Kerry: Obama Could Help US Relations with Muslim Nations 'Because He's a Black Man'

When is everyone going to understand that relations between the US and Muslim nations will not improve until the US adopts Islam and Sharia Law. Infidels must convert or be killed. No if's and's or but's. Electing Obama will please radical Islam more than anything. They see Obama as someone they can more easily sway to their ideology. People wake up!

You guys that think that the world will love America because of a black president live in the land of Oz. I compare it to the false notion of Europe respecting the USA. I have been to Europe many time for many years and even in the Clinton era I was shocked how much the establishment, press and many people despites America (or perhaps envy America). So thinking that as soon as Bush is out Muslims and European will love us, that is a quite naive thought. As long as we maintain the position of leaders of the world and #1 power, we will not be loved nor liked. Human nature is that we all try to bring down, embarrassed, or defeat anyone who is in first place. Open your eyes and believe!

This is starting to look like a front man sales job. Just like Bush. I mean no one really thinks he was running things in the beginning, or really even now. He was just the "nice, peacemaker, cross the isles, get things done, guy you wanted to have a beer with."

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that just what he's saying with the addition that isn't it convenient that Obamas black. He is just their front guy, to look black and young, to sound good and inspirational, while he and Bradley run things. Bet

*sry...jrenders...you too Irma...;o)

Great question Irma.(ask Obama what his stand on Muslim nations still in the practice of slavery)....Honor killings, Sharia Law, female genital clitorectomys,forced marriage by old adult muslim men to near-pre-pubesant girls...ummm, oh yeah, and head-lopping.

Kerry sounds like Geraldine Ferraro.

yes, irma, change about rezko relationship and amount of contributions, change about wright relationship and knowledge of hate speech, etc. next we'll hear change about relationship to william ayers and bernadette dohrn. funny, i'm havin' trouble believin'.

cappamore, no prob. i stand corrected for my 2004 primary vote. i do hope smarter folks than i vote both kerry and kennedy out when they run for reelection to the senate.

"Change We Can Believe in, every time it happens?"

Perhaps Obama could address the issue of slavery with those Muslim countries that still practice it.

so saddened: you are right. Some of us could have made different choices during the primary in 2004. I stand corrected.

cappamore, you are correct that kerry is better than bush. but that's not much of a standard. however, i made the stupid mistake of voting for kerry in the primaries. we could have had someone so much better.

To those of you saying that you regret your vote for Kerry in 2004: As stupid as Kerry's remarks were, and as misguided he was to endorse Obama, and no matter all of the mistakes he made in the 2004 election, please keep in mind that he still would have been a better president that W.

Kerry is still stupid.

My ex-b/f who is from Jordan and is Muslim refused to listen to any music that was "black" because he hated blacks so I guess Kerry's theory is not all that ironclad. Many muslims destest blacks for some reason. What Kerry doesn't know would fill a 500 page book 10 times over. He is literally an idiot.

The first qualification to be commander in chief is you must be proud to be an American. Between Barack and Michelle Obama...there doesn't seem to be much America has done that they are proud of. They can take themselves and their America hating preacher back to Illinois where they can all live happily ever after in the house that Rezko built.

I've enjoyed all the race crap I can stand. If Obama sat in that church on Sundays for so many years I will never believe that he didn't hear what was said. The only thing that could have salvaged his credibility was to get up and leave after the very first remark and never go back. Who does he think he's fooling? If he wants to be someone’s victim or is satisfied to let someone else be a victim then he's not presidential material.

*sigh*
Kerry is such an amateur. Oh, wait, wasn't he the nominee in '04? Man alive.

University of Iowa, I lock my doors and feel insecure in any "bad" neighborhood no matter what color the people are. If I see a black man in casual attire who doesn't have that "could be a criminal" appearance, I don't feel insecure. The whole locking doors thing is a favorite comic line.

For somebody who wanted to transcend race and move politics into a post-racial era, Mr. Obama seems to sense a great opportunity to use race to advance his candidacy. That much for the post-racial era.

After his speech, his surrogates seem to be stoking the American guilt by outwardly pointing us to the "blackness" of Mr. Obama. Awkward as he always is, Mr. Kerry is making us believe that the people in the Muslim world will respect America, while America gets roiled in more divisive racial politics, thanks to Ms. Ferraro, Pastor Wright, Mr. Obama and his surrogates, commentators, and the media.

Perhaps this strategy of using race to one's advantage may work in the short run, but I do not know how long this will last.

At least now, some of us realize that the "Saint Obama veil" covering the ordinary and manipulative politician has dropped. Now, he joins the ranks of rest of the candidates. The difference in misrepresentation, manipulation, and deception is one of degree than of kind between the candidates now.

Not too bad, for the politics in America has maintained remarkably similar undertones for over a century.