That might have been just a bad joke, but it makes an important point. From where I sit the decisive win in a 95% white, rural, state is landmark event in US history, but we have to remember that it doesn’t mean that 100% of the extremists have disappeared. I think that at a time like this that small minority of extremists could feel very threatened too, maybe more than ever been before. I heard a commentator last night compare Obama to Bobby Kennedy. I don’t think he meant that comparison to have a double meaning but it sure had one for me. I very much hope that Obama’s security people are taking all precautions.
Great news. He has this Hispanic on his side. I hope we can get the Asians on our side, but I dont know since he is Barack. Kidding, again this is very cool.
Yes, and black candidates win in Katy all the time, or Sugarland, or the Woodlands, or Kingwood, or Deerpark, etc so forth and so on. nice try though, blaming racism on the black establishment again. that's a classic ---------------->
Sounds like you do too. Your perspective seems to harken back to the days when, if you have any black ancestry -- regardless of percentage -- you were regarded as black. Is the glass half full or half empty? Let's focus on Obama's message -- not his ancestry.
This is your enlightened response? There's a real vanity to your answer to suppose that your feud with another poster is important enough to research. Lastly, I hope you meant "ciao" because I'm not your aunt (tia).
no its not, but you don't know what I'm talking about, so if you want to respond to my point, at least no what i'm talking about. as far as the race issue, there are two posters who constantly harp on his race, do yourself a favor if you really want to be critical of that subject and see who they are.
By the same token, I'm quite liberal and I prefer Obama, but I don't dislike Huckabee at all. He's the "compassionate conservative" that W claimed to be in 2000, which is probably why the GOP establishment loathes him so much. He's an excellent speaker, too - great cadence and a good sense of humor (overplayed Chuck Norris jokes aside) However, Obama's speech last night was superb, and possibly better than his 2004 DNC speech. It's be nice to have a great orator in office again.
Third time I've quoted the same blog in like a week. Sorry, but this strikes me as a very relevant point. What exactly is the revolution that Obama will bring in terms of tangible outcomes? What is the great change, besides 'the medium is the message', so to speak. [rquoter] I understand that people wept while listening to Barack Obama's speech following his caucus victory in Iowa. I think he is a fine speaker. The main theme of his campaign is the assertion that he will bring deep and significant change to American life and government. Indeed, he seems to say that he, himself, symbolizes that coming change. The chattering class on TV have taken to rattling on about how well his election would "play" overseas where we Americans have come to be more than usually reviled. They seem to be more interested in public relations than the expectation of revolution of some sort. They also don't seem to wonder what sort of president he would be. But, what else would you expect from most of them? We have been listening to this "change" talk since the first Clinton campaign for president. At that time the pop music of the 70s, was made into a clarion call for the realization of the supposed goals of the cultural revolution of the 60s. Then there was much the same kind of talk in the election campaign that gave us GWB. We were told that a revolutionary reversion to Christian morality and small town values would follow upon the election of George Bush. What we got instead was the "K" Street Project and the Jacobin driven war for Westernization and security in the Middle East. Oh, yes. There was also Halliburton, etc. Now we are called by this young man and his rivals to believe that he (they) will change the social and economic matrix in which we live. We think about hard things here. My question to my fellow Americans is simple. What are the SPECIFIC changes that you EXPECT and WANT Obama or any of the others to make to American government, economic life, society, etc? I am not interested in the touchy-feely emotional atmospherics of increased integrity, honesty, modesty, etc. What SPECIFICALLY do you want and do you think you can get it? [/rquoter]
I posted an article about his basketball a while back. He's a bad ball-handler, he can't go right, and he can't shoot. I'm pretty sure that means that he's not black enough.
it will be interesting to see what will happen when Obama goes down south.............ooops i forgot its 2008 racism doesnt exist!
We'll all recall this step forward next month (February....Black History month) Here's my new bumpersticker: B.O. in '08 Or "let's all have BO in '08 You know, you've never seen both these guys in the same place..coincedence?
If he goes down south far enough to The Johnson Space Center I don't think it would bode well for him.
