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To domini:
He should go on the view and talk about the importance of family and the impact of poverty on the family, including the impact of rural poverty. He can talk while he is there about it is time that our nation acknowledged that families come in many forms and that many households are headed by women and that is why Pay Equity and the Lily Ledbetter Law is important.
They won't do to him what they did to John McCain.
Except for Hasselback, and he can handle a hard question. I think the View would be a start. But it has to be personal. The economy lost 84,000 jobs in August. Black people did NOT take those jobs, as the racist wedge issue goes. It's time to go door to door about the economy. It's time to go after religious leaders who don't preach against poverty.
Southern blacks need to go after Southern whites now.
And for the idiot who keeps saying that 93%+ of blacks voted for Obama, here's a clue: that's impossible. 11% of registered blacks are Republican. 40%ish + of blacks are not registered. Of the remaining 50ish% Half voted for Clinton before South Carolina, and between 10-13% of the remaining registered black Democrats voted for Clinton. So approximately 63%+ of registered black Democrats over all voted for Obama.
In other words, dude, you flunked stats. When you repeat that bigoted talking point, people who DO understand stats tag you for dumb or racist or both.
-- AKA Smith
