello America

I am a 50yr. old male who served in the US Army for 22yrs. When I look at our Great Country today, I see alot of young people taking charge of their lives and their futures. We are all going to leave this world one day, we just don't know when. This Great Nation has changed drmatically since the time when I was a young boy, and will continue to change when I am gone. Racism is an ugly sore, not just here in America, but all around the world. What I have learned is a lot of the younger people don't want any part of racism or hatred, they just want a fair shake. The younger generation have learned to listen to their inner voice, and not always what they hear and what they are told by their parents and grandparents. They are finding out the truth about this Great Country, and instead of living in the past, they are figuring out ways to make life better for everyone of all races. I believe in Obama's Message, its time for change. I see this man uniting people of all races, and this Great Country does need healing. It doesn't matter if the Presidential Candidate is black, white, chinese, korean, german, irish, hispanic, euorpean, african, italian, swedish, canadian decent, ect….. or any other racial make-up, as long as you were born in this Great Nation, and as President you are able to lead us and represent us as One Nation Under God. I think Hillary Clinton would have made a fine President, but I think Sen. Obama will be one of our Greatest Presidents ever. The young people are taking race out of the equation, and placing the vote for the candidate they think is, first of all, Honest with the American People, second, not if he has the experience but the intelligence and integrity to get that experience without making crucial mistakes that would hurt our Country, our Econmy, our Air, and every sense, our people. They are placing their vote for the candidate they think will be able take us out of this recession and bring our soldiers home and unite them with their families. A President that will focus on the concerns of this Great Nation, ad once again make us America the Beautiful, New and Improved. What I see in the the young people of America today is, they are going to fight for what is Right, what is Humane, and what is Just. They will do God's will in a way that shows Our Heavenly Father that we are making progress, and that we are not all bad people. I have listened to the young people of this Great Nation and their voice will be heard in Janurary.

Comment by MT - Proud To Be An American — June 14, 2008 @ 2:28 am
I don't know why the black man would want the mess George Bush has left? I'm certain there are all kinds of problems shoved under the rug at the soon to be half-white house. Since it seems to be named after it's usual occupants.

Comment by Dayna — June 14, 2008 @ 2:45 am
Dear citizens, it is not the republicans who go after Obama�s race (don�t think for a second that I agree with the republicans), but Obama himself uses his race opportunistically to gain the sympathy of a victim. This is what has been destroyed this country � �the affirmative act� mentality. The fundamental question is �who is Obama?� and not what color is Obama. Do you have any trace of his political record? What does he stand for? As a citizen of this country, do you care that he raises many from foreign countries? Like China, Saudi Arabia, etc? Is it okay with you that he was raised in a Muslim country and taught Jihad? Does his hiding of his middle name Hussein (with the help of a corrupted media) give any possible clue as to what is deep in his heart? Is it possible that he might have been infected by anti-American hatred due rooted in twenty years of closeness with Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr? Is unfortunate that whites hate blacks, but is equally true that blacks hate whites. While we need to work on heeling this illness, there are many other diseases this country suffers from. Folks, we are talking about the very survival of this beautiful county, about its opened borders which are crossed daily by people who do not love you nor desire a glorious future to any of you. Worse than that, there are some within the country who fight vehemently to kneel our country into its destruction. Think about our English language, about our almost-lost-language. Who has ever thought that we will get the days when you have to call a bank and need to �press one� to speak in English? Is Obama going to position the country for a brighter future? He might contribute to the collapse of the republican party, but he will definitely help the annihilation of the very existence of this country. Remember his lies the other week about his help to liberate the Auschwitz concentration camp � while history undoubtedly records the Russians arriving there bringing hope and freedom. He is ready to sacrifice whatever it takes (but not from among his possession, the very fabric of the American soul and existence) to fulfill his self-centric dream � no limits at all. Don�t think for a second he is there to fight for your being. If you do so, you are already the prisoner of his schemes.

Comment by thinkingAmerican — June 14, 2008 @ 2:52 am
obama is not too black.
but he is too thin-skinned.

michelle was black enough for affirmative action at princeton, harvard OUT-law school and sidley austin law firm.

why did michelle lose her job at sidley austin?
why wasn't OBAMA invited back to sidley austin after one summer as an intern?
why didn't barack get any bid g time offers from harvard OUT-law?

these are resume empty spots!

Comment by deroy — June 14, 2008 @ 3:21 am
At the end of the day, or beginning and middle for that matter, I could care less about the color of Obama's skin. What matters to me are his ideals and how he feels about important issues. Given that, he's got my vote. I'm very disappointed that this has to be a topic in the media , so check out this link to remind us how petty the subject is and to lighten things up a bit.

http://www.236.com/news/2008/06/11/what_color_is_your_obama_7024.php

Comment by JMo — June 14, 2008 @ 3:53 am
Dear Mr. Proud To Be An American (139)
With all due respect to your alleged age and patriotic past, you are either in need to see a doctor, or absolutely blind politically.
If you who are an �proud American� state Hilary would have made a fine president, yet then you continue elevating Obama to an �exceptional president�, while these folks are poisoned snakes (white, black is irrelevant) which will fatally bite our existence to death if left unchecked, then sir, America deserves its own destruction.
Let any of the two become president, and I bet you our years of existence will be counted, and don�t expect too many thereafter.
You are almost true in saying that no matter what happens and who gets to be the next president, God�s will will be done. But that does not give us a pass to be idiots and to turn a myopic eye towards our civic and moral responsibilities. If we as a nation are incapable and unwilling of obstructing those from among us who are clearly our own enemies, then we should not blame God from it.

Comment by OsamaOrObama — June 14, 2008 @ 4:08 am
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/fightthesmearshome/
BTW, McCain still has not been vetted as the brainwashed POW that he really is, a traitor to his country. Nor has anybody properly explored the questionable 'sexuality' of his wife, whom McCain himself called a 'c***'.

Comment by EmmanuelWinner — June 14, 2008 @ 4:12 am
HEY GUYS, DON�T MAKE FOOLS OF YOU, OBAMA�S ALLEGED ATTACK TO HIS RACE IS OBAMA�S SUBTITLE AND DISGUSTING FABRICATION DEVISED TO HIS POLITICAL GAIN.

Comment by bill — June 14, 2008 @ 4:20 am
Georgia 138 - Viable candidates that I could support off the top of my head? Colin Powell probably tops the list. I'd have to do further research, but from what I've seen that's a man who could be a President.

Comment by tired — June 14, 2008 @ 4:44 am
Good point, why is it that Obama is hiding his name? How many of you know that his real name is Barak Hussein Obama? How many of you know that he is a smoker? Not that it matters when it comes to qualifications for office, but it really shows a well orchestrated manipulation � to portrait himself into a pious, religious, moral being. Something is fishy about Obama. I don�t want to became part of Obama�nation! (abomination)

Comment by against abomination — June 14, 2008 @ 4:45 am
Can anybody tell me why you support this socialist Obama?!?! And dont give me the same euphimisms he repeats over and over…."change"…"yes we can". People line up in droves to jump up and down for this empty suit and all the while I sit there and watch and think to myself, "Yes We Can!!…Raise my taxes!!….Change!!…Take more of my money!!" The sad part is that most of these people dont even know why they're voting for him. They lack the ability to think for themselves. They've been caught up in a media craze that leads them around by the hand like a little child and tells them what to think and how to act. It really is sad and pathetic. But I guess that is America today. We truly are living among the dumbest generation. When millions of people can be hoodwinked by a nobody with virtually the entire media behind him in their bias, and all the while this guy promises to take more of their money and give it to someone who refuses to work for it and disguses it with the term "social equality." He has the same tried and failed socialist health care plan Hillary had. All this crap is socialism and everywhere its been tried it has been a complete and utter failure and collapsed entire economies. Litterally punishing people for suceeding while rewarding those who refuse to accel. I've never seen anything like this in my life. So I implore any of you reading this…Wake up people… You're caught up in a media fantasy world. Show me that you have the ability to think for yourself and make rational decisions. I'm no big fan of Mccain but at least he'll honestly go about trying to fix some of the problems we face today(and by the way, most of the fixing needs to begin with us as individuals not the government coming in with hand outs and the like, which Mccain does not believe in and will not do.)Obama wants to enact several policies that will put a choke hold on an already struggling economy. That's just what we need. And again, the people line up in droves welcoming this insanity. Please wake up people. Please.

Comment by Kyle — June 14, 2008 @ 6:20 am
Obama, as far as I'm concerned you are "just right." McCain, on the other hand, doesn't seem black enough for some reason.

Comment by S Bubba — June 14, 2008 @ 7:42 am
My decision to vote McCain is mainly the treatment by the DNC to Hillary, the press and pundits who need new jobs and many other reasons. No, I am not a biggot. There are so many reasons I didn't like Barack Hussein Obama from the beginning and none were due to his racial background.'

Obama and his friends are hate-mongers, and I won't vote for hate and racism. I would have loved to vote for a Black democrat, I have always been a democrat. But I am switching to John McCain. Thank-you for having the courage to create this site.

I am a registered democrat, but I will never in a million years vote for Barack Hussein Obama.

Oy Vay Zmeer!,

— Leland Milton Goldblatt

http://drgoldblatt.blogspot.com/

The latest polls say Americans now dislike Bush more than any other president including even Tricky Dick. It only took the public five and half year to see through him.

Comment by Leland Milton Goldblatt — June 14, 2008 @ 8:01 am
Obama will be JENNED BY THE GOP:
J= JUDGEMENT(LACK OF)
E= EXPERIENCE(LACK OF)
N= NOT ONE OF US CULTURALLY
N= NOT ONE OF US ETHNICALLY
E= EDUCATION(ELITIST)
D= DEMOCRATIC/SOCIALIST IDEAS

THIS IS HOW THE GOP WILL ATTACK OBAMA

Comment by Richard Hill — June 14, 2008 @ 8:37 am
Are you people for real? Do you even have to capacity to analyze a situation without the blinders the dems and reps have put on you? America is now a nation of sheeple.

Comment by Wow — June 14, 2008 @ 8:45 am
This is just another not important, smoke and mirrors subject, purposely brought up by the liberal media to keep the general public away from the real story of "WHO OBAMA REALLY IS". The real stories on Obama should be who HE is, and not is wife - smoke and mirrors. For instance, is he really a Muslim instead of a fake Christian from a pseudo political white-hating Christian church in Chicago? If he is Muslim he should be proud of it like the rest of Muslims and not try to hide it until he's in office.

Comment by NavyJim in SC — June 14, 2008 @ 9:00 am
You Obama dummies out there, the people who suggested that Obama might not be black enough were Dems, not Republicans. Note: The Illinois Senator then suggested Republicans MIGHT SAY, "now he might be too black." In other words, no Republican has said it. It is Dems who say it.

The party of enlightenment, hah! Obamabots get a brain among the bunch of you.

Comment by Jeannette — June 14, 2008 @ 9:09 am
Jeanette is right on the money when she that the Obamabots need to get a brain. You people need to stop, breathe, and think. Get over your teenage, rebel without a cause mentality, and get your own cause, not Obama's. Take a step back and realize that he is using the youth's voting mentality for his own benefit, not yours. He is just an empty vessel of hope playing on your hopes and dreams, trying to persuade you that he embodies all those young hopes and dreams. We were all young rebels at one time and I can now look back and see how and why he is playing up to today's youth to get your vote and that's all he cares about. "Change" has been used by almost every politician in history to get the youth vote. WAKE UP!

Comment by NavyJim in SC — June 14, 2008 @ 9:20 am
WHY DOES OBAMA ONLY MENTION HIS WHITE RELATIVES ALL THE TIME? DOES HE HAVE A PROBLEM BEING BLACK? WHY IS HE SO DEFENSIVE ABOUT BEING CALLED A MUSLIM, IS THERE SOMETHING WRONG WITH THAT? WHY DID IT TAKE UNTIL HIS MID 20′S TO FIND CHRISTIANITY, AND WHAT WAS HE BEFORE THAT? IF YOU TRULY LOVE JESUS, WHY WOULD YOU GO TO A CRAZY PLACE LIKE TRINITY CHURCH TO HONOR HIM, WHERE JESUS SEEMS TO TAKE A BACK SEAT TO POLITICS? OBVIOUSLY, I DISLIKE OBAMA AND I USED TO DISLIKE HILLARY, BUT AFTER SEEING HER PERFORMANCE IN THE PRIMARYS, I HAD GROWN TO RESPECT HER AS A COMPETANT PERSON WHO COULD HAVE DONE A GOOD JOB AS OUR PRESIDENT. HILLARY MAY HAVE ATTRACTED SOME INDEPENDENTS, SUCH AS MYSELF, WHO REMEMBER THE STABLE ECONOMY OF THE 90′S. OBAMA WILL ATTRACT NO ONE EXCEPT COLLEGE KIDS, TV PUNDITS AND COLLEGE PROFFESSORS……NOT ENOUGH, THANK GOD!!! BESIDES, JOHN MCCAIN, FOR ALL HIS FAULTS IS A WAR HERO AND THAT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME!

Comment by popeye — June 14, 2008 @ 9:57 am
Concerned American: "Sen. Obama,how could you stay in such a racist church for so long?Do you hate all white people,or just your mother?"
BHO:"Ah,um,well-You are obviously racist."
CA:"Sen.O could you please list for me views which you share/disagree with W.Ayers,Wright,Screwy Louis,Hamas?"
BHO:"Uh,you see…I find this entire line of questioning racist,racist,racist.What's the matter with you anyway,don't you know that I'm Barack Obama?…'a light will come upon you.You will hve an epiphany and you will know you must go to the polls and vote for Barack Obama.'
CA:"You're too late ,spooky dude.I've known and loved the true Messiah Jesus Christ for too long.
Your mass-hypnotism is lost on me.And for the record,I'm a typical white woman in love with a my husband,father of our six great kids.(Take note Michelle:respect your husband by putting the kibash on the "baby dad" phrase. You started it take it like a woman.)
Oh,btw,my husband is black.Does that take away from my whiteness(is that a word)?You dems are truly race-obsessed.My kids are sometimes called "mixed" by the ignorant.They will never be "mixed-up" in the head like Scary Barry.
Put-up or shut-up BHO.10 townhall meetings!!!"
BHO:Where's your white guilt? Speech writers save me!….power failure….must..drink obama water!!! gasp."

Comment by Cecelia Love — June 14, 2008 @ 10:23 am
Good grief! Too black? Have you no shame at all, Barry? The GOP is painting you as what you are: TOO LIBERAL. YOUR WIFE brought up race. YOUR MINISTERS brought up race.

Taking the cheap, trite route of painting the GOP as racist is disgusting and you are even less fit to hold the highest office in the land than you ever were (as if you ever did)!

Comment by princetrumpet — June 14, 2008 @ 10:33 am
You is Scaaarrry an 2 black, Jus axe any brutha out there, an yo woman is a mean ho too. She scare the sh#t out uh me.

Comment by Tyron — June 14, 2008 @ 10:56 am
Whoa, the only person I have heard droning about race are the Obama's and their assorted proxies, past and present.If they're going to stir it up is it too much to ask for specifics rather than cheap ad hominen attacks?My only comment about his skin is that it is way too thin to hold the most important office on earth.

Comment by Rose — June 14, 2008 @ 11:12 am
has anyone asked how does a 2 year junior senator raise almost a half of a billion dollars for his campaign,"small time online donations" my ass! someone should track this money trail! I thought is was illegal to take money from foreign countries/donors?obama also brags that "i don't take money from big oil"not one at a time,thay all group their money in a pot and give that way he can still sway all the sheep!he must have learned to talk out of both sides of his mouth from buddy Jerry Wright hates white folks so much that his church bought him a nice little 10,000,000.00 dollar shack in a all white gated community! guess he loves the black community so much he won't even live with his own people!
WAKE UP SHEEP!!! GET OUT OF THE COOLAID LINE BEFORE YOU HELP TURN OVER MY COUNTRY TO A F***ING MARXIST!!!!

Comment by remember seal team 10 — June 14, 2008 @ 11:18 am
anyone asked how does a 2 year junior senator raise almost a half of a billion dollars for his campaign,"small time online donations" my ass! someone should track this money trail! I thought is was illegal to take money from foreign countries/donors?obama also brags that "i don't take money from big oil"not one at a time,thay all group their money in a pot and give that way he can still sway all the sheep!he must have learned to talk out of both sides of his mouth from buddy Jerry Wright hates white folks so much that his church bought him a nice little 10,000,000.00 dollar shack in a all white gated community! guess he loves the black community so much he won't even live with his own people!
WAKE UP SHEEP!!! GET OUT OF THE COOLAID LINE BEFORE YOU HELP TURN OVER MY COUNTRY TO A F***ING MARXIST!!!! HE IS NOT BLACK OR WHITE,HE IS COMMIE RED TO THE BONE!!!!

Comment by remember seal team 10 — June 14, 2008 @ 11:22 am
come November I'm writing in Marcus Luttrell for president!!

Comment by remember seal team 10 — June 14, 2008 @ 11:29 am
Yes Barack Obama and wife Michelle are black and the only thing "scary" is his comments and thier belief of America. Keep talking Barack keep talking.

Put your hand over your heart.

Comment by Mike — June 14, 2008 @ 11:34 am
We've all heard it said that being black requires a man or woman to be twice as good, twice as qualified as their white counterpart to be given equal reward. If anyone doubts that, consider this. Had George W. Bush been the first black president, you can be sure he would be the last for a generation. Any black candidate attempting to run would forever be compared to that first failure and subjected to refrains of, "Didn't we already try that?" and "Are we really going to make that mistake again?" Obama's achievements to date reflect his raw talent and potential. Beyond policy specifics, he displays the character and mettle of a President. The fact that he will have to be twice as good to receive the same reward is another good reason to support him. I want an exceptional President. Not a beer buddy.

Comment by Derek Meade — June 14, 2008 @ 11:35 am
Of course, the GOP will use race. GOP history is that they will use every tasteless dirty and offensive tactic they can conjour up. Floyd Brown of Willie Horton fame is already at it trying to attach the Muslim label falsely to Obama. McCain has signaled he won't get in the way (referee) and so soon all the slime mongers will be off and running. Some of it will work among the uninformed and that element that wants to believe the worst even if it's a lie. Obama's comments evidence he knows this and is preparing for it.

Comment by xargaw — June 14, 2008 @ 11:37 am
The ones who have a problem with race are the Obamas. They attend(ed) Trinity Mosque, an afro-centric, Marxist group who hates whites, Jews and Americans. One only needs to listen to a sermon from the evil Rev Wright to get an idea of what Trinity is all about. Father Pfleger is another soldier on the army that hates on whites. He has made a career out of bashing whites, while pretending to be a Cathlic priest. Louis Farrakhan is one of the biggest bigots to walk in America, he makes no bones about his hatred for whites, Jeews and America. Trinity awarded this hater a lifetime achievement award 12/07.Someone has a problem being racist, and it's not the typical white, bitter, gun-clinging, bible-worshiping Americans. To suggest that those folks are the racist ones is ridiculous. Looks like someone's trying to indocrinate, and re-educate the masses about the Marxist, communist, Arab Obama. He had his white personify bigotry, prejudice and HATE in my country. Take up the racist issue with them, they got this whole ugly mess rolling. Stop spinning this story, I could care less if Obama is too black, too white, whatever. I despise his wife, friends, pastor, the NOI, and the BPP. Obama's pals should be checked, they are enemies from Within. God help this country if the Rezko-loving Obama (Klan w. a tan) becomes CIC of this glorious country.

Comment by Kris — June 14, 2008 @ 11:59 am
[...] said. The Illinois senator then suggested Republicans might say, now he might be too black. � Barack Obama, according to [...]

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I wonder how people would feel if McCain attended the KKK for 20 years,who had a pastor, mentor, spiriual advisor who was the grand wizard of the KKK. What if McCain's grand wizard married he and Cindy, and baptized their babies. What if McCain titled a book after one particularly interesting sermon given by the grand wizard. Americans, black and white, would DEMAND that McCain step down, immediately. We don't want hate, polarization, and divisiveness in this country, and the Klan is most certainly divisive. Barak Obama has attended the black Klan for over 20 years, same with the dragon lady Michelle. Why must America accept the black klan, and welcome them into the White House? Has my country gone completely nuts? The Obamas need to head back to corrupt Chicago- maybe Obama can pardon Tony Rezko another way. Let them go home to Wright, Farrakhan, Moss, Pfleger, Ayers and Dohrn. Perhaps they can start building bombs again, the Weather Underground would be more than happy to assist! We have a problem with racism, and that problem is Barack Obama, his nasty wife Mischelle, and all their angry, hateful pals. Go away, stay in Chicago, you are not wanted. Thanks for setting race relations back 40 years, nice job.

Comment by Kris — June 14, 2008 @ 12:16 pm
"Obama is a muslim" is code for "I am a racist idiot with no brains and I hate Obama on sight. Who even cares if Obama is a muslim except bigots?

Comment by Ole Gunner — June 14, 2008 @ 12:53 pm
I wonder if the MSM will discuss Obama's employees from the Nation Of Islam. There's a hate group for ya! Obama had at least 3 NOI cultists working for him while he was state senator. I imagine that if McCain had 3 klukkkers working for him, he would have been toast long ago. The self-loating, guilt ridden, left wing media will ignore Obama's racist ties, ties to hate groups, because he is their golden boy. I guess it makes them feel truly liberated to back a man with such disturbing friends. The hypocrisy stinks, but I'd expect nothing less from the Lamestream Media.

Comment by Kris — June 14, 2008 @ 12:55 pm
Obama's father and paternal grandparents are/were Muslim, get over yourselves! Obama attenda a madrassa in Idonesia for 4 years, as a child. His religious faith was listed as "Muslim". Read Barry's books, he sez the same damn thing. A Black Liberation Theologist is not a Christian, Obie and his wife are NOT Christians. Evil Rev Wright was a Muslim, he converted because being a BLT was more lucrative. Why do the obamessiaanics deny the truth, when it is clearly revealed to all of us? In case you haven't noticed, we are at war with radical Islam, there's a reason folks are a bit uptight about Obie's background. To make matters worse, his mother was an athiest Marxist, no wonder Obama got mixed up with such an angry, divisive klan. Obama is not running for dog catcher, he needs to be fully vetted. I do not trust this man, ot his family, to do right by ALL of America. Michelle would never allow for that- in case you've been in a long slumber, Michelle is a Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan scholar. Read her college thesis, she is very frank about where her loyalties in America lie. I hope the sleeping Americans wake up, the election is 5 months away.

Comment by Kris — June 14, 2008 @ 1:03 pm
I HATE OBAMA, BUT THIS DOESN'T MAKE ME A RACIST BECAUSE I ALSO HATE JOHN KERRY, HOWARD DEAN, KEITH OLBERMANN,HARRY REID, DAVID AXLEROD,GIBBS ETC..AND ALL OF THE OBAMA SURRAGATES, WHO LOOK AT THE DEATH OF ONE OF OUR HERO'S OVERSEAS AS A POSITIVE POLITICAL ADVANTAGE TO THE TRAITOROUS DEMACRAT PARTY. THE HOTTEST RINGS OF HELL AWAITS THESE PEOPLE!!!

Comment by popeye — June 14, 2008 @ 1:08 pm
america is racist..

Comment by becky — June 14, 2008 @ 1:08 pm
Obama sucks, he's a mental midget. what did he do after law school? He didn't intern with a high ranking justice and that should tell you enough. some of you seem to believe in fairy tales, well Obama is right up there with them all. Global Warming and Obama two peas in left wing soup. Or should I say media and hollywood soup. McCain sucks too. we need a real conservative, not someone whos constantly on the fence. The way Israel ruled on its detainees the other day is par for our course. We need to protect ourselves from self destructive forces and unfortuneately some have penetrated our highest courts and two are running for president. As the great Michael Savage says, " Its all about Language, Borders, and Culture"!

Comment by sean — June 14, 2008 @ 1:23 pm
[...] he wasn't black enough, today Obama and his wife are existence varnished as too black by the GOP. Who could have [...]

Pingback by Midday open thread · Real Clear Politcs — June 14, 2008 @ 1:24 pm
cable tv is not news, not journalism, but fascist spokesMEN for the pentagon…this is russia 1967!!!

Comment by becky — June 14, 2008 @ 1:25 pm
islam forbids its followers to provoke aggression in foreign countries, and so it is more advanced than judaism and christianity, all three of which will hopefully disappear now that anti-depressants are being force fed to the female populations of the world. better living through chemicals/chemical warfare..go halliburton/pfizer!!!

Comment by becky — June 14, 2008 @ 1:28 pm
TIME FOR A GREEN PARTY AMERICA!!! CYNTHIA MCKINNEY FOR PRESIDENT!

Comment by becky — June 14, 2008 @ 1:28 pm
CON -servatives have pocketed all the public money and locked up almost one fourth of the us population, michael savage is a zionist mouthpiece, and until americans are aware of the cost to them of propping up israel's military, the CON will go on and on, led by the right wing sellouts and deviants that control the news. do not bother calling me an anti-semite, i am a jew..

Comment by becky — June 14, 2008 @ 1:33 pm
"Obama has no experience" is code for "I am too stupid to understand the issues facing America today, so I let Fox News and National Review decide what should be my talking points". Obama is enjoying the Hillary dividend. Ever since Hillary pulled out, these online guys who used to pretend to be Hillary supporters can actually come out as the RACIST GOPers they are.

Comment by Ole Gunner — June 14, 2008 @ 1:34 pm
Hey all you dumb crackers! Vote for Obama, or I'll sic my Nation of Islam thugs after ya, you feebs!Malik Shabazz and his Black Panthers will hunt you down if you dare vote for McCain! Come one, sheeple! You'll feel so much better! Barack, Michelle and Jerry will laugh ourselves silly once we get Barack in the WH. Thanks to all the stupid white simps for helping us out! We hate your friggen guts, but you vote for him anyways! The laugh is on you, Whitey! You've been bamboozled and hoodwinked! LOL
Obama/Wright '08 YES WE WILL, CRACKERS!

Comment by Louis Farrakhan — June 14, 2008 @ 1:43 pm
It is so easily to manipulate blacks and white liberals. It's liking shooting fish in a barrel! Judaism and Christianity existed centuries before Islam, but the retarded Left in America tried to downplay this! They also attack Christians at every opportunity. Gotta love this country! My evil Mini Me will win in November, and that's when the fun will really start. I wonder how people are going to feel when Sharia Law becomes the law of the land? We'll have the idiots praying to Mecca 5 times a day, what a hoot! Affirmative Action will be on the books for the next 500 years, and reparations will be divine. Oh, I am so looking forward to the wolf in sheep's clothing, taking over this G D country, can't wait! When all hell breaks loose, I'll retire to my 10 million dollar$ mansion, and laugh myself silly. Barck hu Ackbar!

Comment by Jeremiah Wright, Jr — June 14, 2008 @ 1:52 pm
Whaz up, krackers! Vote Green Party, we make tons of $$ from guilty white folks! Hahahaha! Vote for me, and I'll never assault a Capitol Police Officer (Whitey) again! I promise!!

SUCKERS!!!

Comment by Cynthia McKinney — June 14, 2008 @ 2:20 pm
I am a Democrat and very PO'd at them for not checking on Obama before he started to gain momentum…He is not a black He is married to a Black lady but he is an Arab and a Muslim till his teen age years; the most formidable years, the most impressionable years. YAP it is his blue print and if you go to any Arab Country they say he is Muslim.
I never voted Republican but I will never trust this guy, I do not care if you put Hillary on his ticket. THIS GUY IS SCARY, DECEPTIVE, ARROGANT, ELITIST, INEXPERIENCED.

Comment by char — June 14, 2008 @ 2:30 pm
Once again the Democratic Party tries to use racial inconsequence to divert attention away from substantive issues which would clarify fundamental deficiencies in Senator Obama's capacity to function as President of USA in accordance with the Constitutional framework.
Obama : deceptive, deceitful, desultory, dissembler, dangerous.

Comment by Charles — June 14, 2008 @ 4:17 pm
Ignorance runs rampant in this country every day. If anyone has a problem with people of color or specicifically black people, take it up with God…He made all of us and does not make mistakes.

It's sad that many who judge based on race and use false accusations (e.g. Obama is a Muslim) sit up in church every Sunday and claim to be christians. But God sees your actions and knows your heart and thoughts. You can spew hate on these blogs while hiding in the comfort of your home/office, but God shines a light on anything that is done in darkness, so He sees you and will be the ultimate judge.

If you had to stand publically and say these things in front of your Priest, Minister or Pastor, I seriously doubt you would have the courage.

Comment by Independent — June 14, 2008 @ 4:21 pm
there are alot of racists on this site. whites pretending to be black. jews pretending to be muslim, and women pretending to be men. (obama gives cash to bloggers..check it out…obama is pretending to be a socialist when he is really a corporatist who wants to privatize social security. cynthia mckinney is a full blown socialist… inevitable for the underclasses in the usa who are against the privatization of public water supply..look into the facts…acorn.org…we will have to pay for water and be taxed on it too…fact not hope 08.

Comment by becky — June 14, 2008 @ 4:22 pm
mckinney was defending herself. I would have hit them too! guilty white liberals are better than conscienceless white fascists…and racists of all colors.

Comment by becky — June 14, 2008 @ 4:35 pm
UH Obama has grabbed his 1/3 blackness to, as Dems always do apPear to be a savior to a downtrodden mass of fellow sufferers. OBAMA IS A WHITE GUY TRYING TO PLAY ON A BLACKNESS HE DOES NOT HAVE< EVER USED A PROCESS TO STRAIGHTEN YOUR CURLY HAIR?? NO!, BECAUSE ACCEPTANCE OF BLACK CULTURE WAS ACCOMPLISHED IN THE 60's WHITEY

Comment by mike johnson — June 14, 2008 @ 6:19 pm
Dear #144

You can not be of sound mind and good character, but you are entitled to youur opinion! That is because you live in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. When the people of this Great Nation and the rest of the world relize that its all about Peace, Love, and Harmony, only then will we be able to understand God's Greatness. If we all tried to to create, rather than destroy, uplift rather than tear down, we might be able to make the world a better place to live. It's people like you that give nothing at all to make life better for those that you are surronded by. We are all God's children and he expects and deserve's the very best that each and every one of us can give. Be positive, stay positive, and always keep searching for the truth.

Comment by MT - Proud To Be An American — June 14, 2008 @ 6:27 pm
To #184

You are an Ignorant FOOL.

Comment by MT - Proud To Be An American — June 14, 2008 @ 6:41 pm
barak huessein saddam osama mohammed is one scarey dude but not as scarey as the idiots that would vote for him

Comment by Jim Patterson — June 14, 2008 @ 6:54 pm
yer political correctness will bite you in the end AOL

Comment by Jim Patterson — June 14, 2008 @ 6:55 pm
THE REALITY IS THAT THE TRUTH WILL COME OUT AND EXPOSE ALL LIARS,

Comment by mike johnson — June 14, 2008 @ 7:26 pm
If obama is 1/3 black, two thirds white, then in South America he is a mullato at best,but really White, Here he in the US he is a white guy,is a white guy . So Michelle might have had a domestic spat and uttered a racial epithet;"whitey" against him but they kissed and made up. Is that how it was? Dunno

Comment by mike johnson — June 14, 2008 @ 7:44 pm
I REPORTED THE FAKE OR REAL FARAKHAN THREAT TO THE FBI HOTLINE, WHOEVER OUT THERE PUT THAT UP,FAKERS OR REAL, HAS COMMITTED TWO FEDERAL FELONIES!

Comment by mike johnson — June 14, 2008 @ 8:42 pm
the obamas are at best devote socialist, and,more likely, communists.how is it that michele got into princeton with grades that she admits were not adequate, and, she recieved money to pay her tuition. could it be that the evil white government gave her the chance?

Comment by kelly — June 14, 2008 @ 8:44 pm
Did I miss something? Now, Obama is whining about race? (He certainly cannot talk about the Iraq Liberation. That is being won and his neck is farther out on that one than Anne Boleyn's).

Oh,poor Michelle, boo hoo. Like we just discovered she is black??? That mean ol GOP… Never mind it was 2 D.E.M.O.C.R.A.T.S (Johnson and Beckle) who spread the rumors of a non -existant whitey tape.
Stay on message: Just keep blaming the GOP and your Jim Jones desciples will follow. Michelle's only regret is she missed the Black Panther period…ever read any of her speeches guys??? Very eye opening and her skin color has nothing to do with it. Its her mind set and her influence over "her man", "her sweetie ", her "baby's daddy" that worries me. This guy surrounds himself with anti-American revolutionaries.

I thought the Messiah Obama was running a "new" campaign?

Love the "poor",check
Hate the "rich",check
Phony environmentalism, check
Sexism, check …. and now "race", check.
Oh ,that's right, his Kenyan half bro says Obama was raised Muslim …so we better add : "hatred of organized religion" to the list……check, check , check.
All Obama is missing is a gay sister and voila its the same ol Democrat platform. Nothing new to this guy other than the unimformed who follow him. His campaign is geared toward those easily influenced and who suffer from Bush Derangement Syndrome.
Marxist Unite …Your leader has landed !!

Comment by b.mclane — June 14, 2008 @ 8:47 pm
Dear Becky,
Is there a quota for your comments?
1) Its OPEC for starters
2) Katrina was a Hurricane which destroyed most of the coastal area from New orleans to Alabama. Mississippi had it the worst. New Orleans's problems were FLOOD oriented. (A barge broke loose, punched a hole in a levee and it flooded parts of the lowest levels. Those who were waist deep in it where mainly those too lazy to leave.(note I said MAINLY …this does not include the sick, infirmed or aged…If you could carry a gun later you could have left).
40 years of total Democrat rule , LA. should have been the paradise you wish on the rest of the nation.
3) turn off your computer and get a life . You know zero accurate info and NOITHING about the real score.
4)Ms. Rice is black. Colin Powell is black. Both have served in the higest offices of this Administration. Odd way to be a racist isn't it? 5)Nothing personal, but Go wash your pink shirts.

Comment by b.mclane — June 14, 2008 @ 9:04 pm
Well, Michelle (ma belle) is 'yo man BLACK or is he just "Bi-Racial"?
Hmmmmmm?

Comment by William — June 14, 2008 @ 10:08 pm
This remark is directed towards, the number 4 comment also known as Christopher London. I have to ask precisely what you are stating when you you write"John McCain is a fictional american hero, a morally and intectually bankrupt corporate shill who cannot run on a record of accomplishment so instead will run on the theme of I am white, I was in the Navy�vote for me, the other guy is too black." I hope that you are unfortunatly ignorant to the well documented military service that John McCain is forever historically a part of, and that you are also unfortunatly equally unaware of the well documented absolute lack of any meaningful accomplishment by Sen. Obama. Besides his claim as a "community leader" what has the Senator actually accomplished. Please show me documentation of leadership roles that have led to some kind of meaningful change in ANY public policy in the United States of America.

Comment by Brendan — June 15, 2008 @ 12:32 am
obama is not socialist enough for me. I would like to see a totally socialist america, and will before long. its coming from south and central america and not soon enough will be here.

Comment by becky — June 15, 2008 @ 2:49 am
[...] this the GOP Strategy? THEHILL-Barack Obama said Thursday at a fundraiser in Chicago that the GOP is trying to make him and his [...]

Pingback by Obama: GOP Trying to Paint Me & Michelle as ‘Too Black’ — June 15, 2008 @ 2:52 am
There we go: the next muslim president of the united states. (click the link) And sure, downstream, next in line has to be Osama. That would seem to be a smooth transition: Obama � Osama � O�drama. What else is left for us? Any thought?

Comment by Reclaiming America for Dignity — June 15, 2008 @ 3:14 am
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/12918.htm

Comment by Reclaiming America for Dignity — June 15, 2008 @ 3:15 am
If Obama is elected, no one will ever be able to disagree with him without being " a racist." Even if the comment is not a racist comment or elevating one race over another. Obama can not deliver what he is promising without destroying the economy and backrupting the govt by rasing taxes (yes..rasing taxes DOES lower govt revenue.) What I am most afraid of is that he will make good on one promise…that is to destroy our nation's healthcare by socialising it. I agree it is an issue that needs to be addressed however unifying the entire country with equally bad healthcare does not make it better. If you think it's hard to get in to see a doctor now, wait until it is free!

Obama is not too black…he's too inexperienced and too incompitent. I am having trouble getting some of the jobs

Comment by Brian R — June 15, 2008 @ 3:39 am
people here are racist and cannot spell. goodbye!

Comment by becky — June 15, 2008 @ 6:15 am
Hey Barry, it's not your color i hate. It's the whole sickle and hammer thing! Leave to the drive by's to portray this as racial! Well if thats what floats Nobamas boat. The only way this clown wins is we all vote 3rd party. And unless McCain digs up Reagan for v.p….. Thats just what will happen.

Comment by marine 43 — June 15, 2008 @ 9:10 am
Uh with all due respect Mizliz,"people" like you make me want to vomit.Let me guess, you are anti war.you hate the thought of a mature adult who CHOOSES to join the military losing their life over an"illegal" war.Yet you have no problem killing an unborn child, who never got the chance to make it to ANY age. That about right?You love the fact that the supreme clowns gave OUR rights to these scumbag detainees? Well guess what? This means no more prisoners. Field justice baby.Leave the dirtbags where they lay.

Comment by marine 43 — June 15, 2008 @ 9:23 am
ok so this is Obama saying the GOP is TRYING….where show us Mr Obama.

This is insane, all the dems have to do is accuse, with no backing of proof, but the big evil republicans have no other way the compete other then attack him on his race……I ask agin where has ANY rep said anythng about race.

NOWHERE

now your very own dem thats different

The LA times clled him " barack the magic Negro"\
Jessie Jackson said he may not be black enough
Gareldine whats her face said he wouldn't be where he is is he wern't black.

what kind of a world is this where a per can accuse a group of people of somthing they have not done….isn't that what blacks have been fighting for years….accusations with nothing to back them up…..DWB for example Driving While Black…..well now it seems if your a comsrvitive or Republican that stamps you as a racist automaticly…….

prejudging a person because they hold different idea? isn;t that what black foughy AGAINST FOR 70 years!!!!!!!

now i will wait for everyone her to call me a racist…a scum bag…i would expect nothing less

Comment by Joe — June 15, 2008 @ 10:44 am
cant you see that this is just a ploy? this whole election is going to come down to black and white! Obama is playing on peoples sympathies and the PC bullcrap that is so abundant these days! he senses trouble with his morally bankrupt pastors and his half brother bringing up the denied fact that he is a MUSLIM. By pulling out the race card all attention is off the other facts and everyone will drop the important issues. at least that is what he is hoping for.

Comment by Nate — June 15, 2008 @ 1:44 pm
Becky, I would rather read mis-spellings of some than the mis-information and mis-thoughts of others. But it's nice to have the grammar police among us.

Comment by tired — June 15, 2008 @ 3:05 pm
I do not care about what color a presidential candidate is but I do care what the presidential candidate stands for. Barak Obama is a marxist and communist. I am from former USSR and I know what communists did to their people with "good intention." They kill millions of them to make rest "better." The marxist experiment fail all over the word and only a week who wants the govement to take care of him from birth to death wants Barak Obama or like.

Comment by Prikindel — June 15, 2008 @ 3:10 pm
Cambridge University recently included a new class to their catalog, Caucasians are all racists. This is a credited class and required for all student housing advisors and managers. I think this brings out the true liberal mindset, only the whites can be racists, any other ethnic group is simply experiencing their culture. Therefore BHO is not capable of racism, he is not pure white.

Comment by Bill — June 15, 2008 @ 3:30 pm
I do not care about what color a presidential candidate is but I do care what the presidential candidate stands for. Barak Obama is a marxist and communist. I am from former USSR and I know what communists did to their people with "good intention." They killed millions of them to make rest "better." The marxist experiment fail all over the world and only a weak who wants the govement to take care of him from birth to death wants Barak Obama or like.

I am sorry for misspelling a few words but I am not sorry for the content of my comment.

Comment by Prikindel — June 15, 2008 @ 4:23 pm
Obama is neither too white nor too black. He's not even a little of both. The problem is that his politics directly reflect the theology of the church he once belonged to. Black Theology is basically anti-establishment. There is much in the establishment that is wrong and corrupt, but Black Theology takes no responsibility for the minority. Instead they are seen as victims. Listen to Obama and you can hear shades of it. His grandmother is a "typical white person" and so is anyone else who objects to his snow job.

Comment by Henry Ed — June 15, 2008 @ 5:55 pm
For No. 129 Georgia:
Republicans did not start all of the wars. FDR was in office at outbreak of WW II, Harry Truman in office at outbreak of Korea, JFK at the beginning of Vietnam, followed by LBJ who escalated and politicized it with the help of William Westmoreland. Clinton bombed a janitor in a pill factory, along with a donkey on a bridge. Iraq was initiated by Muslim terrorist fanatics on 9-ll.

Comment by Elayne — June 15, 2008 @ 8:05 pm
mccain takes mormon money and his preacher is a nazi.

Comment by becky — June 15, 2008 @ 11:24 pm
white people are hiding their racism here, but it is so easy to see through…there are lots of whites here pretending to be black too…but anyone defending repubs is a racist, period.

Comment by becky — June 15, 2008 @ 11:25 pm
america needs socialism, and will have it within ten years, repub or dem.

Comment by becky — June 15, 2008 @ 11:26 pm
hey, does Obama have any black dog? May be a dozen black cats? Does he wear black socks? How about black bands on his forehead? Is he the head of the black market? Does he still practice blackmail? Is he responsable for Dems's moral blackouts? Can we get to know his black thougths? Is his honesty locked into a black box? Do his medical records mention any black teeths? How about black eyes? Any black ice formed on his soul? Brrrr!!! We might be better off outsourcing the presidency to China for couple of terms!

Comment by STUPIDITY at home — June 16, 2008 @ 2:04 am
Wake up people…….Just exactly who is he saying said anything close to these claims

Comment by James — June 16, 2008 @ 6:07 am
Race couldn't help being made an issue, thanks to the white liberal democrats first making it an issue along with NObama's cohorts.(Rev.Wrong)
I could give a rip about the color of a man sitting in the Oval office.(Colon Powell would still have my vote if he were running against whomever)
I read a comment from someone a couple months ago that's always stuck: I'm not voting for Obama because He's black, I'm not voting for him because He's too white.
I'm not voting for NObama because I've read enough about him now to learn he is a true hazzard to this nation by his policies he will impose on this country.

Comment by claspur — June 16, 2008 @ 6:55 am
yeah, health care and ending the war will ruin everything…bush and mccain have done a great job, right, claspur? hahahahaha, you do not like obama because he is black.

Comment by becky — June 16, 2008 @ 7:26 am
Why does Obama refuse to talk about the black crime problem in this country? It's easy to see black and white when young black males are doing most of the killing and raping in our streets.

Comment by Billy — June 16, 2008 @ 9:13 am
Wrong!! Wrong Obama..The word you're looking for is to Liberal,your skin color is only relevant to Sheet wearers and of course race baiters…JUST LIKE YOU!

Comment by Kelly — June 16, 2008 @ 9:16 am
why do whites refuse to talk about the white collar crime that has bankrupted our country, and still drag out the old racist saws about black on black crime instead? Is it because they are so ignorant and hillbilly backward that they would rather take it up the poop shoot with no grease from their rich white masters than actually become aware of reality?

Comment by becky — June 16, 2008 @ 11:42 am
where have you lived for all your life becky,in the Sudan? You ignorant ass what while masters.Conzolezza, Colon Powell, two and two is four and de massa is in de dem congress. Read research then talk nummy

Comment by mike johnson — June 16, 2008 @ 3:45 pm
Well after 20 plus years of Liberation Theology (Nation of Islam) so-called church that Barack and his family attended that includes weekly anti-white, anti-american, anti-semitic, pro-communist dictators comments don't you think that YES, Barack and His Wife and kids are racist too. If the shoe was on the other foot (any republican or white person) belonging to a KKK church, the media, the senate will go wild and will make sure that republican white man should resign. It seems no matter what Barack says, or you can't say his middle name HUSSEIN gets a free pass to be racist. Also LA RAZA also gets a free pass of being racist (the race). It seems the racist comments and attacks are only one sided. So, this tells me that the left-wing lunitics and Democrats and Liberal-left media do not care what is right or wrong - only if it doesn't agree with them…. Do you really want a man for President who has close ties with ultra left-wing criminally charged friends and where Hamas and the Black Panther party supports? If you think your gas prices are high now - and if you want to invest and you think the capital gains tax is not going to get higher, then vote for the racist. Racism is evil no matter who is the hater.

Comment by Dawn — June 16, 2008 @ 6:56 pm
do you really want a man for president who still uses the word "gook"? you are a racist dawn, and white women are the worst of all racists.

Comment by becky — June 16, 2008 @ 7:35 pm
Based on what I read on these comments is if you don't vote for Obama, Your a racist. What BS. the obvious racists are Obama and his wife and I base that on their association with Rev Wright. Obama is an unproven junior senator with a good line of BS. McCain is not my favorite , but at least he he has proven himself.

Comment by Rob — June 16, 2008 @ 10:38 pm
It is amazing that the one person who actually went to a church for twenty years that is, was, and always has been racist is declaring that people are racist against him.

Right, sweetie?

Rezko. I wish I had someone pay for half of my house and not live there…oh, it was just a yard (with no access)…

I am not bitter, nor do I cling to God out of this bitterness. If you actually believed in Jesus Christ, you would never say such a thing.

Yes, your religious conversions have been conversions from Islam (convenience) to Hate Whitey church to no church, now that it is convenient to be non-denominational…

You let gang bangers in New Orleans keep their guns, but not folks in fly-over country…

Hello Jimmy Carter! 444 days of Iran holding US ambassadors hostage…no gasoline…old people freezing to death…is that what you want? I want America, where we can overcome anything. Nothing is too hard. I realize that there aren't enough hard-working folks to support all of the lazy people on welfare who vote for democrats, but America will still lead the way.

Comment by Apollo — June 17, 2008 @ 1:09 am
I have read with great sadness some of the comments on this blog. Obama is not some great savior who is going to lead us into a new and better era. Obama is a Marxist who will take our freedoms and smash them to pieces and it does not matter what his race is. He is complaining that some people are calling him too black - isn't that what he wanted to be. Some of the posts talk about Republicans being racist - please remember it was the Republicans who freed the slaves, supported black people in the civil rights movement of the 50's and 60's. It was and still is Republicans who passed Civil Rights legislation as well as the Voting Rights Act. The Democrats tried to block it. PLease also remember it was a Democrat who started welfare - the same welfare that has destroyed the once proud and strong black family. It is Republicans who tried to reform welfare - not enough was done - to help the people bring themselves up. Obama does not offer change he offers government as the solution to the human condition - that is not what America is about. We are about individual freedoms and the ability to provide for ourselves through hard work.

Comment by athena — June 17, 2008 @ 10:31 am
Shame on the Republicans for trying to inflict race into this election. It seems so Clinton like. Hmmmmm I wonder how many people will vote for Obama just because he is black?

Comment by Allen — June 17, 2008 @ 10:53 am
yes of course everyone knows that the republicans are the party of racial equality, which is why almost no black people ever vote for them. I guess you think that black people are not only lazy but too ignorant to vote for their own best interests…which is typical thinking for middle class white people who ARE in fact ignorant and vote republican, to the detriment of their own schools hospitals and paychecks. The ignorance that accompanies arrogance always always is your real enemy…You are saying "we don't need a big government telling us our bridges cannot fall down"! you are ill informed, and brainwashed. socialism is coming, look at china…they are socialists and they own your country…your "republicans" sold it to them. they will sell anything to anyone and money is their addiction. as long as their pockets are full of the taxpayers money that they feast on and they have men's rooms to suck each other off in, as they oppose gay marriage and talk about jesus (a man with one pair of shoes and no fixed address (who said the rich cannot get into heaven) they have sucked your blood, brought you under the vampire's spell and left you there dazed and confused. wake up, turn from evil.

Comment by becky — June 17, 2008 @ 11:11 am
republicans are telling you to demand the right to work for less than a living wage!!! google "doublespeak"

Comment by becky — June 17, 2008 @ 11:17 am
What were the comments from the GOP that were made to prompt this reaction from Obama?

Comment by Clayton — June 17, 2008 @ 12:58 pm
Obama is setting the stage so anything said against him will be deemed as recist. and it appears most have bough into this game. So, now who is a racist!

Comment by Cosby Smith — June 17, 2008 @ 1:18 pm
Democrats are all a bunch of liberal fairies!Socialism is coming??????? Look at China???? Is this supposed to be a positive example????
God save the Queen(s) (Democrats)

Comment by Allen — June 17, 2008 @ 1:42 pm
Obama is a Communist racist bigot. He wants to socialize our health care so more ppl can get hand outs and he and his wife belonged to a church that preached intolerance of white ppl. He will raise taxes and allow amnesty for illegals. Will not get my vote!!!

Comment by ARK — June 17, 2008 @ 1:42 pm
Too Becky, you need to pay attention more. The Democrats sold our debt to China, we are under there watch. Just like good ol' Bill selling China secrets to China while he was President. Don't speak out unless you know what you are talking about, so that makes you the ignorant one. Also on your "typical white middle-class" comment. The reason why Blacks vote Democrat is cause of the socialized gov't programs. More hand outs to them… use your brain…

Comment by ARK — June 17, 2008 @ 2:14 pm
Persian writes - "McCain is the creepy one�man. He looks robotic"

Well, have both your shoulders broken, along with your arms, and get tortured for 5 years and see how "robotic" your body moves.

"Obama is strong and smart and knows what to do for this country. Not another puppet."
Could Barack Hussien Obama survive 5 years in the Hanoi Hilton? No way, too much of a wimp.

The issue isn't that he's black, its that he hasn't done sh*t for our state. Never authored a bill in the State Senate or US Senate, and has been running for President the whole 2 1/2 years he has been in the senate. Plus, he is the most Liberal Senator in the US Senate.

Bush's America: 100 percent Al-Qaida free since 2001
(Ann Coulter 6/11/08)

Liberalism is a mental disorder. (Michael Savage)

My bank account can't handle another Jimmy "Obama" Carter.

Comment by Jim C — June 17, 2008 @ 2:22 pm
Ummm, I don't care if he is black personally. What I DO care about is his policies! I DO NOT WANT A SOCIALIZED America. Wake up you stupid liberals…my God…you're ID10T's.

Comment by Liz — June 17, 2008 @ 4:07 pm
Exactly what comments were made by McCain regarding BEING TOO BLACK? Give it up you race baiters. Obama is not black or white, he is BOTH!Give it up already!

Comment by april — June 17, 2008 @ 4:58 pm
you guys are racists and you are ignorant, but everyone sees through you and knows what you really are. there is no more oil, no more water and no more food real soon…read up on it dumbasses!

Comment by becky — June 17, 2008 @ 6:03 pm
socialism saved this country under roosevelt, who invented the term "middle class" before that there were slaves and land barons, you stupid inbred satan worshippers!!! at least get the story straight, and stop crawling on your bellies to lick the asses of the rich…they hate you, they don't want you to get paid decently, and you are on their side? how fugging drugged up on beer nascar and porn can you be?

Comment by becky — June 17, 2008 @ 6:06 pm
Becky, your a typical liberal. If ppl disagree with you it's automatic to start ripping down the other person because you have no facts to prove it. I would like to know what socilist programs Roosevelt did in his term besides social security. Name them. I didn't realize that slaves were still being used in the 1900's… I could of swore they were freed in the Civil War…

Comment by ARK — June 19, 2008 @ 10:40 am
anyone who can't spell your/ you're correctly should not be allowed to vote. also, it's socialist, not socilist. "Typical liberal" means someone who can spell, correct? I hate liberals, by the way, I am a socialist…look it up, there is a difference! Liberals are people who block socialist programs. Liberals are just a little less conservative than radical conservatives. I am not a liberal, because I want everything in this country nationalized and controlled by the workers in a centralized democracy…read a book…you are probably in agreement with me, and do not even know it. Rush L. has confused you with shiny objects and racism.

Comment by becky — June 22, 2008 @ 10:20 am
The GOP wouldn't be dissing Michelle if she was white. By the way John made similar comments about not loving or being proud of American and he didn't get beat up like Mrs. Obama. McCain said. I 'Didn't Love America' Until Held Prisoner. Then we have sticky fingers and druggie Mrs. McCain. If Michelle done all the things Mrs. Stepford white Cindy has done. We will never hear the last of it. Why is Mrs. druggie sticky finger fit to be First Lady and Michelle who state her own personal is not fit. It's all about race, sweetie. Most white people still want everything to be white and continue white supremacy.

Comment by Jaz — July 7, 2008 @ 4:22 pm
Yes. They, white, GOP, white public opinion have been trying to whitewash Obama. They don't want him to be black. He can't associate we REAL black people. He has to rejected and denounce them. Hillary and John have never had to reject or denounce anyone white. It's racism. Plain and simply. Obama have to be a certain type of black that will not make waves. He can't be like Malcom X, Jesse Jackson etc. etc. They are too black and racial. Get the fu*k out of here. Stay true to who you are Obama. Love your beautiful black wife and children and black cultural. Don't let them whiten you up. White people are so dubm. Obama is the best thing for their azs and they can't see that. All they see is BLACK. McCain said tot he family that are in foreclosures to get a second job and don't go on vacation. This is white folks and some dumb black and minorities want to be our next president. Poor whites are going to vote their prejucie and get four more years of hardship and poverty. Obama keep your head up. We don't know all the racism you're going through but I am praying for you and your family.

Comment by Tia — July 7, 2008 @ 4:31 pm
OOPS! Why is Mrs. Druggie sticky fingers fit to be First Lady and Michelle who state her own personal opinion isn't to be Frist Lady?

OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT!

Comment by Tia — July 7, 2008 @ 4:43 pm
i wanna have your babies

How do you come up with so much material to blog with?

Trackback by i wanna have your babies — July 12, 2008 @ 9:11 am
Many people on yahoo answers are asking the insulting question: 'what is out first "true" black president going to look like.

I don't think their is any level of "blackness" which would not get his approximately the same or more criticism; this despite the fact that, #1 he obviously is not because if he was he wouldn't be, perhaps that�s just bad syntax form the writer; #2 is racist to make such assumptions, plus about 20%-30% of American's are African-Americans, times that percentage by the number of presidents we've had and tell me that until he was elected we could even honestly pretend to be a republic, let alone a democracy.

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