I just got off the phone with Mike Ash, Director of the Durham County Board of Elections in Durham, NC. He doesn’t have any numbers as far as percentages of eligible voters making it to the polls at this point,……

Why is that question never asked?

Now replace the word “black” with the words “an idiot” and you there have my position.

jim m on April 26, 2008 at 11:01 AM

No, he didn’t. What he did say is that all the racists will vote for McCain. By extension, racists reside within the GOP only.

What’s so offensive about this? Obama is assuming he’ll win the nomination and where else would someone go if (s)he won’t vote for a black person?

He didn’t say that all McCain voters are racist.

words have meaning, and they can hurt.

Entelechy on April 25, 2008 at 6:50 PM

Only if you let them, Mrs E, only if you let them.

False flag?

He never served anything but himself.

Waffles.

If an R candidate who was never in the military tried this they’d be lambasted as a fraud for a week in every venue from Obly to the 5 a.m. Farm Report.

It is with Kerry, you know, because Swiftboat Vets smearing; Clinton, VRWC; and Obama, race.

Just like the left hasn’t accepted communism as a failed -ism yet, only the wrong people were in charge.

One wonders if he will ever realise that the vast majority doesn’t buy into identity politics. Throwing his race around willy-nilly isn’t going to win this empty suit a bag of peanuts let alone an election. The vast majority of Americans a fair, open-minded and decent and judge things as they see them – they also don’t take kindly to being insulted pace John Kerry.

What a fool…

Uh-oh. Obama’s campaign just insulted racists.

Nonfactor on April 25, 2008 at 5:47 PM

A crr6-like comment. You’re better than that…I think.

oops, fixed that

This guy is such a waste… and his acolytes are a boil on the ass of this country.

I mean the vast, vast majority of voters who would not vote for Barack Obama in November based on race are probably firmly in John McCain’s camp already.

combined with:

Because, you know, that voters in the Midwest and rural and exurban areas are nothing but embittered xenophobes who cling to guns, religion, and an antipathy to people who don’t look like themselves.

Problem is, most of us xenophobic, rural, gun-nut, bible thumping hicks don’t like McCain either.

I realize that you didn’t mean that those two things were part of a continuum, Cap’n Ed, but I was just kind of struck by the way they were juxtaposed.

The only thing that will beat the inevitable Hillary/Wes Clark combo is Mccain/Huckabee!

SaintOlaf on April 25, 2008 at 6:09 PM

What color is the sky in your world?

You know damned well if Obama runs and loses, there will be a sizeable group of blacks, whites and other races who will ascribe it to the “bigots” in the USA, proving what Wright, Ayers et. al. have worked so hard to educate them as to the “reality” of the USA.

The question in my mind is whether or how far things go toward “Rodney King Redux”. If Obama gets hosed it will be harder to stir up “action”. A situation like Bush and Gore could be explosive. People like Ayers love chaos.

…Obama spox Bill Burton writes to say, “We want to take Senator McCain at his word that he wants to run a respectful campaign, but that is becoming increasingly difficult when he continually tries to use the politics of association……

Insulting the electorate is a puzzling campaign strategy.

obladioblada on April 25, 2008 at 5:42 PM

Ha.

I read that in a Mr. Spok voice.

Entelechy on April 25, 2008 at 7:09 PM

WOAH. Thanks for that!

So, obviously, 52% of the White Democrat voters are racist, which is the reason that Obama did not get 98% of the vote overall!

A few months ago the Obama campaign was talking about transcendence. Now it’s talking about math. “Yes we can” has become “No she can’t.”

This wasn’t the way things were supposed to play out.