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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Really don't think
these people would vote democrat anyway
Liar. Smalltown America turned out for the Clinton campaigns in droves.
Also, I'm confused.
Unfamiliar and under-reported really?
But I thought Heathcliff Huxtable was the most popular father on American television as recently as 1990 ...
It's all coming back ... like it never left -
Repeatedly (until last week) says he wants to raise taxes Yep and is still saying that. But the fact is that he wants to raise taxes for those making over $250,000 and cut taxes for the middle class people with a plan that economists agree will put more money in the pockets of working people than will McCain's plan.
Shows little to no respect for the military or for the dangerous waters the U.S. swims (think of the European speeches this past summer) Nope, incorrect. I think he has a very good grasp of what we're facing and has voted in the Senate to show how much he respects the military. He has also had many members of the military overseas that say he actually listened to them when he visited them.
Appears completely naive about the real, not the dramatized, dangers from militant Islamists and now perhaps even Russia How so? He has repeated said that he feels that we aren't fighting the true criminals of 9/11 because we have all but forgotten Afganistan and Pakistan. And the Georgia/ Russia situation is a little more intricate than just Russia being a bully again. The use of military force was actually instigated by Georgia by attacking an area that was attempting to break away.
Provided a pretty flip response to a topic about which many Americans hold strong views....when does life start... Seemed like a forthright answer to me. Can you actually pin a time where a fetus is embued with an "everlasting soul" and become a sentient being with a mind and self awareness?
Has allowed attacks against Sarah Palin well beyond the very real issue of "Does she have enough experience and toughness?" Nope, his campaign has stayed on message about the true issues. It's others in the media and on the internet that have attacked her on stupid stuff.
Quite literally, threw Hillary under a bus.... Nope. Not at all.
Showed disdian for middle Americans whose religion is important to them in a daily way. Again, a comment that was parsed to make it sound terrible when it really was a an entire conversation saying how much he did understand where small town Americans were coming from.
quoting:
"OK, let me get this straight. 90~95% of black people can vote for Obama and it's not racist. Yet you feel a need to travel all over the U.S. to find whites who might be turned off by his color...after he won in lilly-white Iowa, and is garnering respectable white numbers even in polls now?
How about traveling some heavily black places and doing a report on blacks who won't vote for McCain just because he's white. I have a pretty strong hunch you're going to find there are now a lot more blacks acting as racists toward whites, than there are whites acting as racists toward blacks.
Of course, that wouldn't be PC to do such a study, now would it?"
You obviously have not considered the fact that in all preceding presidential elections in which African-Americans have been allowed to FREELY vote as full citizens (e.g. since the Voting Rights Act of 1965), and have cast a vote in a presidential election for either a Democratic or Republican nominee have ONLY EVER cast that vote for a white nominee. Why would you think that we would disregard our own best interests simply because the nominee was white? The fact is that most blacks will not vote for McCain because he does not represent our interests, and this would be no different if it were Alan Keyes or Condoleeza Rice running for president. On the other hand, the evidence that poor and working class whites would vote for a McCain, who would certainly work against their best interests, solely on the basis of race, is a sad commentary indeed. This "black racism" trope smacks of what one might call "projection," and also shows how little some folks in the majority have bothered to understand about black people in this country.
What a tragedy that poorly educated, working-class, white, small-town Americans will reject a truly smart, capable, good-hearted, visionary leader like Obama simply because they are trapped by prejudices that rule them almost like daemonic
Not like those legions of blacks that block voted for their half-black Messiah who wasn't qualified to be the town postmaster. No prejudice there.
Let me give you assholes screaming your bogus "racism" charges. Everyone's sick of your double standards to puke on you.
By all means DO move somewhere far away.
Edwards served as Obonzo's! little attack dog faithfully.
It's fitting that the lunatic left's icons are a guy selfish enough to run for Pres. while he's cheating on his cancer stricken wife and an egomanic full of hot air that never accomplished anything except getting himself bigger homes and corner offices on the backs of Illinois' poorest.
And you have the nerve to call others stupid!
I appreciate your thoughtful response to "doubts"...and these are the kind of doubts that are expressed by many undecided.
This kind of response will go soooooooo....much further in helping Senator Obama than insults and statements that anyone for any reason who has doubt is stupid or racist.
I truly wish (without much hope that it can occur) that the blogs would tone donw. It can only help Obama if they move to reason and evidence.
I was one of seven kids, went to catholic church every week (every day during Lent).
I understand the small-town mentality pretty well.
When they say Obama is Muslim, it doesn't mean they think he literally follows the muslim religion.
Its code. It means they think he's different.
Some, of course, do actually think he's muslim.
Small towns are very insular and conformist. There's only one clique, and you either belong to it or you don't. People fear the "outsider".
When you graduate from high school, you have a couple of choices. Work in the coal mines like your dad, work on the farm with your dad, or join the military. A percentage will go to college, but will find jobs in the same home town where they grew up.
Most of my classmates from high school are still in the very same town. They will be there their entire lives.
Its hard to have a complete picture of the world, when you rarely go more than 100 miles from home.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Salon headlines in your mailbox
