Why does Barack Obama propagate racial discord?

[HowardRoark]

Today in Missouri:

Obama, launching a four-day tour of swing states to promote his economic policies, mocked the arguments he said McCain, a Republican Arizona senator, and his supporters make.

"'He's not patriotic enough. He's got a funny name. He doesn't look like all the presidents on the dollar bills,'" said Obama, who would be the first black U.S. president.

Last week in Berlin, he said:

“I know that I don’t look like the Americans who’ve previously spoken in this great city. The journey that led me here is improbable. My mother was born in the heartland of America, but my father grew up herding goats in Kenya.”

First, I believe both Condi Rice and Colin Powell have spoken in, if not Berlin, some other great European cities, so this terra incognita that he claims is really not all that groundbreaking.

Second, why does he keep bringing up race in this cryptic manner? Has anybody heard the McCain campaign bring up his race? I don’t know of one educated or even uneducated person who has brought up his race. Why does he? Who is his target audience?

I have a dream that my two little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

Free at last! Free at last!

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

PLEASE Barack!!! This is the moment that the world is waiting for! Our time is now. Cut the crap, quit being so divisive.

[Tyrone Bigguns]

Sigh. You just make it too easy.

1. McCain campaign enlisted well-known racist Cincinnati right-wing shock jock Bill Cunningham as a warm-up act for McCain rally...Cunningham repeatedly used Obama's middle name Hussein...hmmm, wonder why?

McCain of course later condemned this...nice...let your minions do the dirty work and then you condemn.

2. I guess McCain having Soren Dayton on staff and who actively pushed an incendiary, racially-charged video. Hmm...yep, no race there.

McCain later dismissed Dayton.

3. In South Dakota, a TV station briefly aired an ad that was edited to show Obama saying, "we are no longer a Christian nation, we are also a Muslim nation." It omitted his saying, in the same speech, that the United States is not solely a Christian nation.

The ad, which included a photo of Obama wearing a turban as part of a traditional outfit given to him in Africa, concluded with a man saying: "It's time for people of faith to stand against Barack Hussein Obama." A group called the Coalition Against Anti-Christian Rhetoric paid for the ad.

4. The Texas Republican Party recently cut ties with a vendor whose political buttons at a party convention included one saying: "If Obama is president ... will we still call it The White House?"

Oh, i can hear it now...McCain isn't responsible...perfect..just like bush and the swift boat shit.

Stop pretending that repubs havent' used race before:

1. Willie Horton...hmm, i'm sure no white ex-cons who committed crimes could be found.
2. Jessie Helms...defeats a black man by running ad of white man crumbling letter informing him that he had lost a job he deserved to a minority.

Roark..your strategy is weak and obvious.

Obama's opponents are also laying the groundwork for blaming him if race "becomes an issue" during the campaign.

"Every word will be twisted to make it about race," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., When he and others confront Obama on issues such as national security and the economy, Graham said, it will have "nothing to do with him being an African-American."

wow...who is injecting race there roark?

Except for all the dog whistles that will be used during those "confrontations." And if the Obama campaign or his supporters/defenders have the temerity to point out that the old GOP favorite "welfare queens," as a possible example, is race-baiting, then they'll be accused of "playing the race card" by the race-baiters.

See how that works?

[Charles Woodson]

sigh, tys the first to respond to an obama thread?

[texaspackerbacker]

Sigh. You just make it too easy.

1. McCain campaign enlisted well-known racist Cincinnati right-wing shock jock Bill Cunningham as a warm-up act for McCain rally...Cunningham repeatedly used Obama's middle name Hussein...hmmm, wonder why?

McCain of course later condemned this...nice...let your minions do the dirty work and then you condemn.

2. I guess McCain having Soren Dayton on staff and who actively pushed an incendiary, racially-charged video. Hmm...yep, no race there.

McCain later dismissed Dayton.

3. In South Dakota, a TV station briefly aired an ad that was edited to show Obama saying, "we are no longer a Christian nation, we are also a Muslim nation." It omitted his saying, in the same speech, that the United States is not solely a Christian nation.

The ad, which included a photo of Obama wearing a turban as part of a traditional outfit given to him in Africa, concluded with a man saying: "It's time for people of faith to stand against Barack Hussein Obama." A group called the Coalition Against Anti-Christian Rhetoric paid for the ad.

4. The Texas Republican Party recently cut ties with a vendor whose political buttons at a party convention included one saying: "If Obama is president ... will we still call it The White House?"

Oh, i can hear it now...McCain isn't responsible...perfect..just like bush and the swift boat shit.

Stop pretending that repubs havent' used race before:

1. Willie Horton...hmm, i'm sure no white ex-cons who committed crimes could be found.
2. Jessie Helms...defeats a black man by running ad of white man crumbling letter informing him that he had lost a job he deserved to a minority.

Roark..your strategy is weak and obvious.

Obama's opponents are also laying the groundwork for blaming him if race "becomes an issue" during the campaign.

"Every word will be twisted to make it about race," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., When he and others confront Obama on issues such as national security and the economy, Graham said, it will have "nothing to do with him being an African-American."

wow...who is injecting race there roark?

Except for all the dog whistles that will be used during those "confrontations." And if the Obama campaign or his supporters/defenders have the temerity to point out that the old GOP favorite "welfare queens," as a possible example, is race-baiting, then they'll be accused of "playing the race card" by the race-baiters.

See how that works?

You have a problem with that stuff? Not one of your examples constitute even a shade of racism.

Obama, slick politician that he is, knows that one of the main things he has going for him is that blacks will blindly support him probably in even bigger percentages than they do other Dems. Nobody on our side, however, is opposing him either overtly or covertly because he is black.

Rather, all of the horrendous positions he takes on the issues are the reason to detest the guy. And as for tactics, hell yeah, the examples you gave are fair game--the Muslim name and rumors of whatever, the soft on criminals/pro-affirmative action/pro-welfare state crap, etc. That shit may stick to Obama, a black candidate, but no more so than it sticks to a whole lot of white leftists.

It ain't racism. It's being wrong in a blatantly anti-American way on the issues.

[sheepshead]

He's setting us up. when he looses it's gonna be all about race. The truth of the matter is this country could use a brother on Pennsylvania ave. just NOT this one. The last thing we need with as many issues as we have now is a socialist product of Hollywood with NO experience at anything.

It took Jackie Robinson to break the color barrier in baseball, Barry is NO Jackie Robinson.

[HowardRoark]

Just as I brilliantly posted last night……..

McCain campaign accuses Obama of playing race card


July 31 11:47 AM US/Eastern
By MIKE GLOVER
Associated Press Writer

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - John McCain's campaign accused Barack Obama on Thursday of playing racial politics a day after the Democratic candidate predicted Republicans would try to scare voters by pointing out "he doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."
Obama "played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck," McCain campaign manager Rick Davis said in a statement. He called Obama's remarks "divisive, negative, shameful and wrong."

Stumping in Missouri, Obama, the first black candidate with a shot at winning the White House, argued Wednesday that President Bush and McCain will resort to scare tactics to maintain their hold on the White House because they have little else to offer voters.

"Nobody thinks that Bush and McCain have a real answer to the challenges we face. So what they're going to try to do is make you scared of me," Obama said. "You know, `he's not patriotic enough, he's got a funny name,' you know, `he doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.'"

Obama himself didn't make clear what distinctions he thinks McCain is likely to raise regarding the presidents on U.S. currency—white men who for the most part were much older than Obama when elected. McCain has not raised Obama's race as an issue in the campaign; he has said Obama lacks experience.

Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said Thursday that the senator was not referring to race.

"What Barack Obama was talking about was that he didn't get here after spending decades in Washington," Gibbs said. "There is nothing more to this than the fact that he was describing that he was new to the political scene. He was referring to the fact that he didn't come into the race with the history of others. It is not about race."

Obama often makes references to his distinctions as a candidate, such as saying there are doubts among some voters because he has "a funny name." At times he refers to his race as well, saying he looks different from any previous candidate but then adding that the differences are not just about race. Addressing supporters Tuesday night at a fundraiser in Springfield, Mo., he said, "It's a leap, electing a 46-year-old black guy named Barack Obama."

During a round of appearances in Missouri, an economically challenged battleground state, Obama worked to link McCain to the unpopular Bush. He said the Republican senator from Arizona would serve the equivalent of a third Bush term if elected. He said the country can't afford more of the same and expects different results.

"That's a definition of madness, but that's what John McCain is offering. He's offering Bush economic policies and Karl Rove politics," Obama said.

He pressed the theme later at a rain-soaked barbecue in Union, Mo.

"They're going to say I'm a risky guy," Obama said. "What they're going to argue is I'm too risky. The real risk is that we miss the moment, that we do not do what's needed because we're afraid."

For its part, McCain's campaign on Wednesday released a withering television ad comparing Obama to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, suggesting the Democrat is little more than a vapid but widely recognized media concoction.

"He's the biggest celebrity in the world, but is he ready to lead?" the voiceover asks in the ad, which mixes images of Obama on his trip to Europe last week with video of the 20-something pop stars.

Obama's campaign quickly responded with a commercial of its own, dismissing McCain's complaints as "baloney" and "baseless."

Throughout the day, Obama argued that McCain "thinks we're on the right track" economically.

"These anxieties seem to be growing with each passing day," Obama said. "We can either choose a new direction for our economy or we can keep doing what we've been doing. My opponent, John McCain, thinks we're on the right track."

That elicited boos from some of the 1,500 people who filled a Springfield high school gymnasium. When an AP-Ipsos poll asked the "right track, wrong track" question this month, 77 percent said they thought the country was on the wrong track. The same poll set Bush's approval rating at 28 percent. Both were records for the AP-Ipsos survey.

[sheepshead]

Well said from Senator McCains campaign:

"Barack Obama has played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck," said Rick Davis, in a statement issued from the McCain campaign. "It's divisive, negative, shameful and wrong."

[Tyrone Bigguns]

I think you mean...just like i said would happen. What a surprise...mccain plays the race card.

Funny, Mccain going negative...after he said he wouldn't..guess that new campaign manager didn't get the memo.

The paris hilton/spears ad...wow!

The "troops" issue...what a farce.

[sheepshead]

Hmmmm ok, sure...huh...whatever you say.

[Tyrone Bigguns]

Hmmmm ok, sure...huh...whatever you say.

Right back at you.

Shouldn't you be attacking B.O..rather than giving something about McCain.

[HowardRoark]

Funny, Mccain going negative...after he said he wouldn't..guess that new campaign manager didn't get the memo.

McCain is not going negative, he is going positive. Race is not an issue for him, nor should it be for great country. He is not digging in his heals..looking at failed policies of the past.

Our time is now!!!!!!

[Tyrone Bigguns]

Funny, Mccain going negative...after he said he wouldn't..guess that new campaign manager didn't get the memo.

McCain is not going negative, he is going positive. Race is not an issue for him, nor should it be for great country. He is not digging in his heals..looking at failed policies of the past.

Our time is now!!!!!!

Race? Then why is he bringing it up?

Positive? You think the ad featuring obama linked to spears and hilton is postive?

“would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign,” ..wow, another positive statement.

You think an ad that completely misrepresented what happened in germany was positive.

"The attacks are part of a newly aggressive McCain operation whose aim is to portray the Democratic presidential candidate as a craven politician more interested in his image than in ailing soldiers, a senior McCain adviser said.

Wow..that is positive.

I guess those repubs that are worrying about him going negative don't realize it is a positive message.

“The McCain campaign, I think, is being pulled in two directions,” said Todd Harris, a Republican strategist who worked for Mr. McCain in 2000. “On the one hand, this race is largely a referendum on Obama, and whether or not he’s going to pass the leadership threshold in the eyes of voters. So being aggressive against Obama on questions of leadership and trust and risk are important, but at the same time I think they need to be very careful because McCain is not at his best when he is being overly partisan and negative.”

I guess all the media outlets' stories on mccain going negative..well, they are just mistaken.

Roark...you must be in marketing..cause only someone in marketing could spin this as positive.

[texaspackerbacker]

Didn't Obama basically make a pre-emptive strike--saying something like "they're gonna make fun of my name and say this and that about me because I'm black"?

THAT is where the race card was played.

McCain never fulfilled any of what Obama whined about--not before the whine, not after.

For that matter, emphasizing the Muslim-sounding name and the rumors of a Muslim background really ain't racism at all--certainly not in the anti-black sense anyway. Most blacks are every bit as pro-Christian and anti-Muslim as most whites.

As for anti-Muslim and Christian versus Muslim, paraphrase Patrick Henry, who said, "if this be treason, make the most of it". IF THIS BE RACISM, MAKE THE MOST OF IT.

[sheepshead]

oh and then there's this:

Today, Dr. Danny Jazarevic, who served as the Chief of Trauma, Critical Care and Vascular Surgery at Landstuhl, issued the following statement on Barack Obama's canceled visit to Ramstein and Landstuhl:

"Last week, Senator Obama skipped a visit with wounded U.S. troops at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany because the Pentagon would not allow campaign staff or media to accompany him into the hospital. I served as director of trauma surgery at that hospital for nearly four years and saw the effect that a visit from a celebrity like Senator Obama could have on morale. During that time, I do not recall a single member of Congress canceling a visit with the troops despite being just a few hours away, but Senator Obama seems to have been more concerned with how the visit would affect him than how it would affect the soldiers recovering from wounds received in the service of their country."

Dr. Danny Jazarevic served as the Chief of Trauma, Critical Care and Vascular Surgery at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. In 1984, Dr. Jazarevic joined the United States Army and later the Florida National Guard. He has since served in Honduras, Africa, Saudi Arabia, Bosnia, and Iraq. From December 2002 through January 2006, Dr. Jazarevic was assigned to the U.S. Army Hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, where he served as Chief of Trauma, Critical Care and Vascular Surgery. During this period, he deployed to Iraq numerous times, including with the 101st Airborne Division Forward Surgical Team and as Director of Operations for the 44th U.S. Army Medical Command. He is currently the Chief Trauma Surgeon at a civilian medical center in Florida, and also serves as a full Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve. Dr. Jazarevic has been awarded the Bronze Star Meda

[sheepshead]

Didn't Obama basically make a pre-emptive strike--saying something like "they're gonna make fun of my name and say this and that about me because I'm black"?

THAT is where the race card was played.

McCain never fulfilled any of what Obama whined about--not before the whine, not after.

For that matter, emphasizing the Muslim-sounding name and the rumors of a Muslim background really ain't racism at all--certainly not in the anti-black sense anyway.

As for anti-Muslim and Christian versus Muslim, paraphrase Patrick Henry, who said, "if this be treason, make the most of it". IF THIS BE RACISM, MAKE THE MOST OF IT.

The Dems are obsessed with race and gender. If this past primary wasnt the most embarrassing display I dont know what was.