Stop the rock, can’t stop the rockin’…
By ekg on June 24, 2008 at 12:34 AM in Barack Obama, Race Card, Racism
From my blog, Proper Gander (a skewed view).
When will he stop bringing up race or at least stop pretending he isn’t. Barack Obama said..
“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 said he was also set for Republicans to say “he’s got a feisty wife,” in trying to attack his wife Michelle.
this is what bothers me about him…..
maybe he started out as a good guy full of unity.. I don’t believe that because of who he associates with, but I like to play “what if”. So, what if everything that people said about him in the beginning was true..and he really was the guy to bring change…..
Can we still say that today?
At every turn he has blamed someone else for bringing in the ‘race card’… first, it was Bill Clinton down in south carolina, then it was Hillary talking about RFK and now it’s what the Pubs are going to do to him in the future..
The only ones who thought ‘race’ was the issue with Bill and Hill, were Obama’s people…. as for what the Pubs will do or say in the future? Hell, I have no idea…. but what I do know is the people that actually are bringing up race….are his own f–king people… and you don’t have to twist your head to the left and then the right and then burp 3 times to finally see how the comment is racist..the shit they are spewing is right up there with Pat Robertson’s ‘god hates fags’…it’s unequivocal. It’s as in your face as you can get!
I wonder if Obama is going to come out and say anything against Spike’s ‘people need to get used to chocolate city comments‘ ? Or did his camp just smile and ‘fist-bump’ when they heard it.
Dude! If you’re going to go out and condemn all ‘maybe, kinda, slightly in a different realm’ racial remarks… you better damn well start doing it against people of all colors instead of only doing it solely to the white people.
It has been rare for him to bring up the topic during his presidential bid. In March he gave a widely praised speech on the subject after receiving criticism over racially charged comments by his longtime pastor.
no…… it hasn’t been ‘rare’ for him to bring it up… he’s done it more than anyone else running…but we’re not supposed to look at it that way…. We’re supposed just remember that fantabulous speech he gave when he defended his racist pastor who he could no more disown than he could disown his ‘white’ grandma. Or his defense of the church where the racial-hate was sermonized, but was where he found God, was married and had his children baptized. Both of which he later disowned because it was either that of give up the candidacy. Because suddenly, as suddenly as when he started running for office, they turned out to more about ‘white-hate’ than ‘God’s love’… (Funny how that’s just now happened and never in his 20 years as a member did he see or hear of it before.) When Obama did that, when he disowned the church and the Reverend he did the opposite of his ‘widely praised speech’ didn’t he? So at the very least, that speech is null and void and forever tarnished because he did disown the guy and the church a week or so later…
It’s guardian’s roommate all over again. He’s pointing at everything saying ‘racist comment…racist thinking…racist commercial… racist comparison’ and then saying it’s everyone else who bringing up race.
Has he changed?
Is this Obama out there now… the same one that won Iowa? I don’t think so. I think that guy is gone and the guy in his place will do or say anything, break any promise, disown anyone in his way and pander to whatever group gets him the white house. Not that there is anything new about that. But isn’t it ironic that everyone wants him because he’s not infected by Washington because he’s just so new to it all (that’s the nice way to say inexperienced, btw)…. and yet he’s playing Washington politics 101 and he beating everyone at it because like the Jewish comedian can make Jew jokes.. the Black man can point and scream at race and not look racist doing it.
And yet, I should still vote for him because I’m a lib-dem and I don’t want another 4 years of Old-Bush.
Except I know what I will get with Old-Bush which is more of the same. With Obama tho? I don’t know that I can take the “get used to chocolate city” and “White Folks, You Owe Us The Whole Country” . I don’t know that I can deal with that at all, all in the name of ‘change’.
Btw…. I don’t think the Pubs need to scare off white people by bringing in race. I think all they need to do is play a few Farrakhan speeches and show this photo around a little. When you add those with Wright and Pfleger Sermon… People will start to question Barack and who he’s been hanging around with for the last 20 years and start asking what kind of person is he. All without bringing up the elephant in the room…his skin color.
You know, after watching those links… I know what it will take to get me to vote for Barack.. And it is my challenge to him. Well, not so much to him as it is to Michelle and here it is
Michelle, after watching those video links above… how can you go out and say this ? I’m not talking about the ‘proud’ comment. I’m talking about the direction you are desperate to see our country move in, are the sound-bite indicative of that direction and are those sermons the unity you are hungry for? Inquiring minds want to know.






















