You silly, easily confused Black folks. :rolleyes:

It allowed Ghostwriter to show his true colors (there is no pun here). True colors are best shown when people are not consciously trying to convince themselves and others of untruths.

Yes because women are also a power minority. Women are emotional, irrational, illogical, and menstruating creatures. Multiply that by a million when it comes to sociopolitical concerns. Hilary Clinton and Sarah Palin** would confuse women and anger men. The bolded is sarcasm, of course, this is fun.

** Sarah Palin is about as viable a candidate as Herman Cain.

We can't help it! :(

The Black women on Cain's camp were playing on that ignorance. They went on every political show talking about President Obama running again Cain would be an exciting, monumental moment because people could not use race and instead had to make decisions based on political platforms. :rolleyes:

^^^ Re: the 2nd part - Duly noted

Well, clearly, it would have been. Women are also silly and easily confused. ;)

When I was ringing doorbells in a swing state in 2008, my group met a white, Christian voter who believed Obama was a secret Muslim and was planning to vote for him anyway. Who knew?

I voted in the year Obama got elected. I have never seen so many black people in my whole life. While standing in line, I talked to dozens of black voters (newly registered) about how this was their first time voting, and they were voting "just so one of our kind gets in that white man's office". True quote. Easily remembered because that's about all I heard from them.

Record numbers of newly registered black voters voted during Obama's election year. Put that with the white Democrats and soft-conservatives turned off by McCain and eager for the "Change" Obama promised, and the US saw its first black man elected to its highest office. To deny that color wasn't a factor in Obama's election is ridiculous. Surely, DrPhil can't be that ignorant.

Now, how many black candidates were in a position to win the election before Obama's campaign? I mean, in a position where Democrats, blacks, and soft-conservatives would be willing to vote against the Republican candidate to elect the black candidate. Yeah, none.

Herman Cain has no chance at office. And he is not as polished as Obama is public speaking. So even if Cain was the Republican candidate, Obama would wipe him clean in a debate, thus wiping him clean in an election. Due to the fact that 1. Those newly registered black voters would vote again. 2. Those black voters watch tv and see that Obama surely is the better candidate because he speaks better. And 3. Democrats and soft-conservatives are still waiting for that change Obama has promised.

Ya know, it always pisses me off when people bitch that Obama hasn't brought change. He actually has brought a lot. And he would have brought more if not for the same folks claiming he didn't bring change didn't fight him tooth and nail.

Well you are right. In our nation's history, has ANY president not brought change?

It very well could if Hillary Clinton was the current President and sororities were running a re-election "campaign" for her. The fact that a national fraternity is endorsing a political candidate and party is very interesting to me. What about the men in these groups that are republicans or independents?

The organization is very clear that the fraternities not endorsing Obama, but certain members of the fraternities are.

Like the NDAA that allows the president to detain Americans without trial indefinitely....yeah I'm glad there are people fighting him tooth and nail.

^^ What he said.

My hypothetical should have read "...members of Gamma Phi Beta..."

Ugh thanks for quoting my horrible grammar k_s I blame my spanish homework destroying all my language skills.

I do what I can Lol

Arguably that power was already there. The bigger problem is that we have a system that allows the legislative to pass laws that violate the constitution without being able to do anything unless the law is challenged in court, which is a long expensive process.

You are because you cannot read.

I just don't get how people are missing this. It has been said repeatedly in this thread, including in the OP, that the fraternities are not endorsing a candidate. It's on the bottom of every freaking page on 1911 United's website: 1911 United is an independent political committee and is not affiliated with or otherwise sponsored by any other organization, including Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc.

Yes, William Henry Harrison.

And arguably Washington. Or any of the first 16 presidents.

Do you really not get how people are missing it? It's like the old saying. "Even though it wasn't an official XYZ event, the fact that it was all XYZ's there made it one". Yes, the IHQ's of the fraternities are not officially involved in this campaign but the fact that they are freely using the names of the fraternities for this campaign can easily bring people to assume that this was something endorsed by the IHQ. Not everyone reads the fine print disclaimers you know.

^^^ The piece that you quoted is like saying "The vision is for Longhorns and Aggies to work together..."

That doesn't automatically mean "The board of regents at UT and TAMU officially endorse..." and the same goes for this organization.

The only time the names of the fraternities are used is when the website states "1911 United is an independent political committee and is not affiliated with or otherwise sponsored by any other organization, including Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc."


Then that is the problem. There is nothing confusing or misleading about how 1911 United is being presented.

Dr. Phil and Knight Shadow, how are you not getting that ALL black people walk in lock-step about all issues and do exactly as they are told? If members of these 2 fraternities have gotten together under a common goal to invigorate their young members to engage in their government, there HAS to be something sadistic, hateful and at the very least gang-like about it. FEAR FEAR FEAR FEAR FEAR!!!!!

That's a very good analogy.

The operative word in what you said is "assume." I know not everyone reads the fine print (though it's not that fine in this case), but continuing to say that this effort is endorsed by the two fraternities leads me to think nothing has been read, either at the 1911 United website or in this thread. Forget the fine print; it's right there in the first post in this thread:

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Originally Posted by DrPhil (Post 2116583) Members of Omega Psi Phi and Kappa Alpha Psi have joined forces to educate and mobilize voters to get President Obama re-elected. "Members of" is an important note because the actual fraternities (NHQ) do not officially endorse political parties and candidates.

It has been said a number of times since that first post. Given that, no I really don't see how people are missing it.