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2008-05-10 Home Front: Culture Wars

Black Groups Circle the Wagons Around Obama

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Posted by Bobby 2008-05-10 07:06|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Black, black, black, black, black. He seems nice enough, but you cant win the election with 13% of the population.
It always comes back to black with this guy. And his voters.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-05-10 08:53|| 2008-05-10 08:53|| Front Page Top

#2 For a time, my parents couldn't vote, and when they could, their only choice was a white person.

It would appear, the same "choice" as the rest of us. Impressive accedemic credentials by the way.....not far from the FLDS mindset I'm afraid.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-05-10 08:59|| 2008-05-10 08:59|| Front Page Top

#3 He's half white, so half the white people should vote for him. And half black, so all the black people should vote for him. Or something like that.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2008-05-10 09:19|| 2008-05-10 09:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Judging from the voting in the Dem primaries so far, an extremely strong case can be made that blacks are the most racist group in American society. If you want to argue against that point, tell me another group that has ever been known to vote as en bloc as blacks in this Dem primary cycle.

Posted by Thaimble Scourge of the Pixies4707 2008-05-10 09:24|| 2008-05-10 09:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Irish for Kennedy? I'll bet there weren't a lot for Nixon. And if Giuliani had run, I suspect he'd have gotten a disproportionate Italian vote.

The first time any one of "our boys" runs, they'll get a lot of votes just be cause they're "one of us".

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-05-10 09:35|| 2008-05-10 09:35|| Front Page Top

#6 except this isn't the first time a black has run. IIRC, Barbara Jordan was

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-05-10 09:41|| 2008-05-10 09:41|| Front Page Top

#7 So did Jesse, but none of them were ever serious contenders. And Al Smith was Irish.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-05-10 09:43|| 2008-05-10 09:43|| Front Page Top

#8 I thought bo said he was Irish? Or didn't he say he was related to Dick Cheney? Or didn't he say he...

Perhaps after black america, or at least those who consider their opinions better than yours and decide to speak for everyone based upon a superficial aspect of human genetics, circles the wagons and discover that bo has thrown everyone under his bus, and when they get hosed just like everyone else bo has embraced at the current political expediency, they will wall in the spaces between the wagons and fill the center with concrete.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-05-10 12:27|| 2008-05-10 12:27|| Front Page Top

Posted by smn 2008-05-10 15:51|| 2008-05-10 15:51|| Front Page Top

#10 "Irish for Kennedy? I'll bet there weren't a lot for Nixon. And if Giuliani had run, I suspect he'd have gotten a disproportionate Italian vote."

I don't think that's an equivalent, NS. I'll cheerfully grant that a goodly majority of the groups you've cited would have voted for their "favorite son," so to speak, but I don't think you can cite either Irish or Italian as a race. Plus, by the time either of those two (JFK or Rudy) was in a position to run, there were plenty of people from their ethnic background who would have voted against them based on their perception that personal economic issues trumped any perceived ethnic loyalties.

Posted by Thaimble Scourge of the Pixies4707 2008-05-10 18:22|| 2008-05-10 18:22|| Front Page Top

#11 hmmm, NS may be on to something. That would explain the bloc voting for Kerry by fake-Irish, French-speaking Pompous Assholes and Cowardly Traitors who married for money

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-05-10 18:43|| 2008-05-10 18:43|| Front Page Top

#12 Let me be clear that I do not believe races exist.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-05-10 19:04|| 2008-05-10 19:04|| Front Page Top

#13 Agreed about races, Nimble Spemble -- when discussing scientific evidence. But sociologically, race has been a galvanizing idea in all directions.

John F. Kennedy's election run attracted the Catholic bloc. Rudy Giuliani's run obviously didn't. But Candidate Obama is the first African-American to have a real possibility of representing his party in the national election. The Reverend Jesse Jackson was never a serious candidate. I don't really have a problem with that.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-05-10 20:59|| 2008-05-10 20:59|| Front Page Top

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