That Didn’t Take Long: Obama and the Race-Gap Polling
By: Pam On: Jan/8/08 - 10 Comments
Can You Trust What Polls Say about Obama’s Electoral Prospects? Two Important Trends Suggest Americans May Now Be Ready to Elect an African American President….That was last February..Just a bit over 2 hours ago, Obama lost New Hampshire, and rather than take the polls for what they are, junk, David Kuo took them seriously and now thinks that racism was the cause for Obama’s loss..No David, the problem was you followed the polls.
January 9, 2008 - 08:57 AM on January 9th, 2008
The Dem side is bringing out basic philosophical ideas of the liberals: Everyone is racist, everyone is sexists, etc. It highlights that they do not believe in accountability for one’s own actions. They believe that failure is not a self-inflicting phenomonem that builds one’s charatcer but is out of one’s control and can always be attributed to an outside source.
Pitiful, really.
January 9, 2008 - 09:02 AM on January 9th, 2008
1, Ted, also, don’t forget the Dem Quota Politics. Steinem was basicly saying that its time to fill the Female Quota for President with Hillary.
January 9, 2008 - 01:54 PM on January 9th, 2008
Terms like sexist and racist are the tools the PC fascists use against anyone violating the rules of Political Correctness.
It is not permitted to even question anything that doe not fall wihin th guidelines of PC!!! No debate is allowed or tolerated! To even think such a thing, anything that would violate the tenets of PC, is itself an act of racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, etc.!
January 9, 2008 - 01:57 PM on January 9th, 2008
PCD prhaps then to fill the Female quota, and properly address the quotas for all of the disenfranchised minorities, we shoud insist that a future President (after Hitlary, of course) should be gay, female, handicapped, Spanish-speaking Vietnamese from Ethiopia.
Does that cover it?
January 9, 2008 - 02:59 PM on January 9th, 2008
4, Nope, you’ve just excluded SFL, Tofu, and Eben from the Presidency.
January 9, 2008 - 05:49 PM on January 9th, 2008
“They believe that failure is not a self-inflicting phenomonem that builds one’s charatcer but is out of one’s control and can always be attributed to an outside source.”
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No Ted, of course we Liberals believe that failure can be, and often is self-inflicted.
However, we are also very aware (more so than some conservatives, apparently) of outside interferences that can cause also cause one to fail.
What’s truly “pitiful” in my opinion, is how both Conservatives AND Liberals CONSTANTLY, baselessly and uselessly generalize the beliefs of others who may not agree with them.
January 9, 2008 - 05:59 PM on January 9th, 2008
I don’t race played much in Obamas very narrow loss in NH to Clinton.
There will always be a smallish number of die-hard racists who won’t ever vote for this race or that.
That said, from what I’ve seen and heard, and looking at his rise in popularity; once people who are hungry for a new/different kind of politician hear Sen. Obama speak or read one of his books, they look beyond the race thing and see something that they really want in a president.
I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. Apparently Iowa, 95% white, liked what they saw…
January 9, 2008 - 06:50 PM on January 9th, 2008
SFL, the rabid Democrats in Iowa are decidedly Socialist if not Fascist. Obama has a solid far left voting record in Illinois.
January 10, 2008 - 12:24 AM on January 10th, 2008
“However, we are also very aware (more so than some conservatives, apparently) of outside interferences that can cause also cause one to fail.”
Ironically followed by…
“However, we are also very aware (more so than some conservatives, apparently)…”
January 11, 2008 - 03:32 PM on January 11th, 2008
what?