BET-TV Founder Billionaire Businessman Bob Johnson said Monday that Sen. Barack Obama would not be his party’s leading candidate if he were white
There he said it, just like Geraldine Ferraro did, only this time, a black man said it. In both instances, the speakers were correct: Mr. Johnson made some very good points:
“What I believe Geraldine Ferraro meant is that if you take a freshman senator from Illinois called `Jerry Smith’ and he says I’m going to run for president, would he start off with 90 percent of the black vote?” Johnson said. “And the answer is, probably not… .”
“Geraldine Ferraro said it right. The problem is, Geraldine Ferraro is white. This campaign has such a hair-trigger on anything racial … it is almost impossible for anybody to say anything.”
Mr Johnson went on to say:
Johnson disputed the notion that Obama has built a broad coalition. Most of his support, he said, comes from African Americans and white liberals but not white, working-class Democrats.
“I don’t think he has that common — what I call `I-want-to-go-out-and-have-a-drink-with-you — touch,” Johnson said.
An Observer/WCNC Poll this month found Obama and Clinton splitting the votes of white North Carolinians who say they’ll vote in the May 6 primary. Obama led 59 percent to 7 percent among African Americans.
Johnson said Obama is likely to win the nomination and has had the support of “the liberal media.”
“They sort of dislike Hillary for her vote on the war. They don’t want to see Bill and Hillary in power again,” he said. “So Obama comes in and runs a smart campaign. But that’s not the Second Coming, in my opinion, of John F. Kennedy, FDR or the world’s greatest leaders.”
Mr. Johnson didn’t get where he is without his ability to size up a situation, and in this case, Obama was hand picked because of the color of his skin, and not for his legislative ability.
MM has a great roundup, take the time to read Cracker-quiddick Fallout Continues To Haunt SnObama
(H/T to Memeorandum)
Obama’s Flaws Multiply
“…the fact that his aides tell reporters he is privately bewildered that anybody took offense is even more remarkable.”
Obama Wrong On Analysis As Well As Politics? is a must read and it is noted that George Will puts Obama in historical perspective:
By so speaking, Obama does fulfill liberalism’s transformation since Franklin Roosevelt. What had been under FDR a celebration of America and the values of its working people has become a doctrine of condescension toward those people and the supposedly coarse and vulgar country that pleases them.
When a supporter told Adlai Stevenson, the losing Democratic presidential nominee in 1952 and 1956, that thinking people supported him, Stevenson said, “Yes, but I need to win a majority.” When another supporter told Stevenson, “You educated the people through your campaign,” Stevenson replied, “But a lot of people flunked the course.” Michael Barone, in “Our Country: The Shaping of America From Roosevelt to Reagan,” wrote: “It is unthinkable that Roosevelt would ever have said those things or that such thoughts ever would have crossed his mind.” Barone added: “Stevenson was the first leading Democratic politician to become a critic rather than a celebrator of middle-class American culture — the prototype of the liberal Democrat who would judge ordinary Americans by an abstract standard and find them wanting.”
H/T to Meme
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April 15, 2008 - 12:53 PM on April 15th, 2008
O ya here we go again, get out the crutches, man the cryin towels, whine and dance the favorite old tune. Waaaaaaaa so picked on, so mean treated, sob sob boohoo. Dr Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed of the day when we would get pass judging by race, it would come if people like Bob Johnson, the so called Rev. Wright, Al “Tawana”) Sharpton, and Jessie “I can turn anything into a racist act” Jackson, would all go crawl back into the snake holes they slithered out of.
April 15, 2008 - 04:07 PM on April 15th, 2008
Negotiating North America
“Economic integration,” “labor mobility,” “free movement of goods, services and people across open borders,” “harmonization” of regulations, North American Leaders Summit, TransTexas Corridor, “regional loop”, North American Union, Security a…
April 15, 2008 - 07:45 PM on April 15th, 2008
State of Texas a Danger to Children?
The mothers of all children five and older were separated from them on Monday. FLDS members say that the mothers returned to the compound but child protective services is saying that six women had gone to the safe house. They also moved the kids to a l…
April 15, 2008 - 07:47 PM on April 15th, 2008
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April 15, 2008 - 08:02 PM on April 15th, 2008
UK: 30 active terrorist plots
In response to A NEWT ONE who is wondering why there are no ‘big media’ writing about this issue, I have an e-mail from ACT! For America that discusses al-Reuters article about this same issue. Here is the article: …
April 15, 2008 - 08:36 PM on April 15th, 2008
Throwing Away the Keyes
Podcast Show Notes
Alan Keyes is leaving the GOPÂ for a likely third party bid.
John McCain puts out a solid economic plan. Meanwhile, he courts the Log Cabin Republicans over conservative objections.
At the same time, will a plagarism flap at t…
April 15, 2008 - 08:41 PM on April 15th, 2008
Biofuels: A Threat and a Cause of World Hunger
An unnamed editorialist at the NYT says: At best, corn ethanol delivers only a small reduction in greenhouse gases compared with gasoline. Are we beginning to see an ephiphany here – did the NYT just wake up from a long Gore-induced coma?
April 15, 2008 - 10:58 PM on April 15th, 2008
Geraldine Ferraro and Bob Johnson are both morons.
Anyone who knows anything about logic would know that they essentially are not saying anything. Let see…
Obama is black.
Obama is where he is.
Therefore, Obama would not be where he is if he was not black.
Wow, there right!! Big freaking deal, because if Obama was white then he wouldn”t be Obama! The Obama we know would not even exist!
You CANNOT seperate the two things.
It’’s like saying “If I was not me I would not be where I am.”
DUH!!! Ya think!
Geraldine Ferraro and Bob Johnson are smart enough people to understand this. They say these things for purely political purposes.
April 16, 2008 - 12:00 AM on April 16th, 2008
Would a Barack Obama Administration Lead to a Reign of Terror?
I TOLD YOU HE WAS LIKE SULLAJohn Fund’s take on Obama. “:As a state legislator he was even more off-center. In 1996, he opposed the Defense of Marriage Act, which the Senate approved 85-14 and President Clinton signed into law. He twice voted “p…
April 16, 2008 - 12:22 AM on April 16th, 2008
4GW/xGW: Identifying Tibet Protest Narratives
Clearly, the Tibet protests in America and the rest of the world are unusual. They are not led by professional, ideologically Marxist protesters from International ANSWER, the Revolutionary Communist Party, World Can’t Wait, Code Pink, or any of …
April 16, 2008 - 02:50 AM on April 16th, 2008
Global Warming Round Up: Every which way but loose
Here lately, the governments of many cities, counties, states and even countries. have taken a lot of steps to do “their part” to combat Global Warming.
The problem is that they are attacking the problem from a feel good emotional natu…
April 16, 2008 - 03:12 AM on April 16th, 2008
Bakken Oil Formation: Update
Previously, we had written about a spectacular story that speculated that the Bakken Formation in North Dakota held over 200 billion barrels of oil. See the original story here.
I emailed the USGS about the validity of this story and they sent me here….
April 16, 2008 - 05:08 AM on April 16th, 2008
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April 16, 2008 - 07:21 AM on April 16th, 2008
YOUR DISEASE OFFENDS ME!
Today I stand before you a man who has reached the very edge of his sanity. Thank you Catherine Moy for setting me off.
A person that wants to be our president accepts money from those who profit by undermining our republic. You offend me!
A perso…