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Published Letters: 481 Editor's Choice: 14
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@JoeTexas
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's big, brass ... fortitude]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Personally, I think the superdelegates are ever so willing to throw the voters and this coming presidential election under bus just so they don't lose the black constituency. This election IS about race, pure and simple. But dare anyone say that and you are called racist. No, it's not the only thing but the major thing.
Yes, Obama has run a great campaign - definitely innovative. Has he got great appeal across many demographics? Yes! But there is underlying cultural desire to heal racism and part that is the saying that there should be a national conversation on race. While that's extremely positive, you have to be able to say what's real on ALL sides without forcing parts of it out of view because it's uncomfortable in order to have that conversation. And part of what is true, along with the terrible history of racism, is that also if Obama were white, he really wouldn't be as far a long or quite the phenomena that he is. It's quite possible that he wouldn't have gotten this far at all. He would have been just another white man, an inexperienced one at that, running for president. Does anybody really think that 90% of the black electorate would vote for some inexperienced white man?
Now, having said that, there will be calls to shoot me in front of a firing squad (which is part of the very problem), I don't think what has happened is bad in anyway, as a matter of fact it has created quite the dynamic for some of that change in that this campaign has pulled some too comfortable racial blinders off. But as we have seen with Wright, it cuts both ways. The problem with truth, real truth, is that somehow it will come out. And part of that truth is that people have been willing to walk on eggshells when it comes to race in this election and the role that it has played.
This is evident in the fact that if Obama somehow loses the nomination, there will be loud calls of racism, even if Clinton were to win fair and square. This is evident in the fact of calls for Clinton to drop out of the race at this stage of the game, which is unprecedented in any election before, both democratic and republican. MANY of the previous party nomination races have gone to the party convention to be decided there - that's really the point of the convention. See previous posts of Katetex. See media matters article:
http://mediamatters.org/columns/200804300001?f=h_column
This is evident in many Obama followers absolute willingness to rationalize away and fawn over whatever Rev. Wright has said to the point of ridiculousness. This is evident in that the media willing colluded to overlook that Obama really said, in his famous speech on race, because it said what so many longed to hear in Obama's eloquent ability, that he had actually previously lied to the American people that he did indeed hear many of the things that Rev. Wright had said. This is also evident in that most of the media willing overlooked that it wasn't Wright's previous conclusions that 9/11 was America's fault or that AIDS was caused by America to kill blacks - Obama had already heard all of these things - but it was the fact that Wright attacked Obama that made him state he was "appalled" by what Wright said - see politico.com:
http://dyn.politico.com/members/forums/thread.cfm?catid=1&subcatid=2&threadid=697591
But a lot of the media and Obama supporters feel that if they push hard enough, intimidate enough, charge people with the guilt of racism enough for disagreeing, that superdelegates will be cowed into endorsing Obama. That charge of racism is the stain that nobody wants, especially in the democratic party. But that VERY charge of racism, especially the intimidation factor of how its used, is the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about and says loud and clear what driving much of this campaign. No one wants to lose the black constituency or not put a black man or woman in presidency. But unless we allow real talk about race in this election, unless we get rid of the intimidation factor, the sheer denial of race as a major factor is what will damn the democrats in the fall.
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@zenhead
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's big, brass ... fortitude]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]John King, CNN, said what I've said for a long time: why DIDN'T Obama allow Rev. Wright to bless his candidacy? I said, early on: he KNEW Wright'd be trouble when that candidacy was announced because he'd Wright's diatribes & KNEW that would cost him votes. Not just from whites: if he threw Wright under the bus that early, it would cost him the monolithic African-American votes he's received.
You're right! Thanks for articulating that!
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Can't People Take a Joke!?
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Women are either young nubile sexual beings or they're old biddies voting for Clinton.
HaHaHaHaHa!
Yeah, so where are black jokes? Or how about the latte sipping, elitist left bigot/hypocrite jokes? Now, that would be very funny!
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@TomRitchford
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Considering Obama supported something so dumb "three times" in Illinois, he must be unbelievably stupid also. Oh, yeah, he learned from his stupidity...after the third time.
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Barefoot is best
[Read the article: This little piggy was hideously mangled]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Actually, I would go barefoot everywhere if I could. The hell with shoes. The only time I actually wear them is in the winter and when I have to in the summer.
It does have it's problems though. I once accidentally went to work without shoes (casual desk job at night) as I usually carry shoes in my car - at least flip flops, crocs or Teva's. Ended up staying put behind the desk for most of the 8 hour shift so no one would find out.
Speaking of crocs, I would have ten pairs of those! Like walking around in bedroom slippers. Not made for hiking though.