Here's whats great about the Internet. Now we don't have to have our "letters to the editor" thrown away or edited because they don't correspond to the paper's editorial slant. so we get a more representative slice of opinion.
I read this article in my Trib this morning and was completely bewildered as to the story's tone and emphasis. It seems to castigate white voters who don't want to vote for Obama, but fails utterly to mention that many, many black voters are supporting Obama simply because he's black and they want to see a black person in the White House. (I completely understand that thinking by the way.)
The story lets Obama have it both ways -- he transcends race, apparently, except when he doesn't. And both points of view are to his advantage. White voters who don't like Obama are racist, but black voters who vote for Obama because he is, aren't.
This article is extremely one-sided and I'm ashamed that Trib editors allowed it in its current form.
Another and another and another:
Obama the race baiter.
First we see Michelle Obama on MSBC spouting that blacks will "wake up and get it" and vote for her husband simply because he black, which insults every African American by implying they lack the intelligence to vote for someone based on something other than race. Even highly liberal National Public Radio sharply criticized that attempt by the Obama campaign to play the race card.
Then we see a four-page memo leaked from the Obama campaign that outlined his strategy to label Clinton racist -- the same memo that Tim Russert held up during the SC debate (simply Google "Obama racist memo"). The Obama campaign is clearly dying to play the race card and is looking for anything, including the wholly inane "fairy tale," to pounce on.
The Obamas are NOT the direction we should be moving in this nation.
Posted by: Robert Jon March 13, 2008 9:41 AM
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you make an issue of Clinton winning the white vote in 23 of 30 primaries so why don't you point out that Obama has won the black vote in 30 of 30. Racism does go both ways
Posted by: max March 13, 2008 9:44 AM
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Just another Illinois Democrat. That's reason enough to keep him far, far from the White House.
As for race, Obama's expressing a fairly racist attitude himself when he tries to buffalo by saying that his race isn't in his asset column. Of course it is. Pretending it's a liability is a ruse that only gets heads nodding among the rubes. Among other things, it flatters people's sense of "being past all that."
America is far more "past racism" than Obama wants to admit. Tactically, for his campaign, he needs to sustain the illusion that to the extent that race is an issue, he's fighting an uphill battle. That appeals to everyone's desire to be seen as "past that."
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Why is Mrs. Ferraro being called a racist for raising perfectly valid points? Should Senator Obama not be held to the same standards of scrutiny as a white, asian or hispanic candidate?
It is getting old the Axelrod/Obama auto response of 'racism' when questions are raised about Senator Obama's record (thin), his actual versus fictious background, his associations with Rezko, Al-Sammarae, Auchi et al--is it really credible to believe that when Senator Obama was chairman of the Illinois Hospital Committee in the Illinois State House he would not be consulted as to who would be nominated to the Illinois Hospital Board? Especially in light of his close personal and professional ties with Antoin Rezko? Should Senator Obama not be asked how he managed to turn a personal financial situation in 2004 when he needed a 2nd mortgage on his Chicago apartment "to survive financially during the Senate race" (Obama direct quote NewYorker magazine May 2004 Profile) into having $1.65million in cash to purchase his Chicago mansion in June 2005? After all, the Senator and Mrs. Obama's tax returns for 2004-2005 show no inheritances, salary increases, gifts, book deals etc, which could account for this amount of cash.
Senator Obama's story is being covered up by his charisma, his oratory and his charm--and when he is questioned the Senator cries 'racism'. It ain't racism to demand the same caliber of achievement and standards of truthfulness of a candidate who claims to be Black (he is actually ethnically Arab African American as the Kenyan Obamas are classed as Arab African in the Kenyan census)as for every other candidate of whatever color or gender.
Posted by: politics12 March 13, 2008 11:34 AM
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