All Posts Tagged With: "Race"
Is Black Support Of Obama Turning Off White Voters? - bumped
Barack Obama May Unite Us or Divide Us
The Boyce Blog
by Dr. Boyce Watkins
Barack Obama’s emergence as a powerful Presidential candidate is truly worth celebrating. Beginning as a modest participant in the election, his creative political genius gave African-Americans the courage to support a black man. Hillary Clinton’s role as the “political sugar substitute” came to [...]
Washington Post, McCain Brought Up Race On A Pretext
WaPo writer, Peter Beinart:
“Race will be central to this campaign because McCain needs it to be.”
McCain will play the race card simply because he doesn’t have many other cards to play.
Think about it this way: Many of the voters who right now won’t vote for Obama because he’s black would probably vote for Colin Powell [...]
Newsweek: Senator McCain Is Playing The Caucasian Card
Newsweek’s Anna Quindlen decided to throw caution to the wind and show once and for all that she’s in the tank for Barack Obama. In this piece she weaves in and out creating a tapestry of Obama that is throat gagging over the top obvious.
She begins:
It can be tough being black in America. But the [...]
Race Based or Income Based Affirmative Action?
Is Obama about to change his rhetoric on Affirmative Action?
Jeremiah
As a state senator representing the 13 district on the South Side of Chicago, Obama endorsed traditional, race-oriented affirmative action as “absolutely necessary,” and pushed hard for programs that mandated racial and gender based hiring preferences.
Polls show Obama’s support among blacks at over 90 percent, and [...]
Mel Martinez: Race Card Not Played, Obama Is Above That
Mel Martinez
Obama Did Not Play the Race Card
“I think we should be in a post-racial environment,” said Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla., a supporter of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., “I think Sen. [Barack] Obama has done an admirable job of that. I don’t think he has race-baited. I think he has been very good about [...]
Can Obama Lose The Election By Dealing The Race Card?
Barack may never understand that his candidacy is not all about race. It has become about his arrogance, lack of depth, character and the inability to lead.
Obama didn’t begin his campaign as the Black Candidate, he was the junior Senator from Illinois. As the primary progressed and he was not doing as well as he [...]
Barack And His Cheap ‘Dollar’ Shot
NY Post
Barack Obama committed the worst blunder of his campaign by wrongly accusing President Bush, John McCain and other Republicans of trying to make voters fear him because he’s not “like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.”
Obama hopes to use the racism card to inhibit all criticism of him, with the presumed cooperation [...]
Obama To NY Times - Not My Job To Close Racial Divide - Your Poll Is Wrong
Poll Finds Obama Isn’t Closing Divide on Race
Obama Campaign and Surrogate, TMP Election Central tell N.Y. Times ‘Change your poll to reflect better on Barack.’
Obama-NYTs honeymoon ends
Campaign press office irked over reporting
When the Messiah Obama doesn’t like the results of a ‘NY Times Poll‘ Barack follows his own slogan, “CHANGE“ the results.
Around midnight on July [...]
Barack’s Father’s Day Speech Was Wrong About Black Fathers
by Prof. Boyce Watkins
Many black males continue to be insulted by Barack Obama and his speech writers relying on stereotypes rather than hard evidence in his Father’s Day Speech. Barack is a man whom I will always respect, but what he has done is unforgivable.
What’s more interesting, as Earl correctly points out, is that Barack’s [...]
It’s Time for Another Obama Race Speech
Wall Street Journal
By Juan Willams
Now what? How does Barack Obama, fresh from claiming the Democratic nomination, put Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Father Michael Pfleger behind him, before they ignite yet again and blow up his general election campaign?
How does he pre-empt advertising images, sure to be circulated by his opponents, that link him to outrageous [...]
