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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS
Pat Buchanon is discrediting Obama's success under the guise of providing a historical perspective to everything (I can detect this because I remain skeptical of candidates and didn't take Obama seriously beyond his oratory skills and his ability to walk on water and have a cult following). Kind of like Buchanan's "memo to whitey." Buchanan gives conservatives and Republicans a bad name. I used to agree with some of the things he said until his recent comments outed him as an idiot with a platform.
It is interesting that black folks are the "Jesse Jackson quadrant of the party." Very interesting indeed. Very loaded.
Republicans are definitely going to make Obama the issue instead of the platforms. Platforms don't matter too much anyway because what a President does in office can always deviate from the election platform. However, I call this the "anything but black" syndrome. Republicans may say "we cannot entrust America with an exotic and radical figure." But for many Republicans and nonRepublicans this is just a race-neutral way of saying "we cannot entrust our beloved America, in a time of war, to a black person. This is no time to experiment with Black History firsts and progression."
Mark my words. NO...NEW...BLACK PEOPLE.
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That's ridiculous, I can assure you that Buchanon would not refer to Colin Powell or Condoleeza Rice as "exotic and radical figures."
Perhaps the Jesse Jackson statement was loaded, but with Obama polling as high as 90% among black people there is certainly a correlation there that goes beyond political views and affiliations.
Either way, despite a few sentences that you viewed as racist, did you disagree with the article? If Obama can gain a sizable portion of the working class vote that Hillary had then he will win.