Quote of the day
posted at 10:15 pm on October 17, 2008 by Allahpundit
“That Obama’s loss in the general election may have more to do with his performance than his melanin will be treated as something to acknowledge parenthetically at best. And that will be a dismissal of the very lesson Dr. King tried to teach us. Two decades ago, when Jesse Jackson ran for president and Time magazine did a cover with his picture and the headline “The Jackson Factor’, it was just to sell copies: We all knew America wasn’t ready for a black President. Perhaps the reaction was partly due to certain things about Jackson himself, but who knew that not so long later, a black man would be within a hair’s breadth of the White House in part because of his race? Yet, if we truly understand that King’s lesson was that black people are whites’ equals and not eternal poster children, then we must confront the fact that race is not the only reason Obama could lose.
King’s next birthday celebration will be, as it happens, the day before Inauguration Day, and I dread the prospect of black America treating King Day as an opportunity to rue how McCain’s swearing in will show ‘far we have to go’ 40 years after King’s death, rather than celebrating that how close Obama came to the prize showed how magnificently far we have come.”
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I disagree. We’ve been ready for a Black or female President for a while, but no one was well-established on the national political stage enough to win.
jgapinoy on October 17, 2008 at 10:18 PM
you’re kidding right?
ernesto on October 17, 2008 at 10:21 PM
I fully admit that I do have a color requirement for POTUS.
The color must be able to kill America’s enemies, jail America’s crooks, and stay the hell out of my business.
Does Crayola make that color in the 64 pack?
Limerick on October 17, 2008 at 10:22 PM
I agree. To me 20 or 24 yrs. doesn`t seem like alot of time for society to just switch and say “o.k. we`ll try a black guy for President.”
ThePrez on October 17, 2008 at 10:23 PM
Nope.
Colin Powell.
jgapinoy on October 17, 2008 at 10:24 PM
Totally agree. And Jackson of all people. Back then? No way.
JeffinOrlando on October 17, 2008 at 10:24 PM
I believe and have faith in the American People. BO can not and will not win. Believe it!
I am a Marin County Conservative.
surfer girl on October 17, 2008 at 10:25 PM
You getting my emails, Allah? No Hitchens on the Factor clip? No Triumph at the debate clip? I thought those would be right up your alley!
(Bonus points if you respond to my last line with a timeless George Costanza quote. Hint: Marine Biologist)
RightWinged on October 17, 2008 at 10:26 PM
Not trying to be snarky but isn’t that like claiming you shook hands with Bigfoot?
Limerick on October 17, 2008 at 10:27 PM
That’s an interesting article, but I don’t really agree that an Obama defeat will suppress further runs by black candidates. The argument that it’s 2 steps forward, 3 back is not compelling.
btw Palin responded to Noonan twice apparently today, once on the Lars Larson show and once on her plane. Nice, typical Sarah, but even more notable was the refutation of the complains from the Trib on Palin’s experience noting the lack of concern expressed on Obama’s. Nice couple of minutes.
Spirit of 1776 on October 17, 2008 at 10:27 PM
Proof read much?
keebs on October 17, 2008 at 10:28 PM
This election is about more than the differences between two candidates. I think it’s a contest between competing ideologies and both sides (but conservatives more than liberals, I think) see it as a chance to break the back of the competing ideology. Obama is the 60s never-grew-up-baby boomers’ chance for their day in the sun; if he’s rejected, their whole generation is done for. I think it’s less clear what conservatives gain from a McCain presidency; just keeping the Zero out is good enough for me.
Fortunata on October 17, 2008 at 10:31 PM
Do not worry about me. I surf the Red Triangle. :) McCain/Palin ’08
surfer girl on October 17, 2008 at 10:32 PM
Republican RED! (Hell, why do we have to be red? More fitting for the Dems)
J.J. Sefton on October 17, 2008 at 10:32 PM
I think,if Martin Luther King was alive today,
I really beleive,that King himself,would be
telling Obama,in light of Hopey’s purposely
trying to divide America,
King would tell Changey,your unworthy,and
King would say,your not the ‘one’!
canopfor on October 17, 2008 at 10:35 PM
Swap colors on McCain and Obama and ask if you would not still vote McCain? Abortion, judges, associations, judgment, experience, etc are more than enough to get me to McCain reguardless of skin color. That Obama sat under Wright can be abstracted from skin pigmentation.
Now as to the country at large, I have no idea what they will do come election day. Nor do I have a crystal ball to see into men’s hearts, but based on my own values I’d say the country would love a black Reagan, particularly compared to a worse than Edwards.
AnotherOpinion on October 17, 2008 at 10:35 PM
I don’t care about the color of a politician’s skin, I care about the color of their political ideology.
Obama’s color is a factor to me. He is red, as in communist red. Therefore, I am voting against him.
Plain and simple.
I know the author here is not making this point, but I’ll believe people who whine about the lack of advancement of Blacks when they stop calling Condoleeza Rice a “skeeza”, stop calling Clarence Thomas an Uncle Tom, stop smearing Michael Steele, stop smearing Thomas Sowell, etc.
None of the people whining about the lack of advancement of Blacks ever give President Bush credit for Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice and they also don’t credit Clarence Thomas for rising to the Supreme Court.
When the race baiters stop their nonsense, then I will take them seriously.
Obama losing is not a step back for Blacks, it is a step back for *communism*. Period. America was well ready to receive a supposedly post-partisan, post-racial Black candidate for President. When it turned out that Obama was not what he was selling himself as, that is when people turned on him. It has nothing to do with race and everything to do with the character of (or lack there of) the man.
Michael in MI on October 17, 2008 at 10:35 PM
the fact that barry is darker, gives him a boost in the general election,,, or at least the MSM is giving him a pass and not looking hard into his past.
custer on October 17, 2008 at 10:38 PM
I think America would love to vote for a black President. I know I would. Honestly. The problem isn’t that America isn’t ready for a black president. I reject that premise because it is always put forth by liberals. It is that the liberals war against black conservatives. They have shown they will do everything they can to attempt to destroy them.
I voted for Lynn Swann here two years ago when he ran for Governor. He’s a great conservative man, and yes,, he’s black. How many blacks voted for him? I bet more white conservatives voted for Lynn Swann than black Democrats.
Any black conservative that would get near the national ticket would get worse than what Clarence Thomas got!
No, it is not that America is not ready for a black president,, it is that the Democrat liberals will destroy any black Republican conservative that attempts to run.
JellyToast on October 17, 2008 at 10:39 PM
Those who have been “well-established,” have been so, to some extent, on the basis of being black or female, and little else. They are charged with acting or believing in a certain way, as if their gender or their color required it of them. Inasmuch as this is the case, the “dream” of Dr King is not only unrealized, but unduly delayed, by the very people who long the most for its being fulfilled.
manwithblackhat on October 17, 2008 at 10:40 PM
I’m not too far from you (SacTown) and have a few friends that live right there in Marin. How can you stand it?
It’s like 99.9% loon down there.
One guy screamed at me that I was a “breeder” when I visited my friends there a few months ago with my little boys.
Luckily for him we were in a supermarket at the time. Too many witnesses around if you get my drift.
Over.
1GooDDaDDy on October 17, 2008 at 10:41 PM
Yeah.
Spirit of 1776 on October 17, 2008 at 10:42 PM
We don’t have the liberal guilt clouding our minds in Kansas. The coastal elites thing this absence is the equivalent of cross burning, of course.
I don’t think Obama will be elected, mainly because most voters will finally see that, aside from any feelings about his being black, he is a neophyte, a socialist, and totally inexperienced.
Prediction: there will be a black president within 25 years, and he/she will be a Republican.
stonemeister on October 17, 2008 at 10:43 PM
Exactly so.
It takes time to build up a pool of talent at each stage.
You don’t suddenly get a black CEO the week after you eliminate the glass wall preventing any black managers from rising out of middle management.
ClintACK on October 17, 2008 at 10:45 PM
I’d vote for Micheal Steele in a heartbeat…
DCJeff on October 17, 2008 at 10:45 PM
Dude, we have been so ready for at least over 10 years.
Do you really think that I wouldn’t vote for Walter Williams if he was running in this election as a Republican? In a heartbeat. I’d be hitting the pavement now for the guy and I’m a Caucasian/Latino/Indian mutt.
If Obama does not win, it will be because he is a Marxist. That is why he is NOT ahead by 15+ points.
Sapwolf on October 17, 2008 at 10:47 PM
Right on.
RushBaby on October 17, 2008 at 10:47 PM
I’d do it twice, as soon as I sign up with ACORN.
Over.
1GooDDaDDy on October 17, 2008 at 10:48 PM
Excellent argument. As for me, a white guy, I’d be all the more enthused about voting for a minority in that situation just to further rub the left’s face in it.
What bums me out at this point is that if Obama loses, there probably will be inner-city riots of rage – fire, mayhem and toppled cars. If Obama wins, there will be inner-city riots of celebration – fire, mayhem and toppled cars, as if their team just won the Super Bowl.
innominatus on October 17, 2008 at 10:49 PM
Who that’s run for president is established enough to even win the support of half of his/her own party? Colin Powell was being pushed to run in ’96 but didn’t. He might’ve even won.
amerpundit on October 17, 2008 at 10:49 PM
Steele/Watts/20??:)
canopfor on October 17, 2008 at 10:50 PM
Palin/Swan 2012
Swan/Palin 2012
Sapwolf on October 17, 2008 at 10:50 PM
It helps to be beautiful.
We stay because it is the place if you like to hike and surf and Mt. Bike, and fish.
Faith in America. BO can not and will not win.
surfer girl on October 17, 2008 at 10:51 PM
If I thought Osama Obama was the best his race could do, I’d say America’s not ready for a black president, too.
But in this case, I’m saying America is not ready for a Marxist Red/Coward Yellow president.
MrScribbler on October 17, 2008 at 10:52 PM
That’s why gun sales are up and you need to be ready to defend your life, family and property.
I used to live near Detroit. It is hell on earth except for the Tigers, Lions, and Redwings. Cesspool.
Sapwolf on October 17, 2008 at 10:52 PM
We’ll know it was his qualifications. Or lack thereof.
Joe O’B qualification are quite well known… hoof in mouth disease is not a quality worthy of veep let alone POTUS
Kini on October 17, 2008 at 10:53 PM
There are a number of Americans who will vote for Obama because they have a psychotic need to hear their little inner voice say “I am not a racist.”
Pelayo on October 17, 2008 at 10:53 PM
Why Obama Will Win:
Bush anger
Hanging economic problems on Bush (I know, I know, but he was the MMFIC when it happened)
Hanging economic problems on Republicans (not true but the news is permitting it to stick)
White guilt
Voter fraud
Why Obama Will Lose:
Too liberal (historically, he should lose 50 of 50 states or very close to that… McGovern, Dukakis, Mondale)
Past associations (for those that know and care)
Socialist (again, for those that know and care, which, based on the bailouts, no one seems to)
When caught without teleprompter, doesn’t seem nearly as smart as folks pretend
The country is still 60%+ somewhat conservative or conservative
Truly extreme abortion view (for those that know and care)
Economic problems properly hung on Democrats (for those that know)
Bradley Effect (7-10% but who really knows)
I believe it will be a Mccain landslide with one very major concern… voter fraud.
I didn’t originally think this could be enough to change the outcome. Now, however, with all the states involved and the extent of the problem (so many locations with more on their rolls than their population).
There is one thing I know for sure. I’m glad I don’t own any property near the park where the Obama campaign is set to gather election night.
Palin/MachoSauce guy 2012
CC – BHO: “my Muslim faith”
CapedConservative on October 17, 2008 at 10:54 PM
Micheal Steele, Ken Blackwell, Clarance Thomas, Walter Williams or Thomas Soul. Any time, any place.
These are the men that represent my political attitudes.
I’d walk through fire for these guys. Oh did I mention they happen to be “men of color” too.
Over.
1GooDDaDDy on October 17, 2008 at 10:55 PM
Palin/Swan 2012
Swan/Palin 2012
That would be the dream ticket!
JellyToast on October 17, 2008 at 10:55 PM
I’m holding onto my pessimism. I slightly more optimistic than earlier this week.
Joe the plumber made the issue in this election clear.
Do you want socialism, or do you not?
Let’s see how the voters decide. I don’t have faith that they’ll choose wisely. Too many people seem to want government to fix their problems.
lorien1973 on October 17, 2008 at 10:57 PM
There’s still time for Bush to declare Marshal Law and void the elections.
Kini on October 17, 2008 at 10:58 PM
Lifelong Steelers fan looking forward to rooting for Swann again. Especially if his name is spelled correctly on the campaign signs.
/nitpick
innominatus on October 17, 2008 at 11:00 PM
I disagree… I just think the news makes sure those are the only people we hear from. 2 1/2 weeks and we’ll know the answer for sure.
CC – BHO: “my Muslim faith”
CapedConservative on October 17, 2008 at 11:00 PM
Funny you should mention that. My beau is a Briton aspiring to be an American citizen, but still about a year away from attaining that dream. He knows more about our politics than I do, so we always talk about what a shame it is that he can’t vote. I told him the other day that he should show up at the Dem Headquarters and see if they’d register him – just as an experiment, mind. :)
As to skin color…Ideology is the only color pallet I’m interested in. Green, Black, White, Yellow, Purple… You got the Conservative chops, you’ve got my attention and my vote.
tickleddragon on October 17, 2008 at 11:01 PM
Thomas
SoulSowellNot to pick, but I’ve been reading him since the 70′s. And never make me choose between he and Williams. They are the greatest! I’d vote for either in a heartbeat, and if they were on the same ticket, I think I’d die after pulling the lever.
Dusty on October 17, 2008 at 11:01 PM
In our re-education camp, the overseers are in their tents talking, and the those of us who aren’t in the rice fields, are being told that if “The One” looses, be prepared to riot…………..
……. the constant messages from Rev. Wright are being broadcast into the compound, and the search lights are never ending.
Under our breaths, we hum “God Bless America”, until the dogs start to bark……..
We are planning a “break out”, but we are not sure if there is a United States to return to…………. I will update when I can…….
Seven Percent Solution on October 17, 2008 at 11:01 PM
Or higher taxes. Bush taxes will expire under an Obama admin.
And that $250K tax threshold …. believe me, that’s just a moving target… towards the $150K, $100K. $90K
Where does it stop….????
Kini on October 17, 2008 at 11:02 PM
Republicans would have nominated Thomas Sowell 10 years ago if he were running. Color is irrelevant.
lorien1973 on October 17, 2008 at 11:02 PM
Good Grief
Guardian on October 17, 2008 at 11:02 PM
Do you remember where $250,000 came from?
lorien1973 on October 17, 2008 at 11:03 PM
That’s a fair point. I was listening to Hannity this afternoon on my home from work and he was taking calls from Obama supporters. One guy gave as his reason for voting for Obama because he was going to give him more than McCain would. This man wanted his government “rebate” check plus health care and dental care etc. and when Hannity asked him whether he thought the government should provide him a car or not, he said he already had one! This is the mentality we’re dealing with–de Toqueville was right–once this society decides that it can vote itself largesse, that’s when democracy here dies.
Matt Helm on October 17, 2008 at 11:04 PM
I think it would be tough to beat a black Republican. He or she wouldn’t lose many Republican votes, but would pick up quite a few Democratic votes. Democrats seem far more obsessed with the race of their candidates, after all.
The question is how much bile and hatred a black Republican would be exposed to from the left, particularly black leftists, on the national stage. You can understand why Colin Powell chose not to subject his family to that.
The problem, though, is the talent pool. There are no black Republican Governors — though Michael Steele came close. And not many black Republicans in Congress since before WWII. So, I’d say the first black Republican President is someone we haven’t heard of yet. Perhaps a veteran of Iraq or Afghanistan who will come home and run for mayor or congressman in 2010 or 2012, and begin his political career from there?
ClintACK on October 17, 2008 at 11:04 PM
Have we really come that far? I disagree with the notion Jackson was a non-factor just because he was black. He was a non-factor because he’s Jessee Jackson. Forty years ago, to be sure, a black man probably could not have made a serious run for the presidency.
Forty years later, we have one who’s a leading contender solely because he’s black; he would have been politely ushered off the stage during the primaries, with muffled snorts of amusement, if he was Barry O’Bama, white guy with paper-thin resume and shady past running against Hillary Clinton. For that matter, he never would have won a Senate seat without the unique confluence of radical leftists, race hustlers, and corrupt Chicago power brokers that groomed him as their instrument. And even at that, he wouldn’t have made it into the Senate, except he ran against a guy who somehow felt his erotic life wasn’t stimulating enough with Seven of Nine in his bedroom, and decided he just had to drag her off to clubs that resemble the average liberal’s idea of what Guantanamo Bay looks like. This is progress?
Did the Democrat Party, tribunes of all oppressed minorities (except those useless Cuban idiots who were dumb enough to run away from free health care and 110% literacy) have no one else that could be the first serious black candidate for President? This was it?
Doctor Zero on October 17, 2008 at 11:05 PM
My single largest concern that I haven’t heard about anywhere is:
If Obama is elected and the tax laws are sufficiently altered to the point that less than 50% are paying the taxes, we pass the famous tipping point where those who benefit from taxes and don’t pay any outnumber those who actually do pay. At that point, we cross the magic line of no return without severe social unrest. I see that as the actual goal of socialists. If they reach that point, their battle is all downhill from there.
CC – BHO: “my Muslim faith”
CapedConservative on October 17, 2008 at 11:05 PM
When you were declared…. Rich?
Kini on October 17, 2008 at 11:06 PM
Yep. Do you remember when that became the magical “rich” number?
lorien1973 on October 17, 2008 at 11:07 PM
I’m a “doer” not a speller. ;>p
But my heart is in the “right” place.
Over.
1GooDDaDDy on October 17, 2008 at 11:07 PM
Follow up………….. Our re-education camp overseers finally caught on to us all wearing lipstick and carrying plungers (from an earlier post)……… they were not pleased.
Instead of gruel for dinner, we were served the left overs from Michelle Obama’s lunch of caviar and lobster………
We used the fish eggs to catch more fish, and the lobster shells to create a broth to cook them in…….
…… the overseers looked upon us like we just performed some sort of “magic”……. they had no concept of self reliance.
………… more to follow.
Seven Percent Solution on October 17, 2008 at 11:07 PM
lorien1973
Refresh my memory… please ~_^
Kini on October 17, 2008 at 11:08 PM
I’m not concerned with Obama robot voters – those times Hannity takes their calls is just to make the point that they are morons. I accept that they are lookin’ for handouts. I’m just talking about your every day person. People do not seem to understand that government cannot give you; what it has not already taken from you. They think government is some magical entity that takes their problems away.
lorien1973 on October 17, 2008 at 11:08 PM
Tell me about it.
Go back and check the old election maps. From the dawn of color TV Republicans were Blue and Democrats were Red. That suddenly changed on every network, without any public discussion. AND suddenly the phrases “Red State” and “Blue State” were being talked about everywhere, and the old map colors went down the memory hole.
It was positively Orwellian.
ClintACK on October 17, 2008 at 11:09 PM
[1GooDDaDDy on October 17, 2008 at 11:07 PM]
LOL. ;-)
Dusty on October 17, 2008 at 11:10 PM
HA…you’ve been killing me for days now.
Here’s a map out of that place. And a side arm for good luck.
Over.
1GooDDaDDy on October 17, 2008 at 11:10 PM
I dont care who runs, as long as Black people see an “R” at the end his/her name, forget it. The Dems have most of them brainwashed into thinking “Dem good, Republican bad”. That’s how I was raised. If they knew the real story of the party; they would think twice..or maybe not.
Sanjoboy on October 17, 2008 at 11:11 PM
For years the Democrats have talked about taxes, deficits, and government debt. This is the first time I ever heard a national political candidate talk directly about spreading wealth. I’ve been hearing this crap for nearly fifty years. This should be McCain’s central campaign theme from here until Nov. 3.
Pelayo on October 17, 2008 at 11:12 PM
Why in Hades is Barak Obama supposed to be the only possible black guy in America who could win an election? I know far too many intelligent and talented black people to even think that Obamajebus is the best Black America can do.
I’ll tell you why sometimes black candidates have problems getting elected. It’s an old, story. I think people fall in love with the idea of electing the “First Black (name of office here)” more than the all-too-human candidates themselves. So when a plausible black candidate shows up for an office, vetting becomes an afterthought until there is opposition to think about—which is often too late in the process.
What then happens in the election is that the opposing candidate’s oppo research finds some skeleton in the black candidate’s closet that his or her own campaign should have handled on Day One. It then becomes impossible to unsee what was seen—and the resulting repulsion from the voters overrides their desire to “make history.”
Sekhmet on October 17, 2008 at 11:12 PM
Back during the clinton years, tax increases were always talked about in terms of “millionaires” – they should pay more taxes. They aren’t paying their fair share.
Gore, in 2000 made a proclamation one day that if you make $250,000 for 4 years, you are a millionaire, so you deserve a tax increase as well. That’s when $250,000 became the magical number.
In 2000, even the media balked at this. It was understood that 250,000 is nothing. It includes tons of s-corps and small businesses; especially hurting companies that carry inventory (retailers that do a lot of the hiring). Rush probably has it in his archives still.
But that’s when it became $250,000. Gore recognized that to increase revenue, taxing people over a million simply isn’t enough. Today, 250,000 is “worth less” than it was 8 years ago, so now you have more people in that bracket so now it’s a real money center.
So, yes, I’d expect in 3-4 years that $150,000 would become the new 250,000. And it’d keep getting lowered and lowered, probably till $100,000. I doubt it’d go much lower than that – the tax base dramatically increases at that point.
Anyways, that’s the short history of it.
lorien1973 on October 17, 2008 at 11:13 PM
America is ready for a competent president of any race. I
t is black racists who take every competent black candidate and excoriate them thereby rendering them unwilling to run. Colin Powell could have won years ago, but wouldn’t run because he knew what the press would do to him because he used to be a conservative. Condi won’t run because she is still a conservative, therefore she is deemed “not black enough” by people of her own race.
It’s not white people holding anybody down.
JustTruth101 on October 17, 2008 at 11:13 PM
Seriously? Love his stuff. Had no idea he’s black. I think he’s a bit old to run for office though. Would be incredible if President McCain asked him to be Secretary of the Treasury, to handle the “bailout” and get us an “exit strategy” to completely re-privatize the banks over the next four years…
ClintACK on October 17, 2008 at 11:16 PM
Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican. Nuff said.
Mojave Mark on October 17, 2008 at 11:17 PM
by Kini
What will happen is that inflation will put more and more people into that bracket just like more people find themselves paying the Alternative Minimum Tax.
At least the recent “bailout bill” allegedly fixed that problem temporarily.
Pelayo on October 17, 2008 at 11:19 PM
*shudder*
I try not to think about that.
I think we’ve already reached the point at which it’s a one-way street. Under Democrats we creep closer to 51% non-payers, and under Republicans we just hold the line. Eventually we will cross that threshold, God help us.
ClintACK on October 17, 2008 at 11:20 PM
Yes, that would be tremendous. Better the Buffett/Whitman idea.
Spirit of 1776 on October 17, 2008 at 11:24 PM
America would have been ready for a black man that let anyone hit him with anything and not barter with his blackness, vis a vis Shelby Steele. There have been precious few black politicians of that sort till recently. Obama’s deafening silence on his surrogates’ use of the race card demonstrates that he’s not that kind of man, either.
spmat on October 17, 2008 at 11:24 PM
Blacks will be in a quandry if The Chosen One makes it to the White House (will we still be able to call it that without appearing RACIST?).
They’ll no longer be able to play the ‘victim’ game.
GarandFan on October 17, 2008 at 11:24 PM
I believe he’s just in his mid ’60′s, a few years older than me.
I could run…never mind too many “skeletons” in my closest. Never make it past the M$M toadies.
Over.
1GooDDaDDy on October 17, 2008 at 11:25 PM
Exactly! The libs portray Marxist liberal Democrat black candidates as the only standard, the norm. They are the only legitimate blacks. But, America is not liberal. Not yet, anyway. So,, Jesse Jackson is rejected because he’s a lib,, then the media writes stories about “America is not ready for a black president.” Which is not true. I really believe America would be eager to vote for a black president. That one act would show how great this country really is! A black elected as a Republican president would so threaten the Democrat party, I honestly believe that would be worse for them than even Roe vs Wade being overturned. They would rather have Sarah Palin for 3 terms than risk even one term of a black conservative Republican.
Well, 3 terms of Sarah Palin might be stretching it,, but a black conservative in the Oval office everyday, his picture hanging in public schools, post offices and Federal buildings across America would be like Armageddon for the Democrat party. They would risk losing, what?? 20% of their voting block?? They would risk losing their biggest ace card,, their weapons of all weapons,, calling Republicans racist!
JellyToast on October 17, 2008 at 11:27 PM
I’m still trying to figure out why the black community is willing to accept the idea that the best black guy in America is one with a white parent. Somehow that seems like they are accepting that to make it they have to have some white genes.
MikeA on October 17, 2008 at 11:28 PM
Stone says;
I agree. Someone like Michael Steele could easily get my vote!
FireBlogger on October 17, 2008 at 11:28 PM
He’s 78. Born in 1930.
I would crawl out of my deathbed to vote for Sowell, given the chance. Walter E Williams too. Color is irrelevant. It’s viewpoint, entirely.
Hell, I’d vote for a richard simmons if he were a small government conservative.
lorien1973 on October 17, 2008 at 11:29 PM
Bracket Creep.
Read up about it and how we are all screwed if Obama rescinds McCain’s tax cuts.
People are stupid if they vote this guy.
lorien1973 on October 17, 2008 at 11:29 PM
This entire thread plays into the Obama trap, Identity Politics, get a grip. The POTUS is about values, leadership and capability be it black, white, yellow, green, with or without a joystick. Those that assign value to anything other than defining issues, posing solutions and upholding the constitution keep watching American Idol, your ship is just over the horizon.
dmann on October 17, 2008 at 11:31 PM
I think the race is turning.
I think we might just win.
Yea!
hawkdriver on October 17, 2008 at 11:32 PM
Are you just now figuring that out? It is looking like about 51% of the people actually are stupid.
MikeA on October 17, 2008 at 11:32 PM
I think he would probably deport heavy people.
hawkdriver on October 17, 2008 at 11:33 PM
Of course we’re going to win, the writing is on the wall.
Obarney is looking more and more like a flash in the pan, all spark and no flame.
Bishop on October 17, 2008 at 11:34 PM
Got me. My friends call me “research boy” because I do it so thoroughly.
I didn’t check that fact this time. (too late in the evening).
Thanks for the update.
Over.
1GooDDaDDy on October 17, 2008 at 11:36 PM
Kini: If I may piggyback on your comment, voters need to understand that with regard to the tax proposal of both candidates, the policies are held hostage by Congress. Why? Because our current set of tax rates expire, I believe, at the end of 2009.
If McCain wins, he’ll face a Democratic Congress that probably won’t cooperate. But I believe him when he says that he’ll try.
If Obama wins, and this is where I pick up on Kini’s comment, what’s to stop Obama from letting the current rates expire and then playing helpless against a Democratic Congress all of whom will pretend someone else is holding up extension of rate cuts? It’ll be perfect cover for Obama and Congressional Democrats. Look how the Dems are playing the Fannie-Freddie gambit–what, me responsible?
Obama may move to push through his series of nonsense refundable tax credits, but I’m with Kini. Obama can’t be trusted, and I don’t see any rates set in stone during his administration. Don’t forget: He’s got an excellent reputation for spending other people’s money–Chicago Annenberg Challenge and his earmarks while in the Illinois senate and the U.S. Senate.
BTW: Just heard two good McCain ads here in SW Ohio. But I heard an Obama ad lying about McCain’s health care plan. I really wish McCain or the RNC would do a quick add explaining it because I really is much better than Obama’s plan. It makes a lot more free-market sense, and it does a pretty fair job of putting employees and self-employeds on equal footing.
BuckeyeSam on October 17, 2008 at 11:36 PM
Not to mention the inflation that will come with Obama’s spending habits. Soon other nations will tire of buying our crappy debt, and the only way to pay for O’s new programs will be to spin the printing presses like Iranian centifuges. Burger flippers will be bouncing up against the $250k ceiling.
innominatus on October 17, 2008 at 11:37 PM
Our core problem is a permanent “welfare class”. Welfare has no upward mobility. Huey Newton (Black Panthers fame) viewed welfare correctly… enslavement of his race. When I look at policies pursued by liberals, I have to believe the liberal elites must have a racist agenda at their hidden core. Third world countries are kept from developing. They need fresh water and electricity. Constantly blocked by liberals. They need to be able to grow adequate quantities of food and have protection from disease. Liberals block their effective use of fertilizers and pesticides (DDT). Any moron recognizes that welfare is a de-motivator that serves primarily to keep people trapped. There are no efforts by liberals to build families and values in poor communities… they seem to provide incentives for just the opposite. We can reverse the trend towards socialism, but it will take people with principles and political will…. and it will take more than one generation.
CC – BHO: “my Muslim faith”
CapedConservative on October 17, 2008 at 11:37 PM
Good. Global warming types would vote republican! Republicans: less methane by deporting fat people LOL
I thought he was in his 60′s too ;). I just googled him to be sure.
lorien1973 on October 17, 2008 at 11:38 PM
Yep. Inflation will lead to higher salaries; which will push more people into higher brackets. It’s a vicious cycle of economic stupidity.
Bracket creep. Even if McCain keeps the bush tax cuts in place, many people will pay higher taxes, even if mccain doesn’t raise taxes. It’s an interesting concept, but too difficult to explain to people.
Which is why democrats will always win. People are content in their misery and are willing to wallow.
The aspirant, republican voter, is becoming a thing of the past.
lorien1973 on October 17, 2008 at 11:41 PM
The one is coming to Cumberland County Arena here near Ft. Bragg.
The rules are,
No signs, no McCain Shirts, no Palin shirts, no McCain/Palin shirts, (if you’re an Obama girl, no shirt), no bull horns, no weapons, no questions, no soldiers unless you’re a Iraqi Vet for Peacer, no big Republican men that can defend themselves (or others), no moose, no sled dogs and no plumbers!
hawkdriver on October 17, 2008 at 11:41 PM
Did you mean a small-government conservative or a small government conservative. chuckle
Pelayo on October 17, 2008 at 11:42 PM
Obama and his thugs are the racists:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8QcpdUtxNQ
LET’S ROLL!!
ex-Democrat on October 17, 2008 at 11:43 PM
It does seem a little less bleak than it did last week, doesn’t it?
I say, hold your ground, posters of Hot Air, plumbers of Ohio, my brothers! I read in your posts the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of conservatives fails, when we forsake our friends and unsubscribe to our RSS feeds, but it is not this day! An hour of ACORNs and fraudulent votes, when the Dow Jones comes crashing down, but it is not this day! This day we fight! By all you hold dear in this good Earth, I bid you stand, men of the South, West, and certain rural areas in the Midwest and Northeast!
Doctor Zero on October 17, 2008 at 11:43 PM
hawkdriver on October 17, 2008 at 11:41 PM
That leaves Obicky with effete metrosexual men, hairy women, people wearing nasty anti-Palin shirts and dead people registered by ACORN.
Should be a fun event.
Bishop on October 17, 2008 at 11:45 PM
It’s not Obama’s color per se that 95% of black voters are voting for. It’s an ethnically based division of governmental spoils that they’re voting for – the fair administration of which, in their view, requires that they get the turn that they’re entitled to. Far from challenging that ethos, Obama and the Democrats validate it, reinforcing the same racial identity and set of racial aspirations that they exploit. A Steele or a Swann can’t make the same racial claim because a conservative and indeed a real Republican philosophy contradicts the very basis of identity politics. For African American voters raised on the liberal plantation, Steele is merely someone they can distantly applaud – not someone who, to combine metaphors, puts their “skin in the game.”
CK MacLeod on October 17, 2008 at 11:46 PM
FOR FRODO!!!
the plumber
hawkdriver on October 17, 2008 at 11:46 PM
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