njrob on April 6, 2008 at 1:17 PM

Those poor poor white men. The Democratic Party just doesn’t care about their issues; they’re always talking about the issues of women and minorities (except when they’re taking minorities and women for granted).

The true irony of identity politics is that the term “identity politics” was created for use in referring to the votes of–gasp–white men.

you’ve lost it if you think that men of European ancestry haven’t been left behind by the Democratic Party’s “identity politics.” It’s the party that has called white men ‘evil’ and that it would be good for society for white men to take a step back and let other groups have their turn.

Disgusting… nothing in the Democratic party is about equality… it’s about divisions and segregation/balkanization.

ErikTheRed on April 5, 2008 at 12:46 PM

Yea – If things are “being left behind curtains”, someone should have realized that LDS General Conference that’s on this weekend is on DirectTV, DISH, Galaxy 25, Comcast, Internet, etc…

If Obama wins the nomination, he will focus his attention away from his own base of African-American voters, which will mean that they will be especially taken for granted. If Hillary wins it, women’s issues will get little attention while she chases blacks and Latinos.

Doubtful. These groups has been paid more attention to than they have in any other election. There are no more “security moms,” but now there are younger women, older women, minority women, etc. The same with African-Americans. And the issues and grievances have gotten more play as well. This analysis seems out of date and doesn’t really hold up to the evidence already produced in this election cycle.

a voting bloc that has always been taken for granted — the bowling, lawn-mowing, cheesesteak-eating, Three Stooges-watching demographic that both candidates have made themselves look foolish in chasing the last few weeks.

Taken for granted? Seriously? All elections are geared specifically to this voting bloc and others are expected to fall in line or do some research for themselves. Historically general elections have been focused on the white male with women and minorities as an afterthought (in recent years there has been a focus on the aforementioned “security moms”). To act as though white men have been “taken for granted” is simply foolish and incorrect.

The one “demographic” that both of these candidates and their MSM tools have insulted, bashed and denigrated with such gusto and zeal is the one “demographic” they so badly need in this election.

The elitists and their candidates know nothing about America outside their Gulfstream ghettos and it is way too late for them to even start pretending that they do. All it does is to further insult us “great unwashed” out here in “Jesusland”.

maverick muse on April 5, 2008 at 11:39 AM

It’s a bit early to be hitting the crack pipe on a weekend. Seriously.

That was just…weird.

His mother is white. It would be more appropriate to say that he is of mixed ethnicity.

dentalque on April 5, 2008 at 9:43 AM

That would make him halfrican-American

The candidates have already resigned themselves to wooing people with political attention deficit disorder. They know that if they embark on a 12-week tour of the nation to publicize their signature issue of dropout prevention, on the day it’s over they will turn on the TV and see an undecided voter in sweat pants saying: “I’m waiting to hear what they say about dropouts.” Then they’ll order up another passel of ads and go out to woo again.

Wow. Gail, your Manhattan ego is showing. Just—wow.

We need to expose BarackObama’s REAL deep, dark secret: the guy’s an inverterate yuppie.
logis on April 5, 2008 at 11:19 AM

Like his predecessor, the haughty John Kerry? The picture of Obama throwing gutter balls is telling enough, but wait ’til you see the one of him windsurfing.

coincidentally regarding white men seeking to represent America, in the news this weekend out West…

In Eldorado, Jeff’s young females from the FLDS are removed from their “temple” compound PEACEFULLY without tanks and inferno killing everyone like Clinton’s thugs accomplished at Mt. Carmel.

Meanwhile, further West, Monson takes over the LDS church in SLC (actually reformed following their Manifesto in all of its revisions and re-interpretations). And if memory serves, Monson’s early role as a Mormon general authority involved PR presenting them all as a kinder, gentler sort.

As per regarding this year’s POTUS campaign, one can gather how many generations it takes for a body of people (any church with any doctrine) to CHANGE following a unified consensus.

Mormons have bragging rights for having CHANGED from their polygamous heathenism into a STRONG socialist fabric that absolutely supports the American Constitution so long as business is left behind curtains. Romney himself has NEVER avoid or practiced or excused contemporary polygamy, so is without fault on those grounds that the MSM would crucify any white male.

The Black Social Gospel, meanwhile, has yet to CHANGE to accept, let alone promote, the God of Peace, demanding instead the god of destruction until the white are purged from their midst. Obama himself has documented his own racism in his published for profit and propogation of blinded mentality book that the MSM would crucify any while male OR FEMALE especially for thinking, let alone speaking or PUBLISHING. Obama, the MSM front man, will only CHANGE things for the worse.

The MSM purpose is to divide and conquer fractions of our world’s population in order to RULE with more complete POWER, as those who own the MSM also own the world BANKS and political parties.

Yep, Dems will pander to anybody, as expedient. Why else would Obama [try to]go bowling? Or John Kerry [try to] go hunting?
petefrt on April 5, 2008 at 10:51 AM

I think we can pretty much give up on attacking BarackObama for his past Muslim roots, or his current Nation of Islam church affiliations.

We need to expose BarackObama’s REAL deep, dark secret: the guy’s an inverterate yuppie. There’s no shame in being a poor bowler, but the average American finds it odd that a grown man seems utterly unfamiliar with the concept.

If BarackObama wanted a photo-op and didn’t want to look like a boob, he could have gone in for a bowling LESSON. But he didn’t. Instead, he tried to compete at a sport he’d probably never even seen played on TV before.

And why not? He figures: “Hey, if poor people do this, how hard can it possibly be?”

Democrats WILL pander to white guys…
Angry Dumbo on April 5, 2008 at 10:40 AM

Yep, Dems will pander to anybody, as expedient. Why else would Obama [try to]go bowling? Or John Kerry [try to] go hunting?

…Barak will go mucho macho in the next few months and the press will eat it up….
Angry Dumbo on April 5, 2008 at 10:40 AM

More shots of him bowling a 37, perhaps? What a macho man!

Then I have to ask myself why most of the sports teams at the university are populated by blacks. I could be crass and use Obama’s “average white” theory that his grandmother’s bias was “bred” but I don’t want to be crass, at least today.