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Almost certainly was not voting for Obama well before he knew about Rev. Wright. No, his reason is probably that he's a
Ni**er! Ni**er! Ni**er! Ni**er!
Just like Pat Buchannan
In a way, we're at such delicious juncture in our nation's history because racism has become so viscerally disgusting, so closely associated with crackpots, lunatics, and just plain old jerks, that even the vision of Pat Buchannan running in circles screaming racist diatribes on TV is enough to make most civilized folk recoil in disgust.
And Obama is such a class act that he just shakes that stuff off . . . one of the reasons I'm such a fanboi. It's hard not to like somebody with class like that. He makes all those concerns seem so mundane. Yeah, some people are racist. Just gotta shake 'em off.
"There he goes again! Who's laughing now, betch?" -- Jimmy Carter
by slippytoad on Wed Apr 23, 2008 at 06:10:35 PM PDT
racism like that described above is about the racist and not the victim of that racism. A racist statement, thought, belief, etc reflects only on the person who is speaking, thinking, believing, etc. It's make them ugly. (It's a whole other thing when it's codified or results in systematic disenfranchisement.... but that's not what is being talked about here).
"The truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing." The Tao Te Ching
by hester on Wed Apr 23, 2008 at 06:21:36 PM PDT
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knowing the answer in advance, whether there was anything Obama could say or do that would win his vote. Nope. Wright sure sounded to me like a convenient justification for dismissing Obama.
"Our programs are as lawful as they are valuable." -Michael Hayden
by smintheus on Wed Apr 23, 2008 at 06:21:59 PM PDT
John McWar: refighting Vietnam in Iraq, relighting the Cold War in Georgia.
by edg on Wed Apr 23, 2008 at 06:47:41 PM PDT
from unreconstructed wingers; they are the ones who saw "CSA" on IFC and thought it was the History Channel.
by entlord1 on Wed Apr 23, 2008 at 07:54:39 PM PDT
wide narrow
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