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Read closely Hillary supporters. Cythera just told you she supports McCain!
Exactly our point. These people running around trying to convince you Obama's not electable are really REPUBLICANS.
Wake up. They WANT to run against Hillary. And they're right they would win against her. She can't challenge McCain on Iraq (she supported it), she can't challenge McCain on Iran, and she can't challenge him on healthcare (hers was a disaster in 1992.)
They're scared of Obama. They know he CAN WIN.
No I consider Wright's H.I.V. statements utter nonsense. What it is is an angry backlash by African Americans who think the government, and more importantly the Surgeon General, has not done near enough to combat HIV and AIDS in this country. (I actually disagree with them on this. The government has done a great deal and much of this is personal responsibility. But that doesn't mean I don't realize they DO have an argument.)
Having said that the government, in the past, HAS injected deadly diseases such as syphilis into African-Americans. Check out the Tuskegee experiment.
So, some from an older generation have reason to be paranoid.
I actually agree with Barack this is generational. What you're seeing with the younger generation, black, white, Latino, Asian, Pacific-Islander, male, female, Republican, Democrat, etc. is less of a willingness to play into this stupid race game the older generation keeps insisting on playing.
Now I understand they have different experiences and therefore different views.
But the real threat this election poses is generational and has to do with the future. The next generation simply refuses to fall into this same crap some of you seem determined to play out. And you know what, they're winning ALREADY. 30 years ahead of time. So yeah I'm pretty darned optimistic, that politics and this country is changing for the better. We're almost done with this crap, thank God.
Even political strategists admit this is either the "first 21st century election or the last 20th century election we'll ever see." Thank God.
Calm down.
Just because the media thinks something is a firestorm doesn't make it so.
I'm sure Jeremiah Wright is a narcissist. Great so are Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and just about any other successful person you can name.
Again prior to the last explosion we were told would sink Obama's campaign (Bittergate) we were told this was it, it was the end, the ship is going down it's over, blah, blah, blah. Then Obama not only made up 10 points in Pennsylvania but did BETTER with working class voters than he did in Ohio.
People are not as concerned with these stories you guys keep stoking as you think they are. The question is: how will this affect the vote (my guess is not at all) and how will it affect the superdelegates (my guess is only marginally.)
Sometimes you have to step back and THINK. Not simply react to something, not assume your reaction is the same as the voters, not assume that what you in the media think is the only thing that matters to voters even matters to them at all.
So let's slow down, really EXAMINE this and not jump to conclusions.
THIS is precisely why we lose. Democrats are afraid to stand up for what they believe in, we spend all of our time worried about how the press will interpret this, and worried about what your average family in Indiana thinks about this (not a heck of a lot they're too busy trying to pay their mortgage, feed their kids and get healthcare.) This didn't hurt him in Pennsylvana, it's not going to hurt him in Indiana and North Carolina. People have real issues and those issues, this time around, happen to favor the Democratic Party.
Therefore we don't stand up for our beliefs. We worry that maybe they're put forth in an imperfect passage or maybe we didn't say them quite right. The Republicans don't. They push their views and they win.
It's time to do the same. Now either you agree that, however poorly worded, their are fundamental and vast inequalities in this nation that affect us all or you don't. And if you do, you have to stand up and fight for that belief. People respect that.
Now as far as religious liabilites this is hardly the first candidate with one: John F. Kennedy's supposed problem with being a Catholic in 1960 would put this media-invented Reverend Wright scandal to shame. JFK would laugh you out of the room if you told him this was a deal-breaker. He'd gladly trade you the so-called "Catholic bias" he had to overcome for this nonsense any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
FDR was viewed as largely anti-Jewish and it was thought that he could not win. He, also, would trade some of these so-called religious problems Obama has for his any day of the week as well.
This is simply not the first time a candidate has had a religious problem. Joan Walsh, the Clinton supporters and some in the media would like you to think it is. But it isn't.