Our worst nightmare is about to come true, an educated Black man is about to become the most important man in White America. Face it, you're scared, aren't YOU?
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I think racism is more alive in the black community than the white community - Barack Obama is really smart and compelling and has a spirit about him that makes people want to support him, I just think that he's not experienced enough. But yeah, racism is a big problem in the southernmost states...for caucasians against blacks - likewise, I think that racism is absolutely rampant, the entire country over, for african americans against whites.
politicoswizzlestick
I don't think this is true. I think if it was, Obama woun't have become the frontrunner a month ago. America is a lot more progressive than you give us credit for.
Obama has already mathematically secured the nomination. Power brokers like Pelosi won't let the SD's overrule the pledged delegate and popular count and Clinton won't catch him in either as reps in Florida keep rejecting every preposal for a redo. Florida is Hillary's best state and it won't be counted if the local yokels keep angling to have the non-contested results count. Hillary probably won't even win Michigan, and there frankly aren't enough states remaining to give Hillary the gains she needs to give SDs the cover they need to give her the nomination --- assuming they want to do that (very big assumption).
Obama will win the nomination and then it is him against McCain. McCain is not the mud thrower Hillary is, so his campaign will slowly regain some of the ground Hillary's camp has eroded from under the DEM party, Obama, and it's congressional candidates.
I like McCain, but he is starting to have some high profile gaffes that could really start to appear to be the onset of Alzheimers. He really needs to cross his "t"s before he says anything in the future to remain viable. He doesn't have Reagan's charm and his VP likely won't either.
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If you think that is possible then how can you call America racist?
He could have become president, because America isn't racist. But now he won't become president because when his wife and his friends are clearly racist and hate America you gotta assume he feels the same but has only been saying what politicians need to say to be elected.
Anonymous
I will never understand the arguement that if you don't agree w/ an Obama presidency, then you must be a racist.
It has been written on Yahoo Answers many times.
If Senator Obama wins, I am not "scared" because of the color of his skin, his ethinicity or lack of ethinicity.
What I am is saddened by the fact that a person can become president w/ little experience, a few pretty speeches and a big star studded fan base.
Additionally, I am saddened by the fact that are so many people who can't think for themselves. I have heard and read more garbage about all 3/of the leading candidates in both parties.
It is all probably somewhere in the middle. None of them are perfect - they are people who are politicians. They want your vote.
Anonymous
These people are too much. Some white people are going crazy because they say that Obama hates white people (which is stupid, since he's half white and was raised by white people). They can't decide whether he's a Muslim, or a member of a cult, or an America-hater, or a foreigner. The level of sheer ignorance and stupidity that go along with some of the questions and answers I've seen here just boggle the mind. The notion that he should resign, when he's winning the nomination race, because of something his retired pastor said is ... have I used dumb already? It's dumb.
Some black people say that Obama isn't black enough, for some of the same silly reasons. So we have the whites saying he's too black, and the blacks saying he's not black enough.
Why is this happening? Because we're simpletons. Obama is a brilliant man, an educated man, and he's able to see the world as it is: in shades of gray. But the population as a whole can only understand things if they can fit them into pre-conceived categories. Obama doesn't fit neatly into those categories, so people freak out and don't know how to handle it. They're certainly not handling it by listening and educating themselves. This is why we see the same questions based on bad information again and again, and why people still think Obama is a socialist (I wish) and a secret Muslim, whatever that means. Obama came right out and gave us a principled explanation of why he won't leave his church, even though he disagreed with his pastor, but we still have someone in this Q telling us that Obama "folds like a cheap suit" when the going gets tough. Are you not even paying attention?
The conversations I hear and read about Obama make me really sad. My European friends think that America is basically too stupid to survive, that Americans are too disinterested in actually learning about the world around them, and this nonsense proves the point. I'm not scared of Obama - he's a neat guy, and we'd do well to have him as president. I'm scared of us.