Obama’s Florida Strategy: PLAY THE RACE CARD
By Truthteller on June 21, 2008 at 1:59 AM in Barack Obama, Electability, Electoral College, Florida, Obamatopia, Race, Race Card
According to a poll Rasmussen released today, McCain will beat Obama in Florida by at least a margin of eight points. I quote:
The Florida survey also found that McCain currently leads Obama in the state by a 47% to 39% margin. Six percent (6%) said they would vote for some other candidate while 8% are undecided.
However, after voters were told that McCain favored offshore drilling and Obama opposed it, McCain’s lead increased to eleven points, 49% to 38%. While a three-point net gain is not stunning, it is significant that the issue didn’t push voters towards Obama. All of McCain’s gains on the offshore drilling issue came from male voters.
How does Obama respond to the results of this poll? He drops the race card, of course. I quote Barack Obama, who according to Mark Halperin uttered the following at a fundraising event this evening in Jacksonville, Florida:
“The choice is clear. Most of all we can choose between hope and fear. It is going to be very difficult for Republicans to run on their stewardship of the economy or their outstanding foreign policy. We know what kind of campaign they’re going to run. They’re going to try to make you afraid. They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?
["]He’s got a feisty wife.”
Even better, however, is Obama’s decision to project everything he disavows about himself and his campaign onto his Republican opponents. He continued,
“We know the strategy because they’ve already shown their cards. Ultimately I think the American people recognize that old stuff hasn’t moved us forward. That old stuff just divides us.”
Let us summarize the Obama campaign strategy: when one is poised to lose, drop the race card, but be sure to claim your opponents are the ones who are divisive, even if you are the one who disenfranchised the voters to whom you are appealing for funds. Always eschew any and all discussions on policy, and always refer to your opponents as racist and xenophobic. This is Obama’s version of unity, and this is Obama’s notion of waging a different type of political campaign. Welcome to Obamatopia, where the deck is always stacked with strategically placed race cards to be played with impunity.
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Who is Obama today — the victim or the perpetrator? He reminds me of a Mother in Law. If you can’t get people to love you pretend you are having a heart attack.
Hilarious! Best comment I’ve read in a while
Now, now. Can’t we criticize Obama without adding to the abounding toxic sexism? And yes, I can take a joke, but I can’t leave this “Mother in Law” (not “some”, not “passive-aggressive types”) statement uncommented.
I agree. The only mother-in-law I had was much better to me than my own mother. I don’t get any of the mother-in-law comments.
Let’s leave the sexism out.
Gotta wonder, how would Ann Dunham respond to accusations of her son’s racist behavior?
Too funny! That mother in law quote.
Funny too was his lackluster tiny crowd of people welcoming him to Jax. There appeared to be more of our public dollars there in the persons of black suits (SS) than there were members of the public.
The word RACIST has lost its meaning..Obami is the racist and so is his wife…Just disgusting!!
I guess Obama never read the book (written by a Smart AA) Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card–and Lose (Hardcover)
by Larry Elder (Author)
Quote from Larry Elder: “Blaming racism is not just false, it is toxic”. It keeps races wary of each other. Watch what I say. Watch for an innocent remark that might be construed as “racist,” or “racially insensitive.” Unfounded charges of racism cause us to emphasize differences, rather than our broad and deep similarities”. - Larry Elder
BO, use the race card at your own peril…
It’s too late. His surrogates have already used the race card on TV so much that people roll their eyes when they are watching. They are setting up their OWN Bradley Effect, the dumb shits.
Absolutely true. The dreaded white backlash is already mounting.
He’s already gone through about 4 decks of cards.
My family/friends/coworkers in Chicago can’t stand to hear the R-Word anymore.
It actually makes our bodies tense up because we’re so annoyed hearing it. Thrown around carelessly,… like someone else has said.. the meaning of the word has been wrung out, there is no more left.
We’ve figured out the guy is a Marxist , hardcore.
For the sake of our men and women in the military, he must be defeated.
I can think of nothing more dishonorable that America can do to its military then to elect that fraud.
Larry can’t stand Obama at all. He, too, gets death threats a lot, and he says calling him “Uncle Tom” is standard fare for Obamabots.
He also did this great show one day on the Huffington Post and what Hillary supporters were experiencing there. I was amazed! It was so fun!
This season has given him plenty of fodder for his show.
He’s conservative…..but a fun one.
I think all the people who have been threatened by obama should get together, gve yourselves a name, sign a petition, asking him to chill, put it in a national publication, and make yourselves collectively available for TV interviews.
I wish there were a T shirt available for those of us who have experienced Obama intimidation on the web.
Like the Swiftboaters - except this is the real thing.
Great idea, you should make up a prototype and show us all a sample, I’ll buy it, possibilities are endless.
BTW, I’ve said it before, if we are
all “racists” then were only half racist…
Not just the web..how about while driving down Melrose Ave in LA? I have a Hillary sticker on my car and was cut off and forced into a dangerous situation by a large black man in a BMW who screamed ‘racist white bitch’ ‘haha’ out his window at me. Sounds like fun..eh?
I too, still have a Hillary sticker on my car. I have experienced similar tactics from other drivers, and even people on the street yelling out to me to call me or Hillary names. One of my own colleagues told me that she was going to ram her truck into the back of my car because of the “offensive” sticker on it. (Hillary for President) Some teenage punk even yelled out “vote for Obama” in my parking lot. I stopped my car, got out, and in front of all his friends and family, I told him unless he was old enough to vote, don’t tell me how to. I go through this stuff ALL the time living near Chicago. Bullying won’t change my mind.
I would be willing to do this. And a T-shirt with proceeds to go toward reducing Hilalry’s campaign debt would be fantastic!!!
Great ideas Madam DeFarge.
He’s using it as his advantage at the nation’s expense. What a guy. What a leader. How irresponsible. If the country burst into flames over this, it will still be working for President Obama. If anyone thinks his use of the race deck is odious now, wait until he is still running this campaign as president.
It’s not just him. It’s the entire gang. Everytime Pelosi or Boxer or any of them say, “Yes, we think Hillary and Obama both suffered from sexism and racism,” they are simply echoing the Obama campaign meme that he was harmed by Bill and Hillary’s race-baiting.
It really angers me that they are going along with that, because it was so absurd.
They are supporting an untenable position on this.
Their words of support to Bill and Hillary now fall on deaf ears. The result? Booing.
Why? Because they reinforced the idea that Bill and Hillary were racists for over a year.
I have no use for the lot of them.
The way I see it, Obama is totally the type of person who can be a puppet for whatever patron puppetmaster owns him.
The Clintons are obviously independent of the folks in Washington and cannot be controlled.
I’m not a conspiracy type person but perhaps sockpuppettry is what some small group is looking.
I agree 110%. That word lost all meaning when they used it against Bill and Hillary. Two people we know for a fact are not racists. African American’s know it in their hearts too. When they chose to use it against members of their own party.
Interestingly, polls are showing that it is the AA’s who have the highest percentage of voters who want Obama to choose Hillary as his VP choice. Congressional Black Caucus, by a majority, supports that, too.
Perhaps they KNOW the race card was played unfairly, and without Hillary on the ticket, their “savior” can’t win.
If he keeps playing the race card, the backlash in November will be HUGE.
That’s been obvious even from SC on. The exit polls consistently showed that Obama voters in heavy AA states would be happy to vote Dem if she won.
That told me that they were exaggerating the level of “hurt” regarding comments made by Bill and Hillary. I would not suggest that there were not some authentic feelings of dismay, but the level reported was inflated.
It just made sense to me that they were not rejecting Hillary so much as just proud to vote for a viable AA candidate.
But……whatever…
The Black Caucus in Washington were ruthless. They squeezed every vote they could for him by reinforcing the racecard.
Won the battle. Lost the war, I believe.
I am confident that people are going to pull that curtain and say “No” to Obama in the GE.
He’s simply been too divisive. That’s not good for the country.
They just think HRC voters will follow her blindly. All they want is her voters, they are all about color. Some are so all about the perception of Barky being a black that they are willing to ignore the fact that he is probably not legaly black at all, but Arab. Lets call this the Stockholm Syndrome.
Or is it reflected black “Glory” or is it because he has promised them retribution? Whatever it is, it is all about using HRC voters, pure and simple usery.
The Republicans do not need to make people afraid of him because he is black - he and Michelle have already done that. Everyone I have talked to about this, including some women swing voters who recently told me that they had been determined to vote for a Democrat, is freaked out by Obama and his Afrocentric, anti-white church. One woman is a minister, pretty liberal, who said she actually attended a service there and found it very uncomfortable because of the implied anti-white, black superiority messages. Nothing inflammatory like in the videos, but it was there. (This was a few years ago.) She said many of the other ministers who were there with her reacted the same way.
The old ‘Pre-emptive Race Card’ ploy. Ah yes….
Well, that dog ain’t gonna hunt any more.
I have always believe that Americans will corrected the wrongs, and they will this time. Race card might have worked against the Clintons, but not this time.
The media has lot to answer for all this nonsence.
My family will not be voting for Sen. Obama.
The only reason it will probably not work this time is that the Republicans will not let the charges stand like the Democrats did. I still hear Dems on TV repeating the lie that it was the Clintons who played the race card in SC. I am hoping the Republicans call Obama on this. If people are made aware of what he is doing they may begin to realize that it was Obama, not Clinton who was guilty of inserting race into the campaign.
We all need to keep fighting to make the Clintons’ legacy clear to the public. They have shown us the way to govern our country successfully, yet the party has thrown away this gift. The only thing they have to point to is FDR. Meanwhile the Reagan worshipping goes on unabated, even though his policies led us into debt, increased income disparity, and reversed our path to energy independence - that is, put us in the crisis we now face. Dems should be saying “We tried Reagan’s way twice - in the 80’s and again in the last 8 years - and it failed both times. In contrast, Clinton showed us we could have prosperity, move people out of poverty at record levels while balancing the budget at the same time.” Instead Dem leaders have supported someone who threw that legacy away in favor of some pie-in-the-shy hope and change rhetoric. It boggles the mind.
Bernie: Republicans are expecting to be called “racist” at every utterance they make.
They are afraid that that tactic will be successful in harming their image and that the Press will gleefully assist Obama in making sure every Republican who says a word is branded a racist forever.
ZZZZZZZZZZZ, race, blah blah, black, blah blah….
Why can’t it occur to this guy, (the post-racial, hope, change, blah blah), that it just could be that us deadenders and other bitter ignorants just don’t want a beginner running the country? A guy who doesn’t seem to know where he stands day to day, and has taken spin to new heights (and chutzpa with that presidential seal rip-off)…..maybe voters might not trust him too much?
Realist, not racist
Regarding the oh so obvious ME ME ME ME ME, LOOK AT ME EVERYONE seal - he’s such a wannabe. Just can’t wait.
Good public relations would suggest dropping the seal and coming up with a better way of bringing the outliers into the fold.
Divisive, divisive.
The race card can be very dangerous tool. It can very quickly turn the electorate who by far is not black against Obama. I am not sure about everyone but I know that I am very tired of the race card being played every time someone does not agree with this guy.
Have you guys seen his commercials where he parades his white family? He’s looking for white votes now.
He said something about the Republicans gaming the system the other day; If you ask me he is the master of gaming the game.
Absolutely. You know, I support(ed) Hillary, and a lot of that was because she stands her ground and doesn’t pander to the level of a lot of politicians. They all do it to some extent, but BO is in a class by himself.
No matter what Hillary said, I always believed that in the end she would do what was right for this country. I can’t say the same about Obama.
Indeed, she conceded a race she lost back in March.
I agree with that. Obviously BO had a good number of supporters who are not black throughout the primary season. Although there will be a core of them who will play along with the race card (similar to the 30ish percent of people who approve of Bush), I think others will tire of it.
It will definitely backfire on him—especially in southern states, and it makes me sick to think that this idiot is going to set race relations in the south back 50 years.
I live in a red state that’s going to stay red in November, regardless, and the white people I know are going to be very p*ssed off at being called racists for not voting for Obama. They’re not voting against him because he’s black. They’re voting against him, because he’s a left wing liberal. These same white people would’ve gladly voted for Colin Powell if he had chosen to run. In fact, my brother-in-law (who spent 13 months in Iraq) said the other night that he had hoped Colin Powell would be the first black president. On the other hand, he’s scared of what Obama will do not only in Iraq but throughout the Middle East.
I’m not convinced the race card will play in FL. The populace is very multi-cultural and multi-racial. There are significant populations from 25+ countries and over 50 languages are spoken in the state.
The majority of people still have bad feelings from the 2000 election and the manipulation of this year’s primary(and empathy for MI.) has stirred up those memories. Top that off with a large Jewish population who distrust Obama’s vague policy on Israel and you have questionable support for him electorally.
Jacksonville is close to Georgia and has more AA voters. The panhandle and central parts of the state are more Republican/conservative and the south is Cuban, Portugese, and Carribean. I think it’s very iffy for Obama in the GE.
I knew that this guy will not be able to raise the amounts of money that he was raising before. I have suspisioun that his campaign was funded by the Republicans.
He raised 21.6 million in May. But he spend 26.5 million and this was before he started his nation wide campaign which must cost millions.
He has already spend 252 million of the 277 million he took in.
The DNC has 4 million on had. While the RNC has 53 million.
This gives McCain an over 50 million advantage.
They can’t even manage their campaign money how will they manage the budget for the country.
An other reason not to vote for BOBO.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=askDEx2Ryy8I&refer=home
Thanks….I’ve been wondering how much real cash he had on hand.
What’s funny is that Hillary has more in her GE account. LOL*
They’ll blame Hillary, saying because she wouldn’t “quit” she force Obama to spend all that money.
When in fact even spending all that money he couldn’t close the deal…they had to simply hijack some of her delegates and gift them to him.
My mouth fell open when I read this.
Has he lost his mind. STOP THE RACE-BAITING, NOW!! It’s already bad enough in the black community. Most of us are already seeing racism in the most benign things because of this campaign. The last thing our community needs is an empty suit promising to be our black messiah race-baiting.
This guy is setting back race and gender relations for generations. I hope he’s proud of himself.
On a side note…seems like he is keenly aware of the weakness that is Michelle.
>>> …seems like he is keenly aware of the weakness that is Michelle.
Good observation. Plus, he has heard her in unguarded moments in the wigwam and knows what she might say if provoked.
So, let’s provoke her.
It’s like boxing. If you open a cut above your opponent’s eye, you don’t go, “Poor baby. I won’t hit THAT place again. It just wouldn’t be FAIR!”
You hit the place where the blood comes from until the pain or the distraction of blood running into his eye wears him out, weakens him, or so obstructs his vision that you can put him away.
REMEMBER: A gracious Loser is STILL just a Loser.
So, let’s provoke her
Over the last month? The Axeman has been prepping the “ground for Michelle to be called on “the tape”. There has been substantial pre-damage control for MO’s “whitey world”…
Obama saying this shit is disgusting as he can’t say the Republicans will “attack” him on the issues. He keeps changing the position.
Back to MO’s “whitey world”…With all the pre-damage control, BO will play will say “you see I told you, they are racist and they are making you afraid”…all the while neglecting to mention who said what.
Republican response to this is simple enough.. “we are not the one’s who said this, go ask MO”.
TruthTeller; what is going to be really bizarre is when MSM “bleeps” out the dirty word “whitey”….
This BS is exactly what Rev Wrighty spews on the pews. Being this predictable is sad.
The race card will only work with guilty liberals, and these folks are already Obamaniacs. Flash the card in the face of others, and BO will get nothing but backlash. Most Americans are sick of victimhood and the plantation mentality. If Obama is the official nominee, he will lose in a landslide.
Exactly. He’s going to find that the majority of the white population doesn’t suffer from “white guilt”, and they’re sick of hearing about it. Someone who is struggling to support a family, make their house payments and keep enough gas in the car to get back and forth to work could care less about race in America.
All he has is the race card, really. If he weren’t half black, he would be regarded as an inept white guy from Thug Chicago who has no business running for president. So he used white guilt and the race card to get this far. As for his race baiting, he has set race AND gender relations back 30 years already and the voters will not be able to WAIT to get his ass out of their lives on November 4.
Obama is so transparent. Surely the race card has been played out by now. The only racist are the Obamas, the Wrights, and all the crazy, shrieking Pflegers who are voting for him.
It is depressing to see how low Obama has to stoop to protect the hype that surrounds himself. Senator, these attacks on you are not because of your skin color. Don’t fool yourself into thinking that your enemies are shallow bigots. Rather, your personal radical life, your behavior during the primaries, and your most recent flip flops are plenty for any person to work with in showing that your the wrong guy for the office.
http://www.obama-wire.com
Wow. The post-racial candidate reminding us he’s black. For some reason, I think this is really, really significant. We’ve been talking for some time about how his campaign has been playing the race card and here it is in its most obvious form.
Thanks for the post, the data and that graphic!
He also used this same line when talking about the “bitter” voters….remember?
Feisty — is that a new word for RACIST?
Because we KNOW Mrs. Obama is a racist. So is Mr. Obama —
Obama is really a white guy wearing a black mask — that’s why he keeps yelling racist — in a crowded theater.
The sooner people wake up and start ignoring this low life inadequate male — the better off the US will be.
Apparently Obama is demanding that Clinton give up her list of contributors — if that happens and if I get a call demanding money from one of the damned Obamabutts — that creep is going to learn some new words.
Hey snObama — we are NEVER going to get over the fact that you are an inadequate male and that you have lied and cheated your way to the “presumptive” Dem nominee. The Chicago way may work in Chicago — but in the real America we will tell you where you can stick your lying self on 4 November.
McCain 08
Clinton 2012
No. It is shorthand for bitter, mean and miserable seperatist.
Feisty — is that a new word for RACIST?
No, that is what will they say MO is when MO’s “whitey world” DVD hits the air waves.
The “guilty by being white” will go in to over drive and “Hillary ain’t never been called a N”, will get more play.
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At least Obama is cognitive enough to recognize for himself that he’s young and inexperienced and that these are real downsides to voting for him. To then throw the race card down amongst his real negatives tells you what he thinks about himself.
I’m sick of hearing about it. I’ll have nothing to do with this man if he thinks for himself that being black is a negative. He should be far above this kind of thinking if he’s running to be the POTUS. If he’s not and he wins, we’re all in big trouble.
It’s a funny psychological phenomenon, mention your weaknesses, he remarks about which tells us that he is aware of it, he says it outloud as if to diffuse it but is a sign that it is troubling to him whether he would admit that or not…Bush used to do it all the time; “some people say…” its a form of admission.
“my wife is feisty” is that code for b@@$%?
Hillary was “feisty,” and the MSM called HER a b*tch.
Why should Michelle get be treated any differently?
yeah, isn’t it cute and whimsical that he refers to her as feisty, does she know he feels that way, did she say it was OK to say that? Little details tell you that they are responding to what is felt and being discussed out here in the electorate.
Unfit to lead anything. Liar, fraud, racist, empty suit, arrogant, selfish, delusional…
Obama is The Worst Candidate Ever™. I’m sure he’d play the misogyny card again, if he could.
Perry, he doesn’t have to try when it comes to misogyny. He is a revolting misogynist by nature.
Why is he even coming to the state of Florida? He made us half a person and feels he can win without this state. Note to Obama: Don’t come back.
He does not have the vote of all blacks. See this blog for some very thoughtful and wise reflections.
http://freedomrider.blogspot.com/
Wow, powerful stuff, thanks for the link.
Excellent website.
Actually, a whole lot of conservative Blacks, and Clinton-loving Dem Blacks, fear that Obama will set back race relations rather than improve them.
Around 32% of African Americans resented Wright’s sermons as NOT typical of Black churches.
But Obama knows they have nowhere else to go politically. Just like women. Just like “Appalachians.” And now, just like the liberal blogosphere who thought he’d stand against telecom immunity.
He threw them all under the bus, assuming they have nowhere else to go.
Will the Obama gang say it’s racist to just run against him in a campaign?
Obama is the Affirmative Action candidate.
Yes he imagines we are going to spot him electoral votes and then toss in some votes of people who didn’t vote but could have voted. Just like we did in the primary.
No racism here. That’s just in the imaginations of Obamabots.
Obama plays the Race Card every chance he has. He played it in North Carolina, and has played it hard everywhere else, and then blamed the Clintons.
Check out Tim Russert catching Obama lie about playing the Race Card - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQY_9ZcsjpQ&feature=related%3cbr
It worked in the primaries, but it won’t work in the General Election.
He forgot “Oh did i mention he refused to allow Florida to revote because they already couldn’t stand him?”
I no longer believe that Obama is a slick politician - I now believe that he is a fascist.
http://hickeysite.blogspot.com/2008/06/john-mccainobama-seal-progressive.html
Obama’s arrogance and presumptuousness is showing and it’s not pretty. He is so unconcerned about the common folk that he’s burning bridges without even realizing that he’s doing it. I would encourage him to continue in this vein because it’s surely going to lessen his chances in the GE. Voters have memories and he’s given us more than enough negative ones to quash his future as Pres.
The icing on the cake was his use of the seal of the President (fascimile). How rank can he get? Doesn’t he know that it’s a violation of federal law to use the pseudo seal? His campaign is filled with mindless nincompoops, starting with Axelrod, who is all about image (Deval Patrick) and knows nothing about substance.
When I receive mail requests from the DNC or Obama, I don’t open them. I write: Return to Sender!
use the return envelope to send them expired coupons, fill the envelope with as much stuff as you can cram into it, make them pay the postage.
Throw a couple of pennies in there…increases the weight a lot. Not to mention the symbolism.
The Bots have an astute racial campaign against 1st Hillary and now McCain. This will be repeated many many times.
He is an EMPTYSUIT and he and his wife are racist bigots. Period. That is the truth.
On the subject of “symbols” an important component of leadership…no flag pin, now he has changed the Presidential Seal…..how arrogant.
Obama is one of the most divisive politicians I have ever seen.
Yes. He’s very much like George Bush.
Plays people against each other for his own personal gain.
That’s what “community organizer” means.
When I was completing my bachelors in econ. I had to fulfill a “diversity core” within my major. My options were Political Economy of Black America or Women’s Political Economy. Guess which one I chose? A full semester of black repartation theory hiding as economics. I did learn a few things:
Terms like genetic racism. That’s right, white europeans are genetically predisposed to being racists! And on the other hand, blacks are incapable of racism.
Some reparation theorists toss amounts into the TRILLIONS! Never mind what that would do to the economy, the ulitmate in wealth redistribution.
White privelege exists no matter where in the economic strata you find yourself, from Ted Kennedy to a legless, alcoholic, homeless man. All white people enjoy this suppossed benefit, all will pay, according to the propeller heads.
Now, of course I argued against these insane theories. The funny thing was is that some of my fellow students who happened to be black, argued the same points, of course the professor would not be swayed (the arrogance of tenure). When the grades came out, and I checked with my black classmates, even though the test and project grades were nearly identical (within 1-3 points), whites were graded a full grade lower on average in “class participation”, but of course that’s not racism.
Went in with an open mind. Came out with some real strong opinions, mostly negative. I will always give the benefit of the doubt, but when it comes to the code words of reparation theory, afrocentrism, etc., I will never support it, and will automatically vote against those who are associated with it. Now that the DNC is infected with this virulent strain, I cannot support any democrat until our party is taken back. Gonna be a while.
There’s lots of acreage in Liberia and Sierra Leone available; lots of troopships tied up with no place to go.
All we need is to breed a LOT of mules. Marry them up with members of the Reparations-seeking crowd, send them on a jolly 15 day cruise to Freetown or Monrovia, hand ‘em each a Krugerrand and a big, “Rotsa Ruck!” and stand by with the firehoses to make sure they don’t come back UP the gangway.
Welcome back to the Mother Country, Kunte Kinte!
DISCLAIMER: Been to every working port on the Atlantic and Indian Ocean coasts of sub-Saharan Africa, from Mogadishu to Dakar, several times, 1992 - 2006.
Kevin, Have you seen the documentary Indoctrinate U?
You laugh. John Conyers already has a Reparations Bill written and ready to go.
It hasn’t had enough votes to pass the first 2 times it hit the House floor, but Conyers is quite confident that Obama will help push it through.
I have an ancestor who died at Gettysburg helping Michelle’s ancestors be free. Will I get a check, too?
Obama’s message is always the glass is less than half full and the old politics is to blame. Obama is very subtle. His message is truly negative. I think people resonate to him out of anger more than hope. Honestly to play te you fear me cause I am black is a sick sick way to try to get votes. Throughout history there have been false “messiahs” who rouse unhappy people through emotional speeches. People really need to see what Obama is doing and study his policies and decide if that is the direction they want the US to go. Forget the race card. It is old and pathetique. The man just about has the Democratic nomination and he is till calling his fellow Americans afraid of blacks. Give it up already.
Elizabeth, you wrote:
Elizabeth Reilly | 2008-06-21 08:09:43
“Obama’s arrogance and presumptuousness is showing and it’s not pretty. He is so unconcerned about the common folk that he’s burning bridges without even realizing that he’s doing it. I would encourage him to continue in this vein because it’s surely going to lessen his chances in the GE. Voters have memories and he’s given us more than enough negative ones to quash his future as Pres.
The icing on the cake was his use of the seal of the President (fascimile). How rank can he get? Doesn’t he know that it’s a violation of federal law to use the pseudo seal?”
I could not agree more. The 527’s could run the “Arrogance Factor” ad - replete with photos of Obama standing in front of the flag during the national anthem, looking bored and refusing to put his heart over his chest, or imitating a rap singer and dissing the former First Lady by “dusting” her off of his shoulder. Along with the photos and footage, the “Arrogance Factor” ad would include Obama’s ridiculous and revealing comments about us ignorant “bitter” voters, or how he’ll bring the “guns” out if others (the McCain campaign) bring out the “knives,” ending with snippets from his “acceptance” speech, in which he claims that the seas will stop rising and other absolutely over-the-top arrogant, egotistical statements - all because he’s running for PREZ. Yes, and the ad should end with a close-up of Obama’s new, personalized, fake presidential seal - what an absolute JOKE! There is so much fertile material here!
I can say for a FACT that there are some members of my immediate family who would NEVER vote for a Black Man for President. But they would never vote for a Woman either. So all obamalamadingdongs done with his continuing race baiting and misogynyin from the Primaries is GUARUNTEE that folks like ME, who truely ABHORE anyone who would FALSELY play the race card to try to score political points will NEVER vote for him! He has driven away at LEAST 33% of the Clinton voters and who will ever know how many of the undecided.And HE DIDN’T HAVE TO, HE CHOSE TO! So how bout a big F*CK YOU for obamalamadingdong, soon to be the most decissively beaten candidate for President of the United States ever fielded by a Political Party in American history.
I think CNN just helped elevate the race card to national level yesterday when Blitzer ran a long piece on the ‘they will try to frighten you…I am black’ line.
I don’t feel that the Obama campaign can successfully play the race card on Repubs in the same way it was done on Dems. In fact, I intuit that a lot of honest, hardworking, fair-minded people are going to really resent being told that anyone in America who does not vote for BO is racist. That certainly happened to a lot of people in the Dem Party (like me and everyone I know, Hillary supporter or not, including lots from Illinois, Oregon, and Fla), and how could it not happen to a lot of Repubs and Indies?
The high percentage of AA’s voting for Obama would never have voted for McCain anyway. The race baiting game will not work nearly as well with Republicans. If he’s looking for ‘white guilt’ voters, he may be surprised to find he’s overplayed the race card and has lost it’s effect.
You are right, Uh, the republicans couldn’t care less about a voting block they aren’t going to get anyhow. But I know a few latinos who are sick and tired of hearing the race card as well. Their anger at the assumption that there are minorities and then there is THE MINORITY is doing nothing but fueling anger.
I believe there is hope for us yet, in terms of the Mainstream Media (MSM) “getting it”, if only one radio news and program outlet.
I just heard a Scott Simon commentary on NPR “Weekend Edition”, after the Daniel Shore segment. Admit I’ve avoided them on Saturdays because I thought NPR News and Dan were pretty much going along with the MSM, if not out-right in the tank for Obama. And yet, Scott Simon is from Chicago…he may have more insight than many journalists.
Both Scott and Dan talked about Obama’s “manipulation of image”, noting the two Muslim women in head scarves evicted from their positions behind BO’s podium who complained (the audacity!). Both noted how BO’s flip-flop on accepting public campaign financing (referred to as FISA in some stories) also hurts his image, and Dan recalled how positions like ambassadorships could be bought by big donors like Howard Hughes under Nixon in the Watergate era, and before campaign finance reform in the 1970’s. (It was a lot cheaper back then I believe, even adjusting for inflation.)
Later in his segment, Scott quoted BO’s audio-taped comments on CNN last night, noting how BO claims the Republicans would go after him, and BO characaturing Repub’s, saying, “by the way - did I mention he was black?” Scott thought it was unfair for Obama to say McCain would do that, since in essence (paraphrasing) he had not used the race card in this race.
Furthermore, Mr. Simon reminded people of the “whispers” McCain suffered (from the George W. Bush camp) in the 2000 campaign about his adopted daughter, i.e., McCain himself has a mixed race family. Gist I got: he didn’t think it was fair of Obama to go after McCain on this. After all, it was Obama’s own overheard words.
Sounds like Barack reveals himself best when he thinks the cameras aren’t rolling. What I heard last night sounded like words recorded through a Public Address (PA) system, or some gathering where he was amplified. Perhaps unbeknownst to BO himself: recorded also.
Overall, something that needed to be said, and high time they started scrutinizing what he’s said, and done. I’ve seen enough to know I don’t like how BO
That’s what I can remember, and you could check out their link: http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=7
FYI - Audio is available after 12 noon today.
(Sorry - not sure how to invoke the “link” button on the Post A Comment window)
Interested to hear what others think about this - is there hope people will get it? Obama’s been playing the race card all along, I believe. When Michele Obama said in her interview on “The View” that racism would continue through the campaign, I wanted to talk back to the TV and ask her: On which side? What kind?
Larry, did he also forget to say, they are also afraid that I changed the seal of the United States of America? The Seal and Mark- hummmmmm…that sounds familiar….heard it somewhere else…
I think the race card is played whenever there’s a massive dose of bad publicity. This one is due to campaign finance broken promise.
Yes the race card is how obama changes the subject when he has no defense.
Yes. It’s how he avoids facing his own bad choices on the ISSUES, like FISA capitulation. It’s how he “changes the subject” and plays the victim.
It’s not gonna work.
Of all of the things I despise Obama for, this one (playing the race card) is at the top of my list. When he through his surrogates called Bill and Hillary Clinton racists, that assured that he would never get my vote. What really angers me is that while Obama reaps the benefits of his associations with machine politicians and crooks like Rezko, his constituents have reaped what–nothing. While Obama gets his mansion, they get the same old tenements.
Why is Obama continuing to play the race card? In my mind, it’s because he has nothing else. He changes his position on issues at the drop of a hat; his voting records in the state legislature and the US Senate are glaringly unimpressive; and his personal character traits are not the ones I look for in a President. In short, he is an empty suit, propped up by God knows who, willing to tear this country apart to get what he wants.
No doubt. But Florida is different than South Carolina and North Carolina. The African Americans will automatically be on to support their candidate, but the OTHERS, whites, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, other other Latins, Asians, Blue Collar, Seniors, Women and (now he is adding and making new groups, ie Jewish voters) are not as gullable and my experience, he may REALLY PISS THEM OFF AND ACTUALLY LOSE MORE VOTES.
Go for it stinky! (B O)
He won’t get N.C. and S.C., either. Those are solidly red states when it comes to presidential elections. The majority of the blacks will vote for him, but the white majority in those states are either moderate-conservative Democrats or conservative Republicans. They’re not against him because he’s black. They’re against him because he’s too far to the left and with the strong military presence in those states, they also worry about his foreign policy and his inexperience in all aspects of the military.
Of course, we’ll ignore the fact that he’s claiming the Republican Strategy will be honesty, stating the obvious about Obama. OH NO! Don’t go there, how can Obama argue that?
Stinky?! Wow, I really like that. Thanks, I’m going to use it myself from now on, if you don’t mind. It’s really quite clever and extremely apt.
obama always seems to think he can write off certain states because he knows he cant win them, so he starts this race card crap as a distraction. his arrogance is growing bigger everyday. i hope he keeps the race card stuff up because whitey is going to get enraged even more than they are now. where are all the trolls to defend him about this latest talk of his ? and where is his damn birth certificate ?
Obama is willing to set back race relations by decades to vault himself into the White House. Whatever it takes.
No surprise he dropped a card from the deck while furiously flipping on FISA and campaign financing.
Race card? Slick Barry must have flipped or flopped.
I hear Obama (or anyone else, for that matter) play the “race card” and I think “He has no actual answer for (whatever the issue is)”.
i would happily vote for a black/african american candidate if i felt he or she was the best qualified for the job, etc. but not this pig. not in a million years, or for a million dollars would i EVER vote for this empty, worthless, smug, son-of-a-bitch. NEVER!
Hey, what happened to all the trolls?
Did the kool-aid well suddenly run dry?
Some of them really got out of line. I suspect they were banned.
The Obama campaign hasn’t paid them yet. You know how business works in call centers.
Here in a place called “reality”, you forfeit the right to smear people as racists when you spend 20 years of your life willingly listening to “the White man is the root of all evil”.
Considering how the Obama Team worked so hard to smear the Clintons as racists, yes, I would say that Obama thinks that merely running against him is a sypmtom of “the old stuff”, i.e, racism. His racial identity is a topic that permeates his books, and he shows a great deal of insecurity and cunfusion over it, often masked by ccckiness that seems rehearsed. He seems very schizophrenic: the only upside to this is watching his devoted cult of worshippers going through excruciating mental gymnastics to justify his flip-flops, misstatements,and outright lies. For example, I am really enjoying the claims that Obama’s rejection of public financing for his campaign actually will help strengthen the idea of public financing of elections. He is probably right about this but not in the way he intends. Obama reminds me of another arrogant, and deeply conflicted, politician: Richard M. Nixon. Follow the money.
Ah, Obama and those pesky racists.
He has to keep race in the foreground, otherwise, people will realize just what he is - an empty suit.
http://conservativepolitics.today.com/2008/06/21/obama-and-those-pesky-racists
i miss Hillary…and bringing up the race card again brings up painful memories of the primary and the ridiculous notion that the 18 million of us who voted for her -
gee, we’re all racists, but apparently progressive enough to vote for a woman??!!
And the “Race baiter” keeps on crying racism and racism and racism and racism………
just to blunt any controversy.
No all african-americans support Obama. Here is a link I got off of this site in a comment section. It really is an interesting article.
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=661&Itemid=1
Excellent link.
I’m beginning to think that in many ways a President Obama would be WORSE that even President Bush has been.
Obama’s got an ace-in-the-hole he can use (and HAS used) to control and ELIMINATE ALL dissent and criticism: everyone would be afraid to say anything negative about Obama or his policies for FEAR of being labeled a “RACIST.”
The media would tell us we “must” cut the first “African-American” president extra slack just because he is “the first African-American president.”
NO ONE would be able to thwart Obama or say one negative thing about him, or the Obama “enforcers” would go after him or her.
How do I know this?
Because it has already happened.
Look at what happened to the Clintons. For decades, both Clintons were beloved in the black community because blacks knew the Clintons were on their side, and cared about them, and fought for issues important to blacks.
But Barack Obama has now turned even the Clintons into “racists” even though they aren’t and never were.
It’s a lesson learned by the media and any politician who might DARE to thwart Obama’s plans or say one negative thing about Obama.
Here’s Obama, recently:
So, you see, if you dare to mention that Obama is “young and inexperienced” or suggest that he’s incompetent or a fraud, Obama’s ace-in-the-hole is that in saying anything negative about Obama, you reveal yourself as a “racist.”
Get ready for it.
It’s coming and it’s here.
Obama would have us believe there cannot be ANY reason other than “racism” why anyone would not worship him. (There’s a name for that sort of fantasizing.)
Well, I can think of a few reasons why not to worship Obama. For starters, he’s a duplicitous, manipulative, angry, whiney, nasty liar.
Just like Hillary said it was all about sexism …
You people are funny , the race card came into play because he is black . I like how white people try and reverse the play by saying blacks are racists when all we’ve ever been doing is reacting to ill treatment by the white race among others .
Buck the fuck up and deal with the inevitable just like we have .
Fear of a Black Planet is not a myth , it lives … LOL
I wish the curse of permanent laryngitis and vitiligo on Obama - then he look white and be silent.
Obama is just too tiresome - I can’t imagine 4 or 8 years of this guy who flips and flops on a daily basis, is shameless in using the race and gender card and a hypocrite and liar to boot.
I think it is so pathetic the candidate of change continuously changes his position on the issues. This is not the kind of hope I want. I am tired of the empty speeches; empty because they have no substance. If Obama offers a policy issue on the campaign trail, chances are it was already tried. Nothing is new from the candidate except for his success with two words. Two meaningless words.
I am sure everyone would like to know Obama has raised $161,927 from lobbyists: http://www.obama-wire.com/obama_lobbyist.htm
I am sure everyone would to know Obama has a history on the campaign trail of never taking responsibility for the actions of his campaign; instead, he passes the buck off on his campaign: http://www.obama-wire.com/Apologies.htm
And now Obama has the audacity to suggest McCain will come after him on racial ground: http://www.obama-wire.com/racecard.htm
This guy is the biggest joke since 7 minute abs.
http://www.obama-wire.com
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Idea Planted
Obama’s opening salvo against his adversaries in the opposing party has yielded a measure of victory. Merely tossing the race grenade into the enemy camp allows the foot soldiers to wade in and that they do. Accordingly, tbogg of FireDogLake
johnny cash leave your guns at home
How do you come up with so much material to blog with?
I really hope this was a mistake, and that he immediately stops these types of comments. A preemptive accusation of racism is terrible.