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DomAviator -> RE: Obama misspeaks again (5/29/2008 2:07:22 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster
Well, refresh yourself on what our pale brothers and sisters said after being exit-polled in WV. Somethin' like 20% said they didn't vote for him because of race (which is a socio-political construct, I might add).
You aren't going to try and argue that that holds true only for WV, are you?
Actually, based on my observations here in Houston... the 20% number is WAY too low. I have had MANY discussions about Obama with various friends, co-workers, and business associates.... Well educated upper middle class and above, white people. Current and former military officers, airline pilots (including $200K + per year widebody captains), NASA engineers and aerospace contractors, law enforcement officers (pilots in the aviation units), lawyers, businesspersons at two chambers of commerce meetings, even my dentist, etc... (So we aren't talking jethro and bubba at the trailer park. We are talking Hummer driving, 40 + foot boat owning, gated commutinty dwellers...) I can count one one hand the number of times I have heard him referred to as anything but a racial slur. He may carry the inner city areas, but the white middle class and above South is NOT ready for a black president... The only thing he had going for him to gain him even a smidgeon of acceptability with the suburbanite whites down here was that he was half white, and the Jerimiah Wright thing killed that for him. As far as the folks down here are concerned - hes the patron saint of the Katrina refugee. Oddly enough, with the well educated affluent blacks of the same demographic group - ie the folks over in lovely and well kept Missouri City - his association with Wright, and Sharpton, etc make him persona non gratis with them as well. The whites dont want him cause hes black, and the upper middle class and wealthy blacks dont want him cause hes running around with black "leaders" who they generally despise. (Sharpton, Wright, Farrakhan, Jackson et.al.) So yeah its not West Virginia alone, and I think its a hell of a lot higher than 20%... Count me in, I wont vote for him cause hes the wrong kind of black. Powell or Condie I would vote for - but as soon as a man poses for a photo with Sharpton he becomes well you know the word Im thinking... I dont want a "black president" I want an American President and as long as he runs around gladhanding that rabble rousing devisive trash and sucking up to the "we be oppressed and da man got his foot on our throats" ahem, leaders, hes not my president. As evidenced by the wonderful standard of living in Missouri City, and the fact that our last two Secretaries of State are black, this "we need black leaders because we are oppressed" crap no longer flies. Obama cut his own throat by surrounding himself with race baiters who do nothing but cry about entitlement and lack of opportunity and evil white people in what his preacher called the "god damn kkk of A" and if you lay down with dogs then expect to wake up with fleas...
Edited to add - Also, for the record I am against Obama not just because his father was black - but because his father was Kenyan, and his step father was indonesian, and he was RAISED IN INDONESIA. He should get himself on the ticket in Jakarta not here. If the democrats wanted to run a black man, they should have found one who is truly an American. Obama is American on paper only, his formative years were spent outside the US in a third world culture and as far as Im concerned his candidacy is a constitutional end run around the requirement that you be born american. He was extruded here, by ONE not two american parents, and then he left to be raised abroad... At best he is HALF american...
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