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Dems Fear Racial Divide; Hilly Should Quit to Heal It

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Posted by Bobby 2008-04-26 08:45|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 The protracted and increasingly acrimonious fight for the Democratic presidential nomination is unnerving Obama's core constituencies

Fixed.

Posted by Excalibur 2008-04-26 09:00|| 2008-04-26 09:00|| Front Page Top

#2 What would the blacks do about it? Abandon the Party of the Plantation? I doubt it. They're too firmly attached to the teat of Mother Fed. Even Cosby has to realize that by now. If not, this could be a historic moment.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-04-26 09:33|| 2008-04-26 09:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Its a nightmare anyway when their favored candidate is runnign mainly on the color of his skin. Without the idiotic race-based bloc voting, Obama would never be where he is. His experience, leadership and knowledge certainly did not put him where he is on his merits.

Its all race and press buzz, as surely as George Wallace did the same the with southern racist Whites in the 60's.

WHen wil black people stop voting their skin color? THey yell at whites bout it, and now its pretty much a moot point (skin color)for white voters. When will blacks stop voting primarily on skin color?

Posted by OldSpook 2008-04-26 10:01|| 2008-04-26 10:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Hillary quitting the race has become the donks' panacea for all the worlds ills. It's almost reached a point of mental illness.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-04-26 10:19|| 2008-04-26 10:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Hilly quitting is more important than Bashing Bush?

Posted by Bobby 2008-04-26 10:44|| 2008-04-26 10:44|| Front Page Top

#6 With Democrat John McCain criticizing North Carolina Republicans for running an anti-Obama ad, at least the Democrats will be in the White House for sure one way or the other.

Posted by www 2008-04-26 10:45|| 2008-04-26 10:45|| Front Page Top

#7 When will blacks stop voting primarily on skin color?

I think Obama's an empty suit from the Chicago machine whose convictions, insofar as he has any, are hard left. I will not vote for him, period.

But to answer your question, OS, I do think Blacks have not had many national-office Blacks to vote for or to examine and discard. When there have been more of them, I'm confident the race-based voting will fade away among all but a fringe (as there is a fringe of white-only idiots).

That said, I plan to expose & ridicule the Jesse Jacksons and Wrights of the world.

Posted by lotp 2008-04-26 11:06|| 2008-04-26 11:06|| Front Page Top

#8 If I believed that, lotp, I would also be astounded at the unanimity of Italian-Americans for Giuliani. Or Polish-Americans for Kucinich.

But we didn't see that because everybody else who came to America came as a result of an individual decision. And they made an individual decision on whom to vote for based on their opinions and interests. Sure, they were proud that "one of their own" could be seriously considered for the big job, but it didn't change their vote in substantial numbers because after generations of assimilation they make their decisions as individual Americans.

Blacks, by and large, did not come here as a result of individual choice, and have rarely been treated as individuals since they got here. This election has revealed that there has been a lot more change in attitude among whites than blacks. I am not nearly as sanguine as others about how soon blacks will start thinking about themselves as individuals instead of a group.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-04-26 11:47|| 2008-04-26 11:47|| Front Page Top

#9 Why should a candidate quit while in second place by about 160 votes ? Of course she shouldn't quit. When I was younger, these things were worked out at the conventions.
What I find more disturbing is that the republicans, my party of choice, has nominated a RINO for the job. He will have to sign a list of promises before I vote for him. Everyone I talk to says that we have a choice between two incompetent fools at best, and between two anti-American traitors at worst. We have time left, but we can't seem to organize to correct this clusterblunder. And, those with a microphone in their hand, who could start something, refuse to make a stand. We're going to throw away 4 years. I hope nothing critical happens then. God help us, as we fail to help ourselves.

Posted by wxjames 2008-04-26 13:04|| 2008-04-26 13:04|| Front Page Top

#10 The Repubs nominated McCain because he was the only man who had a chance to win in November.

Read that again.

Romney, Huckleberry, et al. were NOT going to win. Either would have received 40% of the vote and ~180 electoral votes, and would have been at the top of a ticket that would have lost 6 - 8 Senate seats.

No thank you.

One thing we at the Burg sometimes don't acknowledge: despite our best efforts, the country has swung modestly left. That's the legacy of the MSM and the Dhimmis. They've pounded on Dubya good and hard, and the country has reacted.

In that situation, McCain is the ONLY Pub who can win in the fall, because he too is a little to the left (of the Pubs, anyway), and as a RINO he can bring the party to a win. At the very least he'll be able to protect most of the Pub Senate and House seats.

So count yer blessings. It could be a lot worse.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2008-04-26 13:33|| 2008-04-26 13:33|| Front Page Top

#11 Dems Fear Racial Divide; Hilly Should Quit to Heal It

To the Parté who has played the race card hard and Long for decades, Never before have desserts been so Just.

Posted by RD">RD 2008-04-26 13:46|| 2008-04-26 13:46|| Front Page Top

#12 One thing we at the Burg sometimes don't acknowledge: despite our best efforts, the country has swung modestly left. That's the legacy of the MSM and the Dhimmis. They've pounded on Dubya good and hard, and the country has reacted.

In that situation, McCain is the ONLY Pub who can win in the fall, because he too is a little to the left (of the Pubs, anyway), and as a RINO he can bring the party to a win. At the very least he'll be able to protect most of the Pub Senate and House seats.

So count yer blessings. It could be a lot worse.

Huey Long once said that when they finally brought fascism to America, they'd call it anti-fascism.

Well, when they nationalize all the industries, it'll be called "a moderately left Republican presidential candidate."

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-04-26 13:54|| 2008-04-26 13:54|| Front Page Top

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Posted by DMFD 2008-04-26 14:08|| 2008-04-26 14:08|| Front Page Top

#14 "If this party is perceived by people as having gone into a back room somewhere and brokered a nominee, that would not be good for our party."

Whoa lill doggiesJimmy the whip sure do have himself a bone-e-fide conundrum on his hands. He sure needs some of that perception stuff. And pronto! We aint talking bout yer garden variety perception eitherhe needs the good kind. Hellhe needs some that historic perception. You know with two historic candidates and what-not.

Posted by DepotGuy 2008-04-26 15:27|| 2008-04-26 15:27|| Front Page Top

#15 Or Polish-Americans for Kucinich.

Hey, don't insult the Poles like that!

Denny Kuku is a Croatian-American.
(Speaking as a former resident of Cleveland with some sensitivity to local ethnic politics)

Posted by charger 2008-04-26 16:27|| 2008-04-26 16:27|| Front Page Top

#16 Ima surprised Denny the K has a human fambly tree

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-04-26 16:34|| 2008-04-26 16:34|| Front Page Top

#17 A thousand pardons to the Poles. The Croats again, eh?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-04-26 16:35|| 2008-04-26 16:35|| Front Page Top

#18 I see the unfolding events as an Urban vs Rural devide. As more and more of our population moved from agrarian to urban environments people lost the ability and will to do things for themselves. The fall-back position for them is the Government. Increasingly, people are not able to do for themselves.
I don't need electricity to live. It's nice, but I don't need it. Urban environments would be devasted without it. I can grow most of my food. City people rely on the grocery store. City people really don't understand what it takes to supply them with the things they need and therefore, with more and more Government "help", rely on the Government. The Katrina hurricane is an example. Rural and small town people did for themselves and each other. The city people sat there and waited on the Government but in fairness, they have been programmed to rely on the government. The only comparable event I can think of is the 1906 San Fransisco earthquake and fire. People did for themselves and helped each other but they were new to the urban environment and knew how to do so. Modern urbanites do not. The shift toward socialism is understandable for urbanites and as there are more urbanites than ruralites this shift will continue.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2008-04-26 16:35|| 2008-04-26 16:35|| Front Page Top

#19 The people who relied on the government during the the first hours of the aftermath of Katrina were deserted by the government (city and state). They spent days of drama in the dome in New Orleans before the national guard (federal) came in to get them.

The goverment should stick to keeping the roads and infrastructure in tact so that capitalism can do what it does best, provide quality of life.

The socialists who want to play god-of-all-things-and-peoples are the rats that are the first to abandon ship during a crisis. And the ones who rely on them are the ones left in high water.

Posted by www 2008-04-26 20:49|| 2008-04-26 20:49|| Front Page Top

#20 deacon,

I agree with what you are saying, but the huge error occuring is that people are moving away from capitalism to socialism. Capitalism works in both rural and urban settings. Socialism is a far lessor solution. How America got here is another onion to try to peel.

Posted by www 2008-04-26 20:54|| 2008-04-26 20:54|| Front Page Top

#21 Government should do for the people what they can't do for themselves. That used to mean defense and interstate commerce.

A history article in Civil Engineering magazinr quotes Jefferson as having misgivings about a federal harbor in Delaware, circa 1800. He said, (paraphrasing), "The next thing you know, the government will be dredging the river to get to the port". Let alone creating the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway...

Posted by Bobby 2008-04-26 21:20|| 2008-04-26 21:20|| Front Page Top

#22 www, what I was trying to explain is one of the reasons this country is leaning towards Socialism. I agree the Government were not served. When Citizens can no longer Do for themselves and each other the only alternative is the Government.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2008-04-26 21:22|| 2008-04-26 21:22|| Front Page Top

#23 I did not have sex with that woman.

I may have had sex with that one over there but definitely not That woman there..........well let me rephrase that.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2008-04-26 22:59|| 2008-04-26 22:59|| Front Page Top

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