Is Obama Trying To Start A Race-War In America? - U.S. Politics Online: A Political Discussion Forum

mudwhistle · #1 (**permalink**) 06-24-2008

So, Obama has made a preemptive strike and thrown out the race-card. He claims Republicans are readying an attack against him focusing on his ethnicity.

Seems that Obama is the only one bringing it up over..........and over.......and over again.

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OBAMA: We know what kind of campaign they're going to run. They're going to try to make you afraid. They're going to try to make you afraid of me. (laughter) They're gonna.... They're going to say, "You know what, he's -- he's -- he's young, inexperienced, and, uh, uh, he's got a funny name. Did I mention he's black? (cheers and applause) (Obama laughs) He's got a feisty wife.
Obama Calls Republicans Racists

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This is Bo Snerdley, official EIB Obama criticizer, certified black enough to criticize. I have a statement. Mr. Obama, your highly publicized attack on Republicans this week claiming they are readying a racial attack against you is unbecoming and indefensible. In fact, sir, your general attack on Republicans with no evidence to support it is an example of you using unfounded stereotypes to smear an entire group of people. It demonstrates your own bigotry. Your promise to change, your promise to bring hope, instead, what do we get? You revert to the status quo, race card and fear, in order to inoculate yourself and your party from intellectually honest criticism. It is your associates who utter racist and sexist remarks like Jerry Wright, Reverend Pfleger. It is your Democratic Party, your liberal media pals that put race out there time and time again. Bill and Hillary Clinton's race remarks, the smears about your drug days, the Muslim thing, the Hussein thing, all that came from Democrats. Now the SCLC saying you're not black enough because you don't have slave blood? What's that, Mr. Obama? And the entire country saw it, except perhaps you. That is, if we can believe you. After all, what you say one day changes like the wind. You're running for president, sir. Grow a set. Comport yourself like a proud, strong black man, not a weak, cowering victim.

And now, a translation for EIB brothers and sisters in the 'hood. What's up, easy money? I ain't trying to diss you, yo, but this race thing you fronting is counterfeit. Everybody scoped it, yo. It was your homeys that were out there flat blast jamming you on the race thing, not those punk ass Republicans. Those lames are too afraid to call nighttime dark because they think your homeys in the press will macaca them out of office. Yo, look, yo, man, they ain't going to use the race card on you, man. They ain't going to try to make the bodies drop on you like that. Check it out, man. It's been your boys out there with the race thing, man, your frontin' boy Jeremiah, your boy Farrakhan, your boy Pfleger. Your boys are saying you ain't even got slave blood, yo. What's up with that? Michelle got slave blood, you don't have none? Yo, man, come on. By the way, man, where is Michelle, man? You kind of keeping her out the spotlight, yo, man, she kind of looking lace, man, you got to get her some face time. Yo. But check this out. You trying to be smooth, you trying to spin this all out of control, accusing those punk ass Republicans of doing what your medieval Democrat racist brothers been doing all along, but it ain't going to play. Look, man, I told you before, you wanted the game, you in the game, so you got to play real and you got to get played out. You can't run with the lions at night and play with the kittens in the day. You talking all this change stuff, then change it up, yo. Get off this race thing and come for real about what you got, what you gonna get, where we gonna be if you get in, you feel me, bro? That concludes this statement.

Drive-Bys Focus on Imus Again, While Democrats Display Real Racism

Obama's reprehensible tricks trying to start the dialog going in this direction during the General election is an example of his own racism. His cheap tactics will only encourage people like this man:

YouTube - re: racist black man

Why does this election have to be about race? Why can't it be about the issues?

According to Obama his election as the first Black President is our only chance for salvation.

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Obama's lack of ordinary modesty
By James Lewis
In his victory speech over Hillary, Barack Obama soared rhetorically about his feelings of humility. And yet he hardly sounded humble:

"generations from now,
we will be able to look back
and tell our children

(with mounting excitement)

that this was the moment
when we began to provide care for the sick,
and good jobs for the jobless.
This was the moment
when the riiiiise of the oceans began to slow,
and our planet began to heal."[bolding added]
Now politicians are allowed some rhetorical overkill, but this is straight into Star Wars territory. There are no real precedents for this in traditional American speechifying, and that is saying something. Obama tells his hypnotized followers that we have not been caring for the sick (false); that we have no good jobs for the jobless (false); that the rise of the oceans (which doesn't exist) will begin to slow (false); and that our planet (which is feeling just fine, thanks) will finally begin to heal. (Also false).

So this is pure drivel from the deep regions of fantasyland. But Obama's brain dead followers are marching right in lockstep. They are a million Weekend at Bernie's, with millions of flatlining Obamanites being propped up to look as if they were alive and conscious. It's the Million Man March of the brain dead.

This election will pit the mind-numbed robots against sensible voters. Who is the majority? That's not clear at all at this point.

Obama deliberately plays to the lowbrow crowd; after all, half the population has an IQ of less than 100. This hardly shows Obama's modesty and humility of which he boasts in his first sentence. It is wild-eyed I Can Save the Planet grandiosity. This appears to be the real Obama; a Napoleonic Man of Destiny, with the zeal and certainty of a True Believer.

Obama's more-than-human sense of destiny may become a problem for him in the general election against down-to-earth John McCain. His vision of himself as a true revolutionary ready to save America and the world poses great risks to the Democrats, who may not be able to hide their hard-Left associations any more.

Worst of all, Obama's lack of humility may pose a danger to the United States if he should win. Otherworldly grandiosity and a sense of superhuman destiny do not make for sober judgment in a president. Any smart opponent -- Ahmadi-Nejad or Putin -- would simply play to Obama's blatant narcissism and screw the United States, but good.
American Thinker: Obama's lack of ordinary modesty

daddio · #2 (**permalink**) 06-24-2008

well duh... its his only path to a win.

Alex · #3 (**permalink**) 06-24-2008

Isn't Obambi the candidate that "transcends" race? Why keep bringing it up then?

daddio · #4 (**permalink**) 06-24-2008

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Originally Posted by Alex

Isn't Obambi the candidate that "transcends" race? Why keep bringing it up then?

cause "hope" and "change" aint gonna get it done

Donkey_Left · #5 (**permalink**) 06-24-2008

A race war? I kind of doubt it.

A frank discussion about race? Maybe.

O'Sullivan Bere · #6 (**permalink**) 06-24-2008

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Originally Posted by Alex

Isn't Obambi the candidate that "transcends" race? Why keep bringing it up then?

I think this stems from his remark the other day that's getting spun on talk radio such as Hannity yesterday. Obama said the following:

We know what kind of campaign they're going to run. They're going to try to make you afraid. They're going to try to make you afraid of me. They're going to say you know what, "He's young and inexperienced and he's got a funny name. Did I mention he's black?" The tone is missing, however, and critical:

YouTube - Obama - "They're Going To Make You Afraid Of Me"

He said this in front of a Jacksonville fundraising group where the support group was getting a chuckle out of it.

I really didn't see anything wrong with it in its context. He was referring to the common smears against him that indeed are pervasive.

As I see it, those making a big issue of it seem to be those types of talk radio and other similar pundits who actually trade on such scares and smears. For example, thos comments in the OP, those are strawmen by known adversaries like Rush's Bo Snerdley schtick (which is playing on race blatantly) where on the Rush Limbaugh show he and they were just earlier tossing out another one such as the false "there is a tape of Michelle railing against 'Whitey' at Wright's church" smear etc. For them, it just seemed the old 'the best defence is offence' and who are looking for a 'twofer' of slamming his as having the nerve to introduce race if he calls them out on it.

Scribbler1 · #7 (**permalink**) 06-24-2008

If he's trying to start a race war he's doing a lousy job of it. He has almost half the country, both white and black, interested in him.

And since politics has become mind-bogglingly nasty in the last couple of decades he might be honestly expecting it and is trying to counter it preemptively.

He's just another politician, AFAIK, and he has every right to "swiftboat" his opposition by implying they're racists as they portrayed John Kerry as a coward and a liar.
This appears to me no more than the right whining about the same thing they themselves have done.

Alex · #8 (**permalink**) 06-24-2008

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Originally Posted by Scribbler1

If he's trying to start a race war he's doing a lousy job of it. He has almost half the country, both white and black, interested in him.

And since politics has become mind-bogglingly nasty in the last couple of decades he might be honestly expecting it and is trying to counter it preemptively.

He's just another politician, AFAIK, and he has every right to "swiftboat" his opposition by implying they're racists as they portrayed John Kerry as a coward and a liar.
This appears to me no more than the right whining about the same thing they themselves have done.

Funny, but I have yet to see any refutation of the Swift Boat Veterans claims. T Boone Pickens even offered a $1 million challenge to anyone who could prove even one allegation was false - no takers. NONE.

Slon · #9 (**permalink**) 06-24-2008

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Originally Posted by Alex

Isn't Obambi the candidate that "transcends" race? Why keep bringing it up then?

Because in America, racial and sexual equality means racist and sexist legislation like Affirmative action, right is left, etc... In America, everyday is opposite day!

daddio · #10 (**permalink**) 06-24-2008

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Originally Posted by Alex

Funny, but I have yet to see any refutation of the Swift Boat Veterans claims. T Boone Pickens even offered a $1 million challenge to anyone who could prove even one allegation was false - no takers. NONE.

not even John Kerry

Alex · #11 (**permalink**) 06-24-2008

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Originally Posted by O'Sullivan Bere

I think this stems from his remark the other day that's getting spun on talk radio such as Hannity yesterday. Obama said the following:

We know what kind of campaign they're going to run. They're going to try to make you afraid. They're going to try to make you afraid of me. They're going to say you know what, "He's young and inexperienced and he's got a funny name. Did I mention he's black?" The tone is missing, however, and critical:

YouTube - Obama - "They're Going To Make You Afraid Of Me"

He said this in front of a Jacksonville fundraising group where the support group was getting a chuckle out of it.

I really didn't see anything wrong with it in its context. He was referring to the common smears against him that indeed are pervasive.

As I see it, those making a big issue of it seem to be those types of talk radio and other similar pundits who actually trade on such scares and smears. For example, thos comments in the OP, those are strawmen by known adversaries like Rush's Bo Snerdley where on the Rush Limbaugh show he and they were just earlier tossing out another one such as the false "there is a tape of Michelle railing against 'Whitey' at Wright's church" smear etc. For them, it just seemed the old 'the best defence is offence' and who are looking for a 'twofer' of slamming his as having the nerve to introduce race if he calls them out on it.

I've heard Obama's race baiting comments in full, they are pretty hard to take out of context. He is painting all Republicans as racist, while casting himself as the poor 'black' victim - it is almost like he is getting coached by the expert poverty pimps - Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton!

daddio · #12 (**permalink**) 06-24-2008

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Originally Posted by Scribbler1

If he's trying to start a race war he's doing a lousy job of it. He has almost half the country, both white and black, interested in him.

And since politics has become mind-bogglingly nasty in the last couple of decades he might be honestly expecting it and is trying to counter it preemptively.

He's just another politician, AFAIK, and he has every right to "swiftboat" his opposition by implying they're racists as they portrayed John Kerry as a coward and a liar.
This appears to me no more than the right whining about the same thing they themselves have done.

you should read up on elections last, this stuff is positively lame compared to the bare knuckled stuff from the 1800's

daddio · #13 (**permalink**) 06-24-2008

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Originally Posted by Alex

I've heard Obama's race baiting comments in full, they are pretty hard to take out of context. He is painting all Republicans as racist, while casting himself as the poor 'black' victim - it is almost like he is getting coached by the expert poverty pimps Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton!

I think everyone has plenty enough reasons to not vote for this guy just on policy.

Scribbler1 · #14 (**permalink**) 06-24-2008

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Originally Posted by daddio

you should read up on elections last, this stuff is positively lame compared to the bare knuckled stuff from the 1800's

They used to carry guns into the building too. I'm well aware of how rough it was, but that's not an excuse for the behavior of politicians in the here and now. We're supposed to be BETTER than that and the people don't like it either. Well, they SAY they don't like it but they keep BELIEVING the character assassinations of the parties.

O'Sullivan Bere · #15 (**permalink**) 06-24-2008

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Originally Posted by Alex

I've heard Obama's race baiting comments in full, they are pretty hard to take out of context. He is painting all Republicans as racist, while casting himself as the poor 'black' victim - it is almost like he is getting coached by the expert poverty pimps Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton!

Yes, it goes broad for sure, but I took it as serving notice that he'll make a point to clarify the kinds of attacks being made on him as referenced and that his political adversaries will be using these kinds of claims, which is smart for him to call out and address.

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