????? half of the truth of my own opinion????? geez, i thought that most of us posted our opinions around here....you certainly have been affored the opportunity to. did you read any of the infor or simply dismiss it? the post itself said he had rejected the new black panther endorsement after making his speech. it had previoulsly been on his official website. i simply asked was this a group he should have been identified with your lack of comprehension, not mine at this point i neither support or reject mccain, huckabee, paul, clinton or obama. i do think it wise and prudent to ask questions and look into issues that may affect my choice.....don't you? do you know that he doesn't align himself with these people???????? based on what, your supposition, your knowledge? where then are the links, etc. showing he has rejected his associations with these people???? i didn't pretend to know about these issues, this is why i asked the questions. but evidently you do. share this info with proof or admit you went way off in your response.
you just said it yourself that he rejected the support. also to look into the issues, you arent doing that. You are posting here who he is aligned with and questioning his campaign stances and policies. you arent probing to affect your choice. When you posted what you did at the point, you were already dismissing your choice of voting for him, because you feel like he has aligned himself with hateful people. how is that probing all of the candidates. Just be honest about that, not try to turn it into a point where you present yourself just looking for information to support or not support him. Trust me I read the information.
The Black Panther issue. It was not posted on the site by Obama's staff. It was posted on the public forums area where citizens are allowed to sign up and participate on the site. If I recall from an article I read, there are more than 700,000 members now and one of those posted the endorsement on behalf of the New Black Panthers group. Once staff was aware of it, it was removed. I don't believe it was on the site long at all. If you read what Fox has to say, you would (almost?) be brainwashed into believing Obama posted the endorsement himself and has been a black panthers member since birth.
Im sure someone here, will find away to dispute this information to their viewpoint and opinion. any takers?
I wanted to just post something very interesting on this subject. Mike Huckabees' comments on the issue: here is the link http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/03/huckabee-defend.html here are a few quotes from it, you can read the entire article if you would like. MIKE HUCKABEE: There are two different stories -- one is Obama’s reaction, the other one is the Rev. Wright’s speech itself. And I think that, you know, Obama has handled this about as well as anybody could. And I agree, it’s a very historic speech. I think that it was an important one and one that he had to deliver, and he couldn’t wait. The sooner he made it, maybe the quicker that this becomes less of the issue. Otherwise, it was the only thing that was the issue in his entire campaign. And I thought he handled it very, very well. And he made the point, and I think it's a valid one, that you can't hold the candidate responsible for everything that people around him may say or do. You just can't -- whether it's me, whether it's Obama, anybody else. But he did distance himself from the very vitriolic statements. Now, the second story. It's interesting to me that there are some people on the left that are having to be very uncomfortable with what Louis Wright said, when they all were all over a Jerry Falwell or anyone on the right who said things that they found very awkward and uncomfortable years ago. Many times those were statements lifted out of the context of a larger sermon. Sermons, after all, are rarely written word-for-word by pastors like Rev. Wright, who are delivering them extemporaneously, and caught up in the emotion of the moment. There are things that sometimes get said, that if you put them on paper and looked at them in print, you'd say, "Well, I didn't mean to say it quite like that." something even more interesting that he is saying HUCKABEE: I don't think we know. If this were October, I think it would have a dramatic impact. But it's not October. It's March. And I don't believe that by the time we get to October this is going to be the defining issue of the campaign and the reason that people vote. And one other thing I think we've got to remember: As easy as it is for those of us who are white to look back and say, "That's a terrible statement," I grew up in a very segregated South, and I think that you have to cut some slack. And I'm going to be probably the only conservative in America who's going to say something like this, but I'm just telling you: We've got to cut some slack to people who grew up being called names, being told, "You have to sit in the balcony when you go to the movie. You have to go to the back door to go into the restaurant. And you can't sit out there with everyone else. There's a separate waiting room in the doctor's office. Here's where you sit on the bus." And you know what? Sometimes people do have a chip on their shoulder and resentment. And you have to just say, I probably would too. I probably would too. In fact, I may have had a more, more of a chip on my shoulder had it been me.
i dont really care about someone's hurt feelings for being called a name. racism is really only devastating when the object of the racism is in a position of inferiority. there isnt much racism of significance going on black on white. and i can absolutely understand and sympathize with blacks that are racist against whites for spite. it takes a very strong person to decide to take the high road in the face of adversity and you cant expect an entire race to be that way. but i cant believe so many here have such problems with obama on this issue. he has come out strongly (in a cosby-esque manner) to scold his own race---telling them to get their act together. obama is no demagogue.
This issue has obviously put a dent in the momentum that Obama was enjoying. Latest polls of likley democratic voters nationwide has Clinton out in front 49-42. That's a significant change. Looks like this will go down to the wire and those pesky superdelegates will indeed decide it, especially if they seat the Michigan and Florida delegates.
Pardon me, but Buuuuuullllchit. I lived in a predominantly black neighborhood north of LSU for 19 years and I can tell you three things that you can take to the bank. 1. There are black people who simply despise white people. More than you imagine, sitting out there in the suburbs. 2. There are sometimes white people who find themselves in the minority. 3. Black racists practice the same tactics as white racists including discrimination, racial slurs, open contempt, insults, and humiliation.
