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Originally Posted by RFK1968
Not true. I think judgment matters far more than character. But Obama's wife, church, etc. really only appear to be "judgment" concerns for conservatives. People left-of-center don't really care about anyone's religion. We didn't even care about the evangelical endorsements of Republican candidates (Hagee, Robertson, Dobson, etc.) until conservatives brought religion into the debate. Then we just used it to show the double-standard that was being used. Almost all of us still do not care if McCain would have kept Hagee's endorsement. Call us crazy, but we don't think radical religious zealots will be influencing the president all that much. Many conservatives seem to think otherwise.
I didn't mention race in the quote to which you're referring. My only mention of race was in the context of suggesting that some people might vote for Obama because he's black. Which, as I just noticed, you suggested as well. For some reason though, when I try to use a practical discussion of race, I get accused of playing some kind of race card. I think that's kind of puzzling.
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its not about RELIGION, anothert point I have made many many times. Stop trying to cloak judgement issues behind a storefront ther by declaring it offlimits, I think thats a strwman as well.
My point stands, I don't give a crap what race he is, never did never will. There are those that do, on both sides, personally I could care less.
BUT when a platform or judgment to be made say in regarding to his feelings on affirmative action etc. that’s a policy thing, wherein race is dragged in as a definer taking the discussion into areas outside policy.
The policy or debate is for instance is it right? Black has nothing to do with it and just rins the debate intpo an emotional appeal on its merits or lack there of as applied by an emotional context. It’s the POLICY that is the qualifier.
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