Mother Jones - Comments for "Hey, Did You Hear Barack Obama Is Black?"

why do people think obama is black?

only a racist would think he is black, considering he is 50% african american and 50% white. Why wouldn't half the people think he was white or something along that line?

and yes im sorry but his black freinds are thinking like racists too.

the biggest anti/black racist party is the one who never passed a single piece of major legislation to help blacks in their 160 year history.

tally up the votes on civil rights 1965
voters rights 1966
affirmative action 1973

its seems only republicans have taken the effort to help blacks in the last 160 years.

explain why the republican party is demonized as racists ?

as a hard core 4th generation republican.. i think obama is kinda "american" colored.

now you know why im not successful in politics. lol

Gary Cisco, I signed the petition. Up until a couple of months ago, I would say to people, 'I preferred Edwards but with him out of the picture, I think Obama and Hillary are both capable.' Then I began to study closer and just as I was noting Barack's keen mind, the barage of underhanded Clinton attacks and whisper campaigns began. Now if Clinton were the candidate, it would be such a discouraging thing to vote at all. I'm tired of the suggestion that only monsters can make it [Hillary is the only one tough enough to stand against McCain and Bologna like that], that people with ideas and ideals cannot. My vote goes for values and convictions and a steady, contemplative intelligence - Obama. Thanks, Hillary, for revealing what a piece of crap you really are. Funny I wasted so many years defending you and Bill.

There is a point (one which Obama has demonstrated he is aware of), at which the monied air in Washington overwhelms an office-holder's better sense, and transforms them into a politician, who will adjust their moral stances to accommodate and (critically), to EXPLOIT what they perceive the voting public's sentiments to be. Such a politician then starts to play the public's sentiments like an instrument, in order to further their agenda. Once a politician decides that his/her priorities are more important that an honest fealty to the public, and that political expedience trumps mere moral standards, that politician can no longer be trusted, or even expected, to pursue the public's best interests.

Obama is still tracking the higher moral sentiments of the citizenry, because they are similar to his own personal standards. I think he'll get farther down the road to a truly moral presidency than Hillary Rodham Clinton can, because she's already far down the road to media-populism.

Clinton no longer (if she ever did) sticks with a moral position, if it battles with her pragmatic political sense. Her support of momentary-advantage ploys, such as the fictional RedPhone@3AM meme, shows that it's all about the vote margin, to her. If Ferraro gets her a rise in the polls, that's all that matters. She may think that such a small betrayal of the public trust is justifiable in a larger context, but the fact is, she will continue to operate this way, so long as she thinks it works. Which will be as long as she's in politics, because she now credits indicators that say she's "ahead," rather than those that would tell her that her credibility is taking major hits; that her moral standing is so shaky it's shot.

Don't expect Clinton to wake up; she's as much a victim of her chosen media, as Bush's "core" is.

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Kill your TV.

Memo to my fellow Democrats:

Dump the Clinton's-- NOW!

Every Democratic Party platform embraces tolerance and embraces diversity and eschews racism and bigotry. Senator Barack Obama has been the victim of vicious, hateful, racist, religiously bigoted email and whisper campaigns. Senator Clinton's campaign has on multiple occasions aided and abetted this attack. Several Clinton campaign officials, including Bill Clinton, have attempted to malign Obama's reputation. When given a chance to 'reject and denounce' the hateful email campaign, Senator Clinton qualified her response ("not that I know of") just enough to stoke the suspicions of those who stand gullibly ready to believe the email slander.
Senator Clinton compounded the insult and injury by effectively endorsing John McCain over Barack Obama. Beyond making a great attack ad for the GOP, she has eliminated her own ability to campaign for Senator Obama when he becomes the Democratic nominee.
While it is clear that Republicans have voted for both Clinton and Obama, it is also clear that the Republicans who votedfor Obama will return to vote for him in November. Those who voted for Clinton will not.
So, is there any principle the Democratic Party loves more than it loves the Clintons? What does the Democratic Party stand for?

Decision time Democrats: Hope for Change with Obama or keep rolling in the mud with the Clintons.
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A petition made by Obama supporters to be sent to the DNC
stating that if Senator Clinton becomes the Democratic Nominee for
the presidential election, you will either:
a) abstain from voting in the general election
or
b) a third-party-candidate during the general election.
Here's the link: http://www.petitiononline.com/obama725/petition.html

Please try to appreciate that it is this moment in history that has chosen Obama - he represents something people have longed for - a decent President who was once a "skinny kid with a funny name".

Kate and Nathan you are 100% correct. I used to have some respect for Hillary Clinton, but after the past two weeks that is long gone.

For Ferraro to say that, is not only dangerous to Hilary's campaign, but is also dangeous to the Democrats as a whole. If blacks, hell all minorities don't feel like they own suppsoed party is backing them up, they may just not vote.

My first comment was for Lori B.

Justin which stupid White person will you be voting for? Obama has been an elected official longer than Hillary, he was the president of the Harvard Law Review, and he has been a community activist. Tell me which of those things makes him either stupid or inexperienced?

You need to finish that sentence so I can connect the dots. Did she say she was proud of her country because her husband is a Black man running for president? Or did you just infer that was what she meant?

I agree with G Farraro. I know lots of people who agree with her. Nobody wants to come out and say it though. See what happened to her.

Kate, you are right on. If Kerry or Gore had the message of hope and reasoned progress that Obama is bringing to the "white" house they could have defeated Bush and all his minions and puppetmasters. More than even his message, Barack will be a great president (the 1st such in a long while) because of who he is: a decent person. Looking forward to January '09.

Obama is not black! He is half black and half white. It is time you and all others get rid of this stupid way of labelling people. How can a white mother give birth to a 100% black child? It is rediculous and pathetic to reason that way. If he parades as being black and claims that he loves his mother and nonblack sister, how does he view his mother? Does he reject her and his grand parents. The terrible thing is that blacks who are not of mixed heritage prefer to have all other deny their genetic heritage and anglos are ony too happy to accommodate that because they give in to the 1% theory...if yu are not 100% white then you are otherwise. Obama will get my vote when he comes to term with his heritage and acknowledge that he is proud of being who he is, a man with an african father and a white mother.

Every black is voting for him no matter how stupid he is and inexperienced in politics. It's their revenge!

And doesn't Senator Obama invoke it when he gives his speech about "bamboozle and hoodwink"? No attribution to Malcolm X included. Could there be a reason for that too?