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What Happens to Black American if The One Fails?
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Posted by Bobby 2008-09-14 11:48|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 so this is the level of thought that Harvard produces these days. Gotta vote for my man just cause he is black.

The irony is that the only one who fits the JFK mold is Sarah Palin. She has to convice the populace to vote for her on the issues and not to vote against her because of her faith.
Posted by Betty Grating2215 2008-09-14 12:14||   2008-09-14 12:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Note how he avoids the fact that Obama is an empty suit and the only reasons he presents for Obama is that he is Black and Progressive.
Posted by 3dc 2008-09-14 12:25||   2008-09-14 12:25|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't object at all to what Prof. Kennedy has written here. Yes, Sen. Obama could well lose. If that happens (and regulars here know my opinion on that), then every person who voted for and supported the good Senator needs to accept that, recognize the progress, and support the new administration as the loyal opposition.


That same admonition applies to conservatives if Senator Obama wins.
Posted by Steve White 2008-09-14 12:52||   2008-09-14 12:52|| Front Page Top

#4 What happens to black american if the One fails? Don't know? I'm pretty sure some will take it on to whitey. If obama fails, and I sure hope he will, even from across the pond, then more than a few people will be hurt, because of their wrong skin color.
Posted by anonymous5089 2008-09-14 12:56||   2008-09-14 12:56|| Front Page Top

#5 A guy at work is a hardcore Democrat. He liked the idea of Obama but supported Hillary because Obama is an empty suit. Now, of course, he is supporting Obama but he told me that the reason was because if Obama loses he fears there will be massive race riots in almost every major city.
Posted by Scott R 2008-09-14 13:24||   2008-09-14 13:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Yes, that's already been threatened in a Philadelphia newspaper article. If we give in to such threats we deserve what we get.
Posted by lotp 2008-09-14 13:35||   2008-09-14 13:35|| Front Page Top

#7 Let them riot.
Posted by Mike N. 2008-09-14 13:37||   2008-09-14 13:37|| Front Page Top

#8 "Now, of course, he is supporting Obama but he told me that the reason was because if Obama loses he fears there will be massive race riots in almost every major city."

The other day somebody said: "oh, no we don't have a race war, it's just a black on black crime, i.e. common criminality." Isn't the above fears are good indication of what's really going on in the society???
Posted by General_Comment 2008-09-14 13:48||   2008-09-14 13:48|| Front Page Top

#9  close variant is the camp of blacks who will be relieved by an Obama defeat because they fear that his victory would misleadingly suggest that America is no longer in need of large-scale racial reform.

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when on is only approx. 15% of the population, and hispanics are 20% - just may be kind of hard to get that major racial reform you're looking for.

He didn't listen to The One - he didn't suggest that his readers learn Spanish.
Posted by anonymous2u 2008-09-14 13:58||   2008-09-14 13:58|| Front Page Top

#10 "Now, of course, he is supporting Obama but he told me that the reason was because if Obama loses he fears there will be massive race riots in almost every major city."

Btw, this race riots if the wrong candidate (IE sarko in this case) threat/possibility was raised by the socialists during the last presidential elections here in France; didn't materialize, though, despite a few incidents (a couple voting places being ransacked, but could have been leftists just as well, sarko really was painted as a right wing, muslim hater, Reagan-rethread, which is pretty funny in itself).
I was thinking more in the lines of individuals reacting alone or in small groups, just as say it was a very bad idea to be a lone blond guy in the streets of large german cities the night the german soccer team beat the turkish one in the Euro 2008.
Posted by anonymous5089 2008-09-14 14:05||   2008-09-14 14:05|| Front Page Top

#11 Will women riot if Sarah loses?
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-09-14 14:21||   2008-09-14 14:21|| Front Page Top

#12 Just what do they think obambi is going to do, outlaw white people? Take our houses and give them to the blacks? I guess they'll be no better off or worse off no matter who wins. Dumbasses, they wonder why people are sick of their bullshit, we're all living here together.
Posted by One Eyed Floluting7430 2008-09-14 14:34||   2008-09-14 14:34|| Front Page Top

#13 His empty rhetoric to justify race riots if Obama loses is a more subtle attempt to bully that the Philly Inquirer columnist so clumsily used last week. Whether threats of white guilt or race riots, they can bite me, cuz I'm voting against the man, his theology, his ideology, his friends, his empty rhetoric, his allies, and his wife
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2008-09-14 14:35||   2008-09-14 14:35|| Front Page Top

#14 Ditto, although not necessarily in that same order.

My final and at the moment strongest reason for voting against Obama is the need to slap down the far left and their media allies.

I would like to see us deliver such a stinging defeat that for the next generation even the thought of a reporter or editor or political consultant waging the politics of personal destruction on a candidate and her kids triggers an immediate immune response within the media and the electorate, both.

This stuff has gotten so deep and so vile that IMO it truly threatens the basic social contract that underlies our electoral process. It's time to tell them Do That Again and Die. (Not a threat of physical violence - follow the link for my somewhat lame attempt to argue for the necessity of slapping the media down hard in this election season.)
Posted by lotp 2008-09-14 15:05||   2008-09-14 15:05|| Front Page Top

#15 "but he told me that the reason was because if Obama loses he fears there will be massive race riots in almost every major city."

Shades of 1968 - sounds like deja phooey to me.

I was in college in 1968, and well remember the riots following MLK's assassination - I was in DC during that time.*

Know where the riots and burnings were? In the black neighborhoods. That Palm Sunday, the sky was blue and the sun warm and you'd never even know anything had happened if you weren't in the black neighborhoods (except at night,when the whole city was under martial law and people of any color needed written permission to be on the streets).

I suspect it wouldn't be much different this time either, if it even happened.

BTW, Scott, you might want to point out to your buddy that his attitude is awfully racist. Apparently he doesn't think black people are capable of acting like responsible adults. Does he expect white people and/or women to riot if McCain/Palin lose? Ask his racist ass that.

*As an aside, that's where I first looked down the business end of a gun. They look damned big from the wrong end.... :-(
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2008-09-14 15:43|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]  2008-09-14 15:43|| Front Page Top

#16 Republicans voting for Mac & Sarah = racism.

92% blacks voting for Obama = yeah, so what?
Posted by MarkZ 2008-09-14 15:52||   2008-09-14 15:52|| Front Page Top

#17 Now, of course, he is supporting Obama but he told me that the reason was because if Obama loses he fears there will be massive race riots in almost every major city.

Tell him that if Palin loses, his wife will make him sleep on the couch for the next four years.
Posted by Vortigern Elmagum8804 2008-09-14 15:56||   2008-09-14 15:56|| Front Page Top

#18 deja phooey lol!

I'm sure they will get a high black turnout for this election. And that will certainly help Obama. But I suspect that Mac and Palin are going to pull the hispanics in this race. Why do I think so? Because I haven't heard BOO about them recently. It wasn't too long ago that our beloved press was going on endlessly about the hispanic vote. Today... Nada.
Posted by Betty Grating2215 2008-09-14 15:59||   2008-09-14 15:59|| Front Page Top

#19 Has Obama every really 'challenged' something? By Challenge I mean like MLK who literally risked his life challenging the Democratic Party establishment for the Civil Rights Act? Like all those before MLK who challenged the Jim Crow laws (established by the Democratic Party) of the old south?

Its easy to 'challenge' when you aren't risking anything and you know you won't be thrown in prison, tortured or raped (like under Saddam - or if you are a christian living in an Islamic state) - entirely different when you actually have real risk.
Posted by CrazyFool 2008-09-14 16:11||   2008-09-14 16:11|| Front Page Top

#20 I hate to break ti to him, but the reason Obama is losing is that peopel are judging him by the content of his character, as opposed to black voters who are merely votign for him due to skin color.

The RACISTS are the black voters.
Posted by OldSpook 2008-09-14 16:20||   2008-09-14 16:20|| Front Page Top

#21 I'm sure they will get a high black turnout for this election. And that will certainly help Obama.

476 million black voters if ACORN gets its way!
Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2008-09-14 16:35||   2008-09-14 16:35|| Front Page Top

#22 Let me help your waste of a Harvard education sort this out. It's really pretty simple. If you are anything-American get the Hell out of my country. Because at that point you are being divisive along lines OTHER than ideology. If you have a different idea, stand up and vote or run for office. If your idea is a good one you'll get positively noticed.

But don't ask me to vote for you because you are white/black/green, male/female, Protestant/Catholic/Jewish, or "something-" in front of American.
Posted by DLR 2008-09-14 17:46|| http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ages.html]">[http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ages.html]  2008-09-14 17:46|| Front Page Top

#23 Barbara, I picked up on the racist aspect of his comment right away but chose not to call him on it. I don't initiate political conversations at work and mostly listen when they do arise. What I've noticed is that the conservative can agree to disagree with the Dems and move on after the arguement is over. However, Dems that disagree with conservative hold grudges that effect working relationships for weeks and months at a time.
Posted by Scott R 2008-09-14 17:50||   2008-09-14 17:50|| Front Page Top

#24 This maneuver is known as the "pre-emptive white liberal guilt trip". So in response, all together now: "Boo Hoo!"

BTW, this is the same dickweed who wrote the book, "The Debt" which advocates blacks receiving reparations for slavery. I guess its not enough that his mother could send all of her kids to ivy-league colleges (Princeton, no less) and one is a federal judge. Now he also wants all black folks to become trust-fund recipients to boot.

Hey Randall, ya wanna see race riots? Just pass slavery reparations through congress.
Posted by Ebberese Smith8402 2008-09-14 18:02||   2008-09-14 18:02|| Front Page Top

#25 This maneuver is known as the "pre-emptive white liberal guilt trip". So in response, all together now: "Boo Hoo!"

That should be, in the immortal words of Michelle Malkin (live on FOX): Boo Freaking Hoo!
Posted by CrazyFool 2008-09-14 18:10||   2008-09-14 18:10|| Front Page Top

#26 Boo Freaking Hoo - I stand corrected. Thanks CF.
Posted by Ebberese Smith8402 2008-09-14 18:12||   2008-09-14 18:12|| Front Page Top

#27 If Obama loses Blacks will continue to be convinced the US is racist. If Obama wins Blacks will continue to be convinced the US is racist.

If the bulk of your life you were told to see things through a racial lense you're gonna see things as racist even when they are no such thing. Part of me hopes that if Obama's elected we can end the race-baiting and false claims of racism and help the African American community fix itself and join the rest of the US. But that part of me doesn't think that'll really happen. Obama's policies will make the poor more dependent on government and W will get the blame twenty years down the road.
Posted by rjschwarz 2008-09-14 18:13||   2008-09-14 18:13|| Front Page Top

#28 "I'll believe that American voters have made a huge mistake. And I'll think that an important ingredient of their error is racial prejudice"
Unless, of course, more blacks vote for Obama because of his skin color than whites vote against him for it -- in which case racial prejudice worked in his favor.

If there are riots, the irony is that few of the rioters will have voted.
Posted by Darrell 2008-09-14 18:31||   2008-09-14 18:31|| Front Page Top

#29 "Even if Barack Obama loses in November, he will have bequeathed to all America something that should bring comfort and pride to even the most disappointed of his followers. He has reached the edge of the pinnacle. And shown that we can stand atop it."
It scares the hell out of me to think that Gore and Kerry each reached the edge of the pinnacle.
Posted by Darrell 2008-09-14 18:35||   2008-09-14 18:35|| Front Page Top

#30 Did anyone hear the Oprah taking a day or so ago on The View with McCain and asking him if she had to worry about being returned to slavery?

My computer doesn't have a sound board in it so I couldn't see the video and I haven't seen a transcript yet, but what in the world makes people like Oprah think that that's what will happen if a Republican is elected? As a white man in America I wouldn't stand for such a thing and neither would anyone else I know.

What is it that makes some elitists think we're all so damned evil just because we're Republicans or we love our country?

Statements like that are an affront to everything I stand for and everything my country stands for.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg  2008-09-14 19:48||   2008-09-14 19:48|| Front Page Top

#31 NOt Oprah bt Whoopie.

McCain was talking about Court Justices that are Constitutional originalists and she, being a dummy, thought that meant returning to the original constitution before the amendments and everything.

McCain made it worse by saying it was a good question instead of mocking her. "The Constitution has built in ways to change things, that is how Slavery was ended and that is how whatever your pet issue should be resolved rather than changing things randomly from the bench as many justices are want to do these days." That is how he should have put it.
Posted by rjschwarz 2008-09-14 20:12||   2008-09-14 20:12|| Front Page Top

#32 What will happen to Black America? I hope it dies. Dies along with the myth of victimizeation. I hope it just becomes America and fulfills Dr. King's dream.
Posted by DarthVader 2008-09-14 22:53||   2008-09-14 22:53|| Front Page Top

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