Letters to the Editor
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@ Happy Friend: Risk-Averse
It is stupid to suggest that Obama's stance on Iraq was easy and risk free as oppossed to Hillary's. Obama had ambitions to seek higher office. Illinois is less of a blue state than NY. By being reasonable while the majority of politicians were stupidly joining the chorus for war took wisdom and balls.
His speech WAS risk-free: he was trying to get reelected; he spoke out in the most liberal district in Illinois; he hasn't been as principled since he was elected to the U.S. Senate; he has ducked votes on issues there, too.
If you think that "joining the chorus for war" as you call it was "risk free" I suggest you look at votes and comments in the U.S. Senate leading up to that vote; and I suggest you read the resolution itself.
The more I read about Obama the less I trust and believe him. He's letting more info out in dribbles about his "friendship" with Tony Rezko and his 20-year association with Wright, all the while knowing about Wright's "controversial" sermons and about Rezko's background.
All of this information is available on the Internet if people will do a little research.
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@ Uncle Fester, it's more like black empowerment than black power.
I have been doing a bit of research and will try to post some links tomorrow. I have to admit that I was a bit upset at first by the "Goddamn America" bit, but I calmed down. The part about the U.S. government deliberately spreading AIDS among black people in order to eliminate them is a bit harder to swallow. Everybody has to have their conspiracy theories I guess, but Obama is walking evidence that black people and white people have been known to mate.
The problem is that no matter how this plays out in the primary, the Republicans can resurrect it at any time -- like October. Obama better do some awful good talkin' tomorrow.
Actually, I don't just see this as affecting the Obama campaign but also affecting the perception of Democrats. Even if Hillary becomes the nominee, this sort of stuff can still affect her. I was hoping for the two of them on the same ticket as the only way to heal the wounds of the primary season. Hillary would get many of the women, working class voters and a good portion of Latinos. Obama would bring the African Americans and the latte liberals. John McCain could get the people who want to be in Iraq one hundred years.
Black voters need to realistic. Obama just has to somehow distance himself from this "evil" Trinitarian church so that the can appeal to general Trinitarians everywhere. The Dems already have the Unitarians. ;)
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Why is Obama being referred to as "black?"
With Obama mama white as a llama, isn't he at least as white as he is black?
He considers himself to be black, you say. Hm, really? Is race now a matter of declaration? Could I declare myself to be black if I wanted to?
No, I couldn't but he can. Why?
Here is why: Because Obama is black according to the "one drop" laws of the seemingly forgotten days of Jim Crow. When Obama declares himself to be black, he is a latter-day miscegenationist, he just does not know it.
Maybe Uncle Jeremiah is right after all. Affirmative action, equal opportunity laws, hate crime legislation, the uber-cool of faux ghetto, they have have created a squeaky clean mixture of phoney political correctness and equally superficial pop culture. Bona fide racists such as the members of the Klan or the Aryan Nations have long been ridiculed and marginalized. But is has not made racism disappear, it is alive and well.
Deep in our souls, Uncle Jerry. Yes, even in yours - after all you also saw, and accepted, Obama as "black". With 50% Negro blood in his veins, For decades apparently, you have railed against the government, the KKK but your ire has been misdirected. You should have looked into the goddamn mirror!
This is all nice and dandy but as I researched this on Wiki I realized that some Harvard sociology prof had already written an article about the same issue in Time Mag.
Ah well, so much for trying to be original.
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Correction to last sentence:
Obama just has to somehow distance himself from this "evil" Trinitarian church so that he can appeal to general Trinitarians everywhere. The Dems already have the Unitarians.
Just to add: Why can't he be a boring old Methodist like Hillary? You never get in trouble being a conventional methodist.
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@ Sandy Yago
There's really no such thing as race scientifically -- I mean hard science, not social science. Race is simply a cultural construct. Why do we base race on skin color? Simply because it is the most immediately visible part of a person. Did you know that Swedes and Navajos have the same type of teeth? Why not base race on teeth or blood type?
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Chronology, LJ
If Barack had been wrong about the war in 2002, it would have hurt his chances to be elected as a Senator in 2004. His position was a risky one for his political future in Washington. Illinois is a purple state. It is not a state that nearly automatically sends Democrats to the Senate like New York is now. On top of that, Hillary would not have been up for reelection for another four years. It was either her presidential ambitions that guided her, in which case she is a cravenly ambitious person. Or she thought the war was a good idea, in which case she is stupid. Or maybe it was both. Who knows? Who cares at this point? She would have to win PA by 90 points to have a chance to beat Obama anyway, so this is all academic.
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Democrats will lose the election, and no one can stop them.
If Sen. Clinton had anything comparably "anti-American" in her past, or present, she would have been torn to pieces by moderate democrats and media, before her candidacy got under way. If Obama wins the nomination, this issue alone, with church and pastor, will be fatal to Obama's chances against McCain, without McCain or the Swiftboaters having to raise a finger against him.
The determination of his supporters to stubbornly and steadfastly refuse to look in the face of Obama's hopeless presidential efforts, is a sad sight. Democrats are not simply falling into a trap that will cost them the election, they absolutely insist on pursuing defeat, as if they hunger for it.