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• Friday, September 12, 2008 09:37 AM

  A candidate by any other name (and hue) is qualified

  Poor uneducated, underemployed whites will not vote for Obama simply because he's Black. I do appreciate the efforts of this article to dispel what is automatically assumed to be an issue of race. However the majority of whites Independent, undecided or otherwise will vote Republican because they hear the rhetoric and they believe. Oh yes Lord they believe. Family values. Whoo hoo. More Kool-Aid more Kool-Aid please, while its Republican policy that keeps the poor and underserved groups in this nation out of jobs and out of options they will do it anyway.

  Can't relate to Obama. Of course not. White people like their blacks on TV being arrested from a crack den, shooting hoops for the NBA or in some video with young females shaking their booty to some intelligible rant "throw your hands in the air". His education (can't relate), he's biracial (can't relate). He has a wife and family (can't relate) We are all mutts by the way. Would it be better if Obama had some welfare mom, went to a City College and had at least one child out of wedlock. Would that make middle America feel more comfortable. No of course because then he'd just be some no good n---er trying to run for President. How dare he!

  Let's just admit it we like our leaders white and male. And no matter what background you're from that is what makes the world go 'round.

  —don'tdrinktheKoolAid Read don'tdrinktheKoolAid's other letters
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