I was talking to a friend yesterday about the excitement here about a Barak Obama presidency in 2008.
But he had doubts that it could happen because of American racism. Not the out-and-out racism of confederate flag wavers, but the passive, hidden racism that’s led white voters to change their minds at the last minute and vote against that black candidate they’d said they would vote for only the day before (over and over again). He doesn’t think America is willing to leave that passive racism behind yet. I wondered how else it could leave it behind without being presented with just such a high stakes choice.
Is America really ready to give itself a black President yet? Or would last minute racism rear its ugly head at the ballot box again?
As an Illinoisan who is happy to have finally had somebody in politics worth voting for in Obama, I’d like to just be positive about it. I’d like to think Americans can get over it.
As much faith as I may have in Barak (and that may actually be too much, I’ve built a pretty high pedestal from which he may fall, after saying he’s the only politician I care about since the deaths of Sen. Paul Simon and the mighty Paul Wellstone; giant political shoes to fill in my book) I just don’t have faith in the American people— less after last Tuesday.
I wonder, though, if what might hurt him more than being black is the fact that he’s half-black. Many people on both sides of the race card seem to have some difficulty with that at times.
Look at Karl Rove’s gambit in- where was it? South Carolina?- by subtly suggesting that John McCain had fathered a- gasp- black baby.
I hadn’t thought about his being half-black being a problem for some. Certainly complicates things.
Right…the Republicans are racist…that is why there is a website already developed to elect Condoleeza Rice as a black woman for the Presidency in 2008. I just can’t believe it! Aren’t Republicans the evil/racist/fascist group according to liberals? Bush has appointed ethnically diverse people in his cabinet and that is considered “rascist” while the Kerry campaign had to ask whites to hold up signs “African Americans for John Kerry (click on the link above.)
Sorry, the link below…
http://anncoulter.com/columns/2004/102704p.htm
and for Condoleeza Rice http://rice2008.com/
Um, okay…
No, silly, not Republicans, Southerners are racist. Republicans are just heartless ro-bots.
No, the point, you see, isn’t about republicans being racist.
I’ll invite you to read the post, as reading it could probably shed a little light on its content.
So I guess if you just didn’t want him as president, that would make you a racist, huh? How about the fact that he hasn’t even started the term he was elected for in the senate? Think Edwards here, it is NOT cool to get elected to your first term and fifteen minutes later begin running for the presidency. Do some good first. Establish a track record.
I SEE CONDOLEEZA RICE PERFORMING A GREAT JOB AS SECRETARY OF STATE. SHE WILL MOVE FOWARD TO EITHER REPLACE DICK CHENEY AS VP IN 2007 OR RUN FOR THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION IN 2008. SHE WILL MAKE CLEAR HER VIEWS ON ABORTION, GAY MARRIAGE AND STEM CELLS. LIBERALS WILL ATTACK HER. THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS WILL BE BETWEEN HILLARY AND CONDI. BY THE WAY, OSAMA BIN LADEN WILL BE LONG GONE BEFORE 2008 AND IRAQ WILL BE A PSEUDO DEMOCRATIC NATION.
Why is it that roughly 75% of republicans on the internet type in all caps?