The Racist Blame begins even before he’s lost
By NewHampster on September 20, 2008 at 8:05 PM in Current Affairs
Prejudice among Dems may cost Obama votes
From David Paul Kuhn at Politico
Truly I expect it. My wife has called me a racist twice over the past few months, many a cheeto has called me a racist and now a Yahoo study confirms that many of us who do not support The One™, are indeed “prejudiced”.
In a report sure to spark a national conversation on race, an AP-Yahoo News study reported Saturday that white prejudice could be a significant enough factor to undermine Barack Obama’s bid to be the first black president of the United States.
The AP-Yahoo study concluded that white Democratic racism may cause 2.5 percent of voters to “turn away from Obama because of his race,” roughly the margin of George W. Bush’s victory over John F. Kerry in 2004.
The AP-Yahoo study found that one-third of white Democrats cited a negative adjective when describing blacks and, of those, just 58 percent said they planned to back Obama. For example, AP reported that more than a quarter of white Democrats agreed that “if blacks would only try harder, they could be just as well off as whites.” Four in 10 white independents agreed, while a quarter described blacks as “violent.”
White Democratic supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton were almost twice as likely as Obama’s primary supporters to cite a negative adjective in describing blacks — a finding consistent with trends in earlier polling. Only 59 percent of Clinton’s white Democratic supporters wanted Obama to be president.
The report may now begin a conversation on race, one notably absent considering the historic nature of Obama’s bid — and his own call for such a conversation in a speech delivered after racially charged remarks from his longtime pastor Jeremiah Wright emerged during the primary season. Just last month Obama accepted the Democratic nomination on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.*
Hello! I’m sure there are people on all sides not supporting Obama for racial reasons. I met some while canvassing for Hillary last spring and it turned my stomach. But I also think that many of his supporters are in the same group as this study quotes. I think that supporting Obama makes them feel a little better about their 50 odd years of racist hatred.
When will someone do a study of the real reasons so many of us distrust his lying ass? When will they call and ask me about my absolute distaste for one who’s only real concern is himself?
*Did not Dr. King say he dreamed of the day when a man would be judged on the quality of his character rather than the color of his skin? Well folks, that predjudiced side of me thinks we’d never have heard an Obama speech at the 2004 Convention had not John Kerry wanted to attrack a more “diverse” audience. Wait. Maybe I am a racist. I even mention that he’s only where he is because of the color of his skin not the quality of his character.
Oh but of course I know the real reason for a study like this now. It is to play the race card. To once more tickle white guilt and see if a few more dems won’t vote for The One™ just so they can be sure not to feel guilty like the rest of us poor racist trash.
I almost forgot the plug for the Hampster Cage where I wrote this.
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