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Originally Posted by Impugn
McCain's race is a factor...exactly how?
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No, I think your race might be a factor. Identity politics means you identify with the candidate, cause he's "like me".
I don't know what it's like to be tortured in a P.O.W camp, so I can't accurately judge McCain's experience or honestly suspect that that's the source of his temperment.
Nor can I know what it's like to be a black woman growing up experiencing racial predjudice or judge Mrs. Obama's to honestly suspect that to be a source of her temperment.
I can't really relate to the special life experiences of either of these people. Nor can I judge their patriotism or degree of love for country. If I have to assume, I don't think any candidate or candidates wife would put themselves in the position to be president (or first lady) and commit their lives to public service if they didn't throroughly love their country.
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Originally Posted by Impugn
I still remember the "brothers" on the ship getting all hopped up ("Def jam in the Mother Land!") when we were headed to Djibouti. Then they got a look around. Sang a different tune after that (actually, they got quiet as shit for a good while). (Side note...they also found out how much African blacks can't stand American blacks.)
I suspect after seeing what that garden spot - a country wedged between Ethiopia and Somalia - was like, they were glad, secretly and way down inside, that their ancestor(s) were sold into slavery and ended up in America. In any case, they definitely gained some appreciation for these here United States.
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I'm not sure what the moral of this story is. Perhaps you are attempting to demonstrate that you have some kind of telepathic gifting that allows you to gleen the secret thoughts and motives of others. It probably would have been easier to actually speak to and ask those "brothers" what their thoughts were instead of projecting your own thoughts on them.
That might explain your claim of the ability to read Michelle Obama's mind.