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ORIGINAL: FatDomDaddy
I'm sorry but this whole choose the most qualified, best person for the job stuff is bunk.

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ORIGINAL: FatDomDad
Mrs William Clinton or Senator Barak Obama is going to be the Democrat Nominee for
President of the United States, no bitching, crying, bemoaning nor hand wringing is going to change that.

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ORIGINAL: FatDomDaddy

I'm sorry but this whole choose the most qualified, best person for the job stuff is bunk.

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Mrs. Clinton and Senator Obama are equally qualified (and equally not) to be their party's nominee for President. One of those two people will win the race. You might not like the candidates but the
voters in their party do.

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It will come down to the numbers game. In the General elsection Black voters will probably go 90/10. If they go 70/30 for Obama in the Democrat primary, he wins. The Mrs Clinton's campain knows this.

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ORIGINAL: OrionTheWolf

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ORIGINAL: FatDomDaddy

I'm sorry but this whole choose the most qualified, best person for the job stuff is bunk.

It is bunk because people like you settle for less. Try expecting more, and raise your bar of excellence.

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ORIGINAL: MiataQT

FatDomDaddy, you said, and I quote: White Pride is a racist notion. Well, darlin', so is Black Pride.
If white people had a television network called White Entertainment Television it would be called racism, yet the blacks have the BET. If white people had a group that backed them for "advancement" and worked for their civil rights it would be called racism, yet the blacks have the NAACP. If whites had a college that catered only to whites, it would be called racism, yet do a Google search for HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) and you will come up with an abundance of places, one of which is Moorehouse College in Atlanta Georgia. On their website they tout:  Black Enterprise has listed the college as the No. 1 college in the nation for educating African Americans. The blacks have the UNCF (United Negro College Fund), do whites have the UCCF (United Caucasion College Fund)? Oh, hell no. THAT would be racist. 
I work with patients that are black as well as white and have had occasion to speak with them as to how they feel about the intermixing of the races. I've had white women say that they would never want their daughter to marry a black man. And by the same token I have had black women say they would never want their son to marry a white woman. The white women were looked on as being racist by my co-workers. The black women were showing "black pride." 
So, you see, racism isn't just a "white" thing. Blacks are just as racist as whites.
I would like to give Obama kudos for not playing the race card. But by not playing the race card, isn't he in fact playing it?????
You know the old saying: "it's not what he says, but what he DOESN'T say that's all telling."

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ORIGINAL: MiataQT

If white people had a television network called White Entertainment Television

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ORIGINAL: FatDomDaddy

So my question is...

With a viable and strong candidate like Obama, why aren't Black Democrats rallying to his standard like Catholics rallied in 1960.

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ORIGINAL: MiataQT

I would like to give Obama kudos for not playing the race card. But by not playing the race card, isn't he in fact playing it?????
You know the old saying: "it's not what he says, but what he DOESN'T say that's all telling."

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ORIGINAL: xBullx

Ok, tell me we aren't voting for someone simply based on the skin tone the light of day exposes to our naked eye.

I would have called it ridiculous to vote for Kennedy simply because he Catholic...

I'll do the same in this case; shouldn't we actually start voting for a President that we would think best serves the entire country and is a shining example of what we think mosts embodies the qualities and abilities we see as most important for the leader of the United States...

If being black is important, let's get a better suited American that happens to be black; Colin Powell seems to have gotten everything right in the past. Why in God's name haven't we yet asked him to be our future?

Couldn't we just start acting responsible as citizens versus doing all this impulsive shit for the wrong reasons?

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ORIGINAL: OrionTheWolf

I completely agree. When the race pimps like Jesse and Al continue to act like they do, then they truly show they do not support their culture, but just their power within their culture. A friend of mine said that more and more of the people in his neighborhood are not listening as much to Jesse and Al, I just do not believe their power will slip enough in this election.