Obama's Philly radio goof

[Football_Bat]

Ruh-roh! The master orator slips!

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/news-desk/2008/03/21/obama-typical-white-person-comment-delights-clinton-aides.html

So much for race-neutrality.

But he's got the nomination in the bag, so who cares, right?

 

[imjustagirl]

Wow. I knew I didn't read the political threads, but I never knew the other F_B was a junkie too...

 

[Football_Bat]

I prefer to draft the leaders and go low at just the right time.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Ah, the whole quote makes the scandal the province of stupid people alone.

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

Ah, the whole quote makes the scandal the province of stupid people alone.

The Agendist di tutti Agendists weighs in.

 

[Pulitzer Wannabe]

Wow are we getting into semantics now. He meant she was typical of THAT KIND of white person. Not that racism is typical of ANY white person.

I mean, Joe Bob Jim in Pennsylvania who already thinks that Obama is a Malcolm X-style "Moos-lim" won't see it that way. But like he was voting for him anyway.

You guys do realize that Obama is white, too, correct?

Obama got close to Wright back in the day because it was a great "in" to the South Side black community that he wanted to infiltrate and help organize. I wish he'd say that.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Ah, the whole quote makes the scandal the province of stupid people alone.

The Agendist di tutti Agendists weighs in.

That would be Agendo di tutti Agendi, if you knew how to write.

 

[Football_Bat]

Simonfish is having problems today.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

It's going to be really interesting...

I like Obama. I will have no problem if he wins, even though I'll vote for McCain, but I will be very curious to see if this kind of stuff and the minister thing are going to keep him from getting elected...

 

[SigR]

I'm getting gas late the other night in white suburbia and two young black men lazily walked toward me jawing with each other, the N word and indignation spilling all over the street. I was extremely uncomfortable and made a conscious decision whether or not to continue filling the tank, or to take off. I chose to stay, but I was scared. Does that make me a racist? (it's a serious question)

 

[HandsomeHarley]

No. It makes you human.

 

[pallister]

Obama's turning out to be the typical politician. That, if anything, is what's gonna really hurt him.

 

[zeke12]

Obama's turning out to be the typical politician. That, if anything, is what's gonna really hurt him.

I'd be very interested to see the dots you're connecting here.

 

[pallister]

Obama appears to be the typical pandering, waffling bull**** politician in his handling of the Rev. Wright thing, race and politics, etc. As a mentioned on a different thread, he's acting like the politician he's supposedly too good to be. He (and his supporters) set him up on a pedestal as someone who is more than a politician, a man above the fray. He's not, and it's showing.

 

[zeke12]

Well, I don't think he's not a politician.

But I'm simply not seeing the "pandering" or "waffling". Perhaps you could elaborate?

 

[pallister]

His "denouncements" of Wright were, as I've said before, half-assed. He wants the issue to go away, so he issues the political apology everyone expects. But, in so doing, he keeps trying to defend Wright. I can understand not wanting to throw a mentor under the bus. But those caveats open him up to charges of waffling, hypocrisy, even racism. The bottom line, fair or not, is that he's been providing his opposition a lot of ammo lately, and we both know what that opposition is capable of. He's as vulnerable as he's ever been.

 

[DemoChristian]

I'm getting gas late the other night in white suburbia and two young black men lazily walked toward me jawing with each other, the N word and indignation spilling all over the street. I was extremely uncomfortable and made a conscious decision whether or not to continue filling the tank, or to take off. I chose to stay, but I was scared. Does that make me a racist? (it's a serious question)

I wouldn't say it makes you racist, but it does make you biased, as we all are.
Would you have felt uncomfortable if it had been two white guys with the same attitude?

 

[zeke12]

While I disagree with some of those characterizations, you present a compelling case that his reactions haven't made for the best politics.

Which I actually agree with -- but which, I'd hasten to add, are neither typical politicking nor pandering.

Pandering would have been blasting Wright and then promising to make it up to the black community later. You know, kind of like what's his face did with Sister Souljah.

You seem to be arguing two things that are mutually exclusive.

 

[pallister]

You had me at compelling case.

 

[zeke12]

You had me at compelling case.

You typical panderer, you.