Breaking News: Senator Obama Calls Off his Campaign

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by pinksirfidel

Well... for two days! Will there be any consequences?

Just to be clear, he didn't call off or suspend his campaign. He just will not be participating in the campaign for 2 days.

And UGAalum94, I really do think you're making more of the comment than it calls for. Saying what he said about his grandmother =/= calling her a racist. The point was that even people who typically are not racist can still have the occasional racist impulses. It's called human nature, and what matters is so not much that people have those impulses but how they deal with/react to them.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

Seriously?

Well, sort of seriously, yes. I think the handling of the issue in the article was more generous that McCain could expect for a comparably controversial statement.

I did get pretty entrenched last night and overstated my limited case, I admit.

Originally Posted by MysticCat

And UGAalum94, I really do think you're making more of the comment than it calls for. Saying what he said about his grandmother =/= calling her a racist. The point was that even people who typically are not racist can still have the occasional racist impulses. It's called human nature, and what matters is so not much that people have those impulses but how they deal with/react to them.

Your point about human nature is certainly a good one, but if you look back and note who and how she was compared, I'm not sure the comment from the speech works as well or is nearly as generous to his grandmother as you do. The "typical white person" I think was probably intended as you suggest here.

I just want to note that I wasn't all fired up about Obama's comments at the time and didn’t even want to attempt to make a whole lot of anti-Obama hay out of it now. I just found the mention of the speech without mentioning the nature of the comments noteworthy. And when I was called on to defend my observation, I did and admittedly went overboard.

[UGAalum94]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Polit...6080508&page=1

Here the article mentions the whole comment. It's pretty glowing overall, but it does do what I faulted them for not doing last night.

[pinksirfidel]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Just to be clear, he didn't call off or suspend his campaign. He just will not be participating in the campaign for 2 days.

Just being a little dramatic! lol... i got the headline from CNN last night!

Originally Posted by KSigkid

I don't see how there would be "consequences" for someone spending time with an ailing relative; I can't imagine that people wouldn't be able to understand how difficult that is, especially with everything else going on in his life.

I remember how hard it was losing a grandmother who I was very clsoe to, and I wasn't nearly as close to her as Obama appears to be to his grandmother.

Perhaps two full days of being off the campaign will allow McCain to get all the media attention! The McCain camp should look at this as an opportunity! Maybe we will see a press conference on friday?!?